Dragnet is the second studio album by the English post-punk band the Fall, released on 26 October 1979 through Step-Forward Records. Appearing less than eight months after its predecessor, Live at the Witch Trials, Dragnet established at an early stage two key patterns characteristic of the group's future: that of high productivity and a regular turnover of group members.

David Quantick remarked that the album sounds as if it "was recorded on a home cassette recorder in a multi-storey car park."

Vulture's Stuart Berman cited Dragnet as "the first album where the Fall tap into their powers of hypnosis, locking into the sinister back-alley prowl of 'Before the Moon Falls' and the Morse code, cowbell-clanged pummel of 'Spectre vs Rector,' all while Smith transcends from the realm of mere punk carnival barker to oracle of the underground. - Wikipedia

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It’s a rainy Friday with The Fall, Live At St. Helens Technical College, 1981 on the mighty Castle Face records. Most of my Fall collection is on CD and cassette from ages ago but I do have a couple on vinyl here and there.

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In a long-running chat I've been in, someone came up with the phrase "induced irreversible piscine mutations at 60 paces" about some dead marine life in Scarborough, Yorkshire and honestly I haven't heard a better #MarkESmith inspired lyric in years. (I can hear him delivering that too.)

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Kompletny Upadek: The Fall, nr 56, 19:00, https://pawarotaradio.pl/
Prowadzi: Maciej

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Mark Edward Smith, born March 5, 1957

"Mark E. Smith & Paul Weller in the Drunk Tank," illustration by Danny Hellman for Tower Records' PULSE Magazine, 12/21/97

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Mark Edward Smith, born March 5, 1957

"Mark E. Smith of The Fall," illustration by Danny Hellman for New York Press, 7/25/93

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