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- Date Released: September 29, 1998
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Post-Punk
- Label: Cog Sinister / Voiceprint
Mark E. Smith’s bitter response to the Falklands War.
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We Say...
After Hex Enduction Hour, Mark E. Smith quickly returned to the microphone thanks to his disgust at the Falklands War, launched in spring ’82 by Margaret Thatcher, to rescue the tiny mid-Atlantic islands from an Argentinian invasion — or, to curry votes for the impending election, depending on your level of cynicism. “Undiluted Slang Truth” screams the subtitle. Smith saw this album’s remit as being a kind of truthful newsreel, amid obscured media reporting in the so-called “fog of war.” True to form, his writing’s too covert for that, and “Hard Life in Country” is little more than a gratuitous snipe at one of his great bugbears, the rustic lifestyle. “Marquis Cha Cha,” though, serves up a monologue from a nauseating Brit expat in Latin America (were the Falkland Islanders worth rescuing?!). The album’s brighter and funkier, but suffered an unjust commercial fate, as indie Kamera folded soon after release.
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They Say...
Room to Live originally appeared in 1982 and remains as essential to the Fall's discography as the previous year's Slates EP. Room to Live was similarly one of the great Fall collections of this era that was too short to be called an album and too long to be an EP or single. Its seven tracks epitomize the "Undilutable Slang Truth!" -- the phrase scrawled across the cover -- which in Mark E. Smith dialect translates as possibly the most archly political and scathing collection of diatribes the Manchester legend spewed forth onto record during what is arguably the group's creative peak. Room to Live marks one of the most inspired periods of the group, the era that produced the masterful Hex Enduction Hour and was in part fueled in by the political upheaval in England circa 1982 during the Falklands War (the subject became a bone of contention with many artists, yet few railed so spitefully as the Fall). Mark E. Smith is at his very best lyrically when getting riled up against the middle class, such as on "Hard Life in Country" and the hilarious "Solicitor in Studio." The latter track gathers a chugging momentum until peaking in uncontrollable feedback, and contains some of the most experimental and risky instrumental behavior his supporting cast ever brought to the studio. Room to Live may be a short, sharp stab of chaos, yet it remains undeniably one of the greatest pieces of post-punk genius the group ever recorded.
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| 01. |  |
Joker Hysterical Face |
4:47 |
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| 02. | |
Marquis Cha-Cha |
4:31 |
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| 03. | |
Hard Life In Country |
6:10 |
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| 04. | |
Room To Live |
4:15 |
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| 05. | |
Detective Instinct |
5:43 |
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| 06. | |
Solicitor In Studio |
5:20 |
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| 07. | |
Papal Visit |
5:32 |
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| 08. | |
untitled |
5:19 |
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| 09. | |
untitled |
3:08 |
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09 Total Tracks, 44:45 Total Length
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| 01. | |
Drago's Guilt |
4:24 |
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| 02. | |
Joker Hysterical Face |
4:51 |
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| 03. | |
Lie Dream Of Casino Soul |
3:44 |
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| 04. | |
Hexen Strife Knot |
7:11 |
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04 Total Tracks, 20:10 Total Length
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Credits
- The Fall - Main Performer // Marc Riley - Guitar // Marc Riley - Keyboards // Karl Burns - Bass // Karl Burns - Guitar // Karl Burns - Drums // Paul Hanley - Drums // Craig Scanlon - Guitar // Mark E. Smith - Violin // Mark E. Smith - Vocals // John Brierley - ? // Arthur Cadman - Guitar // Adrian Niman - Saxophone // Kay "Kay Carroll" OSullivan - Producer
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