Disco de The Fall: “I Am Kurious Oranj”

Wow, this record is worth the price of admission just for the opening track "New Big Prinz" alone. A Killer reworking of their already perfect track "Hip Priest". The record may lag a bit in the middle but you'll forget about that after hearing "Jerusalem", "Kurious Oranj", "wrong Place, Right Time", and "Van PLague". And if "Cab it Up!" doesn't want to make you jump up and down then stop looking up FAll records and get your sorry hide back to the Justin Timberlake section.

For the uninitiated the first Fall albums (and there were quite a few!) could be verey very challenging and difficult to listen to. This album was a turning ponit. The melodies are straightforward and the production is clean. Ok you have ME Smith's voice that is unmistakeably his but otherwise the playing is top-notch.Other Fall records have not aged this well and this remains a timeless classic.

The first time I'd ever heard The Fall I had walked into a record store and Kurious Oranj was playing and I thought to myself...wow... that's a unique sound. About five or six songs into the cd Cab It Up came on and the song was so friggen catchy that I walked up to the counter and bought it right out of the player. I think I pretty much played it every day after that for about three months even after buying 5-6 other Fall cd's in the meantime. With Fall fans being a fickle bunch K.O. is often looked at as one of the least liked releases. The music is so good that it's hard not to wonder if it has something to do with it being the soundtrack to a Michael Clark "gay" ballet which is really a shame because this is phenomenal cd. Another reason of course is the obvious influence of Brix Smith which is another aspect of Fall history that the fickle fans resent for some ridiculous reason. The opening and closing tracks are heavier remake versions of the Fall Hex classic Hip Priest and every song inbetween is very good to very great. Not a popular statement to make but this could be the best Fall record of them all.