Ace wrote:Just listen to their singles! The Fall's singles are the best! Perfect little releases with some of their greatest tracks.

And if you start with anything but 'Live at the Witch Trials' you're insane. Grotesque is great, Slates is great, but Live at the Witch Trials is such an outstanding first album it's mind-blowing.

That said, I'm not a total Fall junkie, although I can understand if you are... I love that band, i mean really, really love them, but for some reason they aren't one of the bands that will make me obsessed. Wonder why...

A singles-only comp of the Fall would be enormously spectacular.

I listened to nothing but Live at The Witch Trials for months. It was such a great debut that I was afraid to get anything else for a while, since I didn't think anything could live up to it.

AAAAAAAARGH wrote:I think of everything in my life in the context of the Fall. At work I listen to the Fall all day. Then I get home and listen to the Fall on my good headphones.

It's totally unhealthy. Hundreds of amazing bands in my collection and I listen to nothing but the Fall. Help? I remember when this happened with Flipper and Sonic Youth. I didn't think it would ever happen again. And I know if I let it drag on I won't be able to listen to the Fall anymore.

Is this the sort of thing that only happens to young people? Do people still fall in love with bands when they're older?

My sympathies, I can totally relate (as can most people on here I guess). I've done this with most of the bands I love. Get everything I can by them, listen to them constantly, obsess over every detail I can read, annoy everyone and then I'll need to take a break from them for a while.
I'm on the edge, staring into the abyss of a The Ex obsession at the moment. I'm trying to resist for the sake of my friends/family/girlfriend but they keep pulling me in with their excellent catalog.
The worst part of it is, after not going crazy over a band for a while, I find myself craving that obsession and I'll freak out that there's nothing left.
Don't worry fly, bet that next crazy rock band is just round the corner, they're like buses...

Just saw one of the funniest Mark E. Smith stories ever. It's fake, but however this was cooked up, it appeals to me just because it would be so out of character:

"it was once imagined that Smith saw a small girl crying on the streets of Salford and, discovering that she had lost her toy bear, explained the stuffed effigy had gone on a world tour, and still writes weekly to her, even though she is now 28 years old, in the persona of Mark Edward Bear, from a variety of fictional holiday destinations."

from here.

Oh my god, Cyber Insect... Best Fall Song All Time.

AAAAAAAARGH wrote:Oh my god, Cyber Insect... Best Fall Song All Time.

Break on station track.

I started a thread a while back called "obsessive fandom" where I asked if people still got obsessed with bands when they were older. Of course, all the cool posters here were like, "oh no, i've totally outgrown that..."

HA. suckers.

New Fall LP is the best in quite some time. MES also has a recent autobiography out which is a page turner that reads like the drunk guy next to you in a bar with a chip on his shoulder talking shit on everyone he's ever known. I also have to add that the electrical forum is far more entertaining than the fall forum which I've been on for years.

The Fall will do strange things to people.

Whatever you do, don't start collecting live shows.

God, don't start.

Ace wrote:I started a thread a while back called "obsessive fandom" where I asked if people still got obsessed with bands when they were older. Of course, all the cool posters here were like, "oh no, i've totally outgrown that..."

HA. suckers.

i'm still cool. i hate everything.

Kris K wrote:New Fall LP is the best in quite some time. MES also has a recent autobiography out which is a page turner that reads like the drunk guy next to you in a bar with a chip on his shoulder talking shit on everyone he's ever known. I also have to add that the electrical forum is far more entertaining than the fall forum which I've been on for years.

It's really quite good. Maybe my favorite of 2008 so far.

I've been obsessed with GBV for a few months at several different points in the last 4 years, although it's finally waned some. That's probably been my biggest obsession since I listened to everything and anything by the Beatles as a kid.