I mentioned last week that I never bought anything The Fall issued while with Cherry Red Records as I’d lost my way with the band by this point in time. Drew over at Across The Kitchen Table remained a devotee, but all too often he would tell of going along to a gig and feeling let-down and/or short-changed.
I might have felt the same way if I was the type who made something out of Record Store Day as the next 45 to be released by MES & co was for that event in April 2012, with a limited run of 1,000 copies of a 7″ single with the title Night of the Humerons, but neither the a-side nor b-side featured a song of that name.
mp3: The Fall – Victrola Time
The a-side was seemingly developed from an instrumental track called Damflicters that had been worked up during sessions for the Ersatz G.B. album, released in November 2011. It might have been a limited edition 45, but it became widely available in May 2013 when it was included on the next studio album, Re-Mit.
It’s electronica Fall, and MES doesn’t start singing until about 70 seconds in….and it, to be frank, is awful. Here’s your lyrics in full:-
Science hasn’t recorded it yet…
And I don’t want bennies….jellies….
I said MDMA years!
You can’t feel, you can’t feel Victrola
Victrola teller, Victrola teller
From ’28 from ’16,
Victrola,
DMA years,
Stop!
J-j-just stop
J-just can’t
Just can’t
Post meth and DMA years
The pre non-MDM and net years
The post meth MDMA years
The pre-non-MDM and meth years
The post meth and also DMA years
The MDMA years
The pre-black eyes and tears of today years
The post-meth MDMA years
MDMA years…
Can’t feel I could cry
Joy
The pre-black eyes and tears of today years
The b-side was a live version of a track from Erstatz G.B.:-
mp3: The Fall – Taking Off (live)
At least it’s marginally better than the a-side.
THE NEW VINYL VILLAIN 
…wow…