Genres: Punk, Alternative Pop/Rock, Post-Punk, Indie Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Punk/New Wave, British Punk, College Rock Active: 70's, 80's, 90's, 2000's Formed: 1977 in Manchester, England
John Lennon, The Kinks, Roy Harper, Can, The Byrds, Buzzcocks, The Beatles, The Incredible String Band, Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett, The Seeds, Captain Beefheart, The Stooges, Alex Harvey, This Heat, Neu!, Faust, The Velvet Underground, Van der Graaf Generator Wire, The Mekons, The Blue Orchids, The Soft Boys, Gang of Four, Adult Net, The Birthday Party, Joy Division, The Saints, The Raincoats, The Only Ones, Fire Engines, Nightingales, Pavement, Half Japanese, Girls Against Boys, Band of Susans, The Teardrop Explodes, Swell Maps Cop Shoot Cop, Pavement, Thinking Fellers Union Local #282, Long Fin Killie, That Petrol Emotion, Blumfeld, The Eat, Sarandon, The Birthday Party, Trumans Water, Happy Mondays, Country Teasers, The Kiss-Offs, Sailboats Are White, Girls Against Boys, Preston School of Industry, Mother & the Addicts, Whipping Boy, Comet Gain |  |
Out of all the late-'70s punk and post-punk bands, none were longer lived or more prolific than the Fall. Throughout their career, the band underwent a myriad lineup changes, but at the center of it all was vocalist Mark E. Smith. With his snarling, nearly incomprehensible vocals and consuming bitter cynicism, Smith became a cult legend in indie and alternative rock. Over the course of their career, the Fall went through a number of shifts in musical style, yet the foundation of their sound was a near-cacophonous, amelodic jagged jumble of guitars, sing-speak vocals, and keyboards. During the late '70s and early '80s, the band was at their most abrasive and atonal. In 1984, Smith's American wife, Brix, joined the band as a guitarist, bringing a stronger sense of pop melody to the group. By the mid-'80s, the band's British following was large enough to result in two U.K. Top 40 hits, but in essence, the group has always been a cult band; their music was always too abrasive and dense for the mainstream.
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Release: May 4, 2010
Label: Domino Recording Company USA
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Release: August 25, 2009
Label: Sanctuary
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