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40 Odd Years Of The Fall
02:59
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Your life will be a better place
With Mark E Smith in your face
I heard the voices, I got the call
God was saying, Listen to The Fall
Is anyone listening at all?
40 odd years of The Fall
40 odd years of The Fall
40 odd years of The Fall
40 odd years
No in depth analysis
Just have a bleedin guess
Grotesque, sinister, unutterable
Time travel, horror and football
Is anyone listening at all?
40 odd years of The Fall
40 odd years of The Fall
40 odd years of The Fall
40 odd years
From Bingo Master's Breakout to Nine Out Of Ten
We will never see your likes again
I cannot resist the urge
From Live At The Witch Trials to New Facts Emerge
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2. |
Dance This MES Around
03:19
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Dance this MES around
Fall sound, Fall sound
Last chance to turn around
To Fall sound, Fall sound
Go...
Everybody goes to parties
They dance this MES around
They do the Middle Mass
They do the Cruisers Creek
Do the Tuff Life Boogie
Do the Hip Priest
Ah-Hip Hip Hip Hip hip hip
Shake Off, Shake Off
Do the Sinister Waltz
The Hot Aftershave Bop
Take two steps back
Do the Laptop Dog
Do the Twister
The 986 Generator
Up the stairs mister
And do the Amorator
Everybody goes to parties
They dance this MES around
15 ways to leave your lover on the dance floor
Fall sound, Fall sound
Do the Rowche Rumble
Do the Aqua-rosa (aqua rosa)
Do the Can Can Summer
Do the Reformation
Just step sideways
Do the Whizz Bang
Butterflies for brains
And Kick The Can
The Marquis Cha Cha (Clasp Hands)
Do the Fol De Rol
Do the Exploding Chimney
The Middle Class Revolt
Do the Pumpkin Soup & Mashed Potatoes
It's The New Thing
Hands Up Billy, do the Cyber Insekt
Do the Aphid
Everybody goes to parties
They dance this MES around
Fall sound, Fall sound
Do the Monocard
Do the 2 X 4
Check your shoulder pads
But watch the slippy floor
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3. |
Granny On Bongos
02:40
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Well she lives all alone in a Manchester flat,
She wears Pringle jumpers and a floppy hat,
And her one aim in life is to be in The Fall
Banging some bongos, she's waiting for the call
Go have a go Granny on bongos
Do you remember how that Fall song goes?
The one with a megaphone and a kazoo
And H.P. Lovecraft fighting in world war two
Well one day Mark E Smith happened to be in town
So she turned up in her dressing gown,
She climbed up on stage and proceeded to dance
Then fiddled with all the controls on the amps
Go have a go Granny on bongos
Do you remember how that Fall song goes?
The one with a megaphone and a kazoo
And H.P. Lovecraft fighting in world war two
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4. |
Fall On You
02:02
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Yes, I know, it's boring
Yes, I know, it's boring
Did you ever get the feeling
That you have to play a Fall LP
Yes, I know, it's boring
To educate somebody?
Then you tell them they won't be sorry
Yes, I know, it's boring
Do you ever wonder "Is it me?"
