Our Fall lover had a shortlist of 23 songs,which he then ‘whittled down’ to 46. But pity the man picking only 10 from the catalogue of Mark E Smith Legend of the Fall: Mark E Smith kept swinging to the terminate Its tough to know where to start with a back catalogue that takes in 30 studio albums, hundreds of songs and somehow assimilates everything from rockabilly to techno to jazz to krautrock to classical music into a uniquely identifiable and inimitable “Fall sound”. When I first attempted to distil the labyrinthine Fall canon and into a mere 10 songs I started with a list of 23 and by later the same evening had somehow “whittled it” down to double the figure. In the terminate, and I decided to start where it began for me: my favourite track on my first and still favourite Fall album,1980’s Grotesque (After the Gramme). Continue reading...
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