The Fall - Garden - (Live at the Hacienda, Manchester, UK, 1984)

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Fronted by their ever-present leader, the irrepressible Mark E. Smith, the Fall's career now spans over twenty-five years and countless albums, full of Smith's sharp witted lyrics and the brilliantly inventive music created by the ever changing line up of musicians the frontman has enlisted. The band have always been a popular live draw -- with Smith's wit and stage presence always to the fore -- and nowhere more so than in their home city of Manchester. 'Live At The Hacienda' features a collection of material taken from four shows the band played at the world famous Hacienda club in Manchester during the mid-1980's. Amongst the tracks featured are Independent Chart top five hit 'Kicker Conspiracy' and live favourites including 'God Box' and 'What You Need'. There is also some excellent bonus footage featuring an interview with Mark E. Smith.
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[@simonwolfendale1988]

As good as it gets folks. You can't beat this.

[@sheldonpenn6941]

You said it. Amen

[@Anonymous-c4p]

🚬🥴💞

[@smhenny]

Truth

[@duncefunce1513]

Abba?

[@fastinbulvis2223]

Awful, out of tune and boring!

[@aliofly]

4:29 - "Colin! Turn those... stop those lights flashing before I break yer fucking neck! Keep them still for like three seconds!" [continuing lyrics] "The stylish purge, he tried to induce an epileptic fit but I, in my strong personality, was having none of it! I cursed, from the bottom of my heart, the Camden organisation was censored by the tube-friendlies." Incredible! RIP

[@jiggersotoole7823]

fkn brilliant

[@ozelljohnson7723]

🎉 this shit saved my life

[@andrewstorey9419]

It's that good it brings a tear to one's eye😢.. Gone forever but never forgotten Mark the master of music art. 👌

[@bzfgt1]

This is the best thing in the damn WORLD.

[@alastairduffy539]

Just absolute ART

[@fastinbulvis2223]

Just absolute FART

[@bradshawvincent]

Simply amazing. Fall at their best.

[@cruiserscreek]

man this is some peak. genius.

[@ANOther1003]

Karl Burns and Paul Hanley, best drum duo ever

[@anonyarena]

Agreed.

[@johnnybourgeois13]

And God on bass.

[@jaysilverstone7221]

You can't get it right and you can't get it wrong: you either get it or you don't. Clearly the fall got it.

[@tonymilne481]

Monster drum section

[@Jlipnicki]

It can so easily go bad, the Glitter Band, early Adam and the Ants, late KIng Crimson, three bloody drummers.

[@FixingMiniMe1975]

"..When it comes, will it come without warning Just when I'm picking my nose? Will it knock on my door in the morning, Or tread in the bus on my toes? Will it come like a change in the weather? Will its greeting be courteous or rough? Will it alter my life altogether? Oh tell me the truth about love."

[@cazb877]

I wonder if any member of that audience actually realised the brilliance of what they were hearing. ‘The bells stopped on Sunday when he rose’ Godspeed Mark.

[@dominicchaplin7686]

I was there and realised!

[@EricWDavidson]

Genius and malevolence rolled into one.

[@craigstratford5086]

My favourite Song by the Fall. Pity though no word from Mr Reg Varney . R.I.P M.E.S

[@TonyMoult]

The Fall are my favourite band & have been since John Peel introduced them to my ears in the 70's & "Garden" is one of The Fall tracks I return to more & more, this & "New Face In Hell".........I can't get started because I'll be recalling songs into the early hours.

[@TonyMoult]

A bloody classic, no two ways about it, the twin drummers, three guitarists & smith's unique voice; GARDEN The first god had in his garden From the back looked like a household pet When it twirled round was revealed to be A three-legged black-grey hog See what flows from his mushy pen Garden Garden That person is films on TV five years back at least He's the young generation dancing troupe Try'na perform Country And Western Do a dance here Never since birth not eaten in a day Never since courtship stayed up some nights He had a "Kingdom Of Evil" book under a German history book He was contrite like that See what flows from his slushy pen Garden Garden Small, small location on huge covenance sodomised by presumption Crooked traitor past revealed at last Godzone Godzone (Jacob's Ladder) Godzone Godzone ... can be erased. This entails explosive charges left to me by a dead sailor from Bury being wired up under every windowsill in close proximity to my ears. When phones ring and are inconvenient to the ears, I just press table lamp light button next to my bed and they blow up. I got the idea from a book. Yours sincerely, Mr Reg Varney [1] The same thing [?] could have been taken for a spoilt slate with largesse resource. His ferry stopped at the 'Pool port. Wild Bill Hick shaves and charts at last. The second god's sad - he's coming up - he's waiting number four with a [?]. Less stylish porch, we have the second god's influence. Wild Bill Hick shaves and charts at last. Shotgun shotgun Shotgun shotgun Shotgun shotgun The best firms advertise the least The second god lived by mountains that flowed By the blue shiny lit roads Had forgot what others still tried to grasp He knew the evil of the phone He knew the evil of the phone The bells stopped on Sunday when he rose The bells stopped on Sunday when he rose He's here He's here at last I saw him I swear He's on the second floor Up the brown baize lift shaft He's here He's here at last I saw him I swear Jew on a motorbike Jew on a motorbike Jew on a motorbike Jew on a motorbike Jew on a motorbike Jew on a motorbike Jew on a motorbike Jew on a motorbike He's here I saw him I swear Up the brown baize lift shaft Jew on a motorbike Jew on a motorbike Jew on a motorbike Jew on a motorbike (He does improvise on-stage)

