“Living Too Late” by The Fall

"Living Too Late" comes from Bend Sinister, the Fall's ninth studio album, which Beggars Banquet put out in September 1986, and it wears the marks of those sessions: John Leckie producing the band for the third and last time, and ex-member Paul Hanley on drums, drafted in after Karl Burns was fired just before recording began. Mark E. Smith wrote it and sings lead, and, of all things, he's credited on violin.

Brix Smith sings with him and plays guitar and keyboards, Simon Rogers doubles on guitar and keyboards too, Craig Scanlon plays guitar and Steve Hanley bass. The sessions were a scrap: Smith accused Leckie of swamping everything in psychedelic sounds, and much of the album ended up cut from a cassette Smith had been playing on his Walkman, because that was the sound he wanted.

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