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- Summary: The seven-disc box set collects and remasters the British post-punk band's 51 A-sides and 66 B-sides from between 1978 and 2016.
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- Record Label: Cherry Red
- Genre(s): Punk, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Rock, Punk/New Wave, Dance-Rock, College Rock, Post-Punk, British Punk
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Dec 12, 2017What's most important is that nearly everything here is brilliant. Highly recommended for anyone with the urge to plunge deeper into the Fall's tremendous body of work.
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Dec 12, 2017This is still a staggering monument all the same, an elaborately detailed portrait of a shambolic artist whose astonishing productivity, creative restlessness, and utter disdain for the niceties of civil society know no bounds.
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Dec 14, 2017There’s a dip in overall quality in the last decade or so, but 2010’s Bury! is among their best.
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UncutDec 12, 2017Despite a few notable omissions--no "Big New Prinz"?--it feels like the most coherent overview of the band's 40-odd years to date. [Jan 2018, p.38] [Album: 9/10 Extras: 6/10]
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Jan 5, 2018As anyone cognisant with the likes of Tuff Life Boogie, Putta Block and Butterflies 4 Brains already knows, these discs aren’t without their misfires, but when doubled with their respective A-side partners, the likes of No Bulbs, Wings, Lucifer Over Lancashire and Brix’s majestic LA all lend their weight to the argument that--regardless of their chart positions--The Fall are long overdue recognition as one of the great British singles bands of the past 40 years.
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Q MagazineJan 30, 2018An ideal Fall primer for the uninitiated. [Mar 2018, p.117]
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Dec 12, 2017The three-disc version is a great foundational understanding of what The Fall and Mark E. Smith is all about, but the hefty seven-disc issue offers up the blueprints for the whole operation. Whether your interest is just in seeing why groups like Pavement and Elastica marked this band as a major influence or if it’s in jumping into the Olympic-sized pool of material by The Fall, you know which lane to choose.
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