50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong

Infobox Album |
Name = 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong 39 Golden Greats
Type = Compilation album
Artist = The Fall

Released = June 8 2004
Recorded = 1977–2003
Genre = Post-punk, alternative rock
Length = 2:35:17
Label = Sanctuary Records
Producer =
Compiler = Daryl Easlea
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wjfixqtaldae link]
*Pitchfork Media (9.3/10) [http://pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/17643/Fall_50000_Fall_Fans_Cant_Be_Wrong 9 July 2004]
Chronology = The Fall
Last album = "The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country on the Click)"
(2003)
This album = "50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong"
(2004)
Next album = "Interim"
(2004)

"50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong – 39 Golden Greats" is a greatest hits album released by The Fall in 2004. It was the group's first career-spanning compilation, with a selection of songs from the 1978 EP "Bingo-Master's Break-Out!" up to the 2003 album "The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country on the Click)". The selection of songs includes both singles and album highlights. Daryl Eslea compiled the album and wrote the sleevenotes.

The cover and title of the album is a parody of Elvis Presley's "50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong" (1959).

Track listing

Disc one

# "Repetition" (Una Baines, Martin Bramah, Karl Burns, Tony Friel, Mark E. Smith) - 4.55
#* from the "Bingo-Masters Break-Out!" EP (1978)
# "Industrial Estate" (Friel, Bramah, Smith) - 1.41
#* from "Live at the Witch Trials" (1979)
# "Rowche Rumble" (Marc Riley, Smith, Craig Scanlon) - 4.00
#* 1979 single
# "Fiery Jack" (Steve Hanley, Riley, Scanlon, Smith) - 4.43
#* 1980 single
# "How I Wrote 'Elastic Man'" (Riley, Scanlon, S. Hanley, Smith) - 4.19
#* 1980 single
# "Totally Wired" (Riley, Smith, Scanlon) - 3.24
#* 1980 single
# "New Face In Hell" (Riley, Scanlon, Smith) - 5.39
#* from "Grotesque (After the Gramme)" (1980)
# "Prole Art Threat" (Riley, Smith) - 1.56
#* from "Slates" (1981)
# "Lie Dream Of A Casino Soul" (Riley, Smith, Paul Hanley) - 3.07
#* 1981 single
# "The Classical" (Smith, The Fall) - 3.07
#* from "Hex Enduction Hour" (1982)
# "Hip Priest" (Riley, S. Hanley, P.Hanley, Scanlon, Smith) - 7.43
#* same as above
# "The Man Whose Head Expanded" (S. Hanley, Scanlon, Smith) - 4.24
#* 1983 single
# "Kicker Conspiracy" (Smith) - 4.17
#* 1983 single
# "Eat Y'Self Fitter" (S. Hanley, Smith) - 6.34
#* from "Perverted by Language" (1983)
# "C.R.E.E.P." (Smith, Brix Smith, P. Hanley, S. Hanley) - 2.54
#* 1984 single
# "No Bulbs" (Smith, B. Smith) - 4.28
#* 1984 single
# "Spoilt Victorian Child" (Simon Rogers, Smith) - 4.11
#* from "This Nation's Saving Grace" (1985)
# "Cruiser's Creek" (Smith, B. Smith, Scanlon) - 4.15
#* 1985 single

Disc two

# "U.S. 80's-90's" (Smith) - 4.33
#* from "Bend Sinister" (1986)
# "Mr Pharmacist" (Jeff Nowlen) - 2.18
#* 1986 single
# "Living Too Late" (Smith) - 4.27
#* 1986 single
# "Hey! Luciani" (Smith, S. Hanley, Scanlon) - 3.34
#* 1986 single
# "There's A Ghost In My House" (Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland, Eddie Holland, R. Dean Taylor) - 2.36
#* 1987 single
# "Hit The North" (Rogers, Smith, B. Smith) - 3.59
#* 1987 single
# "Victoria" (Ray Davies) - 2.43
#* 1988 single
# "Telephone Thing" (Smith, Matt Black, Jonathan More)- 4.10
#* 1990 single
# "High Tension Line" (Smith, Scanlon, S. Hanley) - 3.45
#* 1990 single
# "Free Range" (Smith, Simon Wolstencroft) - 4.18
#* 1992 single
# "Why Are People Grudgeful?" (Lee Perry, Gibson) - 4.27
#* 1993 single
# "Behind The Counter" (Burns, Smith) - 3.09
#* 1993 single
# "M5" (Dave Bush, Wolstencroft, Smith) - 3.31
#* from "Middle Class Revolt" (1994)
# "Feeling Numb" (Smith, B. Smith) - 2.44
#* from "Cerebral Caustic" (1995)
# "The Chiselers" (Smith, Wolstencroft, Burns, S. Hanley, Julia Nagle) - 3.13
#* 1996 single
# "Powder Keg" (Smith, Burns) - 3.16
#* from "The Light User Syndrome" (1996)
# "Masquerade" (Smith, Nagle) - 3.50
#* 1998 single
# "Touch Sensitive" (Smith, Nagle) - 3.15
#* 1999 single
# "Crop-Dust" (Spencer Birtwhistle, Smith) - 5.30
#* from "Are You Are Missing Winner" (2001)
# "Susan Vs Youthclub" (Dave Milner, Smith) - 3.36
#* from "The Fall Vs 2003" single (2002)
# "Green Eyed Loco-Man" (Smith, Jim Watts) - 3.46
#* from "The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country on the Click)" (2003)

ee also

*Compilation albums by The Fall