The first really revolutionary fracture in The Fall was the departure of guitarist Martin Bramah. Commonly understood as the only viable challenger to Mark E Smith's dominance of the band, Bramah was The Fall's first singer and primary songwriter at the start. His subsequent group, Blue Orchids, was originally a reconstitution of the first recorded line-up of The Fall, without Mark, but with another slightly later Fall member, Eric McGann. After slight revisions in the lineup, Blue Orchids created a singular sound of maniacally aberrant psych on two thrilling singles - "The Flood" and "Work" - before recording one of the most imperfectly perfect debuts in what could no longer really be called 'rock and roll'.
Tracklist
- Sun Connection
- Dumb Magician
- Tighten My Belt
- A Year With No Head
- Hanging Man
- Bad Education
- Wait
- No Looking Back
- Low Profile
- Mad as the Mist and Snow
- Disney Boys (Demo)
- The Flood (Demo)
- Low Profile (Cassette Version)
- Thirst (Cassette Version)
- Motorway (Live)
- Hanging Man (Live)
- Olympian (Live)
- Work (Live)
- A Year With No Head (Live)
- The Unknown (Live)
