What 3 The Fall albums should I get?
 

I have the Frenz Experiment, which I love, and Perverted By Language, which I haven't really given much of a listen

Hex Enduction Hour and This Nation's Saving Grace for sure. The third one is a toss up..... Might as well start with their first record, Live At The Witch Trials. I find that one to be pretty underrated.

~Jeremy~

Slates!

Definitely This Nations Saving Grace. After that Extricate, Bend Sinister, Frenz Experiment and Hex Enduction tour. Any of those 4 are worth checking out.

The Peel sessions boxset is probably your best bet - same price as three LPs, gives you a better idea of the Fall by era.

i'd go with that ^

1. This Nation's Saving Grace
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I suggest:
This Nation's Saving Grace
Your Future, Our Clutter
Live At The Witch Trials.

Also, The Complete Peel Sessions 1978-2004 is very recommendable.

Live at the Witch Trials
Dragnet
Hex Enduction Hour



I wish it was longer.

GROTESQUE, bitches, and then Hex Enduction Hour.

The Peel Sessions box set is your best bet. After that I'd just start from the beginning (Live at the Witch Trials) and go from there. If I had to have just three that you've not already got, though, then I'd probably say Dragnet, Slates and Hex.

i have 0, the perfect fall collection

Well, one of those bands it takes longer than usual to realize they're quite shitty indeed.
But the first few years were flawless.

Those are exactly the 3 I'd pick if forced to pick only 3. Except I would have listed Live at the Witch Trials first.

1. GROTESQUE (this one is quite clearly their best album, imo, it sums up everything they do well, has probably their best song "NWRA", I mean it's just unbeatable really)
2. SLATES (it's just an ep, though, so get REAL NEW ALL if you want; it's amazing, by far their best late-period album)
3. HEX (I started here and never looked back. Epic as hell. Still, it's not as strong as GROTESQUE, "WHO MAKES THE NAZIS" is really boring imo... still, DEER PARK is worth the price of admission. "say, have you ever had the chance to meet fat captain beefheart imitators with zits -- who is the king shag corpse?!")

I actually think the best is EARLY YEARS, but all the cd's have put songs from it as bonus tracks. Like, LIVE AT THE WITRCH TRIALS cd re-release has REPETITION, BINGO MASTER'S BREAKOUT, DRAGNET has FIERY JACK and whatever.....

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get hex followd by the last one your future our clutter follwed by nations saving grace..then get the box set peel sessions thing then fill in the gaps in history.

actually dont listen to any of us, just go out and get random fall albums but avoid the myriad of live albums as some are shockingly awful.

the fall are in my top 10 bands of all time and even I wouldn't reccomend stuff like SHIFT WORK and ... some of their more electronic stuff where they experimented with dance music.... I mean a lot of those albums have great songs, but they're not really why I listen to the Fall. Also, yeah, the live albums suck. But as far as their studio albums go, I actually think FALL HEADS ROLL is
completely worthless, I know Pauly disagrees.

Nonsense! Levitate is probably my favourite album of theirs (at least, it's tied with Perverted...). But for a beginner, they're probably not ideal. Heads Roll is great, even if it is the moment where they sounded a bit like the Country Teasers. Blindness! Aspen!

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ive got one word for you adam... BLINDNESS!!!! that makes that album completly unworthless! oh and harold shipman song!