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1992 studio album by The Fall
Code: Selfish
is a 1992 LP by British rock band
The Fall
. Their 14th full-length studio album, it entered the UK chart at number 21, although it spent only one week on the chart.
The album is characterised by its harsher sound in relation to the previous year's
Shift-Work
, and is influenced by
techno music
(techno fan Dave Bush had been added on keyboards and computers).
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Despite this, the album also has some notably mellow moments, with "Time Enough At Last" (named after
an episode
of
The Twilight Zone
) and "Gentlemen's Agreement" being at odds with the overall sound of the album.
Largely recorded in a converted church in
Glasgow
,
Code: Selfish
features the group's only self-penned Top 40 single, "
Free Range
". The album would prove to be their last for the
Phonogram
label, as the group were dropped following the release of the
Ed's Babe
EP later in 1992. Simon Ford reports in his Fall biography
Hip Priest
that Phonogram had to compensate the band for the early termination of their five-album deal and that these funds were used to record what became
The Infotainment Scan
.
The album was re-released by Voiceprint in 2002 under licence from Phonogram, and also appeared in a double-CD set coupled with an edition of
Shift-Work
on the same label in 2003. This edition added "Ed's Babe" and "Free Ranger" to the track listing. It was reissued again in expanded and remastered form by
Universal
in May 2007.
According to keyboard player Dave Bush, the song "Immortality" was partly inspired by
Milan Kundera
's
1990 novel of the same name
[
citation needed
]
.
Track listing
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Title
| Writer(s)
|
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1.
| "The Birmingham School of Business School"
| Mark E. Smith
, Dave Bush
| 6:45
|
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2.
| "
Free Range
"
| Smith,
Simon Wolstencroft
| 3:58
|
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3.
| "Return"
| Smith,
Steve Hanley
| 4:04
|
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4.
| "Time Enough at Last"
| Smith,
Craig Scanlon
| 3:48
|
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5.
| "Everything Hurtz"
| Smith, Hanley
| 4:07
|
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6.
| "Immortality"
| Smith, Scanlon
| 4:30
|
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7.
| "Two-Face!"
| Smith, Scanlon
| 6:01
|
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8.
| "Just Waiting"
| Hank Williams
| 4:38
|
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9.
| "So Called Dangerous"
| Smith, Bush, Hanley
| 3:46
|
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10.
| "Gentlemen's Agreement"
| Smith, Scanlon
| 4:33
|
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11.
| "Married, 2 Kids"
| Smith, Scanlon, Hanley
| 2:45
|
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12.
| "Crew Filth"
| Smith, Wolstencroft
| 5:20
|
---|
Total length:
| 54:22
|
---|
2002 reissue bonus tracks
Title
| Writer(s)
|
---|
13.
| "Ed's Babe"
| Smith, Scanlon
| 3:17
|
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14.
| "Free Ranger"
| Smith, Wolstencroft
| 4:04
|
---|
Total length:
| 61:43
|
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2007 reissue
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- Disc one
- Disc two
Title
| Writer(s)
|
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1.
| "Free Range" (single version)
| Smith, Wolstencroft
| 4:21
|
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2.
| "Return" (slightly alternate version found on "Free Range" single)
| Smith, Hanley
| 4:04
|
---|
3.
| "Dangerous" (slightly alternate version of "So-Called Dangerous", from the "Free Range" single)
| Smith, Hanley, Bush
| 4:01
|
---|
4.
| "Everything Hurtz" (slightly alternate version found on "Free Range" single)
| Smith, Hanley
| 4:07
|
---|
5.
| "Ed's Babe" (from the "Ed's Babe" EP)
| Smith, Scanlon
| 3:17
|
---|
6.
| "Pumpkin Head Xscapes" (from the "Ed's Babe" EP)
| Smith, Scanlon, Hanley
| 3:49
|
---|
7.
| "The Knight, the Devil and Death" (from the "Ed's Babe" EP)
| Smith, Scanlon, Wolstencroft
| 3:23
|
---|
8.
| "Free Ranger" (remix of "Free Range", from the "Ed's Babe" EP)
| Smith, Wolstencroft
| 4:04
|
---|
9.
| "Noel's Chemical Effluence" (outtake, previously released on
The Twenty-Seven Points
, 1995)
| Smith
| 6:24
|
---|
10.
| "
Legend of Xanadu
" (previously released on
NME
compilation CD
Ruby Trax
, 1992)
| Ken Howard
,
Alan Blaikley
| 3:29
|
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11.
| "Free Range" (
BBC
John Peel
Session, recorded 19 January 1992)
| Smith, Wolstencroft
| 4:05
|
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12.
| "Kimble" (BBC John Peel Session, recorded 19 January 1992; released as a single later the same year)
| Lee "Scratch" Perry
| 3:55
|
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13.
| "Immortality" (BBC John Peel Session, recorded 19 January 1992)
| Smith, Scanlon
| 4:27
|
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14.
| "Return" (BBC John Peel Session, recorded 19 January 1992)
| Smith, Hanley
| 4:10
|
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Total length:
| 57:43
|
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Personnel
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- The Fall
- Additional personnel
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