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Shift-Work
Studio album by The Fall
Released	22 April 1991
Genre	Rock
Length	51:54
Label	Phonogram
Producer(s)	Robert Gordon, Craig Leon, Grant Showbiz
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Mark Prindle link
The Fall chronology
Extricate (1990)	Shift-Work (1991)	Code: Selfish (1992)

Shift-Work is a 1991 LP by the British rock band The Fall. Released through Phonogram Records, it marked, in the opinion of critic Ted Mills, a change in direction for the group, as "repetitious grooves became interspersed with pop song structures."^[1] Non-vinyl versions of the record feature the single "White Lighting", originally recorded by The Big Bopper. Of the songs on the original tracklist, several have been noted as being more "introspective" than previous Fall efforts. "Edinburgh Man" for example, in which lead singer Mark E. Smith longs to be in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland has been described as "surprisingly malice-free"^[1] and, in one enthusiastic review, as the best Fall song ever.^[2]

The album reached number 17 in the UK charts, a two place improvement on their previous best, The Frenz Experiment.

The album is due to be re-released in expanded and re-mastered form by Universal in April 2007.

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Miscellenea 3 Personnel 4 Notes and references 5 External link

1. "So What About It?" (Mark E. Smith, Craig Scanlon, Simon Wolstencroft) – 3:25
2. "Idiot Joy Showland" (Smith, Steve Hanley) – 3:43
3. "Edinburgh Man" (Smith, Scanlon) – 4:44
4. "Pittsville Direkt" (Smith, Hanley, Scanlon) – 4:02
5. "The Book of Lies" (Smith, Scanlon) – 2:58
6. "High Tension Line"^[3] (Smith, Hanley, Scanlon) – 3:48
7. "The War Against Intelligence" (Smith, Scanlon) – 3:17
8. "Shift-Work" (Smith, Scanlon) – 4:38
9. "You Haven't Found It Yet" (Smith, Scanlon) – 4:07
10. "The Mixer" (Smith, Scanlon) – 3:37
11. "White Lightning"^[3] (The Big Bopper) – 2:14
12. "A Lot of Wind" (Smith) – 3:46
13. "Rose" (Smith, Scanlon) – 3:20
14. "Sinister Waltz" (Smith) – 4:13

The War Against Intelligence was the original title of the album until the outbreak of the Gulf War convinced Smith to change it to something less controversial. In October 2003 Universal released The War Against Intelligence - The Fontana Years, a collection of Fall songs from the albums Extricate, Shift-Work, Code: Selfish and related singles, even as England was involved in another Gulf War.

• The Fall:
  • Mark E. Smith – vocals
  • Craig Scanlon – guitar
  • Steve Hanley – bass guitar
  • Simon Wolstencroft – drums, keyboards
• Kenny Brady – violin
• Cassell Webb – backing vocals
• Craig Leon – backing vocals
• Martin Bramah – guitar on "Rose"
• Marcia Schofield – keyboards on "Rose"

1. ^ ^{a b} Mills, Ted. Review All Music Guide. Retrieved 29 Mar. 2006.
2. ^ Dalton, Stephen (20 Apr. 1991). "Quiet! Genius at Work...". NME.
3. ^ ^{a b} "High Tension Line" and "White Lightning" are omitted from the vinyl LP track listing.

• Lyrics

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Live at the Witch Trials | Dragnet | Grotesque | Slates | Hex Enduction Hour Room to Live | Perverted by Language | The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall 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
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