Grotesque (After The Gramme)
by The Fall

Grotesque (After The Gramme) by The Fall
Year: 1980
Release date: 1980-11-17
Overall rank: 3,667th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 127 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1980 (72nd)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (539th)
Award Best albums of all time (3,667th)

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The Fall bestography

Grotesque (After The Gramme) is ranked 5th best out of 55 albums by The Fall on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Fall is This Nation's Saving Grace which is ranked number 928 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,894.

The Fall album bestography « Higher ranked (3,551st)
Live At The Witch Trials
This album (3,667th)
Grotesque (After The Gramme)
Lower ranked (4,543rd) »
Bend Sinister

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Grotesque (After The Gramme) rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 3,667th | 1980s rank: 539th | 1980 rank: 72nd
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2026spewventuriTop 91 Music Albums of the 1980s61/917
2026LittleM1971Greatest Music Albums: 501-60059/100 -
2026 imacgillTop 100 Music Albums of the 1980s76/1005
2026Exist-en-cielTop 100 Music Albums of 198028/1004
2026 videoheadcleanerTop 100 Music Albums of 198017/1004
2026 ssteveTop 31 Music Albums of 198011/313
2026LittleM1971Top 90 Music Albums of 198016/904
2026cicadelicTop 98 Music Albums of 198024/984
2026 RasmVTop 50 Music Albums of 198047/500
2026 MadhattanJackTop 100 Music Albums of 198046/1003
2026 imacgillTop Greatest Music Albums 201-30045/100 -
2025FlapJackJoeyTop 57 Music Albums of 198025/573
2025 PatrickDTop 99 Music Albums of 198026/994
2025TheSmiths82-87Top 23 Music Albums of 19801/235
2025 WasinskiTop 100 Music Albums of 198082/1001
2025 Patman360Top 100 Music Albums of 19805/1005
2025JohnnyoGreatest albums of the '80's (301 - 400) by U R C86/100 -
2025 meccaleccaTop 100 Music Albums of 198056/1002
2025 imacgillTop 100 Music Albums of 198026/1004
2025JohnnyoGreatest albums of 1980 by U R C53/64 -
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 97
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 404
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Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 127 votes)
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3 days ago Steve_Emmett  Ratings distribution  11867/100
 
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This album is rated in the top 15% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.1/100, a mean average of 73.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.8.

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From 05/02/2023 14:05 | #296543
I give you tooth, that Kurt Cobain heard 1st track ???
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From 05/11/2019 17:27 | #236142
i think it's notable that this is the funniest fall album.
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From 06/15/2016 10:30 | #168776
A precurser to Hex from 1980, track for track it more or less equals anything in the Fall's cannon, except for the inevitable token out-there experimental track of WMC Blob 59 which doesn't really serve much purpose. There's wonderful wordplay in English Scheme and New Face In Hell, tales of Hitler on speed in Gramme Friday and very dark subject matter in Impression Of J Temperance which make this...well, just your typical Fall album I suppose, but one of their best.
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From 08/19/2014 07:03 | #119778
I'm happy to see Grotesque rated so highly here. This captured an early peak for the band that's as compelling to me as Hex Enduction Hour. Even the misteps are idiosyncratic (tape noise, long jams over a riff) and put the last pieces of the quote unquote "Fall Sound" into place.

This is the first truely classic Fall album. One of the five starting points I recommend to the curious.
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From 08/17/2014 18:27 | #119677
No greater collection of songs I've ever heard in my life. The Fall of this time are the greatest musical group ever assembled.
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