Tag: Instrumentals

  • White Lines

    White Lines

    Date published:
    Last updated:

    Instrumental outtake. Credit: Mark E. Smith/Simon Wolstencroft First released: “Oxymoron” (Receiver Records, 1997)

  • Outro [27 Points]

    Date published:
    Last updated:

    Lyrics < Instrumental > Commentary < Post in progress > Footnotes Sources / Links

  • Classical Gas

    Date published:
    Last updated:

    Lyrics < Instrumental > Commentary < Post in progress > Footnotes Sources / Links

  • Groovin’ with Mr. Bloe

    Groovin’ with Mr. Bloe

    Date published:
    Last updated:

    John Peel session track. Recorded on 19 February 2003. Broadcast 13 March 2003.

  • The Love Between

    Date published:
    Last updated:

    Lyrics White Fence April come and weigh a tonMany hate the alphabetYou keepInsideCan you do right?Can you be right next to me?I think it’s more about the love betweenWaking upGo to workJoin the raceTimes are badMake or takeYour time in spaceTake a restOn your plainTake a V ride you’ll never forgetAnd i think that your…

  • Tunnel

    Date published:
    Last updated:

    Lyrics < Instrumental > Commentary < Post in progress > Footnotes Sources / Links

  • Countdown

    Countdown

    Date published:
    Last updated:

    Lyrics < Instrumental > Commentary A chirpy little instrumental with a surf/garage type beat. The slower bit is infectious and almost nursery rhyme like. “Countdown” was the title bestowed on this “hectic, bubbly instrumental” when a live recording from Irving Plaza, New York City (1 March 1986) was included on disc 5 (“Live Rarities”) of…

  • Interferance

    Date published:
    Last updated:

    Only known performance: Bierkeller, Bristol, 28 January 1997. Credits: Mark E. Smith and Julia Nagle.

  • I’m Ronnie The Oney

    Date published:
    Last updated:

    Lyrics < Instrumental > Commentary < Post in progress > Footnotes Sources / Links

  • All Leave Cancelled (X)

    Date published:
    Last updated:

    Lyrics < Instrumental > Commentary < Post in progress > Footnotes Sources / Links

  • No Respects (Intro)

    Date published:
    Last updated:

    Lyrics < Instrumental > Commentary < Post in progress > Footnotes Sources / Links

  • Song 2/3 With Tape Of Tour Manager

    Date published:
    Last updated:

    Lyrics < Instrumental > Commentary < Post in progress > Footnotes Sources / Links

  • Onto Insanity

    Onto Insanity

    Date published:
    Last updated:

    “Rough Mix”, first released on disc 2 of expanded digipak edition of “Reformation! Post TLC” (Cherry Red, 2020). Credit: The Fall.

  • The Bad Stuff

    Date published:
    Last updated:

    Lyrics < Instrumental / Recorded voices; untranscribable > Commentary < Post in progress > Footnotes Sources / Links

  • 41 Loop

    Date published:
    Last updated:

    Lyrics < Instrumental > Commentary On The Real New Fall LP, “Loop 41” (“41 Loop” on the US version of the album) is paired with “Houston” as a single track, but it acts as a half-minute prelude. It was occasionally played on tape at gigs, but never performed live as far as we know. It…

  • Loop 41

    Date published:
    Last updated:

    Lyrics < Instrumental > Commentary On The Real New Fall LP, “Loop 41” (“41 Loop” on the US version of the album) is paired with “Houston” as a single track, but it acts as a half-minute prelude. It was occasionally played on tape at gigs, but never performed live as far as we know. It…

  • Early Life of Crying Marshal

    Date published:
    Last updated:

    Lyrics < Instrumental > Commentary < Post in progress > Footnotes Sources / Links

  • Tragic Days

    Date published:
    Last updated:

    Lyrics < Instrumental > Commentary < Post in progress > Footnotes Sources / Links

  • Jap Kid

    Date published:
    Last updated:

    Lyrics < Instrumental > Commentary < Post in progress > Footnotes Sources / Links

  • Italiano

    Date published:
    Last updated:

    Lyrics < Instrumental > Commentary < Post in progress > Footnotes Sources / Links

  • The Funeral Mix

    Date published:
    Last updated:

    Lyrics < Instrumental > Commentary < Post in progress > Footnotes Sources / Links

  • Mansion

    Date published:
    Last updated:

