I want to get into them. But these fuckers have THIRTY-ONE (31) albums. How many of those are actually worth listening to? Is there a definitive agreement of which of those albums are "the essentials"?
The Fall discography
Xavier Thompson
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Evan Ward
i never listened to all their albums but some good ones are live at the witch trials, perverted by language, dragnet, and slates
Henry Howard
>How many of those are actually worth listening to?
all their records
>Is there a definitive agreement of which of those albums are "the essentials"?
only partially
Jace Morris
Real New Fall LP
This Nations Saving Grace
Slates
Grotesque
I am Kurious Oranj
Shift Work
Unutterable
YFOC
Jack Bailey
as i said listen all their records though.
frenz experiment
infotainment scan
tromatic reflexxions
imperial wax solvent
sublingual tablet
Nolan Reyes
Everything from Dragnet up to Kurious Oranj is essential. Then pick and choose throughout the 90s but every album has good stuff. It gets spotty once the 21st Century starts but even then I don’t know if there’s a single album that’s total crap. The more the booze and cancer start taking their toll, the weaker the albums get, though.
Jordan Green
I don't get the appeal of this band, not really energetic, basic instrumentals, not catchy, not experimental, just nothing-music to me
>inb4 here's this catchy/experimental thing they did one time
Owen Lopez
confirmed shit taste
Alexander Barnes
Why would you listen to the fall when there's slightly more interesting boring extremely overrated post punk bands like mission of burma, gang of four or television?
Josiah Rodriguez
It’s all about Smith’s weird delivery and lyrics. Later lyrics are kind of basic because he’s getting burned out but the early lyrics are compelling. They’re just fragmented enough to seem like they’re nonsense and just coherent enough to seem like they’re about something specific. Like William Burroughs cutups, which is partly what inspired Smith’s style.
Henry Wright
look back bore
Angel Campbell
my favorite is gramme friday
>not really energetic
not at all true
>basic instrumentals
they have a keyboardist and kazoo in their tracks so false
>not catchy
are you kidding me?
>not experimental
not at all true
you're a fucking retard sorry. I bet you found out about then from bedadoobee or whoever the fuck
>MoB
>boring
just stop posting
his lyrics are nice but it's the song melodies that do it for me, bass is always thumping and the guitar is usually on a simple, catchy melody. their delivery with mark puts it over the top
Colton Rivera
>The more the booze and cancer start taking their toll, the weaker the albums get, though
the subjective appreciation of the quality level in the output i don't think is related to booze or cancer (which lasted two years at best). since the "increase" of booze using there were less enjoyable records like "shift work", "cerebral caustic" or "are you are a missing winner" followed by acclaimed records like "country on the click", "tromatic reflexxions" or "your future our clutter", so the logic of a progressive decrease of quality i find doubtful. but even their less enjoyable records are good, they never really did a bad record.
Jose Butler
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Aaron Walker
Every album from Witch Trials through Extricate is a masterpiece. It's shit from there, but Von Sudenfed is good.
The Fall are actually very diverse musically. There's punk, there's art rock, there are covers and there are some very poppy brix era songs.
very based.
Lucas Turner
>Every album from Witch Trials through Extricate is a masterpiece. It's shit from there,
since the 90's there's a shift in the sound, it's a different kind of beast different from the 80's. a change in the sound is what makes the fall a group diferent from tons of groups trapped in the vicious circle of recreating the sound of late 70's and 80's post punk. that's what makes the diference between the real thing and upstairs revivalists which is the dead end street of rock nowadays in general
Gavin Young
Matthew Lee
As you can tell, there's no concensus. However, was somebody who's listened to them, listen to all of the ones from Live at the Witch Trials (their debut) to Extricate. Also include Slates and The Wonderful and Frightening Escape Route to The Fall. From there, depending on how much you liked their stuff, decide to whether to continue or not.
James Edwards
Grotesque is the best entry point imo, but Hex is their best album
Cameron Martin
some look back bores cunts here
Jeremiah Miller
There are great albums throughout their entire discography but if you're looking for somewhere to start I'd recommend This Nation's Saving Grace. Personally, I think that Grotesque (After the Gramme), Hex Enduction Hour, Perverted by Language, The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall and This Nation's Saving Grace are their strongest bunch of albums from their 'classic' period. That isn't to say that there aren't plenty of very good albums afterwards, but those wouldn't be a bad place to start.
Mason Gonzalez
>That isn't to say that there aren't plenty of very good albums afterwards, but those wouldn't be a bad place to start.
i agree. their more accesible but in general i guess the fall have great records in every decade from 70's to 10's
Cameron Garcia
Start with the Marc Riley era (1979-1982). This is the "classic" punkish era.
The Brix era (1983-1990) is more pop sounding but very catchy and most of it is great as well.
Skip all the 90's albums its all shit.
I liked all the 2003-2008 albums. This seemed like a more commercial comeback for Mark, but the music was still pretty weird.
Never got around to listening to the last 5 albums, they are probably good too (2010-2017).
RIP in piece.
Matthew Collins
Id vote for mark e
Sebastian Taylor
Listen to This Nation’s Saving Grace (1985). It’s easily the best introduction to the band, I think most fans would agree on that. If you like it then start from the beginning and go chronologically.
Ian Turner
>punkish
>90's albums its all shit
Hunter Fisher
there's no consensus. for example i recall thom yorke praising records like "unutterable" or "marshall suite"; henry rollins the infotainment scan; steve albini slates; stephen malkmus frenz experiment; james murphy extricate
Lucas Butler
bump
Chase White
Unfortunately for you OP, The Fall are the most consistently good band of all time.
Thomas Robinson
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Jayden Bennett
Jump in at the deep end, Levitate and Sub-Lingual Tablet.