Well, Mark E.
Made some great songs, I cannot recall any of the other members displaying common human decency at the time.
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I can just imagine MES's response to that. But he is, for good reason. 99% of today's bands could select six different sounds - riffs, chord progressions, snatches of melody, what have you - from any one of a large portion of The Fall's output and make at least 6 different tracks out of them. Not because today's bands are any good: because The Fall's output is endlessly and monumentally inventive.
Amen.
Alternatively just listen to Sparta FC or What About Us or a bunch of others and get your rocks off.
Good review - thanks
I look forward to reading the former book, if it's available, I will buy it from the book section at Tower.
... but they sure came across as a snooty lot in that incarnation, only bunches worse that I've seen were New Order, the Clash, and PWEI.
Then again, PWEI and the Clash wanted nothing to do with the audience.
Then again again, only the Fall and PWEI had sounds worth hearing, and were not those sounds great?