New Posts For Thread: Mark E Smith - Don't RIPhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30984125/mark-e-smith---dont-ripFall front man has lost his battle with this world. Lets hope he carries on ranting in the next world.Worlds greatest frontman of the worlds greatest band: every incarnation of them.As John Peel once said:"There's The Fall, and then there's everyonesome great tracks but like reggae albums not worth buying for just 2or 3 tracks... tape em off your pals.... im like a jar of Coffeehttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30984125/mark-e-smith---dont-rip?post_id=556485165#556485165some great tracks but like reggae albums not worth buying for just 2or 3 tracks... tape em off your pals.... im like a jar of CoffeeThu, 24 Jan 2019 18:45:19 -0600Or a full year, even. Was looking at Dunc's post on 29thhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30984125/mark-e-smith---dont-rip?post_id=556482285#556482285Or a full year, even. Was looking at Dunc's post on 29thThu, 24 Jan 2019 14:07:09 -0600almost a year!https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30984125/mark-e-smith---dont-rip?post_id=556482263#556482263almost a year!Thu, 24 Jan 2019 14:04:42 -0600https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DxsoHsuW0AAb263.jpg In Memoriam in tonight's M.E.N.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30984125/mark-e-smith---dont-rip?post_id=556482147#556482147https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DxsoHsuW0AAb263.jpg In Memoriam in tonight's M.E.N.Thu, 24 Jan 2019 13:54:28 -0600read the other day Brix explaining No Bulbs was simply about their flat being a sh!thole and Mark getting up, not being able to find his belt (which he needed cos he was so skinny), and just as he was at peak annoyance the light bulb blew.Hope Paul Mhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30984125/mark-e-smith---dont-rip?post_id=553452767#553452767read the other day Brix explaining No Bulbs was simply about their flat being a sh!thole and Mark getting up, not being able to find his belt (which he needed cos he was so skinny), and just as he was at peak annoyance the light bulb blew.Hope Paul MMon, 29 Jan 2018 02:57:25 -0600Fair comment!As it says, scrawled across the centre of the cover of Hex: HAVE A BLEEDIN GUESS.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30984125/mark-e-smith---dont-rip?post_id=553450423#553450423Fair comment!As it says, scrawled across the centre of the cover of Hex: HAVE A BLEEDIN GUESS.Sun, 28 Jan 2018 14:34:00 -0600i find many of Mark E Smith's lyrics funny, many to be bonkers, others to be plain catchy, some to be inpenetrable, and hardly any to be profound. Not once in 35 yrs of enjoying The Fall have i had a problem with this!https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30984125/mark-e-smith---dont-rip?post_id=553450177#553450177i find many of Mark E Smith's lyrics funny, many to be bonkers, others to be plain catchy, some to be inpenetrable, and hardly any to be profound. Not once in 35 yrs of enjoying The Fall have i had a problem with this!Sun, 28 Jan 2018 13:54:16 -0600I think it was a personal thing, whether you liked a particular Fall record, because so many of them were so damned peculiar. I played Hex Enduction Hour endlessly during the bitter winter of 1981-2, when I was living on my own in W Germany. It justhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30984125/mark-e-smith---dont-rip?post_id=553449745#553449745I think it was a personal thing, whether you liked a particular Fall record, because so many of them were so damned peculiar. I played Hex Enduction Hour endlessly during the bitter winter of 1981-2, when I was living on my own in W Germany. It justSun, 28 Jan 2018 11:58:40 -0600Prince's manager apparently said to him that him and Prince were the only artists that could 'recruit from the street' (ie replace members routinely with whoever they fancied).His weakness may have been not valuing/appreciating the talent of others.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30984125/mark-e-smith---dont-rip?post_id=553449341#553449341Prince's manager apparently said to him that him and Prince were the only artists that could 'recruit from the street' (ie replace members routinely with whoever they fancied).His weakness may have been not valuing/appreciating the talent of others.Sun, 28 Jan 2018 10:21:14 -0600he started with The Smithshttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30984125/mark-e-smith---dont-rip?post_id=553449263#553449263he started with The SmithsSun, 28 Jan 2018 10:03:11 -0600