The Fall - Telephone Thing

[@steveclough1107]

Facebook, I do not want to Parlez vous with you. I sense your Zuckenberg thing,listening in!

[@elizabethhann4028]

Amen, mate!

[@garyormond302]

DITTO

[@cobaltbattery4657]

Haha well said..... ahead of his time it fits today so he seen it early days

[@empressadelexxmotherofjohn10]

Adele Clough here. Still here regardless. Sharing the fucking joy 😊

[@_________ajh]

❤

[@mundaneman1811]

How dare you assume i wanna parlez vous with you is one of my favourite ever lyrics. Long live The Fall & MES ❤️

[@gilwood7530]

THE COOLEST HIP PRIEST BEAT POET OF OUR TIME !~!~! Goodbye MARK ...You sure did it your way !!! Thanks for all the memories

[@lisaaltavilla4095]

Only one mark E smith 👍🎤🎶🎶❤️

[@acunni]

This is more relevant today than ever -Mark was indeed a prophet and hip priest !!

[@orourkedamusic]

The guy's rock records.

[@johncokos9849]

ALWAYS amazed at how tight and professional The Fall is. They never miss a beat.....

[@Johnconno]

That's because none of the band were ever given the time to get lazy, they were sacked.

[@RayZappa]

You never saw them live when Mark had just sacked someone a few hours before the gig! But you're right, The Fall's drums and bass were usually bloody tight.

[@zetetick395]

Yeah, a surface asessment might lead one to believe that The Fall are often a bit shambolic and splattershot - But they're always really tight (whenever I've seen 'em) - They just don't 'Lego' their songs together into verse / chorus / middle 8 / etc structures, like most groups traditionally do.

[@lisaaltavilla4095]

I grow up with the fall , top class band , love you mark E

[@CapnChapster]

Fall. Cold cut . Fucking perfect.

[@elizabethhann4028]

It sure is!

[@MarkSutphin]

RIP Mark E. Smith, I will always hear you telephone thing!!

[@drewanderson6838]

I’m tapped-aye it’s all a bit rock college these days...this is the shit tho.....you Gretchen Franklin nosey matron typeaaaaaaaaaah...Gallus!!!!!!!x643

[@steveclough1107]

So far ahead.. I sense your telephone thing, listening in...love..

[@microproductssystemsltd.303]

The young genius of M.E.S at work again 30years ago. Another incredibly wonderful piece of music.

[@coxley]

RIP Mark E. Smith and your granny on bongos

[@ForARide]

Holy shit! My ears forced me to press the return button again and again and again... RIP great man!

[@robertthompson8123]

200 years old still great

[@pigglesy]

Nah.This was when they were hijacked by guardian readers and the middle classes who swore they have loved them since 1980.He would fucking hate who was listening now.

[@steveclough1107]

I hear your telephone thing listening in, I feel your telephone thing listening in, I sense your telephone thing listening in.....How far ahead?!!!R. I.P Mark E.Smith.

[@elizabethhann4028]

"How DARE you ASSOOme I wanna parlez-VOO with YOO!" I love that line so much, you wouldn't believe it. No-one's as witty and gritty as Mark E. when he gets sarky. I don't like telephones either; and the whole song reminds me of Ted Hughes's spooky anti-phone poem "Do Not Pick Up The Telephone", which is the sort of poem that Mark E. Smith could've written himself. Sample lines from "Do Not Pick Up The Telephone": "Death invented the phone it looks like the altar of death/Do not worship the telephone/It drags its worshipers into actual graves/With a variety of devices, through a variety of disguised voices..." Now TELL ME Mark E. Smith COULDN'T have written that! I bet he knows Ted Hughes back-to-front-and-sideways. Anyway, this is great.

[@steveclough1107]

He was telling the future as it became.So far ahead,no Radiohead with no Fall.Mind you, I have felt that everyone is listening in after weeks of speeding!Long live the Fall!(By the way, I heard your telephone thing listening in!)

[@Turfdeanthantrax]

Also see Beefhearts song on Doc At The Radar Station titled "Telephone" it echos similar themes and I wonder if MES heard it when it came out.

[@Jlipnicki]

There are lines in a Syd Barrett song ' travelling by telephone ' and Kevin Ayers ' conversations aimed at anyone ' which were both written way before mobile phones. You are pretty well forced into having one now.

[@adinocc2042]

I've always hated the phone. And I hate having to carry one around with me all day, too!

[@ericrhodes5174]

RIP MES. These have been the best times of my life.

[@sebastian4451]

WOW. i've never listened to the fall before. the difference between "wings" and this song is pretty cool

[@josejones7025]

Thee hip priest rocks like no one! So ahead of his time

[@Neilpoe]

Thank you for the music Mark E. Smith. RIP!

[@DanielHernandez-gx1is]

R.I.P Mark E Smith, legend of legends

[@steveclough1107]

He hears our telephone thing's.

[@jesusschizus272]

Beautiful 90's!

[@steerpike66]

I like the inclusion of the little intro; it gives a nice sense of media period.

