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RECOVERY KIT VS FREE RANGE

Tneet!! Another two-pronged FALL SHOWDOWN. People of Europa, rejoice and carry your past around!!  A deep, dark delve into a world of trucking goes up against a zepp rip!!!

And alongside that, we speed-run Extricate Vs Infotainment scan! — two albums mere years but aeons apart... Fall period, placed under entirely unnecessary forensic examination.

Fallout POD. 525 songs. Still going H2H. Since 2021. A work in progress // Due about 2027!!

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Kinder of Spine vs Eat Y'Self Fitter

Al, DB and B return to Round 4 of the futile FALL SHOWDOWN and, for once, absolutely no danger of anyone getting upset about the results. Easy choices, right!!

Joining us is new friend of the show Harry, making his F.A.L.L.O.U.T. debut and bravely stepping into the madness.

Kinder of Spine vs Eat Y'Self Fitter

Four classics. Two winners. And some extremely cheerful, balanced and entirely sensible decision-making. Expect smiles, sunshine, good manners and absolutely no shouting about how wrong everyone else is.

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The Classical vs Neighbourhood of Infinity

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This week Al B, DB and B are all in the same room, recording live from Static Records in Wigan. And what a show we've got. Round 4, with two HUGE clashes:

The Classical vs Neighbourhood of Infinity

Two big, big boys. Two very different kinds of Fall. Only one from each pairing can survive. What will even win?!

We're also joined by Una, back on the podcast to talk about the forthcoming Women of The Fall Weekender, celebrating the women who have been part of The Fall story and the wider Manchester music scene. The two-day event takes place 5th September at The Carlton Club, Whalley Range, and 6th September at The Kamera Ballroom, Chorlton, with live music, film, conversation and collaboration.

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So we've got Al B, DB, B, Una, a Wigan record shop, two enormous Fall showdowns and some potentially catastrophic decision-making.

What a show.

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Hexen Definitive vs The Past.

The FALL SHOWDOWN rolls on into Round 4, with Al B, DB and B facing two more strange and potentially dangerous encounters.

First up, old-old-days Hexen Definitive goes head-to-head with a mid-period woozy gem, The Past.

Then it's the troggs sampling oopathon of Crop Dust versus pre post theme park W&F cog of Disney's Dream Debased — a genuine battle of the Fall's more... questionable corners.

Two very different kinds of Fall. Two songs enter, one song leaves. What could possibly go wrong?

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It’s Round 4 of the futile FALL SHOWDOWN, and we’re down to the last 125 songs or thereabouts. At this point, absolutely anything could happen. What will even win?!

Al B and DB return...joined by guest of the day Matt Leonard of TOTAL VICTORY and more....to the tournament with four more heavyweight clashes:

Pay Your Rates vs I’m Into C.B.

Two brutal encounters between some BIG BIG BOYS from very different corners of the Fall universe. Which ones survive? Which ones get the chop? And how on earth are we supposed to choose?

As always, there will be strong opinions, questionable logic, sudden reversals, and absolutely no guarantee that the songs we love will survive the next round.

The FALL SHOWDOWN steamrolls on...

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Hello and welcome to the B.E.E.F.O.U.T. Podcast!

This time Al B and DB take on the final stretch of the Captain Beefheart story, ranking Doc at the Radar Station and Ice Cream for Crow — the two extraordinary albums that bookend the Captain's final musical period.

Doc at the Radar Station is Beefheart sounding absolutely furious and completely alive: abrasive, weird, powerful and somehow still full of brilliant tunes. Ice Cream for Crow, recorded two years later with an almost entirely new Magic Band, takes things somewhere stranger and more spacious — a final burst of invention before Don Van Vliet sailed off into the desert and left music behind for painting.

So which album wins? Which songs have aged like fine wine, which sound like they were recorded on another planet, and where does the Captain's final period sit in the B.E.E.F.O.U.T. rankings?

