The Twenty-Seven Points

Infobox Album |
Name = The Twenty-Seven Points
Type = Live album
Artist = The Fall


Released = 1995
Recorded = various locations 1991-1995
Genre = Rock
Length = 1:40:05
Label = Permanent Records
Producer = none credited
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ax63traqkl7x link] |
Last album = "Cerebral Caustic"
(1995)
This album = "The Twenty-Seven Points" (1995)
Next album = "The Light User Syndrome" (1996)

"The Twenty-Seven Points" is a double album by The Fall, released in 1995. Subtitled "Live 92-95" the album consists of live recordings made in various locations between 1991 and 1995, but also contains 2 previously unheard studio tracks as well as some mildly diverting interludes. Credits on the album are sketchy but the front cover lists the cities in which the tracks were recorded; Prague, Tel Aviv, London, Glasgow, New York and Manchester.

Track listing

Titles are given exactly as listed on the original sleeve.
*Disc one
#Mollusc In Tyrol "(note - this is a brief excerpt of the released track played over a PA as an intro tape, not an actual live rendition)"
#Return
#Ladybird (Green Grass)
#Idiot - Walk Out "(an aborted "Idiot Joy Showland")"
#Ten Points
#Idiot Joy Showland
#Intro - Roundhouse M/CR "(a John Barry recording used as an intro tape)"
#The Joke
#M.H.'s Jokes/British People In Hot Weather
#Free Range
#Hi-Tension Line - Tel Aviv 92
#The League Of Bald Headed Men
*Disc two
#95: Glam Racket/Star - "(two separate live recordings spliced together)"
#Lost In Music
#Prague '91/Mr Pharmacist
#Cloud Of Black "(studio track)"
#Paranoid Man In Cheap Sh.t Room
#Bounces - Leeds "(actually "Life Just Bounces")"
#Outro - Leeds "(the "Leeds" is roughly deleted in black marker pen)"
#Passable "(actually "A Past Gone Mad")"
#Glasgow Advice
#Middle Class Revolt - Simon, Dave & John
#Bill Is Dead
#Strychnine
#War!
#Noel's Chemical Effluence "(studio track)"
#Three Points
#Up To Much

15 & 16 are listed as one track but indexed as 2 on the disc.

2006 reissue

The album was reissued by Castle Music in May 2006 in a remastered edition but with no additional material. However, it is reported that "Three Points" and "Up To Much" are missing from this new version, despite being listed on the sleeve.

Personnel

*The Fall:
**Mark E. Smith - vocals, tapes "(etc)"
**Simon Wolstencroft - drums
**Brix - bass guitar, guitar, vocals
**Craig Scanlon - guitar
**Steve Hanley - bass guitar, vocals
**Julia Nagle - keyboards
**Karl Burns - drum kit|drums, vocals, guitar
**Dave Bush - keyboards on "Big New Prinz", "Paranoid Man..." and "Bounces"
**Kenny Brady - fiddle on "Prague 91/Mr Pharmacist"
**Simon Rogers - machines on "Noel's Chemical Effluence"
*Rex Sargeant - mix and tape
*Andy Bernstein - sound on tracks 8 - 23
*Robert Gordon - bass guitar and keyboards on "Cloud Of Black"
*there is also an additional credit which appears to read "Andy: Rime Time Studios, Ancoats, M/C"