The Fall - Totally Wired (Live in New York, June 1981)
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This is a recording of a live performance by The Fall in New York in June 1981, included on the "Perverted By Language Bis" video, released on Cherry Red. An illuminating insight into Mark E. Smith, we see him in the pub, at the football ground and jiving at the Haçienda. The film features both interviews with Mark and promo videos for many of the bands genre bending singles from the early part of their career, including Indie Chart top five singles "Totally Wired", "The Man Whose Head Expanded" and "Kicker Conspiracy".
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I was at this gig. Thanks for the great music and years of inspiration, Mark E. Smith. Rest in peace, you flawed mortal genius anti-hero poet. Loved every minute I spent at every gig that I went to. Bless you and God Bless The Fall.
Hi Loulou - it's been a mystery to Fall fans for years which New York Venue this was filmed at - can you enlighten us??
I'm of the belief that it was filmed at Irving Plaza.
Interesting - I always though this was the Pep Lounge gig.
Loulou Rudolf pp
Loulou Rudolf man how old are you??
I can't picture Mark going quietly into the night. Wherever he is right now he's already on his third drummer. RIP Mark you've earned it.
I once made a joke about how Frank Zappa and Mark E. Smith are having a war in the afterlife to figure out who can fire the most people.
Brilliant
@@hickorymccay2994 Who makes the Nazis anyway
@@oscarrocabert6268 This is the three Rs
The three Rs:
Repetition, Repetition, Repetition
And totally wired.
mark e smith will be correctly remembered as one of the most prolific geniuses of our times
One of my fav bands ever
My heart and I agree.
And my hesrts too and me agree.
The Fall. Take some Salford air, a rusty guitar or two, pitch in tons of reading, a shovel of piercing social observation, play everything in z sharp, add a spoonful of dry Mancunian humour and make a racket. How fucking lucky were these indy yanks to hear this blazing rendition of Totally wired?
And seven pints of bitter
Dont forget a fistful or two of amphetamines.
Great, great version.
Gosh it’s good. Mark Smith told ‘The Tube’ that they’ll play if Bo Diddley played, sure enough they signed Bo Diddley and The Fall played! This was absolute Fall at their peak and we watched in awe. To put icing on the cake Bo remarked after ‘the Fall are the greatest rock and roll band, bar none!’ and we all fell about in hysterics before going out and celebrating. The good old days when we thought the world was about to come down on its stupid ass. 40 years later we’s still thinking! Those of us still alive, that is…
Indeed... 1984 was a farce! We partied like 1999... which was also a flop...
Great song! It's spurred a flurry of comments when I posted it to old friends on FB.
A message to the curious and uninitiated who are daunted by The Fall's massive back catalogue. Start from the beginning and follow chronologically 'till ya get bored. Spoiler Alert.-You won't !
"and i'm Tobey Maguire....To To To Tobey Maguire"
Philip Spreen We we’re listening to this in the car an my mom said it sounds like Tobey McGuire
Smith owns that stage. That’s what it’s all about, he (bless him) understands that.
The Beatles were often shite. The Stones and The Who too. The Fall are never shite, they are just misunderstood by the less evolved. This is the best single ever released by intelligent people.
I don't suppose anyone knows how many people played in the Fall, now he is dead I get it, he was spreading the word as much as possible, being in a band with Mark must have been like having Jesus as your mate,
I love how the drummer tries to flip his stick at the beginning and drops it. Genius.
No doubt he would've got a bollocking for that
Almost certainly the sack
Zero Qualms __He just drops it. British drummers did NOT twirls their sticks in 1981!
Real punk
No s morris
Rest in peace mark e smith a true original legend
The Fall aren't so much a band, more a well-intentioned 1970's Manchester Council unemployment initiative that has snowballed out of control.
"well-intentioned" ?
Oh, that hyphen, "well-intentioned"
Scott Micheli-Smith What?!
WHO THE FUCK ARE FUCK ARE YOU?
Seek mental help
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
He pinched that from Hunter S Thompson, but I very much he would have never heard of The Fall, so got away with it...
This comment caught my eye just as the line was playing - spooky!
@@stewarttaggart7764 lol he undoubtedly wasn't trying to pinch that very famous HST line
One of the most Punk bands in the Post-Punk scene.
This was after punk was going strong.
In the industrial estate song where this song is more like pop punk where if we play it later we will imagine like someone playing skateboard ok
well, this is the first time ever I'm listening The Fall and I like it. Joy Division, The Cure, The B-52's, The Velvet Underground, sounds like this
M E S did more for unemployment than any government minister. He did everything in his own unique way and will be forever missed.
Still coming to terms with no more new Fall records and his genius.
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
~Hunter Thompson
"You don't have to be strange to be strangled"
RIP Mark E Smith...
