The Fall / Code:Selfish
Artist The Fall
Album Title: Code:Selfish
Album Cover:
Primary Genre Alternative & Punk: Old School Punk
Format CD
Released 03/09/1992
Label Cog Sinister/Fontana
Catalog No 512162-2
Bar Code No 7 31451 21622 0
Packaging Jewelcase
Tracks
1. The Birmingham School of Business School (6:45)
2. Free Range (3:58)
3. Return (4:03)
4. Time enough at last (3:47)
5. Everything Hurtz (4:07)
6. Immortality (4:30)
7. Two-face (6:00)
8. Just Waiting (4:38)
9. So-called Dangerous (3:45)
10. Gentlemans Agreement (4:32)
11. Married, 2 Kids (2:45)
12. Crew Filth (5:21)
Date Acquired 08/01/1992
Personal Rating
Acquired from Digital Only
Purchase Price 24.99

Web Links

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Notes

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Analyzed: The Fall / Code: Selfish
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DR         Peak         RMS     Duration Track
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DR14      -0.14 dB   -15.84 dB      6:45 01/12-The Birmingham School of Business School
DR14      -1.06 dB   -16.43 dB      3:58 02/12-Free Range
DR16      -0.14 dB   -17.12 dB      4:04 03/12-Return
DR13      -1.04 dB   -15.72 dB      3:48 04/12-Time Enough to Last
DR16       0.00 dB   -16.63 dB      4:07 05/12-Everything Hurtz
DR16       0.00 dB   -17.34 dB      4:30 06/12-Immortality
DR12      -0.91 dB   -14.60 dB      6:01 07/12-Two-Face!
DR14       0.00 dB   -15.89 dB      4:38 08/12-Just Waiting
DR14      -1.20 dB   -17.77 dB      3:46 09/12-So-called Dangerous
DR16       0.00 dB   -19.15 dB      4:33 10/12-Gentlemen's Agreement
DR15       0.00 dB   -16.29 dB      2:45 11/12-Married, 2 Kids
DR15      -1.93 dB   -23.82 dB      5:21 12/12-Crew Filth
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Number of tracks:  12
Official DR value: DR15

Samplerate:        44100 Hz
Channels:          2
Bits per sample:   16
Bitrate:           576 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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