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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 – 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 – expanded Digipak edition Disc 2
Reformation! Post TLC – 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
Peel Sessions
1978-May-30

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


          Well, I've never had a car
          I've never been near a lorry
          Got a nasty habit of scratching my nose
          My codename's Happy Harry
          I'm into C.B.

          I've had loads of jobs for very minute lolly
          Creation schemes, so I suppose I was lucky
          And the money it took to buy the C.B. set took lines off my belly
          My codename's Cedar Plank
          I'm into C.B.
          I'm into C.B.

          At sixteen I drank cheap sherry
          Got plastered in the stations and swing parks
          Off my mother I stole some money
          Had a treat with a bottle of Martini
          So sick I couldn't walk or sit
          Since then I've not touched it
          I won't bore you with tales of being greedy
          I'm just into C.B.
          I'm into C.B.

          My family's a weird lot
          My stepsister's got a horrible growth
          Listens to all this muzak shit
          Reads Smash Hits while she's eating her tea
          To me it sounds like bad C.B.

          My father's not bad really
          He got me these wires and bits
          Apart from that he talks to me hardly
          I'm just into C.B.

          This is Happy Harry Plank from the land of waving palms
          Calling out to Cedar Plank
          Four seven seven C C C
          There's no Code Thirteen in the home of chocolate city
          I'm having trouble with the terminology
          But I'm into C.B.

          I've got this letter before me
          It's buff with a confidential seal
          I'd better open it
          It's a fine and a formal threat
          I should have listened to "New Face in Hell" 1
          The date expired last week
          Up here I forget what time it is
          It says you're going to go when you go
          Or else you're for it boy
          If that's what you get for having a hobby
          Next mail you get will be mail in gaol
          If that's what you get for having a hobby
          Next year mail in gaol
          If that's what you get for having a hobby
          Next time I'm out I'll join a riot
          That's the last you'll hear for me
          I'll keep clear of C.B.
          Keep clear of C.B.
          Keep clear of C.B.

          Commentary

          < Post in progress >

          Footnotes

          1. c.f. the song “New Face in Hell”, which features a doomed wireless enthusiast character. ↩︎

          Sources / Links

          • The Annotated Fall: “I’m Into C.B.” [Archived]
          • Ford, Simon (2003). Hip Priest: the story of Mark E Smith and The Fall. London: Quartet Books.
          • Mackay, Tommy (2018). 40 Odd Years of The Fall. Place of publication unknown: Greg Moodie.
          • Pringle, Steve (2022). You Must Get Them All: The Fall on Record. [paperback edition]. Pontefract: Route Publishing Ltd. [Online store]
          • Smith, Mark E. (1985). The Fall Lyrik & Texte Von Mark E. Smith. In Deutsch & Englisch. With Drawings by Brix. Berlin: The Lough Press. [AKA The Orange Book. Available online in The Internet Archive]
          • Smith, Mark E. (2008). vII. The Lough Press & AMarquisManipulationProductions. [AKA the Blue Lyrics Book]
          • Smith Start, Brix (2016). The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise. London: Faber & Faber. [Text available online in archive.org]
          • The Track Record: “I’m Into C.B.”
          • Wolstencroft, Simon (2014). You Can Drum But You Can’t Hide: a memoir. Trowbridge: Strata Books. (2nd edition published by Route Publishing, 2017).
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