The Light User Syndrome

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About The Light User Syndrome

The Light User Syndrome is an album (the 18th) by the Fall, released in 1996 on Jet Records. It was the group's first album to feature keyboard player and guitarist Julia Nagle and the last to feature Brix Smith, while longtime guitarist Craig Scanlon quit the group in late 1995 during troubled recording sessions for "The Chiselers" single which preceded the album. A version of "The Chiselers" is included on the album as "Interlude/Chilinism". Brix Smith told Simon Ford that The Light User Syndrome was recorded very quickly, with Mark E. Smith absent for much of the recording, delivering nearly all his vocals on the final day. Although Julia Nagle remembers recording the vocals took more than a week. Smith himself claimed half the vocals were actually just guide vocals, which he found had been mixed as the final vocals when he took a day off from the studio. Despite this, alternate versions of many of the album's tracks featured heavily across the series of compilation albums issued by the Receiver label in the late 1990s. The album also features some vocals from producer Mike Bennett, as well as a rare lead vocal from drummer and guitarist Karl Burns on a cover version of Johnny Paycheck's "Stay Away (Ol' White Train)." 


Year:
1996
#SongDuration
12:37 
23:00 
3
He Pep!
3:07 
4
Hostile
3:59 
52:49 
63:08 
7
Interlude/Chilinism
7:05 
83:16 
93:08 
103:59 
11
The Coliseum
8:08 
123:24 
12  
144:02 
15
Secession Man
4:49 

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