Reply to "The Fall singer Mark E Smith dies aged 60"

Eugene's LairMember 10 years

Saint posted:
Silly sausage Eugene, lol

I just don't see who they influenced? Maybe they did - I dunno.
But I don't see people doing that sort of music or similar

Wiki lists a number of bands who've acknowledged The Fall's influence on their work, including Pavement, Happy Mondays, Sonic Youth, The Pixies, These New Puritans and LCD Soundsystem. Many of them have covered Fall songs at some point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...%28band%29#Influence

I don't think I'm stretching it to suggest you can detect hints of Smith's darkness, edginess, and even humour in some of those bands, however I also think you have to be careful about reading too much into "influenced". The Smiths and Joy Division/New Order sounded nothing like the Sex Pistols, and yet they would never have formed in the first place if it hadn't been for that initial "influence".

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