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The '90s were a dodgy period for Mark E. Smith and the Fall. Having sacked his ex-wife Brix Smith and the rest of his best-ever lineup as the '80s were coming to a close, Smith struggled through the decade hiring and firing bandmembers -- and in one well-publicized case in New York, landed in jail for beating one up on-stage -- and bouncing from label to label while making an increasingly spotty and disinterested set of albums and singles. (By the end of the decades, retrospectives of the '70s and '80s lineups were outpacing new releases, proof that something was askew in the land of the Fall.) However, A Past Gone Mad does prove that the Fall did manage to scrape up a fairly solid CD's worth of tunes in the '90s. Songs like the atypically poppy dance track "Touch Sensitive" and the ranting "Hey Student" may not be up to the level of classics like "Mere Pseud Mag Ed" and "Kicker Conspiracy," but they're certainly the best the Fall had to offer, and the disc is surprisingly free of filler. Not the place to start cold, then, but a nice summation of a less than stellar period in the Fall's history.
© Stewart Mason /TiVo
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Philip Galdston, Composer - Mark Smith, Composer - John Van Tongeren, Composer - Mark E. Smith, Composer - The Fall, MainArtist - Julia Nagle, Composer - Steve Hitchcock, Composer - Stephen Sharples, Composer
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Mark E. Smith, Composer - Stephen Hanley, Composer - Craig Scanlon, Composer - The Fall, MainArtist
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Mark E. Smith, Composer - Craig Scanlon, Composer - The Fall, MainArtist
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David Bush, Composer - Mark E. Smith, Composer - The Fall, MainArtist
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Simon Wolstencroft, Composer - Mark E. Smith, Composer - The Fall, MainArtist
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NILE RODGERS, Composer - BERNARD EDWARDS, Composer - The Fall, MainArtist
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Simon Wolstencroft, Composer - Mark E. Smith, Composer - The Fall, MainArtist - Steve Bent, Composer
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Mark E. Smith, Composer - Craig Scanlon, Composer - The Fall, MainArtist
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David Bush, Composer - Simon Wolstencroft, Composer - Mark E. Smith, Composer - The Fall, MainArtist
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Mark E. Smith, Composer - The Fall, MainArtist - Karl Burns, Composer
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Mark E. Smith, Composer - The Fall, MainArtist
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Mark E. Smith, Composer - The Fall, MainArtist - Julia Nagle, Composer
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W.S. Stevenson, Composer - Carl Belew, Composer - The Fall, MainArtist - Tommy Blake, Composer
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Mark E. Smith, Composer - The Fall, MainArtist - Julia Nagle, Composer - Karen Leatham, Composer - Neville Wilding, Composer - Thomas Murphy, Composer - Tommy Head, Composer - Stephen Sharples, Composer
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Mark E. Smith, Composer - The Fall, MainArtist - Steve Hitchcock, Composer - Neville Wilding, Composer
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Mark E. Smith, Composer - The Fall, MainArtist - Brix Smith, Composer
© 2000 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 1995 Cherry Red Records Ltd Cherry Red Records Ltd
Mark E. Smith, Composer - Craig Scanlon, Composer - The Fall, MainArtist
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Album review
The '90s were a dodgy period for Mark E. Smith and the Fall. Having sacked his ex-wife Brix Smith and the rest of his best-ever lineup as the '80s were coming to a close, Smith struggled through the decade hiring and firing bandmembers -- and in one well-publicized case in New York, landed in jail for beating one up on-stage -- and bouncing from label to label while making an increasingly spotty and disinterested set of albums and singles. (By the end of the decades, retrospectives of the '70s and '80s lineups were outpacing new releases, proof that something was askew in the land of the Fall.) However, A Past Gone Mad does prove that the Fall did manage to scrape up a fairly solid CD's worth of tunes in the '90s. Songs like the atypically poppy dance track "Touch Sensitive" and the ranting "Hey Student" may not be up to the level of classics like "Mere Pseud Mag Ed" and "Kicker Conspiracy," but they're certainly the best the Fall had to offer, and the disc is surprisingly free of filler. Not the place to start cold, then, but a nice summation of a less than stellar period in the Fall's history.
© Stewart Mason /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 17 track(s)
- Total length: 01:06:49
- Main artists: The Fall
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Cherry Red Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
© 2000 Cherry Red Records Ltd ℗ 2000 Cherry Red Records Ltd
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