When we asked The Fall‘s Mark E. Smith to rank his likes and dislikes back in 1987, we weren’t exactly expecting a short list. What ensued was a hilarious insight into the mind of the famously-outspoken frontman.
If you’re a mature bloke with a pony tail or Eddie Murphy, you’ll probably want to stop reading now.
Mark E. Smith’s ‘Ins’
Sliced white bread with additives
- The Seeds’ disastrous blues LP
- ‘March of the Flower Children’ LP
- Jewish guys in new cars with their shirts open and long hair
- Groups that shave and wash regularly
- Ultra-flash black people
- Asian pop groups
- Hippyless German groups
- Irish whiskey
- Jed Clampett
- Mancunian rap groups
- Briitish Telecom
- Saul Bellow
- Granada Video Hire
- Bikers who work with cement and ladders
- Franco-Prussian War
- Boer War
- Wakefield (SLAG!)
- Glasgow
- American wrestling
- Mexicans
- Gary Davies
- Tommy Docherty
- Homebrew
- Embassy Mild
- Embassy Filter
- The Paras
- South London
- Richard Stark
- James Cain
- Arthur Machen
- Geological maps
- Woody Woodpecker
- Gene Vincent’s backing vocalists
- The Mothers of Invention
Mark E. Smith’s ‘Outs’
- Brown bread with bits in
- All Sunday papers
- White training shoes
- All US record labels
- Mature guys with pony tails
- Scotch pop groups featuring pseudo intellectuals
- The Cure’s one record
- All Welsh groups
- All new American groups
- All Dutch grou[ps
- Anything connected with New Model Army
- Chablis wine
- Vietnam War
- Iran/Iraq war
- England’s idea of Mexican food
- Berlin
- Leeds
- American Football
- Mike Smith
- Nescafe
- All fruit juice
- Hoddle and Waddle
- Embassy No1
- Marlboro 100’s
- Royal Air Force
- Eddie Murphy
- British science fiction
- Stephen King
- All new American and British cartoons
- British Electricity
- France (permanent)
- Martin Amis
- Popstars in new silver cars
- Rock on television
- Plastic grebos in Doctor Marten boots. (You’d never get a real biker to wear them.)
Mark E. Smith’s ‘Ins’ and ‘Outs’ was first published in an October 1987 issue of NME.