Will it happen to somebody new
That's when you know
The pain that's gonna fall on you
But all the time you're worried 'bout
The pain that you might put them through
It really doesn't matter if they don't feel the same as you
They're hardly gonna turn into a fan of Kajagoogoo
But all the time you're worried 'bout
The pain that's gonna fall on you
You've gotta change the record,
Change the guy's track record soon
Or else you're gonna end up howling at the moon
It's a sorry state of affairs
When the only thing that you can do
Is worry all the time about
The pain that's gonna fall on you
Yes, I know, it's boring
Yes, I know, it's boring
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5. |
Curmudgeon
03:08
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Curmudgeon
Get off the phone
Curmudgeon
Go it alone
Leave the hardy millenials
To grow by themselves
Play catch up on fibre book
Like and share your instant grammes
Curmudgeon
Hey lazy hack
Curmudgeon
Put your press pack back
Don't call me curmudgeon
It's so old hat
Curmudgeon
This hat is flat
Leave the hardy millenials
To grow by themselves
Play catch up on fibre book
Like and share your instant grammes
Curmudgeon
Hey lazy hack
Curmudgeon
Put your press release back
Don't call me curmudgeon
Flat hat hack hat
A very famous sports reporter
Wants it back
Curmudgeon
Get off the phone
Curmudgeon
Go it alone
Go it alone
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6. |
Fall Clichés
03:53
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500 ex members
50 LPs - quotes used in a thousand pieces
Always the same, always different
The most overused of Fall clichés
It only takes a glance at Wikipedia
To get the guff spread by the mainstream media
It doesn't take too much effort to use your ears
Just let your lazy brain run riot through the gears
Go on, try
Badly drawn anecdotes about Badly Drawn Boy
Madly inaccurate accounts of Can and Neu
Curmudgeon is the hack shorthand of choice
Finishing sentences with 'ah' to mock the voice
Go on, try
If you, or somebody you know round Salford way
Has been affected by being in The Fall - hey
Please ring this number and we'll tell you what to say
We're dying to slip in another Fall cliché
Go on, try
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7. |
D'Ye Ken John Peel?
02:08
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D'ye ken John Peel do ya do ya eh?
Do ye ken John Peel from the end of day?
Do ye ken John Peel now he's far, far away
With his Sounds and The Fall in the morning?
With the sound of Pickin The Blues in my head
His theme tune by Grinderswitch I heard in bed,
He changed from admiring the Grateful Dead
To playing The Fall till the morning.
Yes, I kent John Peel on Radio 1,
Ten to twelve in seventy seven
From prog to reggae, from reggae to punk
From punk to death metal with no warning.
Then here's to John Peel from my heart and soul
Let's drink to his health, let's finish the bowl,
We followed John Peel even when he played Hole
Till the early hours of the morning.
D'ye ken John Peel with his wife The Pig?
He liv'd at Peel Acres where he'd put on gigs,
Now he has gone far, far, far away,
We shall ne'er hear his voice in the morning.
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8. |
Not Appreciated
02:43
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Well I'm gonna have to tidy up this mess I have created
I'm over achieving and not appreciated
Oh isn't it a crying pity boo hoo hoo
I'm not appreciated for the things that I do
You write a stupid song and expect someone to like it
Even if they do, I cannot tell, I'm not a psychic
Sometimes I wonder if 1 and 1 is 2
I'm not appreciated for the things that I do
Well I was walking down the street and I heard somebody say,
'Modernity, moderninity, modernity'
Sometimes I wonder, Is that kung fu?
I'm not appreciated for the things that I do
The hardest working satirist in Scottish comedy
A song a day, and more, and completely fucking free
Powered by Tennents and Irn Bru
I'm not appreciated for the things that I do
Not appreciated
Not appreciated
I'm not appreciated for the things I do
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9. |
Fi's Fags
03:18
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Fi was sitting in Bennet's Bar
In Edinburgh
She was a little curious
She had a little orange
She felt a little spurious
She was sucking on a lozenge
She had a Marlboro hanging from her lips
When in walks Mark E Smith
He says, Can I have a fag
So she offered him the packet
He took the fucking lot
Stuck them in his jacket
She was furious at the radge
Furious at the radge
Fictitious press headline read
Fractious Fall Frontman Filches Fags
Fi's fags
Fi's fags
Fi's fags
Mark E Smith, he didn't dally
He fucked right off
Down a back alley
It was like watching Mohammed Ali
In a Michael Clark ballet
99% of non-smokers die
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10. |
All Fall Down
02:53
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All Fall down
Live at the Witch Trials
All Fall down
Dragnet
All Fall down
Grotesque (After the Gramme)
All Fall down
Slates
All Fall down
Hex Enduction Hour
All Fall down
Room to Live
All Fall down
Perverted by Language
All Fall down
The Wonderful and Frightening World Of...
