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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
      etc
        Posts in modified date order (last 15)
        Posts in progress
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        What About Us?

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          Lyrics

          Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
          Well, leg-end living
          We are living leg-ends
          The living leg-end
          I am a rabbit from East Germany 
          I was very happy
          And I could get anything I want
          I was so oh happy
          Then I moved to North Britain
          I became an immigrant
          I could frolic around all night, in the green grass
          I was sort of happy
          Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
          But then one night, by the green grass
          By a rubbish receptacle
          I saw a newspaper
          I was not very happy
          There was a man going round all the time
          He was dishing out drugs
          He was a doctor
          Dishing out morphine to old ladies
          I said, what about us? 
          (Shipman!)
          What about us? 
          (Shipman!)
          What about us? (Shipman!)
          What about us? 
          (Shipman!)
          What about us, Shipman?
          What about us?
          (Shipman!)
          What about us, Shipman?
          What about us?
          (Shipman!)
          Hop hop hop!
          Hop hop hop!
          Hop hop hop!
          I'm an immigrant from East Germany
          I was sort of happy
          I could frolic around a lot
          In the train station
          I could get anything I want
          There was a doctor going around
          He was dishing out drugs
          He was dishing out left and right, to old ladies
          So don't get me wrong, people in Great Britain
          Please don't get me wrong
          Hop hop hop!
          Hop hop hop!
          Hop hop hop!
          Please don't get me wrong
          Hop hop hop!
          What about us?
          (Shipman!)
          What about us?
          (Shipman!)
          What about us?
          (Shipman!)
          What about us?
          (Shipman!)
          What about us, Shipman?
          What about us?
          (Shipman!)
          What about us, Shipman?
          What about us?
          (Shipman!)
          What about us?
          (Shipman!)
          What about us, Shipman?
          What about us?
          (Shipman!)
          What about us, Shipman?

          Commentary

          < Post in progress >

          Footnotes

          Sources / Links

          • The Annotated Fall: “What About Us?” [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: “What About Us?”
          • 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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