The Fall - Big New Prinz HD

[@mjc1970]

After all of these years, I have never seen the ballet I Am Curious Orange... THANKS!

[@OldGreyMulletTest]

I saw Leigh Bowery perform a few times, and I've been to Michael Clark Company shows, and I've seen The Fall live, but imagine all three at the same time... Mindblowing!! Damn, how I wish I had seen it.

[@vrsq0863]

people don’t commit to art like this anymore. fucking beautiful.

[@tantotonto]

Also: people don’t commit art like this anymore. fucking beautiful.

[@EyeSpyHiFi]

It's fucking glorious isn't it.

[@kayesuga9371]

bands like The Fall shouldnt carry out homages to freemasonry...

[@chelseapoet3664]

Nobody expected the Fall and modern ballet together but it was fecking brilliant

[@richjohns8283]

My granny played bongos on this

[@DawnDee]

RIP Mark E Smith 😢 The world is a duller place without you

[@phils1014]

Dawn I concur. Could not get a carrier bag for love nor money...

[@justmadeit2]

You guys might like my tribute that i just made 1st June 2018, of their song C.R.E.E.P kzbin.info/www/bejne/npDHqGBsmJmJZrM

[@brandycat8513]

The Hip Priest is right there with you when you hum fall tunes didnt U know

[@stevanbg66]

yeah. Mark played some ~3x in Belgrade, 1st time with Brix i think..i was on every concert :(

[@corvideity]

i feel like i see the spectrum in him like i see it in me

[@clairecarlia-jones5979]

I only discovered this band a month ago. They've made me so happy. Mark E. Smith was a genius❤️❣️

[@michaellucas6466]

You've got 1 hell of a lot of great music to discover with this band Claire....enjoy👍👍

[@clairecarlia-jones5979]

@@michaellucas6466 thank you. I'm really excited! I discovered theme from sparta f. c #2 a few days ago. It's magnificent! What an incredible band they were xx 💖

[@michaellucas6466]

@@clairecarlia-jones5979 aaaah 'Sparta Fc'...😍1 of their finest guitar riffs. It was used by the BBC for there football results service many years ago. Check out Mark reading out the football scores from that programme. Its on youtube. Gonna tell u a true story. In the early 80's i was stood outside a kebab shop in Leeds with a mate. I had a FALL T'shirt on. A car pulls up next to me. Mark E Smith hangs his head out of the window...he said "are you coming to see us chap"....i said " jesus christ errrrm yeah".. he said "jump in". I told him for the next 5mins journey to Leeds Poly what a great band they are. His lasts words to me were " thanks cock...but we've arrived now... so f**k off"😂😂😂

[@clairecarlia-jones5979]

@@michaellucas6466 please PLEASE PLEASE TELL ME THAT'S TRUE????!?!?!?!? 🤨 😆 From what I've heard so far it sounds like him! I'll check the clip you mentioned. You've absolutely made my day! We need a time machine so I can be with you outside that legendary kebab shop! You, sir, are a LEGEND!!!! 😝 😝 😝 😝

[@michaellucas6466]

@@clairecarlia-jones5979 i promise you its true. The gig was actually at Leeds Warehouse.. not the Polytechnic. I still have the T'SHIRT i wore that night hung up somewhere cos Mark signed it. It was the HEX/ROOM TO LIVE albums period about 1983. The Fall are the most underrated band ever. A massive influence to many, many bands. I also sat next to Mark in a pub in Brighton before a gig....and people were nearly fighting for an empty cigarette packet he left on the table. Mark E Smith was a legend......but he never knew it.....R.I.P ❤❤

[@gerrydean7696]

Went to high school in Houston TX. in the 80s. Me and my best friend were the only people at our school that listened to the Fall or even knew who they were.

[@jonathanshaw1153]

and thats how should be

[@MrHarvey1968]

But I bet today they all say they were into them 😅

[@markwells7130]

When Mark E Smith arrived at the gates of heaven St Peter said to his assistant "Before we let him in check the guy's track record".

[@hippriest9448]

Then God said “let him in, in life he was not appreciated”.

[@lindaw4988]

LOL!!! Luv it!!

[@tuckercarlsonsmicropenis1283]

He. Is. NOT. Appreciated. “... -uh ...”

