Live at the Witch Trials

I love the Fall! This is their first album. I have gotten quite a few of middle period Brix stuff and quite a few earlier releases, both studio albums and live stuff. This album smolders with energy and passion. The musicianship is actually tighter than you would expect on a first album by them. Really primal but so cool and real. M E Smith is a genius. The bonus tracks are great too. The early singles, John Peel sessions and a live show that I have heard some describe with displeasure. But it's really great! Kind of where you see the vulnerable M E Smith, a little self-deprecating and humurous. I wrote a poem about the Fall. I posted it on my blog: alternateuni.blogspot.com. Please check it out. The album and my blog.

Check the guy's rock record. This is where it began for the Mark E. Smith Show, otherwise known as the Fall. Fave of John Peel and punks and then hipsters. A little nascent, but still scabrous, and 100% attitude. But not facile pre-packaged attitude like is worn on the sleeves of many modern music makers. This is attitude that says I play this way, I sing this way, if you don't like it go F yourself. If you get on here it's a 40 album ride.

I love this album. For years I had it on a tape together with Dragnet. Finally got it on CD. This album sounds stripped down, nothing fancy just great music and Mark E Smiths distinctive voice. The entire album was recorded in one day and mixed the following day. The Fall are an underrated band to come out of the punk / post-punk era of England. This album sounds just as good today as it did when I first heard it some 17 years ago. Although it is the Fall's first album it sounds remarkably mature and together. Highly recommended to those who have an open mind to music.

Amazing album plus the bonus singles and performances make it worthwhile to buy this edition, even if you already own the unexpanded. Frightened, Repetition, rebellious Jukebox, these are ESSENTIAL songs.

Though The Fall would get better over the years, this stands as an excellent debut LP. The guitar sound is a tee-bit different on here because it features original guitarist Martin Bramah instead of Craig Scanlon (who would join in time for the next album "Dragnet"). Though I seriously can't stand "No Xmas for John Quays," the number of highlights on here are numerous: the speedy "Futures and Pasts," the longish "Music Scene," "Two Steps Back," and the best song here "Rebellious Jukebox." Certainly, the fact that this was mastered from a vinyl copy with a couple of skips and scratches in it doesn't help, but the music overcomes that.

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Someone once said that this was the only punk album ever made. I am inclined to agree, on many levels. This is raw, unfiltered, from-the-spittle Mark E. Smith at his origin. The music is uncharacterizable. It's more anti-music than anything. Wildly harsh, atonal and plain old out-of-tune in many spots. That's The Point, really. Industrial Estate was the first Fall song I ever heard, and I thought it was sheer brilliance on every level the first time and every time I hear it. A perfect punk work song if one ever existed. Two Steps Back is one of my favorites. Great lyrics, great delivery. Music Scene is a long song with spit-flecked lyrics, and the first example of MES using alternative pronunciations of words (scene=skin-a). Repetition gives us a view into why the Fall are repetitious. It's A New Thing is a great we-are-a-rock-band song unlike any other. The rest of the "expanded" album varies from the vital to hear (Put Away is kickass) to the "why the **** are they charging me for this crap" (pretty much every live track on the album, though I like Music Scene). The Peel session material is good, but nothing spectacular apart from Put Away. I give it maximum stars for the base album, mostly. They could throw fracking Billy Joel on the album and I'd still give it 5 stars. I wish there were 6.

this is the rerelease of the first true fall album. Rumor had it (since done in) that they WROTE and RECORDED this thing in a weekend session. While NOT entirely true - they did blast through the recording session. The Drums are HOT. And the style is unmistakable. MES is inimitable - his poetry and delivery is what makes the Fall so interesting. But the throbbing grooves the band lays down are hypnotic - and while on the fringes of the punk movement (smith hates to be lumped in with anything) this band will always be a punk band to me.

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メインの、ライブじゃないのに「ライブ」と 銘打ったオリジナルアルバムに加えて、 ＢＢＣその他でのライブ録音が てんこ盛りです！！ 音はスタジオのほうはもう少し後の 「ドラグネット」の頃より整理されたサウンドです。 変わりにライブのボーナステイクが凄すぎる！！ リディア・ランチが、 「ザ・フォール。マーク・Ｅ・スミス、最高だわ。偉大なるゴミって感じ」 と発言していたというエピソードに 納得のいくブチ切れ方です。 廃盤にならないうちに是非どうぞ！！

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Filling in the gaps. Wonderful early Fall LP - nothing to be afraid of for regular fans. Love it.