“A Past Gone Mad” by The Fall

"A Past Gone Mad" turns up on The Infotainment Scan, the Fall's fifteenth album, released in 1993 on Permanent in Britain and on Matador in the States, the first Fall album since Extricate to be issued officially in America. Mark E. Smith wrote it with Dave Bush and Simon Wolstencroft, and Rex Sargeant produced.

The timing was good for the Fall: the press was giving them more attention than they had ever had, and the record was taken for the most accessible thing they'd made, one with room for a Sister Sledge disco cover in "Lost in Music". This one never went out as a single, though. That honour fell to "Why Are People Grudgeful?", a reggae-rooted track added to the CD, and the album itself became the band's highest-charting.

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