The Fall 
The best album credited to The Fall is This Nation's Saving Grace which is ranked number 907 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 1,909.
The Fall is ranked number 251 in the overall artist rankings with a total rank score of 7,918.
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The Fall best albums
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The Fall best tracks
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The Fall ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Artist ratings | Avg. artist rating |
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| ! | 11/13/2025 01:26 | 1977Podcast | 1 | 100/100 |
| ! | 07/25/2024 08:47 | Banner | 295 | 82/100 |
| ! | 04/29/2024 02:13 |  sssvnnn | 502 | 75/100 |
| ! | 09/22/2023 16:56 | Stevo796 | 980 | 74/100 |
| ! | 06/20/2023 17:50 | platus | 2,133 | 72/100 |
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This artist is rated in the top 2% of all artists on BestEverAlbums.com. This artist has a Bayesian average rating of 81.6/100, a mean average of 81.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 82.6/100. The standard deviation for this artist is 17.4.
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hoyquarlow 02/20/2023 16:51 | #294255
They sound too much like Pavement.
slshrdanclshr 05/11/2019 17:21 | #236140
huge amounts of material with almost no merit. still the greatest band ever.
DeusExMackia 01/25/2018 11:46 | #206485
So very sad to see this mad, sprawling and unequivocal music project come to an end. I don't know whether I like The Fall because 'like' doesn't seem to be the appropriate way to treat them. All I know is that I keep coming back to this band, over and over again.
Mark E. Smith's visionary ideas of music may not have been conventional, but they knew no bounds and never failed to enthrall, and will certainly keep me fascinated for years to come. And weirdly, they always just seemed to make sense, no matter how unusual the melodies were. He was always ahead of the curve. Always.
What an unbelievable loss. One of the most important people and certainly one of the most important bands in the history of modern music.
Same as comment below. You don't get any more uncompromising than Mark. E. Smith. He always went his own way. Music will never quite be the same. R.I.P. the legend that is Mark. E. Smith.
RIP Mark E. Smith - Legend, wordsmith and uncompromising genius. The backdrop has shifted and changed...
What John Peel meant was, They are always the same - Brilliant.
Great indie band that needs more love
Jimmy Dread 12/19/2011 22:29 | #33326
"Northern white crap that talks back..." Forget everything you know - no-one can spin a vitriolic yarn like MES. A true, true leg-end. Uh.
covecove 11/28/2011 14:45 | #31594
John Peel once saind that they´re always different, yet always the same... The most underrated band in the history of rock that's for sure...
Norman Bates 08/09/2010 04:43 | #14167
What a guy. I'm trying to think of another example of such consistency over the years, without ever compromising, and I can't find one.
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