The Fall discography
Appearance
The Fall discography | |
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Studio albums | 31 |
EPs | 12 |
Live albums | 51 |
Compilation albums | 55 |
Singles | 46 |
Part studio, part live albums | 6 |
Mark E. Smith | 2 |
The Fall released many recordings following 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 released a studio album at a rate of almost one a year from their debut Live at the Witch Trials in 1979 to their final album New Facts Emerge in 2017.
Albums
Studio albums
Year | Title | Label | Chart positions | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UK [1][2] |
UK Indie [3] |
NZ [4] | |||
1979 | Live at the Witch Trials | Step Forward | – | – | – |
Dragnet | Step Forward | – | – | – | |
1980 | Grotesque (After the Gramme) | Rough Trade | – | 1 | 38 |
1982 | Hex Enduction Hour | Kamera | 71 | 2 | 11 |
Room to Live | Kamera | – | 4 | – | |
1983 | Perverted by Language | Rough Trade | – | 1 | – |
1984 | The Wonderful and Frightening World Of... | Beggars Banquet | 62 | – | – |
1985 | This Nation's Saving Grace | Beggars Banquet | 54 | – | – |
1986 | Bend Sinister | Beggars Banquet | 36 | – | – |
1988 | The Frenz Experiment | Beggars Banquet | 19 | – | – |
I Am Kurious Oranj | Beggars Banquet | 54 | – | – | |
1990 | Extricate | Phonogram | 31 | – | – |
1991 | Shift-Work | Phonogram | 17 | – | – |
1992 | Code: Selfish | Phonogram | 21 | – | – |
1993 | The Infotainment Scan | Permanent/Matador | 9 | – | – |
1994 | Middle Class Revolt | Permanent/Matador | 48 | – | – |
1995 | Cerebral Caustic | Permanent | 67 | – | – |
1996 | The Light User Syndrome | Jet | 54 | – | – |
1997 | Levitate | Artful | 117 | – | – |
1999 | The Marshall Suite | Artful | 84 | – | – |
2000 | The Unutterable | Eagle | 136 | – | – |
2001 | Are You Are Missing Winner | Cog Sinister/Voiceprint | – | 43 | – |
2003 | The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country on the Click) | Action | 156 | 13 | – |
2005 | Fall Heads Roll | Slogan | 115 | 13 | – |
2007 | Reformation! Post-TLC | Slogan | 78 | 1 | – |
2008 | Imperial Wax Solvent | Castle | 35 | – | – |
2010 | Your Future Our Clutter | Domino Records | 38 | 1 | – |
2011 | Ersatz GB | Cherry Red | 88 | 9 | – |
2013 | Re-Mit | Cherry Red | 40 | 9 | – |
2015 | Sub-Lingual Tablet | Cherry Red | 58 | 8 | – |
2017 | New Facts Emerge | Cherry Red | 35 [5] |
3 | – |
"–" denotes releases that did not chart. |
Part studio, part live albums
Year | Title | Label | Chart positions | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UK [1][2] |
UK Indie [3] |
NZ [4] | |||
1980 | Totale's Turns | Rough Trade | – | 1 | – |
1989 | Seminal Live | Beggars Banquet | 40 | – | – |
1995 | The Twenty-Seven Points | Permanent Records | – | – | – |
2002 | 2G+2 | Action | 116 | – | – |
2004 | Interim | Hip Priest/Voiceprint | – | – | – |
2014 | Live Uurop VIII-XII Places In Sun & Winter, Son | Cherry Red | – | – | – |
"–" denotes releases that did not chart. |
Live albums
Year | Title | Label | Chart position | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
1982 | Live in London 1980 | Chaos Tapes | UK Indie #7[3] | Reissued as The Legendary Chaos Tape |
A Part of America Therein, 1981 | Cottage Records | UK Indie #9[3] | ||
1983 | Fall in a Hole | Flying Nun | NZ #47[4] | Recorded in New Zealand, 1982 |
1993 | BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert | Windsong International | Recorded at Nottingham Rock City, 1987[6] | |
1997 | In the City... | Artful | Recorded at Manchester Roundhouse, 1995[7] | |
15 Ways to Leave Your Man | Receiver | |||
1998 | Live to Air in Melbourne '82 | Cog Sinister | ||
Live Various Years | Cog Sinister | |||
Nottingham 92 | Cog Sinister | |||
2000 | Live 1977 | Cog Sinister | Recorded at Stretford Civic Centre, 1977[8] | |
I Am as Pure as Oranj | NMC Music | Recording of soundtrack to the ballet I Am Kurious Oranj at the Edinburgh Festival, 1988[9] | ||
Live in Cambridge 1988 | Cog Sinister | |||
2001 | Austurbaejarbio (Live in Reykjavik 1983) | Cog Sinister | ||
