My copy of the Peel Sessions arrived yesterday. Will not be able to "really" hear it for a couple of day. There have been a couple of posts on Fallnet...
M R McDonald
mars@...
Feb 2, 1999 5:09 pm
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Hello, I asked my local store to get this on thursday ( here in Milwaukee ) and it arrived today. I just started listening to it, and Smile is excellent - ...
John F. Monroe
monroej@xxxxxx.xxxx
Feb 3, 1999 6:24 am
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... I don't know. It certainly has all the indicia of an "in-joke"/hoax, however, it is a very clever one. I don't expect the perpetrators to simply admit to...
M R McDonald
mars@xx.xxxx
Feb 3, 1999 5:20 pm
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... Yes, and perhaps I actually have a copy -- I'm not saying, either -- and am a part of the (possible) hoax! I could even be one of the ringleaders....
M R McDonald
mars@xx.xxxx
Feb 3, 1999 6:34 pm
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ubject: The Post Nearly Man - NME article Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 18:31:42 -0800 From: grimey@... (Frank Grimes) Organization: "I live above a...
M R McDonald
mars@xx.xxxx
Feb 3, 1999 7:57 pm
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Subject: alt.music.the-fall - One year, one month anniversary! (Mark E Smith remembers the '70's - Vox April 98) Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 18:30:58 -0800 From: ...
M R McDonald
mars@xx.xxxx
Feb 3, 1999 7:58 pm
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From The Wire, March 1998 The Fall - Masquerade (Artful) 2xCD Fall singles are now footnotes to albums, rather than entities in their own right. "Masquerade"...
M R McDonald
mars@xx.xxxx
Feb 3, 1999 9:27 pm
81
THE FALL - Seminal Live (Beggars Banquet) A much-hated album among the cognoscenti when it was released, and I suspect most Fall faithful still don't care for...
M R McDonald
mars@xx.xxxx
Feb 3, 1999 9:31 pm
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... i've never heard of it and i don't know any "actual" people who've heard of it, and i spend some time interacting with a lot of seriously obsessed freaks....
Justin Kollar
jkollar@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Feb 3, 1999 10:09 pm
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"Let's hear it for alt.music.the-fall! The newsgroup is little more than a year old; started in 1997 during my Xmas vacation." Let me extend my congratulations...
M R McDonald
mars@xx.xxxx
Feb 3, 1999 10:12 pm
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... Record Collector article - March 1986 MARK PAYTRESS REVIEWS THE CAREER OF ONE OF THE MOST UNCOMPROMISING, BUT COLLECTABLE, BRITISH BANDS TO EMERGE DURING...
M R McDonald
mars@...
Feb 4, 1999 9:53 pm
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I am going to be posting a very long "portrait" of The Fall, called _Paintworks_. Any of you who don't want to read it should just look for the headers and...
M R McDonald
mars@xx.xxxx
Feb 4, 1999 9:57 pm
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M R McDonald
mars@xx.xxxx
Feb 4, 1999 9:57 pm
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This is actually the book _Paintwork_ That was divided up by a fallnetter (stve dean, I think) for online consumption. If you try, you might be able to find it...
John Howard
howard@xxx.xxxx
Feb 4, 1999 9:56 pm
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Further to previous discussion regarding the general all-round-good-egg that John Peel is, do any of you from the outer reaches of the empire listen to him on...
mark donaghy
mark@xxxxxxxxx.xxxxxx...
Feb 4, 1999 7:33 pm
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... Thanks. Some of that informaton was included in the Paintwork #1 -- sorry, the first time I posted it it was blank-- but I should have put it up front. ...
M R McDonald
mars@xx.xxxx
Feb 4, 1999 10:23 pm
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Smith confessed to enjoying the role of director, shouting orders at everyone through his megaphone, but he expressed his doubts about the group having ...
M R McDonald
mars@xx.xxxx
Feb 4, 1999 10:20 pm
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'Hex Enduction Hour' was, to borrow from 'Hip Priest', 'Bad, unafeared art' - an anthology of rhymes and cadences unique to The Fall, gratifyingly devoid of...
M R McDonald
mars@xx.xxxx
Feb 4, 1999 10:18 pm
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On 'Perverted By Language' Mark Smith once again proved he was master of his craft. An ability to use words as blunt instruments, as opposed to painterly...
M R McDonald
mars@xx.xxxx
Feb 4, 1999 10:19 pm
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PAINTWORK : A Portrait of the FALL by Brian Edge -=-=-=- CONTENTS Chapters 1 BACKDROP 2 CALL YOURSELVES BLOODY PROFESSIONALS? 3 ROCK AND POP...
M R McDonald
mars@xx.xxxx
Feb 4, 1999 10:16 pm
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The irony of course, was that there were riots in Toxteth and Moss Side the following year. And The Fall were on a seven-week tour of America at the time. In...
M R McDonald
mars@xx.xxxx
Feb 4, 1999 10:11 pm
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The Fall smeared their fingers in the dirt and showed the locals, 'This is how it is'. They offered the populace no solace, save a cheap night out away from ...
M R McDonald
mars@xx.xxxx
Feb 4, 1999 10:00 pm
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MArs n JOhnH ... Yes, the book has some great photo's. It is still orderable in a lot of countrys. In fact it is available in German as well. Mark E Smith said...
steve.dean@xxx.xx.xx
steve.dean@...
Feb 5, 1999 7:33 am
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There has not been much traffic on this list recently, to say the least. Has anyone tried to post? I received a private email from a listee yesterday and he...
M R McDonald
mars@xx.xxxx
Feb 19, 1999 7:05 pm
98
I found a Fall cd yesterday so, since I've never heard them, I bought it. Aside from a Stooges ripoff song, THESE PEOPLE SUCK! It's called THE...
Harry Thompson
harjan@xxxxxx.xxxx
Feb 20, 1999 9:03 pm
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... You are so, SO wrong. First of all, that is not the place to begin with The (mighty) Fall, and secondly, you are so wrong. The Fall have to be one of the...
M R McDonald
mars@xx.xxxx
Feb 20, 1999 9:06 pm
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On 2/20/99 1:06 PM, M R McDonald (mars@...) wrote ... Had I started with Extrashyte or Middle Shyte Revolt, I myself would have to wonder what the fuss is...
Rufus
rufus@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Feb 20, 1999 9:28 pm
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... Hey! "Harpy" aint that bad and while a lot of the Fall's sound is very reminiscent of the Stooges I wouldn't go so far as to say that they're a rip off ...
Marc Cain
mcain@xxxxxx.xxxx
Feb 21, 1999 12:02 am
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On 2/20/99 4:02 PM, Marc Cain (mcain@...) wrote ... The ... Give the above, and the Slates EP or Palace of Swords Reversed a try before writing off...
Rufus
rufus@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Feb 21, 1999 12:39 am
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After slagging that pieceashit LP MCR, the least I can do is give some additional perspectives.... culled from FallNet's Stve Dean's postings, a great fellow...