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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
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 Sรผdenfed
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          Lyrics


          John Peel Session

          Strong pot make the bed
          But plughole would not get
          Shake-off!
          Shake-off to him
          Sisters that conform
          Mr Strong Pot fixed the bathroom where the plughole was disappearing
          Sister would not handle it
          Let them have
          They require that I must go on the crisis meeting
          If you deny the strong pot, says Mr Strong Pot, you will end up eyeball injecting with Domestos or household products containing alcohol within
          So remember that happiness you did not grasp [ ] kumquat
          [ ]

          Deny the strong pot
          If you deny the strong pot
          [ ]

          The Marshall Suite

          Don't give him spike in pot or any crackpot viewpoint 
          Give me the titch who six
          If you deny the strong pot or ecstatic imbibed within
          You will be end up in eyeball injecting
          Our dads' reassessed
          A lesson to all to o'er
          Give me the fright

          Shakedown

          He can't find the lyric
          He avoids death by fright
          Your dad's still facturing that spot in the Simple Minds reform
          Mike will still be operational when you're deaf
          Don't get them smoking the strong pot or all their crackpot viewpoints deny the strong pot
          Micro-plastering
          Micro-plastering
          Micro-plastering
          The wife is giving fright

          Shakedown

          Don't give him spike in pot or any crackpot viewpoints

          Shakedown

          Give me the
          Give me the titch, you said

          Shakedown

          Induces death by fright
          Induces death by fright

          Shakedown

          To fix the bathroom cistern
          That spot in the room he cannot find
          Three point below the shoulder
          Natter natter
          Can't find the cistern
          Mr Strong Pot

          Shakedown

          The connection says "play guitars all night"
          If you deny that strong pot or ecstasy imbibed in, you will end up eyeball injecting with Domestos or household using chemicals that contain

          Shakedown

          A lesson to all to o'er
          A lesson to all to o'er
          A lesson to all to o'er

          Natter natter
          Is giving fright

          Shakedown
          Shakedown

          Your dads arise and your dads play guitars all night

          Shakedown

          Who let Mr Strong Pot in their home to fix the bathroom cistern?
          The spot in the room he cannot find?
          Three point below the shoulder
          Natter natter
          Can't find the cistern
          Mr Strong Pot

          Micro-plastering

          Giving fright

          Give me the ...

          Commentary

          < Post in progress >

          Footnotes

          Sources / Links

          • The Annotated Fall: โ€œShake-Offโ€ [Archived]
          • Smith, Mark E. (2008). Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Mark  E. Smith. London: Penguin.
          • The Track Record: “Shake Off”
          • Wolstencroft, Simon (2014). You Can Drum But You Can’t Hide. London: Strata Books.
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