The Fall ≈ The Fell
Sad day indeed
Probably the easiest and best bass line ever and the fact no one got there first is extraordinary
Easy made sounds is always easy in hindsight. There was a new-wave of music in large proportions from hundreds of bands playing very similar beats and rhythms, but the essence of this type of music is it's attitude and being wired - totally wired. Nowadays you have computer recognition of a beat and rhythm to analyse possible plagiarism with other music.
t t t t totally biased now
Adam LeMarck
Yes, I'm fed up of people slating the fall yet reams of bands copied them
@@graculuslurcher380 like best, ONLY one.
as good or better than Neil young's genius one-note guitar solo!
I saw their show in Boston on that tour - absolutely loved them! They were like a punk James Brown - one killer riff after another!
RIP Mark E Smith 😦😮
“Wired” in northern England is the word used for when people are high on stimulant’s like cocaine or amphetamines (which Mark E Smith was highly addicted to) most people don’t realised but this song is about taking a shitload of drugs. Hence the lyric’s “I took a jar of coffee, then I took some of these” and “my heart and I agree”
It would of been phet not coke the working man's coke definitely I loved it as a youth coke fills you full of ego amphet creativity I think
yeah....i'm pretty sure people all over the world knew instantly what this song was about...😵💫
The greatest most continually creative band of all time. Bar none.
His lyrics and delivery of said lyrics, never fail to impress me.
I saw the Fall several times in the early 80's in Philadelphia. We hung out with Mark Smith for a while; I still have a picture of him reading a comic book my girlfriend drew called "Landlord". I love the song The north will rise again. Good times.
That’s cool man, this was in New York in the early 80s, I know he didn’t make a lot of trips back, lucky u! Happy just to have found them a few years before he passed
Genius, pure genius
Out of tune and yet totally in tune
Bless ya Mark x
Such a terrible loss. He was an underrated genius.
I think it's funny how nobody ever talks about his sense of humor.
I'm still laughing at MES in shoulder pads.
the more thick you are the less you get it
Lucien Rubempre Explain the humour in this ?
@@gromitpesley Please re-read Lucien.
Ian Cashman Explain
probably the most distinctive voice in punk...RIP Mark
And underrated (and probably happier throughout it, mans a real punk)
02:34 onwards makes the hairs on the back of my head tingle, superb stuff
Yes, I agree, I have Neu's albums, there are all too few of them. But I see the influence, with the multiple repetition of phrases, even though I think Can is quoted more as an influence for some reason.
Can you imagine anyone else starting a song with "Carry bags strewn all around the room"
in a song entitled "Carry Bag Man"
Different universe from Simon Cowell on "Idol".
"No Xmas for John Quays" - I'll 'ave twenny #6 [ciggies] for a headache!
"Can yer fookin' get it tergether?"
Love it.
Pixies, Pavement, Sonic Youth, Steve Albini... were listening. But Fall influence is a mere footnote, it's all about the music in itself.
Yea. Whatever.
@@johnnybourgeois13 You sound like a communist.
And none of those artists ever surpassed "The Fall"...
@@happychey13 The group is my favourite artist of all time so you're right.
Speed User yeah, I may have come off as a bit of an ass in that comment, but nonetheless I feel it’s true
Christ, I'm supposed to be getting up for work soon.
great performance, even better than record! love it!
Kevin Etherington Sometimes that live stuff is better.
Mark E. Smith is a fucking genius. And I mean that.
Wish I had a time machine to see this in real life
my heart and i agree.........
I like how it's punk but "clear" and has more in common with The Beatles "I Saw Her Standing There" than the Sex Pistols' "God Save the Queen"
Listening to this on the day before I get my braces off & I’m still totally wired 🤪😆
I drank a jar o' coffee.. then I took some o' these. Now I'm totally ... f*d up.
Best lyrics just about, in entire christendom.
i took a jar of coffee and i took some of these ttttttotally wired ttttttttotally wired cant you see
John Peel was RIGHT very good
+jay natal The late great Mr. Peel had good taste
Mark E Smith always did what he did better than the rest...
@dogshy61 I do. I became a fan of The Fall when I bought "It's The New Thing" in 1978. Never looked back.
1000 years from now The Fall will be one of the most famous bands of the 1900s
"Totally wired nowwwrzzzrzzz"
awesom
An Anglo James Brown, discord with a beat
Rest in Power dear Mark E. Smith. A talent unmatched
everything is perfectly in place.. so the job can be done . Smith was a man with a strong opinion and style. RIP
fucking it iknow cause i was there. the fall, m.e.s were one of the best no doubt. a poet a rapper for our time and the beyound
Hi - it's been a mystery to Fall fans for years which New York Venue this was filmed at - can you enlighten us??
I love Mark E. Smith's vocal style. It's very nasal, but it works with The Fall's music perfectly. Great band. Great song.
you cant help but feel SLIGHTLY FUCKING BUZZED
Underrated AF.
ah so this is where James Murphy got his inspiration from!