[@finnkdy]

@@TonyMoult if only Joyce could've played bongos.

[@GT380man]

It’s clucking unique & it’s definitely talent. It’s absolutely hypnotic, too. Creative, clever, never quite losing it, but like a drunken high wire act, you feel sure it’s going down, then it just continues.

[@sjangcoenen1358]

I would wish I could write down what this means to me, and should mean to every soul

[@StephenGTitleytv]

Tunes like this almost make me believe that there is a God.

[@frasermaccallum268]

Steve Titley there is, and he's called Mark E Smith

[@bradshawvincent]

The great God Pan?

[@alexrose9487]

best FALL song ever, hanley brothers !

[@diskochimp]

Wild Bill Hick shaves & charts at last.

[@andystorey7683]

proper gigg that...

[@paulmarshall4815]

Genius

[@diskochimp]

It actually is! :)

[@Farmlandsfallfan]

Utterly compelling

[@nadasadhana]

RIP Mark E. Smith

[@austinpauxtataux8349]

God bless this man’s spirit 🖤MES

[@michaellavin6038]

"Stop those lights flashing before I break your fucking neck". Harsh!

[@vincentpaladino7903]

In fucking credible. Last 2 minutes are epic

[@curroprr]

beautiful

[@timfeleppa3156]

Gorgeous thanks

[@davidmcnulty8181]

This is amazing and beautiful

[@bradshawvincent]

i so envy that red haired lad at the front of the stage! Must be in his sixties now like me. Wonder if he ever watches this now and thinks by heck that was a brilliant night!!!! if you read this please respond!

[@carpog]

Master of his craft.

[@gabrieljardine]

this goes like a musical safari! introspective indigo

[@NickRowsell]

Happy as Hell on His Home turf …

[@amandasilvester22]

so great x

[@petertaylorarts]

I love youtube for this

[@chrispiazza7487]

wow.

[@leebritnell2405]

First Fall song I ever heard,on a Peel session and it was love at first hearing.Whoever said Steve Hanley not quite on form here was dead right.

[@MrMHughes68]

At the zenith of their powers.

[@68majortom]

Why the hell did I get so fucking out of it before every gig I ever attended for I know I've missed much!! ✌️

[@aumoccbei3197]

this video is ecstasy

[@twincrystals]

FOREVERxx

[@brianfuata1014]

agreed

[@LegendaryMrLongtoes]

Ahh, the fabtastic daze of J. Totalle.

[@cliffwebb1621]

shame they didn't get audio off the mixing board...

[@Johnconno]

Pre-E.T. days. Mark gone home.

[@Laneganswake]

So this is where At the Drive-in came from

[@simonwolfendale1988]

Shit day at work ? Put this on.

[@tipis4hire781]

Simple cloche-bells rang out angular to the credence of rangers - and that's the best I can do to find my bank-o-mack jive for ME-S. Longing living and chime to the pallets. Ha-hey...

[@cprince10]

Thanks for posting this. I'm looking for Squid Lord from the Munich concert 1989. Anyone know where I can get it?

[@stevenhines5550]

Steve Hanley thunderstick monster

[@grzegorzkrol3049]

Road to Rafah

[@bunnymann7897]

he hates us :)

[@LondonDada]

A Jew on a Motorbike - a fave 70s skoolboy joke. You wanna hear it lads, it's ultra un-PC hill hairious believe.

[@sonictrasher]

can't find it

[@JNiimi-be9ur]

Let's hear it! I'm dying to know!

[@bzfgt1]

OK?

[@craigstratford5086]

Is it the one about the Black Jewish boy who comes home from school and asks his Dad if he is more Black or more Jewish ?

[@govananglesey5265]

Craig Stratford tell the rest

[@JS-nw7xf]

seance

[@pigglesy]

Probably my favourite but it has been hijacked by intellectual middle class half wits who read the guardian.I do not even understand what they write and shake my head most of the time.The annotated fall is bollocks.

[@carriescoular9249]

John Peel Sessions.

