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Newest Review: ... issues. Mother-Sister! features the classic intro lines "Err, what's this song about?" "Err, ... more

 ... nothin'!" and is the only track here which credited Baines, who left the band a year before. Friel, who was also long gone, had his name on Frightened and Industrial Estate. Bramah was soon to depart and was credited on 7 of the 11 tracks. The set kicks off with the epic Frightened, one of the finest songs the band has ever recorded. Ching! and into a rolling, plodding and moody bass riff. "Sweated a lot, could feel the violence. I got shears pointing straight at my chest" evokes the atmosphere perfectly. ...more

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Premium Review The Fall in General: Grumpy Old Man and Gran (2987 words)
by - written on 14/09/01 (Very useful, 53 readings)
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The Fall - the name itself says as much about them as anything they've ever recorded, all sorts of associations and mystical dimensions, but let's not get arty now, for this is Mark E Smith and his collection of various whores and comics of which we speak... Never in the history of popular/unpopular music has there been a presence, a muse, an approach quite like that of The Grumpy Old Man Of Rock and we will never see his like again, so celebrate this very special time, the era of The Fall, a quarter of a century of sitting somewhere out there, mumbling in yer beer, stoking up the fires of discontent and scratching the scabs best left untouched with a ...  Read the complete review

 
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