[music] THE FALL - 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong (Beggars Banquet)

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A summary of the Fall's entire career -- maybe the only one in existence, certainly the only good one; two discs long, selling for cheap. I would recommend it to anyone who didn't already know the Fall.

But here's how it could have been better... (1) Either break out of chronological order or use fewer songs from the band's weak early period. (For reasons of continuity, I guess, the initial tracks focus on songs that prefigure what would come later rather than hitting 1978 high points.) (2) Don't focus so much on the singles from the 80s; some of them deserve to be there, but "There's A Ghost In My House" is disposable in every way when compared to even, I don't know, "The Steak Place". (3) Crib more from earlier compilation A World Bewitched's version of the Fall's 90s wilderness-slog; it's impressive that this retrospective dries out and historicizes so much of the band's massive discography, but AWB made those 90s records actually seem *good* by bringing out their strangest aspects.