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The Fall Album: “Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall”
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Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall |
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Release Date:1994-09-05
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Type:Unknown
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Genre:Rock, New Wave, Old School Punk Rock
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Label:Beggars Banquet
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Explicit Lyrics:Yes
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UPC:5012093005829
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| Track Listing : |
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| 1 |
Lay of the Land Video |
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| 2 |
2 X 4 Video |
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Copped It |
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Elves Video |
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Oh! Brother Video |
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| 6 |
Draygo's Guilt |
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God-Box |
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| 8 |
Clear Off! |
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| 9 |
C.R.E.E.P. Video |
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| 10 |
Pat-Trip Dispenser |
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| 11 |
Slang King |
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| 12 |
Bug Day |
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| 13 |
Stephen Song |
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| 14 |
Craigness |
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| 15 |
Disney's Dream Debased |
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| 16 |
No Bulbs Video |
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Review - :
{$The Fall} made the leap to a semi-major label -- {@Beggars Banquet} -- with {^The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall}, hooking up with noted producer {$John Leckie} to create another smart, varied album. Contemporaneous with the slightly friendlier {&"Oh! Brother"} and {&"C.R.E.E.P."} singles without actually including them, {^Wonderful and Frightening World} makes few concessions to the larger market -- every potential hook seemed spiked with the band's usual rough take-it-or-leave-it stance. {$Mark E. Smith}'s audible, tape-distorting spit on the descending chord blast of {&"Elves"} -- already spiked with enough vocal craziness as it is -- gives a sense of where the album as a whole aims. {$Brix Smith} co-writes about half the tracks, creating a strong partnership with many highlights. It may start with a semi-low-key chant, but when {&"Lay of the Land"} fully kicks in, it does just that, {$Craig Scanlon} in particular pouring on the feedback at the end over the clattering din. {$Smith} sounds as coruscating and side-splittingly hilarious as ever, depicting modern Britain with an eye for the absurdities and failures (and crucially, no empathy -- it's all about a gimlet eye projected at everyone and everything). Two further standouts appear on the second half -- {&"Slang King,"} a snarling portrayal of a cool-in-his-mind dude and his increasingly pathetic life, and the concluding {&"Disney's Dream Debased."} Though unquestionably the most conventionally attractive tune on the album, ringing guitars and all, {$Smith}'s lyrics portray a Disneyland scenario in hell, however softly delivered. Elsewhere, {$Gavin Friday} from {$the Virgin Prunes} takes a bow with his own unmistakable, spindly vocals on the trebly {\Krautrock} chug of {&"Copped It"} and the slightly more brute rhythm of {&"Stephen Song."} [The CD version, in an admirable move by {@Beggars Banquet}, contains seven extra tracks to fill the disc out, including {&"Oh! Brother"} and {&"C.R.E.E.P.,"} along with associated B-sides and the {^Call for Escape Route} EP.] ~ Ned Raggett, All Music Guide
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