Vanity and Presumption

5 June: Single - Cab It Up 19 June: Album - Seminal Live "Today they picked the wrong man" A quieter year but one that caused me issues selection-wise. A year where Brix and MES split and the relationship with Beggar's Banquet came to an end.  That may have something to do with the reduced output and, dare I say, the reduced quality When I've sat down to write these, sometimes I've known exactly which song I'm going to choose as I know the output inside out. Other times I've looked forward to re-discovering some of the group's work that I've neglected for one reason or another. And then there are years where I can't imagine I would have listened to a particular record again. I'm looking at you Seminal Live! Let's start with the single though. I've got the 12 inch which foreshadows the album in that one side has studio recordings, the other live. I'm a big fan of Cab It Up but prefer the full version on last year...

11 January: Single - Victoria 29 February: Album - The Frenz Experiment 24 October: Album - I am Kurious Oranj 31 October: 12th John Peel Session - Kurious Oranj, Dead Beat Descendant, Cab It Up, Squid Lord 7 November: Single -  Jerusalem/Big New Prinz "I had been one day possessed" 1988 started with another cover version single. After the (relative) success of There's a Ghost in My House last year the group played it straight again with another sixties tune, Victoria by The Kinks . According to MES, where the Kinks original was "nostalgic" the Fall's was "reflective of Britain now". It reached number 35 in the charts. The end of February saw the tenth studio album land. The Frenz Experiment was the first Fall album to make the top 20 in that chart. It's another one I hadn't heard for years before I got a new record player. For an album that in some places is described as their most commercial effort and in others as 'o...