The Fall doesn’t really start pummeling your earholes until “What About Us,” which opens with some noise, a brief keyboard blurt, and then-Armageddon.
It may not be my favorite tune on the LP but it’s certainly hypnotic, especially when the band joins in chanting the title. Follow-up “Pacifying Joint” is bigger and louder, with Smith repeating the title while Poulou’s keyboards and vocals come in and out and the rhythm section gives you a pounding foretaste of what’s to come. It’s one of the LP’s weakest links, albeit catchy in a syncopated and ska-influenced way. Open “Ride Away” opens on a deceptively low-key note, and comes with the cheesy keyboard riffs and backing vocals of Poulou. And the same goes for Fall Heads Roll its massive sound is reproduced elsewhere, but never like this the goddamn thing’s a blitzkrieg, and listening to it you can almost feel the rumble of approaching panzers shaking the ground beneath your feet. His various line-ups have always had a huge impact on The Fall’s released product just look at how Smith’s ex-wife Brix Smith turned the band in a surprisingly commercial direction during her tenure as the band’s bassist. Geniuses get to be pricks, it’s written into their riders, although one wonders what The Fall might sound like if Smith weren’t such a tyrant. And all the warmth-it’s impossible to imagine him writing a love song-of a lump of coal. So Smith has all the loyalty to his subordinates of Joseph Stalin. It’s like a sonic guillotine, this LP, and it’s a pity-although hardly surprising, given Smith’s tendency to mistreat the help-that the band Smith put together for the LP (Ben Pritchard on guitar, Steve Trafford on bass, Spencer Birtwistle on drums, and Elena Poulou on keyboards and vocals) split acrimoniously four shows into a 2006 tour of the United States, never to return to the fold. Listen to it, loud, and the head rolling will be yours. Even my pal Kid Congo Powers toured with Smith, which puts me at only two degrees of separation from the man I consider England’s best retort to Captain Beefheart.Ģ005’s Fall Heads Roll (Fall LP #25, if you’re keeping count) is compelling for the simple reason that it features the most primal and unrelenting drums and bass I’ve ever heard. And over that time he’s utilized an ever-revolving cast of musicians who probably number in the hundreds as well. In England, his idiosyncrasies have made him an institution, which he is, having released some 600 studio LPs (actually it’s somewhere in the thirties, with an equivalent number of live LPs) since 1979’s Live at the Witch Trials. But that just goes to show you how backwards we Americans are.
has never fully embraced Mark E.’s hypnotic cadences or his band’s big beats. He’s truly one of a kind, spewing his indecipherable harangues that come at you like communiqués from who knows where, all set to the backing of a big, percussive, and frequently intimidating din. You don’t have to know what he’s going on about-in fact it may well be impossible to determine what he’s going on about-but he does it with the urgency of a WWII siren warning of an imminent attack by German bombers. Smith, instead of rotting from the inside out given all the booze and seething bile in his seemingly indestructible body, continues to produce album after album full of weird poetry, rants, funky and monstrous beats, and gigantic riffs. Better than those annoying Beatles, better than the Rolling Stones, better than The Smiths even. "A weak opening for domestic equity market indices is on the cards on Monday, after the US markets continued their descent on Friday while other Asian peers too are displaying a sluggish to negative trend in today's early trade," Prashanth Tapse - Research Analyst, Senior VP (Research), Mehta Equities Ltd had said in his pre-market opening comment.It has long been my contention that The Fall are the best band to ever come out of England. Meanwhile, the international oil benchmark Brent crude was trading 1.01 per cent lower at USD 95.74 per barrel.įoreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) turned net buyers as they bought shares worth Rs 1,110.90 crore on Friday, according to exchange data. The Nifty fell 198.05 points or 1.10 per cent to settle at 17,758.45. The BSE benchmark had ended 651.85 points or 1.08 per cent lower at 59,646.15 on Friday. The Wall Street had ended lower on Friday. In Asia, markets in Seoul and Tokyo were trading lower, while Shanghai and Hong Kong quoted in the green in mid-session deals. On the other hand, Hindustan Unilever, Reliance Industries, Power Grid and ITC were trading higher. From the Sensex pack, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Tata Steel, Wipro, Tech Mahindra, Axis Bank, Bajaj Finserv, Bajaj Finance, HCL Technologies and IndusInd Bank were the major laggards.
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