You never saw them live when Mark had just sacked someone a few hours before the gig! But you're right, The Fall's drums and bass were usually bloody tight.
Yeah, a surface asessment might lead one to believe that The Fall are often a bit shambolic and splattershot - But they're always really tight (whenever I've seen 'em) - They just don't 'Lego' their songs together into verse / chorus / middle 8 / etc structures, like most groups traditionally do.
I’m tapped-aye it’s all a bit rock college these days...this is the shit tho.....you Gretchen Franklin nosey matron typeaaaaaaaaaah...Gallus!!!!!!!x643
"How DARE you ASSOOme I wanna parlez-VOO with YOO!" I love that line so much, you wouldn't believe it. No-one's as witty and gritty as Mark E. when he gets sarky. I don't like telephones either; and the whole song reminds me of Ted Hughes's spooky anti-phone poem "Do Not Pick Up The Telephone", which is the sort of poem that Mark E. Smith could've written himself. Sample lines from "Do Not Pick Up The Telephone": "Death invented the phone it looks like the altar of death/Do not worship the telephone/It drags its worshipers into actual graves/With a variety of devices, through a variety of disguised voices..." Now TELL ME Mark E. Smith COULDN'T have written that! I bet he knows Ted Hughes back-to-front-and-sideways. Anyway, this is great.
He was telling the future as it became.So far ahead,no Radiohead with no Fall.Mind you, I have felt that everyone is listening in after weeks of speeding!Long live the Fall!(By the way, I heard your telephone thing listening in!)
There are lines in a Syd Barrett song ' travelling by telephone ' and Kevin Ayers ' conversations aimed at anyone ' which were both written way before mobile phones. You are pretty well forced into having one now.
Nah.This was when they were hijacked by guardian readers and the middle classes who swore they have loved them since 1980.He would fucking hate who was listening now.
I hear your telephone thing listening in, I feel your telephone thing listening in, I sense your telephone thing listening in.....How far ahead?!!!R. I.P Mark E.Smith.
I heard this a few years after it was released. Abolutlety Gorgeous ❤ These people, especially the singer have brought joy infinitely I will always love them 🎉
I think it's even more glorious. It has a tougher sound. And oh GAWD, the assonance in the lyrics! "How dare you assOOme I wanna parlez-VOO wit'chOO?" I love that! One of the Fall's most glorious performances.
@0:33 the genius little sample of an old stool phone ring, sitting subtly in the background of the intro. This is one of the most in yer face and sublime tunes ever, making it the most perfect oxymoron to my little ears.
If it's me and your granny on bongos, it's The Fall-Mark E Smith I last saw The Fall at the Garage in Aberdeen. MES came on late, mumbled through a few songs, messed around with the band's amps, walked off stage at least 3 times and then finished less than 40 minutes after it began. Still not sure if it was a great or shambolic performance. Music has lost a true maverick today...
Yes, little known fact...although to be fair it was a mix up as she thought she was in contact with chas n' Dave, as they have a song called, 'that telephone thing'!!!
ENOUGH already!!!!!!! Someone please stop taking our great artists and singers off this earth! Is it some computerized robotic being eliminating real voices and talent from our ears and leaving us with programmed dolly drops and boy toy push buttons????? RIP Mark, you had a great influence on real MUSIC. I will always hear you! Jan Chiodo Wilhelm six nation's NY
So freaking prescient. That guitar in this song--who is it? Really great. happy birthday, Mark. Would have been 65 years old today. Thanks for the music and great live performances.
It was such as a mistake to fire Craig Scanlon, or whatever happened c. 1995. MES even admitted it, which is pretty remarkable in itself -- said he was a "sacrifical lamb"!
@@ianbrowne9217 I mean who knows what MES was thinking. The concept of mass surveilance and keeping tabs on the population is nothing new. I was more so thinking about Cambridge Analytica and Facebook. All these companies collecting data on people to sway their opinions or make them feel a certain way about things.
