Fall Heads Roll

Fall Heads Roll
Studio album by The Fall
Released 3 October 2005
Recorded 2005
Genre Post-punk
Length 55:54
Label Slogan (UK)
Narnack Records (US)
Producer Mark E. Smith, Simon Archer, Tim Gracielands
The Fall chronology
The Complete Peel Sessions 1978–2004
(2005)		 Fall Heads Roll
(2005)		 Reformation Post TLC
(2007)

Fall Heads Roll is an album by The Fall, released in 2005. It was recorded at Gracieland Studios in Rochdale, UK and Gigantic Studios in New York, NY. The US vinyl edition of the record is pressed on two discs and contains an alternate version of the track "Blindness". (One version of this tune is heard in the 2007 U.S. television ad campaign for the Mitsubishi Outlander.)[1]

Although the group had reissued several earlier albums and their Peel Sessions box set through the Sanctuary group (on their Castle imprint), this was the first album of new material to be released by them, on this occasion appearing on their Slogan label. In the US, the album was their second with Narnack Records.

In a March 2005 interview with Kitchen Sink magazine, Mark E. Smith cited Heads Are Rolling and If You Assume as two possible titles for the then-unfinished album. The sleeve design and lettering is thought to make reference to the cover of the Van der Graaf Generator album Godbluff.

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Track listing

  1. "Ride Away" (Poulou/Smith) – 5:01
  2. "Pacifying Joint" (Smith) – 3:46
  3. "What About Us?" (Smith/Poulou) – 5:51
  4. "Midnight in Aspen" (Smith/Trafford) – 3:13
  5. "Assume" (Smith) – 4:07
  6. "Midnight Aspen Reprise" (Smith/Trafford) – 1:52
  7. "Blindness" (Smith/Birtwistle) – 7:23 (7:11 on US 2LP)
  8. "I Can Hear the Grass Grow" (Roy Wood) – 2:49
  9. "Bo Demmick" (Smith/Trafford/Birtwistle/Pritchard) – 4:15
  10. "Youwanner" (Smith/Archer/Pritchard) – 5:02
  11. "Clasp Hands" (Smith/Trafford) – 2:45
  12. "Early Days of Channel Führer" (Smith/Pritchard) – 3:48
  13. "Breaking the Rules" (Walker) – 2:26
  14. "Trust in Me" (Smith/Trafford) – 3:34

On the back cover of the CD, tracks were printed in wrong order:

  1. "Ride Away"
  2. "Blindness"
  3. "What About Us?"
  4. "Pacifying Joint"
  5. "Assume"
  6. "Midnight in Aspen"
  7. "Clasp Hands"
  8. "I Can Hear the Grass Grow"
  9. "Bo Demmick"
  10. "Youwanner"
  11. "Midnight Aspen Reprise"
  12. "Early Days of Channel Führer"
  13. "Breaking the Rules"
  14. "Trust in Me"

The CD also included an additional insert labeled "The Real New Fall Tracklist" (as a reference to the group's previous album, The Real New Fall LP), featuring the correct track order.

John Peel

The late DJ John Peel, their most famous fan, was once asked if he would be happy with his life should he "drop dead tomorrow". He replied "Well, yes - but there's a new Fall album out next year so I don't want to drop dead just yet". This was the first album by the band that he never got to hear, as he died around a year before release, although the songs "Blindness", "Clasp Hands", "What About Us" and "I Can Hear The Grass Grow" were performed at the band's final Peel Session on August 4, 2004.

Personnel

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Additional personnel

References

  1. ↑ Maher, Dave (13 November 2006). "The Fall Ready Reformation, Contribute Song to Car Ad". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 10 July 2008.


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