[@daneglance7205]

@@tuckercarlsonsmicropenis1283 Love the moniker lol

[@Dweemis]

"Drink the long draft, God"

[@rickbuckley4044]

I remember that crazy night vividly, sitting in the stalls at Saddlers Wells on a cold autumnal evening in 1988. Opening with an orated pornographic text, with a huge image of the Houses of Parliament as a backdrop , followed by Brix Smith playing guitar on a giant hamburger, Leigh Bowery pushing a grand piano across the stage, Mark.E.Smith howling, whilst Micheal Clark & Company manoeuvred so majestically through the whole melee. Artistic endeavour today seems so tame and strategic in comparison.

[@MsMiguel70]

Obviously an important and singular event. Lucky to have been in attendance

[@beecee2205]

@@MsMiguel70 damn right, out of all Fall gigs I went to - this was The One. I got the poster somewhere with all the football stuff on it

[@supergrahamg]

I saw that production too, remember the outre outfits of the dance company, the giant hamburger, and the oh-my-god superfit-skinny fashionista modern-dance aficionado young women all around me in the auditorium, a million miles removed from the blue-rinse crowd middle aged Radio 4 fossils I usually encountered at the RSC or the National Theatre. It was life enhancing. Long live Michael Clark and RIP Mark E Smith. I salute you, sirs !

[@krasteff]

Note that this one is the original recording coupled with life performance video.

[@iancrause1856]

Strategic is the word, you nailed it.

[@thatandrewboardman]

Still mind blowing 30 years later. RIP Mark E Smith.

[@calebrush3833]

A million miles from anything we've seen and heard, let's go there..

[@matthewcoombs3282]

the rhythm section of this era of The Fall was amazing. All the truly great bands have a great rhythm section, drum and bass. The bed rock.....

[@officialsuperrad]

When they had two drummers, it was so sick

[@jjdecani]

If you are in a rock, metal or punk band and you don't have at least a solid drummer, I feel bad for you, son.

[@jeffblack5024]

I’m now in a band with that drummer.

[@geoffpoole483]

You are aware the Fall had lots of line up changes?

[@jeffblack5024]

@@geoffpoole483 as he’s in that video and was The Fall for 11 years, it’s a safe bet.

[@JfK--OBJECTivE]

The Fall, John Peel's favourite band. At the time I couldn't understand it. Now I finally get it - they're brilliant!

[@marcopervo]

This should have been the big pop hit of 1988, with a killer beat and the best advice ever given in a chorus.

[@PS987654321PS]

It more or less was.

[@roberttuss5349]

I know it, right. The small number of times I heard it was on college radio. But it always be a big hit with me.

[@blobboflava]

The Fall came a bit to my homebase Hamburg. They were edgy and their sound and lyrics had a great appeal then and now. One of the bands that aged extremely well.

[@kanyefuck7018]

​@@blobboflavathey have a big Homebase in Hamburg? Very handy.

[@paladin56]

Too good to be a hit. From about 1986 really good stuff stopped getting in to the charts. We had to make do with the likes of Bucks Fizz and Five Star and even, occasionally, Samantha Fox.

[@jamesthomas-uc9wq]

Surely one of the most underrated British music acts, Mark E absolute genius, this song being my favourite

[@eugenekassakov3402]

Underrated?! Bruh, only at John Peel's show they appeared for 24 times, almost every indie band from 80s and up to nowadays has acclaimed them as an influence. In what way The Fall is underrated? You must be tripping.

[@seeingeyegod]

@@eugenekassakov3402 Yeah but none of that is really "mainstream", I would argue. Am I wrong that most average music listening to people have never even heard of The Fall?

[@earinsound]

underrated???? please....definitely not.

[@useruseruseruseruser790]

@@eugenekassakov3402 underrated because most people have never heard of them, fantastic band or not. Just one of those strange in life - why weren’t The Fall huge ?

[@michaelmurphy9312]

James your impetus is good, but us cunts in the trenches can get a bit 'precious' about the MES. Go in peace my son ;-)

[@SunsetScotty]

This was my first introduction to the band, seeing this video late one night when it came out in 1988. I could only think to myself, "What the hell IS this?" It wasn't until many years later that I realized I actually found the song to be brilliant. RIP, Mark E. Smith.

[@seeingeyegod]

That's such a great feeling hehe :) I'm still trying to figure out what this band "is"

[@TheDiamond2009]

Dig deep, you’ll find out.

[@jerrysullivan5036]

Same here. Despite living in Leeds, UK 84-85, I never heard of the Fall until I heard this song on MTV (different video though). So sorry I missed them.

[@drahcir10001]

He is appreciated and will be sorely missed. Our poet laureate.

[@brianhumphrey2]

Absolute!

[@walterwackerhage9688]

I saw them 4 times live in Munich. At every gig they played this song.They were really great perfoming live...and i still have these setlists.