Dezial totally wired !
dazzelknight all my friends
I thought Smith was the only genius we had at that time. No matter how hard you tried you couldn’t ‘get’ him. He always escaped, laughing. He changed my life, so many times. Not always for the best! A truly larger than life fella.
My favourite part of this video is when he says he's totally wired.
Gotta disagree with the Velvet Underground comparisons... the music rarely takes the chances that VU did, and the lyrics, while hip, are generally emotionally aloof and shy away from any vulnerability or attempt at emotional depth... They're cool and fun to listen to, but I really think the aesthetic is very different from VU.
KARNT YOU SEEE?
Love a bit of one-note bass-playing in a one-and-a-bit chord song.
The Bronsons Love the bass solo at 2:38
Saw them in New York a year or two after this. I guess that was around the same time as "Perverted By Language". I wonder if there is any video of that show.
House and garage is my thing but I need to ask a question? Is there a more perfect band than The Fall? I don't think there is.... Utter perfection and they changed my life 25 years ago > never look back!!!
Marc Riley has the perfect voice for backing vocals. He's a star, next to Mark E
nice.. never noticed the Hunter Thompson "quote" in there.."when the going gets weird, the weird go pro".. i fuckin love that line.. the fall go great with football and beer at 10 am.. cheers from canada eh
I still think The Fall were the truly great punk band from the UK. The Pistols started it, sure, and The Clash had a great first album, but for stripped down DIY punk they are the only ones who really had the talent to keep delivering.
When I say 'they' I of course mean 'MES'.
The Fall, as John Peel, are great because they've always been the same and they've always been different." And like Peel, The Fall are my favorite band. Can't ya see? Life leaves you surprised, slaps you in the eyes ... You don't have to be weird to be wired. ... You don't have to strange to get strangled. ... My heart and I agree ...
At the Drive In is the reason I'm here and I don't regret it.
Still stands the test of time after 30 years...you don't have to be wierd to be "wierd".
"i drank a jar of coffee, then i took some of these"....lol ....m.e.s is soooo cooool, and such a prick...hahaha.....
I love the irony in you starting that comment telling me to stop putting people down, and you end it by trying to put me down.
rip - missing this clear attitude in fake times
Attitude: clear. Lyrics: not so much.
RIP Mark Smith
Drank a jar of coffee
Then I took one of these
When the going gets weird...the weird turn pro
Indeed they do 💋:)
Hunter s thompson right?
hmmm who said it first?!??
Steven Larson hunter s thonpson
Around 2.10 Mark mentions Tik Tok. Visionary.
Thank you for the wonderfull music Mark. You'll never be forgotten.
a very good song :)
Fantastic to hear The Fall/MES early 1980s..Kicker Conspiracy..
Mark Riley of 6 music is playing. His voice is very clear. Definitely demonstrates why there taken seriously across the water. Great song.
Gud song ( Marc & Mark 👍) x
one of the most violent but awesome gigs i ever saw in the 80's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm pretty well convinced this was shot at Maxwells in Hoboken NJ, looks just like the stage and I was at the gig..absolutely brilliant, one of the most memorable shows of many greats back then. Anyone know for certain?
Kick the bass into overdrive and never let off. Truly awesome song that gets me totally wired. Cheers
If this is Danceteria I was at that show. Loved it. Markie jumped in the audience and beat the crap outta some idiot givin him crap...all 98 lbs of him...😂😂😂😂
a few things are totally perfect. THIS IS ON OF THEM!!!
One of my fave Fall songs. Didn't see MES until 2013 at Falmouth. He tricked most of the audience to leave, then did the encore. Threw out some memorabilia. Guy next to me caught it. A signed poster- for Jimmy Tarbuck! You know that is true
That's funny. I can totally see that. If they make a movie about the Fall I hope they cast him.
Recommendations please. never heard this before.
Wade55 Hart Begin with the Brix era mid and late 80s albums, which are more accessible, advance to dense early 80s stuff, and then consume everything!
Thousands of cds in my varied collection,all neatly shelved. The only ones I leave out after playing are The Fall,say no more!
🖤
You don't have to be American
The very last thing to be. Choctaw excepted.
Are Irish Americans Irish? The next week's and months shall tell us. 33 million Irish Americans and hunger being weaponised in Gaza. What are you? Silence is complicity.
The thing is with The Fall is to an ear who doesn't know them, it's just noise I used to think this but I still sticked with them and it just clicked, it might have been this song, or The Classical, Paint Work or Wings and I just knew that this band are fucking perfect, utterly changed my life. Just saw them at Frankfest tonight at jabez clegg, and I am still in fucking awe and shock; best live band in the world.
I just wish the drum sound was bigger.
I can't stop listening to this WIRED song.please,DON'T help me!!!