Comments on: YMGTA #28 – The Marshall Suite https://youmustgetthemall.wordpress.com/2019/08/26/ymgta-28-the-marshall-suite/ "It's the whole body of the work that is to be applauded" Mon, 02 Sep 2019 15:52:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: YMGTA #29 – The Unutterable – You Must Get Them All https://youmustgetthemall.wordpress.com/2019/08/26/ymgta-28-the-marshall-suite/comment-page-1/#comment-388 Sun, 01 Sep 2019 20:48:22 +0000 http://youmustgetthemall.wordpress.com/?p=482#comment-388 […] was a trio of dates in Ashton early in 1999 and then the XFM performance in April (see previous post). After The Marshall Suite‘s release, the group embarked on a dozen UK dates in May to […]

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By: Steve Pringle https://youmustgetthemall.wordpress.com/2019/08/26/ymgta-28-the-marshall-suite/comment-page-1/#comment-380 Fri, 30 Aug 2019 13:57:28 +0000 http://youmustgetthemall.wordpress.com/?p=482#comment-380 Thanks Dan, much appreciated 🙂

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By: Dan Lewis https://youmustgetthemall.wordpress.com/2019/08/26/ymgta-28-the-marshall-suite/comment-page-1/#comment-379 Fri, 30 Aug 2019 13:56:22 +0000 http://youmustgetthemall.wordpress.com/?p=482#comment-379 This may be your best ‘chapter’ yet. Really well put together, it is shaping up to feel like an authoritative history of The Fall, and the amount of effort you dedicate to context is awesome.

I’ve always loved Marshall Suite. I like it a lot more than Levitate, that’s for sure. For me, this is the ‘nuts’ album; nothing else sounds quite as unhinged as an album. I agree the high points are often the most abrasive; the Crying Marshall is one of my favourite Fall songs and very underrated. It’s like the Prodigy if they truly didn’t care about production values. Brutal.

Cheers
Dan

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By: Gareth John https://youmustgetthemall.wordpress.com/2019/08/26/ymgta-28-the-marshall-suite/comment-page-1/#comment-370 Tue, 27 Aug 2019 13:50:53 +0000 http://youmustgetthemall.wordpress.com/?p=482#comment-370 This reads like it must have been the hardest one to write. The last thirty pages or so of the Big Midweek are desperately sad and much of this has the same feel. I have had an MP4 file of the Brownies gig for many years and have never had the stomach to watch it all the way through. GIven all that had happened though it’s remarkable how strong TMS actually is. I don’t agree that this deserves a top ten placing (I always rated it round about the mid teens) but it’s still a surprisingly good album. I’ve always subscribed to the theory that MES creates his best work when people have written him off completely- PBL after Riley was sacked, Extricate after Brix, and (particularly and especially) IWS only a couple of years after the 2006 bust up. (Really looking forward to reading your blogs about later Fall. I think IWS onwards is one of the great Fall periods, as good as the Riley era and much better than anything he did with Brix. I’m sure your take on those albums will be fascinating even if I don’t agree with it!)
I reckon MES used the “he’s lost it again” doom mongering as motivation, and fair play to him for doing so.

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By: SINISTER GLOVE https://youmustgetthemall.wordpress.com/2019/08/26/ymgta-28-the-marshall-suite/comment-page-1/#comment-369 Tue, 27 Aug 2019 11:27:50 +0000 http://youmustgetthemall.wordpress.com/?p=482#comment-369 In reply to Neil Todd.

What Neil Todd said, this could be sold in a shop, especially if this contained The Fall in fives. It’s a great way to follow the history of the band not bogged down in journalistic guff.

I like your league tables too, deffo not what you would expect in some instances but placing levitate high up works for me.

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By: Neil Todd https://youmustgetthemall.wordpress.com/2019/08/26/ymgta-28-the-marshall-suite/comment-page-1/#comment-365 Mon, 26 Aug 2019 20:27:02 +0000 http://youmustgetthemall.wordpress.com/?p=482#comment-365 Cool. Loving your work. It’s building into a rather essential history of the band, rather than just a ‘mere’ series of reviews.

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