Comments on: YMGTA #23 – Cerebral Caustic https://youmustgetthemall.wordpress.com/2019/07/13/ymgta-23-cerebral-caustic/ "It's the whole body of the work that is to be applauded" Wed, 06 Nov 2019 03:12:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Kyle https://youmustgetthemall.wordpress.com/2019/07/13/ymgta-23-cerebral-caustic/comment-page-1/#comment-574 Wed, 06 Nov 2019 03:12:47 +0000 http://youmustgetthemall.wordpress.com/?p=334#comment-574 I quite appreciated the praise you gave to ‘Pine Leaves’. I’ve always loved that song, but most reviews don’t rate it too highly. A very underappreciated gem that is in fact quite different from the rest of the album. In the realm of self-indulgent Fall songs, “North West Fashion Show” is quite inoffensive – it is, in generous terms, still very recognizable as a song in the traditional sense – can’t say that for every self-indulgent Fall track.

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By: Rich https://youmustgetthemall.wordpress.com/2019/07/13/ymgta-23-cerebral-caustic/comment-page-1/#comment-291 Sun, 21 Jul 2019 22:18:31 +0000 http://youmustgetthemall.wordpress.com/?p=334#comment-291 “…and, for the first ever time in a Peel session, an old track.”
Worth noting that ‘The Man Whose Head Expanded’ was released a couple of years prior to it being performed on their later 1985 Peel session.

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By: Dan Lewis https://youmustgetthemall.wordpress.com/2019/07/13/ymgta-23-cerebral-caustic/comment-page-1/#comment-282 Mon, 15 Jul 2019 18:05:37 +0000 http://youmustgetthemall.wordpress.com/?p=334#comment-282 In reply to Steve Pringle.

As I’m sure you expected…

Listening to it now and loving it.

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By: Steve Pringle https://youmustgetthemall.wordpress.com/2019/07/13/ymgta-23-cerebral-caustic/comment-page-1/#comment-281 Mon, 15 Jul 2019 15:17:51 +0000 http://youmustgetthemall.wordpress.com/?p=334#comment-281 In reply to Dan Lewis.

Thanks Dan. I’m there are some fellow CC admirers on here and on Facebook/Twitter – I’ve had some stick from the Fall Forum for its placement!

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By: Dan Lewis https://youmustgetthemall.wordpress.com/2019/07/13/ymgta-23-cerebral-caustic/comment-page-1/#comment-280 Mon, 15 Jul 2019 14:20:48 +0000 http://youmustgetthemall.wordpress.com/?p=334#comment-280 Thanks Steve, I too am a big fan of this one. Think it’s one of their stronger 90s albums and actually rate it above some of the ‘classics’ (as you do in your rankings). Life just bounces just bounces, a real highlight. and NWFS has a great baseline (if little else).

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By: Steve Pringle https://youmustgetthemall.wordpress.com/2019/07/13/ymgta-23-cerebral-caustic/comment-page-1/#comment-275 Sat, 13 Jul 2019 21:29:10 +0000 http://youmustgetthemall.wordpress.com/?p=334#comment-275 In reply to Ian Edmond.

Thanks for that Ian, interesting comments. I share your view (obviously) that the album is rather unfairly maligned!

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By: Ian Edmond https://youmustgetthemall.wordpress.com/2019/07/13/ymgta-23-cerebral-caustic/comment-page-1/#comment-273 Sat, 13 Jul 2019 20:04:29 +0000 http://youmustgetthemall.wordpress.com/?p=334#comment-273 Absolutely delighted that someone else other than me rates this album. Here’s something I posted on The Mighty Fall Facebook group last year:

With the number of albums that The Fall released, there are bound to be some that are generally less popular than others. However, I’m often surprised at which ones these seem to be. Perhaps it’s because I’ve come to know them all in the last two and a half years, so I haven’t had to go through the process of anticipation – purchase – evaluation… By the time I heard any of these albums, they were already out there in the wild, in the main for many years.

First in my list of “why isn’t this more popular?” – Cerebral Caustic. I’m not just going to stick up for this in a “it’s not as bad as you think” way, I really love this one. It might be because I’m putting my own narrative onto it, which probably isn’t there, but it’s Feeling Numb that sets it all up for me. I see it as an album about Mark being on the way down, suffering from a bout of depression, to the extent of being hospitalised (The Joke – references to wards, multicoloured sweets which I take to be prescribed pills, “violent food” = hospital food, “Disease control room” = doctor’s office). I can see that Don’t Call Me Darling isn’t going to set well with those less keen on Brix, but I think it’s wonderful. Mark seems to be in a calm world of his own, anesthetised to what’s going on around him. The “bouncing” parts during the later chorus are the words of a man numb to the shouting going on around him. Feeling Numb conjures up images of Mark convalescing with family, post-Christmas, dosed up with Prozac, being looked after but aware that his usual way of life is being erased (And family / Is cerebral caustic) but in no state to get away (I’m feeling numb / Stick with kindred). I heard Life Just Bounces here before I was even aware that it was an old B-side, and it fits so well that this is my preferred version, again echoing the idea of someone being sedated with antidepressants (The prescription’s filled but I’m unsure of its contents / I sit back with a tight lip / Retina amazed).

Probably all way off, but that’s my interpretation and I’m sticking to it.

I’d stick up for it all, to be honest. The lyrics to North West Fashion Show are probably the low point, but the music is fine, could have been the basis for a great “proper” song.

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