Totale's Turns is a live album

Live album

A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...

 by The Fall, originally released on May 5, 1980. The first of the band's many live and part-live albums, it was mostly recorded at gigs in the north of England, but the track "New Puritan" was recorded at Mark E. Smith

Mark E. Smith

Mark Edward Smith is the lead singer, lyricist, frontman, and only constant member of the English post-punk band The Fall.-Early life:...

's home and "That Man" is a studio recording, an outtake from the recording sessions for the "Fiery Jack" single.

Rather than record themselves in front of a receptive home crowd, The Fall chose to use recordings made in working men's club

Working men's club

Working men's clubs are a type of private social club founded in the 19th century in industrial areas of the United Kingdom, particularly the North of England, the Midlands and many parts of the South Wales Valleys, to provide recreation and education for working class men and their families.-...

s and other less obvious settings; side one of the album was recorded at a leisure centre in Doncaster

Doncaster

Doncaster is a town in South Yorkshire, England, and the principal settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster. The town is about from Sheffield and is popularly referred to as "Donny"...

 while the first two tracks on side two are from a February 1980 gig in Bradford

Bradford

Bradford lies at the heart of the City of Bradford, a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, in Northern England. It is situated in the foothills of the Pennines, west of Leeds, and northwest of Wakefield. Bradford became a municipal borough in 1847, and received its charter as a city in 1897...

. It is clear on the recording that the reception the band received veered from indifferent to hostile. Even more peculiar is "No Xmas For John Quays", a song originally heard on Live At The Witch Trials

Live at the Witch Trials

Live at the Witch Trials is the debut album by The Fall, first released on 16 March 1979. It is not, despite its title, a live album, but was recorded in the studio in one day and mixed by producer Bob Sargeant the next. In 2004, bassist Marc Riley told the BBC that the group had been booked into...

. In this version Mark E. Smith

Mark E. Smith

Mark Edward Smith is the lead singer, lyricist, frontman, and only constant member of the English post-punk band The Fall.-Early life:...

 intersperses the lyrics with ferociously worded criticisms of the band's performance.

Side one

1. "Intro" (Mark E. Smith
   Mark E. Smith
   Mark Edward Smith is the lead singer, lyricist, frontman, and only constant member of the English post-punk band The Fall.-Early life:...
   
   ) – 0:46
2. "Fiery Jack" (Smith, Marc Riley
   Marc Riley
   Marc Riley is a British musician, alternative rock critic and radio DJ on BBC 6 Music. Formerly a member of The Fall, he had his own record label, In-Tape, and also worked as a record plugger...
   
   , Steve Hanley
   Steve Hanley (musician)
   Steve Hanley is an Irish-born English musician, based in Manchester. He is best known for playing bass guitar in The Fall from 1979 to 1998, and afterwards in 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. Smith excepted, this tally is unmatched by any other musician to have passed through the group.-Career:Scanlon joined the band...
   
   ) – 4:27
3. "Rowche Rumble" (Smith, Riley, Scanlon) – 4:50
4. "Muzorewi's Daughter" (Smith, Kay Carroll) – 3:42
5. "In My Area" (Smith, Yvonne Pawlett, Riley, Scanlon) – 4:31
6. "Choc Stock" (Smith, Scanlon) – 2:33

Side two

1. "Spector Vs Rector 2" (Smith, Mike Leigh, Scanlon, Hanley) – 5:54
2. "Cary Grant's Wedding" (The Fall) – 3:35
3. "That Man" (Smith, Riley, Scanlon) – 1:43
4. "New Puritan" (Smith, Scanlon, Riley, Hanley) – 3:21
5. "No Xmas for John Quays" (Smith) – 7:43

Reissues

The album has been issued on CD three times, the most recent edition (Castle Music, 2004) adding their third Peel Session. (see The Complete Peel Sessions 1978–2004

The Complete Peel Sessions 1978–2004

The Complete Peel Sessions 1978–2004 is a 6 CD compilation album released by British avant-rock band The Fall in 2005. It comprises all 24 sessions the group recorded for the late John Peel's radio show. Peel was a fervent supporter of the group from early in their career, and The Fall recorded...

for details).