@@ianbrowne9217 "Analytics have got, My type worked out" probably doesnt mean what I think it does but thats how interpret it anyway. This idea of keeping tabs on the greater population is kind of a recurring theme in The Fall. MES loved dystopian themes and novels of that sort. Phillip K. Dick and Vladimir Nabokov come to mind!
Subject: Final hours before expiration #PatriotAct and #NSA Desperation!!! I repeat these timely topical words of Mark Edward Smith: "... the use of, and your smug advertisements of your tendril ocean bed achievements does not justify your abuse of privacy piracy act! I hear you Telephone Thing listening in I feel you Telephone Thing listening in How dare you assume I want to parlez-vous with you?..." Reply ·
How dare you assume i wanna parlez vous with you is one of my favourite ever lyrics. Long live The Fall & MES ❤️
Facebook, I do not want to Parlez vous with you. I sense your Zuckenberg thing,listening in!
Amen, mate!
DITTO
Haha well said..... ahead of his time it fits today so he seen it early days
Adele Clough here. Still here regardless. Sharing the fucking joy 😊
❤
This is more relevant today than ever -Mark was indeed a prophet and hip priest !!
The guy's rock records.
THE COOLEST HIP PRIEST BEAT POET OF OUR TIME !~!~! Goodbye MARK ...You sure did it your way !!! Thanks for all the memories
Only one mark E smith 👍🎤🎶🎶❤️
ALWAYS amazed at how tight and professional The Fall is. They never miss a beat.....
That's because none of the band were ever given the time to get lazy, they were sacked.
You never saw them live when Mark had just sacked someone a few hours before the gig! But you're right,
The Fall's drums and bass were usually bloody tight.
Yeah, a surface asessment might lead one to believe that The Fall are often a bit shambolic and splattershot
- But they're always really tight (whenever I've seen 'em)
- They just don't 'Lego' their songs together into verse / chorus / middle 8 / etc structures, like most groups traditionally do.
I grow up with the fall , top class band , love you mark E
RIP Mark E. Smith, I will always hear you telephone thing!!
I’m tapped-aye it’s all a bit rock college these days...this is the shit tho.....you Gretchen Franklin nosey matron typeaaaaaaaaaah...Gallus!!!!!!!x643
So far ahead.. I sense your telephone thing, listening in...love..
"How DARE you ASSOOme I wanna parlez-VOO with YOO!" I love that line so much, you wouldn't believe it. No-one's as witty and gritty as Mark E. when he gets sarky. I don't like telephones either; and the whole song reminds me of Ted Hughes's spooky anti-phone poem "Do Not Pick Up The Telephone", which is the sort of poem that Mark E. Smith could've written himself. Sample lines from "Do Not Pick Up The Telephone": "Death invented the phone it looks like the altar of death/Do not worship the telephone/It drags its worshipers into actual graves/With a variety of devices, through a variety of disguised voices..." Now TELL ME Mark E. Smith COULDN'T have written that! I bet he knows Ted Hughes back-to-front-and-sideways. Anyway, this is great.
He was telling the future as it became.So far ahead,no Radiohead with no Fall.Mind you, I have felt that everyone is listening in after weeks of speeding!Long live the Fall!(By the way, I heard your telephone thing listening in!)
Also see Beefhearts song on Doc At The Radar Station titled "Telephone" it echos similar themes and I wonder if MES heard it when it came out.
There are lines in a Syd Barrett song ' travelling by telephone ' and Kevin Ayers ' conversations aimed at anyone ' which were both written way before mobile phones. You are pretty well forced into having one now.
I've always hated the phone. And I hate having to carry one around with me all day, too!
Holy shit! My ears forced me to press the return button again and again and again...
RIP great man!
The young genius of M.E.S at work again 30years ago. Another incredibly wonderful piece of music.
Fall. Cold cut . Fucking perfect.
It sure is!
RIP MES. These have been the best times of my life.
Thee hip priest rocks like no one! So ahead of his time
WOW. i've never listened to the fall before. the difference between "wings" and this song is pretty cool
I like the inclusion of the little intro; it gives a nice sense of media period.
