The Fall - Smile and 2X4 (The Tube 1983)

[@chrismorrison3696]

The only thing I love more than this band is my dog. And he's a good boy.

[@WinnifredJune]

On 2X4, The drummer on the right is playing 16th notes with both hands on the hi hat, while the drummer on the left is playing 16th note upbeats with his left foot on the hi hat. That is completely wild.

[@sidfletcher4955]

One on left the awesome Karl Burns

[@WinnifredJune]

@sidfletcher4955 The other one is the admirable Paul Hanely, Steve's younger brother. You know what that reminds of - The Velvet Underground with Doug Yule on bass and Doug's little brother on drums playing live.

[@ALotofWind]

Arguably the greatest performance in the Tube's history.

[@nwo4life708]

Or ever by any band?

[@ianrobson9601]

Don't get me wrong I love The Fall but for me personally I think the best performance on The Tube has to be The Cramps. In fact , I think I'll go watch it again once this video ends

[@neets1437]

Hard to disagree

[@chrisgoodson9312]

@@ianrobson9601 Yeah The Cramps' one is awesome. They both are

[@McDoinky]

Love the smiths one

[@deletebilderberg]

‘Repetition in our music and we’re never gonna lose it..’

[@tuna2k10]

The Hanley brothers and Karl Burns are just phenomenal here, what a rhythm section

[@NormanFinkelstein9863]

Not 'Lip' Syncing.

[@michaelsnow7252]

anyone see paul hanley on the chase?

[@tuna2k10]

@@michaelsnow7252 stood next to him at the bar in salford lowry a while back, he's bloody tall

[@JMarinelli]

Best of both worlds.

[@robjohnston1433]

Not a single line on that angelic face! Middle-of-the-road haircut, conservatively dressed, innocent smile ... in the brief pause before he stars singing, we think, "What a sweet boy! This is going to a lovely ballad with singalong chorus." Thank God we are RAPIDLY DISABUSED as the propulsive rhythm, lacerating lyrics and dissonant, angry voice rip our throats out! Undoubtedly THE GREATEST TV debut since Rod Hull's Emu tore Princess Margaret's beating heart from her chest on Blue Peter in 1952!!!

[@mesolithicman164]

Perhaps a bit hyperbolic.

[@edwardswift8519]

He's gone...and so I come to watch this, to remember him at his absolute peak. Thundering, cataclysmic brilliance.

[@siouxiesethlimeatonarteta9066]

Great as they're did since .no basic to us to know,much to hear up audio configuration ,oi.i like to hear so much a music to an ear... VICTORIA..makestical.royal highness Good morning.thanks.love it. The fall.

[@owlytimbre9103]

@@siouxiesethlimeatonarteta9066 no wordlier a salad- uh was zeited up yr geist

[@ColinJessiman]

Lickspittle Southerners

[@MatthewJames-hx9bc]

he hasn’t gone at all

[@shruggzdastr8-facedclown]

Are you referring to Mark Smith or John Peel?

[@oscarrocabert6268]

Steve Hanley. Genius of modern music.

[@nelbert4]

The Fall are like marmite, you either get them or you don't and I most certainly do. I was a latecomer, Hex Enduction Hour was my introduction at the age of 18, but it was like when I heard the Pistols at 13, it was an epiphany. I remember watching this and it just confirmed how there was nobody else like them. Truly one of the best moments of my life and one I never tire of watching, and what truly tops it off is that Peel was instrumental in bringing it the masses. Not that they cared!

[@lewiswyndham9285]

They are like marmite, what a funny yet unerring comparison

[@Mojoworkin]

I read about them first - in Slash magazine ( LA) and then heard them on Rodney Bingenheimer's radio show, 78-79. I instantly thought they were special. First saw them live in the mid 80's, and many times after. I join Henry Rollins and many others in being a superfan.

[@mesolithicman164]

It was not a form of music designed for easy listening pleasure or fashion stylists. You went there, took the punishment and then tried to figure out what it was all about. And then went back for more. Very difficult to explain.

