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"Hide hide, all good people hang out for a result
Hide dive hide, reasonable people in silence do exult
Realm of dusk"
The Fall released the classic 'Bend Sinister' 30 years ago today
* Bend Sinister is the ninth studio album by English post-punk band The Fall. It was released in September 1986 by record label Beggars Banquet.
* The album's title is taken from Vladimir Nabokov's 1947 novel of the same name.
* Bend Sinister was the third and last Fall album to be produced by John Leckie.
* However, Leckie and Mark E. Smith argued during the recording, with Smith complaining that "he'd always swamp everything, y'know, put the psychedelic sounds over it". Leckie, for his part, drew the line at Smith's insistence that some tracks be mastered from a standard audio cassette which Smith had been carrying around and listening to on a Walkman.
* Julia Adamson, who engineered some of the recording sessions, would eventually join The Fall in 1995 as a keyboard/guitar player.
* In his retrospective review, Ned Raggett of AllMusic described it as a "distinctly down affair", while Trouser Press called it "a rather gloomy, dark-sounding record". Al Spicer, in The Rough Guide to Rock, called the album "not a great album by Fall standards".
* the record contained their version of "Mr. Pharmacist", originally by US garage rock band The Other Half, which gave The Fall their first UK Top 75 entry, and remains a regular feature of the group's live set to this day.
