It's the First day of Autumn

Or as it is colloquially known, Fall

To celebrate the end of Summer and our inevitable slippage into near eternal cold and darkness for the next six months I going to fill the Fall with the Fall.

Singles, rarities and Eps galore.
Because I can. And I really like the Fall.
A lot.

By my honest estimation there are really two types of music fans.
Those that love the Fall
and tasteless boors that are not worth talking to about music.

If you're one of those boorish types you'll want to be peddling your papers elsewhere until the Winter Equinox because there's going to be nothing but Fall here for a good long while. Doled out slowly and deliberately over the course of the long Autumn for your Winter stockpiling needs.

As always, pretty much all of this stuff has been included as bonus tracks on various issues and reissues of the Lps. Do yourself a favor, bud. Buy the damn albums. You will not regret it and beer and cigarettes aren't free. Mark E. Smith could always use the money.

1977 - Dresden Dolls

It's hard to believe in this day and age that the Fall were once well thought of enough that somebody thought they could make a buck on bootlegging some rehearsal tapes of the original incarnation of the group. This appeared sometime in the middle of that dark era colloquially known as "the 80's"

 I can't really fault them. "Dresden Dolls" was a lost classic that would in part inspire Amanda Palmer's cabaret outfit at the beginning of this century.  The other two songs would eventually appear as a b-side for the first single and on the UK version of the first proper Lp "Live at the Witch Trials" respectively. Here they're played essentially similar and are as good a representation of that earliest Fall sound as you're going to get with these recordings likely preceding any studio versions.