“I'm Going To Spain” by The Fall

"I'm Going to Spain" is one of the oddest left turns on The Infotainment Scan, the Fall's fifteenth album, from 1993: they took a little-known number by Steve Bent, who had sung it himself on the British talent show New Faces back in 1976, and made it their own. Its pedigree is gloriously dubious, since Bent's recording ended up on The World's Worst Record, a 1978 collection put together by disc jockey Kenny Everett, and the Fall covered it anyway, with Rex Sargeant producing.

It landed on a record that caught the band at a rare high. The Infotainment Scan was seen at the time as their most accessible album, arrived while the media were paying them more attention than ever, and became their highest-charting album in the UK. It was also the first Fall album in a while to be officially issued in America, courtesy of Matador.

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