Live in Zagreb | Cog Sinister | |||
Liverpool 78 | Cog Sinister | |||
2003 | Touch Sensitive... Bootleg Box Set | Castle Music | 5CD box set, recorded at various locations, 2001 | |
The Idiot Joy Show | Alchemy Entertainment | 2CD set. Disc 1 recorded at the Junction, Cambridge, 1995. Disc 2 recorded at the Roskilde Festival, Denmark, and the Phoenix Festival, UK, 1996[10] | ||
Live at the Phoenix Festival | Strange Fruit | Recorded in 1995 and 1996[11] | ||
2005 | Live at Deeply Vale | Ozit Morpheus | Recorded in 1978[12] | |
Live from the Vaults – Oldham 1978 | Hip Priest | |||
Live from the Vaults – Retford 1978 | Hip Priest | |||
Live from the Vaults – Los Angeles 1979 | Hip Priest | |||
Live from the Vaults – Glasgow 1981 | Hip Priest | |||
Live from the Vaults – Alter Bahnoff, Hof, Germany 1981 | Hip Priest | |||
Pearl City | Get Back | Reissue of disc 2 of The Idiot Joy Show, recorded at the Roskilde Festival, Denmark, and the Phoenix Festival, UK, 1996[13] | ||
2007 | Live at the Knitting Factory, New York 9 April 2001 | Hip Priest | ||
Live at the Garage, London 20 April 2002 | Hip Priest | |||
Live at the Knitting Factory, LA 14 November 2001 | Hip Priest | |||
Live at the ATP Festival 28 April 2002 | Hip priest | |||
2009 | Last Night at The Palais | Universal | CD+DVD set, recorded at Hammersmith Palais, 2007 | |
2013 | Live in San Francisco | Ozit Morpheus | Recorded in 2001[14] | |
2014 | Creative Distortion | Secret Records | 2CD+DVD set, recorded at King George's Hall, Blackburn, 2002[15] | |
Yarbles | Secret Records | Highlights from Creative Distortion[16] | ||
2016 | Bingo Masters at the Witch Trials | Ozit Dandelion | Reissue of Live at Deeply Vale[17] | |
2017 | Live in Clitheroe | Ozit Dandelion | Record Store Day release, recorded in 2013[18] | |
2018 | "Set of Ten" - Ten Previously Unreleased Live Recordings | Cog Sinister | 11CD box set | |
Live at Batschkapp, Frankfurt, 1993 | Cog Sinister | Included in "Set of Ten" - Ten Previously Unreleased Live Recordings | ||
Live at the Assembly Rooms, Derby, 1994 | Cog Sinister | Included in "Set of Ten" - Ten Previously Unreleased Live Recordings | ||
Live at the Astoria Theatre, 1995 | Cog Sinister | Included in "Set of Ten" - Ten Previously Unreleased Live Recordings | ||
Live at Doornroosje, Nijmegen, 1999 | Cog Sinister | Included in "Set of Ten" - Ten Previously Unreleased Live Recordings | ||
Live at TJ's, Newport, Wales, 2001 | Cog Sinister | Included in "Set of Ten" - Ten Previously Unreleased Live Recordings | ||
2019 | Live at Band on the Wall, Manchester, 1982 | Cog Sinister | Included in "Set of Ten" - Ten Previously Unreleased Live Recordings | |
Live at the Cedar Ballroom, Birmingham, 1980 | Cog Sinister | Included in "Set of Ten" - Ten Previously Unreleased Live Recordings | ||
Live at the Corn Exchange, Kings Lynn, 1996 | Cog Sinister | Included in "Set of Ten" - Ten Previously Unreleased Live Recordings | ||
Live at Stage, Stoke, 1997 | Cog Sinister | Included in "Set of Ten" - Ten Previously Unreleased Live Recordings | ||
Live at the Astoria 2, 1998 | Cog Sinister | Included in "Set of Ten" - Ten Previously Unreleased Live Recordings | ||
Another "Set of Ten" - Ten Previously Unreleased Live Recordings | Cog Sinister | 11CD box set | ||
Live @ Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival Belfast 8th May 2013 | Cog Sinister | Included in Another "Set of Ten" - Ten Previously Unreleased Live Recordings | ||
Live @ Pavillion Bar Cork 21st July 2012 | Cog Sinister | Included in Another "Set of Ten" - Ten Previously Unreleased Live Recordings | ||
Live @ ICC Hannover 11th April 1984 | Cog Sinister | Included in Another "Set of Ten" - Ten Previously Unreleased Live Recordings | ||
2020 | Take It Down to the Wire at Clitheroe Castle | Ozit Dandelion |
Compilation albums
Year | Title | Label | UK position | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
1981 | 77–Early Years–79 | Step Forward | UK Indie #6[3] | |
