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“Feeling Numb” by The Fall
From the album Cerebral Caustic (1995)
“Feeling Numb” by The Fall appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1995. It was first released in 1995 on the album Cerebral Caustic. Its best result is #7 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1995. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #130 alternative song of 1995.
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"Feeling Numb" is one of the songs Brix Smith brought back into the Fall on Cerebral Caustic, the band's 17th studio album, released on Permanent Records in 1995. The guitarist had quit in 1989, rejoined for live shows in 1994, and was now flying in from Los Angeles whenever the band needed her on stage or in the studio, an arrangement she'd worked out with her ex-husband Mark E. Smith. She co-wrote five of the album's 12 tracks, and this is one of them: her music alongside Mark's, with the words all his.
It's a reunion record in an odd key, and it closed out one of the group's relatively more successful stretches: sales were down on recent records, and the usually road-hungry Fall played just 16 shows that year.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 7 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1995 | 50 |
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