![]() ![]() no really it is! These three songs will draw you in a bit further on each listen and once you're over the border of recognition you will wonder how you ever lived without them. The latter is about the band's concert-set backdrop being stolen by some wag in Bournemouth. 'Mr Pharmacist' is probably their best known song, and is the most easily accessible on this album, but to get to grips with Bend Sinister properly you have to listen to the triumvirate: 'Gross Chapel.' 'US 80s 90s' and 'Bournemouth Runner'. You can never make a compilation tape with the Fall on it because they simply do not fit in with any musical genre. I first heard 'Realm of Dusk' on John Peel in 1986 and realised that here was a band like no other. Named after Nabokov's startling novel of the same name, The Fall manage to drum up the same atmosphere of dark gruesomeness with just the hint that they are in fact laughing about it all over an early evening sherry. ![]()
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