Grotesque (album)

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Grotesque
The Fall studio album

Publication
(s)

17th November 1980

Label (s) Rough Trade

Genre (s)

Post punk

running time

41:21

occupation

production

The Fall, Geoff Travis, Grant Showbiz, Mayo Thompson

chronology
Dragnet (1979) Grotesque Slates (EP) (1981)

Grotesque (subtitled After the Gramme ) is the third studio album by the English rock band The Fall . It was released on November 17, 1980 on the Rough Trade label.

background

Marc Riley played the organ on some pieces. The album was the band's first with Paul Hanley , who joined the group that year at the age of 16. Before the album, the singles How I Wrote 'Elastic Man' and Totally Wired were released, which were later included on CD re-releases of the album. The eye-catching full-color sleeve (the first of its kind in the band) was drawn by Mark E. Smith's sister Suzanne.

Track list

All texts: Mark E. Smith

  1. Pay Your Rates (Smith)
  2. English Scheme (Marc Riley, Craig Scanlon, Smith)
  3. New Face in Hell (Riley, Scanlon, Smith)
  4. C'n'CS with herring (Smith, Steve Hanley, Riley, Scanlon)
  5. The Container Drivers (Riley, Scanlon, Hanley, Smith)
  6. Impression of J. Temperance (Riley, Scanlon, Smith)
  7. In the Park (Smith)
  8. WMC - Blob 59 (Smith)
  9. Gramme Friday (Scanlon, Riley, Smith)
  10. The NWRA (Scanlon, Hanley, Smith)

As mentioned earlier, later CD versions of the album contain more tracks. In addition to How I Wrote 'Elastic Man' and Totally Wired , these are the pieces City Hobgoblins and Putta Block .

Reviews

Allmusic wrote that the group with the album really get under way ( really started hitting its stride ). The Stuttgarter Nachrichten described the album in a retrospective in 2008 as a unique record with wonderful pieces .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ned Raggett: Grotesque - The Fall: Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards: AllMusic . In: Allmusic . Retrieved February 23, 2013.
  2. ↑ Michaela Weißhappel: 60 Years of Vinyl (9) The Fall - Grotesque (1980) . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten . Archived from the original on April 21, 2014. Retrieved April 20, 2014.