I'm 70. This band just gets under my skin. I think more younger people will discover and emulate this stoic vision of life ..

Been a fall fan for about a decade and its weird how you hear some songs and think they are decent but not your favourite, then some day you put that same song on and you think wow this is absolutely genius! Well garden is one of those songs for me, i think it kinds sums the fall up, subtle genius

Classic avant garde ,Velvet Undergroundesque song, so bizarre,lyrically obtuse but still makes wonderful sense after all these years.

‘The bells stopped on Sunday when he rose’ God speed Mark your utter genius will be sorely missed.

I came to the party very late - at 58. For the past six months I have played nothing else (apart from some Arab Strap). Better late than never. At least I have a huge body of music to delve into, so I'm happy with my late discovery, just sad that I missed seeing them live.

The very definition of hypnotic, both lyrically and musically. When the song ends, I always feel confused and have to try to think of what it was I had been doing before it began. Sometimes, I just go and listen to it again. Now that's music.

I shall be forever grateful to my son, Adam, for many things. Introducing me to The Fall is in the top ten of those things.

I feel like, lyrically, this is Mark's most self-indulgent piece. And I love it for that.

I was on the Fall Forum a lot in the early 00s and this came second in the first ever "battle of the songs" tournament, losing to Wings in the final. It was funny because even though most fans would not put this as their favourite Fall song, it seemed that no-one could bring themselves to vote against it, so it just kept going up and up the table. In effect, it was the song that everyone loved more than they *thought* they did.

I'm 47, been soaking in The Fall for a good while it feels so familiar, barely notice that it's part of you. Mark E. to me is like an older, wiser sibling, schooling you with acerbic beattitudes like an embattled, but still volatile classical philosopher as Socrates. How elegantly he turns a phrase. Into a weapon. Using bleak alliterations to put across the obvious ugliness meanness of the world, but the music lifts you up as the vocals/lyrics make you swagger and sneer a bit, even if they remain inscrutable-, to a degree, to the fan, they are the more so to a first-time listener and so the small though perennial pleasure of privately broadcasting The Fall!

I'm 103 and i think this is poptastic

Estranhamente belo!

RIP Mark E Smith. This had to be the song I came and listened to first after hearing the news.

Genius, what a masterpiece of a song. RIP Mark E ~X~

Masterpiece.

Me finding The Fall now feels like when I found The Smiths when I was a moody teen

My favourite Fall Song. i'd normally say Rest In Peace but up there, there won't be any. Say hi to Peelie, Mark :(

I'm lucky. I got into The Fall early, City Hobgoblins, but this is the song that made me, you know, fall for The Fall. Brilliant. Astonishing, really.

What a great dirty twangling song. Just incredible. PERVERTED BY LANGUAGE must be one of the Fall's best albums.

I'm finding it hard to listen to The Fall after his death, knowing there's no more to come. I'm still very sad.

Great song from this great but self destructive artist. May he rest peacefully. Luckily saw them live twice.

this has to be in all fans top ten tracks...immense stuff...

The Jew on a motorbike is a gentleman by the name of Sol Seaburg. Sol was the singer in a band called FC Domestos but was also our part-time van driver for the Fall and Smith family. When not driving the van, he rode a motorbike. :)

I feel a lot of coming since Mark died. What a shame that all these peeps didn't know him in his pomp.

I have never in my life seen Mark e Smith in a t-shirt until this vid, 1.10 and its got Nietzsche on it, gotta love this guy

Let's all nestle into this wonderful track and allow ourselves to ponder on the infinite wonder of everything.

I like this much , much more now than then ! Very compelling !

The Master of the English Language in lyrical form !

Favourite song by favourite band.

just genius. how did i not start properly listening to the fall till i'm 38? like finding jesus or something

'The best firms advertise the least'

last GREAT Fall record. Everyone that followed was better than anyone else's record but the run of PURE GOLD ended here. MES - he is to be followed

"Wild Bill Hick shaves & charts... at last."

The peak. And there were so many in 40 years.

tonight I shall walk in the velvet garden, look up to the stars and see you... what a mark :(

Haven't heard this version before - rivals the Peel Session verson very closely.....love to hear long forgotten previously unavailable gems - I second other comments here. It's the relentless riff , the bass line and kick-ass drumming that keeps you on the edge all the way through the song.....

Magnificent! Oddly this track passed me by first time around, or maybe my tastes have changed. Anyway, glad to make this songs acquaintance. Thanks Bony.

The most prolific don van vliet influenced artist evvahh!!!

Is there a better fall output than this. This song embodies the fall .

Like most Fall songs from this era, it's Steve Hanley that carries it!

