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Best song by The Fall!

1 by connor_Archive
No top 5 lists! Pick one fucking song!

But this is easy! It is not a challenge in the slightest!

The answer is clearly "I'm into C.B."!

Mark E. Smith wrote:Well I've never had a car
Never been near a lorry
Got a nasty habit of scratching my nose
My codename's Happy Harry
I'm Into CB
I've done loads of jobs
For very minute lolly
Creation schemes
So I suppose I was lucky
And the money it took
To buy a CB set
Put lines on my belly
My codename's Cedar Plank
I'm Into CB
I'm Into CB
At 16 I drank cheap sherry
Got plastered in the stations of Swinn Park
Off my mother I stole some money
Had a treat with a bottle of Martini
So sick I couldn't walk or sit
Since then I've not touched that shit
I won't bore you with tales of being greedy
I'm just into CB
I'm into CB
My family's a weird lot
My stepsister's got a horrible growth
Listens to all this muzak shit
Reads Smash Hits while she's eating her tea
To me it sounds like bad CB
My father's not bad really
He got me these wires and bits
Apart from that he talks to me hardly
I'm just into CB
This is Happy Harry Plank
from the land of waving palms
calling out to Cedar Plank
477 CC Res O Code 13
In the home of chocolate city
I'm having trouble with that terminology
But I'm into CB
I've got the letter before me
it's marked with a confidential seal
I'd better open it
It's a fine and a formal threat
I should of listened to New Face in Hell
The date expired last week
Up here I don't know what time it is
It says you're going to go when you go
Or else you're for it boy
That's what you get for having a hobby
Next mail you get will be mail in jail
That's what you get for having a hobby
Next year mail in jail
That's what you get for having a hobby
Next time I'm out I'll tie your wires
That's the last you'll hear for me
Keep clear of CB
Keep clear of CB
Last edited by connor_Archive on Fri Apr 28, 2006 2:10 am, edited 1 time in total.

Best song by The Fall!

4 by tommydski_Archive
'how i wrote elastic man' is incredible.

it was the song that epitomised the marc riley era, which was obviously the band at their best. it has a great riff and that weird keyboard effect throughout just makes it for me. i love how you just catch hints of all the different influences throughout this song. it's country, it's rockabilly, it's punk, it's pop. it's also a great lyric.

MES wrote:I'm eternally grateful
To my past influences
But they will not free me
I am not diseased
All the people ask me
How I wrote "Plastic Man"

Life should be full of strangeness
Like a rich painting
But it gets worse day by day
I'm a potential DJ
A creeping wreck
A mental wretch
Everybody asks me
How I wrote "Plastic Man"

His soul hurts though it's well filled up
The praise received is mentally sent back
Or taken apart
The Observer magazine just about sums him up
E.g. self-satisfied, smug

I'm living a fake
People say, "You are entitled to and great."
But I haven't wrote for 90 days
I'll get a good deal and I'll go away
Away from the empty brains that ask
How I wrote "Plastic Man"

His last work was "Space Mystery" in the Daily Mail,
An article in Leather Thighs
The only thing real is waking and rubbing your eyes
So I'm resigned to bed
I keep bottles and comics stuffed by its head
Fuck it, let the beard grow
I'm too tired,
I'll do it tomorrow
The fridge is sparse
But in the town
They'll stop me in the shoppes
Verily they'll track me down
Touch my shoulder and ignore my dumb mission
And sick red faced smile
And they will ask me
And they will ask me
How I wrote "Plastic Man"

i love the way the nonchalant backing vocal sits just behind MES during the "his soul hurts.." section. one of my favourite fall moments comes when MES delivers the line "the observer magazine just about sums him up, E.g. self-satisfied, smug" with such venom. it's an amusing song but it isn't a novelty. the character-driven song is such a lost art these days and those that do write them don't seem to be able to inject as much fullsome detail as MES. with a handful of lines, you really get a sense for this rather odd character's predicament.

(since i've been a good little fall fan and picked my favourite for today i'm going to name a whole bunch of other ones too! wahahahaha! 'flat of angles', 'totally wired', 'c'n'c mithering', 'jawbone and the air rifle', 'lay of the land', 'i am damo suzuki', 'telephone thing', 'dr.buck's letter', 'blindness' )
run joe run wrote:Kerble your enthusiasm.

Best song by The Fall!

7 by fantasmatical thorr_Archive
fuck knows. i don't they're capable of bad output...but there is one track of the new album that i cannot get enough of....that nice one with teh nic bass and guitars and um, it's really bloody amazing..and simple poppy...shit. i'm always drunk when i hear it..nice descending bits...what's it called?!!
Tom wrote: I remember going in the back and seeing him headbanging to Big Black. He looked like he was raping the air- really. He had this look on his face like, "yeah air... you know you want it.".

Best song by The Fall!

10 by fantasmatical thorr_Archive
tommydski wrote:the gentleman from france is using english as his second language but he is still winning the battle for coherence somehow.

could it be 'blindness' miss?


i don't know? could it?!! i don't own a copy. i've been so poor the last 2 and a bit years, i have not purchased a single record. i will though. just as soon as i pay off my local, friend related debts..and buy a new turntable...
Tom wrote: I remember going in the back and seeing him headbanging to Big Black. He looked like he was raping the air- really. He had this look on his face like, "yeah air... you know you want it.".
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