Song · The Fall
“Dktr. Faustus” by The Fall
From the album Bend Sinister (1986)
“Dktr. Faustus” by The Fall appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1986. It was first released in 1986 on the album Bend Sinister. Its best result is #48 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1986. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #201 alternative song of 1986.
Mark E. Smith and Craig Scanlon wrote "Dktr. Faustus" for Bend Sinister, the Fall's ninth studio album, which Beggars Banquet released in September 1986. It was the third and last time John Leckie produced the band, and the sessions were rocky from the start: Karl Burns had been fired just before they began, so ex-member Paul Hanley filled in on drums until Simon Wolstencroft took the job for good.
Smith and Leckie clashed during the recording. Smith grumbled that the producer smothered everything in psychedelic sounds, and Leckie dug in his heels when Smith wanted tracks mastered off a cassette he'd been playing on his Walkman, though by Leckie's own telling a lot of the record ended up cut from cassette anyway, because that was the sound Smith was after.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 48 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1986 | 50 |
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