''50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong'' (subtitled ''39 Golden Greats'') is a

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band the Fall, released in 2004 by record label

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Content

''50,000'' is the group's first career-spanning

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, with a selection of songs from the 1978 EP '' Bingo-Master's Break-Out!'' up to the 2003 album '' The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country on the Click)''. The selection of songs includes both singles and album highlights. Journalist and author, Daryl Easlea compiled the album and wrote the sleevenotes. The cover and title of the album is a parody of

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's '' 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong'' (1959). In November 2018, the album was repackaged and expanded as ''58 Golden Greats'' on

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. The new cover also referenced an Elvis Presley album, this time the UK edition of '' Elvis' 40 Greatest''.The Fall: 58 Golden Greats, 58 Original Tracks *Including All The Hits, 3CD Boxset
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Reception

Critic Phil Freeman included the compilation on a list of records attempting to define "the state of music since 1979" in the 2007 book ''Marooned: The Next Generation of Desert Island Discs''. Noting the Fall as "one of the most polarizing bands on the planet", Freeman wrote that the album "will either begin a lifelong obsession, or you'll never make it to track two." Comedian

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became a Fall fan, "with all the zeal of a convert", after listening to the compilation in 2005, calling it "the music I've been searching for my whole life."

Track listing

''58 Golden Greats'' track listing

The expanded and repackaged version, released in 2018, omitted two tracks from ''50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong'' ("Crop-Dust" and "Green Eyed Loco-Man") but added 21 tracks, mostly from the period after the release of the earlier edition.

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* {{Authority control The Fall (band) compilation albums 2004 greatest hits albums Sanctuary Records compilation albums