Comments on: YMGTA #26 – Fall Compilations 1981-98 https://youmustgetthemall.wordpress.com/2019/08/03/ymgta-26-fall-compilations-1981-98/ "It's the whole body of the work that is to be applauded" Wed, 22 Jan 2020 09:38:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jason Gale https://youmustgetthemall.wordpress.com/2019/08/03/ymgta-26-fall-compilations-1981-98/comment-page-1/#comment-731 Wed, 22 Jan 2020 09:38:06 +0000 http://youmustgetthemall.wordpress.com/?p=376#comment-731 Whoa! I don’t know about “a horrendous cable knit sweater”. I’m fairly sure that’s the infamous Armani sweater on the cover of Oswald Defence Lawyer.

“I used to get shit in the press for the Armani jumper I used to wear years ago. It was “If he’s so scruffy why’s he got an Armani jumper?” I bought it in a shop. I saw and liked it… I just thought it was a marvellous jumper and I’ve still got it.” M.E.S. NME, 1992

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By: tony https://youmustgetthemall.wordpress.com/2019/08/03/ymgta-26-fall-compilations-1981-98/comment-page-1/#comment-323 Thu, 08 Aug 2019 10:39:45 +0000 http://youmustgetthemall.wordpress.com/?p=376#comment-323 Thanks for this detailed post. As a long-time fan of the Fall, who first picked up Dragnet & Grotesque in a second hand vinyl store in Cape Town, South Africa in 1980/1, and having most of their releases on CD as well now, it is great to have some sense of the many compilations that are available. I’m probably old & senile but still enjoy MES & The Fall

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By: Gareth John https://youmustgetthemall.wordpress.com/2019/08/03/ymgta-26-fall-compilations-1981-98/comment-page-1/#comment-315 Mon, 05 Aug 2019 15:51:53 +0000 http://youmustgetthemall.wordpress.com/?p=376#comment-315 Another good post. Thank you for listening to this lot all the way through so the rest of us don’t have to. Palace of Swords was one of my first Fall albums, borrowed from Preston library back in my student days. I was so young and callow I didn’t even twig that it was a compilation but loved it all the same.
One of the side effects of the relative stability of the final years of the Fall was of course the decline in numbers of dodgy compilations and live albums (not withstanding the excremental RSD issues, over which I hear MES had no control anyway.) It’s unfortunate in a sense because there’s loads of stuff out there that could do with being gathered together. I’m thinking of tracks like Cowboy Grigori, the alternate mixes of the Remainderer and SLT, the Ben Pritchard line up versions of the stuff that ended up of RPTLC and I’m sure a lot more besides that we still haven’t heard yet. I know Cherry Red have the rights to the back catalogue so it might come out eventually but if they are planning on reissuing everything in chronological order we might not hear any of this for another 10-15 years. A pity, as I like to get all of that before I’m too old and senile to enjoy it properly.

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