Toured around with them untill the day they split up in 1987. The best days of my life. Must have seen them play over 250 times. One of the most misunderstood bands from the 80's... I will always keep playing their music... my favorite band of all times.... Rip Adrian and Colvin...
damn man that fuckin rules!. i stumbled upon the song I Can't Escape a year ago and i was so inspired i made a synth cover lol. Shit i want your memories. ha.
Wow, that's cool man. What was the name of your band? Do you have anything on YT? Definitely underrated. A tragedy really. I was a teen then and I would have bought their music if I had known they existed....
Mid 80's . Two LPs were never off the turntable:- 'Heads and Hearts' by the Sound and 'Script of The Bridge' by the Chameleons. Both stunning. To this day I'll never understand how such talent could go unnoticed.
They didn't go unnoticed. In the mid-80s, the NYT rock critic declared them the two most import rock groups in the world. But they didn't fit in with any scene or the prevailing 'MTV culture' of the first half of the 80s. I am also forced to think of some other equally great groups--the Church, the Go Betweens, and the Comsat Angels.
The Sound will always be the single greatest band for me. I firmly believe Adrian to be an artist's artist, he was just that good. Looking at him hurts man. Such a tragedy that we lost him.
My best band ever...their LP "From the lions mouth" was and still is a MASTERPIECE of the ROCK Music... Thank you indeed angel sulk for triggering our memories...
I wish Adrian had been able to make it into the 2000's and the internet really taking off. He would have had people discovering him for the first time, and the success he deserved. The guy waa an absolute legend of a songwriter, singer and musician. If he was about someone could have marketed his music to an appropriative audience that dont yet know he is one of their favourite artists of all time.
Man this video makes me sad (and grateful) Sad that more people don't understand the greatness of The Sound Sad that I never had the experience of seeing The Sound live Grateful that I am old enough (59) and discovered them early enough to understand their place in the rich and varied history of what we now call post-punk Grateful for the age we live in where I can log into TH-cam and re-discover and share the music that shaped me...as well as find younger people that can appreciate great music from a bygone era.
"Post punk" did not exist during the life of Adrian B. He would have called it "new wave " (of rock music ) like the rest of us back in the late 70's /early 80's.
I saw them about 10 times (sorry not 250!) and Borland Solo once. When I bought him a drink after a London gig, I expected my Rock God to say “a double JD & Coke” - No “a small Liebfraumilch please”….so much influence on my life. Sadly, he was obsessed with Ian Curtis too much xx
Πραγματικά αξεπέραστοι μεγάλωσα με αυτούς τους άγγελους ακόμα μέχρι σήμερα τόσο μπροστά η αξία μουσική και οι άξιοι άνθρωποι τη είναι η τέχνη ένα μεγάλο ευχαριστώ στο θεό και στους λεπτούς ανθρώπους αυτό είναι η sound .λεπτοτητα τροφή για πέρασμα στην σωστές αξίες της ζωής που λέγεται εισιτήριο για πάντα .
Yes!, got post punk fever and angst but most of all its got the new wave, creative, evocative, arty musicality that was so defining of the New wave era i think, nothing like it, EVER
it's pressure from all sides Coming down around our ears Stuck in this room without a door Scratched away at the walls for years All we've got to show is the dust on the floor And here it comes, a new dark age #Britpostpunk 🎧👌🏻
amazing, Adrian and the band. If I could build a time machine and take some resources with me I would promote this band to the n-th degree until they reached the heights that they deserved to be. There wasn't as much understanding about mental health back then either. I wish they were all still here and playing in this peculiar new dark age of ours.
