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Man, The Fall are one of the frist bands I ever got into, PERIOD. It was like.. Melt Banana, Dillinger Escape Plan, the Fall... this addiction has lasted half my life now.... or at least since Napster was invented!
I don't really know how to answer the "what do you GET"? I like how loose but in control the music is. I love the ranting. I mean, just brilliant riffs, all the time. Every instrument. I actually play live similiar to how the Fall sounds on records (which is surprisingly difficult to get on record). Like NWRA.. kinda just a guideline of what to play, and competent as hell players somehow play it perfectly, just playing in and around and about the melody but never seeming to gel cohesively into the section, it';s almost like jazz, you are supposed to hear the notes thst sbnsd==ddddd.... because they never really hit it, but you know how it should sound... and then SHIFT-UH... and the rolling for 4 minutes straight.. they make reptition beautiful, they've always taken a great melody and just made it go on forever.... cuz there's no such thing as repetition when it's that brilliant, i mean 2 drummers 2 guitarists a bassist keyboards on their more full band records, how can it ever really "Repeat" honestly? every time you play music, it may sound the same initially but music is like snowflakes. no matter what you're going to change. NO MATTER WHAT THERE WILL BE CHANGE. even if we don't pick up on it immediately.
i think with the fall it's all about the little changes.
it's all about the fills.
totally wired... the whole song sounds kinda plain and bland, at least upon first listen. what makes the song to me are the two brief as hell parts where the bass has that fill, that DUNDUNDOODOO,
LIFE LEAVES YOU SURPRISEEDDDDDDDDDDDDD-uh
i never paid attention to a band's lyrics, the Fall lyrics rule. i can't always relate, i definitely don't always want to.
the fall is, to me, one of the few perfect bands; tful 282, slowdive, beefheart, stereolab, and a very very very small little pinkynil with a bump of coke metaphor for perfection's iddeea of what a PERFECTBAND IS TO ME.
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