This Nation's Saving Grace
The Fall
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Mansion | The Fall | 1:21 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Bombast | The Fall | 3:08 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Barmy | The Fall | 5:20 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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What You Need | The Fall | 4:49 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Spoilt Victorian Child | The Fall | 4:13 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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L.A. | The Fall | 4:09 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Vixen | The Fall | 4:01 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Couldn't Get Ahead | The Fall | 2:36 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Gut of the Quantifier | The Fall | 5:15 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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My New House | The Fall | 5:15 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Paint Work | The Fall | 6:38 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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I Am Damo Suzuki | The Fall | 5:41 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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To Nk Roachment: Yarbles | The Fall | 1:22 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Petty (Thief) Lout | The Fall | 5:20 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Rollin' Dany | The Fall | 2:23 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Cruisers Creek | The Fall | 4:15 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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iTunes Review
One of the longest-running post-punk bands around (1977 to the present), the one mainstay in this Manchester-based act remains benzedrine-addled wordsmith Mark E. Smith, whose strange, shouted "white rapper" vocal delivery is the core of the band. On 1985's Saving Grace, the band continued in a more commercial direction, aided and abetted by Smith's Bennington-grad wife, the vocalist and keyboardist Brix E. Smith. Though sonically almost too pristine in spots, the album's remarkably varied. There's everything from outright dirges ("Bombast") to arty, detuned pop ("Barmy," "Gut of the Quantifier"), as well as psychobilly stompers ("Rollin' Danny"), almost radio ready alt-rock ("Spoilt Victorian Child"), atmospheric experiments (" "Paint Work"), and a quaint tribute to the greatest Krautrock singer ever ("I Am Damo Suzuki").
Customer Reviews
Smith's historic compromise
In my opinion, the mid-1980's were the most productive in The Fall's monumental catalogue of LPs. Dark, sinister, reflections of Thatcher's crumbling Britain ('Mansion', 'Bombast'), ominious visions of the US urban nightmare to come ('LA'), combined with the usual Smithsonian surrealism. However, Smith - ever one to surprise - also includes some excellent uptempo numbers which my fading memory recalls being very popular with the 'Indie Nite' crowd ('Cruisers Creek','Couldn't Get Ahead'). A particular gem is the reworking of Steve Alamo's early r&b hit 'Every Day I Have To Cry' ('To Nk Roachment: Yarbles'), which in 1 minute and 22 seconds sums up a decade. 1986's 'Bend Sinister' continued in a similar vein (the Peel Sessions of this period being particularly worth checking out). In later years, Smith would return to his deliberately obscurantist ways, smashing the band to peices - literally, on stage, in one infamous episode whilst on tour in the US. Whilst always worth hearing and even more worth seeing, The Fall have never quite scaled the heights of the mid-80s. They were my soundtrack of the derilict, boarded up, industrial wasteland that was 1980s Manchester. I better dust those LPs off again, because what goes around comes around.
Album of the year
Most reviewers of the time (1985 was difficult) look back on this album with fondness and respect. It was quite simply head and shoulders above anything else released that year. Listening to it today is still a joy.
Biography
Formed: 1977 in Manchester, England
Genre: Alternative
Years Active: '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s
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Theme from Sparta F.C. | Country On the Click | 3:44 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Hit the North, Part 1 | 458489 A-Sides | 4:01 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Victoria | The Frenz Experiment | 2:45 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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There's a Ghost in My House | The Frenz Experiment | 2:37 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Mr Pharmacist | 458489 A-Sides | 2:20 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Lost In Music | The Infotainment Scan | 3:52 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Bury | Bury - Single | 3:46 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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L.A. | This Nation's Saving Grace | 4:09 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Victoria | 458489 A-Sides | 2:45 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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There’s a Ghost In My House | 458489 A-Sides | 2:37 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
- £7.99
- Genres: Alternative, Music, Rock, Adult Alternative, College Rock
- Released: 1985
- ℗ 1989 Beggars Banquet
