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M5 vs Brillo De Facto      and.        New Puritan vs Hard Life in the Country “I curse your preoccupation / With your record collection!” (With apologies to Savage Pencil) It's a post-postscript world. All bets and gloves are off! Big love to all them what fall. Four (Three?) extraordinary Fall songs, two heavyweight contests and a shared obsession with false authenticity, social pretension and m...

The Horror in Clay vs Slow Down Ronnie // Serious Brainskin vs Heads of Dead Surfers // I Want You vs Cancelled // Glitter Freeze vs Enigmatic Dream // Not Clean vs Inch It's a futile Fall showdown! We're back in the strange, squelchy world of Mark E. Smith's extracurricular activities for Semi-Final 2 of our MES Solo & Collaborations bracket. Five more head-to-head battles featuring literary...

Ian & Brendan are back for round two of our Blur b-side excavation, and this time it's Modern Life Is Rubbish — the album where Blur stopped chasing the baggy bandwagon and started building their own peculiar little England. Goodbye Leisure, hello British eccentricity, character studies, suburban misery, future anxiety and the beginnings of something rather magnificent. We're digging into the...

N.O.T.F.A.L.L. — AN ARID AL SPECIAL We're back in the garage! Al and B rummage through a filthy heap of garage rock, primitive racket, forgotten nuggets and assorted musical misdemeanours, lovingly curated by Al and interrupted by some deep, dark cuts from the Martin Rev, Alan Vega and Suicide catalogue from B. From fuzzed-up delinquency to malfunctioning electronics, cheap thrills, expensive mist...

The lads, joined by Dannyno jump back into Dave Simpson’s The Fallen — and there’s plenty to celebrate: cheeky barking anecodes, bizarre showbiz  characters, and all the tiny bits of Fall archaeology that make this book such a rabbit hole. However as we hit the second half of the book, we unreasonalby quetstion Simpson’s methods, his judgements and his take on The Fall, offering our own perky,and...

Welcome to Bside the Bsides, where Ian and Brendan go rummaging around the edges of the Blur, digging into  b-sides to unpick the sound, the machinery around the band, the impact of Leisure, and what these supposedly peripheral tracks tell us about Blur. Before Modern Life Is Rubbish. Before Parklife. Before Britpop. Before the number ones! and the falling-out.....we’re going right back to the deb...

SHOULDER PADS VS TOUCH SENSITIVE Impression of J Temperance Vs How I Wrote Elastic Man Another FALL SHOWDOWN, with big and tough songs going head-to-head. First up...Shoulder Pads is a relentless, pop bubble colliding with MES's sardonic, razor-sharp gallery of suburban grotesques YULE! up against Touch Sensitive's rockin' groove fit for commercials of cars and homes!! And then...Impression of J T...

The Beefheart Odd ’n’ Sods episode. A rummage through the stranger corners of the Captain’s world — obscure originals, R&B workouts, Zappa collisions, alternate versions, abandoned ideas, instrumental oddities and various things that probably should have been left in the vault. We’ve got Triple Combination, Willie the Pimp, Diddy Wah Diddy, Debra Kadabra, Light Reflected, Korn Ring Finger, Fun...

RECOVERY KIT VS FREE RANGE Container Drivers Vs Jung Nev's Antidotes. Tneet!! Another two-pronged FALL SHOWDOWN. People of Europa, rejoice and carry your past around!!  A deep, dark delve into a world of trucking goes up against a zepp rip!!! And alongside that, we speed-run Extricate Vs Infotainment scan! — two albums mere years but aeons apart... Fall period, placed under entirely unnecessary fo...

Hello and welcome to the F.A.L.L.O.U.T. Podcast! Kinder of Spine vs Eat Y'Self Fitter NWRA vs Prole Art Threat Al, DB and B return to Round 4 of the futile FALL SHOWDOWN and, for once, absolutely no danger of anyone getting upset about the results. Easy choices, right!! Joining us is new friend of the show Harry, making his F.A.L.L.O.U.T. debut and bravely stepping into the madness. Kinder of Spin...

The Classical vs Neighbourhood of Infinity Hip Priest vs I Am Damo Suzuki Hello and welcome to the F.A.L.L.O.U.T. Podcast! This week Al B, DB and B are all in the same room, recording live from Static Records in Wigan. And what a show we've got. Round 4, with two HUGE clashes: The Classical vs Neighbourhood of Infinity Hip Priest vs I Am Damo Suzuki Two big, big boys. Two very different kinds of F...

Hello and welcome to the F.A.L.L.O.U.T. Podcast! Hexen Definitive vs The Past. Crop Dust vsDisney's Dream Debased  The FALL SHOWDOWN rolls on into Round 4, with Al B, DB and B facing two more strange and potentially dangerous encounters. First up, old-old-days Hexen Definitive goes head-to-head with a mid-period woozy gem, The Past. Then it's the troggs sampling oopathon of Crop Dust versus pre po...

