Goodbye to The Fall’s Mark E Smith
In 1988, as a kid with a fresh CD of "I Am Kurious Oranj," I was not the toast of the party. I remember playing it for friends. No one was into it.* Christgau loved it apparently but that didn't amount to anything (despite the VV's popularity in that era). My favorite records have always been alienating. When I was 10, I played this LP for my grandparents and it, appropriately so, horrified them. A few years later, I bought Fact. 40 in a sealed purple box at a Listening Booth record store (without knowing what was inside). I couldn't shut it…
