6CD - The Fall - The Infotainment Scan

6CD - UK import

 The Infotainment Scan’ was originally released in 1993 and was the band 15th studio  album reaching no 9 on the album chart. 

•    This set contains singles and demos as well as BBC sessions and three live shows from the era.

•    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 

The Fall are an English post-punk band, formed in Manchester in 1976. The band has  existed in some form ever since, and is 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 has gone through several stylistic changes over the years, but is  often characterised by an abrasive guitar-driven sound and frequent use of repetition, and 

The band is noted for its prolific output: and have 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 have 

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

The Infotainment Scan

1  Ladybird (Green Grass)

2  Lost In Music

3  Glam Racket

4  I'm Going to Spain

5  It's A Curse

6  Paranoia Man in Cheap Shit Room

7  Service

8  The League of Bald-Headed Men

9 A Past Gone Mad

10  Light/Fireworks

DISC TWO

Bonus Tracks

1  Why Are People Grudgeful?

2  League Moon Monkey Mix

3  Why Are People Grudgeful?

- Permanent Single

4  Glam Racket - Permanent Single

5  The Re-Mixer - Permanent Single

6  Lost In Music - Permanent Single

7 A Past Gone Mad -

Alternate Version

8  Instrumental Outtake

9  Service - Instrumental Demo

10  Glam Racket -

Instrumental Demo

11  Lost In Music - Mix 3

12  Lost In Music - Mix 7

13  Lost In Music - Mix 14

DISC THREE

At the BBC Peel Session 13/3/93

1  Ladybird (Green Grass)

2  Strychnine

3  Service

4  Paranoia Man In Cheap Sh*t Room

Mark Goodier Session 17/5/93

5  Glam Racket

6  War

7  15 Ways

8 A Past Gone Mad

Hallam University, Sheffield - April 7th 1993

9  Intro

10  Why are People Grudgeful?

11  Ladybird

12  Glam Racket

13  Free Range

14  Going to Spain

15  The League of Bald-Headed Men

16  Lost In Music

DISC FOUR

1993 11th October Batschkapp Frankfurt Germany

1  Intro Track

2  M5

3  Ladybird (Green Grass)

4  High Tension Line

5  Glam Racket

6  Why Are People Grudgeful?

7  I'm Going to Spain

8  Free Range

9  Behind The Counter

10  Strychnine

11  Big New Prinz

12  A Past Gone Mad

13  Lost In Music

14  Paranoia Man in Cheap Shit Room

15  Idiot Joy Showland

16  (Instrumental Interlude)

17  The Mixer

18  Dead Beat Descendant

DISC FIVE

Live At Liberty Lunch, Austin, Texas, 11th September 1993

1  Intro

2  M5 [aborted]

3  M5

4  Ladybird (Green Grass)

5  Paranoia Man in Cheap Shit Room

6  Lost In Music

7  Idiot Joy Showland

8  Big New Prinz

9  Free Range

10  I'm Going to Spain

DISC SIX

Live At Liberty Lunch, Austin, Texas, 11th September 1993

1  Glam-Racket

2  Why Are People Grudgeful?

3 A Past Gone Mad

4  Strychnine

5  League Of Bald-Headed Men

6  Dead Beat Descendant

7  Return

8  The Mixer

9  High Tension Line