The Fall - Paint Work

[sweetsweetchimera]

sometimes they say, hey mark!

[Oforgoodnessache]

This nation's saving grace - you bet!

[AtleticodeRafaela]

This sounds like a weird version of Pixies, even before of Pixies existence.

[stuartvl1]

I used to hate The Fall in my teens, but as I have got older and wiser they have become my favourite band. I hardly listen to anything else these days. They seem to have rendered all other music totally redundant.

[09lizardgirl]

@stuartvl1 I know exactly what you mean.

[PantsMenace]

hey mark

[09lizardgirl]

Great to see such appreciation for MES here, this track is one of my favourites too(not that i can claim to have heard half of the fall's prolific output!) but this to me is sublime genius - witty, touching, beautiful! hahaha

[PantsMenace]

hey mark

[grahamsometimes]

awesome track & I got into the Fall asfter seeing them live..

[Mald77]

"He has an amazing eye for the mundane", as Grant Showbiz said in the BBC documentary. This is so damn fantastic!

[PantsMenace]

hey mark

[PantsMenace]

hey mark

[PantsMenace]

hey mark



[sixfootpigeon]

best tune ever

[tapper1477]

One of the greatest songs of the last xxx years.

[bencoccio]

Hey Mark: Why can't I live in England?

[0307mark]

I don't know what this is about and it doesn't matter because it is jaw droppingly original and unique and if they had never existed Earth would have been a duller more pointless place.

[ffluc]

Spoke to John Leckie at the XTC convention in 1989 and I asked him what was going on when he recorded this track. He said Mark had recorded the track on a shitty tape recorder and put it in his rucksack. Every time he put it down it went on record and recorded over the track. He said he was unable to recreate a better version in the studio so they just overdubbed the tape recording.

Definatley my favorite Fall track.

[colmoregan]

I believe it is Youtube convention to respond to anyone disliking a video in some sort of way relevant to the content of the video. Here goes:

"Ha Ha LOL, Looks like one person objects to what Mark is doing to the paintwork. Maybe he owns the object which has been painted or is a painter-decorator who takes inordinate pride in his work and often revisits things he has painted to see if they're being looked after.ROFL!

BTW -I inherited the Fall from my brother. Jealous of those who saw this live.

[pbrick6301]

@colmoregan i think you are great but after read i had to be #2 because something is forcing me to do so. great song too.

okay i will say it...nobody tells me what to do.

[janderson4321]

@colmoregan I wouldn't worry too much about not having seen The Fall live. They were an utter drag live. The recordings are what this band was all about. What you've missed live was more or less shit.

[colmoregan]

@janderson4321 Thanks, I feel better already!

[janderson4321]

@colmoregan I thought I was the only man awake in this world — and you reply to my post within minutes?!

Well, I guess it's a new day where you are (6:00 am here). I'm sleepless just now and was listening to lots of The Fall, and now this (you might like it; quite different; c. 1980):

"She's Leaving" by Orchestral Manoevres in the Dark

(Tried to post the link, but YouTube didn't like that.)

Another favourite band from my early teens, but then again, I'm a hopless imsomniac... G'night to you.

[colmoregan]

@janderson4321 I always reply quickly to helpful comments. But also was in more amenable timezone :) Thanks for suggestion - love it.

[dermot51]

pure fuckin class

[vkman34]

The excerpt at 0:42 is recorded from a 1970's Open University programme, presumably about astronomy. Just thought you ought to know...

[johnnyvicious2]

@vkman34 Good info but what about the excerpt at 2:31?

[thatseverin]

more you listen the more you get in return.... possibly its all the result of luck

[StephenFilmz]

One of the classics that I had the honor of seeing them perform!

[robert1russell]

hey mark ur spoiling all the paint work

[macchilavel]

f^cking classic

[macchilavel]

fucking classic

[simonettavespucci]

Beautifully messed up. Still. After all these very years. Thanks, MES & all you other lucid lunatics.

[halfcabdisaster7]

I can't quit listening to this song.

[Scitzowicz]

That MES is just phenomenally brill*

[MisterSlacker]

Wake up and live in England!

[stumps17]

hey mark, you're fucking up the paint work

[podfunk]

brilliant brilliant track. Google the provincial Britain stream of consciousness lyrics too.

[valgehiir]

favorite Fall song

[luvinbuzzin]

a pearler

[brandnewcolour]

this is in the top 5 songs I heard at a friends house in Eastrington n the 80's

[MadcapMan]

I like-a this song-a

[Graemeshmaeme]

And Chabbsy had never even heard of this track. Blimey!

[ZODIACSPEAKING]

Best Fall track evah?

Sometimes I say: Hey yes!

I just love this one to diistraction

[ZODIACSPEAKING]

I love this one to distraction!

Best Fall song ever?

Sometimes I say: Hey yes!

[toonz666]

This really could be the best Fall track ever, and that is saying something. 'Leave the Capitol', 'Eat Yourself Fitter' and 'R.O.D.' are some other wonderfully strange ones too

[jonahstevenson]

you're no friend to the paintwork

[2dzombie]

doo doo doo-doo doo doo dooo doo-doo

dum-dum-hey mark your messin up the paintwork!

[muffinspork]

the greatest fall song ever? it changes everyday but this ones amaaaaazing

[gnowave]

yeh, i know what you mean, it does change everyday, i love their trippy ones! cool band..

judging by comments it seems they're geting a good wave of listeners again! well deserved..