| Artist |
The Fall |
| Album Title: |
The Real New Fall LP (Formerly "Country on the Click") |
| Album Cover: |
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| Primary Genre |
Alternative & Punk: General Alternative |
| Format |
CD |
| Released |
10/27/2003 |
| Label |
Narnack Records |
| Catalog No |
NCK7018 |
| Bar Code No |
8 25807 70182 6 |
| Packaging |
Digipack |
| Tracks |
| 1.
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Green Eyed Locoman (3:46)
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| 2.
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Mountain (3:22)
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| 3.
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Sparta 2# (3:49)
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| 4.
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Contraflow (4:05)
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| 5.
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Xracothep (3:20)
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| 6.
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Janet Vs. Johnny (4:15)
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| 7.
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Boxoctosis (3:45)
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| 8.
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The Past (Alternate Version) (2:19)
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| 9.
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Mad Mock Goth (Shorter) (4:12)
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| 10.
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Protein Protection (3:17)
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| 11.
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Mike's Love Hexagon (4:59)
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| 12.
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41 Loop/Houston (3:28)
(Hazlewood, L) |
| 13.
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Portugal (3:37)
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| 14.
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Recovery Kit #2 (Alternative Version) (4:03)
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| Date Acquired |
06/29/2004 |
| Personal Rating |
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| Acquired from |
Let It Be |
| Purchase Price |
12.99 |
Web Links |
All Music Guide Entry:
Discogs Entry:
The Fall online - Discography: singles & albums |
Notes |
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Analyzed: The Fall / The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country on the Click)
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR8 -0.40 dB -10.08 dB 3:47 01-Green Eyed Locoman
DR10 -0.40 dB -12.20 dB 3:22 02-Mountain Energy
DR10 -0.40 dB -10.77 dB 3:50 03-Sparta 2#
DR8 -0.40 dB -9.76 dB 4:06 04-Contraflow
DR9 -0.40 dB -11.89 dB 3:20 05-Xracothep
DR11 -0.40 dB -12.14 dB 4:16 06-Janet Vs. Johnny
DR10 -0.40 dB -12.11 dB 3:45 07-Boxoctosis
DR10 -0.40 dB -11.22 dB 2:20 08-The Past (alternative version)
DR5 -1.00 dB -6.53 dB 4:13 09-Mad Mock Goth (shorter)
DR9 -0.40 dB -10.63 dB 3:18 10-Protein Protection
DR10 -0.40 dB -11.23 dB 4:59 11-Mike's Love Hexagon
DR10 -0.40 dB -11.12 dB 3:28 12-41 Loop / Houston
DR10 -0.40 dB -11.44 dB 3:37 13-Portugal
DR7 -1.00 dB -8.62 dB 4:04 14-Recovery Kit 2 (alternative version)
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Number of tracks: 14
Official DR value: DR9
Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 972 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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| Reviews |
All Music Guide Review:
Review by David Jeffries
Two years and 32 compilations, box sets, books, DVDs, and so on, since their last studio album (the lukewarm Are You Are Missing Winner), the Fall returned as a hungry, grumpy band once again with the excellent The Real New Fall L.P. (Formerly Country on the Click). The subtitle is a reference to the fact that even the Fall aren't exempt from having early versions of albums leaked to the Internet, but it could just as well be a way to separate the album from the numerous substandard releases. One listen to the opening "Green Eyed Loco-Man" (a rare love song from the group) and it's easy to see the band is trying harder than it had lately. A higher percentage of leader Mark E. Smith's lyrics are audibly intelligible, and his writing has returned to the jocular and enthusiastic style fans adore. "Mountain Energei" may be the second song in recent memory that Smith has written about credit problems, but he delivers the song with that wry authority that makes him special, rhyming Dolly Parton and Lord Byron over a skipping beat. Musicwise, the 2003 band is tight enough to handle the album's twist and turns, sounding garage and punk on "Open the Boxoctosis #2" and like Can when they really throbbed on "Last Commands of Xyralothep via M.E.S." The antipastoral anthem "Contraflow" ("I hate the countryside/so much") and the football hooligan commentary "Theme From Sparta F.C." ("stay at home/with TV set") are rocking highlights. Producer Grant Showbiz's contribution is as crisp and complimentary as it was on The Unutterable while new keyboardist Elini Poulou fills the melodic hole left by Julia Nagle's exit. Making up for some momentum lost last time out, The Real New Fall L.P. gives the faithful another reason to believe.
Mark Prindle Review:
The Real New Fall LP (Formerly 'Country On The Click') - Action 2003
9 out of 10
STUDIO ALBUM #23 - "So I went fishing/A note from a fish said/'Dear Dope,/If you wanna catch us/You need a rod and a line/Signed, The Fish'"
See, this is why you can never give up on Mark Smith. Just when you think he has nothing more to say, he completely surprises you by saying even LESS!
No, but that was a joke on my part (his too, obviously). The Real New Fall LP has absolutely no weak songs. No drunken avant-garde ramblings, no electronic bloops with twisted poetry on top, no half-assed rockabilly - none of the things that have slightly marred the last 15 years-worth of Fall albums. All 12 tracks are fully composed numbers, riding on slightly off-kilter, dark bass riffs, repetitive swirling electric guitar note combinations, synth noises both traditional and sickening, crisp raw drumming and old Mr. Smith vocalizing loudly and soberly enough for the listener to make out nearly every word - assuming he (the listener) can work his (the listener's) way through his (Mark's) thick accent, of (golf) course.
