User Pick (#33): This Nation's Saving Grace [lancashirearab]

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This Nation's Saving Grace by The Fall

Chart: Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by lancashirearab
Rank on User's Chart: 1
Year: 1985
Rank on BEA Overall: 532
Average Rating: 80/100
Summary Info: The eighth studio album by the post-punk band, The Fall. The band is headed up by Mark E. Smith and has an oft-changing supporting cast.

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[Kiki]

The Fall are too hard to like at times. I remember the Peel sessions being good though.

[NickVolos]

Great album. Did not know what I was getting into back in '85...it was a wild shot back then...turned out to be one their best albums.
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"And can’t you see you’re in on it?
You were born though you need not
And is that not some cause
For worship, being born among these trees?"

[Norman Bates]

Influenced by Brix, Smith goes pop, to splendid effect. One of the best albums of the eighties.

[drakonium]

Totally awesome. My New House still ranks among my favorite tracks of all time. He's demented on this one. But yeah, really stunning album, though it's the only one I've heard by them. But good reminder, I'll start traveling through their immense discography soon, I think.