[@iantaylor7840]

To be serious; this is a great example of how the U.K. produced brilliant underground music equivalent to Velvet Underground. Dare I say that Mark in many ways equalled John Cale and Lou Reed.

[@eduardosantillan3048]

So true

[@iantaylor7840]

@@eduardosantillan3048 Thank you Eduardo; you are truly an appreciator of real music. Respect.

[@JJONNYREPP]

@@iantaylor7840 The Fall - Big New Prinz 1138am 5.3.22 jeeez wont the skanky punx from the royal oak just bugger off!!!!(?) other folk enjoy music, y'know... as for gnashing of teeth by black haired lards - i dunno.... it's a case of anything resembling nostalgia being crushed to death under the immense weight of no one else nobody but them having been able to do anything other than the aforementioned wits and smug personas - who steal yer intellectual property... they have no life, y'seem, cept a wardrobe of plastic pretentions...p.s as for this i am kurious, oranj - the reformation and all the nonsense that went with it - work ethic, mangling of sporting prowess with native intellect and heads being lopped off. i would suggest you seek out the john peel radio clip wherein he reds out a faux cod english lit crit live on air re: i am kuruious, oranj... a letter sent in by an alleged dutch (bemused) simpleton. though where such things are concerend i allus thought it'd be one of the myriad jesters from the fall carrying out such a ruse...

[@hanktheblesseddeejay]

That’s a good observation, never thought of that. This has all the quality of Venus in Furs

[@JJONNYREPP]

@@hanktheblesseddeejay The Fall - Big New Prinz 1518pm 7.4.22 they like parking outside my window for some reason... anyhow. canvey island. never made it to that part of the kentish kool. but should have tried. made it to walmer to an allege d haunted hotel and the ghost knocked my booze over. they dont believe in ghosts when it goes tits up. otherwise they're brow beating you to believe their shit... ghosts. i'll shit 'em!!!!

[@chriss1587]

I am so glad i got to see The Fall live a few times, Mark E Smith always fascinated me ever since my teens, a phenomenal writer and poet, he was a genius, will always love the sounds of The Fall.

[@paladin56]

I only got to see them once, at the Brixton Academy. I have to confess I was somewhat mesmerised by Elena Poulou. She is stunningly beautiful. Mr Smith definitely had something the ladies liked.

[@hughjassole8361]

I'm 60 and id like to tell any youngin's out there who are trying to be retro-alt cool, that may have or may on the horizon have tattoos cooler than Hank Rollins- save your gwop..( I said gwop )...and obtain The Fall: I am Curious Orange LP ( I said .. ) in its entirety. When first released, and now- though I rarely play it- there is really nothing more genuine. I'm not a Fall fan, but you need to have this in your collection and play every 2-3 years. Trust me.

[@smhenny]

This video appeared on MTV and I was mesmerized. The Fall is still one if my top two favorite all time bands.

[@burtbackattack]

Love The Fall too. Just curious, what's the other one of your top 2? 🙂

[@laszlozoltan5021]

Ive had this cd for about 30 years- this is my first time seeing a Fall video- it is just as I imagined whenever I listened to it. Brilliant. a shame I never got to see The Fall live. RIP

[@garwoc216]

Drummer is concentrating so hard... terrified of making a mistake and being fired mid-song.

[@kukaishere]

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[@biocreature2196]

Schon beim ersten Ton wieder Gänsehaut, wie schön sind doch die Erinnerungen...

[@patricktomlins9461]

Exceptional, took a while till I got them. Yeaaahhhh!

[@leslieschmidt4744]

I will forever love & miss you, Mark E. Smith!

[@AndieZ4U2]

Check the record check the record check the guys track record....he yuh is zuh nuts zuh LOVE IT!

[@neilwilson5785]

Went to these gigs in the day. The tightest band and dancers ever seen.

[@michaelwendt3714]

I can´t live without..............this Band!

[@meow3958]

The low point of the day, hearing Mark E Smith has passed away! Thank God his music will live forever! Goodbye and God Bless Mark!

[@frosnen]

Energetic and breathtaking!

[@Johnconno]

Super! DeLuxe!

[@JJONNYREPP]

The Fall - Big New Prinz HD. The thing is... putting anyone who happens to have the letter J in their name in houses where ghosts and spectres congregate is all Good and well. What you didn't mention was that these homes would be magnets for a mass of insanity....

