CD: RENCD15
RELEASED: 2006
LABEL: Renascent

01. Unwritten Law
02. Winning
03. Under You
04. Total Recall
05. The Fire
06. Burning Part Of Me
07. Monument
08. Counting The Days
09. Golden Soldiers
10. Sense Of Purpose
11. Heartland
12. New Dark Age
13. Party Of My Mind

The Dutch Radio Recordings Vol.4: Parkpop Festival Den Haag [Live -01/07/1984] (Disc 4 of 5) - "Fuck off Jim Kerr". One of popular music's great battle cries, uttered by Adrian Borland and captured on this intense recording of The Sound playing at the Parkpop Festival in 1984, one of the biggest free events in Europe. The Sound played it twice & this is the first one. (Renascent)

This is madness. Beautiful madness, but barking all the same. This is a band who came into being after the implosion of a sarf London punk band and once they'd regrouped as The Sound it seems that they spent most of the 80's having their live shows recorded by Dutch radio stations. The fact that Renascent has released five full albums of this doesn't drop the barmy-meter a notch, but these albums offer two things. First up, they're great snapshots of the time when punk was very, very dead and the new romantics were busy robbing the corpse and trying to figure out how to play their older brother's synth, a confused and quite shitty musical decade and these albums are proof positive that it wasn't all Simple Minds and simpler Bono offences. Second up, The Sound do have good tunes that retain the punk feel, but mess with the format to include keyboards, brass and being able to play them. Melody and muscle. The price is right and the sound quality is superb!

Influences / Similar Artists:
The Chameleons, The Comsat Angels, U2, Joy Division, Echo & The Bunnymen