Hex Enduction Hour [IMPORT] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]

The Fall

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 1, 1982)
• Original Release Date: March 1982
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Line
• ASIN: B0006OL5J0
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #188,708 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Product Description
UK two disc, remastered reissue of 1982 album includes 9 bonus tracks - John Peel Session #5, first broadcast 15 September 1981 'Deer Park', 'Look, Know', 'Winter', 'Who Makes The Nazis?' - Kamera 7inch single, April 1982 'Look, Know', 'I'm Into C.B.' and live tracks 'Session Musician', 'Jazzed Up Punk Shit', 'I'm Into C.B. (Stars On 45 Version)', 'And This Day', 'Deer Park' and 'And This Day (Revisted)'. Castle. 2005.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Fall at their most controversial!, April 7, 2005

By	Eraserhead (Twin Peaks) - See all my reviews

'Hex Enduction Hour', The Fall's mammoth fourth album, stands along with 'This Nations Saving Grace' as their greatest achievement. Realeased in 1983, a year after the amazing 'Perverted By Language', 'Hex Enduction Hour' was shaping up to be the final album that Mark E. Smith was planning to release. That was until the finished album was released to huge underground success (not hurt by the infamous opening lines to 'The Clasical'). In the wake of its success, the band decided to keep it going for a little while longer (20 years!). Many of the band's best songs come from this album, in particular 'The Classical', 'Just Step S'ways', and 'Who Makes the Nazi's?', the latter of which helped fuel the fire of controversy surrouding the album. Also, the closing song, 'And This Day', is arguably the best of The Fall's loooong tracks, clocking in at over 10 minutes. I'd go as far as to say that this is the least compromised album in he Fall catalog, although more than likely, very few actually were.

This import only reissue is worth the hefty price tag attached mainly because of the difficulty in obtaining any other rare or out of print version of the album(I had the old version on backorder for over a month on both Amazon & Insound!). And even better, there is an entire bonus disk of live tracks, John Peel sessions (RIP), and the 7" version of the cataclysmic b-side 'I'm into CB'. Long liner notes, written by Daryl Easlea, are included also, which trace the orgins and importance of the album. If you are a Fall fan at all, there is no reason not to pick this album up. It marks the mid point in their near perfect run of 80's albums that began with 'Grotesque'(included 'Perverted By Language', 'The Wonderful and Frightening World Of...', 'This Nation's Saving Grace') and culminated with 'Bend Sinister". A wonderful and frightening world indeed...

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Repetition pt. 7, October 9, 2005

By	J. Holmes "blood+whiskey" (yokohama, japan) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

the music of The Fall is both engaging and off-putting...equal parts clever and brilliant mixed with the confounding and annoying. the casual fan of punk or post rock will probably be confused. and that my friends, may be the point. or maybe not. you decide. take a listen.

5.0 out of 5 stars relentless, July 16, 2007

By	Michel Helmke (chicago, il) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is by far the best of the "early" Fall releases. Starts with the pounding "The Classical" and ends with the even-more pounding "And This Day." The pace lets up briefly during the second half for the poppy "Just Step Sideways," the hilarious "Who Makes the Nazis," and the brooding "Iceland." "Hex" sounds the most Velvet Underground-like (circa "White Light White Heat") of all Fall releases. Play loud.