@@2Times22 I saw Joy Division in early 1980 in London. One of my all-time top 10 gigs, and they are also in my all-time top 10 bands. I saw the Sound a number of times in the early/mid 1980's. They were excellent. But musically a notch below JD. You do know that Adrian B was a huge fan of Ian Curtis. Indeed, idolized him. Sadly Adrian B also tragically committed suicide. So a double tragedy. ps imagine if Ian had not committed suicide in May 1980. JD were on the cusp of going huge. Their gigs were sell outs in the UK and they were about to go on their first US tour. I think they were on the cusp of going mega. The Sound never had that level of popularity. The JD gig I went ot in London in Feb (1980) was rammed . The 3 times I saw the Sound later on in the 1980's were nowhere near full capacity. Even though only Uni venues. To this day. You don't see kids walking around with Sound T shirts. You see loads of people of all ages with JD T shirts.
@@keithbate9405Quit mythologizing suicide and looking at it through some artistic lense. Just because Ian committed suicide does not mean Adrian copied him out of some weird idolization. Adrian had been suffering from severe mental illness for years when he died. Have some respect.
So ahead of their time it's insane yet you hear the influences of so many bands like the doors with a punk rock aesthetic this is when people found out that Jim Morrison did reproduce after all in Adrian borland who i know shit all about as I have literally just discovered them so have come of that
Thanks for this upload! Was at their first and 2nd USA gigs in 1983, backstage. Adrian handed me a board mix of the East Side Club in Philly show. We exchanged letters for awhile. He enjoyed writing as they were 4 pages and detailed. Sure enjoyed that time in life.
I can’t recall ever saying this about any other band I’ve liked, but I feel like I’ve committed an act of betrayal by not discovering these guys sooner than I did .. 30 years too late, but better late than never hey !
Un groupe génial.... un de mes premiers albums post punk était All fall down des The Sound , je devais avoir 13 ou 14 ans. Quel fin tragique pour Borland.
@Thomas Struszka I don't know what you were listening to when you wrote this comment, but The Sound didn't sound like Joy Division and they definitely had their own sound and style. JD was a great band too, but this comparing gotta stop, it doesn't do either of the bands justice.
truly post punk really, considering what happened with him, damn life, RIP always, one of my, and some best mates, fav band when i was early 20's back in mid 1980's
Yeah the quality is shit. But somehow the crappyness makes the song more poinient. Thank you for utilizing TH-cam for exactly what it should be used for. Just like me ending a sentence with a preposition. It's not right, but the communication of thought exists. Thanks again for the upload!
I loved their show where they drove around random places solving crime and performing a song in celebraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaation after each case was soooooooooooooooooolved.
The Silence Kit was honored to cover "New Dark Age" for a tribute album. We took inspiration from this and the other amazing live versions The Sound played through the years: th-cam.com/video/gYq2Y19RYLY/w-d-xo.html
I just discovered The Sound and am obsessed with them now.
Same here... The Chameleons are incredible too..
🤙🏻
Big time, yeah The Chameleons are brilliant. Amazing I'd never heard of either!
Amazing band I listen to them nearly every day since finding out about them
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Toured around with them untill the day they split up in 1987. The best days of my life. Must have seen them play over 250 times. One of the most misunderstood bands from the 80's... I will always keep playing their music... my favorite band of all times.... Rip Adrian and Colvin...
damn man that fuckin rules!. i stumbled upon the song I Can't Escape a year ago and i was so inspired i made a synth cover lol. Shit i want your memories. ha.
Nice one. Excellent band, on a par with Joy Division and more besides. Adrian's later work is great too
Wow, that's cool man. What was the name of your band? Do you have anything on YT? Definitely underrated. A tragedy really. I was a teen then and I would have bought their music if I had known they existed....
My neighbour recycle mykle was a big fan
Mid 80's . Two LPs were never off the turntable:- 'Heads and Hearts' by the Sound and 'Script of The Bridge' by the Chameleons. Both stunning. To this day I'll never understand how such talent could go unnoticed.
They didn't go unnoticed. In the mid-80s, the NYT rock critic declared them the two most import rock groups in the world. But they didn't fit in with any scene or the prevailing 'MTV culture' of the first half of the 80s. I am also forced to think of some other equally great groups--the Church, the Go Betweens, and the Comsat Angels.
