| Artist |
The Fall |
| Album Title: |
Sinister Waltz |
| Album Cover: |
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| Primary Genre |
Alternative & Punk: Old School Punk |
| Format |
CD |
| Released |
01/22/1996 |
| Label |
Receiver Records |
| Catalog No |
RRCD 209 |
| Bar Code No |
7 66126 72092 4 |
| Packaging |
Jewelcase |
| Tracks |
| 1.
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A Lot Of Wind (3:45)
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| 2.
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Couldn't Get Ahead (2:40)
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| 3.
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Blood Outta Stone (3:28)
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| 4.
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Arid Al's Dream (4:48)
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| 5.
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The Knight, The Devil And Death (3:00)
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| 6.
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Chicago Now! (5:25)
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| 7.
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Birthday (2:13)
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| 8.
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Pumpkin Head Escapes (3:52)
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| 9.
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Wings (3:26)
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| 10.
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Dr Faustus (2:11)
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| 11.
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Telephone Thing (4:37)
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| 12.
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Black Monk Theme (4:00)
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| 13.
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Gut Of The Quantifier (2:47)
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| 14.
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Edinburgh Man (4:38)
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| Date Acquired |
05/08/1996 |
| Personal Rating |
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| Acquired from |
Let It Be |
| Purchase Price |
15.00 |
Web Links |
All Music Guide Entry:
Discogs Entry:
The Fall online - Discography: singles & albums |
Notes |
One of a million Receiver compilations retreading the same set of tracks.
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| Reviews |
All Music Guide review:
Review by Ted Mills
In 1996, before the Fall released The Light User Syndrome on Jet, Receiver, a subsidiary of the label (and of Trojan) gained access to a slew of unreleased and rare Fall tracks and began doling them out across a series of CDs. Sinister Waltz was the first of a trio that included Fiend With a Violin and Oswald Defence Lawyer. All three are marked with shoddy packaging, useless liner notes, and a complete lack of documentation. Are these live recordings (if so, when?), demos, or outtakes? At least this first compilation offers some rarities: a cover of Jeff Lynne's "Birthday" (of all things) and the Shift Work-era B-sides "Blood Outta Stone," "The Knight, the Devil, and Death" (an instrumental), and "Pumpkin Head Escapes." Best of the lot is "Arid Al's Dream," a lost Fall song that only appeared in an issue of the CD magazine Volume. In it Smith ruminates over his interest in "prepsycognition" through a tale of the sexually frustrated title character. An unnerving hoot of a song. The sound quality varies throughout, reaching its nadir in "Wings," which has all the hallmarks of a fan's tape recording.
Mark Prindle Review:
Sinister Waltz - Receiver 1996.
Receiver put out three albums of Fall material at the same time. This one is alternate and live takes of early-90's stuff, plus a couple of dazzling Mark-free plinkers. And darn ahoy! I'm GLAD I blew thirteen dollars on it! This stuff sounds fantastic!!! Even "Gut Of The Qauntifier" sounds good here! What's up with that? Who is that? What is that? And to think - they all take shits, too!
I'll write about the other albums in a minute. Now I gotta go run in place for fifteen minutes.
As if in carefully-calculated imitation of our pointless, mindless day-to-day existence on this cold stupid planet.
Plus it keeps me skinny so chicks dig me.
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