The hook to The Fall is that it’s the first high-profile album to be recorded entirely on Apple’s iPad, Damon Albarn assembling these 15 song sketches as the Gorillaz tour rolled across America in the fall of 2010.
Sure, you can argue that it gets its share of spooky tunes around Halloween, but winter has the market cornered on essential holiday music. They underwent many line-up changes, with vocalist and founder Mark E. Smith as the only constant member. Time travel, amphetamines and Virgin Trains: the story of the Fall in 20 songs Mark E Smith’s group of psychedelic post-punks rank as one of the most visionary, singular British bands of all time. The Biz premium subscriber content has moved to Billboard.com/business.To simplify subscriber access, we have temporarily disabled the password requirement.Columbia Records/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel of the folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel in a Columbia Records publicity still circa 1967 in New York.
If jackhammer percussion, dive-bombing riffs, and a speed-freak critiquing Valium are gr… And yeah, fall has its pumpkin spice latte craze, but is anyone asking what the song of the autumn will be?
Billboard is part of MRC Media and Info, a division of MRC. The Fall were an English post-punk group, formed in 1976 in Prestwich, Greater Manchester. Songs about the fall can be major-league bummers (those dead leaves sure make for some depressing metaphors), but “Autumn Almanac” is the upbeat tune for all fall … (We realize this statement does not apply to Lenny Kravitz or Steven Tyler. )In honor of the musically overlooked season, these are 10 of the best songs to listen to in the fall. feat: The Fall’s debut album, 1979’s Live at the Witch Trials, remains an essential listen beginning with the nervous gloom of “Frightened.” A better starting place for the uninitiated, and a signature Fall track, is “Rowche Rumble,” a non-LP single from the same year.
No, summer gets all that glory.But that doesn’t mean there aren’t some seriously great fall-themed tracks to listen to as the leaves start to change and you finally get to break out your favorite festive scarves. 6 Famously described by John Peel as being "always different, always the same", … “Well, this is a groovy number,” Smith deadpans in a contemporaneous live version.
The Fall's long-term musicians included drummers Paul Hanley and Karl Burns; guitarists Marc Riley, Craig Scanlon and Brix Smith; and bassist Steve Hanley, whose melodic, circular bass lines are widely credited with shaping the band's sound from early 1980s albums such as Hex Enduction Hour to the late
Several Fall songs have an uncanny ability to transport you into a parallel universe.