The Fall - Free Range

MTV video with dubbed WAV from the Code: Selfish CD

[@brianharrison5419]

Who else in 1992 music was writing about the geopolitical implications of capitalist resoration in Eastern Europe? No one, other than Mark E. Smith, and it still has resonance today 30 years later with the war in Ukraine.

[@philnugent6971]

Absolutely no one!

[@lezliesammon4687]

yeap, and the Ukro-nazis are in the process of being eliminated. 😊

[@lukeheywood7334]

No one..to know wonin 2p01 thus sprake zraathustraa life code. S hanley fucn weapon bass plTing as allways

[@68majortom]

MES had special powers

[@robertknight5429]

Well, it wasn't the f*****g Levellers!

[@james2450]

We live in an absurd world, and it’s the artists who seem to border on the unhinged and deranged who respond to life with the greatest accuracy and authenticity. That’s how I’ve always felt about MES. That lad blazed his own trail.

[@paulcombes3782]

@james2450 - your bang on mate . MES did it his way , who else could have created this ..........brilliant .

[@22967pj]

That he did. A total one-off.

[@user-kl4bh4lq6r]

He was one hell of a character he seemed to enjoy life with his Music Booze Drugs Beautiful Ladys The man was a true one Off sadly missed ❤

[@clarasuess]

Possibly the best track from probably the best Fall album.

[@cleomanson7630]

code selfish is far to best his best album. the best is nation saving grace, that's the top of the ice cream.

[@evanboyer5928]

@@cleomanson7630 or even possibly Grotesque or Dragnet.

[@fB0009]

Every album by the Fall is probably their best one, including "Are You Are Missing Winner", even. Every one of their tracks is possibly their best.

[@ok2760]

Hold on somebody on the Internet is wrong

[@clarasuess]

Is the correct answer!@@fB0009

[@pcebpceb1638]

I just finished his book Renegade. A fantastic read. A wonderful man and I loved this song most of all.

[@FortNada]

This is the spring without end This is the summer of malcontent This is the winter of your mind

[@cerebralcaustic]

Hanley and Wolsecroft are tighter than the lid on a pickle jar for this song.

[@bpm609]

There have been many talented people in pop music. Very special talents. But over time i am leaning towards Mark E. Smith as our one true genius. The belligerent drunken old phet head. I'm so sad he is not alive.

[@paulharris6886]

With you on that pal 👍

[@molinierjeanphilippe939]

Luvv this guy like he said " if i sing and your grandmother plays bongo, so, i'ts the Fall " genius !!!

[@rossella3928]

Ti amo per sempre

[@gabrielphelps1555]

A powerful track, almost written in a way, foretelling the Yugoslavian crisis in the 1990s which the lyrical content powerfully reflects.

[@anthonykay6301]

One of the greatest basslines of any alternative music I've ever heard.

[@nickdipples8562]

Hanley is a low frequency god.

[@fatblokediets9648]

My favourite Fall line up❤

[@tonysmyth4116]

Nobody ever credits Fall drummers properly. They're too good to be in any other band and you know it.

[@Timmeh551]

Indubitably 👌

[@iloveslideking]

He was a genius

[@Uncannyguitar]

iloveslideking he was free range

[@rochfordsnrubbs6855]

I do enjoy Mark's obvious enthusiasm for lip syncing...

[@guillaumedeverreaux7086]

Bruh 🤣🤣🤣

[@jollyjetsetter]

One may never know how such awkward types make some of the greatest music.....

[@MrRamillies19]

Driving around today with this track on repeat. It's just the best.

[@ianturton4976]

Love this track. It's something you never forgot. Invokes lots of differing feelings that work against each other. Classic fall right?

[@gilwood7530]

The man was too cool for this world

[@MrJohnsolomon]

I remember getting the chance as a kid to see them in Dublin sfx. They were mind blowing. I was totally high on them. And I still connect. Yet others I obsessed over in those times don't have that connection thing.

[@philnugent6971]

Wow, the great SFX, DEPECHE, THE FALL, THE CURE, ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN,.. ETC, NATIONAL STADIUM HAD A GOOD FEW BRILLIANT BANDS TOO, BACK IN THE DAY.

[@kabardinerjohnson9023]

Masterpiece

[@codebrown9359]

Lucky to see them in Los Angeles back in the 90’s

[@gregoryfilms9405]

In my top 3 FALL singles. Love the video and the attitude of Mr Smith

[@PeterChoyce]

i love how MES accentuates the last constant of each sentence. Like u never hear a singer accent the T sound. So cool and nobody will ever do that ever again now (sad face)

[@Pauldjreadman]

Classic. This is how I was introduced to the fall. I think by John Peel, I think.

