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The Fall
Are You Are Missing Winner
(COG SINISTER, 2001)
Stimmerung! It’s album 24 from the teeming brain of MES, ripe for re-appraisal.
Even hardened Fall fans were nonplussed by first listens to this. Released not long after the disintegration of the line-up that recorded 2000’s polished The Unutterable, Are You Are Missing Winner sounded mildewed, repaired with gaffa tape, down to its last £2. But on sober reflection it’s the emerging-from-a-swamp, post-plane-crash quality that impresses here. This was a new group pressganged into immediate active service, and it shows in a hard and experimental album that’s been compared to 1979’s Fall classic Dragnet. Punching rocker Jim’s “The Fall” opens proceedings and declares “we are the new Fall” while the comic My Ex-Classmate’s Kids mocks modern parenting, but it’s in the songs less accommodating to the listener that the beatified abnormality of The Fall is manifest; semi-Iggy Pop cover Ibis-Afro Man is a lurching, demented Golem, mixing live and studio recordings in nine and a half minutes that ultimately race off into god knows where. Meanwhile over on Reprise: Jane - Prof. Mick - Ey Bastardo, a reprise of the R Dean Taylor cover Gotta See Jane, the unfortunate Spencer Birtwhistle, ex-drummer for Intastella, is goaded and harangued (“Spen is a bastardo! Spen is a bastardo!”) by a gleefully vituperative Mark E Smith. Thereafter the mainly-drums track cuts out, each time returning with greater spleen and attack; it drips with malignant energy and possibly demonstrates the “creative tension” that Smith runs his group on. Interested parties are directed to the 2006 Castle reissue, which also contains bonus tracks including the nightmarish Distilled Mug Art and the cacophonous Where’s The Fuckin Taxi? Cunt, a charming spoken word swearathon concerning being stuck beyond the reach of the local cab firm, with a detour into Jude The Obscure and Smith badgering guitarist Brian Fanning into taking the strings off his guitar. Top entertainment.
Ian Harrison
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 09/09/2008
Further Listening
The Fall – Dragnet (Step Forward, 1979)
The Troggs – From Nowhere… (Fontana, 1966)
Iggy Pop – New Values (Arista, 1979)
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