Song · The Fall
“The Joke” by The Fall
From the album Cerebral Caustic (1995)
“The Joke” 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 #49 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1995. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #336 alternative song of 1995.
"The Joke" is one of five songs Brix Smith co-wrote for Cerebral Caustic, the Fall's seventeenth full-length studio album, released on Permanent Records in 1995. Mark E. Smith wrote the words and shares the music credit with her. She had quit the band in 1989, came back for live dates in 1994, and struck a deal with her ex-husband to stay in Los Angeles and fly over to Britain whenever she was needed on stage or in the studio.
Her return made itself felt straight away, but the record didn't sell like the ones before it. Cerebral Caustic spent a single week on the UK chart, at 67, and the Fall, a band that normally never stopped touring, 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 | 49 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1995 | 50 |
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