The reason why it says Fall 1 in brackets is that for some reason or another, concurrent to my listening to a lot of albums (Hopefully by the end of the year 365) I am also for some reason going to listen to all The Fall's studio albums.
So that means I start with 1979's Live at the Witch Trials, a surprisingly tuneful album which shows its punk influences but also a sort of gothic feel to the off kilter, strangely out of key parts. Mark E Smith's lyrics are damn near incomprehensible a lot of the time, and the album does have a very amateur feel about it. The album always feels like it's on the verge of falling out of control and into a rowdy mess of rubbish, but never quite getting there, which makes it fascinating to listen to.
'Two Steps Back' is one of the few tracks on the album which drags at all, most of the rest either being shorter than 3 minutes, or feeling the like they were. Still, an album like this has to end with a nearly 8 minute bit of strangeness that leaves me feeling intrigued and looking forward to having a listen to what comes next. Still, I couldn't listen to it all the time.
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