[@arthughes5668]

like the rhubarb on custard. ​@@mesolithicman164

[@MalachiMacTavish]

True. Peel played Fortress/Deer Park when I was 14 and I was never the same again.

[@bukowski20]

This audience was there to be entertained and they got this. Massive. Fuckin brilliant. The untouchable Fall.

[@mesolithicman164]

It's the ones trying to dance that get me.

[@Nobodyreallyatall]

The Fall was incredibly good at this time. Will be one of the most famous bands in history in 500 years. Aliens will buy their surviving records for incredibly large sums, pass them down to your grandkids.

[@hermioneziggeraut7617]

I can't verify this, but I heard that when The Fall did Later with Jools Holland, they specified in their contract that Jools Holland was not to play boogie-woogie over any of the songs.

[@SeeDaRipper...]

HAHAHA that made me fucking laugh..nice one mate ;)

[@glennmcquade4134]

Fuck jools Holland... There I said it

[@XO-nm8nx]

Fuck him and his fucking hootenanny. Fucking midget.

[@garden7168]

Well, the video is on KZbin and Jools ain't playing😂 so...

[@Chrisamusic1]

@@garden7168 I would have loved to have heard Jools TRY to play Boogie Woogie over a fall tune. :-)

[@filled_soda]

Jesus Christ, they were monumental

[@philharrison9893]

My god, this is a brilliant clip. Karl Burns was a monster of a drummer.

[@porterhall27]

there are two drummers on this

[@imadeeplyspanishman]

It’s pronounced MUNSTER !

[@WoodyPerth]

That bass intro on 2x4 !!

[@benhayes9570]

We never see this kind of thing on tea time TV anymore

[@ennbee2051]

Love him or hate him. You can only love Mark E. RIP my man. Love ya Mark.

[@heyalright_]

His screech, no-one will replicate that

[@hauntological]

Correct, yet many singers in recent years keep trying, and failing dismally.

[@djkohoficial]

the best 240p video in this site

[@timhall3575]

5:00 in Hanley on bass.... the man was a beast - incredible...

[@FoogouFilms]

The Brit Beefheart. I've never had idea what he's on about, but he does it eloquently. The intensity!!!

[@JDsmiffy1]

RIP Mark E Smith, one of the best Fall live performances on KZbin.

[@nmeh8755]

I can't seem to turn this up enough

[@kyberhai]

God bless John Peel!

[@pigknickers2975]

I still miss him ....

[@aubertv]

pigknickers JP and MES are hanging together Genius

[@ericrhodes5174]

This is probably the only live recording that captures the apocalyptic atmosphere of the studio version.

[@Tenskwatawa4U]

Apocalyptic... and positively claustrophobic.

[@Tenskwatawa4U]

I always have trouble catching my breath. This song has always been claustrophobic as shit!

[@arthur9924]

The Peel Session is also great

[@mookie2637]

@@arthur9924 I think it's a bit better; like Blindness.

[@fuckamericanidiot]

@@Tenskwatawa4U That personal imploding apocalypse

[@Mojoworkin]

Blowing The Tube away, that's for sure. Stunning prime Fall.

[@ListenToBigFace]

I love how much Jools is obviously being screamed at to get to the band, and he just has to stand in terror watching John's mouth opening and closing

[@buckrogez87]

This song (Smile) has such a power to it. Brilliant choice for TV. "Well Fed, In a Welfare way"-one of many amazing lines. Like a militant march straight through your mind

[@darrenbaker8144]

Met smithy loads on tour He wasn’t shy to join in if you offered a dip in your bag !! Great bloke 👌🏻

[@a.harrison4613]

This is incredible! They are so tight and so perfectly entwined musically. Such great riffs and bass lines. Lyrics and vocals are god like. And the whole thing comes together like something that god put together on his four track and asked what people thought?

[@michaelconnolly7491]

Nothing better than waking up on a sunday morning to MES yelling at me!

