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.
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.
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.
@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.
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.
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'!!!
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.
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 🎉
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
@@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!
How dare you assume i wanna parlez vous with you is one of my favourite ever lyrics. Long live The Fall & MES ❤️
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 👍🎤🎶🎶❤️
This is more relevant today than ever -Mark was indeed a prophet and hip priest !!
The guy's rock records.
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.
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 😊
❤
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..
Fall. Cold cut . Fucking perfect.
It sure is!
I grow up with the fall , top class band , love you mark E
"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!
RIP Mark E. Smith and your granny on bongos
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.
The young genius of M.E.S at work again 30years ago. Another incredibly wonderful piece of music.
Holy shit! My ears forced me to press the return button again and again and again...
RIP great man!
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.
RIP MES. These have been the best times of my life.
Thee hip priest rocks like no one! So ahead of his time
im tapped.. huh ... classic fall , gretchen franklyn loved this
WOW. i've never listened to the fall before. the difference between "wings" and this song is pretty cool
R.I.P Mark E Smith, legend of legends
He hears our telephone thing's.
Beautiful 90's!
I like the inclusion of the little intro; it gives a nice sense of media period.
Thank you for the music Mark E. Smith. RIP!
@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.
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
The Ting Tings. We started Nothing sounded familiar, now I remember why.
Thanks for posting
+andrew pilmore amazing how many don't hear.
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...
RIP to Mark E Smith - Manchester Music LEGEND !! Will be sorely missed.. Rx
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'!!!
The Fall gets funky.
Michael Colello Fall gets prophetic!
The Fall were so ahead of their time!!!
Mark E. Smith is a poet, and you know it.
Hope he don’t blow it
Word to your mother...
Thanks for posting. This song used to be a listening staple for me back in the day.
I hope your still cosmic, cat.
He has a lovely voice. I'd love to hear him singing something by Jack Jones.
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
this has made my day.
I dunno what anyone will think of this in 2091.....
Still sounds ace in 2023.
I want this playing at my funeral
You might get your wish if Richard Branson has his way ( & he has).
FTM!
They just flex and grind on a groove a while and let it rock then fade ...brilliant
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
Freaking Brilliant tune by the genius that is Mark E Smith.
RIP to the great man xxx
Excellent ..
I want this as my ringtone.
Ikr 😅
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 🎉
Saw them many times and they were fucking ace when MES could be bothered, great performance!!! ✌️
The Fall+Coldcut=perfection!
Awesome. RIP MArk.
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Mark hears our comments and contemptuously
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,
Great thumbs up.*****
CHEERS AGAIN Carlos
Mark is beautiful xxxx
R.I.P.!!!!!
I love it that he has the lyrics right there on the stand
Brilliant, like.
Brilliant
This should be the anthem for today.
wow!
I love that he has the lyrics in front of him
Bramah on guitar during his ill fated return. Thanks for posting.
The hell??!! Dark and lovely...
Brilliant. x
love thim
done
R.I.P. Mark E. Smith!
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.
Brill guitar..brill sound..am tappppped......i hear you telefon thing listen at him
Our Mark; lookin genuinely gorgeous in this 👌😸
RIP Marc e Smith
The Absolute don’t give a monkeys Rock n Mental Chicken Oriental Band , 🤣🤣God Bless Mark E Smith..💪🏻❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🌞⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🇬🇧
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
This riff reminds me a lot of Audioslave's "One and the Same" riff
There's a promo video for this but I can't find it on you tube
It's a bop.
Godspeed, Mark
Now that’s a good record.
R.I.P.
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!
I'm here because Cedric Zavala told me I'm listening to too much hip hop and heavy metal
good tune
The sheer syncopation is fucking EPIC
It's the bloody Stazi - they want to know what's going down
RIP Mark E. :(
R.I.P
Wie immer!
Way to go! Ty M.A.
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
Christ, this is good!
R.i.p
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.
I think a conversion with Gretchen Franklin/nosy matron type would be far more interesting than most of my daily interactions
Cool stuff :)
If you ain't discovered The Fall yet...so envy you.
Rage in, rage in Mark E. Smith...
"...constantly aloof..."
RIP Mark E Smith.
Wow
Does MES have the words down at his right?
Hehw
Rip Mark E Smith
"I'm tapped-uh!"