[@JAMAICADOCK]

This collaboration between contemporary dance and Post Punk - fit the late 80s period of British post-modernity perfectly - rock 'n' roll's answer to Vivian Westwood and Derek Jarman. Thatcher's Britain meets the Restoration in elegant repose.The Neo Baroque soon became an irritating cliche - but this was one of the high-points

[@thomassdad713]

Shut up and listen

[@Narnackrecords]

One of the greatest ballets I’ve never seen but lucky to hear it. Sight gone, ears on perennials

[@TheANDYURRY]

RIP , Legend , you set the pace man !

[@sonjaschulze8758]

I also lived my youth in the eighties. But strangely enough I don't even know this band - The Fall. They're really cool ♥🎸

[@ejb5659]

Same here- never remembered hearing them on any radio or seeing them on TV.

[@gander4872]

I think they were on the telly once. Not very popular at the time but the people who got it bordered on the obsessive.

[@paladin56]

They were on John Peel's radio show a lot and did quite a few Peel sessions. First one I remember from that show was 'Who makes the Nazis?'.

[@Yveyd]

I worked at their management at this time then later he was their record label for The Infotainment scan, went on tour with them...good times!

[@Dekompozycja]

The Fall - najnajniejsza kapela

[@HesselGerard]

This track is different, hypnotic.

[@CharlieMessing]

Often the last in a set, followed by a few encores!

[@HesselGerard]

@@CharlieMessing it has a unique atmosphere

[@mlawren7]

Check the record check the record check the guy's track record, check the record, check the guy's track record.

[@edm3784]

Been listening to this on a loop.. addictive

[@martinwood744]

Great arty visuals to go with the typical genius-esque Fall sound.

[@johnhawk1089]

This was about the third Fall song/video I saw. It was unlike anything I'd seen or heard. I loved it!

[@p.a.lionski4407]

Danced to this song since 1987! Great song then and now. Today (03.02.2023)I found out that you left too soon Mark E .Smith (05.03.57- 24.01.18) my condolences ... r.i.p. 🙏 😢

[@TheWeardale1]

just epic!

[@kevinprobin555]

Absolutely brilliant

[@HaleG9]

I so loved it when it came out!

[@atarisurfer1412]

Love this song

[@dandouglass8962]

My gateway song.

[@adamjg4]

So weird but strikes a decisive chord.

[@kenevil23]

Still the 'classic' line-up for me. Such a visceral live experience, I saw them a lot around this time.

[@oolongoolong789]

Love the video. Weirdly groovy!

[@pressureworks]

Their first era and this era.........you'll never find better in your life.

[@TheMimifur]

RIP glorious Mark.

[@JayDee-dn8gc]

Marvellous. It must be danced to.

[@impossiblefunky]

I've never seen this video look as clear. Thank you so much.

[@Cab00se90]

This is about William of Orange, that is mental!

[@jackjackson5239]

An amazing song and video and that is that as David Bowie said we can all be hero’s just for one day both artists were unique in their work, thankyou,xxx

[@LeventT]

R.I.P Mark...

[@joycelovesdublin]

Brett Anderson of Suede's on the Fall and New Big Prinz: The first time I heard the primal, urgent throb of 'New Big Prinz' and him squawking on about what sounded like the 'hip priest' being 'nuts' was a real defining moment for me. This was extraordinary music; marginal, esoteric, surreal even but undeniably extraordinary. I remember it striking me as both wonderful and sad that something this brilliant wasn't loved by more people . There's something fundamentally unique about the Fall. They occupy a space that is completely their own. Their style is so distinctive that to borrow anything too obviously is almost to immediately drift into parody . As they get older they seem to strangely become less compromising and more relevant; the last time i saw them live was at Shepherd's Bush Empire a few years ago around the time of Your Future, Our Clutter. Typically they played only new material and even though i'd never heard a note before and Smith spent most of the gig staggering around or hunched over the guitarist's amp fiddling with the settings, the experience was utterly compelling; the music so simple and urgent and so totally effective but somehow never predictable. I think the influence on Suede was huge. The awful, lazy 'glam' references that sometimes get chucked at us were i suppose born of a desire to emulate the visceral pulse of 'New Big Prinz' and 'Mr Pharmacist' and '2X4' rather than being some horrible, ironic nod to the 70s. Mysteriously though, once these things come out of the blender they never quite taste how you imagined. But that surely is the point.

[@styxcreek]

joycelovesdublin not a huge Suede fan but I did enjoy Anderson’s autobiography

[@flapjacktexas1774]

It's He is not appriciat Ed Ah.

