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ROOM TO LIVE

ROOM TO LIVE

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1982's ROOM TO LIVE is a transitional album in The Fall's long and amazingly prolific career. The band's two-drummer lineup--excellently showcased on the live FALL IN A HOLE AND LIVE ON AIR IN MELBOURNE--was at its peak on ROOM TO LIVE. The album's seven tracks match singer/provocateur Mark E. Smith's increasingly bitter and politicized rants such as the raging, sarcastic Falklands War parable "Marquis Cha Cha" with extended, intense, rhythmic, and dark songs. Unfortunately, the group was falling apart. Guitarist Marc Riley left the band shortly after the release of ROOM, forming the much more pop-oriented Creepers. Ironically, The Fall went on to create the poppiest music of its career after Riley was replaced by Smith's then-wife Brix. It is worth noting that the first 2000 copies of this CD include a bonus disc of four 1982 live recordings.
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