In case yer internet machine isn't working, here's a few of the tracks we're looking at...Hot Head, Ashtray Heart, Run Paint Run Run, Sue Egypt, Dirty Blue Gene, Sheriff of Hong Kong, Telephone, Flavor Bud Living, Ice Cream for Crow, The Host the Ghost the Most Holy-O, Semi-Multicoloured Caucasian, Hey Garland I Dig Your Tweed Coat..etc, etc etc!!

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This week, Al B, DB and friend of facts Dannyno descend into Dave Simpson's excellent book The Fallen. What starts as a simple look at former Fall members quickly mutates into a labyrinth of ex-members, pre-Fall bands, post-Fall bands, forgotten projects, bizarre career turns and unlikely reunions.

Along the way we bump into Karen Leatham, Eric the Ferret and the manager of The Chemical Brothers, plus dozens more familiar—and not so familiar—characters. Armed with Simpson's research, fading memories and misplaced confidence, we attempt to map one of the most bewildering family trees in rock history.

We confidently announced this would be a short episode... so naturally, two hours later, we're only halfway through.

Expect stories from the book, side roads, forgotten bands, dubious detective work, no investigative instinct whatsoever, plenty of hot takes, and the usual mixture of facts, speculation and affectionate nonsense.

Enjoy Part 1, and join us at some indistinct point in the distant future for Part 2.

Now... where did I leave that Karl Burns?

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Welcome to N.O.T.F.A.L.L.—the occasional side project from the F.A.L.L.O.U.T. Podcast, where Al B and DB give Mark E. Smith the week off and play a pile of completely unrelated records that have somehow lodged themselves in their heads.

This time it's U.S. & U.K.!! A transatlantic rummage through garage rock, punk, noise, outsider pop, post-hardcore, blues trash, Peel Session oddities and anything else that sounds like it should've been played in a leaking social club with a broken PA.

Featuring music from Big Stick, Mazey Fade, Unsane, Sonic Youth, Frank Sidebottom, The Drags, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Oblivians, Country Teasers... and about a billion others we've completely forgotten until five minutes after we stopped recording.

No tournament. No rankings. No spreadsheets. Just two idiots recommending records they love and hoping you'll discover something brilliant.

If you've ever wondered what Al B and DB are listening to when they're not obsessing over The Fall... this is it.

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Hello and welcome to the B.E.E.F.O.U.T. Podcast!

This week, Al B and DB tackle one of the most fascinating "what ifs" in Captain Beefheart history, ranking every track from both versions of Bat Chain Puller—the legendary "lost" 1976 album, finally released in 2012—and Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller), the reworked album that emerged in 1978.

Joining us is friend of the show Max, who's here to right wrongs, spill truths and, quite possibly, make everything even more complicated.

How different are the two albums? Which songs improved? Which lost a little magic? And which versions come out on top when the dust settles?

In case your internet machine isn't working, here's the tracks we're looking at...

Floppy Boot Stomp, Tropical Hot Dog Night, Ice Rose, Harry Irene, You Know You’re a Man, Bat Chain Puller, When I See Mommy, I Feel Like a Mummy, Owed T’Alex, Candle Mambo, Love Lies, Suction Prints, Apes-Ma, Seam Crooked Sam, Brick Bats, Odd Jobs, Hobo-ism, 81 Poop Hatch,  A Carrot is as Close as a Rabbit Gets, Flavor Bud Living, Human totem pole

As always, expect strong opinions, deep dives, baffling Beefheart tangents and rankings that will almost certainly upset somebody.

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The tournament takes a detour into the Last Chance Saloon, where Al B and DB revisit the song that went out in Round 2 to bring a select few back in from the cold.

Suffice to say, some questionable decision-making has somehow allowed a few absolute gems to sneak through to the next round... while others have been unceremoniously shown the door.

Who was robbed? Who got lucky? And what does this say about the voting public?

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