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1999 - (Jung Nev's) Antidotes

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22 March: Single - Touch Sensitive 19 April: Album - The Marshall Suite 16 August: Single - F-'Oldin' Money "Where chewing gun is chewed, the chewer is pursued" I find myself at odds with The Fall cognoscenti at times about the group's more lightweight 'poppier' songs. I tend to like them because well, rather The Fall do this stuff properly than anyone else right? So I love Touch Sensitive. OK - it's a long way from a great Smith lyric or delivery but it just works. Having said that, I don't think we needed the  seven minute dance version . If you're here you probably know that it was used in a Vauxhall Corsa ad and sparked a court case so I'll leave that there and give you a link to the court judgement if you want a dull read for half an hour. The Marshall Suite continued the run of nineties 'good in parts' albums. It started with the two singles (Touch Sensitive and F-'Oldin' Money) released in 1999 and the