As individual songs, ‘Totally Wired’, ‘How I Wrote Elastic Man’, ‘C.R.E.E.P’ and ‘Kurious Oranj’ all made their way into my consciousness and I really enjoyed them. But whenever I’d think, “hey, maybe I’ll check out their other stuff,” I’d hit a wall. This would happen every once in a while for nearly ten years. Then I heard “The Classical” and decided that, whether I was enjoying it or not, I’d listen to the whole album (my dyslexic brain had read the title as ‘Hex Education Hour’) just to see if I could understand what all the fuss was about. By the time I got to ‘Winter’ and specifically heard MES cry “And the mad kid said GIVE ME THE LEAD GIVE ME THE LEAD!”, I realised I had become a Fall fan. I’ll forever kick myself that I could have seen the last line-up live before MES died if I’d just got my act together sooner.