I used to listen to this non-stop when I was a troubled, confused teenager back in the early 80's. I'm now 56, and still listen to it when I'm troubled.
It's way more stripped back than the Cure, but his vocals are amazing. It's the voice of a truly unique person, the song, irreplaceable, the lyrics truly profound and impeccably succinct. He had nothing to prove.
Ich habe heute Geburtstag! 26. April ! Und genau an meinem Geburtstag heute vor 25 Jahren hat sich Adrian Borland in Wimbledon das Leben genommen😢 ! Ich habe heute einen Whisky auf ihn getrunken , auf ihn und seine Musik die ihn immer am Leben hält! Ruhe in Frieden Adrian🥀🥃
This song carries a triumphant spirit. The uplifting melodies and Borland's soaring vocals convey a sense of victory and resilience. "Winning" is an emotional anthem that speaks to the indomitable human spirit.
this diseased corruption of society doesn't facilitate the Best Version of Me. Or many of us. We've got to fix our societies first. Then we can be the best version of ourselves. Happily. Don't judge your failure if your just no good at being a parasite in todays world..
Yes. It has been a powerful painting to me since I bought the album as soon as it came out. For me, lions have been the animal to instil the most fear in me, yet I have always been drawn towards them. I am a Leo and my name, well. Thought your great words deserve a response. Thanks.
My dad had this painting hanging on the wall in his room for a very long time. I clicked on the video because it reminded me about it. And discovered good music. Heh
@@morbidconsperacy5096 that is so amazing to hear about that. I'm guessing that your Dad and I were about the same age he put it up on the wall. It still blows me away. I've got this very deep tie to the painting, the band, the music, the leader Adrian. This band's music is as great as the very best music I've heard. I hope my story will inspire you to keep listening. I have been for about 40 yrs. Thank you for your story
21 years ago we lost Adrian Borland, such precious soul. May he rest in peace. I keep coming back to his songs and discovering their beauty over and over again.
you are absolutely right. It is a pity that they became never famous and not more people discovered this beauty, as you say. I have no record player anymore but I keep this album forever, just as a memory of this incredible good band.
Ich liebe diesen Song, Andy Borland hat mit seiner Band ein Sound eingespielt der unwiederbringlich ist!Genau an dem Tag wo ich 57 werde , hat er sich vor 25 Jahren in Wimbledon das Leben genommen ! Ruhe in Frieden lieber Andy🥀
Classic lp in 1983 classic lp in 2023 .... From criminally underrated SOUND and their criminally underrated lp "Intu the Lions mouth " .... Adrian Borland RIP 😔🙏➕️.
I first heard this song in early 2022, as I was getting over a major medical scare from the year before and making an effort to get my life in order. It was such a punch to the gut. It became my most listened to song on Spotify that year. I still listen to it occasionally (usually four/five times in a row) just to keep me going and focused. It has a motivational power that very few songs do.
I'm Portuguese! Luckily I've found THE SOUND in 1992. "From the lion's mouth" was (and is) with me in very different phases of my life! (1st love, 1st depression, questionning life, etc) Just for this... Thank you Borland
I listen to this song everytime I get sad. When my negative thoughts and hopeless despair over takes me. I just keep saying "I'm Winning". I'm not gonna succumb. You're not gonna fuckin bring me down!
This album, this song... has towed me through adolescence, 30 years ago - it’s towing me through the pandemic as we speak 😷 Sisters, brothers....we are winning, Adrian wasn’t... but we, the leftovers, we are !!
What holds your hope together, Make sure it's strong enough When you reach the end of your tether It's because it wasn't strong enough, I was going to drown, Then I started swimming I was going down, Then I started winning Winning - winning When you're on the bottom Crawl back to the top Something pulls you up, and a voice you can't stop, I was going to drown, Then I started swimming, I was going down Then I started winning Winning - winning
DONE! Mais uma cumprida ( exatos 3 meses depois- só olhar acima deste comentário) " Então comecei a nadar, estava me afogando Então comecei a vencer, vencer e vencer! "
The intro could come straight out of a Joy Division song, although his voice reminds me more of Robert Smith of The Cure. But strangely enough there's something unique about this band too. Great song.