[@Andla_2806]

This is the spring without endə This is the summer of malcontentə This is the winter of your mində Love this!

[@MrBrendanus]

I went to see The Fall in Belfast. They didn't play. Apparently Mark squirted Ketchup at Terry Hooley, who took out his glass eye and threw at him. Just the usual.

[@SazDenny]

Great story, sort of 😅

[@colonisedtartan9539]

That's a lie

[@redcoat4ever323]

Kickin’ tune-ah

[@user-kl4bh4lq6r]

The Drummer looks nervous about MES The Master Of Uk Alternative Godfather of watching him Bet MES ran a tight ship with his band members over the years ✊👍 What a Legend MES Was a true One off🎉

[@mrthai-rg9nv]

my dad bought that landrover and my mum played the bongos on this track. immmm free rangeeeeee

[@juliobustoscatalan3746]

this is a song that knows everything, except the Internet, a song monster...😍.....👊

[@joeflorek5988]

I love the occasional yelping he does.

[@matthewevansteush6461]

Hanseatic teough of grim proportion ,I seem to remeber on the 12 " vinyl ,it sounded great on my systemdek through a humming A and R cambridge amp into some Heybrook Solo speakers ,What a Cad.

[@user-kl4bh4lq6r]

Mark E Smith Looked Like A Balkan Gangster

[@enzodisciullo2557]

If it's me and yer Granny on bongos it's the Fall.

[@Mick-Kahl80]

It paysUh to talkUh to no oneUh.

[@zoranoran]

Thank you so much for this jewel of the song

[@Nckgdmn]

What the world needs now

[@spensert4933]

If all singer artists were as authentic as MES was there would be a lot more great bands.

[@zinnezot3666]

It pays to talk to no one Europa...

[@haybrym]

He looks so good in this young love him he's so missed

[@brandycat8513]

He wrote the title to this tune a month after a fan sent him a book of poetry titled Free Range. He changed his vocals from Auth Manc' to a weird neo Yank drawl after the same fan sent him a demo tape experimenting with using Lou Reed'ish vocals. JUst sayin' it true the sayin' -" great" artists steal"

[@Jackassfellow]

Does anyone else hear the comparison between this and the classical from hex enduction hour?

[@twincrystals]

FOREVERxx

[@irnickkkknowles]

Repetition is discipline

[@ryanand154]

Best. JFK. Theory. Ever.

[@metroboliqueakameteobolik5938]

Zagreb, Zagreb...

[@paulcombes3782]

How is this baseline and fills , thank you MES and The Fall.

[@TheWolfgangFelix]

free ☝️ range

[@user-gu3pq5nr7y]

In every form they were the coolest uncool band that has ever been and ever will be. Like a quartz-locked machine with an MES shaped spanner bouncing around in the works ripping teeth off the sinister cogs. It's still tragic that we will never see the like again.

[@smegger68]

Thanks for commenting Andy. Spot on too :)

[@paulwise7206]

it is so enigmatic, free range

[@user-gy5cx5db2i]

this single was the first record i bought by the fall-

[@stewpitteejit]

Before MTV sold out

[@vladvid2578]

Did anybody notice something that seems as a masonic emblem on 3:19 - 3:21 and later? The sign was part of the DDR flag...

[@danieldugan886]

My comment:So good.

[@clarasuess]

No more comments needed!

[@nlgbbbblth]

The album version differs from the single mix. The latter is around 25 seconds longer.

[@smegger68]

Yep. But this is the version I had :)

[@tonysmyth4116]

Just put it on repeat Bro. After 5 or 6 plays you won't notice anymore.

[@meredrums1]

nevermind, you'll sort it out somehow.

[@SvedskiKuvar]

GARAŽNI GETO - BRACA KARAKLAJIĆ

[@vladvid2578]

Браво! - тако сам и сам први пут чуо, само је био Единбург, а касније ова. У ствари био је L.A. у једној од шпица Индиректа (спортска емисија понедељком, мислим у 19, Марко Марковић :) )А онда сам набавио већину албума.

[@dannycheesums]

I’m gonna go out in a limb and say this is the best fall album since they did perverted by language

[@user-kl4bh4lq6r]

Don't make em like this anymore ❤

[@mancunianace8428]

Their cool, because they never tried to be. Oh and their Mancs, obviously. Now where's the pressure gills lol!!!!

[@PontiacS.]

The Fall did "Madchester" Rave Stylee Better than the Rest of those Wankers.