Fall, The - 45 84 89 A Sides - White Color Vinyl Record

458489 A Sides gathers seventeen singles The Fall released on Beggars Banquet between 1984 and 1989, the years many fans call the band's golden era. First issued in 1990, it was pressed on vinyl in the US for the first time in 2018, here on white vinyl.

This was the period when guitarist Brix Smith joined Mark E. Smith's Manchester group and brought a sharper pop hook to their wiry, abrasive sound. The result is some of the most accessible music The Fall ever made, without losing any of its bite. "Oh! Brother" and "C.R.E.E.P." open the set with jittery energy, "Cruiser's Creek" and "Hit the North (Part 1)" became signature songs, and the band's covers of R. Dean Taylor's "There's a Ghost in My House" and The Kinks' "Victoria" gave them rare chart success. It closes with the gloriously odd "Jerusalem" and "Dead Beat Descendant."

For anyone curious about The Fall, there is no better place to start, and for longtime fans it is an essential piece of the collection.

Side A
1. Oh! Brother
2. C.R.E.E.P.
3. No Bulbs 3
4. Rollin' Dany
5. Couldn't Get Ahead
6. Cruiser's Creek
7. L.A.
8. Living Too Late

Side B
1. Hit the North (Part 1)
2. Mr. Pharmacist
3. Hey! Luciani
4. There's a Ghost in My House
5. Victoria
6. Big New Prinz
7. Wrong Place, Right Time
8. Jerusalem
9. Dead Beat Descendant