THE FALL Wonderful & Frightening World Of... Original UK LP - Post Punk Indie

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THE FALL

The Wonderful & Frightening World Of...

Original UK LP released on Beggars Banquet Records in 1984.

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The Fall made the leap to Beggars Banquet with The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall, hooking up with noted producer John Leckie to create another smart, varied album. Contemporaneous with the slightly friendlier "Oh! Brother" and "C.R.E.E.P." singles, Wonderful and Frightening World makes few concessions to the larger market -- every potential hook seemed spiked with the band's usual rough take-it-or-leave-it stance.

Mark E. Smith's audible, tape-distorting spit on the descending chord blast of "Elves" -- already spiked with enough vocal craziness as it is -- gives a sense of where the album as a whole aims. Brix Smith co-writes about half the tracks, creating a strong partnership with many highlights. It may start with a semi-low-key chant, but when "Lay of the Land" fully kicks in, it does just that, Craig Scanlon in particular pouring on the feedback at the end over the clattering din. Smith sounds as coruscating and hilarious as ever, depicting Britain with an eye for the absurdities and failures (and crucially, no empathy -- it's all about a gimlet eye projected at everyone and everything).

Two further standouts appear on the second half -- "Slang King," a snarling portrayal of a cool-in-his-mind dude and his increasingly pathetic life, and the concluding "Disney's Dream Debased." Though unquestionably the most conventionally attractive tune on the album, ringing guitars and all, Smith's lyrics portray a Disneyland scenario in hell, however softly delivered.

Elsewhere, Gavin Friday from the Virgin Prunes takes a bow with his own unmistakable, spindly vocals on the trebly Krautrock chug of "Copped It" and the slightly more brute rhythm of "Stephen Song."

Tracks Are :-

Side One

Lay Of The Land
2 By 4
Copped It
Elves

Side Two

Slang King
Bug Day
Stephen Song
Craigness
Disney's Dream Debased

Released on 'Beggars Banquet Records' in 1984

Catalogue No. BEGA 58

Disc is in VG+ condition (some surface wear)

Sleeve is in EX condition (light shelfwear)

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