The Sound (2) – Jeopardy

When trying to decide what the best post punk band is I usually end up with Joy Division, Siouxsie, Chameleons, Comsat Angels, Echo and the Bunnymen and the usual mainstays.

But The Sound tops all of them for their first 2 albums. Jeopardy and From The Lion’s Mouth are not only vastly different albums, but also masterpieces of the genre.

Adrian Borland was the GOAT.

Having this exact pressing. This is a great press, though, rough and loud as a recording through certain sections... can only be excused by the fact that the recording quality of the master just must have not been great.

I have enjoyed the whole album, through and through. It's a great album, and if you can get your hands on a copy that doesn't have too many scratches and so on, I recommend it.

People comparing this to "exact replicas" need to understand that what they are referring to are most likely later remasters and repressed copies of this album rather than the original 1980s mastering. Main difference being release date, it being coloured and so on, is not the same. If looking for a much cheaper copy because of how scary the price may be to those that simply wanna enjoy an album- I recommend heading over to Rough Trade where they have announced quite recently if memory serves a Remaster of all 3 debut albums from The Sound!

Can't be certain, but from a little snooping on EU record store inventories, this and From the Lion's Mouth appear to be getting color reissues in September from Warner Music.

I could be completely wrong. Feel free to correct or add info.

I have this exact pressing however my vinyl lp is a translucent wine color when held to a light source. Very very cool. Do all of you have the translucent vinyl for this press or did all of these get pressed using the save vinyl compound?

I have this original pressing of Jeopardy: The Sound (2) - Jeopardy
It's a pressing from West and it was pressed using the UK stampers cut at Strawberry. There have been complaints that Missiles sounds weird on the reissues but I can confirm that it sounds very weird on this original pressing, too. Especially the drums and vocals sound extremely muddy.

Rising out of the ashes of his former bands, Adrian Borland found his voice on 'Jeopardy'. For a brief period, the band even found their audience, albeit mostly in The Netherlands, I think. They used to play Amsterdam and the wider country all the time in those heady days of the anti-nuclear movement thanks to their song 'Missiles'.

It's still a stunningly good album, and it's a shame Borland ended up so desillusioned and depressed as to take his own life. Anyone serious about music should have a copy of this fantastic album, and of course an original copy feels as close to Borland and The Sound as you can get.

I just don´t get it, why it is still so expensive, with so many copies available and also having been repressed. Anybody has a clue why?

Wow, I was just watching an episode of The Young Pope and they used (a nicely edited/shortened version of) "I Can't Help Myself".
Excellent choice of course.
Makes you wonder who chose this great song and on what basis...

If i had to chose just five bands from the time i was so young and (not so) happy, I would have some problems. There's a list of the greatest alternative bands, the A list, with a generation of nice musical outsiders later become quite mainstream rockstars, and another one, the B list, with a lot of favorite bands of mine. Here is full of guys remained in the shadow of the big success, generally described as 'cult', but in some cases quite totally ignored by the most, although with at least a record of extraordinary quality in their career.
Which ones to choose? Are they from the A or the B list? And in any case, are the Sound of Adrian Borland standing in the first or in the second that I suggested?
I just don't know..
We live in a world so full of hidden treasures, forgotten stories from the past; a plenty of forbidden reality. There must be some reasons, or perhaps not only one could explain all those..
But what i'm just fuckin' sure I put the Sound in the top five of the best newave bands ever; and Jeopardy.. Oh my gods, Jeopardy..

U2 ripped this band for sure .... If you listen to "Missiles" is all there.