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{{quote|''"Hey there fuckface, hey there fuckface!"''|from "The Classical"}}
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{{quote|''"[[Revolving Door Band|If it's me and your granny on bongos, itsit's The Fall]]"''|Mark E. Smith}}
|Mark E. Smith}}
 
{{quote|''"Always different, always the same"''|John Peel}}
|John Peel}}
 
'''The Fall''' are a [[Post Punk]] band from Manchester, England. The favorite band of legendary [[The BBC|BBC]] DJ [[The Last DJ|John Peel]], The Fall were formed in 1976 by iconoclastic weirdo [[Face of the Band|Mark E. Smith]], and since then the band has had [[Revolving Door Band|more lineup changes than perhaps any band ever]], with Smith being the [[I Am the Band|sole constant member]]. Other than Smith, the band has had a handful of members that are beloved by fans and spent long tenures with the band, but bandmembers often quit or are fired with almost every album (in fact, after the release of ''Fall Heads Roll'' in 2005, the entire band quit on Smith (excluding his keyboardist wife Elena Poulou) in the middle of the night while the band was staying at a hotel in the American Southwest).
 
Despite the constant lineup changes, the band is extremely prolific, having recorded 29 studio albums since 1978. Their most recent album is ''Ersatz G.B.'', released in November 2011.
 
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=== This band provides examples of: ===
* [[Adored Byby the Network]]: The Fall were favorite band of BBC Radio DJ John Peel and its was rather good thing for the band to have one of the most respected, beloved and influential radio DJs in the world as [[Big Name Fan|their number one fan]], as he continuously played the band's records on his shows, giving them a major [[Colbert Bump]]. Even though the band played Peel's radio show many, many times before Peel's 2004 death, he and Mark E. Smith only met face-to-face on two apparently awkward occasions.
** When the band performed "Eat Y'self Fitter" for the first time on Peel's radio show in March 1983, Peel actually ''fainted'' from how awestruck he was by the song and his producer had to resuscitate him.
** Peel kept a [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Peel%27s_Record_Box:John Peelchr(27)s Record Box|large box of singles]] under his bed containing his favorite singles just in case he had to leave his house and his massive record collection during an emergency. His fans and friends noted that there were absolutely no Fall singles in the whole box. This is because his favorite Fall singles were housed in a ''completely separate box'' because there were too many.
* [[Archive Panic]]: They have released ''29'' studio albums since 1978. Don't rely on compilations for help either, most of them are rather poorly compiled or only focus on a certain point in the band's career.
** What many fans and critics claim is the band's definitive release, the 2005 compilation ''Complete Peel Sessions 1978-2004'' box set of radio sessions, weighs in at 6 CDs and seven hours.
* [[Black Sheep Hit]]: The band's biggest UK chart hit is a cover of [[The Kinks (Music)|The Kinks]]' "Victoria", which is a bit more poppy than their usual sound.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]] / [[FirstpersonFirst-Person Smartass]]
* [[Epic Rocking]]: Notable examples include "And This Day" and "50 Year Old Man".
* [[Face of the Band]]: Mark E. Smith.
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* [[Mind Screw]]: The vast majority of their lyrics from 1979 to 1984, especially on ''Hex Enduction Hour''.
* [[Post Punk]]
* [[Precision F -Strike]]: The page quote, which comes in about thirty seconds into "The Classical" just as the main riff starts to kick in. The line before it, [[N -Word Privileges|"where are the obligatory niggers?"]] (a satirical line not intended to be racist) apparently scuttled an American record deal with Motown Records, [[What Could Have Been|who were looking to add more rock music artists at the time.]]
* [[Revolving Door Band]]: And how!
** A reporter once wrote an article about trying to find all of the ex-members (there were fifty). He subsequently turned his research into a book, ''The Fallen''. That said, the dynamic duo of Craig Scanlon and Steve Hanley held down the fort from 1979 'til 1995, which is ''damn'' impressive.
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** "Mere Psued. Mag. Ed" from ''Hex Enduction Hour'' is an attack on an unidentified music journalist that Mark E. Smith hated for some undetermined reason (the fact that he was a music journalist may have probably been enough).
*** From the same album: [[Signature Song|"Hip Priest"]].
** "A Past Gone Mad" from ''The Infotainment Scan'': "If I ever end up like [[U 2U2]] / [[Cut His Heart Out Withwith a Spoon|slit my throat with a garden vegetable]]."
** "Mask Search", from ''Ersatz GB'': "But I'm so sick of Snow Patrol..."
** The title of ''Reformation Post-TLC'': [[Word of God]] is the "TLC" part stands for "traitors, liars, and cunts". This was the first album released after most of the ''Fall Heads Roll'' lineup quit, so just guess who that was supposed to be referring to...
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[[Category:The Fall (band)]]
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