The Fall discography


released many recordings following their inception in 1976, often inviting use of the tag 'prolific'. Their first release as a group was the EP Bingo-Master's Break Out!, and they released a studio album at a rate of almost one a year from their debut Live at the Witch Trials in 1979 to their final album New Facts Emerge in 2017.

Albums

Studio albums

Part studio, part live albums

Live albums

  1. Live in London 1980 UK Indie #7
  2. A Part of America Therein, 1981 UK Indie #9
  3. Fall in a Hole NZ #47
  4. BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert
  5. In the City...
  6. 15 Ways to Leave Your Man, Live
  7. Live to Air in Melbourne 1982
  8. Live Various Years
  9. Nottingham 92
  10. Live 1977
  11. I Am as Pure as Oranj
  12. Live in Cambridge 1988
  13. Austurbaejarbio
  14. Live in Zagreb
  15. Liverpool 78
  16. Touch Sensitive... Bootleg Box Set
  17. The Idiot Joy Show
  18. Live at the Phoenix Festival
  19. Live at Deeply Vale
  20. Live from the Vaults – Oldham 1978
  21. Live from the Vaults – Retford 1978
  22. Live from the Vaults – Los Angeles 1979
  23. Live from the Vaults – Glasgow 1981
  24. Live from the Vaults – Alter Bahnoff, Hof, Germany 1981
  25. Pearl City
  26. Live at the Knitting Factory, New York 9 April 2001
  27. Live at the Garage, London 20 April 2002
  28. Live at the Knitting Factory, LA 14 November 2001
  29. Live at the ATP Festival 28 April 2002
  30. Last Night at The Palais
  31. Live in San Francisco
  32. Creative Distortion
  33. Yarbles
  34. Live Uurop VIII-XII Places in Sun & Winter, Son
  35. Bingo Masters at the Witch Trials
  36. Live in Clitheroe
  37. "Set of Ten" - Ten Previously Unreleased Live Recordings
  38. Live at Batschkapp, Frankfurt, 1993
  39. Live at the Assembly Rooms, Derby, 1994
  40. Live at the Astoria Theatre, 1995
  41. Live at Doornroosje, Nijmegen, 1999
  42. Live at Band on the Wall, Manchester, 1982
  43. Live at the Cedar Ballroom, Birmingham, 1980
  44. Live at the Corn Exchange, Kings Lynn, 1996
  45. Live at Stage, Stoke, 1997
  46. Live at the Astoria 2, 1998
  47. Live at TJ's, Newport, Wales, 2001
  48. Another "Set of Ten" - Ten Previously Unreleased Live Recordings
Two live tracks by the Fall also appeared on the compilation 10" EP, in 1978.

Compilation albums

YearTitleUK position
198177–Early Years–79UK Indie #6
1985Hip Priest and KameradsUK Indie #4
1986Nord-West Gas
1987Palace of Swords ReversedUK Indie #1
1990458489 A Sides
1990458489 B SidesUK #44
1993The Collection
1994Backdrop
1996Sinister Waltz
1996Fiend with a Violin
1996Oswald Defence Lawyer
1997The Archive Series
1997The Less You Look, the More You Find
1997Oxymoron
1997Cheetham Hill
1998Smile... It's the Best of
1998Northern Attitude
1999The Peel Sessions
2000A Past Gone Mad
2000Psykick Dancehall
2001A World Bewitched
2002Totally Wired – The Rough Trade Anthology
2002The Rough Trade Singles Box
2002High Tension Line
2002Listening In
2002Early Singles
2003It's the New Thing! The Step Forward Years
2003Words of Expectation – BBC Sessions
2003The War Against Intelligence – The Fontana Years
2003Rebellious Jukebox
2003Time Enough at Last
200450,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong – 39 Golden GreatsUK #117
2005The Complete Peel Sessions 1978–2004UK #139
2006The Permanent Years – Paranoia Man in Cheap Shit Room
2007The Fall Box Set 1976–2007
2008I've Never Felt Better in My Life: 1979–1982
2009Rebellious Jukebox Volume 2
2010Rebellious Jukebox Volume 3
201313 Killers
2013The Fall 5 Albums
2014White Lightning
2015Schtick - Yarbles Revisited
2016The Classical
2017The Fontana Years
2017A-Sides 1978-2016
2017Singles 1978-2016
2018 58 Golden Greats
2019Mark's Personal Holiday Tony Tapes

Mark E. Smith spoken word albums

, the Fall's lead singer and only constant member, has also released two albums of solo material:
  1. The Post Nearly Man
  2. Pander! Panda! Panzer!

    Extended plays

  3. Bingo-Master's Break-Out!
  4. * "Psycho Mafia"/"Bingo-Master"/"Repetition"
  5. Fiery Jack UK Indie #4
  6. * "Fiery Jack"/"2nd Dark Age"/"Psykick Dancehall #2"
  7. Slates
  8. * "Middle Mass"/"An Older Lover"/"Prole Art Threat"/"Fit And Working Again"/"Slates, Slags Etc."/"Leave The Capitol"
  9. CREEP
  10. * "CREEP"/"Pat Trip Dispenser"/"Poem"/"CREEP"
  11. Call for Escape Route
  12. * "Draygo's Guilt"/"Clear Off"/"No Bulbs"
  13. * "No Bulbs 3"/"Slang King 2"
  14. Peel Sessions UK Indie #3
  15. * "Put Away"/"Mess of My"/"No Xmas for John Key"/"Like to Blow"
  16. The Dredger
  17. * "White Lightning"/"Blood Outta Stone"/"Zagreb" /"Life Just Bounces"
  18. Kimble
  19. * CD: "Kimble"/"Gut of the Quantifier"/"Spoilt Victorian Child"/"Words of Expectation"
  20. * 12": "Kimble"/"C'n'C-Hassle Schmuk"/"Spoilt Victorian Child"/"Words Of Expectation"
  21. The Fall vs 2003 UK #64
  22. * "Susan vs Youthclub"/"Janet vs Johnny"/"Susan vs Youthclub"
  23. A Protein Christmas
  24. * " A Protein Christmas"/" Mod Mock Goth"/" Girl in Shop"/"Recovery Kit #2"
  25. Rude
  26. * "Distilled Mug Art"/"I Wake Up in the City"/"Where's the Fuckin Taxi? Cunt"/"My Ex-Classmates' Kids"
  27. The Remainderer
  28. * "The Remainderer"/"Amorator!"/"Mister Rode"/"Rememberance R"/"Say Mama/Race With the Devil"/"Touchy Pad"
  29. Wise Ol' Man
  30. * "Wise Ol' Man "/"All Leave Cancelled"/"Dedication "/"Wise Ol' Man "/"Venice With the Girls"/"Facebook Troll/No Xmas For John Quay"/"All Leave Cancelled "

    Singles