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30th Anniversary of The Fall's 11th album ‘I Am Kurious Oranj' Released by Beggars Banquet in 1988, it contains some of The Fall's most loved songs including ‘Cab It Up!', ‘New Big Prinz' and ‘Jerusalem', which takes its lyrics from a poem by William Blake.
I Am Kurious Oranj is the eleventh studio album by English post-punk band the Fall. It was released on 10 October 1988 through record label Beggars Banquet. The album's release came at the end of a relatively successful year for the group, which had also seen the release of an 'accessible' album, The Frenz Experiment, and a handful of singles. .If the previous year's chart was 'ridiculous', this year's marks the beginning of John's dissatisfaction with the entire exercise (he labelled it 'conservative'). He noted that very few recordings of black music had made the Fifty, and that by and large it was 'young boys strumming guitars' (a phrase he would use many times subsequently). Top artistes were the Fall (six entries in total), the. We've Got A File On You All Columns New Music Lists The Number Ones Scroll to read more Read the post The Fall Albums From Worst To Best ADVERTISEMENT.
'The album was written as the soundtrack to an avant garde ballet titled ‘I Am Curious, Orange', produced by the experimental Michael Clark Company and performed in London with The Fall playing live. As stated in the original ballet program, replicated inside this reissue, 'Mark E. Smith is a history buff and admirer of Michael Clark, and ‘I Am Curious, Orange' spawned the idea of a thematic delving into the foibles and little-known psyche of William of Orange.'
According to Mark E. Smith in his book ‘Renegade', 'We adapted the title from a Swedish porno film - ‘I Am Curious, Yellow'. I was trying to make the point that we all share some kind of common knowledge that's within ourselves; that comes out in all sorts of things. Some
people call it a gene pool. It's as if you already know subconsciously about historical incidents. You don't have to have been taught it. It's in-built. At the time I wanted to put this across, basically as a loose explanation of what was happening in Belfast: it's in the head and bones and there's nothing you can do about it. I was on a roll at the time. I'm rarely short of ideas, and I'm not into preserving them much, either. If it's in your head and you've got the right people around you them there's no better time to tell the story.'
Boomkat Product Review:
30th Anniversary of The Fall's 11th album ‘I Am Kurious Oranj' Released by Beggars Banquet in 1988, it contains some of The Fall's most loved songs including ‘Cab It Up!', ‘New Big Prinz' and ‘Jerusalem', which takes its lyrics from a poem by William Blake.
'The album was written as the soundtrack to an avant garde ballet titled ‘I Am Curious, Orange', produced by the experimental Michael Clark Company and performed in London with The Fall playing live. As stated in the original ballet program, replicated inside this reissue, 'Mark E. Smith is a history buff and admirer of Michael Clark, and ‘I Am Curious, Orange' spawned the idea of a thematic delving into the foibles and little-known psyche of William of Orange.'
According to Mark E. Smith in his book ‘Renegade', 'We adapted the title from a Swedish porno film - ‘I Am Curious, Yellow'. I was trying to make the point that we all share some kind of common knowledge that's within ourselves; that comes out in all sorts of things. Some
people call it a gene pool. It's as if you already know subconsciously about historical incidents. You don't have to have been taught it. It's in-built. At the time I wanted to put this across, basically as a loose explanation of what was happening in Belfast: it's in the head and bones and there's nothing you can do about it. I was on a roll at the time. I'm rarely short of ideas, and I'm not into preserving them much, either. If it's in your head and you've got the right people around you them there's no better time to tell the story.'
Boomkat Product Review:
30th Anniversary of The Fall's 11th album ‘I Am Kurious Oranj' Released by Beggars Banquet in 1988, it contains some of The Fall's most loved songs including ‘Cab It Up!', ‘New Big Prinz' and ‘Jerusalem', which takes its lyrics from a poem by William Blake.
'The album was written as the soundtrack to an avant garde ballet titled ‘I Am Curious, Orange', produced by the experimental Michael Clark Company and performed in London with The Fall playing live. As stated in the original ballet program, replicated inside this reissue, 'Mark E. Smith is a history buff and admirer of Michael Clark, and ‘I Am Curious, Orange' spawned the idea of a thematic delving into the foibles and little-known psyche of William of Orange.'
According to Mark E. Smith in his book ‘Renegade', 'We adapted the title from a Swedish porno film - ‘I Am Curious, Yellow'. I was trying to make the point that we all share some kind of common knowledge that's within ourselves; that comes out in all sorts of things. Some
people call it a gene pool. It's as if you already know subconsciously about historical incidents. You don't have to have been taught it. It's in-built. At the time I wanted to put this across, basically as a loose explanation of what was happening in Belfast: it's in the head and bones and there's nothing you can do about it. I was on a roll at the time. I'm rarely short of ideas, and I'm not into preserving them much, either. If it's in your head and you've got the right people around you them there's no better time to tell the story.'
