500 Greatest Albums of the 1980s ... Ranked! # 357 The Fall - The Wonderful & Frightening World Of

 

                                                   'Eldritch house. With green moss..'

Wonderful and Frightening is spot on. Full of wonder and terror. This comes from 1984 and they're very much Mark E. Smith's ship now. I wouldn't generally listen to The Fall first thing in the morning. They seem more suited to the Midnight Hour. But today I found this quite bracing while my bath ran. Like an early shift Gym workout with unfit and unruly types whose tracksuits bottoms kept slipping down. I didn't do the whole seventy minute routine I confess.