I like Sleaford Mods' earlier stuff and saw them a while back in Philly - solid gig, good energy. I'll give them a spin every once in a while, but their output since Divide and Exit has left me mostly cold - as you say, a one-trick pony.

The Fall however, were fucking amazing and easily in my top three bands of all time. There is simply no one else like MES in rock history. 39 years making records and always evolving.

Sleaford Mods are simply not in the same ballpark, as The Fall. That said, Smith was actually quite fond of them, unlike Pavement (far more of a Fall ripoff than Sleaford), who he utterly despised. I mean, play The Fall's New Face in Hell (funnily enough, also from Grotesque ATG), then Pavement's Conduit For Sale.

Shameless.

Today has been a wee bit strange for me (although recent weeks have delivered many an odd coincidence) - yesterday, I was playing Jolly Fucker (SM) in the car and then, for whatever reason, had been thinking about Smith's alternate lyric in the live version of Totally Wired (off A Part of America Therein).

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro", which he nicked from Hunter Thompson.

This morning, I was reading a review of the GATG reissue, then come here to find Sleaford and The Fall being discussed, and THEN you post a link to Totally Wired off GATG.

Simple coincidence? A god wink? Fuck knows, but as mentioned prior, this kind of shit has been happening to me for the past few weeks. Or maybe it always has been, but I've never noticed it that much until recently...