Written by:
Mark E Smith, Steve Hitchcock (on The Marshall Suite)
Mark E Smith. J. Baron, M. Neary (on F-‘oldin Money CD single)
Initial release:
The Marshall Suite,
Date:
19 April 1999
Subsequent releases:
F-‘oldin Money, (track called here The Real Life of The Crying Marshal)
The Marshall Suite Expanded Edition includes the alternate version
Group on initial recording:
Mark E Smith – vocals; Julia Nagle – keyboards, guitar; Tom Head – drums; Neville Wilding – guitar, vocals; Karen Leatham – bass; Adam Helal – bass
Commentary:
Another Fall track which is a veritable assault on the senses. MES himself had this to say:
“The idea started when I did the track “The Crying Marshall” with these two blokes called The Filthy Three; one of them is Jason who engineered a lot of Levitate. They had a song and they didn’t have any lyrics for it; that song came from that; throwing things around. I thought it would be good to do it as the story of his life, a themed LP, with a thread running through it. It’s such an unhip thing to do.
“I’m still very mad that some of the mixes on the new record were pissed about with by the producer while I was away,” Mark announces suddenly. “It’s only one or two tracks, no one else will notice it, but I’m furious. I won’t talk to him. And they missed a track off! “The Crying Marshall”! [He laughs hysterically] The remix is on it, but the original song isn’t, so there should be like another two and half minutes. Not to worry. You get to a point where it’s not worth putting everything back again.”
Despite suggestions that this was played in 2000 there is no evidence to hand that it was.