| Artist |
The Fall |
| Album Title: |
Code : Selfish |
| Album Cover: |
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| Primary Genre |
Alternative & Punk: Old School Punk |
| Format |
Vinyl |
| Released |
03/09/1992 |
| Reissue Date |
08/03/2023 |
| Label |
Cog Sinister |
| Catalog No |
UMCLP004 |
| Bar Code No |
0805520240048 |
| Packaging |
LP Sleeve |
| Tracks |
| A1.
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The Birmingham School of Business School (6:45)
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| A2.
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Free Range (3:58)
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| A3.
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Return (4:03)
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| A4.
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Time Enough at Last (3:47)
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| A5.
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Everything Hurtz (4:07)
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| A6.
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Immortality (4:30)
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| B1.
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Two-Face! (6:00)
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| B2.
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Just Waiting (4:38)
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| B3.
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So-Called Dangerous (3:45)
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| B4.
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Gentleman's Agreement (4:32)
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| B5.
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Married, 2 Kids (2:45)
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| B6.
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Crew Filth (5:21)
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| Date Acquired |
09/25/2023 |
| Personal Rating |
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| Acquired from |
Juno Records |
| Purchase Price |
25.49 |
Web Links |
Discogs Entry:
All Music Guide Entry:
The Fall online - Discography: singles & albums |
Notes |
Notes:
Housed in glossy outer picture cover and printed inner card sleeve.
Runout codes are etched.
Credits:
Artwork [Back] – Saffron
Artwork [Front] – Pascal Le Gras
Backing Vocals – Cassell Webb
Bass Guitar – Stephen Hanley
Drums – Simon Wolstencroft
Keyboards – C. Leon, David Bush, S. Rogers, Simon Wolstencroft
Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar – Craig Scanlon
Other [Machines] – David Bush
Producer, Mixed By – Craig Leon, Mark E. Smith, Simon Rogers
Vocals, Tape – Mark E. Smith
Companies, etc.:
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Mercury Records Ltd.
Copyright © – Mercury Records Ltd.
Record Company – Universal Music Operations Ltd.
Pressed By – Takt Direct – 010834829
Barcode and other Identifiers:
Barcode: 0805520240048
Rights Society: BIEM/SDRM
Label Code: LC00268
Matrix / Runout (Side One): 010834829-A-1
Matrix / Runout (Side Two): 010834829-B-3
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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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