• 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."
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
