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''The Infotainment Scan'' is 15th album by The Fall, released in 1993 on Permanent Records in the UK and by Matador Records in the US. At the time of its release it was considered the band's most accessible album and came when the band were experiencing unprecedented recognition in the media. It entered the UK album charts at number 9. The album features covers of the Sister Sledge disco track "Lost in Music" and of Steve Bent's "I'm Going to Spain", an obscure song which Bent performed on the British talent show ''New Faces'' in 1974 (Bent's version was included on ''The World's Worst Record'' album, compiled by disc jockey Kenny Everett in 1978).〔("MP3 Download Dinner Bell For September" ), WFMU's Beware of the Blog.〕 The CD edition of ''The Infotainment Scan'' also includes "Why Are People Grudgeful?", the only track to be released as a single (albeit in a different version). It is based on two reggae songs: "People Grudgeful" by Joe Gibbs and "People Funny Boy" by Lee "Scratch" Perry.〔(''Why Are People Grudgeful'' ), The Fall Online.〕 Of the original compositions on ''The Infotainment Scan'', "Glam-Racket" drew much attention for its alleged criticism of Britpop band Suede, with the lyric "you are entrenched in suede". At the time, Suede were regarded as a "nouveau glam rock" band. "The League of Bald-Headed Men", meanwhile – identified variously as a "jokey conspiracy theory" and a "diatribe against gerontocracy" — appears to borrow its riff from Led Zeppelin's "Misty Mountain Hop", despite claims by Fall front man Mark E. Smith that he had never heard the band's music.〔Thompson, Dave (September 1993). ("Falling Forward" ). ''Alternative Press''. pp.43–44.〕 A remix of "The League of Bald-Headed Men", retitled "League Moon Monkey Mix", is also included on the CD edition. "Paranoia Man in Cheap Shit Room" adapts its title from ''Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room'', an episode of The Twilight Zone.〔http://annotatedfall.doomby.com/pages/the-annotated-lyrics/paranoia-man-in-cheap-sh-t-room.html#n1〕 Smith had previously borrowed episode titles ''What You Need'' and ''Time Enough at Last'' (and would later use ''Kick the Can''). ==Track listing== # "Ladybird (Green Grass)" (Mark E. Smith, Craig Scanlon) – 3:59 # "Lost in Music" (Nile Rodgers, Bernard Edwards) – 3:49 # "Glam-Racket" (Smith, Steve Hanley, Scanlon) – 3:12 # "I'm Going to Spain" (Steve Bent) – 3:27 # "It's a Curse" (Smith, Scanlon) – 5:19 # "Paranoia Man in Cheap Shit Room" (Smith, Scanlon) – 4:27 # "Service" (Smith, Hanley, Scanlon) – 4:11 # "The League of Bald-Headed Men" (Smith, Hanley) – 4:07 # "A Past Gone Mad" (Smith, Dave Bush, Simon Wolstencroft) – 4:19 # "Light" / "Fireworks" (Smith) – 3:46 # "Why Are People Grudgeful?" () (Perry, Gibbs) – 4:33 # "League Moon Monkey Mix" () (Hanley, Simon Rogers, Smith) – 4:36 * The cassette version credits the composition of Ladybird to Scanlon/Smith/Hanley/Bush/Wolstencroft 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Infotainment Scan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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