Slates (EP)

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Slates
EP from The Fall

Publication
(s)

April 27, 1981

Label (s) Rough Trade

Genre (s)

Post punk

running time

23:45

occupation
  • Kay Carroll - vocals, kazoo

production

The Fall, Adrian Sherwood, Geoff Travis, Grant Showbiz

chronology
Grotesque (1980) Slates Hex Enduction Hour (1982)

Slates is an EP from The Fall , which was released on April 27, 1981 on the record label Rough Trade Records .

background

The piece "Middle Mass" is partly a play on words with the title of George Eliot's novel Middlemarch .

publication

Since Slates contained six tracks and was pressed onto a 10 ″ record , the EP was not qualified for the singles or for the album charts because it was too long for the former and too short for the latter. Even so, it was inducted into the UK Independent Charts , where it reached number 3.

Slates was first released on CD in 1992 on the Dojo label together with the live album A Part of America Therein (1981) . This pairing was re-released in 1998 with adapted artwork by Castle Music. In 2004 a CD edition was released with a new mastering of the original tapes, which contained seven more tracks: four tracks from the fourth session of the band with John Peel , two tracks from a single from December 1981 and another one outtake - previously on one Cheap compilation called The Collection (Castle, 1993) available.

Track list

page A

  1. Middle Mass ( Steve Hanley , Marc Riley , Craig Scanlon, Mark E. Smith )
  2. To Older Lover Etc. ( Paul Hanley , S. Hanley, Riley, Scanlon, Smith)
  3. Prole Art Threat (Riley, Smith)

Side B

  1. Fit and Working Again (Riley, P. Hanley, S. Hanley, Smith)
  2. Slates, slags, etc. (The Fall)
  3. Leave the Capitol (Riley, Scanlon, S. Hanley, Smith)

Bonus tracks of the new CD release (1 - 4: John Peel Session March 31, 1981/5 & 6: Camera ERA001, November 1981 (7 ") / 7: Outtake)

  1. Middle Mass
  2. Lie Dream of a Casino Soul
  3. Hip priest
  4. C'n'C - Hassle jewelry
  5. Lie Dream of a Casino Soul
  6. Fantastic life
  7. Medical Acceptance Gate

Reviews

Allmusic wrote "Not a bad taste test for newbies who want something from The Fall from the post-punk and pre-pop phase" ("Not a bad taster if you're new and want some post-punk, pre-pop Fall." - and 90 percent of this is prime material. ").

Robert Christgau awarded on its on US school grades oriented scale a B.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Fall, The - Slates . In: Discogs . Retrieved May 30, 2015.
  2. ↑ David Jeffries: Slates - The Fall: Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards: AllMusic . In: Allmusic . Retrieved November 26, 2014.
  3. ^ Robert Christgau: Robert Christgau: CG: The Fall . Retrieved November 26, 2014.