Elf bowling 7 1 7 the last insult crack. Pressed on orange vinyl, contains a replica of an original programme of the ballet play performed at Sadler Wells Theatre.
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Boomkat Product Review:
30th Anniversary of The Fall's 11th album ‘I Am Kurious Oranj' Released by Beggars Banquet in 1988, it contains some of The Fall's most loved songs including ‘Cab It Up!', ‘New Big Prinz' and ‘Jerusalem', which takes its lyrics from a poem by William Blake.
'The album was written as the soundtrack to an avant garde ballet titled ‘I Am Curious, Orange', produced by the experimental Michael Clark Company and performed in London with The Fall playing live. As stated in the original ballet program, replicated inside this reissue, 'Mark E. Smith is a history buff and admirer of Michael Clark, and ‘I Am Curious, Orange' spawned the idea of a thematic delving into the foibles and little-known psyche of William of Orange.'
According to Mark E. Smith in his book ‘Renegade', 'We adapted the title from a Swedish porno film - ‘I Am Curious, Yellow'. I was trying to make the point that we all share some kind of common knowledge that's within ourselves; that comes out in all sorts of things. Some
people call it a gene pool. It's as if you already know subconsciously about historical incidents. You don't have to have been taught it. It's in-built. At the time I wanted to put this across, basically as a loose explanation of what was happening in Belfast: it's in the head and bones and there's nothing you can do about it. I was on a roll at the time. I'm rarely short of ideas, and I'm not into preserving them much, either. If it's in your head and you've got the right people around you them there's no better time to tell the story.'
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Dead Beat Descendant by The Fall was the first track of theirs that really piqued my interest. Until then, I'd pegged Mark E Smith's rattling racket as irritating and annoying, the atonal sound of Regal-stained fingers slowly scraping their way down a blackboard. When it popped up in the middle of an episode of Snub TV, Dead Beat Descendant had me hooked.
It wasn't just the stinging garage band guitar riff, played on a Rickenbacker by a sulky, peroxide shock-wigged Brix that pulled me in, or the gnarly, relentless and repetitive Stray Cats meets Stooges bass, or the occasional daft parp of a one-fingered keyboard, or the metronomic tribal tub thumping that held the whole thing in place that got me – it was the group's leader that grabbed me by the short ‘n curlies and demanded my attention. That, and the ballet dancer. I'd heard The Fall, but I'd never seen The Fall. And that was apparently important.
Smith is hunched over his microphone and ready to spring, the German army-issued leather greatcoat he's wearing letting all present know who's in charge. 'Come back here!' he demands with barely under the surface menace. The omnipresent smouldering fag, more ash than cigarette, is lodged at a downwards 30 degree angle between his fingers as he delivers the vocal, a lip-curled sneer the equal of a Mancunian Gene Vincent. Between lines he delivers terrific little off-beat Supreme handclaps and chews on an invisible glob of gum whilst staring his musicians down, lest they consider veering from his well-chosen path. Maybe that's where the 'Come back here!' line comes from. The band, as slick as the gears in a Victorian workhouse, are in tune with their leader and dutifully do what's demanded of them.
Well, stone me! It turns out there was no German army greatcoat after all. Or a shock-wigged Brix. Or long-burning Regal King-Sized ‘tween the digits. It's funny how your 30 year-old version of events turns fiction into reality. And it's funny how, as it turns out, it's the music that endures rather than the vision. Those hand claps, though… And the told-you-so smug grin on Mark's face at the end. They were real.
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It's a great clip mind you. The ballet dancer (the awkward piece of the Mark/Brix split jigsaw, if you believe what you read online) pirouettes obliviously around the studio in the middle of the racket, in practise for her stint on stage with The Fall as they prepare to provide the musical backdrop to Michael Clark's I Am Curious, Orange ballet at the Edinburgh Festival.
A weird pairing, it's certainly something that'd have been worth seeing, with Brix sitting cross-legged atop a giant hamburger while Mark prowls betwixt and between the ballet dancers, spitting venom about King Billy and barking out Cab It Up and Wrong Place, Right Time amongst others. I Am Kurious Oranj isn't the top of the list of critics' favourite Fall albums, but it's right up there alongside Extricate on mine.
Here's 2 contemporary Peel Sessions versions of future Kurious Oranj tracks. Flregkey 20.
The Fall – Dead Beat Descendant (Peel Session, 31.10.88)
https://philspector.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/01-deadbeat-descendant.wavThe Fall – Kurious Oranj (Peel Session 31.10.88)
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