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You Must Get Them All: The Fall On Record
You Must Get Them All is the first book to capture the full, incredible story of The Fall, from Live At The Electric Circus to New Facts Emerge. It covers every single release – album, EP, single, compilation, live album – every line-up change, every setback and every triumph. It is a comprehensive chronology of the life and times of Britain’s most remarkable group, based on contemporary accounts, the recollections of Fall members and the experiences of the Fall community – the gig-goers, the record-buyers, the reviewers, the forum contributors, the lyrical analysts and the factual obsessives.
It’s a book that challenges the clichés, lazy assumptions and common misconceptions about The Fall. But above all else, it celebrates the astonishing and significant body of work that the group created over their 40 odd years of existence.
People write to me and say, ‘I heard The Fall, which record should I get?’ And I never have any hesitation in telling them: you must get them all, because it’s impossible to pick one. You have to have them all, you do… and in fact I’ll go further. I say: anybody who can tell you the five best Fall LPs, or the five best Fall tracks, has missed the point, really. It’s the whole body of the work that is to be applauded. John Peel
It should no longer be our job to explain to people why The Fall are the greatest English rock band of the last 40 years. In fact, I’d politely suggest the onus is now on others to find out for themselves instead of us having to draw them a f***ing map. John Doran, The Quietus
Foreword by Paul Hanley
Contact Details:
You can follow me on Twitter via @TheFallinFives
You can contact me at thefallinfives@mail.com
A tribute video I made to mark what would have been MES's 65th birthday:
The Blogs:
The Fall in Fives - the index to the original Fi5 blog, where I reviewed random batches of five songs.
You Must Get Them All - now available to buy in book form (see above), I'm afraid only a few bits of this blog remain up!
The Radio Show:
The Fall in Fives Radio Show - The very best selections in Fall and Fall-adjacent music. Guests includes Marc Riley, Paul Hanley, Rob Barbato, Daren Garratt, Jon Ronson and... my wife!
Other Fall Stuff:
Monday Playlists - 25 themed playlists, linked to Spotify and (in most cases) YouTube
The A-Z of The Fall - Exactly what it suggests!
Is This Fall Live LP Worth Buying?
The Fall's Covers - Complete List
The Fall album covers ranked: Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3
MES Collaborations and Guest Appearances: Part 1 / Part 2
"I Prefer the Peel Session..."
A four-part series where the Peel Session versions competed with their 'official' counterparts.
Part 1 (1978-83) Part 2 (1984-88) Part 3 (1990-94) Part 4 (1995-2004)
I've also compiled a YouTube playlist of all the Fall's Peel sessions here.
The Fall Year by Year in Pictures
A pictorial history of the group (still under construction).
Part 1 (1977-82) Part 2 (1983-88) Part 3 (1989-94) Part 4 (1995-2000)
Part 5 (2001-06) Part 6 (2007-12) Part 7 (2013-18)
"That's Not The Fall"
A rather random little side-project where I investigated songs on Spotify that have the same title as Fall tracks. A bit time-consuming but rather fun - I hope to do a couple more of these at some point.
Part 1 (Assume, Dice Man, Frightened, Iceland, Blindness, Last Orders, One Day, Oxymoron, Pledge, Smile)
Part 2 (Levitate, Immortality, Wings, Garden, Taking Off)
Other Links
The Fall Online - discography, gigography, biography and lots more.
The Annotated Fall - immerse yourself in bzfgt and Dan's crazy world of obsessive lyric analysis.
The Track Record - A-Z of Fall tracks, gig list and many other things.
The Fall Online Forum - The Fall are occasionally discussed.
The Flickering Lexicon - Dannyno’s Concordance to the Song Lyrics of The Fall.
The Wedding Present
A blog about The Wedding Present, "Suddenly it's Tuesday" - which was followed by a blog about David Gedge's side project Cinerama, "And Guess What I Found"
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