i discovered The Sound right after i graduated in 1990 just to find out they had released their final album just a few years before. in 2000 i got my very first computer for Christmas and the LITERAL first thing i did once i got it set up was search The Sound and Adrian Borland because it was impossible to find anything out about this band at the time, just to find out we had lost Adrian only like a year earlier. it feels like i was chasing this amazing artist for a solid decade and i was always a day to late. then somewhere around 2005/6 my girlfriend at the time showed me youtube and the first thing i search was The Sound and Adrian Borland and the first result i got was somebody posting this OGWT clip of Sense Of Purpose. and i just sat there, i could not believe i was finally seeing this band i had been obsessing over for like the last 15 years. still my personal all time favorite group.
I remember watching this when it first went out on OGWT....and the fact I'm still watching and listening to it nearly 40 years later shows just what an impression it left on me. Sadly taken from us far too early
And the light finally clicks on in 2020 after years and years of my knowledgeable friends trying to tell me how amazing this band was. I guess it's "welcome to the party pal" for me but better late than never
"In the darkest times Darkest fears are heard And from the safest places Come the bravest words Some make a quiet life To keep this Scared old world at bay The dogs are howling on the street outside So they close the curtains, hope they go away And 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" Never so current...
Hai ragione amico...l'umanità sta percorrendo questo sentiero buio ed impervio. Il mio paese, l'Italia, è il posto umanamente piu' oscuro della terra...
Completely missed this band first time round, now catching up with them, how did they not get a bigger profile, their music was amazing and sounds so fresh 40 years on
Pure unbridled honesty feom one if the finest ever post punk indie new wave - call them what you want but The Sound were a very precious and special band
From the lion's mouth is every bit as good as unknown pleasures for me. Little did BBC realise how precious some their recordings would become. Unfortunately I was too young to see them live and only discovered them after Adrian Borland's tragic suicide, so footage like this is brilliant
BBC2 - The Old Grey Whistle Test Thursday 26th November 1981, 11:10 - 11:45 pm (first in new series) Hosted by Anne Nightingale, Paul Gambaccini, David Hepworth The show was recorded in front of a studio audience at The Riverside Studios Hammersmith, instead of at BBC Television Centre as previously. Also on this show - Altered Images, New York Dolls (clip from 1973), King Crimson.
i discovered The Sound right after i graduated in 1990 just to find out they had released their final album just a few years before. in 2000 i got my very first computer for Christmas and the LITERAL first thing i did once i got it set up was search The Sound and Adrian Borland because it was impossible to find anything out about this band at the time, just to find out we had lost Adrian only like a year earlier. it feels like i was chasing this amazing artist for a solid decade and i was always a day to late. then somewhere around 2005/6 my girlfriend at the time showed me youtube and the first thing i search was The Sound and Adrian Borland and the first result i got was somebody posting this OGWT clip of Sense Of Purpose. and i just sat there, i could not believe i was finally seeing this band i had been obsessing over for like the last 15 years. still my personal all time favorite group.
I remember watching this when it first went out on OGWT....and the fact I'm still watching and listening to it nearly 40 years later shows just what an impression it left on me.
Sadly taken from us far too early
when i was a child i woke up and saw this it was frightneing and excided me steve changed my life .inrernet ha wow
I love the Sound
Can’t believe it took me so long to discover this band. Superb
agree.. amazing band.. from the lion's mouth is a masterpiece.. liked it so much i asked Mike Dudley to sign it.
We all said the same thing i bet
Is precisely what I said as a 17 yr old in 1988.
And the light finally clicks on in 2020 after years and years of my knowledgeable friends trying to tell me how amazing this band was. I guess it's "welcome to the party pal" for me but better late than never
Max is amazing here
"In the darkest times
Darkest fears are heard
And from the safest places
Come the bravest words
Some make a quiet life
To keep this
Scared old world at bay
The dogs are howling on the street outside
So they close the curtains, hope they go away
And 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"
Never so current...
Sounds like now, lockdown, war. Poverty. I never knew it in 1980 the sound did.
Hai ragione amico...l'umanità sta percorrendo questo sentiero buio ed impervio. Il mio paese, l'Italia, è il posto umanamente piu' oscuro della terra...
The great reset perhaps. Lockstep.
Completely missed this band first time round, now catching up with them, how did they not get a bigger profile, their music was amazing and sounds so fresh 40 years on
Pure unbridled honesty feom one if the finest ever post punk indie new wave - call them what you want but The Sound were a very precious and special band
Love this song.
The genius that was Adrian Borland R.I.P.😢
Powerful
From the lion's mouth is every bit as good as unknown pleasures for me. Little did BBC realise how precious some their recordings would become. Unfortunately I was too young to see them live and only discovered them after Adrian Borland's tragic suicide, so footage like this is brilliant
Thank you for putting this up.
Awesome. Such a great song.. this band never got the recognition they deserved
Best post punk band ever! ♥️
New dark age ❤️
One of best and cool underrated bands
What a band. 👏🏻
Unmatched originality and depth, superb musicians , love Adrian's guitar and vocal. Like a beacon of light across the abyss or years
❤❤❤
BBC2 - The Old Grey Whistle Test
Thursday 26th November 1981, 11:10 - 11:45 pm (first in new series)
Hosted by Anne Nightingale, Paul Gambaccini, David Hepworth
The show was recorded in front of a studio audience at The Riverside Studios Hammersmith, instead of at BBC Television Centre as previously.
Also on this show - Altered Images, New York Dolls (clip from 1973), King Crimson.
Saw this at the time. Great clip /great band
Saw them live twice in the early 1980's. Intense and reminded me of Joy Division of course.
Great band who were in a very crowded post Joy Division musical world. There was Comsat Angels, Simple Minds..
Mike has excellent timing on the timpani.
This is incredible
Grande band che non ha ottenuto il successo che avrebbe meritato...
❤😢❤😢
Gave me chickenskin then and it still does...
aids schizorhenia took those talents ir hurts me x
It hurts me, too.
them and Altered Images on same show. wow.
De que fecha es este show?
1981
FUCKING YES
RIP AB - taken too soon......
Post punk peak
Love this but this recording misses the fantastic introduction to this song.