The Fall - Tempo House

[@thegreekgeekreborn]

This has to be the greatest performance ever recorded by anyone. The shirt, Hanley, Burns. Drum and Bass . MES at his peak. Relentless. Precise lyrics. Noone has ever come close. Relish this boys and girls, you will never see the like again. Solitaire! BEF!

[@JJONNYREPP]

Words of Expectation - The Fall 2.3.22 1712pm wow... i was envisioning some sap being busted by the police and not being able to come to the door cos they were suffering from the runs and then their door being beaten down by irate coppers out for some cuff action.. and... and.... wow. you couldnt make it up.... well, that's how she got off and got a lift home into the bargain by sorrowful rulers of law and order. as well as a 10 million quid pay out from are you disgruntled plc.

[@derekrushton1705]

Brilliant !!! MES.RIP

[@gedrooney9305]

Captain Beefheart Amsterdam 80’ holds that spot 👍

[@pbzp]

@@gedrooney9305 ooh thanks for that! i hadn't caught that one. and the opening line, "i don't do music. [long pause] i do spells" lol

[@Yezz101]

"Winston Churchill had a speech imp-p-p-pediment And look what he did He razed half of London"

[@TheDying1]

Lusted after French paintings...

[@tomwatson353]

The pinnacle of human achievement

[@majorgruber5925]

RIP Mark. Today like the Dutch I'm weeping in four languages, at least.

[@linxde1]

This Dutchmen did. RIP MES!

[@dannycheesums]

Possibly the best ever live song by a British group

[@nogingerfool1]

the greatest group to ever walk the planet , simple as , just the fucking bees .

[@rittdalton8749]

When I first saw this, it did not take long at all to realize that this VERY PERFORMANCE is THE "Tempo House" track that is on their 1983 LP "Perverted By Language". It was a chilling thrill to actually have the visual half of what had for years and years, repeatedly, been one of my favorite aural stimulations by The Fall. Every nuance, every familiar lick of feedback and subtle vocal underpinning by Mark -- brought to life threefold... Thanks for posting this!

[@PetrieRobert]

+Ritt Dalton me too!

[@christopherthomas7253]

+Ritt Dalton It's great seeing the double drummer lineup at work!

[@americanslander4788]

Um, live footage was edited to match the studio version of the song. They're clearly not actually playing the song live, you can see numerous instances where the image and the sound don't match.

[@porterhall27]

nonsense the version on the lp was recorded live

[@christopherthomas7253]

I think there are likelier explanations for lack of video/audio synch and I'm pretty positive that this version is in fact the same one that's on the album.

[@LiveinReykjavik]

S.H. THE KING OF BASS.

[@josejones7025]

Chris Squire is the KING of bass

[@harrymay2528]

Absolutely fantastic. The best Manchester has ever produced. Especially 1981-1986. Classic music. Legendary. We miss you, Mark.

[@iamdamosuzuki_]

I'd say more accurately 1978-1986. They were releasing bottled lightning right at the start!

[@davidfrieske7134]

serious contender for best use of grouse in a song and live version of a song by any band. live fall just makes you happy. classic lineup. winnie had a speech imp...pp... pediment. mes definitely missed and not forgotten.

[@hughie7772]

I'm addicted. Why didn't I get into this sooner? Morbid fascination has led to obsession with what is clearly genius at work. Mark E lives on forever 😃

[@CRASS06]

Hanley was by far the best Bass player in The Fall.

[@danselzer]

Hanley was by far the best Bass player

[@dannycheesums]

@@danselzer it still stuns me that after leaving the Fall he never got invited to join other prominent post-punk bands when they needed a bass player, e.g. New Order, Killing Joke

[@danselzer]

@@dannycheesums maybe he needed a long and well deserved break!

[@callumclay]

Same with Craig scanlon

[@68majortom]

​@@callumclayI read somewhere not so long ago that Craig hadn't picked up the Guitar since he left The Fall, he's finished with Music, T/F IDK still a waste of a fantastic Guitarist

[@andyrogers6375]

This song quelled my doubts as a teen and made me realise that The Fall were the greatest band ever to exist. Just edges The Classical as my all-time favourite. How Hanley and Burns did what they did with the drums, I’ll never know. RIP MES.

[@pertenezcoaunsueño]

2 years without the Hip Priest, miss you Mark

[@nwo4life708]

Is this the greatest performance by any band ever???

[@Jimmy-up2xk]

yes

[@altfish2]

I was at this show. - The Hacienda

[@peony70]

Brilliant , this has lived in my soul ever since I fist saw this performance back in the 80s

[@kelechi_77]

One of their best performances, man... the bass, the distorted WL/WH inspired organ lines, the guitar feedback, Smith's delivery, the stuttering before "speech impediment", MES' shirt, the vocal effects on the mic, the repetitive drumming, the lighting of the room, the silence of the audience.

[@asderc1]

When I was younger I was in love with the Pixies, now I see where they got their sound.

