After visiting town for the first time in ages at the weekend, I’m sitting perusing the copy of “A user’s guide to The Fall” by Dave Thompson I got from Fopp and enjoying a good dose of down and dirty muso wallowing. For no good reason, and hoping I don’t put you in mind of Nick flippin’ Hornby, here’s a top ten Fall tracks from my point of view:

1. Overture from “I am Kurious, Oranj”
2. Wrong Place, Right Time
3. White Lightning
4. Edinburgh Man
5. There’s a Ghost in My House
6. Bill is Dead
7. Life Just Bounces
8. Dead Beat Descendent
9. Carry Bag Man
10. Guest Informant

Well now. I must say that I reckon that’s got to be in no particular order, and I’ve probably missed a good few corkers. But there’s a couple of threads that link them together: first, they were the first proper band I saw at a proper venue (I remember it was Rock City in 1987 – so that makes it May 25th according to the book) so there’s plenty of work before then that passed me by. Second, there’s nothing since the mid 90s either.

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