50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong
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| Released | 8 June 2004 | |||
| Recorded | 1977–2003 | |||
| Genre | Post-punk, alternative rock | |||
| Length | 2:35:17 | |||
| Label | Sanctuary | |||
| Compiler | Daryl Easlea | |||
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50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong (subtitled 39 Golden Greats) is a greatest hits album by English post-punk band the Fall, released in 2004 by record label Sanctuary.
Content
50,000 is the group's first career-spanning compilation album, with a selection of songs from the 1978 EP Bingo-Master's Break-Out! up to the 2003 album The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country on the Click). The selection of songs includes both singles and album highlights. Journalist and author, Daryl Easlea compiled the album and wrote the sleevenotes.
The cover and title of the album is a parody of
In November 2018, the album was repackaged and expanded as 58 Golden Greats on Cherry Red Records. The new cover also referenced an Elvis Presley album, this time the UK edition of Elvis' 40 Greatest.[1]
Reception
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| Blender |  [3] |
| Pitchfork | 9.3/10[4] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [5] |
| Stylus | A[6] |
| Uncut | [7] |
| The Village Voice | A[8] |
Critic Phil Freeman included the compilation on a list of records attempting to define "the state of music since 1979" in the 2007 book Marooned: The Next Generation of Desert Island Discs.[9] Noting the Fall as "one of the most polarizing bands on the planet", Freeman wrote that the album "will either begin a lifelong obsession, or you'll never make it to track two."[10] Comedian Frank Skinner became a Fall fan, "with all the zeal of a convert", after listening to the compilation in 2005, calling it "the music I've been searching for my whole life."[11]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Repetition" (from the Grotesque) | Riley, Scanlon, Smith | 5.39 |
| 8. | "Prole Art Threat" (from Slates) | Riley, Smith | 1.56 |
| 9. | "Lie Dream of a Casino Soul" (1981 single) | Riley, Smith, Paul Hanley | 3.07 |
| 10. | "The Classical" (from Hex Enduction Hour) | Smith, The Fall | 5.16 |
| 11. | "Hip Priest" (from Hex Enduction Hour) | Riley, S. Hanley, P. Hanley, Scanlon, Smith | 7.43 |
| 12. | "The Man Whose Head Expanded" (1983 single) | S. Hanley, Scanlon, Smith | 4.24 |
| 13. | "Kicker Conspiracy" (1983 single) | Smith | 4.17 |
| 14. | "Eat Y'Self Fitter" (from Perverted by Language) | S. Hanley, Smith | 6.34 |
| 15. | "C.R.E.E.P." (1984 single) | Smith, Brix Smith, P. Hanley, S. Hanley | 2.54 |
| 16. | "No Bulbs" (1984 single) | Smith, B. Smith | 4.28 |
| 17. | "Spoilt Victorian Child" (from This Nation's Saving Grace) | Simon Rogers, Smith | 4.11 |
| 18. | "Cruiser's Creek" (1985 single) | Smith, B. Smith, Scanlon | 4.15 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "U.S. 80's–90's" (from Joel Gibson | 4.27 | |
| 12. | "Behind the Counter" (1993 single) | Burns, Smith | 3.09 |
| 13. | "M5" (from Middle Class Revolt) | Dave Bush, Wolstencroft, Smith | 3.31 |
| 14. | "Feeling Numb" (from Cerebral Caustic) | Smith, B. Smith | 2.44 |
| 15. | "The Chiselers" (1996 single) | Smith, Wolstencroft, Burns, S. Hanley, Julia Nagle | 3.13 |
| 16. | "Powder Keg" (from The Light User Syndrome) | Smith, Burns | 3.16 |
| 17. | "Masquerade" (1998 single) | Smith, Nagle | 3.50 |
| 18. | "Touch Sensitive" (1999 single) | Smith, Nagle | 3.15 |
| 19. | "Crop-Dust" (from Are You Are Missing Winner) | Spencer Birtwhistle, Smith | 5.30 |
| 20. | "Susan vs Youthclub" (from "The Fall vs 2003" single) | Dave Milner, Smith | 3.36 |