1985 | Hip Priest and Kamerads | Situation Two | UK Indie #4[3] | |
1986 | Nord-West Gas | FünfUndVierzig | German compilation | |
The Fall | PVC Records | US Compilation | ||
1987 | Palace of Swords Reversed | Cog Sinister | UK Indie #1[3] | |
The Domesday Pay-Off Triad-Plus! | Big Time | Compilation released in the US and Australia | ||
1990 | 458489 A Sides | Beggar's Banquet | ||
458489 B Sides | Beggar's Banquet | UK #44[1] | ||
Box One | Beggar's Banquet | 4CD Japanese box set contains The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall, Hip Priest and Kamerads and This Nation's Saving Grace | ||
Box Two | Beggar's Banquet | 4CD Japanese box set contains Bend Sinister, The Frenz Experiment, I Am Kurious Oranj and Seminal Live | ||
1993 | The Collection | Castle Communications | ||
1994 | Backdrop | Cog Sinister | ||
1996 | Sinister Waltz | Receiver | ||
Fiend with a Violin | Receiver | |||
Oswald Defence Lawyer | Receiver | |||
The Other Side of The Fall | Receiver | 3CD box set contains Sinister Waltz, Fiend With a Violin and Oswald Defence Lawyer | ||
1997 | The Archive Series | Rialto | ||
The Less You Look, the More You Find | Recall 2cd | |||
Oxymoron | Receiver | |||
Cheetham Hill | Receiver | |||
1998 | Smile... It's the Best of | Castle Communications | ||
Northern Attitude | Music Club | |||
1999 | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | ||
2000 | A Past Gone Mad | Artful | ||
Psykick Dancehall | Eagle | 3CD box set | ||
2001 | A World Bewitched | Artful | ||
2002 | Totally Wired – The Rough Trade Anthology | Castle Music | ||
The Rough Trade Singles Box | Castle Music | |||
High Tension Line | Recall 2cd | |||
Listening In | Cog Sinister | |||
Early Singles | Cog Sinister | |||
2003 | It's the New Thing! The Step Forward Years | Castle Music | ||
Words of Expectation – BBC Sessions | Castle Music | |||
The War Against Intelligence – The Fontana Years | Fontana | |||
Rebellious Jukebox | Shakedown | |||
Time Enough at Last | Castle Music | 3CD box set Contains Oxymoron, Cheetham Hill and 15 Ways to Leave Your Man | ||
2004 | 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong – 39 Golden Greats | Sanctuary Midline | UK #117[2] | |
2005 | The Complete Peel Sessions 1978–2004 | Castle Music | UK #139[2] (#97 on 2013 re-issue) | 6CD box set |
2006 | The Permanent Years – Paranoia Man in Cheap Shit Room | Fullfill | ||
2007 | The Fall Box Set 1976–2007 | Castle Music | 5CD box set | |
2008 | I've Never Felt Better in My Life: 1979–1982 | Great American Music Company | ||
2009 | Rebellious Jukebox Volume 2 | Secret Records | ||
2010 | Rebellious Jukebox Volume 3 | Secret Records | ||
2013 | 13 Killers | Secret Records | ||
The Fall 5 Albums | Beggar's Banquet | 5CD box set contains The Frenz Experiment, I Am Kurious Oranj, Seminal Live and singles from the same era | ||
2014 | White Lightning | Secret Records | Record Store Day release | |
2015 | Schtick - Yarbles Revisited | Beggar's Banquet | ||
2016 | The Classical | Secret Records | Record Store Day release | |
2017 | The Fontana Years | Fontana | 6CD box set contains expanded editions of Extricate, Shift-Work and Code: Selfish | |
A-Sides 1978-2016 | Cherry Red | 3CD box set | ||
Singles 1978-2016 | Cherry Red | 7CD box set | ||
2018 | 58 Golden Greats | Cherry Red | 3CD expanded version of 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong | |
Best Of | Secret Records | |||
2019 | Mark's Personal Holiday Tony Tapes | Ozit Dandelion | ||
1982 | Cherry Red | 6CD box set contains Hex Enduction Hour, Room To Live, Fall in a Hole, Live to Air in Melbourne '82, singles, session tracks and other live material from 1982 |
Mark E. Smith spoken word albums
Mark E. Smith, the Fall's lead singer and only constant member, also released two albums of solo material:
- The Post Nearly Man (1998)
- Pander! Panda! Panzer! (2002)
Extended plays
Year | Title | Label | Chart positions | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UK [1][2][19] |
UK Indie [3] | ||||
1978 | Bingo-Master's Break-Out! | Step Forward | |||
