LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

• 180 gram audiophile vinyl
• Features 3 sides of music (blank D-side)
• Includes the track "Finale: Tom Raggazzi" & a cover version of The Saints "This Perfect Day"

The Marshall Suite is the 1999 album by the Fall. The album builds on the techno-influenced beats of its predecessor Levitate, while also returning to a more rockabilly-influenced sound reminiscent of earlier Fall line-ups with songs such as the catchy "Touch Sensitive" and the strange, complex, thumping jungle beats of "The Crying Marshal".

The Marshall Suite was made immediately after an American tour during which Mark E. Smith had an onstage fight with members of the band and was arrested following ongoing altercations at the hotel at which the group were staying. While the remaining band members quit and returned to England, leaving Smith in a cell in Manhattan, Julia Nagle chose to stay in the band, helping to assemble the group's new line-up.

During the recording of the album, this new line-up was still taking shape and the album features two different bassists. None the less it was very well-received album at the time and highly collectible by now.

Track Listing

SIDE A
• TOUCH SENSITIVE
• F-'OLDIN' MONEY
• SHAKE-OFF
• BOUND
• THIS PERFECT DAY
SIDE B (JUNG NEV'S) ANTIDOTES
• INEVITABLE
• ANECDOTES + ANTIDOTES IN B#
• FINALE : TOM RAGAZZI
SIDE C
• EARLY LIFE OF CRYING MARSHAL
• THE CRYING MARSHAL
• BIRTHDAY SONG
• MAD.MEN-ENG.DOG
• ON MY OWN
SIDE D NO MUSIC