Track Listing

1. Jim's "The Fall"
2. Bourgeois Town
3. Crop-Dust
4. My Ex-Classmates' Kids
5. Kick The Can
6. Gotta See Jane
7. Ibis-Afro man
8. The Acute
9. Hollow Mind
10. Reprise: Jane - Prof Mick - Ey Bastardo
11. Rude (All the Time)
12. I Wake Up In The City
13. New Formation Sermon
14. Distilled Mug Art
15. My Ex-Classmates' Kids
16. Where's The Fuckin Taxi? Cunt

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7566 in Music
• Released on: 2008-02-26
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Explicit Lyrics, Extra tracks
• Dimensions: .23 pounds
• Running time: 71 minutes

Customer Reviews

Nearly at their best
Like the majority of Fall Albums, this get's better and better the more you listen to it. They are one of the best bands to listen to loud so if you've got understanding neighbours, turn up the volume.

The album positively screeches into the opening track with Jim's 'The Fall' and continues in the same vein with Bourgeois Town, both are trademark Fall tracks, sneering vocals from Mr Smith and great guitar sounds.

I am not a great fan of 'Crop Dust' but other Fall fans may like this considerably depending on their taste, but for me 'My Ex- Classmate's Kids is a bloody classic', possibly one of the best Fall tracks ever and is followed by the rockabilly 'Kick The Can' a riff not dissimilar to 'Hot Runes' from 'The Unutterable' album.

The second half of the album is not as good, the tunes, although wholly listenable are more laid back and not quite so substantial as the first half. Nonetheless 'Ibis-Afro Man' (especially the second half of it) is a stormer (don't be put off by the screeching chimpanzees, as after a couple of listens the track hangs together pretty well)and the last 3 tracks, although OK are a slight let down on the rest of the album which finishes, slightly disappointingly, on a bit of a silly (what,The Fall, surely not)note with Mark E Smith rambling on a bit about someone called Sven who is a 'bastardo'.

Not quite at the top of the Fall pantheon but nonetheless a decent abum supplemented by some extra Fall tracks, most notably the plaintive (Rude) All The Time.

Buy it, you won't be disappointed.

Are You Are Michael Winner
The raw, seething, essense of The Fall distilled into wonderful Riff McNuggets. 'Crop-Dust' has a brutal guitar hook, which you will not be able to get out of your mind. The cover of Iggy Pop's 'Ibis Afro Man' is amazing. Even the lengthy closing number (wrongly dismissed as 'filler' by some septics) is dazzlingly hypnotic. An improvement on The Unutterable, which has muddy sound and much filler.

My boyfriend played me this soon after we first met. Not long after that, I fell in love with him. Co-incidence?