The Sound - All Fall Down (1982) /05 Where The Love Is.mp3 The Sound - All Fall Down (1982) /10 We Could Go Far.mp3 The Sound - All Fall Down (1982) /13 As Feeling Dies.mp3 The Sound - All Fall Down (1982) /03 Monument.mp3 The Sound - All Fall Down (1982) /09 Glass And Smoke.mp3 Shortly before Adrian Borland's death, The Sound's back catalog was remastered and reissued by Renascent Records, a label which was originally founded to perform solely that task (Thunder Up is the band's only studio album to not see reissue by Renascent.) In June 2006, members of notable British bands held a concert called "The Sound of Adrian Borland " various guest singers who had been close friends with Borland (such as Mark Burgess of The Chameleons) filled in on vocals. At their best, the Sound's excellent neo-pop bears favorable comparison to the Psychedelic Furs and Echo & the Bunnymen." And from Jack Rabid of Big Takeover magazine: "The Sound? Just one of the finest bands of the 1980s." From the Sun Records Music Store: "The Sound were tragically overlooked in their time and have remained unjustly neglected since." From Trouser Press: "It's hard to understand why this London quartet never found commercial success. Many have said that The Sound were not given the recognition they deserved.
Drummer Mike Dudley told it this way: "We thought giving us the support that we were due and that if they really wanted a commercial album, they had got to put plenty of money behind it, which with both Jeopardy and From the Lions Mouth they hadn't really done.So when they turned around and said 'The solution is for you to write more commercial songs,' we thought, 'Fuck you,' and went ahead and produced All Fall Down." In an act of rebellion, the band responded with All Fall Down, an album that took them even further away from that direction. Korova pressured Borland and his mates to come up with a more commercially successful third album. The second album, From the Lions Mouth, saw the replacement of keyboard player Marshall with Colvin "Max" Mayers, and more accolades from the critics, but neither record caused the band to break beyond a cult status. They debuted with Jeopardy, which received favorable reviews. In 1979, the band signed a contract with Korova Records, a small label under Warner Brothers, to produce three albums. The band was fronted by Adrian Borland and evolved from his previous band, The Outsiders.They shared record labels with groups such as Echo & the Bunnymen and The Chameleons, and shared stages with Echo & the Bunnymen, the Comsat Angels, the Au Pairs, Modern Eon, Felt, Medium Medium, U2, Public Image Ltd., Eyeless In Gaza, The Stranglers, China Crisis, Thompson Twins, and Aztec Camera.įounded from the remnants of The Outsiders, the original lineup of The Sound consisted of Adrian Borland (vocals, guitar), Graham Bailey (bass), Mike Dudley (drums) and Benita "Bi" Marshall (keyboards, saxophone, clarinet). U2 were becoming a “dance-rock” band.The Sound were an English post-punk band, formed in 1979 disbanding in 1988. The influence of Krautrock bands like Neu! and Kraftwerk were never far away, either, or the “Madchester” scene dance-influenced rock bands like The Happy Mondays, The Stone Roses and The Inspiral Carpets could all claim an influence. It’s great though, loaded with Bowie-esque late seventies guitars, weird noises and Cold War atmosphere. One listen to the opener, “Zoo Station”, confirms that. It was an intoxicating brew, but often an impenetrable one tailor-made for stadium bombast however, with flashing light systems and increasingly elaborate stage sets. David “The Edge” Evans’ trademark guitar still cut through occasionally and the Berlin-derived influence of David Bowie’s “Heroes” and bits of Talking Heads’ “Fear Of Music” was all over it as well. What we got now were contemporary, thumping, bassy, often mechanical dance rhythms backed by layers of industrial-sounding fuzzy, buzzy guitars. They ceased becoming either a) a post-punk guitar-driven rock band or b) an ambient, atmospheric but occasionally very commercial stadium rock band.
“This was the album where U2’s music changed completely.
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