Song · The Fall
“Service” by The Fall
From the album The Infotainment Scan (1993)
“Service” by The Fall appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1993. It was first released in 1993 on the album The Infotainment Scan. Its best result is #26 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1993. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #166 alternative song of 1993.
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"Service" sits on The Infotainment Scan, the Fall's fifteenth album, which came out in 1993 on Permanent in the UK and on Matador in America, the band's first official US release since Extricate in 1990. Mark E. Smith wrote it with Craig Scanlon and Steve Hanley, and Rex Sargeant produced.
It arrived while the Fall were drawing more press attention than they had ever known, on a record reckoned at the time to be their most approachable, one that also made room for covers of Sister Sledge's "Lost in Music" and Steve Bent's "I'm Going to Spain". The album went into the UK chart at number 9, the best any Fall album managed. "Service" was never a single, though: that job fell to "Why Are People Grudgeful?" alone.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 26 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1993 | 50 |
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