[@ZdraveskaSnezana]

I heard this a few years after it was released. Abolutlety Gorgeous ❤ These people, especially the singer have brought joy infinitely I will always love them 🎉

[@andrewpilmore9139]

The Ting Tings. We started Nothing sounded familiar, now I remember why. Thanks for posting

[@simonpeach1294]

+andrew pilmore amazing how many don't hear.

[@RikiNewtonMusicianSongwriter]

RIP to Mark E Smith - Manchester Music LEGEND !! Will be sorely missed.. Rx

[@michaelcolello2735]

The Fall gets funky.

[@steveclough1107]

Michael Colello Fall gets prophetic!

[@andrewphippsphillips1455]

Its the line about doing a parlez vous with Gretchen Franklin, the actress who played Ethel in soap drama Eastenders

[@mikemiller2574]

Yes, little known fact...although to be fair it was a mix up as she thought she was in contact with chas n' Dave, as they have a song called, 'that telephone thing'!!!

[@jimmyslowfade4442]

Just me, or is this even more glorious than the studio version?

[@elizabethhann4028]

I think it's even more glorious. It has a tougher sound. And oh GAWD, the assonance in the lyrics! "How dare you assOOme I wanna parlez-VOO wit'chOO?" I love that! One of the Fall's most glorious performances.

[@leecarlson728]

Extricate is a belter like so many fall albums it was the most recent release when i discovered them aged 17....aah memories

[@jeffjohnson1137]

insanely better!

[@jontyhawkes5332]

no- and yes.

[@keokeo808]

Holy shit this is better?..............what was the first version a group of guys falling down the stairs carrying instruments

[@TheConstellation72]

If it's me and your granny on bongos, it's The Fall-Mark E Smith I last saw The Fall at the Garage in Aberdeen. MES came on late, mumbled through a few songs, messed around with the band's amps, walked off stage at least 3 times and then finished less than 40 minutes after it began. Still not sure if it was a great or shambolic performance. Music has lost a true maverick today...

[@angermagnet]

Thanks for posting. This song used to be a listening staple for me back in the day.

[@ianbrowne9217]

I hope your still cosmic, cat.

[@johnAsanz]

this has made my day.

[@MrThomascow]

Great thumbs up.*****

[@MrThomascow]

CHEERS AGAIN Carlos

[@jonnobloggs1139]

He has a lovely voice. I'd love to hear him singing something by Jack Jones.

[@DrCJames]

@0:33 the genius little sample of an old stool phone ring, sitting subtly in the background of the intro. This is one of the most in yer face and sublime tunes ever, making it the most perfect oxymoron to my little ears.

[@richardlopez1155]

The Fall were so ahead of their time!!!

[@colinhoward2064]

I want this playing at my funeral

[@doctorcraptonicus7941]

You might get your wish if Richard Branson has his way ( & he has).

[@r7coo]

FTM!

[@anothertuber211]

The Fall+Coldcut=perfection!

[@paulcanis6297]

Mark E. Smith is a poet, and you know it.

[@stewingate6323]

Hope he don’t blow it

[@HolaYAdios-vv1vl]

The Fall era muy repetitivo , pero no cansaba. Además muy creativos y con ritmo fácil y acogedor. Marc i love you

[@johnmorrison2604]

Mark would not agree with your suburban nobody view... ☘️🇵🇸🌈✨️MANCHESTER BURY

[@Prodigy68]

What a pathetic reaction ​@@johnmorrison2604

[@darrinpollard8038]

They just flex and grind on a groove a while and let it rock then fade ...brilliant

[@NickRowsell]

Excellent ..

[@68majortom]

Saw them many times and they were fucking ace when MES could be bothered, great performance!!! ✌️

[@Meddled]

I'm hearing a bit of Beefheart in this.

[@studamanduncan9728]

I'd be said Iggy but yeah......see where ya comin from...

[@hoodswell1]

Yeah he was a big fan.

[@rainblaze.]

Alanko Meddle tomorrow never knows here🙋

[@badboy46528]

> E-lec-tri-ci-ty

[@fascistseatdonuts]

So freaking prescient. That guitar in this song--who is it? Really great. happy birthday, Mark. Would have been 65 years old today. Thanks for the music and great live performances.

[@fascistseatdonuts]

Whattya know? There's a wikipedia page about the song: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_Thing

[@lyndondembski4651]

Sublime so very 1990 Steve is lovely xxxx

[@allanfmarsden]

Far away my preferred version of this track. Competes with Gross Chapel/Grenadier Guards for my favourite Fall track,

[@r7coo]

I want this as my ringtone.

[@AndieZ4U2]

Ikr 😅

[@studamanduncan9728]

Mark hears our comments and contemptuously

[@microproductssystemsltd.303]

Freaking Brilliant tune by the genius that is Mark E Smith.

[@yasushinakahira4138]

単純にカッコよいサウンド

[@matthewrodgers8585]

Awesome. RIP MArk.

