#eatyselffitter

[randomrecordreview]

File Under Uneasy Listening. No doubt if Mark Edward Smith was still alive (he died in 2018) The Fall would still be churning out albums at a rate of knots. Roughly one a year since the band’s inception in 1976. 42 years, 32 studio albums (many many more EPs, live LPs, comps and others) and over 60 musicians passing through The Fall turnstiles is not so much ‘prolific’ as indecently voracious. This compilation album appears to have two subtitles: 39 Golden Greats and The Very Best Of The Fall 1978-2003 which together provide a pretty good description of its contents. If you’d been living under a rock during those years, and not heard of The Fall, then it still can’t possibly prepare you for what the music actually sounds like. Both loved and lambasted as a rowdier, rougher-round-the-edges version of The Smiths during the early 80s, this cheap comparison was massively incorrect. Most likely come up with by London-based music journalists who equated any band from Manchester as hewn from the same stone. I’m not sure how you’d describe their music. Genre-wise: post-punk, alternative, indie, all the usual meaningless labels. But in practice: rough jangling jarring guitars, frenetic drumming (often with two drummers), ‘songs’ which lurch seemingly indiscriminately from verse to chorus like some dazed drunk at the end of the night, and then Smith’s vocals over the top. Not so much ‘singing’ as ranting whatever thoughts were on his shopping list of ‘things to complain about’ that day. It’s hard to imagine that many of these songs were ‘hits’, in fact many performed highly on the UK Indie Charts (does that still exist?) and many more are a soundtrack to the grey grimness of the early 80s: Industrial Estate, Totally Wired, Eat Y’self Fitter. FOR FULL REVIEW & PLAYLIST CLICK LINK IN BIO #thefall #markesmith #totallywired #eatyselffitter #hitthenorth #proleartthreat #indiemusic #manchesterbands #compilationalbum #postpunk #recordcollection #nowlistening #nowplaying #randomrecordreview https://www.instagram.com/p/CFkENxVp8iF/?igshid=lqidksqddz6u

[carlwilliamsrarebooks]

#newyearsresolution suggested by a friend. [SAVILLE (Peter)] & [WICKENS (BRETT)] (Brand identity). FAC 51 Haçienda Manchester [Eat Yourself Fitter At The Canteen] 11/13 Whitworth St. West Manchester 061236 5051. Original ‘blank’ club night promotional poster. 52x 38.5 cm., titles and information within left, right and lower borders in black, FAC51 within two columns of trompe l’oeil ‘hazard’ tape on top centre above blank area, border in yellow and orange, on left and right border respectively, with hazard pattern in yellow and orange on lower edge, silkscreened, on off-white or browned paper, filled in by hand in block capitals in black felt pen by Mike Pickering who has inscribed “(Mike/Bar)” on bottom right corner and “By Mike” on verso in Biro. N.p. [Manchester], n.p. [Factory Records], n.d., from or after 1983. £675.00 Browned, smudged, a horizontal fold, creases, multiple old drawing pin/staple holes on corners. By repute from the wall of the Canteen at The Haçienda. One of surely many blank posters and other ephemera subsumed under the general FAC51 number. However, this copy has a great association (Pickering was a Haç DJ and Factory worker who signed the Happy Mondays) and an evocative and humorous inscription as it references the great Fall song ‘Eat Y’self Fitter’ from ‘Perverted by Language’. #thehaciendamustbebuilt #hacienda #haç #hac #haçienda #thehacienda #thefall #eatyselffitter #petersaville #madchester

[thisyoungmonster]

[cristinoir]

😿😿😿 R.I.P. Mark E. Smith . . . #markesmith #thefall #ripmarkesmith #pervertedbylanguage #eatyselffitter #charmedtonmeetya #whatsacomputer

[carlwilliamsrarebooks]

A selection of (inexplicably) I sold items from the last year or so @carlrwilliams #theclash #thefall #thehaçienda #eatyselffitter #cheguevara #philipestarck @heals_furniture #textiles

[carlwilliamsrarebooks]

Let's not forget this one #eatyselffitter #itspurplepsychology #markesmith #factoryrecords #thehaç #thehacienda #thehaçiendamustbebuilt