*Bought that first record of theirs, man, I couldn't stop. I had heaps of FALL product. I always knew where Mark was coming from. I still wonder why. Mark never wanted to be an easy guy to understand.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jan/24/mark-e-smith-the-fall
"From the moment I heard Totally Wired in a friend’s cellar at an impressionable age, Smith’s lyrics had a seismic effect on me. To listen to my first Fall album, Grotesque (After the Gramme) was to enter an unknowable netherworld of “hydrochloric shaved weirds”, “new faces in hell”, hideous replicas of much-loathed dog breeders and a worldview that sneered at Englishmen, councils, rapists, northerners, southerners, students, tourists, dogs and, well, pretty much everyone and everything. This was not the language I knew from pop. It was more like musical science fiction."
https://youtu.be/_3upVG_Bj3A
