Levitate

The Fall | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 9, 1998)
• Original Release Date: June 9, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Artful Records
• ASIN: B000006B88
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #39,170 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #62 in Music > Alternative Rock > British Alternative > General

Track Listings

1. Ten Houses Of Eve

2. Masquerade

3. Hurricane Edward

4. I'm A Mummy

5. The Quartet Of Doc Shanley

6. Jap Kid

7. 4 1/2 Inch

8. Spencer Must Die

9. Jungle Rock

10. Ol' Gang

11. Tragic Days

12. I Come And Stand At Your Door

13. Levitate

14. Everybody But Myself

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars nothing much like this, November 17, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Levitate (Audio CD)

This album is a wonderful melange of rock and various electronica - jungle, dub, ambient mixed in such a way that I can't say there's much comparable to it stylistically. True, a bit of it is simply because of MES's vocal style but they also match guitar or bass lines in parts of songs other rock-gone-electronic (or vice-versa) bands wouldn't dare. On the other hand the straight-up "I'm a Mummy" is nowhere near a throwaway... much more of a bizarre surf-music sci-fi parable that Frankie and Annette would get down to. It rocks. If you can find it, buy the double disc set which also includes a christmas-ish song with a line from "Deck The Halls" played through a megaphone. Wacky stuff.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Fall are a music class all their own, irreverant, gutsy., September 15, 1998

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[e-mail] (RI, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Levitate (Audio CD)

First of all, if you don't know the Fall, you don't know Rock music. The Fall have well over 30 albums in print - they release an average of two a year, and they seldom repeat much in the way of material. Yes they are a recognizable style. Mark E. Smith's vocals are not much in the way of singing, in fact, he's been said to be tone deaf, but his word barrage is unique. This is not a soundtrack for your life, this is music that demands your attention and in its rather blasphemous way it can twist your thoughts. The Fall, have always smirked at high production, and opt usually for a very low tech sound quality. When you hear the fall, you really hear a band, not a studio overdub of what some producer hopes you'll buy. They have never sold out!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Everybody Including Myself, January 8, 2002

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winkingtiger ";oD" (Oakland, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Levitate (Audio CD)

Read the reviews of 'Levitate', and an unsubtle pattern begins to emerge. Fall fans dig the new breed, yeah! Truly new sounds from a group I thought had done it all. Guitars are all but done away with on this record, which really brings out the gifted playing of Bassist Steve Hanley and Drummer Simon Wolstencroft. Groovy Bass lines abound from 'Spencer Must Die' to 'The Quartet of Doc Shanley'. I also love the extreme panic-inducing cutting of cuts like '4 1/2 Inch' and '10 Houses of Eve'. There is also the mysterious track 'Tragic Days', which sounds like a very vintage home recording of the first-ever Fall guitarist, Martin Bramah!?!
Not to mention my all-out favorite, the definitely NON-throwaway track 'I'm A Mummy'. This rocks like nobody's business, but in a really tipped way. It's a cover of an old Beatnik-Era tune, but it is a vast improvement over that simple novelty song. Tap Foot Or Check Pulse!