Complete List of Fall Albums

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In 2020, I had a go at the daunting task of pinning down the exact number of Fall albums. At the time, I came up with the magic number of 158. 

I need to revise that now, partly because a couple more live LPs have subsequently been released; plus there's one compilation I didn't include first time round. The two live albums are Out Ferroviarios (recorded at the OUT.FEST Festival in Portugal, 12 October 2013) and Rock Against Racism Xmas Party (recorded at Stretford in December 1977). 

[I'm doing a new post rather than amending the old one because WordPress - where I did the original - is now horrifically un-user-friendly.]



Out Ferroviarios is a straight repress of a bootleg; you can hear the (middling quality) recording here. The front cover of the new release features the same cover as the bootleg; I don't know if it still has the same chronologically inappropriate photo from 1978 on the back. Rock Against Racism Xmas Party is simply a vinyl version of Live 1977. I was in two minds whether to include it, but given that Live In London 1980 and The Legendary Chaos Tape get separate entries, I thought it was probably appropriate.



The compilation that I didn't include was an eponymous one that came out on the PVC label in 1986. PVC was a sublabel of New Jersey-based Passport Records, which folded in 1988. The reason that I didn't originally include it was the fact that it's more an expanded version of the ‘Rollin’ Dany’ single than a proper compilation album. On one side it contained the three songs from the ‘Dany’ 12”, plus ‘Vixen’ and ‘Barmy’ – and then it repeated them on the other. However, given that Paul Hanley mentioned it in his intro to my book (coming soon!), I added it to You Must Get Them All and so it appears here.

If you include Slates as an album (which I am - send complaints on a postcard to the Outer Hebrides) then all of this means that the new magic number is:

162

[32 studio albums + 53 compilations + 77 live albums]

[Updated April 2022 to include the Fall Take America box set]


Studio Albums

1 Live At The Witch Trials
2 Dragnet
3 Grotesque
4 Slates
5 Hex Enduction Hour
6 Room To Live
7 Perverted By Language
8 The Wonderful And Frightening World Of
9 This Nation’s Saving Grace
10 Bend Sinister
11 The Frenz Experiment
12 I Am Kurious Oranj
13 Extricate
14 Shift-Work
15 Code: Selfish
16 The Infotainment Scan
17 Middle Class Revolt
18 Cerebral Caustic
19 The Light User Syndrome
20 Levitate
21 The Marshall Suite
22 The Unutterable
23 Are You Are Missing Winner
24 The Real New Fall LP Formerly ‘Country On The Click’
25 Fall Heads Roll
26 Reformation Post TLC
27 Imperial Wax Solvent
28 Your Future Our Clutter
29 Ersatz G.B.
30 Re-Mit
31 Sub-Lingual Tablet
32 New Facts Emerge

Compilations

33 Early Years 77-79
34 Hip Priest And Kamerads
35 Nord-West Gas
36 The Fall (PVC)
37 Palace Of Swords Reversed
38 Box One
39 Box Two
40 458489 B Sides
41 458489 A Sides
42 The Collection
43 Sinister Waltz
44 Fiend With A Violin
45 Oswald Defence Lawyer
46 The Other Side Of…
47 The Less You Look, The More You Find
48 The Fall (Archive Series)
49 Oxymoron
50 Cheetham Hill
51 Northern Attitude
52 Smile… It’s The Best Of
53 The Peel Sessions
54 A Past Gone Mad
55 Psykick Dance Hall
56 Backdrop
57 A World Bewitched
58 Totally Wired – The Rough Trade Anthology
59 High Tension Line
60 Listening In
61 Early Singles
62 It’s The New Thing! The Step Forward Years
63 Time Enough At Last
64 Words Of Expectation – BBC Sessions
65 The Rough Trade Singles Collection
66 The War Against Intelligence – The Fontana Years
67 Rebellious Jukebox
68 50,000 Fall Fans Can’t Be Wrong
69 The Complete Peel Sessions 1978-2004
70 Permanent Years (Paranoia Man In Cheap Sh*t Room)
71 The Fall Box Set 1976-2007
72 I’ve Never Felt Better In My Life – 1979-1982
73 Rebellious Jukebox Volume 2
74 Totally Wired… Another Fall Best Of
75 Rebellious Jukebox Volume 3
76 13 Killers
77 5 Albums
78 White Lightning
79 Schtick: Yarbles Revisited
80 The Wonderful And Frightening Escape Route To…
81 The Classical
82 The Fontana Years
83 Singles 1978 – 2016
84 58 Golden Greats
85 [1982]

