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Released
  
May 5, 1980

Totale's Turns (It's Now or Never)(1980)
  
Grotesque(1980)

Release date
  
5 May 1980

Genre
  
Post-punk

Length
  
43:05

Artist
  
The Fall

Label
  
Rough Trade Records

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Recorded
  
October 27, 1979 - February 29, 1980

Similar
  
The Fall albums, Post-punk albums

Totale's Turns (It's Now or Never) is a live album by The Fall, originally released on May 5, 1980. The first of the band's many live and part-live albums, it was mostly recorded at gigs in the north of England, but the track "New Puritan" was recorded at Mark E. Smith's home and "That Man" is a studio recording, an outtake from the recording sessions for the "Fiery Jack" single.

Contents

Rather than record themselves in front of a receptive home crowd, the Fall chose to use recordings made in working men's clubs and other less obvious settings; Side 1 of the album was recorded at a leisure centre near Doncaster while the first two tracks on Side 2 are from a February 1980 gig in Bradford. It is clear on the recording that the reception the band received ranged from indifferent to hostile. Even more peculiar is "No Xmas for John Quays", a song originally heard on Live at the Witch Trials; in this version, Mark E. Smith intersperses the lyrics with ferociously worded criticisms of the band's performance.

Side one

  1. "Intro" (Mark E. Smith) – 0:46
  2. "Fiery Jack" (Smith, Marc Riley, Steve Hanley, Craig Scanlon) – 4:27
  3. "Rowche Rumble" (Smith, Riley, Scanlon) – 4:50
  4. "Muzorewi's Daughter" (Smith, Kay Carroll) – 3:42
  5. "In My Area" (Smith, Yvonne Pawlett, Riley, Scanlon) – 4:31
  6. "Choc Stock" (Smith, Scanlon) – 2:33

Side two

  1. "Spector Vs Rector 2" (Smith, Mike Leigh, Scanlon, Hanley) – 5:54
  2. "Cary Grant's Wedding" (The Fall) – 3:35
  3. "That Man" (Smith, Riley, Scanlon) – 1:43
  4. "New Puritan" (Smith, Scanlon, Riley, Hanley) – 3:21
  5. "No Xmas for John Quays" (Smith) – 7:43

Reissues

The album has been issued on CD three times, the most recent edition (Castle Music, 2004) adding the Fall's third Peel session. (see The Complete Peel Sessions 1978–2004 for details).

Songs

1Intro / Fiery Jack5:04
2Rowche Rumble4:36
3Muzorewi’s Daughter3:48

References

Totale's Turns Wikipedia
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