For this week’s “120 Minutes” Rewind, we’ve selected a “120 X Ray” segment on Mark E. Smith and The Fall that aired on a 1987 episode around the time of the release of The “Domesday Pay-Off” Triad-Plus!, aka the U.S. version of Bend Sinister.
The clip doesn’t feature any interviews, but does find host Kevin Seal musing on topics like Smith’s lyrics (“somewhere between stream-of-consciousness poetry and stream-of-consciousness gibberish”). The segment also features the video for “There’s A Ghost in My House.”
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- ‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: ‘120 X-Ray’ on Kate Bush circa ‘Sensual World’ — Jan. 21, 1990
- ‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Paul Westerberg dishes on the ’Mats and ‘All Shook Down’ — 1991
- ‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: PiL’s John Lydon in Tijuana with Dave Kendall — 1992
- ‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Peter Murphy, Bauhaus spotlighted in special — May 18, 1990
- ‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Mojo Nixon plays ‘Debbie Gibson is Pregnant…’ — March 1989
Is Mark the best? Could very well be.