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The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall is an album by The Fall, released in October 1984. It was the band's first album with the relatively large Beggars Banquet
Beggars Banquet Records

Beggars Banquet is an English independent record label that began as a chain of record shops owned by Martin Mills and Nick Austin, and is part of the Beggars Group of labels....
 label, and was produced by John Leckie
John Leckie

John Leckie is one of British music's most prolific record producers, having produced and/or engineered such high-profile albums as George Harrison's All Things Must Pass, The Bends by Radiohead, Showbiz by Muse, The Fall 's This Nation's Saving Grace, the The Stone Roses of The Stone Roses and The Verve's A Storm in Heaven....
. Paul Hanley
Paul Hanley (musician)

Paul Hanley is an English musician, based in Manchester. He is best known for playing Drum kit in The Fall and Tom Hingley and the Lovers....
 left the band immediately after the accompanying UK tour, ending the group's distinctive "twin drummers" period .






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The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall is an album by The Fall, released in October 1984. It was the band's first album with the relatively large Beggars Banquet
Beggars Banquet Records

Beggars Banquet is an English independent record label that began as a chain of record shops owned by Martin Mills and Nick Austin, and is part of the Beggars Group of labels....
 label, and was produced by John Leckie
John Leckie

John Leckie is one of British music's most prolific record producers, having produced and/or engineered such high-profile albums as George Harrison's All Things Must Pass, The Bends by Radiohead, Showbiz by Muse, The Fall 's This Nation's Saving Grace, the The Stone Roses of The Stone Roses and The Verve's A Storm in Heaven....
. Paul Hanley
Paul Hanley (musician)

Paul Hanley is an English musician, based in Manchester. He is best known for playing Drum kit in The Fall and Tom Hingley and the Lovers....
 left the band immediately after the accompanying UK tour, ending the group's distinctive "twin drummers" period . On its original release, the album was available in two formats – on vinyl, and as an extended cassette entitled Escape Route from the Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall which added all the material from the 3 singles the group issued in 1984.

3 older, previously abandoned songs were returned to during these sessions. "Oh! Brother" and "Copped It" dated back to the group's earliest incarnation (they can be heard on Live 1977
Live 1977

Live 1977 is a live album by The Fall , first released in March 2000. Although the sound quality is poor and live documents of The Fall are plentiful, this one is of particular note as it is the earliest available recording of the group in action, apart from two tracks on the Short Circuit: Live at the Electric Circus compilation....
 issued by Voiceprint
Voiceprint

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 in 2000) and "Draygo's Guilt" was being performed live in 1981 (it can be heard on the Live In Leeds section of the Perverted by Language
Perverted by Language

Perverted by Language is a 1983 album by The Fall . It was the first Fall album to feature Brix Smith, then wife of Mark E. Smith, who performs lead vocals on "Hotel Bl?edel"....
 Bis DVD, issued by Cherry Red
Cherry Red

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 in 2003).

Track listing


Original LP

Side One ("Frightening" side)
  1. "Lay of the Land"
  2. "2 × 4"
  3. "Copped It"
  4. "Elves"
Side Two ("Wonderful" side)
  1. "Slang King"
  2. "Bug Day"
  3. "Stephen Song"
  4. "Craigness"
  5. "Disney's Dream Debased"


Original cassette

  1. "Lay of the Land" (Mark E. Smith
    Mark E. Smith

    Mark Edward Smith is the lead singer, lyricist, frontman, and sole constant member of England Post punk band The Fall ....
    , Brix Smith
    Brix Smith

    Brix Smith-Start is an United States singer and guitarist, best known for being a member of British post-punk band The Fall , and as lead singer with The Adult Net....
    ) – 5:45
  2. "2 × 4" (M. Smith, B. Smith) – 3:38
  3. "Copped It" (M. Smith, Karl Burns
    Karl Burns

    Karl Burns is a British musician best known as drummer for The Fall , featuring in many incarnations of the band between 1977 and 1998.Although several musicians have rejoined the band having previously left or been sacked, Burns was rehired a record nine times, eventually leaving for good following an on-stage altercation with group leade...
    ) – 4:15
  4. "Elves" (M. Smith, B. Smith) – 4:47
  5. "Oh! Brother" (M. Smith, Burns, Steve Hanley
    Steve Hanley (musician)

    Steve Hanley is an English musician, based in Manchester. He is best known for playing bass guitar in The Fall and Tom Hingley and the Lovers....
    , Craig Scanlon
    Craig Scanlon

