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Post by finbar on Feb 1, 2012 13:00:46 GMT
Morning Gryffe
Do let me know if you plan to return. I was going to take you to a few record shops, and have you over for a music session. I had just set up an old Telefunken tube amp that sounds pretty decent. We have lots of records, a few pets, and you'll find that we are very hospitable people to guests.
P.S. I do own up to liking that song about "the containers and their drivers", but the most of Smith's "cleverness" seems a bit forced, and comes from a dark place I am not interested in visiting any time soon.
Penny, I probably did absorb the basis of the "pock-faced crack addict" phrase from one of your posts. I have enjoyed your writing for 30+ years, which makes influence inevitable. Of course the same invitation holds true should you ever find yourself over on this side of the ocean.
P.S. Strangely enough, I just heard "I Saw Her Standing There" on the radio when I was buying morning coffee about an hour ago, and it still sounded pretty shiney. "The way she looked was way beyond compare......" is simply a fantastic line.
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Post by edwardgeorge on Feb 1, 2012 18:23:32 GMT
where i live there is a mural that has ghandi marley and lennon on it can not imagine anyone imag(in)ing mes in such company
& all things considered all you need is love flops everything the fall have ever done or will ever do
mes does not have a large enough heart for such a sentiment
n i am not even a big beatles fan
the real edwardgeorge
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2012 18:34:07 GMT
mes paraphrasing groucho marx
"I don’t care to belong on a mural that accepts people like me on it".
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Post by edwardgeorge on Feb 1, 2012 18:49:10 GMT
unlikely any of said muralists ever heard of mes so short is his cultural reach ;D the output of lennon and ono alone makes the toothless salfordian drunk sound even meaner of heart and mealier of mouth esp tunes like woman (real grown man music) saying this i take a certain glee in the fall on later w/jools holland this however is diminished as i recall hearing for the first time hex where are the obligatory niggers indeed you can have him fiery jack hot dogs pies and all and you can take beatles with you the real edwardgeorge
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2012 13:12:33 GMT
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Post by Mr Swing Easy on May 3, 2012 9:36:06 GMT
boys boys, enough with all the rancour. where's the love ? T
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Post by rockstone on May 4, 2012 9:47:17 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2012 14:17:15 GMT
Dear pop pebble. This makes me happier than you can ever know. MES makes music just to annoy people like you
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Post by rockstone on May 7, 2012 16:55:35 GMT
Actually I have been a fan of The Fall since their 1st album Live at the Witch trials, but I lost interest in them in my late 20's. Like Lol said if it wasn't for The Beatles there would have been no Fall, Mark E. Smith an interesting speck on the rock landscape.
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Post by edwardgeorge on May 8, 2012 10:07:11 GMT
here is the love.
edward george
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Post by Freddy C on May 18, 2012 1:24:53 GMT
No.
I've never heard an ensemble of primary school children playing Container Drivers on the recorder.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2012 16:08:40 GMT
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Post by edwardgeorge on Jul 23, 2012 22:58:07 GMT
i still find it ironic that a man whose defining work has the line 'where are the obligatory niggers?' is being lauded on a reggae site.
it wasn't hard getting rid of his music. i've tried going back, but life is too short and there are only so many hours to be spent listening to and being transformed by much more interesting, beautiful, strange and challenging music from all over the world and from the dawn of phonography.
still, if it works for you, rock on.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2012 23:12:49 GMT
Damn, outed!
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Post by I on Jul 24, 2012 23:33:06 GMT
Dear pop pebble. This makes me happier than you can ever know. MES makes music just to annoy people like you
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2013 14:09:44 GMT
There are two separate polls running on The Fall messageboard at the moment. One that is asking members to vote on the greatest Fall single, which started off as a knockout competition (eg a bit like the FA cup) where every Fall single was up for consideration and went head to head with another single and the winner of each tie progressed to the next round, and now the final is being voted on - "Totally Wired" against Taff's fave "How I Wrote Elastic Man". It's a toughie, two of the greatest songs of the last 30 years, its a bit like being asked to say who your favourite child is. The second poll is basically, "Are The Beatles great, shit, or just ok?". I of course went for option 2, and copped the usual flak like "people who dont like the Beatles are just attention seekers" - cant these idiots just see that its not compulsory to love the worlds original boy band? I dont like Take That, why would I like the Beatles? My basic premise in life is that the great British public is largely made up of sheep like fools who are told what they should like, so aside from being pish, the popularity of The Beatles is a classic example of this.
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