Released 10 June 1996 Release date 10 June 1996 Genres Rock music, Post-punk | Length 59:30 | |
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The fall d i y meat peel session
The Light User Syndrome is an album (the 18th) by The Fall, released in 1996 on Jet Records. It was the group's first album to feature keyboard player and guitarist Julia Nagle and the last to feature Brix Smith, while longtime guitarist Craig Scanlon quit the group in late 1995 during troubled recording sessions for "The Chiselers" single which preceded the album. A version of "The Chiselers" is included on the album as "Interlude/Chilinism".
Contents
- The fall d i y meat peel session
- The fall the light user syndrome short version by pascal le gras 12 09 1996
- Track listing
- Reissues
- Personnel
- Songs
- References
Brix Smith told Simon Ford that The Light User Syndrome was recorded very quickly, with Mark E. Smith absent for much of the recording, delivering nearly all his vocals on the final day. Despite this, alternate versions of many of the album's tracks featured heavily across the series of compilation albums issued by the Receiver label in the late 1990s. The album also features some vocals from producer Mike Bennett, as well as a rare lead vocal from drummer and guitarist Karl Burns on a cover version of Johnny Paycheck's "Stay Away (Ol' White Train)."
The tour supporting the album was disastrous due to Smith's heavy drinking and misbehaviour, with Brix walking out of the group after the soundcheck at Motherwell Concert Hall (although she would return for one last gig at the Forum in London) and a gig in Worthing being declared by long-serving bassist Steve Hanley to be the worst Fall gig ever. By the end of the year, they were playing without Brix, Nagle and Burns, although both Nagle and Burns would return during 1997 for follow-up album Levitate.
The fall the light user syndrome short version by pascal le gras 12 09 1996
Track listing
- "D.I.Y Meat" (Mark E. Smith, Brix Smith) — 2:37
- "Das Vulture Ans Ein Nutter-Wain" (M. Smith, Stephen Hanley) — 3:00
- "He Pep!" (M. Smith, Simon Wolstencroft) — 3:07
- "Hostile" (M. Smith, B. Smith) — 3:59
- "Stay Away (Ol' White Train)" (Johnny Paycheck) — 2:49
- "Spinetrak" (M. Smith, B. Smith) — 3:08
- "Interlude"/"Chilinism" (M. Smith, Karl Burns, Hanley, Wolstencroft, Julia Nagle, Mike Bennett) — 7:05
- "Powder Keg" (M. Smith, Burns) — 3:16
- "Oleano" (M. Smith) — 3:08
- "Cheetham Hill" (M. Smith, Wolstencroft, Bennett) — 3:31
- "The Coliseum" (M. Smith, Simon Spencer) — 8:08
- "Last Chance To Turn Around" (Vic Milrose, Tony Bruno, Bob Elgin) — 3:21
- "The Ballard Of J. Drummer" (M. Smith) — 4:02 (this is the correct title, it was misprinted on early copies as "The Ballad Of J. Drummer")
- "Oxymoron" (M. Smith, Nagle) — 4:02
- "Secession Man" (M. Smith, Burns, Bennett) — 4:49
Reissues
The album has been reissued twice, firstly by Receiver in 1999 and then by Castle Music in 2002. Both of these editions added "The Chiselers" single as well as its B-side "Chilinist".
Personnel
Songs
1DIY Meat2:37
2Das Vulture Ans Ein Nutter-Wain3:00
3He Pep!3:08