    Craig Scanlon is a British guitarist, best known as a member of The Fall between 1979 and 1995. During this period he co-wrote over 120 of the group's songs; Mark E....
    ) – 4:01
    • from the "Oh! Brother" single, June 1984
  6. "Draygo's Guilt" (M. Smith, Scanlon) – 4:29
    • from the Call for Escape Route EP, 12 October 1984
  7. "God Box" (M. Smith, B. Smith) – 3:18
    • from the "Oh! Brother" single, June 1984
  8. "Clear Off!" (M. Smith, Scanlon) – 4:40
    • from the Call for Escape Route EP, 12 October 1984
  9. "C.R.E.E.P." (M. Smith, Paul Hanley
    Paul Hanley (musician)

    Paul Hanley is an English musician, based in Manchester. He is best known for playing Drum kit in The Fall and Tom Hingley and the Lovers....
    , S. Hanley, Scanlon. B. Smith) – 4:42
    • from the 12" edition of the "c.r.e.e.p" single, 24 August 1984
  10. "Pat-Trip Dispenser" (M. Smith, B. Smith) – 4:00
    • from the "c.r.e.e.p" single, 24 August 1984
  11. "Slang King" (M. Smith, P. Hanley, B. Smith) – 5:21
  12. "Bug Day" (M. Smith, Burns, P. Hanley, S. Hanley, Scanlon, B. Smith) – 4:58
  13. "Stephen Song" (M. Smith, P. Hanley, S. Hanley) – 3:05
  14. "Craigness" (M. Smith, Scanlon) – 3:03
  15. "Disney's Dream Debased" (M. Smith, S. Hanley, B. Smith) – 5:17
  16. "No Bulbs" (M. Smith, B. Smith) – 7:51
    • from the Call for Escape Route EP, 12 October 1984


CD edition

The album was belatedly issued on CD in 1988. The tracklisting duplicated the content and running order of the cassette edition almost exactly, substituting the extended "C.R.E.E.P." for the 7" version, although it added a brief spoken introduction by Brix Smith
Brix Smith

Brix Smith-Start is an United States singer and guitarist, best known for being a member of British post-punk band The Fall , and as lead singer with The Adult Net....
 unheard elsewhere. However, this means that the listener has to programme their CD player accordingly in order to hear the original LP tracklisting without interruption. Despite being modelled on the cassette, the CD does not sport the extended title given to that now-unavailable format.

Personnel

  • The Fall:
    • Mark E. Smith
      Mark E. Smith

      Mark Edward Smith is the lead singer, lyricist, frontman, and sole constant member of England Post punk band The Fall ....
       – vocals
    • Brix Smith
      Brix Smith

      Brix Smith-Start is an United States singer and guitarist, best known for being a member of British post-punk band The Fall , and as lead singer with The Adult Net....
       – guitar
      Guitar

      The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
      , vocals
    • Craig Scanlon
      Craig Scanlon

      Craig Scanlon is a British guitarist, best known as a member of The Fall between 1979 and 1995. During this period he co-wrote over 120 of the group's songs; Mark E....
       – guitar
    • Steve Hanley
      Steve Hanley (musician)

      Steve Hanley is an English musician, based in Manchester. He is best known for playing bass guitar in The Fall and Tom Hingley and the Lovers....
       – bass guitar
      Bass guitar

      The electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum.The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a larger body, a longer neck and Scale length, and usually four strings tuned to the same pitches as those of the double bass, whic...
    • Paul Hanley
      Paul Hanley (musician)

      Paul Hanley is an English musician, based in Manchester. He is best known for playing Drum kit in The Fall and Tom Hingley and the Lovers....
      – drums
      Drum kit

      A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as cowbell s, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single drummer....
      , keyboards
    • Karl Burns
      Karl Burns

      Karl Burns is a British musician best known as drummer for The Fall , featuring in many incarnations of the band between 1977 and 1998.Although several musicians have rejoined the band having previously left or been sacked, Burns was rehired a record nine times, eventually leaving for good following an on-stage altercation with group leade...
       – drums, percussion
      Percussion instrument

      A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound by being hit with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration....
      , bass guitar
  • Gavin Friday
    Gavin Friday

    Gavin Friday is an Ireland singer and songwriter, composer and Painting....
     – vocals on "Copped It", "Clear Off!" and "Stephen Song". Friday is credited as a "friendly visitor".