200 years old still great
Nah.This was when they were hijacked by guardian readers and the middle classes who swore they have loved them since 1980.He would fucking hate who was listening now.
Beautiful 90's!
I hear your telephone thing listening in, I feel your telephone thing listening in, I sense your telephone thing listening in.....How far ahead?!!!R. I.P Mark E.Smith.
I heard this a few years after it was released. Abolutlety Gorgeous ❤ These people, especially the singer have brought joy infinitely I will always love them 🎉
RIP Mark E. Smith and your granny on bongos
R.I.P Mark E Smith, legend of legends
He hears our telephone thing's.
this has made my day.
Thank you for the music Mark E. Smith. RIP!
The Ting Tings. We started Nothing sounded familiar, now I remember why.
Thanks for posting
+andrew pilmore amazing how many don't hear.
Thanks for posting. This song used to be a listening staple for me back in the day.
I hope your still cosmic, cat.
Just me, or is this even more glorious than the studio version?
I think it's even more glorious. It has a tougher sound. And oh GAWD, the assonance in the lyrics! "How dare you assOOme I wanna parlez-VOO wit'chOO?" I love that! One of the Fall's most glorious performances.
Extricate is a belter like so many fall albums it was the most recent release when i discovered them aged 17....aah memories
insanely better!
no- and yes.
Holy shit this is better?..............what was the first version a group of guys falling down the stairs carrying instruments
@0:33 the genius little sample of an old stool phone ring, sitting subtly in the background of the intro. This is one of the most in yer face and sublime tunes ever, making it the most perfect oxymoron to my little ears.
Mark E. Smith is a poet, and you know it.
Hope he don’t blow it
If it's me and your granny on bongos, it's The Fall-Mark E Smith
I last saw The Fall at the Garage in Aberdeen. MES came on late, mumbled through a few songs, messed around with the band's amps, walked off stage at least 3 times and then finished less than 40 minutes after it began. Still not sure if it was a great or shambolic performance.
Music has lost a true maverick today...
The Fall+Coldcut=perfection!
Its the line about doing a parlez vous with Gretchen Franklin, the actress who played Ethel in soap drama Eastenders
Yes, little known fact...although to be fair it was a mix up as she thought she was in contact with chas n' Dave, as they have a song called, 'that telephone thing'!!!
RIP to Mark E Smith - Manchester Music LEGEND !! Will be sorely missed.. Rx
The Fall gets funky.
Michael Colello Fall gets prophetic!
I want this playing at my funeral
You might get your wish if Richard Branson has his way ( & he has).
FTM!
Mark hears our comments and contemptuously
The Fall era muy repetitivo , pero no cansaba.
Además muy creativos y con ritmo fácil y acogedor.
Marc i love you
Mark would not agree with your suburban nobody view... ☘️🇵🇸🌈✨️MANCHESTER BURY
What a pathetic reaction @@johnmorrison2604
The Fall were so ahead of their time!!!
Great thumbs up.*****
CHEERS AGAIN Carlos
I want this as my ringtone.
Ikr 😅
Bramah on guitar during his ill fated return. Thanks for posting.
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They just flex and grind on a groove a while and let it rock then fade ...brilliant
He has a lovely voice. I'd love to hear him singing something by Jack Jones.
Sublime so very 1990 Steve is lovely xxxx
Far away my preferred version of this track. Competes with Gross Chapel/Grenadier Guards for my favourite Fall track,
I love it that he has the lyrics right there on the stand
The hell??!! Dark and lovely...
Saw them many times and they were fucking ace when MES could be bothered, great performance!!! ✌️
Godspeed, Mark
Excellent ..
Freaking Brilliant tune by the genius that is Mark E Smith.
Awesome. RIP MArk.
This should be the anthem for today.
I'm hearing a bit of Beefheart in this.
I'd be said Iggy but yeah......see where ya comin from...
Yeah he was a big fan.
Alanko Meddle
tomorrow never knows here🙋
> E-lec-tri-ci-ty
Now that’s a good record.
