The Fall discography

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The Fall discography

The Fall in Hamburg, 13 April 1984
Releases
↙Studio albums 29
↙Live albums 30
↙Compilation albums 35
↙EPs 9
↙Singles 41
↙Part studio, part live albums 5
↙Mark E. Smith 2

Rock band The Fall have released a large number of recordings since their inception in 1976, often inviting use of the tag 'prolific'. Their first release as a group was the EP Bingo-Master's Break Out! (1978), and they have released a studio album at a rate of almost one a year since 1979.

Contents

[edit] Albums

[edit] Studio albums

Year Title Chart Positions
UK
[1][2]		 UK Indie
[3]		 NZ
[4]
1979 Live at the Witch Trials
  • Label: Step Forward
 – – –
Dragnet
  • Label: Step Forward
 – – –
1980 Grotesque (After the Gramme)
  • Label: Rough Trade
 – 1 38
1981 Slates
  • Label: Rough Trade
 – 3 –
1982 Hex Enduction Hour
  • Label: Kamera
 71 2 11
Room to Live (Undilutable Slang Truth!)
  • Label: Kamera
 – 4 –
1983 Perverted by Language
  • Label: Rough Trade
 – 1 –
1984 The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall
  • Label: Beggars Banquet
 62 – –
1985 This Nation's Saving Grace
  • Label: Beggars Banquet
 54 – –
1986 Bend Sinister
  • Label: Beggars Banquet
 36 – –
1988 The Frenz Experiment
  • Label: Beggars Banquet
 19 – –
I Am Kurious Oranj
  • Label: Beggars Banquet
 54 – –
1990 Extricate
  • Label: Phonogram
 31 – –
1991 Shift-Work
  • Label: Phonogram
 17 – –
1992 Code: Selfish
  • Label: Phonogram
 21 – –
1993 The Infotainment Scan
  • Label: Permanent/Matador
 9 – –
1994 Middle Class Revolt
  • Label: Permanent/Matador
 48 – –
1995 Cerebral Caustic
  • Label: Permanent
 67 – –
1996 The Light User Syndrome
  • Label: Jet
 54 – –
1997 Levitate
  • Label: Artful
 117 – –
1999 The Marshall Suite
  • Label: Artful
 84 – –
2000 The Unutterable
  • Label: Eagle
 136 – –
2001 Are You Are Missing Winner
  • Label: Cog Sinister/Voiceprint
 – – –
2003 The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country on the Click)
  • Label: Action
 156 – –
2005 Fall Heads Roll
  • Label: Slogan
 115 – –
2007 Reformation! Post-TLC
  • Label: Slogan
 78 – –
2008 Imperial Wax Solvent
  • Label: Castle
 35 – –
2010 Your Future Our Clutter
  • Label: Domino Records
 38 – –
2011 Ersatz GB
  • Label: Cherry Red Records
 88 9 –
"–" denotes releases that did not chart.

[edit] Part studio, part live albums

Year Title Chart Positions
UK
[1][2]		 UK Indie
[3]		 NZ
[4]
1980 Totale's Turns (It's Now or Never)
  • Label: Rough Trade
 – 1 –
1989 Seminal Live
  • Label: Beggars Banquet
 40 – –
1995 The Twenty-Seven Points
  • Label: Permanent Records
 – – –
2002 2G+2
  • Label: Action
 116 – –
2004 Interim
  • Label: Hip Priest/Voiceprint
 – – –
"–" denotes releases that did not chart.

[edit] Live albums

  1. Live in London 1980 (1982) UK Indie #7[3]
  2. A Part of America Therein, 1981 (1982) UK Indie #9[3]
  3. Fall In a Hole (1983) NZ #47[4]
  4. BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert (1993)
  5. In the City... (1997)
  6. 15 Ways to Leave Your Man, Live (1997)
  7. Live to Air in Melbourne 1982 (1998)
  8. Live Various Years (1998)
  9. Nottingham 92 (1998)
  10. Live 1977 (2000)
  11. I Am as Pure as Oranj (2000)
  12. Live in Cambridge 1988 (2000)
  13. Austurbaejarbio (Live in Reykjavik 1983) (2001)
  14. Live in Zagreb (2001)
  15. Liverpool 78 (2001)
  16. Touch Sensitive... Bootleg Box Set (2003)
  17. The Idiot Joy Show (2003)
  18. Live at the Phoenix Festival (2003)
  19. Live at Deeply Vale (2005)
  20. Live from the Vaults - Oldham 1978 (2005)
  21. Live from the Vaults - Retford 1978 (2005)
  22. Live from the Vaults - Los Angeles 1979 (2005)
  23. Live from the Vaults - Glasgow 1981 (2005)
  24. Live from the Vaults - Alter Bahnoff, Hof, Germany 1981 (2005)
  25. Pearl City (Roskilde 1996) (2005)
  26. Live at the Knitting Factory, New York 9 April 2001 (2007)
  27. Live at the Garage, London 20 April 2002 (2007)
  28. Live at the Knitting Factory, LA 14 November 2001 (2007)
  29. Live at the ATP Festival 28 April 2002 (2007)
  30. Last Night at The Palais (2009)

Two live tracks by The Fall also appeared on the Short Circuit compilation 10" EP, in 1978.