[@davidryan9496]

K Burns misbehaving - again!

[@neiluk1470]

Is this song about Jesus?

[@olivierswijngedau4085]

she's so small ?

[@gabrieljardine]

at last he's here. a jew ina motorbike

[@gg_rider]

Given the context of other lyrics in this song, and the title, I think "a Jew on a motorbike" is some oblique reference to a scruffy Jesus but who knows. Question answered below by some amateur British historians.

[@lalal278]

@@gg_rider I saw him I swear! - the ever-evasive "omni-present Lord". whole song is a critique of the illogicality of religion imo

[@zxjacko]

The first god had in his garden From the back looked like a household pet When it twirled round was revealed to be A three-legged black-grey hog See what flows from his mushy pen Garden Garden That person is films on TV five years back at least He's the young generation dancing troupe Try'na perform Country And Western Do a dance here Never since birth not eaten in a day Never since courtship stayed up some nights He had a "Kingdom Of Evil" book under a German history book He was contrite like that See what flows from his slushy pen Garden Garden Small, small location on huge covenance sodomised by presumption Crooked traitor past revealed at last Godzone Godzone (Jacob's Ladder) Godzone Godzone this entails explosive charges left to me by a dead sailor from Bury being wired up under every window sill in close proximity to my ears. When friends ring and are inconvenient to readers, I just press table lamp light button next to my bed and they blow up. I got the idea from. Yours sincerely, Mr Reg Barnes The same thing could have been taken for a spoilt slate with largesse resource. His ferry stopped at the 'Pool port. Wild Bill Hick shaves and charts at last. The second god's sad - he's coming up - he's waiting number four with a. Less stylish porch, we have the second god's influence. Wild Bill Hick shaves and charts at last. Shotgun shotgun Shotgun shotgun Shotgun shotgun The best firms advertise the least The second god lived by mountains that flowed By the blue shiny lit roads Had forgot what others still tried to grasp He knew the evil of the phone He knew the evil of the phone The bells stopped on Sunday when he rose The bells stopped on Sunday when he rose He's here He's here at last I saw him I swear He's on the second floor Up the brown baize lift shaft He's here He's here at last I saw him I swear Jew on a motorbike Jew on a motorbike Jew on a motorbike Jew on a motorbike Jew on a motorbike Jew on a motorbike Jew on a motorbike Jew on a motorbike He's here I saw him I swear Up the brown baize lift shaft Jew on a motorbike Jew on a motorbike Jew on a motorbike Jew on a motorbike (I always thought it was "chew on a motorbike", which I prefer to the actual lyric)

[@porterhall27]

it's not "contrite like that" but "contrived like that"

[@gg_rider]

@@porterhall27 i.e. "fake edgy"

[@fuckamericanidiot]

You prefer chew to Jew? He's singing about seeing Jesus and that would ruin it.

[@zxjacko]

@@fuckamericanidiot out of context, chew on a motorbike is a better image than jew on a motorbike

[@ragabanduk1734]

We get compared to The Fall all the time. Check out our song City Friends!

[@raudiaz6245]

Such talent wasted. He looked like he was wasting away and his drinking just brought down more and more. but they say "That is the way he wanted to go" stubborn, talented and well loved! however if "You liked Mark E. Smith you probably never met him before"

[@robertmunrow8423]

How do you explain 31 studio LP's, countless singles and 1000's of gigs as being talent wasted?

[@booklover1086]

Talent wasted? Go play your Robbie Williams nonce

[@terrypussypower]

What IS Steve Hanley doing to this tune ? The interplay between guitar and bass during the chorus is what makes this tune and he's messing it up big time. Which is a shame because Steve Hanley is one of the best bass players ever to come out of the punk scene, his bass lines are legendary round these parts ! Must have been an off day for him, the rest of them make up for it though !

[@terrypussypower]

***** You may have a point, though the verses are fine. It's only the chorus part that's out. He could have one string out of whack though, that might do it.

[@joeypatrickmullan9921]

I'm nearly sure it's Brix' guitar that is making the chorus sound a little off. Brilliant video though, mesmerising tune.

[@synchromystici5m]

+Joey Catalina Yeah, I think her guitar's out of tune rather than Steve's bass.

[@markalexander9396]

actually, it's Scanlon playing it "off" (see around 6:16 mark, and you can see Brix isn't playing the solo notes in the chorus). To me it sounds like he experimented with playing a note lower, or yeah, it's definitely out of tune.

[@MrRichards68]

It's The Fall. In a shitty club in Manchester. In 1984. NOT Pink Floyd.....

[@hawhawhawman]

Boring!

[@patrickmcwilliams2111]

You probably think the sky is boring too.

[@cruiserscreek]

You must be bored with life.

[@Charvey80]

Just like yir maw

[@MegaEthnikos]

idiot!!!