It's difficult to believe that this is nearly the same band that recorded Are You Are Missing Winner because it sounds absolutely NOTHING like that disc. That album, as much as I personally really enjoy listening to it, isn't OBJECTIVELY SPEAKING the most brilliant collection of tunes that The Fall has ever written. Far too many of the songs were basic, old-fashioned rockabilly chord sequences without much originality, displaying The Fall as more of a retro outfit than the futurists (or at least MODERNISTS) that even slightly earlier albums like Levitate and The Unutterable had done. But The Real New Fall LP puts them back where they belong -- in their own insane yet catchy world where four-note hooks paint oppressive soundpictures while unnerving-yet-hilarious electronic noises fight for undeserved space among the rhythmic din.
You can hear shades of earlier Fall line-ups here and there - especially in the straightforward techno-rocker "Green Eyed Loco-Man," which would fit easily onto The Infotainment Scan, perhaps between "GREEN Grass" and "Paranoid MAN"... or "EYE'm Going To Spain (Where 'LOCO' Means 'Crazy')" - but this is not a Fall that is trying to relive the past. Mainly because they're young people who didn't grow up listening to The Fall! Guitarist Ben Pritchard hasn't even heard every Fall album, and if the others have, they're probably afraid if they admit it, Mark'll fire them. (He's already fired the bassist who played on this album, btw, so don't get too attached to him)
This young, probably temporary version of The Fall simply composed the type of music that they wanted to play, then Mark fidgeted with it until it fit his vision -- which, this time around, seems to focus quite a bit on creative back-up vocals. He must have had a jolly good English time directing his friends and companions on the microphones to drown out the chorus of "Mikes Love Xexagon" in the eeriest and least beach-friendly harmonies available, inviting his wife Elini (presumably) to add haunting "Ooooo!"s to the surprisingly brooding Jesus Lizard-reminiscent "ProteinProtection," making his band imitate a group of football hoodlums for the surf-spy instant classic "Theme From Sparta F.C.," bringing low secretive mumbling men into the gleeful amateur-new wave-punk of "The Past #2" and pumping somebody's voice (Ben Pritchard's?) through a distortion pedal to recite the hilarious chorus of the rolling-drummy, guitar-plinky-strummy "Open The Boxoctosis #2" ("Open the box! Open the box! Open the goddamned box!").
When I spoke with Ben Pritchard a few months before the album came out, he stressed the band's intention to make a better and more diverse record than Are You Are Missing Winner, which even the band members found a bit lacking and rushed. But MAN! I didn't expect something THIS good! Every single aspect sounds perfect - Mark's confident vocals (not hyperactive or speed-addled, though I have no problem with that kind of vocalizing either!), the stock-lep bass/drum rhythm juggernaut, Ben's suitcase of interesting guitar tones (he whips out a wider variety of guitar sounds on here than Scanlon did during his last ten years in the band!) and Elini's always unpredictable arsenal of synthesizer whooshes, squawks, bleeps and house-beats. I could see fans of every Fall era getting into this, but it's definitely a ROCK album. Chunky guitars and cymbal-snare bashing abound, and the production (aside from track one) is wonderfully brusque and true, highlighting the honest skrank, doob and pish of the in-studio live band performance.
Theoretically, I should explain that "skrank" is a guitar noise, "doob" signifies bass guitar and "pish" is the drummer hitting his cymbal, but I like to think my readers are sufficiently pomo that such an antiquated maneuever would ring condescending.
In fact, my readers are so pomo, I think they can get the general feel of the record without me actually using any real words. Check this out - my new review of The Real New Fall Album:
La nueva caída verdadera LP no tiene absolutamente ninguna canción débil. Ningunos ramblings borrachos del avant-garde, ningunos bloops electrónicos con poesía torcida en la tapa, ninguna mitad-assed rockabilly - ningunas de las cosas que han estropeado levemente el año-valor pasado 15 de los álbumes de la caída. Las 12 pistas son completamente números compuestos, montando en riffs oscuros de la bajo-y-guitarra, combinaciones repetidoras de la nota de la guitarra eléctrica que remolinan, los ruidos del synth tradicionales y repugnantes, teclear crudo quebradizo y viejo Sr. Smith vocalizing en alta voz y soberly bastante para que el oyente haga hacia fuera casi cada palabra - asumiendo él (el oyente) pueden trabajar su manera (del oyente) con su (la marca) acento grueso, del curso (del golf).
HA HA! I totally made up my own language! It's based on the moronic jibberish I always hear those brown people at the bus stop blubbering at each other. Stupid illiterate fags!
UPDATE: Please note that there is now an American release of this CD -- it is slightly different from the version I just reviewed in the following ways: (1) they re-recorded "We Are Sparta FC" -- it's a bit speedier and friendlier now, but still great!, (2) they remixed "Recovery Kit" and completely deleted the bass line -- the ONLY MELODIC PART OF THE SONG. As such, it now sucks complete ass and ruins the album on a very sore note, (3) they added two bonus tracks: the excellent moody "Mod Mock Goth" described in my Christmas review below, and the HILARIOUS "Portugal," which relates letters to and from a particularly angry promoter sort relating to Mark Smith's assholish behavior. You can't lose with either the American or British release, but if you have your choice, I'd say go with the U.S. version for those two extra tracks. Just also be aware that "Recovery Kit" used to be a much, much better song.
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