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The Fall Lyrics



All Songs 15 Ways 2 X 4 50 Year Old Man A Figure Walks A Lot in a Name A Lot Of Wind A Past Gone Mad Alton Towers An Older Lover Etc. And Therein... And This Day Arid Als Dream Arms Control Poseur Ascend Athlete Cured Australians in Europe Auto (2014) Chip Replace Auto Tech Pilot Backdrop BAD LINKS Bad News Girl Barabbas Barmy Before The Moon Falls Behind The Counter Bill is Dead Bingo-Masters Breakout Birmingham School of Business School Birthday Black Monk Theme Part I Blindness Blood Outta Stone Bombast Bonkers in Phoenix Bound Bournemouth Runner Bremen Nacht British People in Hot Weather Bug Day Butterflies 4 Brains C. R. E. E. P Cab It Up Calendar Can Can Summer Carry Bag Man Cary Grants Wedding Cheetham Hill Chicago Now! Chock Stock Choc-Stock City Dweller City Hobgoblins Clasp Hands Classical Clear Off Cloud of Black Cnc Cnc S Mithering Container Drivers Copped It Cosmos 7 Couldnt Get Ahead Craigness Creep [Peel Session] Crew Filth Crop-Dust Cruisers Creek Cyber Insekt Das Vulture Ans Ein Nutter-Wain Dead Beat Descendant Deadbeat Descendant Decreation (Demo) Deer Park Defender Detective Instinct Dice Man Disneys Dream Debased Dissolute Singer Diy Meat Dont Call Me Darling Dont Take The Pizza Dr Bucks Letter Draygos Guilt Dresden Dolls Eat Yself Fitter Edinburgh Man Eds Babe Elf Prefix Elves Enigrammatic Dream Enough Entitled Everybody but Myself Everything Hurtz Fantastic Life Feeling Numb Fiery Jack First One Today Fit and Working Again Flat of Angels Flat of Angles Fortress Free Range Frenz Frightened Futures And Pasts Garden Gentlemens Agreement Get a Hotel Ghosts (Demo) Glam Racket Glam Racket Star God Box Gramme Friday Gross Chapel-Gb Grenadiers Guest Informant Guide Me Soft Gut of The Quantifier H. O. W Happi Song Hard Life in Country Hard Life in the Country Hark the Herald Angels Sing He Pep! Heir to Silence Hey Fascist! Hey Luciani! Hey! Marc Riley! Hey! Student High Tension Line Hilary Hillary Hip Priest Hit The North Hit The North V1 Hit The North V2 Hit The North V3 Hit The North V4 5 Hit The North V6 Hit The North V7 Hostile Hot Aftershave Bop Hot Runes Hotel Bloedel How I Wrote Elastic Man Hurricane Edward I Am Damo Suzuki I Come and Stand at Your Door I Feel Voxish I Want You Ibis-Afro Man Iceland Idiot Joy Showland Im a Mummy Im Bobby Pt 1 Im Bobby Pt 2 Im Frank Im Going to Spain Im Into Cb Im Not Satisfied Immortality Impression of J Temperance In My Area In The Park In These Times Industrial Estate Intro Its a Curse Ivanhoes Two Pence Jawbone and the Air Rifle Jet Boy Jetplane Jingle Bell Rock Joke [Live] Joker Hysterical Face Junger Cloth Jungle Rock Just Step Sways Just Waiting Kb Kick the Can Kicker Conspiracy Kurious Orange Kurious Oranj L.a. Ladybird (Green Grass) Last Orders Leave the Capitol Levitate Lie Dream Of A Casino Soul Life Just Bounces Light/Fireworks Live at the Witch Trials Live at the Witchtrials Living Too Late Loadstones Longing Spirits Look Know Lost In Music Lucifer over Lancashire M5 Markll Sink Us Marquis Cha Cha Marquis Cha-Cha Married, Two Kids Masquerade Mere Pseud Mag Ed Mere Pseud Mag Ed-Live Version Mess of My Middle Mass Mother Sister! Mother-Sister! Mountain Energei Music Scene Muzorewis Daughter My Ex-Classmates' Kids My New House Neighborhood of Infinity Neighbourhood of Infinity New Big Prinz New Face In Hell New Puritan Night (Demo) No Respects Rev. No X Mas for John Quays No Xmas for John Quays Noise North West Fashion Show O.F.Y.C. Showcase Oh! Brother Ol Gang Oleana Oleano One Day Oxymoron