I've Never Felt Better In My Life: 1979-1982
Fall
The Great American Music Co., 2008
1 CD
Catalogue #: CD-GA-422
EAN: 0708535114222
UPC: 708535114222
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This concise collection features material from the first five years in the career of seminal British post-punks the Fall. Some hardcore fans will tell you that's the only period that matters, but whether that's true or not, the band's marriage of angular, spindly riffs and Mark E. Smith's vituperative stream of Allen Ginsberg-meets-Johnny Rotten punk poetry is certainly at its most striking on this brief-but-effective 12-track compilation.
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A crucial inspiration to several generations of bands, the Fall virtually defined the late-1970s UK post-punk sound. Fall vocalist Mark E. Smith's sung/spoken rants may owe more to beat poetry than rock & roll, but his sociopolitical iconoclasm and the band's angular, cutting riffs and rhythms placed them squarely at the forefront of Britain's first major post-Pistols musical movement. In the '80s, their rough, guitar-based sounded expanded with the introduction of keyboards and more sophisticated production (largely due to the arrival of Smith's wife Brix as a band member), and personnel came and went, but Smith kept his ragtag rock army soldiering on all the way into the 21st century.
