What started out as a daily blog is no longer sustainable within a life so filled with activity, This is now an experiment, a blog I will update every Tuesday and Saturday. Within this endless digital blurb I will be listening to, commenting on and then discussing tracks by The Fall, two Fall songs a week will last me years and years. Let the madness begin. Just hope I don't lose my mind. Feel free to abuse me on michael.j.shields@hotmail.co.uk
Sunday, 20 March 2011
Day six: Angry Mark.
Song: He Pep!
Album: The Light User Syndrome
Year: 1996
This is the last album to feature Brix, and apparently was recorded in a rush, with Mark recording his vocals all in one day. This song is a chaotic cut from this, with the amateurish Julia Nagle playing keyboards all over it, to varying degrees of genius and discord. It's again a pacey, loud, brash attack to all the senses.
No idea what the hell 'He Pep!' could mean, but the track features a cacophony of keyboard, drums, guitars, some Brix backing vocals and Mark does sound a bit wild here, shouting again rather than singing or his simple oration, some garbled lyrics about parker pens, scruffy hair, David Bowie and what he terms 'traitorism'.
The keyboards sound like a futuristic Mega Drive game, possibly featuring robots, quite club-like as well. What do people make of this one? I'm in two minds.
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