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''Middle Class Revolt'' is an album by The Fall , released in 1994 on Permanent Records . It spent one week on the UK album chart at number 48, a marked contrast to the top 10 debut of their preceding album The Infotainment Scan . The album's full title is '''Middle Class Revolt A/K/A The Vapourisation Of Reality'''. Drummer Karl Burns features for the first time since 1985's This Nation's Saving Grace , having rejoined the band in 1993. The album spawned 2 singles, Behind The Counter (12/93 - no. 75) and '''15 Ways''' (04/94 - no. 65). A further 5 tracks from the album featured as b-sides across the formats of these singles, and, although most were in alternate versions, this meant that the album only contained 7 songs that were new to fans upon its release, 3 of which were cover versions. The album was also controversial for its writing credits in which all Fall originals were credited to Mark E. Smith, Craig Scanlon and Steve Hanley, despite some of the tracks having already been credited differently on the preceding single releases. The cover versions on the album were notably less mainstream than some of their other recent choices; ''War'', originally by Henry Cow , ''Shut Up!'', originally by The Monks (whom The Fall had already covered on 1990's Extricate ) and a bizarre version of ''Junk Man'', originally by The Groundhogs - according to Daryl Easlea's sleevenote for the 2006 reissue, Smith prevailed upon the group to deliver the song from memory and, as a result, MES is backed by drums, bass, kazoo and some tuneless hollering from Burns. Another track "Symbol Of Mordgan" is based upon a recording of Scanlon discussing a football match by telephone on John Peel 's Saturday afternoon programme. Middle Class Revolt is, as Easlea notes, not a uniformly popular album amongst the group's fans. Whilst impenetrable as a whole, it nevertheless houses some excellent music. Indeed, ''Hey! Student'' attained the number 2 position in 1994's Festive Fifty , beaten to the top only by Inspiral Carpets ' ''I Want You''. Which, of course, featured Mark E. Smith as guest vocalist. TRACKLISTING #15 Ways (Smith, Scanlon, Hanley) #The Reckoning (Smith, Scanlon, Hanley) #Behind The Counter (Smith, Scanlon, Hanley) - credited on the single release to (Smith/Burns) #M5#1 (Smith, Scanlon, Hanley) - credited on ''Behind The Counter'' to (Bush/Wolstencroft/Smith) #Surmount All Obstacles (Smith, Scanlon, Hanley) #Middle Class Revolt! (Smith, Scanlon, Hanley) #War (Blegvad/Moore) #You're Not Up To Much (Smith, Scanlon, Hanley) #Symbol Of Mordgan (Smith, Scanlon, Hanley) #Hey! Student (Smith, Scanlon, Hanley) - credited on ''The Complete Peel Sessions 1978-2004'' to (Smith) #Junk Man (McFree) - actually Tony McPhee #The $500 Bottle Of Wine (Smith, Scanlon, Hanley) #City Dweller (Smith, Scanlon, Hanley) #Shut Up! (The Monks) PERSONNEL
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