The Twenty-Seven Points

The Twenty-Seven Points
The Twenty-Seven Points
Live album by The Fall
Released	7 August 1995
Recorded	1991–1995
Venue	Prague, Tel Aviv, London, Glasgow, New York City and Manchester
Genre	Post-punk
Length	1:40:05
Label	Permanent Records
Producer	none credited
The Fall chronology

Released7 August 1995^[1]

Recorded1991–1995

VenuePrague, Tel Aviv, London, Glasgow, New York City and Manchester

GenrePost-punk

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AllMusic	^[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[3]
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[4]

The Twenty-Seven Points: Live 92–95 is a double album by the Fall, released in 1995.^[5] The album consists of live recordings made in various locations between 1991 and 1995, but also contains interludes and two previously unheard studio tracks. 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 City and Manchester.

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No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Mollusc in Tyrol" (brief excerpt of the released track played over a PA as an intro tape, not an actual live rendition)	Mark E. Smith, Craig Leon^{[n 1]}	1:01
2.	"Return"	M. Smith, Steve Hanley	3:49
3.	"Ladybird (Green Grass)"	M. Smith, Craig Scanlon, Hanley, Dave Bush, Simon Wolstencroft^{[n 2]}	4:08
4.	"Idiot - Walk Out" (an aborted "Idiot Joy Showland" recorded live October 19, 1993, at the Kentish Town Forum in London)	M. Smith, Hanley ^{[n 3]}	0:53
5.	"Ten Points" (a recording of Smith reciting a draft of the lyrics to "Glam Racket", played over the PA)	M. Smith	1:56
6.	"Idiot Joy Showland" (recorded live October 19, 1993, at the Kentish Town Forum in London)	M. Smith, Hanley ^{[n 4]}	4:16
7.	"Big New Prinz"	M. Smith, Scanlon, Hanley, Marcia Schofield ^{[n 5]}	6:02
8.	"Intro - Roadhouse" (a John Barry recording used as an intro tape)	John Barry^{[n 6]}	1:30
9.	"The Joke" (recorded live March 21, 1995, at the Roadhouse in Manchester)	M. Smith, Brix Smith	3:37
10.	"M.H.'s Jokes" (a dictaphone recording of Smith chatting with a friend - likely Mike "The Haircut" Hill)	(no writer credited)	1:43
11.	"British People in Hot Weather"	M. Smith, Scanlon, Hanley, Wolstencroft ^{[n 7]}	2:03
12.	"Free Range"	M. Smith, Simon Wolstencroft^{[n 8]}	3:49
13.	"Hi-Tension Line"	M. Smith, Scanlon, Hanley ^{[n 9]}	4:16
14.	"The League of Bald-Headed Men"	M. Smith, Hanley ^{[n 10]}	4:29

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"95: Glam Racket/Star" (two separate live recordings spliced together)	M. Smith, Scanlon, Hanley	3:29
2.	"Lost in Music"	Nile Rodgers, Bernard Edwards	4:24
3.	"Prague '91/Mr Pharmacist"	Jeff Nowlen ^{[n 11]}	3:10
4.	"Cloud of Black" (studio track; outtake from the Shift-Work sessions)	M. Smith	4:22
5.	"Paranoid Man in Cheap Sh..t Room"	M. Smith, Scanlon	4:15
6.	"Bounces - Leeds" ("Life Just Bounces" sung by Burns)	M. Smith, Scanlon	1:57
7.	"Outro"	(no writer credited)	2:49
8.	"Passable" (Actually "A Past Gone Mad")	M. Smith, Bush, Wolstencroft	4:30
9.	"Glasgow Advice" (spoken word by Smith played over the PA)	M. Smith	1:14
10.	"Middle Class Revolt - Simon, Dave and John"	M. Smith, Scanlon, Hanley	4:34
11.	"Bill is Dead"	M. Smith, Scanlon	5:14
12.	"Strychnine"	Gerry Roslie	2:49
13.	"War!"	Peter Blegvad, Anthony Moore	3:26
14.	"Noel's Chemical Effluence" (studio track; outtake from the Code: Selfish sessions)	M. Smith	6:29
15.	"Three Points" (spoken word by Smith played over the PA)	M. Smith	0:48
16.	"Up Too Much" (actually "You’re Not Up to Much")	M. Smith, Scanlon, Hanley ^{[n 12]}	2:51

v t e The Fall
Mark E. Smith Steve Hanley Paul Hanley Craig Scanlon Brix Smith Marc Riley Karl Burns Tony Friel Martin Bramah Una Baines Simon Rogers Simon Wolstencroft Julia Nagle
Studio albums	Live at the Witch Trials Dragnet Grotesque (After the Gramme) Hex Enduction Hour Room to Live Perverted by Language The Wonderful and Frightening World Of... This Nation's Saving Grace Bend Sinister The Frenz Experiment I Am Kurious Oranj Extricate Shift-Work Code: Selfish The Infotainment Scan Middle Class Revolt Cerebral Caustic The Light User Syndrome Levitate The Marshall Suite The Unutterable Are You Are Missing Winner The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country on the Click) Fall Heads Roll Reformation Post TLC Imperial Wax Solvent Your Future Our Clutter Ersatz GB Re-Mit Sub-Lingual Tablet New Facts Emerge
EPs	Bingo-Master's Break-Out! Slates The Remainderer Wise Ol' Man
Live albums	Live 1977 Liverpool 78 Totale's Turns Live in London 1980 A Part of America Therein, 1981 Fall in a Hole Seminal Live The Twenty-Seven Points Touch Sensitive... Bootleg Box Set 2G+2 Last Night at The Palais
Compilation albums	Hip Priest and Kamerads 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong The Complete Peel Sessions 1978–2004
Singles	"Rowche Rumble" (1979) "Fiery Jack" (1980) "Totally Wired" (1980) "Cruiser's Creek" (1985) "Hey! Luciani" (1986) "There's a Ghost in My House" (1987) "Hit the North" (1987) "Victoria" (1988) "Telephone Thing" (1990) "Free Range" (1992) "Why Are People Grudgeful?" (1992) "Theme from Sparta F.C. #2" (2004)
Album tracks	"Paint Work" (1985) "I Am Damo Suzuki" (1985)
Associated bands	The Adult Net Blue Orchids Brix & the Extricated The Creepers Darker My Love Imperial Wax The Passage The Teardrops Tom Hingley and the Lovers Von Südenfed
Related articles	Discography Band members Hey! Luciani: The Life and Codex of John Paul I

The Twenty-Seven Points

Track listing

Disc one

Disc two

2006 reissue

Personnel

Notes

References

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