1st Pressing Near Mint UK 1982. 'All Fall Down' by The Sound. Vinyl. Excellent.

	£		29
	$		39

First Pressing of All Fall Down by The Sound

Country: UK

Format: Vinyl 12-inch LP

Label: WEA ?– 240019-1

Genre: Rock

Style: Indie/New Wave

Korova Records pressured Borland and his bandmates to come up with a more commercially successful third album, in addition to shifting the Sound from Korova to WEA proper. In an act of rebellion, they responded with All Fall Down in 1982, an album that took them even further away from the mainstream. Drummer Mike Dudley explained:

    “We thought [the label wasn't] 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.

While touring Spain in 1987, they had to cancel several appearances after Borland suffered a complete breakdown. Dudley recalled bringing an incoherent Borland home on a plane. The band split up in early 1988.

Bailey moved to New Orleans, where he lived for 16 years, returning to the UK in 2007. Mayers died in 1993 from an AIDS-related condition. Dudley retired from the music industry, living and working in South London.

Following the collapse of the Sound, Borland maintained a solo career for approximately a decade, and participated in the bands White Rose Transmission and Honolulu Mountain Daffodils (in which he gave himself the alias Joachim Pimento). Never able to conquer his depression and anguished about returning to a psychiatric hospital, Borland, who reportedly suffered from a schizoaffective disorder, committed suicide on 26 April 1999, throwing himself in the path of an express train at Wimbledon station.

Many have said that the Sound were not given the recognition they deserved. Trouser Press questioned: "It's hard to understand why this London quartet never found commercial success. At their best, The Sound's excellent neo-pop bears favourable comparison to the Psychedelic Furs and Echo & the Bunnymen". Jack Rabid of The Big Takeover magazine stated: "The Sound? Just one of the finest bands of the 1980s." Chris Roberts of Uncut magazine wrote, "U2? Joy Division? Bunnymen? They pale in this band's shadow".

Companies

    Distributed By – WEA Records Ltd.

    Copyright (c) – WEA Records Ltd.

    Phonographic Copyright (p) – WEA Records Ltd.

    Published By – Warner Bros. Music Ltd.

    Recorded At – The Manor

    Recorded At – Trident Studios

    Mastered At – The Town House

    Pressed By – WEA Records Pressing Plant, West Drayton

Credits

    Bass, Effects [Wasp], Drum Programming [Drum Machine], Percussion [Metal] – Graham Green

    Design – Bill Smith

    Drums, Percussion, Percussion [Metal] – Mike Dudley

    Engineer – Craig Milliner, Flood, Steve Prestage

    Keyboards – Max Mayers

    Photography By – Andrew Douglas

    Producer – Nick Robbins, The Sound

    Vocals, Guitar – Adrian Borland

Notes

Recorded at The Manor, March 1982. And at Trident, August 1982.

Manufactured in the UK.

? 1982 WEA Records Ltd.

© 1982 WEA Records Ltd. Distributed by WEA Records Ltd. A Warner Communications Company.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

    Matrix / Runout (Side A, etched): W-9 240019-1 A1 F/I W-L

    Matrix / Runout (Side B, etched): W-11 240019-1 B2 F/I W-L

    Matrix / Runout (Sides A&B, stamped): TOWNHOUSE

Record Condition: Near Mint.

Sleeve Condition: Near Mint.

This record is close to Mint.

Very light ringwear and edgewear to outer. Tiny clip in left side of outer, which was there when I bought the record in 1980. Very light browning and a crease on the inner - see photos for details.

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