A Little Something from Jonder

(SCOTT): Well, I don't THINK I messed anything up, I know I mentioned a while ago that we have a
project coming up involving The Fall.....it's Brian's project, actually, but I don't think I did him or his project any harm by mentioning it, which lead to this, the latest from Jonder.......I'll let him explain this one for ya:

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Scott said he had something by The Fall coming up, and I thought it would be a good time to share this. It's a collection of songs that sound (to me) like The Fall. Mark E. Smith has always claimed that other bands rip him off, and he's got a point. Pavement and Sonic Youth, among others, owe a huge debt. The very early (and rare) Deerhunter song included on this comp shows Bradford Cox fully under the spell of the Hip Priest.

It would be easy to make a compilation of low-fi bands with cheap guitars and singers who don't sing. There is a good bit of that here. But my intention isn't limited to that, nor is it to accuse any of the artists of being derivative. I enjoy all of these groups, and many of the songs here are longtime favorites of mine. I just wanted to demonstrate the influence that The Fall has exerted over the past forty years of their existence.

Some of the bands are actually contemporaries of The Fall (the Mekons, Scars and the Nightingales) rather than deadbeat descendants. Others (like Mother And The Addicts and the Leaving Trains) are bands whose other records don't sound like The Fall, and who are either paying tribute or taking the piss.

Lungfish doesn't really sound like The Fall either, but their song embodies the grotesque lyricism and the "three R's" of the Fall: repetition, repetition, repetition.