The Twenty-Seven Points is a double album by The Fall, released in 1995. Subtitled "Live 92-95" the album consists of live recordings made in various locations between 1991 and 1995, but also contains 2 previously unheard studio tracks as well as some mildly diverting interludes. Credits on the album are sketchy but the front cover lists the cities in which the tracks were recorded; Prague

Prague

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, Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

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, London

London

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, Glasgow

Glasgow

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, New York

New York

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 and Manchester

Manchester

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Track listing

Titles are given exactly as listed on the original sleeve.

• Disc one

1. "Mollusc In Tyrol" (note - this is a brief excerpt of the released track played over a PA as an intro tape, not an actual live rendition)
2. "Return"
3. "Ladybird (Green Grass)"
4. "Idiot" - Walk Out (an aborted "Idiot Joy Showland")
5. "Ten Points"
6. "Idiot Joy Showland"
7. "Intro" - Roundhouse M/CR (a John Barry
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    recording used as an intro tape)
8. "The Joke"
9. "M.H.'s Jokes"/"British People In Hot Weather"
10. "Free Range"
11. "Hi-Tension Line" - Tel Aviv 92
12. "The League Of Bald Headed Men"
    • Disc two
13. 95: "Glam Racket"/"Star" - (two separate live recordings spliced together)
14. "Lost In Music"
15. Prague '91/"Mr Pharmacist"
16. "Cloud Of Black" (studio track)
17. "Paranoid Man In Cheap Sh.t Room"
18. "Bounces" - Leeds (actually "Life Just Bounces")
19. "Outro" - Leeds (the "Leeds" is roughly deleted in black marker pen)
20. "Passable" (actually "A Past Gone Mad")
21. "Glasgow Advice"
22. "Middle Class Revolt" - Simon, Dave & John
23. "Bill Is Dead"
24. "Strychnine"
25. "War!"
26. "Noel's Chemical Effluence" (studio track)
27. "Three Points"
28. "Up To Much" (actually "You’re Not Up To Much")

15 & 16 are listed as one track but indexed as 2 on the disc.

2006 reissue

The album was reissued by Castle Music in May 2006 in a remastered edition but with no additional material. However, as the release was mastered from the original vinyl, the original CD-only bonus tracks "Three Points" and "Up To Much" are missing from this new version, despite being listed on the sleeve.

Personnel

• The Fall:
  • Mark E. Smith
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     - vocals, tapes (etc)
  • Simon Wolstencroft - drums
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  • Brix
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     - bass guitar
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    , guitar
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    , vocals
  • Craig Scanlon - guitar
  • Steve Hanley - bass guitar, vocals
  • Julia Nagle - keyboards
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  • Karl Burns - drum kit|drums, vocals, guitar
  • Dave Bush - keyboards on "Big New Prinz", "Paranoid Man..." and "Bounces"
  • Kenny Brady - fiddle
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    on "Prague 91/Mr Pharmacist"
  • Simon Rogers - machines on "Noel's Chemical Effluence"
• Rex Sargeant - mix and tape
• Andy Bernstein - sound on tracks 8 - 23
• Robert Gordon - bass guitar and keyboards on "Cloud Of Black"
• there is also an additional credit which appears to read Andy: Rime Time Studios, Ancoats, M/C