The Fall - The NWRA

[porterhall27]

technical spain

[LondonDada]

This is the doggies bollocks.

[supasinee]

when it happens all u bastards will be forgotten

[jackhorkheimer]

Shame, I like the version from A Part of America Therein much better.  This is too hurried or something.

[tr3ewalker]

played this lp over an over when it came out, totally full on, then my girlfriend left me cos she couldn't stand it anymore, fucking fall, best thiing that ever happened to me!

[boerbeat]

And kazoo!

[driggery]

A great track from what I would say is their finest album (I have them all). The lurching bass, driving drums, relentless and inventive guitar, slightly discordant keyboards, the shift of pace at 3.11 and hanging it all together, those priceless lyrics delivered effortlessly by a man at the peak of his powers. Slays me every time!

[shaftsbury94]

loved this fall period, and smiths voice.

[subscooby]

I particularly enjoy the line about Soho being terrorised by drunken Scotsmen as revenge for the battle of Culloden. In my view the music produced by Mark E Smith in this period really is the best period for the Fall. Fucking razor sharp.

[thatseverin]

I am in awe.

[twigletmania]

too many people cower to criminals

and...government crap

when all it takes is a hard slap

[neverseenso]

...music doesn't get any better than this

[HarryUpHarry]

@neverseenso So true, I was lucky enough to be a teen when it all went down.

But, yes, it never got better.

[nuMbERsRuNN3R]

When it happened he walked through all the estates, from

Manchester right to, er, Newcastle. In Darlington, helped an old

man on his own chase some kids who f**king threw bricks through

his flat window. He had a way with people like that. [Because of

this] we moved on.

[nuMbERsRuNN3R]

'Junior Choice' played one morning. The song was 'English

Scheme.' Mine. They'd changed it with a grand piano and turned

it into a love song. How they did it I don't know. DJs have

worsened since the rising. Collaborating on nothing in praise of

the track with words they can hardly pronounce in telephone

voices.

[nuMbERsRuNN3R]

I was mad, and laughed at the same time. The West German

government have brought over huge yellow trains on Teeside docks.

In Edinburgh. I stayed on my own for a few days, wandering about

in the, er, pissing rain, before the Queen Mother hit town.

[nuMbERsRuNN3R]

I'm Joe Totale The yet unborn son The North will rise again The North will rise again Not in 10,000 years Too many people cower to criminals And government crap The North will rise again X4 Look where you are Look where you are The future of my father Shift! Tony was a business friend Of RT, 17

[nuMbERsRuNN3R]

And was an opportunist man Come, come hear my story How we set out to corrupt and destroy This future Rising The business friend came round today With teeth clenched, he grabbed my neck I threw him to the ground His blue shirt stained red The north will rise again. I said you are mistaken, friend I kicked him out of the home Too many people cower to criminals And that government pap When all it takes is hard slap

[nuMbERsRuNN3R]

Got out the window, a burglar wrote There were men with beads on sticks The fall had made them sick A man with butterflies on his face His brother threw acid in his face His tatoos were screwed The streets of Soho did reverberate With drunken Highland men Revenge for Culloden dead The North had rose again But it would turn out wrong The North will rise again So R. Totale dwells underground Will wait from cyclic grind With ostrich head-dress

[nuMbERsRuNN3R]

A face a mess, covered in feathers Orange-red with blue-black lines That draped down to his chest They are a tentacle mess And light blue pant-heads TV showed sham Chip and Dale No concept of what they mean The Arndale had been razed Shop staff knocked off their ladders Security guards up from the escalators And now darkness descends Tony seize the control He built his base in Edinburgh He had on his hotel wall A hooded friar on a tractor

[nuMbERsRuNN3R]

He took a bluey and called Totale Who said, "the North has rose again" But it will turn out wrong When I was in cavalry I vowed to defend All our English clergy Though they have gone wrong And the fall has begun This has gotten out of hand I will go for a foreign base But he told me off life down at home Said Totale, go back to bed The North has rose again today And you can't stop your age And you can't stop your age

[thatseverin]

@nuMbERsRuNN3R I am in awe.

[michaelstmark]

Tony Carruthers was an over-ambitious RD man who came a bit of a cropper via a fall of sorts. What goes round comes round, guess.

[smithmarke]

If only Stewpot'd played English Scheme on Junior Choice...

[spurtfather]

check the bass on this tune!! ha ha ha.

[2dzombie]

fucking brilliant

[weta2000nz]

Brilliant

[ouaisbiensur]

another grrrrrreat song

thx for all these shares

[getorphan]

Great Track -

Too many people cower to criminals

And that government pap

When all it takes is hard slap

[HarryUpHarry]

Government CRAP BTW

Still too many though.