I love that he has the lyrics in front of him
Cool stuff :)
It's the bloody Stazi - they want to know what's going down
Brilliant. x
RIP to the great man xxx
Our Mark; lookin genuinely gorgeous in this 👌😸
Way to go! Ty M.A.
The sheer syncopation is fucking EPIC
Christ, this is good!
R.I.P.!!!!!
It's a bop.
ENOUGH already!!!!!!! Someone please stop taking our great artists and singers off this earth! Is it some computerized robotic being eliminating real voices and talent from our ears and leaving us with programmed dolly drops and boy toy push buttons????? RIP Mark, you had a great influence on real MUSIC. I will always hear you! Jan Chiodo Wilhelm six nation's NY
Genius's tend to go quickly.Its all the drugs and imagination,they live so many mental lives they use up more than cats.
I'm here because Cedric Zavala told me I'm listening to too much hip hop and heavy metal
Mark is beautiful xxxx
So freaking prescient. That guitar in this song--who is it? Really great. happy birthday, Mark. Would have been 65 years old today. Thanks for the music and great live performances.
Whattya know? There's a wikipedia page about the song: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_Thing
marc its too good
He was always too good. When he was good, he was real real good, and when he was bad he was better!
Brilliant
RIP Marc e Smith
LCD soundsystem deffo influenced by the fall
James Murphy paid tribute to the song by using the phrase "I'm tapped" on the LCD Soundsystem song "Movement"
wow!
I dunno what anyone will think of this in 2091.....
Still sounds ace in 2023.
R.I.P. Mark E. Smith!
"I'm tapped-uh!"
Punk. Northern Punk? MES saw the Sex Pistols and thought 'We can do better than this'. And he was right!!
It was such as a mistake to fire Craig Scanlon, or whatever happened c. 1995. MES even admitted it, which is pretty remarkable in itself -- said he was a "sacrifical lamb"!
love thim
done
Rage in, rage in Mark E. Smith...
Yes we carry our surveillance these days, MES was prophetic
Also peep the lyrics on Eat Y'self Fitter
Analytics have got
My type worked out
Analytics on me
The poison render
Wtfffff
@@Turfdeanthantrax what does that mean? Not being a wallybob i need to know.
@@ianbrowne9217 I mean who knows what MES was thinking. The concept of mass surveilance and keeping tabs on the population is nothing new. I was more so thinking about Cambridge Analytica and Facebook. All these companies collecting data on people to sway their opinions or make them feel a certain way about things.
@@ianbrowne9217 "Analytics have got, My type worked out" probably doesnt mean what I think it does but thats how interpret it anyway. This idea of keeping tabs on the greater population is kind of a recurring theme in The Fall. MES loved dystopian themes and novels of that sort. Phillip K. Dick and Vladimir Nabokov come to mind!
They carried out surveillance then
Brill guitar..brill sound..am tappppped......i hear you telefon thing listen at him
R.I.P.
Subject: Final hours before expiration #PatriotAct and #NSA Desperation!!!
I repeat these timely topical words of Mark Edward Smith:
"... the use of, and your smug advertisements of your tendril ocean bed achievements does not justify your abuse of privacy piracy act!
I hear you Telephone Thing listening in
I feel you Telephone Thing listening in
How dare you assume I want to parlez-vous with you?..."
Reply ·
Yeah, I thought of that too. It's a very relevant song.
There's a promo video for this but I can't find it on you tube
RIP Mark E. :(
James Acaster has based his whole career on this…
If you ain't discovered The Fall yet...so envy you.
Wie immer!
Maybe Mark E. Smith will win a posthumous Nobel?
Always liked that presenter, wonder where she is now?
She's probably working in a call centre by now. ...Now THAT, Alanis Morrissettte is irony.
Something about his voice reminds me of Mitch Hedberg
I think a conversion with Gretchen Franklin/nosy matron type would be far more interesting than most of my daily interactions
This riff reminds me a lot of Audioslave's "One and the Same" riff
pretty captain beefharty in bits.
I'm tapped-uh
R.I.P
Wot he said below👇🏿... also, best move Coldcut ever made as it was downhill from here on in ...