Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
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The Fall
The Infotainment Scan
(PERMANENT, 1993)
MES and crew go top ten, still high-tar and 100% proof.
It was already the group's seventeenth album and as ever, Fall autocrat Mark E Smith had things that needed saying. Delivered with customary cryptic astringency, and with a title related to the blurring effects of entertainment posing as information, these songs still provide mental fat suitable for prolonged chewing. Thumping glitterbeat track Glam Racket, for example, addresses rosy nostalgia for the not-too-distant past - the bri-nylon seventies as mooned over by the then-swinging Pulp and Suede in this case - while a cover of Steve Bent's I'm Going to Spain, unfairly included on Kenny Everett's World's Worst Record Show comp, concerns the British proclivity for escaping to a sunny life abroad. Other songs, meanwhile, consider the dilemmas facing the man approaching middle age with all its fears of obsolescence - "Kicked the leaves, learning about time," murmurs the arch, troubled Service, "winter is here." Remarkably, it reached number nine, and is certainly one of The Fall's most cosmetically appealing LPs, with the group in taut rock form with what Smith called "the techno shit" layered over it. A year on the messier Middle Class Revolt A/K/A The Vapourisation Of Reality was released, inaugurating a half-decade of turmoil. As for those late-30s misgivings, by 2008 Citizen Smith seemed to have resolved them with Imperial Wax Solvent's mighty 50 Year Old Man.
Ian Harrison
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 14/01/2011
Further Listening
The Fall – Code: Selfish (Phonogram, 1992)
Earl Brutus - Tonight You Are The Special One (Fruition/Island, 1998)
Various - Kenny Everett: The World’s Worst Record Show (K-Tel, 1978)
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Throughout the first half of the1990's the Fall were in top form. From "Extricate" (1990) to "Cerebal Caustic" (1995) and not forgetting the live "27 Points" (1995), all are absolute Fall must-haves.
Unfortunately they then blotted their copy book with the hugely disappointing "The Light User Syndrome" (1996) and I lost interest at this point. A foolish thing to do as the band bounced back the following year with the far more satisfying "Levitate" followed in 1999 by the double vinyl set "The Marshall Suite" which I am still trying to find a copy of!!!
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and RIP Rex Sargeant who produced this
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RIP Rex Sargeant
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