The Wonderful and Frightening World of Mark E. Smith 4/9

[rebelVHS]

Is there anyone who still hasn't heard 'Cheap Space Chant' ?

In YouTube, search for 'Timekode, Mark E Smith'

and listen to the strangest and best MES/Fall

collaboration of them all...

[72poppet]

fuck it,let the beard grow!

[closetome]

yeah morley is a fucking cunt!!!! dosn;'t knwo shit!!!!

[Mald77]

1.33-4.04 sums it all up. A brilliant piece in this fine documentary.

[macchilavel]

"I don't want to give me secrets away to these fuckin' idiots on the BBC, you understand that?" xD

[MrPabz9]

No surprise here fuckin retard that Paul Morley ,must be trendy to admit to liking The Fall again. For years he wouldn't admit to liking them. John Peel Stuck with em all the way . Now there is someone knowledgable enough to earn the title music critic . Sadly Morley changes his opinions like most of us change our under clothes = Toss Pot

[Svelter]

Once again, Stewart Lee gets it completely right.

[Lieu3C4]

If Mark isn't careful he'll end up singing - then what will we have to shout about?!

[spurtfather]

"I don't know what I'm writing about, ...half the time."

[barcelonatapes]

The Winter Peel Session here gives me goosebumps.

[michaelstmark]

Wish to hell he'd cut the irritating fake drunk yank accent & revert back to authentic J. Tea totalle Mancunian.

Wish to god "someone" hadnt sent him a demo tape in 1990 trying to sound like Lou f*ing Reed

:-)

[scraggi]

i really related to stewart lees comments and remember listening to Peel sessions whilst half asleep .when I first heard the fall it did sound quite crappy and irritating but there was a striking lyrical quality to it which makes you want to to persevere and try to unravel it and get into the world of MES.Of course the whole thing is coiled too tight to do that but I can safely say I am perverted by language !

[liamfaz84]

whats the tune at 1.09?

[kogler]

It's "Container Drivers"

[poiutrew]

@kogler and they drive containers

[sparksrule]

Dragnet seems to get sadly pushed aside because they only became great later on. It's a fantastic record

[Blenhemshots]

I always thought that they should have re-recorded Dragnet - the tunes are great but the recording quality is shite.

In 2002, I once heard the entire album played on Australian radio both sides, without interruption!

[bostock1987]

i could hit paul morley. what a proper cunt.

[jimbob1969]

Join the queue

[JackM2409]

hes like in every music doc about manchester , he just talks shit

[sharonwithtracey]

@bostock1987 I totally agree.He symbolizes everything. Like saying the lecture at the lesser free trade hall made it a sermon by the sex pistols. Then he started reading all this biblical stuff into it ,i.e, a sermon from the pulpit by Johnnie Rotten to the Manchester audience.

[YellingInMyEar]

@bostock1987 Agree, times twenty.

[leesawford]

has anybody else noticed a Syd barrett-ness about Marks music?..I know its a completely different genre of music but I just got of the phone listening to Syd and some of it is in the same ball park

[omni1963]

I agree. I am a long time fan of Syd and only just discovering The Fall I can see there is something the same but different, good point leesawford

[jakobbattick]

I am excited for the day Mark E Smith finally runs out of potential backing musicians, and is forced to release an a capella drunk-shouted poetry album. That would be incredible.

[asonofleemarvin]

lol see post nearly man

[kavacom]

that's me

[Thejimbobs]

@jakobbattick

He has done this already in the form of "The Post-Nearly Man" (1998) and the particularly brilliant "Pander! Panda! Panzer!" (2002) which is billed as including 5 previously unreleased sentences!

[Thejimbobs]

@jakobbattick He has done this already in the form of "The Post-Nearly Man" (1998) and "Pander! Panda! Panzer!" (2002) which is billed as including 5 previously unreleased sentences!

[Blenhemshots]

"This is really something fairly astonishing" - thanks kogler.

[StartWearingGogol]

marvellous.

[DorsetBill]

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