There are still (reg vardy) some real intellects about. I wrote this 2018. Long live the fall xxxx

this is a giant Fall song...like so many..but any song with "cook trader past" is genius

Too good for words

Wasn't even look for this but.. perfection what more can be said.

agreed. this song is awesome, about time it was posted!

Just pure class,

Monumental.

Nothing but The Fall......Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire.....4.5 hrs of The Fall plus visuals.....the first ever all Fall night in the Uk......October 17th 2015.....

'He knew the evil of the phone'.

This sounds even better now !!

@SPERANZA65 That particular Peel session was the first Fall recording that I ever heard. Taped it & replayed it until the cassette wore out. Still love it.

Fucking amazing. You can hear the Arthur Machen in his lyrics - wow

Thanks for posting.

A zoroastrian on a motor-scooter

Was thinking of the stuff that didnt make it. Backdrop, Session Musician, Ludd Gang Putta Block. But that is why the Fall are brilliant. They dont compromise and try and spread a thin WShite Album.

Genius Incarnate

when it twirled rounddd... epic fuckin line

Its good init!

Whole band on top form on this album. My favourite?

The first God had in his garden From the back, looked like a household pet But when it was twirled 'round Was revealed to be a 3 legged black grey hog See what flows from his mushy pen Garden, garden That person is films on TV 5 years back at least He's the "Young Generation" dancing troupe Trying to perform country and western Do a dance here Never since birth not eaten in a day Never since courtship stayed up some nights He had the 'Kingdom of Evil' book Under a German history book He was contrived like that See what flows from his slushy pen Garden, garden Small, small location on huge continet Sodomized by presumption Contrieved a past revealed at last Godzone, godzone Godzone, godzone (...his ferry stopped at 'Pool port. revealed to be spolit Slate with largesse resource Wild Bill hick, shaves and charts at last, made the second God sad - He's coming up...) Shotgun, shotgun Shotgun, shotgun The best firms advertise the least The second God lives by fountains That flowed by the blue shiny lit roads Had forgot what others still try to grasp He knew the evil of the phone He knew the evil of the phone The bells stopped on Sunday when he rose The bells stopped on Sunday when he rose He's here, he's here, at last I saw him! I swear! On the second floor Up on the brown baize lift shaft He's here! He's here at last! I saw him! I swear! A jew on a motorbike

so much of it -the fall

He had a Kingdom of Evil Book, under a German History book.

Yes,siree,this is so cool..

great video production :) well done!

the bells stopped on Sunday when he rose...

This came second in the first ever Fall forum "best fall song" tournament, c2003 I think. Wings came first.

all kinds of falling leaves in my garden.must be the fall.

this song is great. full fucking stop.

Wow, never heard this version. It's a great new version that's older than the old new version if that makes any sense. I like this one better. For now :)

Not a clue what it means, but I know it kicks ass!

In this song i can really hear where malkmus got some of his chops from

The Peel session for Garden is the best the the Fall ever recorded. Full 🛑 stop. Hands down. Beyond dispute.

when it twirled round one of the top top stuff

I confess, didn't even know this existed

Still awesome.

@diskochimp Great stuff!, after reading your comment i dug out my old cassette collection and found this that i too had recorded from Peel that night, but alas... tape had lost it's life!, thank God for Utube i now have it back!

This is what I call 'Ear Candy' yum yum!, The Fall just piss all over anything bands around now come out with Fact!

Gimme gimme more Mark

Essa parece ser a clássica do disco

damn good, no doubt

Just totally alsome, Steve from florida

I find this to be an excellent slide show by the way

RIP MES

Kinda lonely being a Fall fan here in Canada. Not too many of us by any stretch. Plus they rarely play here so I will probably go my whole life without seeing them live. I like all their different eras especially the Brix era & more recent periods like Heads Roll & Sublingal

Perverted by Language was the first Fall album I bought new, as a fan. I loved it then and still do now. What I didn't understand at the time was the impact of Marc Riley's departure on their sound. With a single guitar line-up for the most part (Brix is really barely on this one) PBL has a lean, sparse sound to it. I always enjoyed Riley's parts and songwriting, so I just can't help wondering what he would have brought to these songs. Hard to imagine...

yessssss

awesome. anyone seen the hacienda version? unbelievable seams of pure gold is just fucking mined out of the ether

More GodNoise from the peerless Fall

Long live M.E.S.

Huge. important.

Huge fan of The Fall and love the images in this video, I'm archiving as many images of The Fall as I can find, where did you find the ones for this video? Thanks

Height of their powers

D E D I C A T I O N Not M E D I C A T I O N 🎵🎶🎵

Yep

I want a garden

Some fantastic noises at around 6.34 just prior to the awesome jew on a motorbike.

Double Double and double. Right up the A30 and Turn.......

am just reading camus. the fall.

"Sodomised by presumption".......fucking hell !