[@kingkook3027]

John Peel, a legendary broadcaster and a wonderful man, that I was fortunate enough to meet and spend time with introducing the extraordinary and utterly unique genius of The Fall! What a treat, thank you so much for posting.

[@BillSwansea]

This is the best version of Smile ever.

[@bunglebonce]

This isn't my favourite Fall song but I think Smile from this clip is my favourite live performance of theirs on KZbin.

[@AudieTheMastiff]

Incredible. 2024🎉

[@Jason.Loewenstein]

This is so good!

[@vollsticks]

Jeez The Group sound so incredibly powerful here and M.E.S is on top form I'm still a huge fan of the early 2000's-2017 LP's, though. That last line-up of The Fall was brilliant.

[@austinhcoe]

Brilliant. Sorely missed.

[@lisaaltavilla4095]

The original brilliant FALL !!! 🎤🎶🎸🎶🎶🎶

[@nelbert4]

No, it is one of the best lines ever, there has never been a lyricist like him.

[@victoroladuja2416]

Never remembered seeing Peel on The Tube!

[@kosmischesynth]

The cut in clips of people dancing are hilarious. I can't imagine a less appropriate way to dance to this music...

[@andrewstorey9419]

Steve Hanley take a bow... absolutely awesome.👍

[@rufuspage6210]

Great stuff indeed. Only minus point is there isn't enough footage of Paul Hanley's drumming!

[@darrenlamb5640]

Paul hanleys drumming? Please tell me that was... somehow a joke!!

[@darrenlamb5640]

Burns is the real beast on the drums here!!

[@rufuspage6210]

@@darrenlamb5640 I agree but Hanley does give it some extra beef. And I love Paul's drumming on Slates, way beyond his years :)

[@michaelsnow7252]

he was 19 here....

[@gargantuk]

​@darrenlamb5640 Yes but PH and KB's styles complemented each other. A great unifying force-uh

[@manrodoornail]

The Fall still are and always will be at the very least occasionally excellent. This video is priceless.

[@TobcioccLeyton]

a superb band

[@josejones7025]

Best concert video of Smile! Ever!!

[@spacepodi]

The fall playing in Wolverhampton Poly in 1998 (I think) remains one of the best gigs I have ever attended in my life.

[@arthurkettle3010]

Extraordinarily brilliant.....

[@nelbert4]

Never a truer word said. Smile is a song I would truly go to my grave with.

[@silverash63]

Saw these in Burnley with John Cooper Clark in support, great night

[@realfingertrouble]

RIP Mark :-(

[@piynubbunyip]

It is very cool how the group are side on.

[@Atom1990-m2j]

Kudos to the dancers who found a danceable rhythm in all that.

[@Jlipnicki]

Canny Lasses.

[@DylanWhite-k5j]

Karl showed those drums no mercy!.

[@austinhcoe]

"When I'm dead and gone My vibrations will live on In vibes on vinyl through the years People will dance to my waves Rock it! Rock it! It's quester psykick dance-hall..."

[@croiners4166]

Will never forget seeing them around this time in nyc , rip mark

[@brucefindlay]

The music lives on ......... smile. ✌

[@JDsmiffy1]

Brilliant stuff! You have to... Smile!

[@FromTheMoshPit]

by Christ this is bloody good! 31 studio albums to devour from the UK's greatest "underground" group (for want of a better word). musical addiction.

[@seanhughes1808]

SO GOOD

[@nath909]

Sublime. Best band ever.

[@AnthonyMonaghan]

I agree with what you say up to a point, there was some really good stuff on it, I particularly remember The Smiths appearance on the day they released The Queen is Dead...Brilliant. I probably hated this when I was a 13 year old heavy metal kid, but I love it now.

[@yulia_romanova_]

Watching this in 2020. R.I.P. Mark 😢

[@Stoufferthecat]

Great stuff. Sound like these guys may have been an influence for Daughters.

[@palfab962ify]

gr8 stuff...miss him..

[@KUMTV]

The Fall is Gospel

[@stevenaball333]

Mark E Smith at his snarling unflinching best, they don’t make frontmen like that any more if ever.

