Dragnet

The Fall | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 15, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Castle Us
• ASIN: B0007TFGV2
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #471,660 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Psykick Dance Hall

2. A Figure Walks

3. Printhead

4. Dice Man

5. Before the Moon Falls

6. Your Heart Out

7. Muzorewi's Daughter

8. Flat of Angels

9. Choc-Stock

10. Spectre vs Rector

11. Put Away

12. Rowche Rumble [Bonus Track: Step Forward 7" Single Version. Released Ju

13. In My Area [Bonus Track: Step Forward 7" Single Version. Released July

14. Fiery Jack [Bonus Track: Step Forward 7" Single Version. Released Janua

15. 2nd Dark Age [Bonus Track: Step Forward 7" Single Version. Released Jan

16. Psykick Dance Hall [Take 2: Step Forward 7" Single Version. Released Ja

17. Rowche Rumble [Take 2: Previously Unreleased. Bonus Track] [Alternate T

18. Rowche Rumble [Take 3: Previously Unreleased. Bonus Track] [Alternate T

19. Rowche Rumble [Take 4: Previously Unreleased. Bonus Track] [Alternate T

20. Rowche Rumble [Take 5: Previously Unreleased. Bonus Track] [Alternate T

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

2004 deluxe expanded reissue of 1979 album features 22 tracks including 11 rare bonus tracks, 'Rowche Rumble', 'In My Area', 'Fiery Jack', '2nd Dark Age', 'Psykick Dancehall 2', 'Rowche Rumble' (Take 2, Take 3 Take 4, & Take 5), & 'In My Area' (Take 1, Take 2), released for the first time from original tapes. Includes expansive booklet & slipcase. Castle. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Extremely good fun, August 29, 2004

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filterite "filterite" (Dublin, Ireland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dragnet (Audio CD)

While I've heard of the other remastered jobs on this ( " right I'll just use me old vinyl. Oh f**k it's scratched" ) this truly must be the definitive collection for this album. It may seem cheaply recorded for some but this is The Fall at possibly their rawest and possibly their most bile-ridden best. It truly has to be The Fall at heart. No other way to describe it, really. Highlights to watch out for are Spectre Vs Rector and Rowche Ramble with all it's outtakes. Possibly the most fun you'll ever have listening to a CD. Absolutely essential

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wild! Extremely Imaginitive Album, May 19, 2004

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Scott McFarland (Manassas, VA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dragnet (Audio CD)

This is The Fall's second album - the lineup which recorded their debut "Live at the Witch Trials" fell apart, and bandleader Mark Smith recruited mostly-new working-class lads into his band, which was now more guitar-based and Velvet Underground-influenced. They recorded this album which was generally thought to be so far-out and abrasive that it was "practically unlistenable".

This 2004 edition is undoubtably definitive. It sounds much better than the previous CD issue that I have (not that that one was especially bad). I think that the sound, the full psyched-out fractured glory the band was after, comes through much stronger than it has before. All instruments are distinctly audible and the "muddy, distant" sound the album was formerly noted for is no hindrence to being moved by this music. For the first time, I find myself transfixed by the album.

It's a strong, wild, imaginative album. The band's time is not rock-solid but it's not bad either. Rock and rockabilly rythms collide with guitar drone and primal rhythms to create a mood of unease - kinetically spikey unease. Influenced somewhat by Captain Beefheart and Public Image Limited along with the Velvets but going further in many directions than those bands did, this record is a real acheivement. As is its sonic restoration.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Escape from the Dragnet, March 7, 2007

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A. J. M. Mcdonald "avril" (the hague) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dragnet (Audio CD)

Coming in a close second place to the joy of hearing for the first time a tune, or, even better, a disc of tunes, that, until the moment of hearing it, it was not possible to imagine your life without, is the joy of rediscovering an old gem which - sentiment being fickle - you'd once imagined that you could not live without but had somehow, by passage of years, managed to do exactly that.

There was a time when this record, in the scratchy vinyl form which I listen to now, was indispensable to my life. Hardly a day went by when I did not play it. Admittedly, I did have fewer records in those days but it was affection rather than deprivation that informed my choice. At the undeniable risk of being accused of boasting and possessing possibly prophetic (i.e., supernatural) powers, I can only admit, humbly but with undeniable humbug, that I was right to realise then that this record can possibly change your life, your luck and chances with the ladies and gents. People, I present to you, a monument.

For diehard Fall fans, there are no tunes to recommend. Each one here is indispensable. But during the months that I inflicted this record on flatmates, I noticed that some tunes went down better than others. Those were Psykick Dancehall, A Figure Walks, Dice Man, Printhead, Before the Moon Falls, Flat of Angles, Your heart Out, Choc-Stock, Muzorewi's Daughter, Spectre vs. Rector and Put Away.

How could I have forgotten this record? Get your orders in. Quickly.

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