1981 | Slates | Rough Trade | |||
1984 | C.R.E.E.P. | Beggar's Banquet | 91 | ||
Call for Escape Route | Beggar's Banquet | 99 | |||
1987 | Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit | 3 | ||
1990 | The Dredger | Cog Sinister | 56 | ||
1993 | Kimble | Strange Fruit | |||
2002 | The Fall vs 2003 | Action Records | 64 | ||
2003 | (We Wish You) A Protein Christmas | Action Records | |||
2005 | Rude (All the Time) | Hip Priest | |||
2013 | The Remainderer | Cherry Red | |||
2016 | Wise Ol' Man | Cherry Red |
Singles
Year | Title | Chart positions | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UK [1][2][20] |
UK Indie [3] |
NZ [4] | |||
1978 | "It's the New Thing" b/w "Various Times" |
– | – | – | |
1979 | "Rowche Rumble" b/w "In My Area" |
– | 31 | – | |
1980 | "Fiery Jack" b/w "2nd Dark Age" & "Psykick Dancehall #2" |
– | 4 | – | |
"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 | – | – | ||
"Draygo's Guilt" b/w "Clear Off"/"No Bulbs" (7" package is titled Call For Escape Route) |
99 | – | – | ||
1985 | "Couldn't Get Ahead" b/w "Rollin' Dany" |
90 | – | – | |
"Cruiser's Creek" b/w "Vixen" |
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 "Australians In Europe"/"Northerns In Europ"/Hit The North parts 2 through 6 variously |
57 | – | – | ||
1988 | "Victoria" b/w "Tuff Life Booogie" |
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)" |
90 | – | – | |
"F-'oldin' Money" b/w "Perfect Day (New Version)"/"Birthday Song (New Mix)" |
93 | – | – | ||
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" |
– | – | – | |
2011 | "Laptop Dog" b/w "Cosmo 7"/"Monocard" |
– | – | – | |
2012 | "Victrola Time" b/w /"Taking Off" (7" package is titled Night of the Humerons) |
– | – | – | |
2013 | "Sir William Wray" b/w "Jetplane"/"Hittite Man" |
– | – | – | |
"–" denotes releases that did not chart. |
References
- ^ a b c d e "The Official Charts Company – The Fall". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 28 July 2010.
- ^ a b c d e f "Chart Log UK: Adam F – FYA". Dipl.-Bibl.(FH) Tobias Zywietz, 1994–2009. Retrieved 28 July 2010.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Indie Hits "F"". Cherry Red Records. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 2 October 2008.
- ^ a b c d "charts.nz – Discography The Fall". 2006–2010 Hung Medien / hitparade.ch. Retrieved 28 July 2010.
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/albums
- ^ "BBC Radio 1 'Live In Concert'". The Fall Online. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
- ^ "In The City..." The Fall Online. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
- ^ "Live 1977". The Fall Online. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
- ^ "I Am As Pure As Oranj". The Fall Online. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
- ^ "The Idiot Joy Show". The Fall Online. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
- ^ "Live At The Phoenix Festival". The Fall Online. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
- ^ "Live At Deeply Vale". The Fall Online. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
- ^ "Pearl City". The Fall Online. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
- ^ "Live In San Francisco". The Fall Online. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
- ^ "Creative Distortion". The Fall Online. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
- ^ "Yarbles". The Fall Online. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
- ^ "Bingo Masters At The Witch Trials". The Fall Online. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
- ^ "Live In Clitheroe". The Fall Online. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
- ^ "Fall", Official Charts Company. Retrieved 5 February 2018
- ^ "Fall", Official Charts Company. Retrieved 5 February 2018
External links
- Discography at the Fall online formerly: The Official Fall Website (1998 – Feb 2006); The Unofficial Fall Website (February 2006 – October 2007)
- The Fall discography at MusicBrainz