“Eat Y'Self Fitter” by The Fall

"Eat Y'Self Fitter" sits on Perverted by Language, the sixth Fall album, which Rough Trade put out in December 1983 as the only full-length record of the band's return to the label. Mark E. Smith wrote it with bassist Steve Hanley, and the credits read like a Fall battle plan: two drummers, Karl Burns and Paul Hanley, Craig Scanlon and Brix Smith on guitars, Mark E. Smith out front on vocals, and Steve Parker producing.

Brix, then married to Mark, makes her first appearance on a Fall album here, though most of the record was finished before she joined. The reunion with Rough Trade soon soured, with the band convinced the label was pouring everything into the Smiths, and the group helped pay for a video film of the album themselves.

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