[@monotronics8521]

it s not more popular,cause it scares people

[@68majortom]

Excellent post dude ✌️

[@tuckercarlsonsmicropenis1283]

ʀᴏᴛᴛᴇɴ ɪɴsɪᴅᴇ I don’t disagree with you. But Blur was pretty good. I’m In The USA, Oasis was really big here, not Blur so much, but Blur was more ‘British’ I think, which is maybe why they’re not as big as Oasis over here in the cultural wastelands 😁😁

[@zerolubin]

So magnificent!!!

[@jasonbarton6087]

Amazing, relentless. RIP

[@paladin56]

Brix looks gorgeous in this vid.

[@monotronics8521]

total utter perfection-class

[@futurelegendfilms]

Brilliant. Brought back many good memories. Thanks for posting. :-)

[@cazb877]

Nowt like them before and there has been nowt like them since, you are missed Mr. Mark E Smith.

[@ezkibela]

I hope you know that this will go down as your permanent record !!! V.F

[@Kaihawai2011]

My first introduction to this fantastic band...really love it since then!

[@marciusnery4065]

Masterpiece.

[@roberthone1230]

coolest looking band ever

[@ResidentMich]

Like him or loath him Mark E Smith is THE MAN!!!!

[@globalheart]

still LOVE him just as much now a back in the day..no wear!!

[@kevinbrazier3403]

Forever missed where is edgy now?

[@redcoat4ever323]

Cool song from back in the day-aaa

[@ceephaxx]

Smith's collaboration with a ballet company wouldn't have been high on the list of predictions by most fans and music pundits in the '80s. But, of course, he pulled it off as if it was the most natural thing in the world!

[@lubar66]

RIP Mark E Smith. You will be missed.

[@dafunkester]

thanks to danny baker for sending me here! brilliant song!

[@tomtomaok]

So enjoyable!!

[@stevenhines5550]

Yeah if I had to pick music for a desert island it would be the Fall, Radiohead and SWANS and Beethoven if I could sneak it all in....but the Fall first

[@spudcustardx1]

I too missed this at the time (there was a lot going on) it is most especially good, why is it awesome. Well if we knew that, it just might have been us

[@bh8365]

One of a kind. R.I.P. Mark.

[@lukeheywood7334]

Cracking tune

[@joshuanewland7505]

Best fucking song ever.

[@stormyweather9917]

pretty damn close.

[@robertgeorge394]

It's defo a goodun.

[@tboneharbinger]

Such a great song! When I find myself singing it I feel like a lunatic though.

[@michaeladams6535]

🤘🤘🤘

[@leslieschmidt4744]

a ship of fools!

[@backcombed2559]

The legend continues

[@BarbieChaite]

big new priest Vs big new prinz ??

[@MarceloOliveira-jx3is]

Livre!!!

[@pflynn581]

Don't know alot of the Falls records but this is quality.

[@benjamincera1806]

Theres so many! 👏🏻 yeah yeah 🎸

[@ianmooney5566]

RIP grumpy fella we had love for you.

[@RealmsofPixelation]

Check the fuck outta them records.

[@richardbamsey5242]

rather splendid in the words of Mr Peele

[@johnreed2242]

Arise Sir Mark E Smith..thats what should happen.Words can't do justice to how cool this band are.If Salvador Dali designed a band the Fall would be it.Pure genius.Astonishingly brilliant.

[@pinkitypink6246]

The fall were designed by Mark e smith, that's the point. Mark e smith the artists, you likely didn't mean to diminish the great man with your remark, but it comes across to me that way. Likewise, I can o ly speak for myself and not fir Mark e smith, do you really think that he is deserving if the same title that has been bestowed in some if the most vile pieces of shit in the country? Savile, and all sorts of other awful people. Too good in his own right to require recognition ition and acceptance by establishment.

[@ChaosDevin]

Dooby Duck's Disco plays Big New Prinz by The Fall brought me here! Search up Dooby Duck's Disco plays Big New Prinz by The Fall! You will not be disappointed!

[@Pazuzu82]

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[@YTrab1970]

This was monu-fuckin'-mental some thirty-six years ago...and still is today

[@ZINCOVIX8754]

Another classic.

[@KD-oi9sk]

A trip to the V&A in Dundee brought me here.

[@forcetengal2451]

Thanks for the recommendation, Thom Yorke.

[@chuckamok12]

#1 song

[@frankkubb]

Rest In Power, Mark E. Smith... R.I.P.

[@seeingeyegod]

How am I just now finding out this version existed on youtube?

[@d_walsh]

He always had great bands, musicians I hope he appreciated them all Even the ones he fired 😏 Rip mark e smith