ABOUT THIS ITEM

Heads Will Roll threw The Fall's idiot-savant oevre into sharper focus at a time when the band's profile--in the wake of the death of long term advocate John Peel--had never been higher. Cynics may view the single release of a cover of Roy Woods' psych-pop classic "I Can Hear The Grass Grow" as commercial exploitation but Fall fans, surely viewed any lofty chart placing as either entirely incidental or just another Mark E Smith double-bluff masterstroke. Smith's chatter of asbestos powered rifles, Bo Diddly, Heathrow airport, rubbish receptacles and Harold Shipman still marked The Fall out as rambling outsiders, although such is The Fall's extending influence that the band's organised garage-punk sound was less of a shock than Smith's verbose spluttering. Brilliant but as cryptic as ever, Fall fans chose their own favourite tracks, the rasping, solo JJ Burnel-style insistence of "Blindness", the nagging chant-along of "Pacifying Joint" or the punk police siren guitar of "Assume"? Or maybe the Gypsy Kings jam of "Early Days Of Channel Fuehrer"?

1. Ride Away
2. Blindness
3. What About Us?
4. Pacifying Joint
5. Assume
6. Midnight In Aspen
7. Clasp Hands
8. I Can Hear The Grass Grow
9. Bo Demmick
10. Youwanner
11. Midnight Aspen Reprise
12. Early Days Of Channel Fuhrer
13. Breaking The Rules
14. Trust In Me