[@nwo4life708]

Good shout, i was the same, loved it when the pixies opened up with big new prinz

[@motionsuggests]

i absolutely love the smatterings of guitar noise, howling microphone feedback, and keyboard mashing. as a plagiarist w a notebook i've taken so much production influence from them.

[@TomVfan]

I met the Hanleys at a Tom Hingley & The Lovers gig last Friday!!! Chatted to them both!!! I pointed out to Steve Hanley that they invented drum n bass on Tempo House which made him laugh! He said the best drummer he worked with (exc Paul of course) was Karl Burns and agreed that The Infotainment Scan is a belting album. Still chuffed about it!

[@Togga4]

Probably the best Fall track ever.

[@nickfarr4730]

+Tony Howard Yeah!

[@DerSisko]

You´re right

[@MrRichards68]

DerSisko. Nearly..best track might be "Garden". Luckily also on KZbin. Live Hacienda 1984. Fabulous footage !

[@fredanderica]

Close mate, but The Classical is the custard cream

[@MrRichards68]

Hey there Fuckfaces ! Good choice.

[@helltopo]

"And the Dutch are weeping - in several languages Genius! - I was lucky enough to see them live & they were brilliant.

[@NickRowsell]

I saw them 3 times and I’m so glad I did … I knew, at those times, I was in the presence of real-time wizardry …

[@Takac1979]

This is THE music!!!

[@ShoutingAtHam]

What a rythm section.

[@josejones7025]

And a good vocalist as well

[@borgorusky]

a really monster Fall piece...like so many others they've done for sure...but one of those powerful grinding relentless ones that I keep coming back to...great video

[@68majortom]

It's taken from s live performance in the Hacienda the whole Gigs on here somewhere, but you probably know that already? ✌️ 🤔

[@HibernusMortis1]

Snow on Easter Sunday Jesus Christ, in reverse...........

[@thegreekgeekreborn]

This is probably as close as 'rock' music will ever get to hitting the nail on the head. The tormented tots have had their day. It is relentless, it takes no prisoners. Can you imagine being there when they performed this in the sticky, poisonous pit of regret? That they insisted on the two drum arrangement casts it into a venemous pit of badness.

[@podfunk]

I remember taping this off the radio in the 80s and thinking it the most monolithically dumb track ever but I still found it compelling. It's a constant war of attrition with Smith.

[@jasmoran66]

The Hanley Brothers Band ft. Mark E. Smith. All kidding aside, thanks for this.

[@bunkx351]

This was a BEAST of a band - saw it in late 83, early 84. Seems sad it ended so quickly as he went off to Beggars in search of more sales and greater recognition. Much more of this was always what the good people wanted..

[@brianwilson49]

Fucking hell - that bass, those drums, that delivery. The Fall. Untouchable. Never forget hearing / seeing this for the first time and being utterly bewildering / entranced-uh.

[@themollusc]

Most excellent fucking about with keyboards at the 8 minute mark

[@Farmlandsfallfan]

This looks like one of those gigs that was 'crackling with malevolence' as Peely put it.

[@LowestoftBoy64]

Not sure what MES is on about here, but the delivery makes me understand the conviction within him.

[@simonascough4898]

It's where he got his gear from

[@cyclingseagull]

Tempo House was the unemployment benefit office

[@sweet_kind29]

The drums are incredible. Did anyone else encounter this song through Simon Reynolds‘ writing on it?

[@andrewstorey9419]

Especially Love the synced drumming bit at the end.. cool tune they just don't make stuff like this anymore. 😢😢

[@jonathanbrown673]

Oh this is too good. Can't be gooder

[@thomassolomon9480]

RIP- White Columns "Speed Trials" album from the music festival at White Columns in 1983 had an amazing version of the song "Tempo House"... always remember the show and this song... hypnotic and angry... best for all worlds~

[@atarirob]

On the Austurbæjarbíó Live CD he adds the line "Winston Churchill had a speech impediment, and look what he did - erased half of London". One of the sharpest Fall lyrics, I wonder how many other people know what he meant by that one lol

[@skratzman]

This kicks so much ass, it short circuits my mind.

[@mikeoleary1723]

Steve Handley is relentless.

[@themollusc]

"I'd sing solitare for the B.E.F But who wants to be with them anyway...." Marvellous.

[@gergg]

GOaT The Fall are near beyond fail. The Fall experience was and will spike whatever experience I will experience.... Forever and a few days after ....

[@dank8865]

I adored this track on "Perverted...." because, to me, the drums sounded like *drums.* Real drums. It wasn't untill a couple years later & I got the video that accompanied the album (that includes this video) that I realized, "Oh - they included a live recording." This is the recording of "Tempo House" used on the album. D'uh, that's why the drums sound like "drums." Got it. Sometimes I'm a little slow.

[@Alessio669]

We love it. Mark and his band at one of the hundred creative peaks in forty years.

[@sonicspheres]

nothing comes close. this is it!

[@alexdarkelf4302]

RIP genius.

[@jonesthenoise]

"God damn the pedantic Welsh" We fuckin loves it.

[@jamesblatchford3738]

Oh, I forgot....MES had a million great tracks.

