For the past month all we've listened to is the Fall. They're our new face in hell. We don't how we missed the Fall back in the day. Yes we do. We were suffering from blindness! Back then we were maintaining a firmly Anglophobic musical stance in reaction to what we perceived to be the shallow synthpop proclivities of our friends across the water. Our small-minded blackout on all things Brit in favor of Yank bands like Husker Du, the Minutemen, Black Flag, and Meat Puppets (and later Cows, Killdozer, etc.) was not such a bad thing insofar as it enabled us to miss the likes of Cabaret Voltaire, but we do regret not hearing the Fall earlier because Mark E. Smith is a laugh a second, spewing as he does the same kind of spontaneous bop prosody as Patti Smith*, except that his prosody is funny rather than prententious as fuck. He doesn't name-check Rimbaud** every other word, either.
*What is it with these Smiths? You don't catch people named Jones farting free verse. You just don't. Except for LeRoi, and he changed his name to Baraka.
** French poet Arthur Rimbaud, who quit writing by the age of 21. Had he known Patti Smith was going to ape his every word and gesture, he'd have quit sooner.
If by "blindness" you mean Black Oak Arkansas ...
ps. you're welcome
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Posted by: Peteski | April 30, 2009 at 02:35 PM
hEeEeEeE IS NOT...
APPRECIATED.
sO LET'S DRINK A LONG DRAUGHT DOWN
a-FOR THE HIP PRIEST.
Posted by: Dan | April 30, 2009 at 09:03 PM