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k-punk: Memorex for the Krakens: The Fall's Pulp Modernism

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Specter Versus Rector: 'MR James be born be born/ Yog Sothoth rape me lord/ Sludge Hai Choi/Van Greenway/Ar Corman' Mark Sinker: 'Scrawny, gnarled, gaunt: Smith doesn't waltz with ghosts. He materialises them.' Who can put their finger on the Weird? It’s taken me more than twenty years to attempt this deciphering. Back then, the Fall did something to me. But what, and how? Let’s call it an Event, and at the same time note that all Events have a dimension of the uncanny. If something is too alien, it will fail to register; if it is too easily recognized, too easily cognizable, it will never be more than a reiteration of the already known. When The Fall pummeled their way into my nervous system, circa 1983, it was as if a world that was familiar - and which I had thought too familiar, too quotidian to feature in rock - had returned, expressionistically transfigured, permanently altered. I didn't know than, that, already, in 1983, The Fall's greatest work was behind them. No doubt the lat

k-punk: Memorex for the Krakens: The Fall's Pulp Modernism --> k-punk << Coming attractions... | Main | Manchester/Modernism/Hauntology >> May 08, 2006 Memorex for the Krakens: The Fall's Pulp Modernism PART 1 - part II to follow shortly... Dragnet sleevenotes: 'maybe industrial ghosts are making Spectres redundant' Specter Versus Rector : 'MR James be born be born/ Yog Sothoth rape me lord/ Sludge Hai Choi/Van Greenway/Ar Corman' Mark Sinker : 'Scrawny, gnarled, gaunt: Smith doesn't waltz with ghosts. He materialises them.' Who can put their finger on the Weird? It�s taken me more than twenty

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