The Fall, Domesday Pay-Off (side A)

Domesday Pay-Off is a bit of a confusing Fall release, since it's sort of a butchered American version of an English album (Bend Sinister). It dates from 1987, roughly the beginning of their more commercial new wave phase, and the production has hints of the records that follow it. The music ranges from fairly straightforward garage rock (a cover of "Mr. Pharmacist") to one of their strangest and most abstract tracks ("U.S. 80s-90s"). Domesday Pay-Off is more a weird, transitional Fall album than a classic.