The Fall – Grotesque (After The Gramme)

Anybody know who plays the kazoo on New Face In Hell?

Similarly anybody aware of any artist who might have used theremin and kazoo? Would love to hear some.

My copy did not come with an insert (just a blank sleeve). Many sellers also comment upon it coming with no insert. Any idea if an insert was ever delivered with the record?

I bagged a copy of this yesterday, its a UK original and wasn't that cheap. There is this annoying double skip right at the start of English Scheme. I can't find any marks and I can usually fix skips but not here. Its very frustrating. Its clean too. Any pressing issues that anyone knows of as I can't find anything on this here 'net....other than that, its great!

Just picked up a gatefold reissue on eat them eat vinyl think they are reissuing a few fall albums this month

There is a sense of a populace just accepting what they are given, and of being reduced to caricatures of themselves. The landscape is grey and unremittingly dismal. People are shuttled around by forces beyond their control. All grows mundane, habitual. "The things that drain you off and drive you off the hinge. / Boils, dirty socks, the ceilings collapse. / The Sunday morning loud lawn mower" ... More at http://theknockingshop.blogspot.ie/2013/05/top-102-albums-no-4-grotesque-after.html

Hey, "Container Drivers" ist great!!!

The Fall: What can one say about them? They have managed to exist for 30-plus years in one form or another. Their early work though, the stuff that sounds like it was made by ambitious people with better ideas than talent, is the best. And despite the instrumental chops, the music, if at times you could call it that, manages to have a certain power, and, well, cojones, if it comes right down to it. Take "Container Drivers"...what the hell is that? An insane attempt at rockabilly that still manages to come off as enjoyable? And "A New Face In Hell", with...kazoo? And Mark E. Smith's ear-splitting shrieks and yelps. I discovered The Fall in 1977 when I stumbled across a copy of Bingo Master's Breakout/Pyscho Mafia, and I, for some reason, was sucked right in and have been a fan to this day. Even saw them live on their US tour supporting "The Frenz Experiment" back in the 80's.... Anyway, it's hard to say that "Grotesque" is just another fine entry in The Fall's catalog, because it's almost like a transition from the old Fall to a newer, well, more close to "music" Fall...but it's also a bunch of insanely enjoyable racket that will drive your neighbors nuts at the proper volume. In fact, it's 7 AM Saturday morning, I think I'll go put it on and turn it up to 11 right now.