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Albums (and Slates)
Live at the Witch Trials
Dragnet
Grotesque (After the Gramme)
Slates
Hex Enduction Hour
Room to Live
Perverted by Language
The Wonderful and Frightening World of…
This Nation’s Saving Grace
Bend Sinister
The Frenz Experiment
Bremen Nacht Run Out 7″
The Frenz Experiment โ€“ Cassette/CD bonus tracks
I am Kurious Oranj
I am Kurious Oranj – Cassette/CD bonus tracks
Extricate
Extricate – Cassette/CD bonus tracks
Shift-Work
Shift-Work – Cassette/CD bonus tracks
Code: Selfish
The Infotainment Scan
The Infotainment Scan – CD bonus tracks
Middle Class Revolt
Cerebral Caustic
The Light User Syndrome
Levitate
Limited Edition Bonus CD
The Marshall Suite
Limited Edition LP bonus track
The Unutterable
The Unutterable – CD2: Testa Rossa Monitor Mixes
Are You Are Missing Winner
AYAMW 2006 Sanctuary Reissue – bonus tracks
The Real New Fall LP
The Real New Fall LP (Narnack US edition)
Country on the Click (Original Version)
Fall Heads Roll
Reformation! Post TLC
Reformation! Post TLC – Slogan/Sanctuary UK edition
Reformation Post TLC – Narnack US edition
Reformation! Post TLC โ€“ expanded Digipak edition Disc 2
Reformation! Post TLC โ€“ expanded Digipak edition Disc 3: Early Rough Mixes 2006
Imperial Wax Solvent
Imperial Wax Solvent – Britannia Row Recordings
Your Future Our Clutter
Your Future Our Clutter – LP bonus tracks
Ersatz GB
Re-Mit
Sub-Lingual Tablet
New Facts Emerge
Singles and EPs
Bingo-Master’s Break-Out
It’s the New Thing
Rowche Rumble
Fiery Jack
How I Wrote ‘Elastic Man’
Totally Wired
Lie Dream of a Casino Soul
Look, Know
The Man Whose Head Expanded
Kicker Conspiracy / Wings
Marquis Cha-Cha
Oh! Brother
c.r.e.e.p.
Call for Escape Route
Couldn’t Get Ahead / Rollin’ Dany
Cruiser’s Creek
Living Too Late
Mr. Pharmacist
Hey! Luciani
There’s a Ghost in My House
The Peel Sessions EP
Hit the North
Victoria
Jerusalem/Big New Prinz
Cab It Up
Telephone Thing
Popcorn Double Feature
Popcorn Double Feature – Limited Edition
White Lightning
The Dredger EP
High Tension Line
Free Range
Ed’s Babe
Kimble
Why Are People Grudgeful?
Behind the Counter
Behind the Counter, part 1
Behind the Counter, part 2
15 Ways
The Chiselers
Masquerade
Masquerade CD One
Masquerade CD Two
Masquerade 10″
Touch Sensitive
F-‘oldin’ Money
F-‘oldin’ Money – CD #1
F-‘oldin’ Money – CD #2
Rude (All the Time) 7″
The Fall vs. 2003
(We Wish You) A Protein Christmas
Theme from Sparta F.C. #2
Theme from Sparta F.C. #2 – Enhanced CD
2 Librans
Blind Man
Rude (All the Time) EP
I Can Hear the Grass Grow
I Can Hear the Grass Grow – Slogan/Sanctuary 7″
I Can Hear the Grass Grow – Narnack US CD edition
Fall Sound
Reformation! The Single
Slippy Floor
Bury!
Laptop Dog
Night of the Humerons
Sir William Wray
The Remainderer
Wise Ol’ Man
Masquerade (2017 Record Store Day 7″)
O-Mit
Live/Studio Hybrid
Totale’s Turns (It’s Now or Never)
Seminal Live
Seminal Live – Cassette/CD bonus tracks
The Twenty-Seven Points
2G+2
Interim
Live Uurop VIII-XII Places in Sun And Winter, Son

Covers
Instrumentals
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1978-May-30

Mark E. Smith – solo/spoken word
The Post Nearly Man
Pander! Panda! Panzer!
    Mark E. Smith – Collaborations and Guest Vocals
    Von Sรผdenfed
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          Lyrics


          Nought two point three O 1
          The god is going down now
          Red cup growing on desk
          Burnt on digital
          Slow
          More widening
          O two point nineteen
          Whilst the engineers trying to pick up bits left and top of screen
          Two point one one
          Whilst they are amusing themselves
          Trying to make politicians or actors look funny or better
          According to their present or ingrained past beliefs 2
          Two point O six
          Good idea for war history programme
          Torn off bits of pictures of barbed wire
          One point four nine
          One point four nine eight
          Distilled mug art
          Digital distilled altered art
          Distilled cut off screen
          Digitalled by mugs 3
          One point O seven three
          Distilling mugs alter top of heads and make them nasty like
          One point O five
          Put in a paper or CD cover
          Nought nought point five eight
          And give the folks mumps to order with their apple shape
          Nought nought six eight
          Distilled to order
          Faces distilled to order
          Digital mug art

          Commentary

          There are two officially released studio versions of “Distilled Mug Art”. It first appeared on the live/studio hybrid 2G+2 (2002), credited to Mark E. Smith and Ed Blaney. The version on the Rude (All the Time) EP (2005, not to be confused with the 2001 Flitwick 7″ also called Rude (All The Time), which has a different tracklisting) is labelled “mix 15”. There are no significant differences between the tracks.

          The lyrics here are transcribed from the MES vocal on the left channel. There is another vocal on the right channel, but I can’t make out what is being said.

          The track was originally intended to be included on a CD EP called Present (The Present on some accounts), which was to be issued by Voiceprint but was cancelled for unknown reasons. The other tracks would have been “My Ex-Classmates Kids” and “New Formation Sermon” (both also included on 2G+2). See Fall News, 23 August 2001 and 9 September 2001 (where a catalogue number is given) and then 19 October 2001 for the withdrawal announcement and 28 November 2001 for the news that Voiceprint intended to release the EP “in a very different format”.

          The Track Record characterises the track as “an acoustic strumalong… an attack against the computer manipulation of faces.” bzfgt, on annotatedfall.doomby.com, agreed that the theme was “the digital manipulation of images”, but disputed the “attack” interpretation. I agree – the lyrics don’t really contain much by way of “attack” at all. On the other hand, bzfgt also thought there was something of the ideas of the philosopher and cultural critic Walter Benjamin in the lyrics, which seems wildly implausible.

          It is possible to discern three different meanings of “mug” in the lyrics. “Mug” as in cup, “mug” as in face, and “mug” as in “easily fooled”.

          Footnotes

          1. I’ve transcribed all the numbers in the lyrics as words. โ†ฉ๏ธŽ
          2. An echo here of the lyrics to Captain Beefheart’s “Bill’s Corpse”, from Trout Mask Replica: “Various species grouped together/ According to their past beliefs / The only way they ever all got together / Was not in love but shameful grief” (credit to annotatedfall.doomby.com user @Hexan Blumenthal, who pointed this out in comment #4, 4 January 2019). โ†ฉ๏ธŽ
          3. The old Lyrics Parade (incorporated into thefall.org and retained by bzfgt for annotatedfall.doomby.com) had “digital’d”, but I prefer “digitalled” instead. It’s not really a word either way, but I think my rendition looks grammatically correct or at least aesthetically nicer. I suppose it means “computerised” or “rendered digitally”. โ†ฉ๏ธŽ

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