The Fall : Shift-Work

Shift-Work’ from April 1991 is another commercial Fall high-water mark; it contains ‘Idiot Joy Showland’, Mark E. Smith’s rant against bandwagon-jumping Madchester bands (‘The shapeless kecks flapping up a storm, look at what they are: a pack of worms’), the one-time album title track, ‘The War Against Intelligence’, and the bucolic ‘Edinburgh Man’, a love letter to Smith’s then-adopted home city.

Track Listing:
1. So What About It? – The Fall
2. Idiot Joy Showland – The Fall
3. Edinburgh Man – The Fall
4. Pittsville Direkt – The Fall
5. The Book of Lies – The Fall
6. The War Against Intelligence – The Fall
7. Shift-Work – The Fall
8. You Haven’t Found It Yet – The Fall
9. The Mixer – The Fall
10. A Lot of Wind – The Fall
11. Rose – The Fall
12. Sinister Waltz – The Fall

Year of Production: 1991