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Have you seen this? It's no masterpiece but worth a look, a good period piece in fact, it pops up for free on Youtube every so often...

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Made (1972) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]

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Mortlake N. @naikcorb.bsky.social · 9h

"The German groups", as Mark E. called them.

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Mortlake N. @naikcorb.bsky.social · 10h

It sounds daft now, but hearing those clanging 10-minute Fall songs - was this Prog Rock!?! - on late night radio for the first time when my folks had gone to bed, and while my school pals were still listening to 2-Tone & Deep Purple, did seem very clandestine & exciting...

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Mortlake N. @naikcorb.bsky.social · 11h

They used to start their gigs with this in early '83 - I'd love to hear a comp of the different versions.

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Mortlake N. @naikcorb.bsky.social · 11h

You mean this? my9albums.org

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Mortlake N. @naikcorb.bsky.social · 11h

I first tuned in to hear (& tape) New Order's 2nd session in June '82. The first Fall session I heard was the MASSIVE March '83 one which honestly blew my mind - that version of "Garden" is still my favourite ever performance by them. By that point I was listening most nights & taping everything...

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Mortlake N. @naikcorb.bsky.social · 22h

The Fall didn't really enter my consciousness until '82, when I started irregularly listening to Peel. The first song I remember hearing by them was "Look! Know" but I didn't own it 'til later. They got a few mentions in Smash Hits before that though, it even printed the lyric to "New Face In Hell"!

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Mortlake N. @naikcorb.bsky.social · 23h

Side 2 was a bit of an endurance test at first, but of course it hypnotised me and sucked me in. His lyrics on the first side are so funny, along with his band's ramshackle boogie it definitely prepared me for The Fall.

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Mortlake N. @naikcorb.bsky.social · 23h

Highway 61 Revisited is probably a better album, but I heard BIABH much earlier - side one blew my teenage mind while the second expanded it. Bob '65 = Prince of Snot!

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Bob Dylan - On the Road Again (Official Audio)

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Mortlake N. @naikcorb.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's the first pop record I owned, my mum bought it for me from the Co-Op because I was enjoying those summer holiday repeats of their old TV series so much, and I still stand by every single song on it. It's been re-released a few times since but this is the sleeve mine came in. Listen To The Band!

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Mortlake N. @naikcorb.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

One of the greatest of all bands anywhere ever.

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Mortlake N. @naikcorb.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Bedroom Databank, aged 7 to 14.

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Mortlake N. @naikcorb.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Get off of your horse and drink your Greenall Whitley.

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Mortlake N. @naikcorb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's a fantastic box-set, Jon. I'm strictly limiting myself to one disc per day to avoid (ahem) premature evaluation.

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Mortlake N. @naikcorb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Argh. Teenage memories flooding back of waiting for the Saturday evening bus back home from town, carrying a bag of new records and praying the lurking local peanut heads don't notice me.

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Mortlake N. @naikcorb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Also: "Can't you see that Holzer mane?"

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Mortlake N. @naikcorb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ta, I had no idea there was a Mixing It session. And now you've got me pining for the days of Sandall and Russell - when you think how pathetically cheap that programme must've cost to produce (pence, surely?) it does still make you wonder why the BBC saw fit to cancel it...

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Mortlake N. @naikcorb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

He appears to've nodded off.

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Mortlake N. @naikcorb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This album always gets a merciless slagging - I like it!

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Mortlake N. @naikcorb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'd love to see Gerry live, I can't abide the idea of Teen FC carrying on without him, his songs were always my faves.

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Mortlake N. @naikcorb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Serious question: what's your opinion of the oodles of bonus material - worthwhile additions or play-once filler?

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Mortlake N. @naikcorb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's one of the best double LPs ever, right up there with Zen Arcade for me. My CD is very old, a late '80s pressing, sounds a bit thin, etc. I'm tempted by the much later 2cd reissue - remastered with 20(!) extra tracks, and it wasn't very expensive last time I looked either?

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Mortlake N. @naikcorb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Lolita Nation is an album I haven't listened to for a LONG time. It was one of the very first CDs I ever bought too.

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Mortlake N. @naikcorb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think you're right. My dad owned this one too and I played it to death while hypnotised by the photo collage inside the gatefold:

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Mortlake N. @naikcorb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Pleased to see That'll Be The Day in there, the follow-up Stardust OST was similarly totemic for the wee me.

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Mortlake N. @naikcorb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Interesting also that Thom Yorke somehow snuck into Linder's cover painting?

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

All this country’s most important people lined up to declare that Boris Johnson was the man of the moment, the PM the country cried out for, when they were required to do it. Trust me: if these clowns are called on to salute Kemi as our disastrously online new fuhrer, they will do it obediently.

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Mortlake N. @naikcorb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'd rather be stuck in a field of hippies than with the self-obsessed TikTok c*nts who buy tickets to it nowadays. Half the crowd jumped the fence back in't day!

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Mortlake N. @naikcorb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I quite like Flowers (2001) but it's definitely no Porcupine and I haven't felt the urge to listen to anything by them since.

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Mortlake N. @naikcorb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Facebook's retro-glancing algorithm tells me I first posted this 6 years ago. I am a rabbit from East Germany (but Only When I Laugh).

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Mortlake N. @naikcorb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There's a sad story behind its non-hit status unfortunately - WikiP has the details: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win_(ba... It's always been a hit 'round my gaff though!

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Mortlake N. @naikcorb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Turbo '80s innit? The entire LP is bang on - at least half of its songs could've been singles.

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Mortlake N. @naikcorb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Invisible Invasion is the one I revisit the most - bit of a masterpiece if you ask me?

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Mortlake N. @naikcorb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm not a mega-fan or anything, but the LP that single was taken from is an absolute classic - "Magic" is a bit of a strange shoo-in though, the rest of it is pretty dark (I love it, of course).

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Mortlake N. @naikcorb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They're still ridiculously underrated - I've never seen them live but (at least) a couple of their LPs are bona fide classics.

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Mortlake N. @naikcorb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Chiles, provincial progeny of Lovecraft and M.R. James? Palpable M.E. Smith lyric potential. #FallFriday

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Mortlake N. @naikcorb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don't listen to vinyl very often nowadays, but if ever I do pull an album off the shelf a clutch of faded music press cuttings usually come fluttering out of the sleeve...

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Mortlake N. @naikcorb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Fall's cover of this is obviously a corker, but the Big Bopper's original version is hard to beat. #FallFriday

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White Lightning

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Mortlake N. @naikcorb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I bought it at the time (from Woolworths!) because I'd seen the song-words in Smash Hits, & something about them & the accompanying photo piqued my interest - I'd only heard *of* Joy Division at that point. Spring 1981 - big changes afoot, my musical world was about to explode into technicolour...

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Mortlake N. @naikcorb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This version, recorded by the 3-piece line-up, is still my favourite of everything they've released (Everything"s Gone Green a close second...).

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