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The Fall

The Fall are an English post-punk band, formed in 1976 in Prestwich, Greater Manchester. They have undergone many line up changes, with vocalist Mark E. Smith as the founder and only constant member. The Fall's long term musicians have included drummers Paul Hanley and Karl Burns; guitarists Marc Riley, Craig Scanlon and Brix Smith; and bassist Steve Hanley, whose melodic playing is widely credited with shaping the band's sound from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s.

First associated with the late 1970s punk movement, the Fall's music has undergone numerous stylistic changes, often concurrently with changes in the group's lineup. Nonetheless, their music has generally been characterised by an abrasive guitar-driven sound, tense bass and drum rhythms, and Smith's cryptic lyrics, described by critic Simon Reynolds as "a kind of Northern English magic realism that mixed industrial grime with the unearthly and uncanny, voiced through a unique, one-note delivery somewhere between amphetamine-spiked rant and alcohol-addled yarn." While the Fall have never achieved widespread success beyond minor hit singles in the late 1980s, they have maintained a strong cult following.

The Fall have been called "the most prolific band of the British post-punk movement." They have released thirty-two studio albums as of 2017, and more than three times that number when live albums and compilations (often released against Smith's wishes) are taken into account. They were long associated with BBC disc jockey John Peel, who championed them from early on in their career and described them as his favourite band, famously explaining, "they are always different; they are always the same."

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Genres rock alternative rock indie rock new wave post-punk

Albums

  1. Live at the Witch Trials
    1979
  2. Dragnet
    1979
  3. Grotesque (After the Gramme)
    1980
  4. Hex Enduction Hour
    1982
  5. Room to Live
    1982
  6. Perverted by Language
    1983
  7. The Wonderful and Frightening World of… The Fall
    1984
  8. This Nation’s Saving Grace
    1985
  9. Bend Sinister
    1986
  10. The Frenz Experiment
    1988
  11. I Am Kurious Oranj
    1988
  12. Extricate
    1990
  13. Shift-Work
    1991
  14. Code: Selfish
    1992
  15. The Infotainment Scan
    1993
  16. Middle Class Revolt
    1994
  17. Cerebral Caustic
    1995
  18. The Light User Syndrome
    1996
  19. Levitate
    1997
  20. The Marshall Suite
    1999
  21. The Unutterable
    2000
  22. Are You Are Missing Winner
    2001
  23. The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country on the Click)
    2003
  24. Fall Heads Roll
    2005
  25. Reformation Post TLC
    2007
  26. Imperial Wax Solvent
    2008
  27. Your Future Our Clutter
    2010
  28. Ersatz G.B.
    2011
  29. Re-Mit
    2013
  30. Sub‐Lingual Tablet
    2015
  31. New Facts Emerge
    2017