[@heytheregeorgeygirl]

Brilliant, such a great performance!

[@simonwolfendale8859]

About as good as it gets folks.

[@jamesblatchford3738]

Wow...how did I overlook this track?!?

[@NickRowsell]

Just fucking excellent...

[@cherstolemyface]

HOLY SHIT

[@scottmactavish9716]

I listened to Jesus Lizard and for years thought they were the most original thing I've ever heard. I see now they were NOT original, and they got most of their inspiration from The Fall.

[@Spectrescup]

But you've never heard Scratch Acid or the Birthday Party?

[@scottmactavish9716]

@@Spectrescup I have now. Thanks!

[@statementallity]

Thanks for writing this

[@bzfgt1]

What a fantastic way to end a song...

[@dwaynetaylor1214]

what a song! how cool is that band right then!

[@TheDying1]

My favorite Fall song!

[@owenlinski]

@LiveAtReykjavik It may be tempting to think that, but the Fall dominate precisely because they had so many good stages. Last album YFOC is great...as well as TRNFFCOTC and The Light User Syndrome. Even "Code: Selfish" has at least two stone-cold classics on the first side alone: "The Birmingham School Of Business School" and "Free Range". Timeless classics. I have yet to hear a Fall record without at least two songs worth owning..check out some of that back catalog!

[@NickRowsell]

Hot track. Thumping bass.

[@Lieu3C4]

The genius of the early Fall continued to evolve perverted by language.

[@estebanx]

What a great performance. I wish they would put this on DVD, because my VHS copy is rotting. Thanks for posting!

[@porterhall27]

www.amazon.co.uk/Fall-Perverted-Language-DVD/dp/B000094T92

[@tartan4turnups]

Newcastle riverside, Whitley bay Spanish city dome.

[@TheDying1]

...and the Dutch are weeping....

[@muffinspork]

fucking amazing! love this song

[@mcess]

RIP Mark E Smith

[@adnaus23]

Drew Daniel My favorite Fall song. Glad someone I hold in esteem like you chose this video to comment on. RIP Mark

[@dessiemckenzie5857]

Awesome

[@dereksenemo]

Magical.

[@saturatedneowax]

I’m coming down off a stomach flu and the back to back Jesus Christ and Dutch lines made me violently nose exhale, pain

[@lydiab823]

Snow on Easter Sunday. Jesus Christ in reverse. I tell you, the Dutch are weeping, in four languages at least.

[@LondonDada]

@ top of their game here.

[@andreasheinz]

best song ever

[@ty3165]

a great fall performance

[@TheWhiteWhale2]

And Burton is weeeeeping!!!!

[@cliveabbey8587]

I LOVE THE FALL

[@TheDying1]

Winston Churchill had a speech impediment...and look at what he did! Classic Mark E Smith!

[@MirandaGown]

I encountered Francis bourgeois that train spotting kid on Tiktok writing 'pure class' about MES

[@TheWill2112]

Lovely xxx fuck I miss you mark, I hope you are fucking around in the temple house now man. I am not religious but hope you are doing a cab up town somehow xxx

[@stevenuuu1212]

I wish Mark E was my dad.

[@LILBABYN0THING]

I had to look up what he said because I swear he said my name (Lauren) at 1:27. Oloron

[@the13green]

so good

[@michaelpownall9229]

❤ double drums power!

[@ernestotoccalino4683]

Tremendo!!

[@punkfootofnose]

I like

[@woodyeckerslyke]

illness pollution should be encouraged and let loose then maybe some would have a genuine grouse

[@beaumill]

what is the rattling drum sound it's so cool

[@beaumill]

0:56

[@martywhitevan]

@stevenuuu1212 ..that is a cool comment!...haha! he is great !

[@lindsaygreen40]

Fuckin awesome

[@TheDying1]

Roll the trolley round jowells

[@hologramceiling]

You really cant beat this lmfao

[@nunyabuznezz7892]

Oh No, Not Mark E Smith! What happened?

[@JJONNYREPP]

The Fall - Tempo House 1852pm 27.11.22 spain vs germany world cup finals/27/11/22/1900pm interesting.

[@JJONNYREPP]

Luke Heywood replied: "Yes it was silly mel recorde wellington and christchurch dead or alive tempo house is a great track" 30.5.23 1858pm Comments on ‘The Fall - Tempo House’ erm.... ummm. dead or alive appeared with the smiths didnt they at a live show or two.. and the tranny Al Pillay recited the awful(ly) good confidence of henry glasspanse???

[@mikeoleary1723]

Mark at his peak.

[@oraz.]

I can't help it, but it reminds me of Wisdom by BJM. Anyone?

[@MakerManu]

nahhhh que abuso es la version del disco, lo maximo.

[@TenementFunster.74]

mullet e smith

[@cmcbride]

1983.

[@corkshelltosea]

@corkshelltosea ALARUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@TheFuggNugg]

winston churchill had a speech im p p ppp pediment and look what he did raised half of london

[@StephenGTitleytv]

G.E.N.I.U S.