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The Fall

How I Wrote 'Elastic Man' / City Hobgoblins

1980 · Post-Punk · Rough Trade

UK · RT 048

Tracklist

Credits

Producer
Geoff Travis, Mayo Thompson, The Fall
Engineer
John Brierley
Cut by
Porky
Post-PunkNew Wave4 pressings →

Where it leads

Manchester Post-Punk

Before the baggy trousers: basslines, empty space, and a city building its own outlets.

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Vancouver Punk

The west-coast first wave that coined 'hardcore' — political, tuneful and absurdly early.

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Austin Post-Rock

Instrumental Texas music built on patience: guitars that swell instead of riff, drone that behaves like weather.

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