Slates [Original recording remastered]

The Fall | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 7, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Sbme Castle Us
• ASIN: B0006HBZUQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #588,394 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

2004 reissue of classic 1981 release includes seven bonus tracks, 'Middle Mass' (John Peel Session), 'Lie Dream Of A Casino Soul' (John Peel Session), 'Hip Priest' (John Peel Session), 'C N C Hassle Schmuck' (John Peel Session), 'Lie Dream Of A Casino Soul', 'Fantastic Life' )B-side), & 'Medical Acceptance Gate'. (Outtake). --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars hotel maids smile in unison and you know in your brain, August 17, 2006

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Geoffrey R. Balme (raleigh NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Slates (Audio CD)

I love the Fall, some of their later records have gone by the wayside for me (they are outrageously prolific - and like Captain Beefheart - largely a vocalist songwriter surrounded by a variety of musicians).

I got my hands on slates at about the same time I wasn't graduating High School. My friends and I studied it meticulously, like all Fall albums (there's sometimes more just on the liner notes than many other bands have in their entire records!) This orginally was a 10" vinyl Lp and looked GREAT. The six songs had 4 downright poppy and unforgettable hooks in them - and the lengthy ponderous "slates" was - while droning on and on like a Delta blues piece, full of interesting verbosity from Smith.

This release is a gem - as it's saddled with some great extras - to fill out the CD length and allow for longer playing. The original release was just the first six tracks - ending with the fabuous "leave the capital".

"Fit and Working Again" was damned near anthemic for me at 18 - and even now evokes a kind of material excitement and madness of growing up.

"Older Lover" is brilliant and promising as well.

They were never really to sound like this again - and like many great things - a kind of recorded snapshot of musical and social history.

I hear these days that Smith is mostly an onstage drunk surrounded by musicians half his age who wouldn't even know Slates... but, that's another story that includes a fist fight from the boney old man with his former band mates... Ah! Rockstars!

4.0 out of 5 stars it's the fall, February 5, 2012

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C. Jerome "Chris Unknown" (Westport,ma.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Slates (Audio CD)

this is a good addition for the die hard fall fans that have to have everything. if you love the fall you will want this cd.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars it grows on you, July 10, 2005

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http://www.davidrhoden.com (New Orleans, LA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Slates (Audio CD)

I first heard the 'Slates' EP when it came out and was totally bothered and befuddled by it. I remembered thinking the cover looked fantastic. I listened to a borrowed vinyl copy many times and never could decide if I liked it, or if I even got it. Years later I got another copy, with all these bonus tracks. I'm still not sure I get it but it sounds great to me. Cleans indie rock garbage out of your ears. Some of their poppiest stuff and also some of the most abrasive.