Other releases

  1. Bingo-Master's Break-Out!
    1978
  2. It's the New Thing!
    1978
  3. Rowche Rumble / In My Area
    1979
  4. Fiery Jack
    1980
  5. Totale’s Turns (It’s Now or Never)
    1980
  6. How I Wrote ‘Elastic Man’
    1980
  7. Totally Wired
    1980
  8. 77 - Early Years - 79
    1981
  9. Slates
    1981
  10. Lie Dream of a Casino Soul
    1981
  11. Live in London 1980
    1982
  12. Look, Know / I'm Into C.B.
    1982
  13. A Part of America Therein, 1981
    1982
  14. Marquis Cha-Cha
    1982
  15. Fall in a Hole
    1983
  16. The Man Whose Head Expanded
    1983
  17. Kicker Conspiracy
    1983
  18. Oh! Brother
    1984
  19. C.R.E.E.P.
    1984
  20. No Bulbs
    1984
  21. Call for Escape Route
    1984
  22. Cruiser's Creek
    1985
  23. Couldn't Get Ahead
    1985
  24. Nord-West Gas
    1986
  25. Living Too Late
    1986
  26. Mr. Pharmacist
    1986
  27. Hey! Luciani
    1986
  28. Rehearsal Early '77, Volume 1
    1987
  29. The “Domesday Pay‐Off” Triad‐Plus!
    1987
  30. There's a Ghost in My House
    1987
  31. The Peel Sessions
    1987
  32. Hit the North
    1987
  33. In Palace of Swords Reversed
    1987
  34. Hip Priest and Kamerads
    1988
  35. Victoria
    1988
  36. Double Compact Disc Single
    1988
  37. Cab It Up
    1989
  38. Sniffin Rock #9
    1989
  39. Seminal Live
    1989
  40. Extricate Album Sampler
    1990
  41. High Tension Line
    1990
  42. Popcorn Double Feature
    1990
  43. White Lightning
    1990
  44. Telephone Thing
    1990
  45. The Dredger EP
    1990
  46. 458489 A Sides
    1990
  47. 458489 B Sides
    1990
  48. Free Range
    1992
  49. Ed's Babe
    1992
  50. Slates / A Part of America Therein, 1981
    1992
  51. Selections From The Infotainment Scan plus Crash Course '84-'92
    1993
  52. Behind the Counter E.P. Volume 2
    1993
  53. Kimble
    1993
  54. The Collection
    1993
  55. Why Are People Grudgeful?
    1993
  56. BBC Radio 1 'Live in Concert'
    1993
  57. 15 Ways
    1994
  58. The Twenty Seven Points
    1995
  59. Sinister Waltz
    1996
  60. The Chiselers
    1996
  61. Fiend With a Violin
    1996
  62. Oswald Defence Lawyer
    1996
  63. The Legendary Chaos Tape
    1996
  64. The Less You Look the More You Find
    1997
  65. In the City...
    1997
  66. Archive Series
    1997
  67. 15 Ways to Leave Your Man
    1997
  68. Cheetham Hill
    1997
  69. Oxymoron
    1997
  70. Live Various Years
    1998
  71. Nottingham '92
    1998
  72. Live to Air in Melbourne '82
    1998
  73. Masquerade
    1998
  74. Smile... It's the Best Of
    1998
  75. Northern Attitude
    1998
  76. F‐’oldin’ Money
    1999
  77. The Peel Sessions
    1999
  78. Touch Sensitive
    1999
  79. Live in Cambridge 1988
    2000
  80. A Past Gone Mad
    2000
  81. Early Fall 77–79
    2000
  82. Live 77
    2000
  83. I Am As Pure as Oranj
    2000
  84. Psykick Dance Hall
    2000
  85. Fistful of Credits / Skin Deep
    2000
  86. Backdrop
    2001
  87. Austurbæjarbíó
    2001
  88. A World Bewitched: Best of 1990–2000
    2001
  89. Rude (All the Time) / I Wake Up in the City
    2001
  90. 2G+2
    2002
  91. Totally Wired: The Rough Trade Anthology
    2002
  92. High Tension Line
    2002
  93. Listening In: Lost Singles Tracks 1990-92
    2002
  94. The Fall vs. 2003
    2002
  95. Early Singles
    2002
  96. Rebellious Jukebox
    2003
  97. Live at the Phoenix Festival
    2003
  98. It's the New Thing! The Step Forward Years
    2003
  99. The Idiot Joy Show
    2003
  100. Touch Sensitive …Bootleg Box Set
    2003
  101. The War Against Intelligence: The Fontana Years
    2003
  102. (We Wish You) A Protein Christmas
    2003
  103. 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong: 39 Golden Greats
    2004
  104. Theme From Sparta F.C. #2
    2004
  105. Interim
    2004
  106. Live in London 1980: The Legendary Chaos Tape
    2004
  107. Rude (All the Time)
    2005
  108. The Complete Peel Sessions 1978–2004
    2005
  109. Live at Deeply Vale
    2005
  110. I Can Hear The Grass Grow
    2005
  111. Live From the Vaults: Glasgow 1981
    2005
  112. Permanent Years: Paranoia Man in Cheap Shit Room
    2006
  113. Words of Expectation
    2006
  114. Live at the Knitting Factory – L.A. – 14 November 2001
    2007
  115. Reformation!
    2007
  116. The Fall Box Set: 1976–2007
    2007
  117. I've Never Felt Better in My Life—1979–1982
    2008
  118. Last Night at the Palais
    2009
  119. Rebellious Jukebox, Volume 2
    2009
  120. Slippy Floor
    2009
  121. Bury!
    2010
  122. Laptop Dog
    2011
  123. Night of the Humerons
    2012
  124. Sir William Wray
    2013
  125. Live In San Francisco
    2013
  126. Fiend With a Violin (live)
    2013
  127. 5 Albums
    2013
  128. The Remainderer
    2013
  129. Wise Ol’ Man
    2016
  130. The Fontana Years
    2017
  131. A‐Sides 1978–2016
    2017
  132. Singles 1978–2016
    2017