Hex Enduction Hour
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| Hex Enduction Hour | ||
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| Studio album by The Fall | ||
| Released | March 8, 1982 | |
| Recorded | December 1981 | |
| Genre | Post punk | |
| Length | 60:08 | |
| Label | Kamera | |
| Producer(s) | Richard Mazda | |
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| The Fall chronology | ||
| Slates (1981) |
Hex Enduction Hour (1982) |
Room to Live (1982) |
Hex Enduction Hour is a 1982 album by The Fall. It showcased a new two-drummer lineup, and the most accessible music they had yet produced. The music remained raw and noisy, but with a more pronounced melodic sense. The album was partly recorded in Iceland during the group's 1981 visit, with the remainder being completed in a disused cinema in Hitchin. A single, "Look, Know" / "I'm Into C.B.", was recorded contemporaneously but, as was normal for The Fall at this time, not included on the album.
Mark E. Smith told journalist Sandy Robertson that he had envisaged Hex as being the group's final album and that he would not have continued in music had this been the case[1]. However, the record received very positive reviews and was the first Fall album to make the official chart, spending 3 weeks in and peaking at #71.
With a degree of irony, the album's opener "The Classical" was later covered (though with altered lyrics) by Pavement, who had frequently been accused of copying The Fall in their early career.
Hex Enduction Hour was remastered and reissued in January 2005 with a disc of bonus material. In April 2007, a single disc edition containing just the original album will be released exclusively through HMV stores.
Contents |
[edit] Track listing
[edit] Side one
- "The Classical" (Mark E. Smith, The Fall) – 5:16
- "Jawbone and the Air-Rifle" (Smith, The Fall) – 3:43
- "Hip Priest" (Smith, The Fall) – 7:45 (sample
- "Fortress" / "Deer Park" (Smith, Craig Scanlon, Marc Riley, Karl Burns) – 6:41
- "Mere Pseudo Mag. Ed." (Smith) – 2:50
- "Winter (Hostel-Maxi)" (Smith, Scanlon) – 4:26
[edit] Side two
- "Winter 2" (Smith, Scanlon) – 4:33
- "Just Step S'ways" (Smith) – 3:22
- "Who Makes the Nazis?" (Smith) – 4:27
- "Iceland" (Smith, Scanlon, Riley, Steve Hanley) – 6:42
- "And This Day" (Smith, The Fall) – 10:18
[edit] 2005 bonus disc
- "Deer Park" (Scanlon, Riley, Burns, Smith) – 4:26
- from the band's fifth John Peel session broadcast September 15, 1981
- "Who Makes the Nazis?" (Smith) – 2:57
- from the band's fifth John Peel session
- "I'm into C.B." (Kay Carroll, Scanlon, Smith) – 6:30
- originally released as B-side on the single "Look, Know" in 1982
- "Session Musician" (Smith, Riley, Scanlon, Hanley) – 9:11
- live at the Boerkeller, Leeds, November 5, 1981
- "Jazzed Up Punk Shit" (Scanlon, Riley, Hanley, Smith) – 4:10
- live at the 666 Club, Manchester, May 15, 1982
- "I'm into C.B. (Stars on 45 Version)" (Carroll, Scanlon, Smith) – 3:14
- live at Fagins, Manchester, September 30, 1981
- "And This Day" (Smith, The Fall) – 6:13
- from the soundcheck at Main Street, Auckland, New Zealand, August 20, 1982
- "Deer Park" (Scanlon, Riley, Burns, Smith) – 9:34
- "And This Day (Revisited)" (Scanlon, Riley, Burns, Hanley, Paul Hanley, Smith) – 5:24
- live at Astoria 2, London, February 26, 1997
[edit] Personnel
- Mark E. Smith – vocals, tapes, guitar
- Craig Scanlon – guitar, vocal, piano
- Marc Riley – electronic organ, guitar, electric piano
- Steve Hanley – bass guitar, vocal
- Paul Hanley – drums, guitar
- Karl Burns – drums, vocal, tapes
- Kay Carroll – vocals, pcsn.
[edit] Miscellanea
- Motown Records were interested in signing the band in 1984 and asked to hear their back catalogue. Hex Enduction Hour was the only album Smith had to hand. The letter the group received back stated "I see no commercial potential in this band whatsoever". Smith speculated that this might have had something to do with the lines "Where are the obligatory niggers? / Hey there, fuckface" from "The Classical". (Brian Edge - Paintwork - Omnibus Press 1989, p72)
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