Early Fall, 1977-1979 [Extra tracks, Import]

The Fall | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 11, 2000)
• Original Release Date: 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import
• Label: Cog Sinister UK
• ASIN: B00004IC8Z
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #500,142 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Repetition

2. Bingo Masters Breakout

3. Psycho Mafia

4. Various Times

5. It's The New Thing

6. Rowche Rumble

7. In My Area

8. Dice Man

9. Psykick Dancehall

10. Second Dark Age

11. Fiery Jack

12. Stepping Out

13. Last Orders

Editorial Reviews

Every track from their superb 'Step Forward' singles (none of which were on the albums) plus 2 bonus cuts from the rareLP 'Live At The Electric Circus', 'Srepping Out' and 'Last Orders'. The Fall might have got louder but they never got any stranger than this. 1999 release. Standard jewelcase.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FANTASTIC FALL!, May 3, 2000

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Mr N Forbes-warren "author of RESURGENCE and ... (Newport, South Wales, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Early Fall, 1977-1979 (Audio CD)

This LP was one of my favourites when I was 17 and a college student. Nowadays, I have to say that THE FALL still hold their appeal to me and always will! This excellent and essential(to any Fall fan young or old) compendium features their first four single releases and their b-sides. Also you get LAST ORDERS and STEPPING OUT which featured on a rare ten-inch live compilation called SHORT CIRCUIT LINE AT THE ELECTRIC CIRCUS(this also featured The Drones, Joy Division and John Cooper Clarke amongst others, as well as yours truly). Two little-heard, bouncy, catchy punky numbers with Mark E. Smith's unmistakable vocals, where every stanza seems to be punctuated with -ah! The opening track, REPETITION is a spoof of the chart music of 1978, including punk acts in particular!('You don't dig repetition-ah!'), illustrating it sounded the same!(in retrospect, it's better than the rap rubbish that's about today in my opinion) BINGO MASTER'S BREAKOUT is a mentally amusing tale of a seaside bingo caller who loses it, a song Mark E. Smith wrote while on holiday with his parents in Scarborough, apparently! PSYCHO MAFIA is one to play loud, VARIOUS TIMES is an HG Wells time machine-style tale with a grim vision of the future(yes, he was right, the beer does taste weak in the UK!). IT'S THE NEW THING is a parody of fellow Manchester rivals The Buzzcocks and their commercialised fashion fad-conscious hits. And there's a whole lot more besides...ENJOY! The Fall will continue to rock in their own weird way!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tremendous But Available Elsewhere, May 26, 2004

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

This review is from: Early Fall, 1977-1979 (Audio CD)

The music here is stupendous. But it's all available now on the 2004 "expanded reissues" of "Live at the Witch Trials" and "Dragnet", in superior fidelity.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars lunatics with keyboards and guitars, April 28, 2003

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Matthew Brewer (somehwere in time) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Early Fall, 1977-1979 (Audio CD)

A Terrific album containing some of Mark E Smiths best songs. Best to get it know before it goes out of print again. Brilliant, unheard music indeed.