The Wonderful And Frightening World Of The Fall Music Cd

Fall - The Wonderful And Frightening World Of The Fall

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The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall      Artist : The Fall      List Price : $11.98 USD        Your Price : $11.98 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1997-08-12      Studio : Beggars UK - Ada      Label : Beggars UK - Ada      Avg. Customer Rating : (17 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for The Wonderful And Frightening World Of The Fall      Embarrassment of riches!      Rating:      This is the band's masterpiece. More than 70 minutes of warped, garage-rockabilly-pop that somehow manages to feel like none of it was aimed at radio-play in spite of nearly every tune being as catchy as anything on radio. Endlessly listenable.     Customer Reviews for The Wonderful And Frightening World Of The Fall Cd      Another Classic      Rating:      This was the first Fall recording I ever bought, having never heard of them, it was a pure impulse buy based on the cover art. The cross between Edvard Munch and Picasso on the cover looked kind of cool,plus, if they were from Manchester, they MUST be good. This 1984 CD starts out with `Lay of the Land'. The apocalyptic starts preludes a guitar and bass driven crunch that rolls up and down on the bass timing. It has that `stick-in-your head' quality. Love that slashing guitar. Track 2 is `2 x 4'. What mental imagery. It's funny and it's a great song with a cowpoke beat and a chopping guitar riff. No doubt about it, the band in this incarnation just plain smokes. They play with urgency and are masters of their instruments, synchronized and tight. `Copped It' is a hypno-trance beat song with M.E.S. alternating between muffled, warped and distorted. The band cooks but the vocals grate. I find myself hitting FF on this track. `Elves' is a little better. A bit sludgy and boring though, I think I have no idea what this song is about, but I think I don't like the tone of the kiddy organ. `Oh! Brother' comes next. A true Fall classic. Terrific stuff, the backing vocals are way cool almost making it as if you have heard this song somewhere before. The beat, the refrain, the bass and I end up humming "disinformat-shun' to myself for the rest of the day. `Drago's Guilt' is a tight little rocker that clicks along with a driving beat. The time changes are great. `God-Box' is another least favorite of mine. The brain piercing distortion starting the song doesn't help. Watch out headphone users. Again, sludgy and leaden as it plods along, with a kind of menacing undertone that I find depressing. FF. `Clear Off!' is different and cool but hampered by a goofy accompanying vocal. Who allowed that guy into the song? As always, the band sounds great though. `C.R.E.E.P.' follows. Another truly great song that rates as one of the Fall's Top 10 signature-sounding recordings. The organ riff is unforgettable. `Pat-Trip Dispenser' is another song that is one of the Fall's best. Great guitar. Hypnotic. `Slang King' is next with a cool down low feel to it with bridging lifts from the keyboard in a guitar and bass driven groove. `Bug Day' is a change of pace. Slow and plodding, quiet and measured, it feels like a rest stop, but still a good song. `Stephen Song' has a military march rock beat, but is a song again hampered by annoying accompanying vocals. `Craigness' has an open sparse end of the session feel to it. The vocals are right on this time around, a real nice song. `Disney's Dream Debased' has a lilting guitar line and shuffles along real smoothly. `No Bulbs' is a fantastic closer, and another Fall classic. The refrain feels as if you are part of the crowd singing along . Considering you are getting 16 songs here and you may have a couple of compromised tracks, it is a small sacrifice for this top notch Fall classic. Editorial Reviews for The Wonderful And Frightening World Of The Fall Audio Cd      Amazon.com      The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall is the apex of the Fall's Brix era in which Mark E. Smith, unheralded hip priest of Manchester punk, finally met his match (Smith and young American Brix met at a Chicago gig and quickly wed.) With Mrs. Smith aboard everything upgraded--the lyrics and vocals took a quirky turn as Brix chimed in, and the guitars gained a more streamlined edge. Yes, she could play guitar, and write. Even the cover art seemed to suggest a new Fall, writ large in day-glo colors. This record, their second with Brix, shows them finally ready to grapple with notions they'd scorned previously, such as actual production values (with Rough Trade honcho John Leckie engineering) and commercial accessibility (witness the sawing chords of "2x4" and "Lay of the Land"). This marks a critical moment in the Fall saga as they finally gained some U.S. recognition and prepared to up the commercial ante even more. --Gene Booth