Favorite Fall Album?
 

What does everyone consider here their favorite fall album? They have soo many its hard to choose. I like Fall-Grotesque best, I could never fully get into Hex Enduction Hour.I want to pick up some more of their albums though and wanted to see what fans like the most.

This Nation's Saving Grace

The Unutterable

Unless you count the Peel Sessions Boxset as an album, in which case it rises like a Leviathan and tears all competition, Fall and non-Fall, asunder.

I've not heard any fall albums, but their first 4 or 5 7"s are unbeatable!

Hexenductionhour
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Hex Enduction Hour.

Perverted By Language is close behind though.

Hex Enduction Hour

dragnet

Perverted By Language

Slanted and Enchanted

This Nation's Saving Grace has the majority of songs on a Fall album that i like. I don't think there is a single album of theirs in its entirety that i find perfect, but i love tons of songs scattered on a lot of them.

grotesque

and slates, but it's not a full length lp.

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anyway, hex is their.. uh.. classical album. so, obviously that. points to i am kurious oranje though.

Perverted by Language

Hex Enduction Hour

A two-way tie for me between "Dragnet" and "Hex Enduction Hour".

I like that the person I assume to be the longest-standing Fall fan extant on this board (no ageism on my part, it's a good thing) picks one of the more recent albums, whereas the young 'uns go for the older albums.

For myself it's a toss up between Levitate and Perverted by Language, although plenty of their albums are also incredibly good (I should perhaps include Extricate and Country on the Click in my toss-up).

If you go to the best Fall board--where it seems the average age of the regular posters is easily 10 years the senior of this board--you find nearly unanimous support for older albums of work from 1977-1984. "I Am Kurious Oranj" is the consensus pick among us as the first real let-down album.

I pick "Grotesque" as fave, too, but also suggest that the Peel Session box and the "Psychick Dance Hall" 3xCD are the best collections, with "Palace of Swords Reversed" also rating high.

yeah the peel sessions is the most essential, there will definitely be something you will like on it.

I'm not a huge fan of COTC, but I think that's to do with the production; I have the bootleg of the unreleased version and perfer it enormously. I also like those songs a lot when I hear them performed live.

Here here!!

uhhh, i have, actually had, hex enduction, plus the 50000 fall fans...comp and like their three last albums and like 4 bootlegs from all around their career, i think i haven't heard enough to give a full opinion...i'd say hex enduction but that's probably because i miss the damned album and reminds me of the bastard that nicked it from me. i rocked fall heads roll pretty hard when it came out.

I think this lyric from how I Wrote Elastic Man kind of sums up The Fall's musical direction over the years:

"Life should be full of strangeness
Like a rich painting
But it gets worse day by day"


In the begining The Fall's music was strange but now they play bog standard rock n roll, admitedly it's good bog standard, but it's still bog standard.

there really are so many to choose from but today i go with hex induction hour, followed closely by dragnet.

has anyone seen the video to kicker conspiracy? its a classic.

of the official albums

hex enduction hour
closely followed by perverted by language
and then fall heads roll, i make no apologies for loving this great great mark e document...

as for other releases

the peel session 6 cd box is essential, im sure ive said that before......
also palace of swords reversed
and maybe 50,000 fall fans cant be wrong is a great place for beginners.....

I may have said this to you in person, but in case I didn't, I say "Pah" to you and your opinion of the Fall.

Honourable mention to Infotainment Scan. If your from Britain theres so many references on this album (came out 1993?) that make perfect sense today, lots of very subtle comments on the culture of nostalgia, how its often perpetuated by people who were never there in the first place. VERY diffferent sound to the early stuff and some very cheesy covers (Including Lost in Music) completely reinterpreted to mean something different entirely. Its also a very vulnerable sounding album.

"Vimto was always crap"
Hats off.

good to hear that, i don't understand why so many fans are dissing that album, definitely the best thing they've done for years...

The following line in that song:

"I'm a potential DJ"

I think is a line is hinting towards his future role of selecting from an ongoing array of musicians as being akin to a DJ who also selects from his array of records, and then talks over them.