The Twenty-Seven Points
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| The Twenty-Seven Points | ||
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| Studio album by The Fall | ||
| Released | 1995 | |
| Recorded | various locations 1991-1995 | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Length | 1:40:05 | |
| Label | Permanent Records | |
| Producer(s) | none credited | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| The Fall chronology | ||
| Cerebral Caustic (1995) |
The Twenty-Seven Points (1995) |
The Light User Syndrome (1996) |
The Twenty-Seven Points is a double album by The Fall, released in 1995. Subtitled "Live 92-95" the album consists of live recordings made in various locations between 1991 and 1995, but also contains 2 previously unheard studio tracks as well as some mildly diverting interludes. Credits on the album are sketchy but the front cover lists the cities in which the tracks were recorded; Prague, Tel Aviv, London, Glasgow, New York and Manchester.
[edit] Track listing
Titles are given exactly as listed on the original sleeve.
- Disc one
- Mollusc In Tyrol (note - this is a brief excerpt of the released track played over a PA as an intro tape, not an actual live rendition)
- Return
- Ladybird (Green Grass)
- Idiot - Walk Out (an aborted "Idiot Joy Showland")
- Ten Points
- Idiot Joy Showland
- Intro - Roundhouse M/CR (a John Barry recording used as an intro tape)
- The Joke
- M.H.'s Jokes/British People In Hot Weather
- Free Range
- Hi-Tension Line - Tel Aviv 92
- The League Of Bald Headed Men
- Disc two
- 95: Glam Racket/Star - (two separate live recordings spliced together)
- Lost In Music
- Prague '91/Mr Pharmacist
- Cloud Of Black (studio track)
- Paranoid Man In Cheap Sh.t Room
- Bounces - Leeds (actually "Life Just Bounces")
- Outro - Leeds (the "Leeds" is roughly deleted in black marker pen)
- Passable (actually "A Past Gone Mad")
- Glasgow Advice
- Middle Class Revolt - Simon, Dave & John
- Bill Is Dead
- Strychnine
- War!
- Noel's Chemical Effluence (studio track)
- Three Points
- Up To Much
15 & 16 are listed as one track but indexed as 2 on the disc.
[edit] 2006 reissue
The album was reissued by Castle Music in May 2006 in a remastered edition but with no additional material. However, it is reported that "Three Points" and "Up To Much" are missing from this new version, despite being listed on the sleeve.
[edit] Personnel
- The Fall:
- Mark E. Smith - vocals, tapes (etc)
- Simon Wolstencroft - drums
- Brix - bass guitar, guitar, vocals
- Craig Scanlon - guitar
- Steve Hanley - bass guitar, vocals
- Julia Nagle - keyboards
- Karl Burns - drum kit|drums, vocals, guitar
- Dave Bush - keyboards on "Big New Prinz", "Paranoid Man..." and "Bounces"
- Kenny Brady - fiddle on "Prague 91/Mr Pharmacist"
- Simon Rogers - machines on "Noel's Chemical Effluence"
- Rex Sargeant - mix and tape
- Andy Bernstein - sound on tracks 8 - 23
- Robert Gordon - bass guitar and keyboards on "Cloud Of Black"
- there is also an additional credit which appears to read Andy: Rime Time Studios, Ancoats, M/C