| 21. | "Green Eyed Loco-Man" (from The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country on the Click)) | Smith, Jim Watts | 3.46 |
58 Golden Greats track listing
The expanded and repackaged version, released in 2018, omitted two tracks from 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong ("Crop-Dust" and "Green Eyed Loco-Man") but added 21 tracks, mostly from the period after the release of the earlier edition.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Repetition" | ||
| 2. | "Rebellious Jukebox" (from Room To Live ) | Smith, S. Hanley, Riley | 4:48 |
| 14. | "The Man Whose Head Expanded" | ||
| 15. | "Kicker Conspiracy" | ||
| 16. | "Eat Y'Self Fitter" | ||
| 17. | "Oh! Brother" (1984 single) | Smith, Burns, S. Hanley, Scanlon | 4:00 |
| 18. | "C.R.E.E.P." |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "No Bulbs" | ||
| 2. | "Cruiser's Creek" | ||
| 3. | "Spoilt Victorian Child" | ||
| 4. | "U.S. 80's–90's" | ||
| 5. | "Mr Pharmacist" | ||
| 6. | "Living Too Late" | ||
| 7. | " Rogers, Edwards | 3:50 | |
| 19. | "Behind the Counter" | ||
| 20. | "M5" | ||
| 21. | "Feeling Numb" |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "The Chiselers" | ||
| 2. | "Powder Keg" | ||
| 3. | "Masquerade" | ||
| 4. | "Touch Sensitive" | ||
| 5. | "Dr Buck's Letter" (from Theme From Sparta FC #2" (2004 single) | Smith, Watts, Pritchard | 3:51 |
| 10. | "Blindness" (from Fall Heads Roll) | Smith, Birtwistle | 7:23 |
| 11. | "Reformation (Uncut)" (from Reformation Post TLC) | Smith, Barbato | 7:25 |
| 12. | "Wolf Kidult Man" (from Imperial Wax Solvent) | Smith, Spurr, Poulou | 3:02 |
| 13. | "Bury!" (2010 single) | Smith, Spurr | 3:45 |
| 14. | "Greenway" (from Ersatz GB) | Ioakimoglou, Smith | 4:13 |
| 15. | "Sir William Wray" (from Re-Mit) | Smith, Poulou | 3:33 |
| 16. | "The Remainderer" (from The Remainderer EP) | Smith | 4:06 |
| 17. | "Venice With the Girls" (from Sub-Lingual Tablet) | Smith, Spurr, Melling | 4:11 |
| 18. | "Wise Ol' Man" (from Wise Ol' Man EP) | Smith, Poulou, Spurr | 3:17 |
| 19. | "New Facts Emerge" (from New Facts Emerge) | Smith, Spurr | 4:03 |
See also
References
- ^ The Fall: 58 Golden Greats, 58 Original Tracks *Including All The Hits, 3CD Boxset
- ^ Jeffries, David. "50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong: 39 Golden Greats – The Fall". AllMusic. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
- ^ Weiner, Jonah (8 June 2004). "Review: The Fall – 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong". Blender. Archived from the original on 3 November 2004. Retrieved 9 May 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Linhardt, Alex (9 July 2004). "The Fall: 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 19 March 2009. Retrieved 9 May 2022.
- ^ Gross 2004, p. 293.
- ^ Unterberger, Andrew (1 July 2004). "The Fall – 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong: 39 Golden Greats – Review – Stylus Magazine". Stylus. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
- ^ Anon. (1 July 2004). "The Fall – 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong". Uncut. Archived from the original on 14 August 2020. Retrieved 9 May 2022.
- ^ Christgau, Robert (14 December 2004). "Who Needs Boxes 2004". The Village Voice. Archived from the original on 15 September 2018. Retrieved 9 May 2022.
- ^ Freeman 2007, pp. 281, 293–294.
- ^ Freeman 2007, p. 294.
- ^ Skinner 2008, pp. 334–335.
Sources
- Freeman, Phil (2007). "Return to Treasure Island". Marooned: The Next Generation of Desert Island Discs. Philadelphia: ISBN 978-0-306-81485-3 – via the Internet Archive.
- Gross, Joe (2004). "The Fall". In ISBN 0-7432-0169-8 – via the Internet Archive.
- ISBN 978-1-84413-190-7 – via the Internet Archive.
External links
- 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong at Discogs (list of releases)
