“Bournemouth Runner” by The Fall

"Bournemouth Runner" turns up on Bend Sinister, the Fall's ninth studio album, which Beggars Banquet put out in September 1986, and its writing credit is shared by Mark E. Smith, Brix Smith and Steve Hanley.

John Leckie produced it, the last of his three albums with the band, and the sessions were a scrap from day one. Karl Burns had been sacked just before recording began, so the band started without a drummer; ex-member Paul Hanley covered until Simon Wolstencroft took the job for keeps. Smith grumbled that Leckie drowned everything in psychedelic sounds, and he wanted some tracks mastered off a cassette he'd been playing on his Walkman. Leckie refused to go that far, yet much of the record was cut from cassette in the end, because that was the sound Smith was after.

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