[edit] Compilation albums

Main article: Compilation albums by The Fall
  1. 77–Early Years–79 (1981) UK Indie #6[3]
  2. Hip Priest and Kamerads (1985) UK Indie #4[3]
  3. Nord-West Gas (1986)
  4. Palace of Swords Reversed (1987) UK Indie #1[3]
  5. 458489 A Sides (1990)
  6. 458489 B Sides (1990) UK #44[1]
  7. The Collection (1993)
  8. Backdrop (1994)
  9. Sinister Waltz (1996)
  10. Fiend with a Violin (1996)
  11. Oswald Defence Lawyer (1996)
  12. The Archive Series (1997)
  13. The Less You Look, the More You Find (1997)
  14. Oxymoron (1997)
  15. Cheetham Hill (1997)
  16. Smile... It's the Best of (1998)
  17. Northern Attitude (1998)
  18. The Peel Sessions (1999)
  19. A Past Gone Mad (2000)
  20. Psykick Dancehall (2000)
  21. A World Bewitched (2001)
  22. Totally Wired – The Rough Trade Anthology (2002)
  23. The Rough Trade Singles Box (2002)
  24. High Tension Line (2002)
  25. Listening In (2002)
  26. Early Singles (2002)
  27. It's the New Thing! The Step Forward Years (2003)
  28. Words of Expectation – BBC Sessions (2003)
  29. The War Against Intelligence – The Fontana Years (2003)
  30. Rebellious Jukebox (2003)
  31. Time Enough At Last (2003)
  32. 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong – 39 Golden Greats (2004) UK #117[2]
  33. The Complete Peel Sessions 1978–2004 (2005) UK #139[2]
  34. The Permanent Years – Paranoia Man in Cheap Sh*t Room (2006)
  35. The Fall Box Set 1976-2007 (2007)

[edit] Mark E. Smith spoken word albums

Mark E. Smith, The Fall's lead singer and only constant member, has also released two albums of solo material:

  1. The Post Nearly Man (1998)
  2. Pander! Panda! Panzer! (2002)

[edit] Extended plays

  1. Bingo-Master's Break-Out! EP (1978)
    • "Psycho Mafia" / "Bingo-Master" / "Repetition"
  2. Fiery Jack EP (1980) UK Indie #4[3]
    • "Fiery Jack" / "2nd Dark Age" / "Psyckick Dancehall #2"
  3. Call for Escape Route EP (1985)
    • "Draygo's Guilt" / "Clear Off" / "No Bulbs"
    • (came with free 7") "No Bulbs 3" / "Slang King 2"
  4. Peel Sessions EP (1987) UK Indie #3[3]
    • "Put Away" / "Mess of My" / "No Xmas for John Key" / "Like to Blow"
  5. The Dredger EP (1990)
    • "White Lightning" / "Blood Outta Stone" / "Zagreb" (Movements I & II & III) / "Life Just Bounces"
  6. High Tension Line 12" (1990)
    • "High Tension Line" / "Xmas With Simon" / "Don’t Take The Pizza"
  7. Free Range 12" (1992)
    • "Free Range" / "Return" / "Dangerous" / "Everything Hurtz"
  8. Kimble EP (1993)
    • CD: "Kimble" / "Gut of the Quantifier" / "Spoilt Victorian Child" / "Words of Expectation"
    • 12": "Kimble" / "C'n'C-Hassle Schmuk" / "Spoilt Victorian Child" / "Words Of Expectation"
  9. The Fall vs 2003 EP (2003) UK #64[1]
    • "Susan vs Youthclub" / "Janet vs Johnny" / "Susan vs Youthclub" (remix)
  10. (We Wish You) A Protein Christmas EP (2003)
    • "(We Wish You) A Protein Christmas" / "(We Are) Mod Mock Goth" / "(Birtwistle's) Girl in Shop" / "Recovery Kit #2"
  11. Rude (All the Time) EP (2005)
    • "Distilled Mug Art" / "I Wake Up in the City" / "Where's the Fuckin Taxi? Cunt" / My Ex-Classmates' Kids"