The Sound will always be the single greatest band for me. I firmly believe Adrian to be an artist's artist, he was just that good. Looking at him hurts man. Such a tragedy that we lost him.
Grandissimo Adrian
Absolutely stunning performance, superb band, Rip, such a tragic soul.
My best band ever...their LP "From the lions mouth" was and still is a MASTERPIECE of the ROCK Music...
Thank you indeed angel sulk for triggering our memories...
Yes agree.
Yeah, one of the best albums
Whole album classic ...this is one of my favorite song ever🤘🤘
Not a single bad note on that album - it’s a flawless masterpiece.
@@neilvn ...I would like to inform you that the song New Dark Age was in the aforementioned LP...by the way thank you for your reply/comment...
I wish Adrian had been able to make it into the 2000's and the internet really taking off. He would have had people discovering him for the first time, and the success he deserved. The guy waa an absolute legend of a songwriter, singer and musician. If he was about someone could have marketed his music to an appropriative audience that dont yet know he is one of their favourite artists of all time.
Spine tingling performance. Rip Adrian
brilliant song..forgotten this..wish he'd had more recognition...always seen as poor cousins of JD when in fact they were very different and unique
I still play From the Lions Mouth in the car - LOUD- and it still sounds great.
Indimenticabile….un artista sottostimato….grazie
♥♥♥ .... No words.... Only LOVE .... ♥♥♥
Still send shivers down my spine like the time I watched it in 1981. Phenomenal
Eres muy Afortunado mi bro
Man this video makes me sad (and grateful)
Sad that more people don't understand the greatness of The Sound
Sad that I never had the experience of seeing The Sound live
Grateful that I am old enough (59) and discovered them early enough to understand their place in the rich and varied history of what we now call post-punk
Grateful for the age we live in where I can log into TH-cam and re-discover and share the music that shaped me...as well as find younger people that can appreciate great music from a bygone era.
"Post punk" did not exist during the life of Adrian B.
He would have called it "new wave " (of rock music ) like the rest of us back in the late 70's /early 80's.
I saw them about 10 times (sorry not 250!) and Borland Solo once. When I bought him a drink after a London gig, I expected my Rock God to say “a double JD & Coke” - No “a small Liebfraumilch please”….so much influence on my life. Sadly, he was obsessed with Ian Curtis too much xx
Πραγματικά αξεπέραστοι μεγάλωσα με αυτούς τους άγγελους ακόμα μέχρι σήμερα τόσο μπροστά η αξία μουσική και οι άξιοι άνθρωποι τη είναι η τέχνη ένα μεγάλο ευχαριστώ στο θεό και στους λεπτούς ανθρώπους αυτό είναι η sound .λεπτοτητα τροφή για πέρασμα στην σωστές αξίες της ζωής που λέγεται εισιτήριο για πάντα .
Just outstanding! I love the textures of this performance. The eerie, droning, quiet verses make the chorus, especially the last one, SO powerful.
agree
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Beautiful song
Yes!, got post punk fever and angst but most of all its got the new wave, creative, evocative, arty musicality that was so defining of the New wave era i think, nothing like it, EVER
@@benjaminthomas4155 No one talked about "post punk " back then . Only "new wave"
RIP BORLAND
anyone salvaging old material like this deserves a congrats ! live footage of TheSound is rarer than palladium
and this is the reason why this band never got recognition: they didnt gave a fuck. RIP. BORLAND AND MAYERS
Man this song never gets old 40 years later still holds up wish Adrian knew how good he was 🤘🤘 thanks for posting
More than a single song is a trip in perfect order of growing rithm. Is one of the bests songs ever writed
it's pressure from all sides
Coming down around our ears
Stuck in this room without a door
Scratched away at the walls for years
All we've got to show is the dust on the floor
And here it comes, a new dark age
#Britpostpunk 🎧👌🏻
Fucking verse!
