The Fall / Code:Selfish (2007 Universal 2 CD Reissue)

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Artist

The Fall

Album Title:

Code:Selfish (2007 Universal 2 CD Reissue)

Album Cover:

Primary Genre

Alternative & Punk: Post-Punk

Format

CD (2)

Released

03/09/1992

Reissue Date

05/07/2007

Label

Fontana/Mercury/Universal

Catalog No

9847302

Bar Code No

6 02498 47302 3

Reissue

Yes

Remastered

Yes

Packaging

Jewelcase

Tracks

Code:Selfish (2007 Universal 2 CD Reissue)
1.	The Birmingham School of Business (6:43) (Mark E Smith/Dave Bush)
2.	Free Range (3:59) (Mark E Smith/Simon Wolstencroft)
3.	Return (4:03) (Mark E Smith/Steve Hanley)
4.	Time Enough at Last (3:48) (Mark E Smith/Craig Scanlon)
5.	Everything Hurtz (4:06) (Mark E Smith/Steve Hanley)
6.	Immortality (4:30) (Mark E Smith/Craig Scanlon)
7.	Two-Face! (6:01) (Mark E Smith/Craig Scanlon)
8.	Just Waiting (4:37) (Hank Williams)
9.	So-Called Dangerous (3:45) (Mark E Smith/Dave Bush/Steve Hanley)
10.	Gentlemen's Agreement (4:33) (Mark E Smith/Craig Scanlon)
11.	Married, 2 Kids (2:44) (Mark E Smith/Steve Hanley/Craig Scanlon)
12.	Crew Filth (5:24) (Mark E Smith/Simon Wolstencroft)

Code:Selfish (2007 Universal 2 CD Reissue) (Bonus Disc)
1.	Free Range (Single Version) (4:21)
2.	Return (Single Version) (4:04)
3.	Dangerous (4:01)
4.	Everything Hurtz (Single Version) (4:07)
5.	Ed's Babe (3:17)
6.	Pumpkin Head Escapes (3:49)
7.	The Knight the Devil and Death (3:23)
8.	Free Ranger (4:04)
9.	Noel's Chemical Effluence (6:24)
10.	Legend of Xanadu (3:29)
11.	Free Range (BBC John Peel Session) (4:05)
12.	Kimble (BBC John Peel Session) (3:55)
13.	Immortality (BBC John Peel Session) (4:27)
14.	Return (BBC John Peel Session) (4:10)

Date Acquired

01/23/2009

Personal Rating

Acquired from

orpheusentertainment (Amazon)

Purchase Price

14.61

Web Links

All Music Guide Entry:
Discogs Entry:
The Fall online - Discography: singles & albums

Notes

foobar2000 1.2.9 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2014-11-23 23:49:11

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Analyzed: The Fall / Code: Selfish, Disc 1
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR12 -0.75 dB -13.77 dB 6:44 01-The Birmingham School of Business School
DR11 -0.70 dB -13.78 dB 3:59 02-Free Range
DR14 -0.86 dB -15.18 dB 4:04 03-Return
DR11 -0.57 dB -13.48 dB 3:49 04-Time Enough at Last
DR13 -0.86 dB -14.68 dB 4:07 05-Everything Hurtz
DR13 -0.81 dB -15.24 dB 4:30 06-Immortality
DR10 -0.97 dB -12.55 dB 6:01 07-Two-Face!
DR12 -1.06 dB -13.92 dB 4:38 08-Just Waiting
DR12 -1.23 dB -14.87 dB 3:46 09-So-Called Dangerous
DR13 -0.59 dB -16.26 dB 4:34 10-Gentlemen's Agreement
DR11 -0.69 dB -13.28 dB 2:45 11-Married, 2 Kids
DR13 -0.95 dB -21.12 dB 5:24 12-Crew Filth
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Number of tracks: 12
Official DR value: DR12

Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 588 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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foobar2000 1.2.9 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2014-11-23 23:50:09

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Analyzed: The Fall / Code: Selfish, Disc 2
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR14 0.00 dB -15.40 dB 4:21 01-Free Range
DR16 -0.20 dB -17.31 dB 4:05 02-Return
DR14 0.00 dB -17.64 dB 4:01 03-Dangerous
DR15 0.00 dB -16.50 dB 4:07 04-Everything Hurtz
DR11 -3.05 dB -15.53 dB 3:17 05-Ed's Babe
DR14 -0.14 dB -15.37 dB 3:49 06-Pumpkin Head Xscapes
DR10 -2.01 dB -14.36 dB 3:24 07-The Knight the Devil and Death
DR11 -2.38 dB -13.64 dB 4:05 08-Free Ranger
DR10 -3.34 dB -14.21 dB 6:24 09-Noel's Chemical Effluence
DR14 -0.01 dB -16.63 dB 3:29 10-The Legend of Xanadu: Ruby Trax
DR12 -1.20 dB -13.89 dB 4:06 11-Free Range
DR13 0.00 dB -14.84 dB 3:56 12-Kimble
DR12 -0.60 dB -13.39 dB 4:27 13-Immortality
DR12 0.00 dB -13.40 dB 4:10 14-Return
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Number of tracks: 14
Official DR value: DR13

Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 919 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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Reviews

All Music Guide Review:

Review by Ted Mills
An underrated and hard-to-find Fall album, this 1992 release returned to a harder, more caustic band than found on the previous year's Shift Work. Slimmed down to a four- piece (with added keyboards by David Bush) and produced by Craig Leon and Simon Rogers, the Fall yet again returned with an experimental and menacing collection of songs. The centerpiece and only single off the album was "Free Range," a bit of Mark E. Smith's "prepsicognition" about the coming Balkan wars. "Pressure guilt! Grudge match!" Smith yelps, stringing together images and streams of consciousness. "It pays to talk to no-one!" Years later, it has the same chilling foresight of Yeats's "The Second Coming." Smith's writing was beginning to pare itself down to the essence, relying on repetition and imagery, while the backing of Scanlon, Wolstencroft, and Hanley were translating the feel of sequenced techno into their guitars and drum attack (especially on "Immortality" and "So Called Dangerous"). An album that improves with age.

Mark Prindle Review:

Code: Selfish - Cog Sinister/Fontana/Phonogram 1992.

8 out of 10

STUDIO ALBUM #14 - Like Shiftwork, but not quite as easy-listening. "The Birmingham School Of Business School" is one of my favorite Fall songs, with that shimmery metallic sample driving me wild the whole song through, and both "Free Range" and "Return" are punky (yet smooth) and memorable. The rest is more sedate, but still nice. I'm particularly fond of "Time Enough At Last" and "Married, 2 Kids," although for what reason, I'm unsure. Not necessarily the greatest songs in town, but still, they SOUND amazing. Smooth...like a dentist's office. Plus the last song is just a bunch of drunken profanity, and nothing in this whole wide Christian world beats cussing.

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