[@dee_seejay]

"I love The Fall in a way I can't explain", explained an early admirer on the back of _Early Years 77-79._ That always stuck with me, and your comment reminded me of it. What a phenomenal group.

[@GARIJPUNQ]

thanks for putting these up ,been after seeing this properly for years-saw it when it was on,a mate video'd it-& watched it every tues af'noon when we skived school!-always thought k.burns had a donkey jacket on! -this is by far the best version of SMILE in my opinion-incredible,can remember smith's big pink collared shirt..great bass 'man-handling' by mr handley-& two drummers for christ sake!!- ABSOLUTE MAGIC:-SMITH/BURNS/SCANLAN/& THE HANLEYS (& brix if i have to..) I SALUTE CHEW!

[@dessiemckenzie5857]

In an impossible to determine race of excellence this is the best thing live on TV ever until they appear the next time

[@louisemagill8295]

I wish MES could have stayed this age forever. Can't believe he's gone. Never thought he'd die. Met him at this age. Knocked on his door in prestwich and he said, deadpan "I'm in the middle of me tea" I couldn't speak. I was such a knob 😂

[@TBFBTBFB]

fantastic.

[@romantotalerant7767]

still a fucking great rush. the goosebumps still appear. so real. if only most of the people there knew what they have!!? go on ginger you can do it!

[@mundaneman1811]

Love the look of some of the audience faces ‘wtf?’

[@68majortom]

What a performance magic!!

[@chrisgomez215]

WISH I WAS THIS COOL.

[@jonanjello]

Damn. Great performance of Smile!

[@chrishorn855]

The greatest rock band of all time!!!!

[@zigzagwandra]

perfect

[@andykopgod]

Thats just blown my mind 💪👍👏

[@chrispiazza7487]

greatest live performance ever

[@qdbpqdbp1]

fantastic

[@birdsnest69]

Miss this band so much.

[@gargantuk]

Watching Karl Burns drum on this - what a treat. Craig Scanlon, unintentionally cool as fuck and that moment when the hairs on your neck stick up when Hanley joins in with his monster bass on Smile. Positive GBH-uh. Fucking amazing 👏

[@jonmakowski8536]

Rest assured. The Fall are the greatest bad ever. Feel this and feel superior. Disagree and fade away.

[@philharrison9893]

You see something like this and it's pretty much self-evident, isn't it?

[@leecarlson728]

There can be no debate on this.

[@badlarry172]

is right

[@timfeleppa3156]

I am a bit of a Beatles pussy but you may be right. I find myself getting teary eyed with The Fall too. And he is so crabby and drunk and unpleasant and shit but wow he could write.

[@aubertv]

Bluenose 1986 Still are

[@janellelamarche]

this is an awesome version. smile creeps!

[@45cave45cave]

I -love this-song-you creep-★

[@smegger68]

That Steve Hanley bass sound though...

[@vivouk]

RIP John Peel.

[@thegloriousmoodman2152]

Hell yah.

[@flips300021]

A defining moment

[@Cavitation68]

To think the The Tube ceased broadcasting cos Jools Holland uttered a swear word before the watershed! Madness… I love The Fall !

[@MrRadiouser]

Yep, best of the Tube is this Fall performance!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@bierigblondje]

saw them in holland tivoli utrecht 83,first number was smile.

[@Takac1979]

Absolute knock out! MES is the man!

[@louiesimon5292]

If humans had created nothing other than this, it would have all been worth it.

[@LiveinReykjavik]

@BillSwansea Elephant Fayre has the best Smile ever! The whole gig is... sickly good.

[@rochfordsnrubbs6855]

The noise crescendos in this performance during 2x4 are are such a fantastic racket. I watch this every few weeks I reckon, always come back to it

[@Sportbilly121]

remember this at the time ..would love someone decent and worthwhile to do a clean, crisp, rockin' version of this

[@PontiacS.]

I saw The Fall in sept.1982 when they had two drummers, one of which switched to Bass so they had two bassists, sometimes.