[@stevebonk5241]

Bramah on guitar during his ill fated return. Thanks for posting.

[@steveclough1107]

This should be the anthem for today.

[@korick28]

The hell??!! Dark and lovely...

[@bcarr5163]

I love it that he has the lyrics right there on the stand

[@gjingodjango]

Now that’s a good record.

[@Dreamskater100]

Brilliant. x

[@swtirisalexopoulos1138]

R.I.P.!!!!!

[@daviddring2365]

RIP to the great man xxx

[@Derek_Gunn]

It's the bloody Stazi - they want to know what's going down

[@lyndondembski4651]

Mark is beautiful xxxx

[@galenstone9097]

Godspeed, Mark

[@CrunchyBiscuitsBand]

Cool stuff :)

[@YTrab1970]

The sheer syncopation is fucking EPIC

[@LynneHand]

RIP Marc e Smith

[@jasondaviesdavies6552]

Brilliant

[@stevelanciloti1071]

Way to go! Ty M.A.

[@bcarr5163]

I love that he has the lyrics in front of him

[@jimihendrix6969]

I dunno what anyone will think of this in 2091..... Still sounds ace in 2023.

[@georgefresco3521]

LCD soundsystem deffo influenced by the fall

[@popefrancis1629]

James Murphy paid tribute to the song by using the phrase "I'm tapped" on the LCD Soundsystem song "Movement"

[@dinobambino7905]

Brill guitar..brill sound..am tappppped......i hear you telefon thing listen at him

[@elrobertoreal]

R.I.P. Mark E. Smith!

[@barrypotter5751]

There's a promo video for this but I can't find it on you tube

[@mochynddu723]

It's a bop.

[@timleopardxolo]

Christ, this is good!

[@davidhatred8938]

wow!

[@andreadefries483]

marc its too good

[@elizabethhann4028]

He was always too good. When he was good, he was real real good, and when he was bad he was better!

[@colincressey1457]

love thim

[@NOWtheband]

done

[@zetetick395]

Our Mark; lookin genuinely gorgeous in this 👌😸

[@dogongdoging]

I'm here because Cedric Zavala told me I'm listening to too much hip hop and heavy metal

[@KielerSchlamperich]

R.I.P.

[@janchiodo-wilhelm9055]

ENOUGH already!!!!!!! Someone please stop taking our great artists and singers off this earth! Is it some computerized robotic being eliminating real voices and talent from our ears and leaving us with programmed dolly drops and boy toy push buttons????? RIP Mark, you had a great influence on real MUSIC. I will always hear you! Jan Chiodo Wilhelm six nation's NY

[@steveclough1107]

Genius's tend to go quickly.Its all the drugs and imagination,they live so many mental lives they use up more than cats.

[@thegloriousmoodman2152]

"I'm tapped-uh!"

[@ugiswrong]

Yes we carry our surveillance these days, MES was prophetic

[@Turfdeanthantrax]

Also peep the lyrics on Eat Y'self Fitter Analytics have got My type worked out Analytics on me The poison render Wtfffff

[@ianbrowne9217]

@@Turfdeanthantrax what does that mean? Not being a wallybob i need to know.

[@Turfdeanthantrax]

@@ianbrowne9217 I mean who knows what MES was thinking. The concept of mass surveilance and keeping tabs on the population is nothing new. I was more so thinking about Cambridge Analytica and Facebook. All these companies collecting data on people to sway their opinions or make them feel a certain way about things.

[@Turfdeanthantrax]

@@ianbrowne9217 "Analytics have got, My type worked out" probably doesnt mean what I think it does but thats how interpret it anyway. This idea of keeping tabs on the greater population is kind of a recurring theme in The Fall. MES loved dystopian themes and novels of that sort. Phillip K. Dick and Vladimir Nabokov come to mind!

[@marknewbold2583]

They carried out surveillance then

[@Johnconno]

Always liked that presenter, wonder where she is now?

[@doctorcraptonicus7941]

She's probably working in a call centre by now. ...Now THAT, Alanis Morrissettte is irony.

[@clabauxchristophe7789]

R.I.P

[@72daystar]

Rage in, rage in Mark E. Smith...

[@medicinegone]

Something about his voice reminds me of Mitch Hedberg

[@rayknagge1162]

RIP Mark E. :(

[@pablozewoppa]

Punk. Northern Punk? MES saw the Sex Pistols and thought 'We can do better than this'. And he was right!!

[@magicbus144]

R.i.p

[@miked4377]

good tune

[@martingemmell1401]

Does MES have the words down at his right?

[@jamesirwin267]

Hehw

[@easyease]

I'm tapped-uh

[@problemchimp4231]

If you ain't discovered The Fall yet...so envy you.

[@messifan9476]

Rip Mark E Smith

[@sootyfoot]

RIP Mark E Smith.

[@stuartjackson8091]

pretty captain beefharty in bits.

[@akinbayzit738]

Wie immer!

[@jimihendrix6969]

"...constantly aloof..."

[@lancashirebomber9744]

mark e genius