Words & music that putta block on MES.
"Smith's own methodology as writer-ranter-chanter echoes that of the hero-malcontent. He becomes (nothing but) the mystic pad on which stray psychic signals impress themselves, the throat through which a warring multiplicty of mutually antatognistic voices speak. This is not only a matter of the familiar idea that Smith ‘contains multitudes’; the schizophonic riot of voices is itself subject to all kinds of mediation" - k-punk: Memorex for the Krakens: The Fall's Pulp Modernism (blog post, 2006)
"Smith’s own fate looks like that of Romane Totale in reverse. If Totale was a cabaret entertainer become sorcerer, Smith is a lapsed sorcerer turned celebrated cabaret star, licensed fool on the BBC, licensed prole (in The Guardian). Totale was last seen in his Faery bunker, a tactical retreat that became a permanent exile, ritual facepaint devolving into Pierrot makeup dripping down his chin." - k-punk: The Place I Made The Purchase No Longer Exists (blog post, 2008)
In this order...
1. Dave Grusin - Theme From The Friends of Eddie Coyle
from 'The Friends Of Eddie Coyle' LP (Wewantsounds, NL, 2018)
2. The Seeds - Mr. Farmer
from 'Raw & Alive In Concert At Merlin's Music Box' LP (GNP, USA, 1968)
3. Reading from Thomas Carlyle - 'Sartor Resartus' (Frasers, 1836)
4. Tav Falco's Panther Burns - Bourgeois Blues
from 'Behind The Magnolia Curtain' LP (Rough Trade, UK, 1981)
5. Alan Pellay - Parasite Machine
from 'Wild Paarty Sounds Volume One' LP (Cherry Red, UK, 1981)
6. Philip Johnson - Habit
from 'Radio City' K7 (HR Cassettes, UK, 1980)
7. Reading from Colin Wilson - 'Ritual in the Dark' (Victor Gollancz, 1960)
8. Virgin Prunes - Beast (Seven Bastard Suck)
from 'A New Form Of Beauty Parts 1-4' LP (Italian Records, Italy, 1983)
9. Alternative TV - Life
from 7” (Deptford Fun City Records, UK, 1978)
10. Reading from William H. Price - 'The Civil War Centennial Handbook'
11. The Fall - The N.W.R.A.
from 'A Part Of America Therein, 1981' LP (Cottage, USA, 1982)
12. The Idle Race - The Birthday
from ST LP (Liberty, UK, 1968)
13. Reading from Vladimir Nabokov - 'Bend Sinister' (Henry Holt, 1947)
14. The Creators - Kimble
from 7” (Amalgamated, UK, 1968)
15. Big Youth - Jim Squashey
from 'Natty Cultural Dread' LP (Trojan, UK, 1976)
16. Arnold Schönberg - Moses und Aron: Act II, Scene I. Aaron and the Seventy Elders before the Mountain of Revelation 'Vierzig Tage!'
from 'Moses und Aron' CD (Berlin Classics, Germany, 1994)
17. Picastro - Older Lover
from 'Whore Luck' CD (Polyvinyl, USA, 2007)
18. Sonic Youth - Rowche Rumble
from '4 Tunna Brix' 12” (Goofin' Records, USA, 1990)
19. Boyracer - Lucifer Over Lancashire
from 'Fool Around With' 12” (Parapop Stereo, Germany, 2004)
20. Reading from Malcolm Lowry - 'Under The Volcano' (Reynal, 1947)
21. Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps - Race With The Devil
from 7” (Capitol, USA, 1956)
22. The Other Half - Mr. Pharmacist
from 7” (GNP, USA, 1966)
23. Reading from William Beckford - Vathek (J. Johnson, 1786)
24. Kris Kristofferson - Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down
from 'Kristofferson' LP (Monument, USA, 1970)
25. Terry Edwards - Totally Wired
from 'Yesterday's Zeitgeist : Terry Edwards In Concert' CD (Sartorial Records, UK, 1999)
26. Link Wray - Jack The Ripper
from ST LP (Swan, UK, 1963)
27. Reading from David Yallop - 'In God's Name' (Bantam, 1984)
28. Nervous Norvus - Transfusion
from 7” (Dot, USA, 1956)
29. The Fall - Excerpt From Hey! Luciani Play
from 'The Fall Box Set 1976 – 2007' CD (Castle, UK, 2007)
30. The Mothers Of Invention - Flower Punk
from 'We're Only In It For The Money' LP (Verve, USA, 1968)
31. Reading from Isaac Bashevis Singer - 'Satan in Goray' (Noonday, 1955)
32. I, Ludicrous - I've Never Been Hit By Mark E. Smith
from 'The Museum Of Installation' CD (Old King Lud, UK, 2003)
33. The Blue Orchids - Addicted To The Day
from 'The Magical Record of Blue Orchids' CD (Tiny Global Productions, UK, 2019)
- MES cited book 'like' (3, 7, 10, 13, 20, 23, 27, 31)
- MES cited music 'like' (1,2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12, 15, 16, 24, 26, 28, 30)
- Covered by The Fall (14, 21, 22)
- Cover of The Fall (17, 18, 19, 25)
- MES text (33)