Shift-Work

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Shift-Work
Shift-Work cover
Studio album by The Fall
Released 22 April 1991
Genre Rock
Length 51:54
Label Phonogram
Producer Robert Gordon,
Craig Leon,
Grant Showbiz
Professional reviews
The Fall chronology
Extricate
(1990)		 Shift-Work
(1991)		 Code: Selfish
(1992)

Shift-Work is a 1991 LP by the British rock band The Fall. Released through Phonogram Records, it marked, in the opinion of critic Ted Mills, a change in direction for the group, as "repetitious grooves became interspersed with pop song structures."[1] Non-vinyl versions of the record feature the single "White Lighting", originally recorded by The Big Bopper. Of the songs on the original tracklist, several have been noted as being more "introspective" than previous Fall efforts. "Edinburgh Man" for example, in which lead singer Mark E. Smith longs to be in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland has been described as "surprisingly malice-free"[1] and, in one enthusiastic review, as the best Fall song ever.[2]

The album reached number 17 in the UK charts, a two place improvement on their previous best, The Frenz Experiment.

The album was re-released on Voiceprint in 2002 adding 2 additional tracks to the original 14 track CD; "Blood Outta Stone" and "Xmas With Simon". This incarnation was also made available in a 2CD set with Voiceprint's edition of Code: Selfish in 2003. It was reissued again in an expanded and re-mastered form by Universal on 7th May 2007.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Original UK vinyl

  1. "So What About It?" (Mark E. Smith, Craig Scanlon, Simon Wolstencroft) – 3:25
  2. "Idiot Joy Showland" (Smith, Steve Hanley) – 3:43
  3. "Edinburgh Man" (Smith, Scanlon) – 4:44
  4. "Pittsville Direkt" (Smith, Hanley, Scanlon) – 4:02
  5. "The Book of Lies" (Smith, Scanlon) – 2:58
  6. "The War Against Intelligence" (Smith, Scanlon) – 3:17
  7. "Shift-Work" (Smith, Scanlon) – 4:38
  8. "You Haven't Found It Yet" (Smith, Scanlon) – 4:07
  9. "The Mixer" (Smith, Scanlon) – 3:37
  10. "A Lot of Wind" (Smith) – 3:46
  11. "Rose" (Smith, Scanlon) – 3:20
  12. "Sinister Waltz" (Smith) – 4:13

[edit] Original UK CD and cassette

  1. "So What About It?"
  2. "Idiot Joy Showland"
  3. "Edinburgh Man"
  4. "Pittsville Direkt"
  5. "The Book of Lies"
  6. "High Tension Line" (Smith, Hanley, Scanlon) – 3:48
  7. "The War Against Intelligence"
  8. "Shift-Work"
  9. "You Haven't Found It Yet"
  10. "The Mixer"
  11. "White Lightning" (The Big Bopper) – 2:14
  12. "A Lot of Wind"
  13. "Rose"
  14. "Sinister Waltz"

[edit] 2007 reissue

Disc One

  • As per original UK vinyl

Disc Two

  1. White Lightning - 2:14
  2. Blood Outta Stone - 3:34
  3. Zagreb (Movements I+II+III) - 5:55
  4. Life Just Bounces - 4:13 (later re-recorded for Cerebral Caustic)
  5. The Funeral Mix - 3:31
  6. High Tension Line - 3:47
  7. Xmas With Simon - 3:28
  8. Don't Take The Pizza - 2:37
  9. So What About It? (Remix 1) - 4:23
  10. So What About It? (Remix 2) - 4:33
  11. So What About It? (Remix 3) - 4:11
  12. The Re-Mixer - 4:08
  13. Cloud Of Black - 4:28
  14. Arid Al's Dream (from Volume Four) - 4:48
  15. The War Against Intelligence (Peel Session) - 3:03
  16. Idiot Joy Showland (Peel Session) - 3:47
  17. A Lot Of Wind (Peel Session) - 5:25
  18. The Mixer (Peel Session) - 4:32

[edit] Miscellenea

The War Against Intelligence was the original title of the album until the outbreak of the Gulf War convinced Smith to change it to something less controversial. In October 2003 Universal released The War Against Intelligence - The Fontana Years, a collection of Fall songs from the albums Extricate, Shift-Work, Code: Selfish and related singles, even as the United Kingdom was involved in another Gulf War.

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ a b Mills, Ted. Review All Music Guide. Retrieved 29 Mar. 2006.
  2. ^ Dalton, Stephen (20 Apr. 1991). "Quiet! Genius at Work...". NME.

[edit] External links

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