Wise Ol' Man

Wise Ol' Man
Wise Ol' Man
EP by the Fall
Released	19 February 2016
Recorded	2014–2015
Genre	Post-punk
Length	34:27
Label	Cherry Red
Producer	Mark E. Smith
The Fall chronology

Released19 February 2016^[1]

Recorded2014–2015

GenrePost-punk

Length34:27

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Metacritic	71/100^[2]
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Wise Ol' Man is an EP by the Fall, released on 19 February 2016 by Cherry Red Records.^[1] It features two new songs, "Wise Ol' Man" and "All Leave Cancelled", as well as alternate versions and remixes of songs from the band's 2015 album Sub-Lingual Tablet, and a rare live performance of "No Xmas for John Quays" (from the Fall's first album Live at the Witch Trials), recorded at Brudenell Social Club in Leeds on 28 November 2014.^[9]

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No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Wise Ol' Man" (edit)		3:37
2.	"All Leave Cancelled"		8:19
3.	"Dedication" (remix)	^{[n 1]}	5:27
4.	"Wise Ol' Man" (instrumental)		3:23
5.	"Venice with the Girls" (remix)	^{[n 2]}	4:04
6.	"Face Book Troll" / "No Xmas for John Quays (live)"	^{[n 3]}	7:30
7.	"All Leave Cancelled" (X)		2:07

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

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