listening to the fall

with the release of the new fall lp I have been listening to a whole bunch of earlier fall stuff.somewhere along the line I intend to write a massive post about the fall but for now its just a work-in-progress.
some initial thoughts cut-up at random.

hearing the first album at a mates house when it first came out. like an epiphany. first fall gig-17/18 yrs old? totally wired had just come out.

review in sounds of totales turns-"the taut mysticism" of the fall-that phrase has stuck with me.

seeing them play the venue in london in '81-they always seemed different when they played "down south"

middle class revolt gig at the methodist hall in liverpool- this was a low point

falling out with them briefly round the time of wonderful & frightening lp-then going to see them play nations saving grace and being re-converted

the weird return of martin bramah

smile/garden/hexen peel session tracks like dylans triumphant bring it all back home/h61/blonde on blonde compressed down into three tracks

always different, always the same.