Totally Wired

"Totally Wired" is a song by the Fall. Released in September 1980, the single became one of their signature tracks. The track subsequently appeared on CD reissues of their album Grotesque (After the Gramme). The track reached no. 2 in the UK Independent Singles Chart and no. 25 in New Zealand.^[1]^[2]

Release

The track appeared in John Peel's Festive Fifty in both 1980 and 1981, reaching 21 and 56 respectively and number 34 on All Time Festive Fifty broadcast in 2000.^[3] Subsequently it appeared at #57 on the "100 Greatest Singles of the Post-Punk Era" published by Uncut in 2001,^[4] in Gary Mulholland's book This is Uncool – The 500 Greatest Singles since Punk and Disco, published in 2003 , and in the Guide To the (500) Greatest Songs from Punk To the Present published by Pitchfork published in 2014.^[5]

In a dismissive review on its release, Danny Baker said in NME: "Totally Wired is ugly, and terribly produced – yes it does matter!" and "I can't see there's an audience for the Fall's constant verbal battering."^[6]

Influence

The song has been sampled by the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu on their album 1987 (What the Fuck Is Going On?) and covered by Terry Edwards, Chris Cacavas, and the Last Shadow Puppets on their 2016 EP The Dream Synopsis. The Last Shadow Puppets' performance of the song at Manchester's Castlefield Bowl on 10 July 2016 saw them joined by Johnny Marr,^[7] who had earlier admitted to being 'obsessed' with the song.^[8]

Track listings

All songs written and composed by the Fall (Mark E. Smith, Craig Scanlon, Marc Riley and Paul Hanley).^[9]

"Totally Wired" (7")

Side A
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Totally Wired"	3:25

Side B
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Putta Block"	4:35

References

^ Lazell, Barry (1997) Indie Hits 1980-1989, Cherry Red Books, ISBN 0-9517206-9-4, p. 83
^ "charts.nz – Discography The Fall". 2006–2010 Hung Medien / hitparade.ch. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
^ "John Peel's Festive Fifty". Rocklist.net. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
^ "Uncut Lists". Rocklist.net. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
^ "Steve Parker – Pitchfork 500". Retrieved 27 January 2018.
^ Baker, Danny (6 September 1980), "Singles", New Musical Express, p. 21
^
- "Cover versions of Totally Wired". Secondhandsongs.com. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
- "Watch Alex Turner and Johnny Marr cover The Falls Totally Wired". NME.com. 25 January 2018. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
^ Rogan, Johnny (1993). Morrissey & Marr: The Severed Alliance. Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-7119-3000-7.
^ "Totally Wired – The Fall". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 27 January 2018.

Sources

Pringle, Steve. You Must Get Them All: The Fall On Record. London: Route Publishing, 2022. ISBN 978-1-9019-2788-7

v t e The Fall
Mark E. Smith Steve Hanley Paul Hanley Craig Scanlon Brix Smith Marc Riley Karl Burns Tony Friel Martin Bramah Una Baines Simon Rogers Simon Wolstencroft Julia Nagle
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 New Facts Emerge
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	Hip Priest and Kamerads 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong The Complete Peel Sessions 1978–2004
Singles	"Rowche Rumble" (1979) "Fiery Jack" (1980) "Totally Wired" (1980) "Cruiser's Creek" (1985) "Hey! Luciani" (1986) "There's a Ghost in My House" (1987) "Hit the North" (1987) "Victoria" (1988) "Telephone Thing" (1990) "Free Range" (1992) "Why Are People Grudgeful?" (1992) "Theme from Sparta F.C. #2" (2004)
Album tracks	"Paint Work" (1985) "I Am Damo Suzuki" (1985)
Associated bands	The Adult Net Blue Orchids Brix & the Extricated The Creepers Darker My Love Imperial Wax The Passage The Teardrops Tom Hingley and the Lovers Von Südenfed
Related articles	Discography Band members Hey! Luciani: The Life and Codex of John Paul I

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