Totally underrated this song is legendary from the Lions Den
The soundtrack for the reality of 2019.
and 2020
@@bluesmoke4967 yep definitely 2020
And 2021
Facts
And 2022
Wonderful band Tragic epitaph
How great his SG sings here, trully fits the song's mood.
Adrian Borland sounds like a future Jim Morrison here... Masterpiece off a masterpiece.
Yep ! Brothers from different times .
@@josephgarcia6725 exactly... listen to Silent Air... so Doors esque
@@thesound-chameleonman3580 Will do ! Thanks Chris!
@@josephgarcia6725 i have from the lion's mouth signed!
@@thesound-chameleonman3580 Hey that's Awesome Chris! Oh listened to Silent Air ,,yes very Morrison sounding.
amazing, Adrian and the band. If I could build a time machine and take some resources with me I would promote this band to the n-th degree until they reached the heights that they deserved to be. There wasn't as much understanding about mental health back then either. I wish they were all still here and playing in this peculiar new dark age of ours.
Wow Wow and Wow ! They sure pass the test of time. Unique band.
Such a powerful song and band. The Sound were incredible
👍👏🍻
IMPRESIONANTE CANCIÓN
Possably the best live band I have ever seen
Saw them Three times . Great band . But Joy D were even better . The original template for this Sound (no pun intended ) !
@@keithbate9405 Dont think so about Joy D..The Sound gave us more and better music,imagine if Adrian was around and he hadnt take his life...!!!
@@2Times22 I saw Joy Division in early 1980 in London. One of my all-time top 10 gigs, and they are also in my all-time top 10 bands.
I saw the Sound a number of times in the early/mid 1980's. They were excellent. But musically a notch below JD.
You do know that Adrian B was a huge fan of Ian Curtis. Indeed, idolized him. Sadly Adrian B also tragically committed suicide. So a double tragedy.
ps imagine if Ian had not committed suicide in May 1980. JD were on the cusp of going huge. Their gigs were sell outs in the UK and they were about to go on their first US tour. I think they were on the cusp of going mega. The Sound never had that level of popularity. The JD gig I went ot in London in Feb (1980) was rammed . The 3 times I saw the Sound later on in the 1980's were nowhere near full capacity. Even though only Uni venues. To this day. You don't see kids walking around with Sound T shirts. You see loads of people of all ages with JD T shirts.
@@keithbate9405Quit mythologizing suicide and looking at it through some artistic lense. Just because Ian committed suicide does not mean Adrian copied him out of some weird idolization. Adrian had been suffering from severe mental illness for years when he died. Have some respect.
@@platonicpanic8958 less of the amateur psychology. You are not good at it.
So ahead of their time it's insane yet you hear the influences of so many bands like the doors with a punk rock aesthetic this is when people found out that Jim Morrison did reproduce after all in Adrian borland who i know shit all about as I have literally just discovered them so have come of that
Yes, thank you angel sulk for sharing this wonderful and rare tv appearance of this hugely talented band!
Thanks for this upload! Was at their first and 2nd USA gigs in 1983, backstage. Adrian handed me a board mix of the East Side Club in Philly show. We exchanged letters for awhile. He enjoyed writing as they were 4 pages and detailed. Sure enjoyed that time in life.
Amazing.
heard them as a tot through t.v. in early 80's. Love them fervently still.
I can’t recall ever saying this about any other band I’ve liked, but I feel like I’ve committed an act of betrayal by not discovering these guys sooner than I did .. 30 years too late, but better late than never hey !
You got there a year before me!
this song sounds like it was a huge influence on the nine inch nails sound, especially downward spiral.
Just brilliant!!
I had never heard of them before tonight . Honolulu Mountain Daffodils brought me here .
Un groupe génial.... un de mes premiers albums post punk était All fall down des The Sound , je devais avoir 13 ou 14 ans. Quel fin tragique pour Borland.
Great sound!