[edit] Singles

Year Title Chart Positions
UK
[1][2]		 UK Indie
[3]		 NZ
[4]		 France
[citation needed]
1978 "It's the New Thing"
b/w "Various Times"		 – – –
1979 "Rowche Rumble"
b/w "In My Area"		 – 31 –
1980 "How I Wrote 'Elastic Man'"
b/w "City Hobgoblins"		 – 2 –
"Totally Wired"
b/w "Putta Block"		 – 2 25
1981 "Lie Dream of a Casino Soul"
b/w "Fantastic Life"		 – 5 17
1982 "Look, Know"
b/w "I'm into C. B.!"		 – 4 –
"Marquis Cha-Cha"
b/w "Room to Live"		 – – –
1983 "The Man Whose Head Expanded"
b/w "Ludd Gang"		 – 3 35
"Kicker Conspiracy"
b/w "Wings"		 – 5 –
1984 "Oh! Brother"
b/w "God Box"		 93 – –
"C.R.E.E.P."
b/w "Pat-Trip Dispenser"		 91 – –
"Draygos Guilt"
b/w "Clear Off" / "No Bulbs"		 99 – –
1985 "Couldn't Get Ahead"
b/w "Rollin' Dany"		 90 – –
"Cruiser's Creek"
b/w "L.A."		 96 – –
1986 "Living Too Late"
b/w "Hot Aftershave Bop"		 97 – –
"Mr. Pharmacist"
b/w "Lucifer Over Lancashire"		 75 – –
"Hey! Luciani"
b/w "Entitled"		 59 – –
1987 "There's a Ghost in My House"
b/w "Haf Found Bormann"		 30 – –
"Hit the North"
b/w various remixes of above		 57 – –
1988 "Victoria"
b/w "Tuff Life Boogie"		 35 – –
"Jerusalem"
b/w "Acid Priest" / "Big New Prinz" / "Wrong Place, Right Time"		 59 – –
1989 "Cab It Up!"
b/w "Dead Beat Descendant"		 81 – –
1990 "Telephone Thing"
b/w "British People in Hot Weather"		 58 – –
"Popcorn Double Feature"
b/w "Arms Control Poseur"		 84 – –
"White Lightning"
b/w "Blood Outta Stone"		 56 – –
"High Tension Line"
b/w "Xmas with Simon"		 97 – –
1992 "Free Range"
b/w "Everything Hurtz"		 40 – –
"Ed's Babe"
b/w "Pumpkin Head Xscapes" / "The Knight, The Devil and Death" / "Free Ranger"		 – – –
"Kimble"
b/w "Gut of the Quantifier"		 – – –
1993 "Why Are People Grudgeful?"
b/w "Glam-Racket"		 43 – –
"Behind the Counter"
b/w "War" / "Cab Driver"		 75 – –
1994 "15 Ways"
b/w "Hey! Student" / "The $500 Bottle Of Wine"		 65 – –
1996 "The Chiselers"
b/w "Chilinist"		 60 – –
1998 "Masquerade"
b/w "Ivanhoes Two Pence" / "Spencer Must Die (Live)" / "Ten Houses Of Eve (Remix)"		 69 – –
1999 "Touch Sensitive"
b/w "Antidote" / "Touch Sensitive (Dance Mix)"		 104 – –
"F-'oldin' Money"
b/w "Perfect Day (New Version)" / "Birthday Song (New Mix)"		 114 – –
2001 "Rude (All the Time)"
b/w "I Wake Up in the City"		 – – –
2002 "Susan vs. Youthclub"
b/w "Janet Vs. Johnny"		 64 – –
2004 "Theme from Sparta F.C. #2"
b/w "My Ex's Classmate's Kids"		 66 – –
2005 "I Can Hear the Grass Grow"
b/w "Clasp Hands"		 104 – –
2006 "Higgle-Dy Piggle-Dy"
b/w "Monk Time" B-side performed by Alec Empire/Gary Burger		 – – –
2007 "Reformation!"
b/w "Over Over" / "My Door Is Never" / "Reformation! (Edit)"		 – – –
2009 "Slippy Floor"
b/w "Hot Cake - Part 2"		 – – –
2010 "Bury"
b/w "Cowboy Gregorie"		 – – – 94
"–" denotes releases that did not chart.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Chart Stats - The Fall". chartstats.com. http://www.chartstats.com/artistinfo.php?id=4136. Retrieved 2010-07-28. 
  2. ^ a b c d e "Chart Log UK: Adam F – FYA". Dipl.-Bibl.(FH) Tobias Zywietz, 1994–2009. http://zobbel.de/cluk/CLUK_F.HTM. Retrieved 2010-07-28. 
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Indie Hits "F"". Cherry Red Records. http://www.cherryred.co.uk/books/indiehits/f.htm. Retrieved 2 Oct. 2008. 
  4. ^ a b c d "charts.org.nz - Discography The Fall". © 2006-2010 Hung Medien / hitparade.ch.. http://charts.org.nz/showinterpret.asp?interpret=The+Fall. Retrieved 2010-07-28. 

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