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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″
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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
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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

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Mark E. Smith – solo/spoken word
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Pander! Panda! Panzer!
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          Lyrics


          Winter (Hostel-Maxi)

          Entrances uncovered
          Street signs you never saw
          All entrances delivered
          Courtesy winter
          Entrances uncovered
          Street signs you never saw
          All entrances delivered
          Courtesy winter
          Entrances uncovered
          Street signs you never saw
          You got Mani in the library
          Working off his hangover 3:30
          You get the spleen at 3:15
          But it's 3:13
          The mad kid walked left side south side towards me
          He was about seven
          His mother was a cleaning lady
          She had a large black dog
          And the mad kid said, "Gimme the lead, gimme the lead, gimme the lead"
          I'd just walked past the alcoholics' dry-out house
          The lawn was littered with cans of Barbican
          There was a feminist's Austin Maxi parked outside
          With anti-nicotine anti-nuclear stickers on the side.. on the inside
          And they didn't even smoke...
          Anyway two weeks before the mad kid had said to me
          "I'll take both of you on, I'll take both of you on"
          Then he seemed a young one
          He had a parka on and a black cardboard Archbishop's hat
          With a green fuzz skull and crossbones
          He'd just got back from the backward kids' party
          Anyway, then he seemed young one
          But now he looked like the victim of a pogrom
          Entrances uncovered
          Street signs you never saw
          All entrances delivered
          Courtesy winter
          Courtesy winter
          Entrances uncovered
          All enquiries too
          All entrances delivered
          Courtesy winter

          Winter 2

          On the first floor of the dry-out house was a replica dartboard
          And the man on the floor sorta went out of window, over the lawn
          And round to the mad kid
          Please take this medallion
          Please wear this medallion
          It's no sign of authority
          Wear the gold and put it on
          Courtesy winter
          (Winter)
          So around the mad kid
          Man on the first floor said, "I just looked round"
          "I just looked round"
          "I just looked round"
          "And my youth, it was sold"
          "I just looked round"
          "I just looked round"
          "And my youth, it was sold"
          Two white doves cross the sky
          Look like krakens
          And sometimes, that little ...
          Makes me tremble
          Courtesy winter
          Courtesy winter
          The mad kid had four lights, the average is two point five lights
          The mediocre has two lights, the sign of genius is three lights
          There's one light left, that's the one light, that's the science law
          Courtesy winter
          Courtesy winter

          Commentary

          < Post in progress >

          Footnotes

          Sources / Links

          • The Annotated Fall: “Winter (Hostel-Maxi)” [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: “Winter”
          • 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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