    Lyrics < Instrumental > Commentary < Post in progress > “Mansion” is an instrumental version of the track “To Nkroachment: Yarbles”. “Mansion” wasn’t ever played live in the 1980s (except as an intro tape), but received a surprise debut at a gig at the Rockhouse, Salzburg, Austria, on 21 February 2002. Footnotes Sources / Links

  • Edie

    Edie

    Date published:
    Last updated:

    Lyrics < Instrumental > Commentary I sat on my dorm-room bed and played for hours. The bass guitar became an extension of my body. My fingers blistered, on both hands, but the joy of playing overrode any pain. Effortlessly, a song fell into place. It was so natural and easy, I didn’t have time to…

  • Dramatic

    Date published:
    Last updated:

    Lyrics < Instrumental > Commentary I guess I have to accept responsibility for leaking this demo into trading circles. It was a demo for Country On The Click. Jim Watts guitar, Brian Fanning bass, Dave Milner drums. Dave Milner composed the bassline and drums and Jim improvised the guitar line as it was recorded in…

  • Get Out

    Date published:
    Last updated:

    Lyrics < Instrumental > Commentary “Get Out” is probably my favourite of the instrumental “early rough mix” tracks found on disc 3 of Cherry Red’s 4 x CD “expanded Digipak edition” of Reformation! Post-TLC (2020). This one is credited to “Smith”, but, as with the others, the liner notes provide zero information about when and…

  • Wed 2

    Date published:
    Last updated:

    Lyrics < Instrumental > Commentary An “early rough mix” – one of several such instrumentals – only found on disc 3 of Cherry Red’s 4 x CD “expanded Digipak edition” of Reformation! Post-TLC (2020). The liner notes lack any useful information whatsoever, and so we don’t know exactly when or where “Wed 2” was recorded,…

  • Blonde

    Date published:
    Last updated:

    Lyrics < Instrumental > Commentary The instrumental “early rough mix” found on disc 3 of Cherry Red’s 4xCD “expanded Digipak edition” of Reformation! Post-TLC (2020) is the only version of “Blonde” currently available. It is credited to “The Fall”, but the uninformative liner notes don’t say exactly when or where it was recorded or who…

  • The Vine

    The Vine

    Date published:
    Last updated:

    Lyrics < Instrumental > Commentary “The Vine” exists in only one version: an instrumental “early rough mix” found on disc 3 of Cherry Red’s 4 x CD “expanded Digipak edition” of Reformation! Post-TLC (2020). It is credited to “The Fall”. As far as we know, the song was never played live. The Track Record describes…

  • 60’s Wack

    60’s Wack

    Date published:
    Last updated:

    Lyrics < Instrumental > Commentary The sole available version of “60’s Wack” is the instrumental “early rough mix” found on disc 3 of Cherry Red’s 4xCD “expanded Digipak edition” of Reformation! Post-TLC (2020), and credited to “The Fall”. The song was never played live, as far as we know. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary provides…

  • The Boss

    Date published:
    Last updated:

    Lyrics < Instrumental > Commentary “The Boss”, which never had decipherable lyrics, was only ever played during the first half of 2006; for the first time at Petrol, Antwerp, on 26 January. It was played for the last time at the Brickhouse Theater, Phoenix, Arizona, on 7 May. That was the last time that Spencer…

  • Ben’s Instrumental

    Ben’s Instrumental

    Date published:
    Last updated:

    Lyrics < Instrumental > Commentary “Ben’s Instrumental” is the fan-bestowed title for what The Track Record describes as “a fairly repetitive instrumental, mainly featuring guitarist Ben Pritchard”, which opened The Fall’s gig at the Cartoon Club, Croydon, on 15 March 2006. It is not known whether this was a nascent song idea, or Pritchard noodling…

  • Instrum Two AKA Two

    Date published:
    Last updated:

    Lyrics < Instrumental > Commentary An instrumental outtake from the recording sessions for The Fall’s album, The Unutterable (released 2000). Along with “Instrum One“, it was first released on the second disc (known as the “Testa Rossa Monitor Mixes”) of Voiceprint’s two-CD “deluxe edition” of The Unutterable (2008). A bootleg version with the title “Weirdo”…

  • Instrum One

    Date published:
    Last updated:

    Lyrics < Instrumental > Commentary An instrumental outtake from the recording sessions for The Fall’s album, The Unutterable (released 2000). Along with “Instrum Two AKA Two“, it was first released on the second disc (known as the “Testa Rossa Monitor Mixes”) of Voiceprint’s two-CD “deluxe edition” of The Unutterable (2008). A bootleg version with the…