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Released by Beggars Banquet in 1988, it contains some of their most loved songs including “Cab It Up!” “Jerusalem” (which takes its lyrics from a poem by William Blake) and “New Big Prinz” which Pitchfork called “one of the songs that defined The Fall and Mark E. Smith”. They also said that it “has the sort of jaunty bass line that would later emerge on Pavement’s “Two States” to Blur’s “Parklife.” When Smith utters “check the record, check the guy’s track record,” the words melt into glorious nonsense a la “Surfin’ Bird.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe album was written as the soundtrack to an avant-garde ballet titled “I Am Curious, Orange”, produced by the experimental Michael Clark Company and performed in London with The Fall playing live. As it said in the original ballet program, replicated inside this reissue, “Mark E. 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At the time I wanted to put this across, basically as a loose explanation of what was happening in Belfast: it’s in the head and bones and there’s nothing you can do about it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI was on a roll at the time. I’m rarely short of ideas, and I’m not into preserving them much, either. If it’s in your head and you’ve got the right people around you them there’s no better time to tell the story. You can’t be afraid of reactions when it’s like that. I think too many writers hold too much back for another time and then lose the initial spark.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe idea was that Clark would do the ballet side to it and we’d come on and play every now and again. The band was very tight at the time and I reckon we could have played anywhere and delivered. We took it to the Edinburgh Festival and it was a real punch in the face for the artistes and critics. The confidence behind the production threw people; there were no half-measures. It was all very bright and brash, and those that got it really got it. You see it a lot more in films and on TV, historical fiction depicted in a brazen way. It was never intended to be high art or low art. I don’t know what those terms mean, to be honest. It was fuck-all like anything else. That’s good enough in itself, if you ask me. 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It was the last of three albums in a row produced by John Leckie and was named after a dystopian novel by Vladimir Nabokov.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter the universal acclaim for the previous year’s \u003ci\u003eThis Nation’s Saving Grace, Bend Sinister \u003c\/i\u003eoften stands in its predecessor’s shadow. It is a dark, brooding album made at the height of the group’s Beggars Banquet years and many people include this at the top of the list of favorite Fall albums.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom Bend Sinister, “Mr. Pharmacist” is a lurching installment in pop music’s ongoing conversation with drug dealers, illicit and otherwise. 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Spanning decades from 1978 to 2000, each session has been remastered at Abbey Road and pressed to its own 12” clear vinyl record. These sessions capture the raw energy and unique spirit of BBC Radio's Peel Sessions, featuring exclusive recordings from bands on Beggars Banquet, Wiiija \u0026amp; Too Pure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn 11 May 1987, The Fall delivered a searing BBC session recorded on 28 April and first broadcast that night, featuring\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e “Australians In Europe,” “Twister,” “Guest Informant” \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e“Athlete Cured.”\u003c\/i\u003e The performance captures the band in full force. Raw, restless and uncompromising. Encapsulating the rugged aesthetic that became their hallmark. The session offered listeners a direct line into Mark E. 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