A fine effort & a rare live recording. Another Left handed genius we have lost.......?
This is excellent, what a performance from Adrian! Thanks for posting :)
My favourite The Sound song! Saw them live twice - and both time Borland wasn't too drunk, so I had a great time :-)
Great stuff.
Odd it hasn't been seen on YT until now. Their performance has the same intensity and brutal honesty as Joy Division, too intense for their time.
Sounds pretty much like them too. Still like it a lot.
@Thomas Struszka I don't know what you were listening to when you wrote this comment, but The Sound didn't sound like Joy Division and they definitely had their own sound and style. JD was a great band too, but this comparing gotta stop, it doesn't do either of the bands justice.
There is Joy Division in their sound too i hear it. I am a fan of Joy Division got Peter Hook's autograph too.
Joy D were better and the template for this Sound (no pun intended )
@@DOOMGENERATION Adrian acknowledged that he worshipped JD and esp Curtis . he even suffered the same fate .
thanks for revealing this lost treasure!
LA MEJOR CANCIÓN DE THE SOUND!
What a show: the Sound, King Crimson, Queen, New York Dolls.........Best Broadcasting Company...........
Adrián borland
Como se puede ser el mejor?
Sólo tú lo sabías
Supongo k tu secreto sólo estaba en la sencillez y el buen hacer,fue una pena perderte
Thank you, I love this footage!!!
thank you so much for posting this amazing performance!!! ❤️
Genius
Fantastic Adrian @@@@
fantástico The Sound...que buenos!
Miss you
You preserved it very well, you see so much worse around here! It's doing the band justice.
Great great great the sound..
Beautiful footage. Thanks for sharing it, mate.
this is insane this is insane this is insane this is insane wow
Broken our faith ! The great Adrian Borland
Thanks for upload! I´m like Alice in Wonderland. Amazing performance and music! I miss such a bands nowadays.
Best song, thx for live
Grear . I Love it
LOVE!!!
In the darkest times......
AWSOME! thank you for sharing.
Madreee de dios que temon eduarditooooo,tocan en el ikaro
Fantastic upload many thanks
truly post punk really, considering what happened with him, damn life, RIP always, one of my, and some best mates, fav band when i was early 20's back in mid 1980's
Sooo damn good.
Yeah the quality is shit. But somehow the crappyness makes the song more poinient. Thank you for utilizing TH-cam for exactly what it should be used for. Just like me ending a sentence with a preposition. It's not right, but the communication of thought exists. Thanks again for the upload!
so sad they were massively underrated
I loved their show where they drove around random places solving crime and performing a song in celebraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaation after each case was soooooooooooooooooolved.
Maestosi❤
Cool
Hi Angel. You´ve been there? what a luck and privilege...the had their own soul...
I'm stickler for titles but it really bugs me that you put 'Adrian Borland & The Sound' when in fact it should really just be 'The Sound'
Correct
Yes, correct please
They make joy division sound like the Monkees. Adrian borland was so talented
Really !!!!!!!!!!
1:58 shredding.
👏👏👏👏👏👏
The Silence Kit was honored to cover "New Dark Age" for a tribute album. We took inspiration from this and the other amazing live versions The Sound played through the years: th-cam.com/video/gYq2Y19RYLY/w-d-xo.html
Joya
Good Doors vibe.
Anybody knows which settings on his amp he used? I'd like my SG to play some The Sound soon.
Never heard of this band, i feel like ive stepped into a parralel universe, huge Doors influence here in the verse.
OMG! Wheres the rest dammit!!
Here It Comes !! 2018 With Trump we fear the new dark age. LP closer. Great 🎸 .
Somehow it reminds me the early U2.
Isn't his voice like Bono's?
And somehow Joy Division as well?
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He so sick
omg before i thought this song soiunds like U2,but its the sound
Ok
It's not Adrian Borland & The Sound.... It's The Sound. Get it right, show some respect.
How pesient this song is