Hello and welcome to the F.A.L.L.O.U.T. Podcast! It’s Round 4 of the futile FALL SHOWDOWN, and we’re down to the last 125 songs or thereabouts. At this point, absolutely anything could happen. What will even win?! Al B and DB return...joined by guest of the day Matt Leonard of TOTAL VICTORY and more....to the tournament with four more heavyweight clashes: Pay Your Rates vs I’m Into C.B. Riddler vs...

Hello and welcome to the B.E.E.F.O.U.T. Podcast! This time Al B and DB take on the final stretch of the Captain Beefheart story, ranking Doc at the Radar Station and Ice Cream for Crow — the two extraordinary albums that bookend the Captain's final musical period. Doc at the Radar Station is Beefheart sounding absolutely furious and completely alive: abrasive, weird, powerful and somehow still ful...

Hello and welcome to the F.A.L.L.O.U.T. Podcast! This week, Al B, DB and friend of facts Dannyno descend into Dave Simpson's excellent book The Fallen. What starts as a simple look at former Fall members quickly mutates into a labyrinth of ex-members, pre-Fall bands, post-Fall bands, forgotten projects, bizarre career turns and unlikely reunions. Along the way we bump into Karen Leatham, Eric the...

Welcome to N.O.T.F.A.L.L.—the occasional side project from the F.A.L.L.O.U.T. Podcast, where Al B and DB give Mark E. Smith the week off and play a pile of completely unrelated records that have somehow lodged themselves in their heads. This time it's U.S. & U.K.!! A transatlantic rummage through garage rock, punk, noise, outsider pop, post-hardcore, blues trash, Peel Session oddities and anyt...

Hello and welcome to the B.E.E.F.O.U.T. Podcast! This week, Al B and DB tackle one of the most fascinating "what ifs" in Captain Beefheart history, ranking every track from both versions of Bat Chain Puller—the legendary "lost" 1976 album, finally released in 2012—and Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller), the reworked album that emerged in 1978. Joining us is friend of the show Max, who's here to right...

Hello and welcome to the F.A.L.L.O.U.T. Podcast! The tournament takes a detour into the Last Chance Saloon, where Al B and DB revisit the song that went out in Round 2 to bring a select few back in from the cold. Suffice to say, some questionable decision-making has somehow allowed a few absolute gems to sneak through to the next round... while others have been unceremoniously shown the door. Who...

Hello and welcome to the F.A.L.L.O.U.T. Podcast! This week, Al B, Db n Stewpot hit (Finally) the end of round 3!!! of Fall tournament and make their calls on three tight(ish) matchups! They / We think it's all (not even close to being) over!! Kurious Oranj vs Bo Demmick  Living Too Late vs Garden  New Face in Hell vs Flat of Angles  Expect arguments, second-guessing, and at least one decision that...

T'neet on't' B.E.E.F.O.U.T. Podcast! This week, Al B and Db tackle what many consider the nadir of Captain Beefheart's career. We're ranking every song from Unconditionally Guaranteed and Bluejeans & Moonbeams—from worst to best—to find out if these much-maligned albums really deserve their reputation. In case your internet machine isn't working, here's the tracks we're looking at... Unconditi...

Noel's Chemical Effluence vs Black Roof !!! Hit The North vs Taurig !!! The Walker, The host, DB & Stu descend once more into the ruins... T'neet the lads shovel through another mound of glorious nonsense as Noel's Chemical Effluence squares up against Black Roof, while Hit The North takes on Taurig in a battle that may or may not permanently alter the chemical balance of the North West. Featu...

T'neet! B, DB and Al take a deep dive into Captain Beefheart's The Spotlight Kid and Clear Spot—two albums that still split opinion among fans. Coming after the wild, angular chaos of Trout Mask Replica and Lick My Decals Off, Baby, Beefheart dialled back some of the avant-garde madness in favour of heavier grooves, tighter songs and a slightly more approachable sound. For some, that made these re...

T,neet  A Figure Walks vs Cosmos 7!!!  All Leave Cancelled vs Dedication not medication Winter vs Backdrop Big boys vs mid boys vs how they still here boys!!.. Join Dan, Al & B to decide the worst possible outcome of all of these votes. And vote yourself by giving us a pound or 5 on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/c/FALLOUTPODCAST238    

T'neet. The genius follow-up to Trout Mask Replica that is "Lick My Decals Off, Baby." Is it a mature Don, or a man all at sea? All of its tracks are pored over, discussed, and ranked alongside those from the somewhat cash-in Mirror Man Sessions which, while technically a fifth LP, was a world away from where Don and the Magic Band were at the time. Join DB, AL, and Brendan as they decide which tr...

Tneet..as if we needed to tell you! Early days of Channel Fuhrer vs Lucifer Over Lancashire  4 ½ inch vs  Midnight in Aspen Das Boat vs No Christmas for JQ How did any of them (JQ aside) even get through to Round 3, you ask! We don't know! Don't blame us! Plough on wayward songs..plough on! Cash for votes here if you think you can do better (you almost certainly can!) https://www.patreon.com/c/FAL...