The Fall: Fall Heads Roll, 4CD Clamshell

• Recorded at Lisa Stansfield's Gracieland studios in Rochdale as well as New York. 

• This box released in conjunction with Narnack features the original album as well as sessions, B-sides, a live show from the time and a complete disc of Demos from Chapel Studios.           

• This Set as with the other Fall reissues has been compiled in conjunction with Fall expert Conway Patton and has notes by Fall guru Daryl Easlea and have been mastered by long time engineer Andy Pearce with art by Becky Stewart.  

• These new expanded editions include previously unseen photos and memorabilia kindly supplied by Eleni Poulou.

The Fall were an English post-punk band, formed in Manchester in 1976. The band existed in some form ever since, and was essentially built around its founder and only constant member Mark E. Smith. Initially associated with the punk movement of the late 1970s, the group's music went through several stylistic changes over the years, but is often characterised by an abrasive guitar-driven sound and frequent use of repetition, and was always underpinned by Smith's distinctive vocals and often cryptic lyrics.

The band was noted for its prolific output: and released over 25 studio albums, and more than triple that counting live albums and other releases. They have never achieved widespread public success beyond a handful of minor hit singles in the late 1980s, but maintained a strong cult following. The band were long-associated with BBC disc jockey John Peel, who championed them from early on in their career and cited The Fall as his favourite band, famously explaining, "They are always different; they are always the same."

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE
Fall Heads Roll 
1 Ride Away  
2 Pacifying Joint  
3 What About Us?  
4 Midnight In Aspen  
5 Assume  
6 Aspen Reprise  
7 Blindness  
8 I Can Hear The Grass Grow  
9 Bo Demmick 
10 Youwanner  
11 Clasp Hands  
12 Early Days Of Channel Führer  
13 Breaking The Rules 
14 Trust In Me  

DISC TWO
Sessions And Singles   
1 Blindness - John Peel - 04/08/2004 
2 Clasp Hands - John Peel - 04/08/2004 
3 What About Us - John Peel - 04/08/2004 
4 Wrong Place Wrong Time / I Can Hear the 
Grass Grow - John Peel - 04/08/2004 
5 Job Search - John Peel - 04/08/2004 
6 Blindness - Heads Roll - US Alt version 
7 I Can Hear the Grass Grow - Slow Version 
8 Bo Doodak - Single 
9 Blindness - Interim Version 
10 What About Us - Interim Version 
11 Clasp Hands - Interim Version 
12 Blind Man - Original Demo 
13 Blindness - Alt Version

DISC THREE
Chapel Studio Demos   
1 The Boss  
2 Systamatic Abuse  
3 Party Song  
4 Twang  
5 Get Out  
6 The V One  
7 Spencers Cut  
8 Steve Country  
9 Wed Z  
10 Boil A Chicken  
11 White Line  
12 Benneets Rocker  
13 Brimstone  
14 Fuzz  

DISC FOUR
Leeds 27/08/2006  
1 Bo Demmick 
2 Pacifying Joint  
3 Theme From Sparta FC   
4 What About Us?  
5 Reformation!  
6 Mountain Energei  
7 Mr Pharmacist  
8 Blindness  
9 My Door is Never