Live Albums

86 Totale’s Turns (It's Now Or Never)
87 Live In London 1980
88 A Part Of America Therein, 1981
89 In A Hole
90 Seminal Live
91 BBC Radio 1 Live In Concert
92 The Twenty Seven Points
93 The Legendary Chaos Tape
94 In The City…
95 15 Ways To Leave Your Man – Live
96 Live To Air In Melbourne ’82
97 Live Various Years
98 Nottingham ’92
99 Live 1977
100 I Am As Pure As Oranj
101 Live In Cambridge 1988
102 Austurbaejarbio
103 Live In Zagreb
104 Liverpool 78
105 2G+2
106 The Idiot Joy Show
107 Touch Sensitive… Bootleg Box Set
108 Live At The Phoenix Festival
109 Interim
110 Pearl City
111 Live At Deeply Vale
112 Live From The Vaults – Los Angeles 1979
113 Live From The Vaults – Oldham 1978
114 Live From The Vaults – Retford 1979
115 Live From The Vaults – Alter Banhof, Hof, Germany
116 Live From The Vaults – Glasgow 1981
117 Live At The Garage – London – 20 April 2002
118 Live At The Knitting Factory – New York – 9 April 2004
119 Live At The ATP Festival – 28 April 2002
120 Live At The Knitting Factory – L.A. – 14 November 2001
121 Last Night At The Palais
122 Live In San Francisco
123 Creative Distortion
124 Yarbles
125 Best of The Fall & Mark E Smith
126 Live Uurop VIII-XII Places In Sun & Winter, Son
127 Live 1993 at Hallam University, Sheffield
128 Bingo Masters At The Witch Trials
129 Live In Clitheroe
130 Live 2001 – TJ’s Newport
131 Live 1981 – Jimmy’s Music Club – New Orleans
132 Live At Doonroosje, Nijmegen 1999
133 LIVE 1993 – Batschkapp, Frankfurt
134 Live At The Astoria 1995
135 The Assembly Rooms Derby 1994
136 Set of Ten Box Set
137 Sheffield Poly 26-11-1986
138 Sheffield Leadmill 16-12-1989
139 Sheffield Boardwalk 6-10-2005
140 Live 1996 28th September, Corn Exchange, King’s Lynn
141 Live 1997 30th November Stage Stoke UK
142 Live 1980 – Cedar Ballroom Birmingham
143 Mark’s Personal Holiday Tony Tapes
144 Live 3rd May 1982 Band On The Wall Manchester
145 Live 1998 12th August Astoria 2 London
146 Another “Set Of Ten” Box Set
147 ICC, Hannover, 11th April 1984
148 Tramps New York 10th September 1994
149 Motherwell Concert Hall, 5th October 1996
150 Edinburgh Liquid Rooms 10th October 2001
151 MOHO, Manchester 11th November 2009
152 Newcastle Riverside 4th November 2011
153 Pavilion Bar Cork 21st July 2012
154 Brudenel Social Club Leeds 30th November 2012
155 Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival Belfast 8th May 2013
156 The Button Factory Dublin August 17th 2013
157 Soy Festival Nantes 31st October 2013
158 Take It Down To The Wire At Clitheroe Castle
159 Live at St. Helens Technical College ’81
160 Out Ferroviarios
161 Rock Against Racism Xmas Party
162 The Fall Take America (box set)



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Comments

  1. GroverFebruary 20, 2022 at 11:38 AM

    Great list, thank you. First of all, "Slates," especially in the new 12" format, I definitely include as a studio album. I have every studio album you list, but am missing 6 on actual vinyl as I was buying CD's in the 90s and '00s and some are now tough to track down. Bad mistake on my part, I know.

    OK, this list begs the question: If you have all the studio albums, "Which compilations are necessary?"

    I actually have "The Early Years 77-19" on the turntable right now and know its essential. I also think that "458489 B Sides" is also essential. But those are obvious. Which ones have enough non-studio album tracks/recordings that make them worth tracking down and aren't just introductions to the bands material?

    Sincerely,
    Archibald Yates

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  2. SteveFebruary 20, 2022 at 12:37 PM

    My answers are here!
    https://thefallinfives.blogspot.com/2021/09/fall-compilations-summary.html

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