"It's The Fall, The Fall, The Fall of course, and by The Fall, from The Fall"

October 3, 2014 2:13 PM

Approximately one hour of John Peel announcing The Fall.
posted by ardgedee (16 comments total)

Greatest band introduced by the greatest DJ. Can't go wrong.
posted by mykescipark at 2:21 PM on October 3, 2014 [1 favorite]

Ardenaur Fallatter died at sunset on the seventeenth anniversary of the Violent Unknown Event.

The VUE had increased his stature, and had given him nine lives, the first four of which he used in the Gabon, diving off the Letoke cliffs to rescue VUE suicides. The remaining five lives, along with details of his biography, became the property of the United African Congress, who persuaded Fallatter to export his skill at exhibitionist-jumping. Fallatter lost his ninth life leaping from a grainstore into a barley-field at a VUE flying gala at Stowe in Cheshire. His body was flown back to the Gabon, and fulfilling his last wishes, it was ceremoniously thrown off the Letoke cliffs.
posted by Iridic at 2:23 PM on October 3, 2014 [4 favorites]

Appropriately hypnotic & repetitive for The Fall!
posted by sobarel at 2:25 PM on October 3, 2014 [1 favorite]

I was going to do it for two hours but got bored in the end.
posted by Webbster at 2:25 PM on October 3, 2014 [6 favorites]

Add a beat, feedback and a couple hundred "-uhs", and it would be indistinguishable from an actual album by The Fall.
posted by vverse23 at 2:29 PM on October 3, 2014 [7 favorites]

I miss the days when MES was essentially writing these lovely, strange little short stories for lyrics - New Face in Hell, Jawbone and the Air Rifle, that sort of thing - I've even got a book of them somewhere. On the last Fall LP I bothered with he was mumbling something about watching Murder She Wrote and not coming from Bury...
posted by sobarel at 2:42 PM on October 3, 2014

Always different, always the same, it's John Peel introducing The Mighty Fall!
posted by octobersurprise at 2:45 PM on October 3, 2014

Needs more of somebody's granny on bongos. But lovely just the same.
posted by maudlin at 3:33 PM on October 3, 2014 [4 favorites]

I love this so hard I may have to stay in the house and play "Container Drivers" on loop for the next week.
posted by Decani at 3:42 PM on October 3, 2014 [2 favorites]

Go on. You know it makes sense.
posted by Decani at 3:46 PM on October 3, 2014 [1 favorite]

RO-RO Roll On Roll Off!
posted by sobarel at 3:53 PM on October 3, 2014 [2 favorites]

Prole art treat
posted by porn in the woods at 4:38 PM on October 3, 2014 [2 favorites]

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posted by Artw at 4:50 PM on October 3, 2014 [1 favorite]

Sound like a typical Peel show.

(...said with love - - I still miss him....)
posted by AsYouKnow Bob at 7:17 PM on October 3, 2014 [1 favorite]

Peel's loss still leaves a huge gaping chasm in British radio. It always makes me sad when the sanitised white indie of 6Music is said to be carrying on his legacy.

Check out The Perfumed Garden for regular postings of old shows.
posted by brilliantmistake at 1:19 AM on October 4, 2014 [3 favorites]

Here's John Peel introducing The Fall yet again, this time on TV in 1983. Watch as MES starts off with the couplet "Tight faded male arse / Decadence and anarchy" and very eighties teens try awkwardly to dance.
posted by sobarel at 7:04 AM on October 4, 2014 [4 favorites]