The Fall - The Peel Sessions

This cd was the first time release for some of the sessions the fall recorded for the john peel show & is the perfect taster forthe complete sessions boxset.

SLEEVENOTES
Since the compilation of this record, The Fall have recorded several further sessions for my Radio 1 programmes. The band is recording another in a fortnight's time. It'll be the band's 22nd or 23rd. Possibly their 24th. We don't seem to be able to agree on this, although doubtless there'll be someone on the Fallnet who'll know. Or maybe the people who put together the Fall fanzine. The Biggest Library Yet' at 199, Wellington Street, Retford, Notts DN22 6PR, will be able to tell us.
What I'm trying to say is, there are folks out there who know more about the Fall than Mark E. Smith himself does. They certainly know a lot more than I do. Surely the Fall is and has been the most analysed and discussed band in pop history. There have been times, as with football teams, when the fans have grumbled, feared for the future, left a performance shaking their heads in disbelief. I always cite a night at The Junction, Cambridge, in this last context. But we always come back, yearning for more. This past year has been especially turbulent, of course, resulting in an all-new Fall. Anticipation is high.
In addition to the Radio 1 programmes for which these recordings were made, I also recorded several programmes for stations in Germany, notably FSK in Hamburg and Radio Brandenburg in Potsdam, and all the Germans that are moved to write to me as a result, mention the Fall. Can I clear up a dispute over the lyrics to 'Dead Beat Descendant'? Do I realise that Mark sings at the end of this Adult Net track? "Here, John, is a cassette of Fall covers. Perhaps you will play it in your next sending?"
The Germans will not have heard these tracks before, apart from those that have been bootlegged. I still hope that before I move on to become a new face in Hell myself, I will be able to see the release of all the Fall sessions (however many there have been), but this assortment will do to be going on with. {Note, by the way, that 'Cruisers Creek' was produced by Mark Radcliffe, still the jewel in the Radio 1 crown.)
You'll never know how difficult it was to write these notes without trying to incorporate all the titles on the album into them. Smile.
John Peel Autumn 1998

the fall - The Peel Sessions

1. Rebellious jukebox

2. Mess of my

3. New face in hell

4. Winter

5. Smile

6. Middlemass

7. 2x4

8. Cruises creek

9. What you need

10. Athlete cured

11. Dead beat descendant

12. Black monk theme

13. Idiot joy snowland

14. Free range

15. Strychnine

16. A past gone mad

17. M5

and because it's wednesday you get the complete peel sessions here at youngmosstongue