This Nation's Saving Grace, Bend Sinister
The Frenz Experiment
I Am Kurious Oranj, Extricate
Shift-Work, Code: Selfish
All Fall down
The Infotainment Scan
All Fall down
Middle Class Revolt
All Fall down
Cerebral Caustic
All Fall down
The Light User Syndrome
All Fall down
Levitate
All Fall down
The Marshall Suite
All Fall down
The Unutterable
Are You Are Missing Winner
The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country on the Click)
Fall Heads Roll, Reformation Post TLC
Do you feel it, feel it, feel it?
All Fall down
Do you feel it, feel it, feel it?
All Fall down
Do you feel it, feel it, feel it?
All Fall down
Do you feel it, feel it, feel it?
All Fall down
Do you feel it, feel it, feel it? Imperial Wax Solvent
All Fall down, Your Future Our Clutter
Do you feel it, feel it, feel it? Ersatz GB
All Fall down Re-Mit
Do you feel it, feel it, feel it? Sub-Lingual Tablet
All Fall down New Facts Emerge
Do you feel it, feel it, feel it?
All Fall down
Do you feel it, feel it, feel it?
Everytime you need them, they are there
To ease the pain that fogs you
And when you don't need them, up the stair
Mister
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11. |
No Musos
02:18
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1,2,3.14
Pi!
All good scientists go to heaven
Open 22 over 7
Non sequitur, non sequitur
A technical wizard or a strummer, I know what I prefer
No musos
No musos
No musos
No musos
Oodly doodly fey as a fern
Will these show offs never learn?
25 notes where 1 would do
The over indulgent muso crew
No musos
No musos
No musos
No musos
Two Masters of Ceremony equals MC squared
Non sequitur, non sequitur
You have to laugh or else you're Christ
Non sequitur, non sequitur
Jesus was a poltergeist
Non sequitur, non sequitur
All this whining by the musical snobs
Checking their privilege and nuanced gobs
There's a fire in the snow, you'd think it would melt it
But the snow put out the fire and nobody felt it
Gies peace, gies peace, gies peace, gies peace, gies piece
No musos
No musos
No musos
No musos
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12. |
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Everyone knows someone who's been in The Fall
Everyone knows someone who's been in The Fall
Bass player or drummer
Guitar or keyboards
Just in for the summer
Right song, wrong chords
Everyone knows someone who's been in The Fall
Everyone knows someone who's been in The Fall
Violin or banjo
Trumpet or kazoo
Don't mention the bongo
If you know what's good for you
Everyone knows someone who's been in The Fall
Everyone knows someone who's been in The Fall
Who's been in The Fall?
Mark E Smith
Martin Bramah
Tony Friel
Una Baines
Steve Omrod
Karl Burns
Jonny Brown
Eric McGann
Yvonne Pawlett
Marc Riley
Mike Leigh
Craig Scanlon
Steve Hanley
Paul Hanley
Dave Tucker
Brix Smith
Simon Rogers
Simon Wolstencroft
Marcia Schofield
Kenny Brady
Dave Bush
Julia Nagle
Lucy Rimmer
Adrian Flanagan
Tommy Crooks
Kate Themen
Karen Leatham
Tom Head
Neville Wilding
Adam Halal
Spencer Birtwistle
Ben Pritchard
Jim Watts
Brian Fanning
Ed Blaney
Dave Milner
Elena Poulou
Simon Archer
Steve Trafford
Tim Presley
Rob Barbato
Orpheo McCord
Pete Greenway
Dave Spurr
Keiron Melling
Daren Garrett
Paul Bonney
Michael Clapham
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Tommy Mackay Edinburgh, UK
Scottish comedy performer and editor of The Daily Reckless - the paper that sings the news.
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