They're not a mere band; they're a way of life.

Mark was a unique guy. I created a video to go with their song 'No Bulbs', its in my recent uploads Septemeber 2018, or simply just type in The Fall No Bulbs and youll see it there under my username.

Peed myself at that!

The music's usually straightforward rock 'n' roll, what is there not to like about it? They've also made all sorts of inventive and unusual sounds, over 40 years there's bound to be something you like. I'm a big fan of their 90s and 2000s stuff, though most fans seem to like their 70s and 80s, which either leaves me cold or I find a bit irritating. Yes though the lyrics are bonkers, that's where Mark E was a genius. A pissed-up genius. Or just a working bloke as he'd put it himself.

His liver held up ok. The smokes got him, lung and kidney cancer.

@@davidoconnell1173 He'd have carried on singing with no lungs given half a chance. Trouper!

overture - kurious oranj

perhaps you should read steve's book - it is quite revealing lol

+greenaum haha ya but shes so darn cute in those music videos.

There's better looking women who can keep their gob shut while their husband's singing. "Simon, Dave, and John" can go fuck themselves. Eleni stands behind the keyboard, playing it like a keyboard player. She's not constantly trying to upstage Mark, or get in the light with him like she was Linda McFuckingCartney .

+greenaum Like... can you just stop being you for a minute? Reminds me of quite a few newerotic ex gfs lol

Sorry, it's just "Mrs in the band syndrome". You've seen Spinal Tap, you know how that works out.

you talk crap about Brix listen to albums from 80s when she was in band, classics you tool

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I dunno mate, I'm common as shite. I think the middle class stopped pretending to give a shite about the working class a couple of decades ago now, never mind stopped fetishising them. There's a certain amount of posh gay chaps who dress up in tracksuits and go to special club nights though, and call each other "blud" and stuff innit? I've not been to one but I expect I'd laugh my cock off from getting in to chucking out. They're incredibly picky, you have to have the right labels for your fancy-dress "chav" fetish. Same way they think these incredibly serious and rough violent young men live and police each other's dress and speech for maximum gay sexiness! They really haven't thought it through, have they? Really tickles me though. There's Tarquins in football kit as well, all sorts of silly parading. One night I'd like to get some genuine tough lads to pop by and beat the shit out of them, but there's no point, you can't mug someone's credit card. And working-class lads, even scallies and drug takers, are actually ordinary chill people who don't generally get into fights that degenerate into hot cocksucking sessions. It's a double-example of what stupid shit men will do if it gets their cock hard, and some of what's deeply up and wrong with the British middle class. It'd be harmless if they didn't have all the money and power. Why can't we have the money, and they can live in zoos? They could take turns letting one out of his cage every day, and he could tour round and stare at all the other bunch of nutters. Paying visitors could throw quinoa at them, whatever that actually is. Some kind of posh crisps I think.

@@greenaum They obviously don't care about the working classes - they think they are thick brexit scum - but what about working-class *artists* AKA "noble savages". Perfect for fetishisation, especially for middle class folk with no "authenticity" of their own.

@@secallen Yup. But these _artists_ aren't allowed to break or mock middle class mores. So when they do, it's even funnier, and gets Mary Anne Hobbes even wetter. Whoever she is. Yeah authenticity is fantastic. They should go to Newcastle and mine it. Instead of coal. People willing to pay much more for it.

It's amazing the middle class bands attitude towards them. Crass have a line in a sing saying listen to the fall always act flash. Ffs. Middle class naughty rascal punks slagging guys from housing estates. Aye right!

Well, yup. Welcome to your lesson in middle class appreciation of indie music. They all do it!

@@greenaum Glad I'm not the only one who spotted that, Pretty much all of the Radio 6 presenters come across so fake that I can't listen to it.