Papal Visit Paranoia Man in a Cheap Sh*t Room Paranoia Man In Cheap Sh*t Room Passable [Live] Pay Your Rates Pearl City Pinball Machine Pine Leaves Pittsville Direkt Powder Keg Principalities: On Kings and Their Civil Lies Printhead Prole Art Threat Psycho Mafia Psycho-mafia Psykick Dance Hall Psykick Dance Hall-single Version Pumpkin Head Escapes Pumpkin Head Xscapes Putta Block Quartet of Doc Shanley Rainmaster Rebellious Jukebox Repetition Room To Live Rose Rowche Rumble " Said the Last Adam to the Abyss the Moment After His Final Breath Seccession Man Second Dark Age Service Seventies Night Shiftwork Shoulder Pads 1 Slang King Sleep Debt Snatches Smile Snazzy So Called Dangerous So What About It? So-Called Dangerous Solicitor in Studio Spectre Vs Rector Spencer Must Die Spinetrak Stay Away Stephen Song Stepping Out Systematic Abuse Tempo House Ten Houses of Eve Ten Points [Live] Terry Waite Sez That Man The Aphid The Ballard of J Drummer The Book Of Lies The City Never Sleeps The Coliseum The English Scheme The Joke The League of Bald-Headed Men The Legend of Xanadu The Mixer The Night The Nwra The Reckoning The War Against Intelligence The Wright Stuff Theme From Error-Orrori Time Enough at Last Totally Wired Touch Sensitive Touchy Pad Tuff Life Boogie Twister Two Librans Two Steps Back Two-Face! Underground Medecin Van Plague? Various Times Warmonger (Demo) Way Round W.B What About Us? White Lightning Who Makes the Nazis Why Are People Grudgeful Wigan Soul Poem Win Fall Cd 2088 Ad Winter Winter [a Part of America Therein Version] WORDS OF EXPECTATION Xmas with Simon You Havent Found It Yet Your Heart Out
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The Fall were an English post-punk group, formed in 1976 in Prestwich, Greater Manchester. They underwent many line-up changes, with vocalist and founder Mark E. Smith as the only constant member. The Fall's long-term musicians included drummers Paul Hanley, Simon Wolstencroft and Karl Burns; guitarists Craig Scanlon, Marc Riley, and Brix Smith; and bassist Steve Hanley, whose melodic, circular bass lines are widely credited with shaping the band's sound from early 1980s albums such as Hex Enduction Hour to the late 1990s.

First associated with the late 1970s punk movement, the Fall's music underwent numerous stylistic changes, often concurrently with changes in the group's lineup. Their music was generally characterised by an abrasive, repetitive guitar-driven sound, tense bass and drum rhythms, and Smith's caustic lyrics. The critic Simon Reynolds described Smith's lyrics as "a kind of Northern English magic realism that mixed industrial grime with the unearthly and uncanny," voiced through a "one-note delivery somewhere between amphetamine-spiked rant and alcohol-addled yarn". While the Fall never achieved widespread success beyond minor hit singles in the late 1980s and early 1990s, they have maintained a strong cult following.

The Fall have been called "the most prolific band of the British post-punk movement". From 1979 to 2017, they released 31 studio albums, plus dozens of live albums and compilations released against Smith's wishes. They were associated with the BBC DJ John Peel, who championed them from early on in their career and described them as his favourite band, saying: "They are always different; they are always the same." The group disbanded after Smith's death in 2018.
Members:
Mark E. Smith
From: Prestwich, Greater Manchester, England
Genre(s): Post-punk, alternative rock
Active From: 1976-2018
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