Slates (EP)

The name of the track "Middle Mass" may be riffing on the title of George Eliot's 1871 novel Middlemarch or else it may be a reference to actor Frank Middlemass. Or it may be derived from something else entirely.

Release

Slates was released on 27 April 1981. Containing six tracks and pressed onto 10" vinyl, it was eligible for neither the single nor album charts, being too long for the former and too short for the latter. However, it was included in the UK Independent Album chart, where it reached No. 3.

Slates made its first appearance on CD in 1992 on the Dojo label, where it was coupled with live album A Part of America Therein, 1981. This pairing was re-pressed with amended artwork in 1998 by Castle Music. Slates was finally given a proper remastered CD edition from the original master tapes in 2004, with seven additional tracks being added to bolster the brief running time. The first three additional tracks formed the group's fourth session for John Peel; the next two tracks were issued as a single in December 1981; and track 13 was an outtake from 1981, previously featured on a budget compilation titled The Collection (Castle, 1993).

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Robert Christgau	B^[2]

AllMusic wrote, "Not a bad taster if you're new and want some post-punk, pre-pop Fall – and 90 percent of this is prime material."^[1]

Track listing

Side A
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Middle Mass"	Steve Hanley, Marc Riley, Craig Scanlon, Mark E. Smith	3:32
2.	"An Older Lover Etc."	Paul Hanley, S. Hanley, Riley, Scanlon, Smith	4:36
3.	"Prole Art Threat"	Riley, Smith	1:57

Side B
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Fit and Working Again"	Riley, P. Hanley, S. Hanley, Smith	2:59
2.	"Slates, Slags, Etc."	The Fall	6:34
3.	"Leave the Capitol"	Riley, Scanlon, S. Hanley, Smith	4:07

2004 CD reissue bonus tracks
No.	Title	Length
7.	"Middle Mass" (Peel session)
8.	"Lie Dream of a Casino Soul" (Peel session)
9.	"Hip Priest" (Peel session)
10.	"C'n'C - Hassle Schmuck" (Peel session)
11.	"Lie Dream of a Casino Soul" (single A-side)
12.	"Fantastic Life" (single B-side)
13.	"Medical Acceptance Gate"

Personnel

The Fall

Mark E. Smith – vocals, piano, harmonica
Marc Riley – electric guitar, electric piano, vocals
Craig Scanlon – electric and acoustic guitars, piano (credited as 'Craig Scanlan')
Steve Hanley – bass guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals
Paul Hanley – drums, percussion

Additional personnel

Kay Carroll — vocals, kazoo
Dave Tucker — vocals, clarinet

References

1 2 Jeffries, David. "Slates – The Fall | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
↑ Christgau, Robert. "Robert Christgau: CG: The Fall". Robert Christgau. Retrieved 26 November 2014.

External links

Slates (EP) at Discogs (list of releases)

The Fall

Mark E. Smith

Studio albums	Live at the Witch Trials Dragnet Grotesque (After the Gramme) Hex Enduction Hour Room to Live Perverted by Language The Wonderful and Frightening World Of... This Nation's Saving Grace Bend Sinister The Frenz Experiment I Am Kurious Oranj Extricate Shift-Work Code: Selfish The Infotainment Scan Middle Class Revolt Cerebral Caustic The Light User Syndrome Levitate The Marshall Suite The Unutterable Are You Are Missing Winner The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country on the Click) Fall Heads Roll Reformation Post TLC Imperial Wax Solvent Your Future Our Clutter Ersatz GB Re-Mit Sub-Lingual Tablet

EPs	Bingo-Master's Break-Out! Slates The Remainderer Wise Ol' Man

Live albums	Live 1977 Liverpool 78 Totale's Turns Live in London 1980 A Part of America Therein, 1981 Fall in a Hole Seminal Live The Twenty-Seven Points Touch Sensitive... Bootleg Box Set 2G+2 Last Night at The Palais

Compilation albums	50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong The Complete Peel Sessions 1978–2004

Other albums	Interim

Former members	Una Baines Martin Bramah Karl Burns Tony Friel Paul Hanley Steve Hanley Julia Nagle Marc Riley Simon Rogers Craig Scanlon Brix Smith Simon Wolstencroft

Collaborators	Ian Broudie Michael Clark Coldcut Steve Evets Gavin Friday John Leckie Craig Leon Richard Mazda Mouse on Mars Ross Orton Alana Pellay Grant Showbiz Adrian Sherwood Mayo Thompson Geoff Travis

Related articles	Discography John Peel The Adult Net Blue Orchids Factory Star Darker My Love Von Südenfed

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