Omg, I totally forgot about this music, but already with the first sounds I bursted out in tears, so beautiful, so many memories came back from my teens. On 5 December 1987 I finally could see them, they performed somewhere in the Netherlands. They played for about twenty minutes and stopped, went backstage. Then Adrian Borland came back to apologise, they stopped playing forever, they split up that very moment...
Wat een verhaal Astrid.... ik krijg er gewoon kippevel van.... heb hen 2 X kunnen zien in België, 2 maal op Seaside Festival in De Panne aan de kust. Magistraal.....
A great detail of Post Punk bands... The bass sound... Like Joy Division, The Cure, and many more... I Have thought... Why i like me too much the sound of Soul - Funk and Post Punk? The bass sound. Another underrated band, many thanks internet.
Absolute brilliant band , should have been massive, I respect and remember Adrian, a true writer who just couldn't handle real life, I can understand that feeling, I just wish he was still with us
I view it as the opposite: a futile struggle, a win that wasn't worth it, life that couldn't be fulfilled. That's what the music tells me in conjunction with the lyrics
love the ominous undertone, this song always makes me feel like the singer is winning by sacrificing his morals and losing himself as he's "winning", great song.
Best song by the best rock lyricist EVER...''When you reach the end of your tether...it's because it wasn't strong enough'' Think about this line and tell me otherwise.
As someone in Gen Z who has listened to The Smiths, The Offspring, Rise Against, Linkin Park, Emphatic, Fuel, Foo Fighters, and A Thousand Foot Krutch I have to say this band is definitely up there with some of my favorite bands man. 80's rock had a really unique sound. 90's was a little different with even more diversified bands, and from the late 90's to the 2000's you had the greatest rock to exist in my opinion. Grunge, nu-metal, and punk rock which was a really unqiue sound and these bands still exist, just finding some good original ones is hard. Even the way Shimmer by Fuel was arranged I have not been able to see replicated by another band. Even the melody in this song and the way it is arranged is super unique along with the little influences of dance music here and there.
As someone from the Gen Z myself, I agree with you entirely. Finding good stuff like this can be terribly hard. Though I think that there are loads of other bands who were just as glorious as The Sound. I suggest you check out the following records... 1- Lowlife (Sometime Something) 2- The Chameleons (Soul in Isolation) And if you're looking for modern stuff, go for "Porcelain" by The Agnes Circle and "Atomic Summer" by Manicure.
High point in an incredible body that of work; stellar, magnificent song!! Thanks to videos ppl are finally discovering what a few of us knew back then in 81
I used to listen to this non-stop when I was a troubled, confused teenager back in the early 80's. I'm now 56, and still listen to it when I'm troubled.
Welcome to the club. And the strange thing is.... it pulls you through.... every time !!
When I’m down in it and in real bad shape, I turn to this song time and time again and it continues to save my life.
It's very beautiful that spite of his personal struggles Adrian was able to leave also one of the strongest motivational songs ever written.
Generally the people suffering the most tend to be the ones to inspire and motivate the most, it's sad but true.
also The Chameleons - Don't Fall
@@PhantomLAM isn't it true ...
Adrian was a brave man. He was honest about his mental struggling. Unfortunately he did not win
It's way more stripped back than the Cure, but his vocals are amazing. It's the voice of a truly unique person, the song, irreplaceable, the lyrics truly profound and impeccably succinct. He had nothing to prove.
Such a great song from a great album..
How The Sound never got big in the early 80s is beyond me..
RIP Adrian..
Put it this way - we were priviledged to sence it
Ich habe heute Geburtstag! 26. April ! Und genau an meinem Geburtstag heute vor 25 Jahren hat sich Adrian Borland in Wimbledon das Leben genommen😢 ! Ich habe heute einen Whisky auf ihn getrunken , auf ihn und seine Musik die ihn immer am Leben hält! Ruhe in Frieden Adrian🥀🥃
Hai fatto un gesto bellissimo....Riposa in pace Adrian 💌💌💌
покоится не для него!
он переродился☸️
Most underrated band EVER!
This song carries a triumphant spirit. The uplifting melodies and Borland's soaring vocals convey a sense of victory and resilience. "Winning" is an emotional anthem that speaks to the indomitable human spirit.
someday we'll be the best version of ourselves
Preach
this diseased corruption of society doesn't facilitate the Best Version of Me.
Or many of us.
We've got to fix our societies first. Then we can be the best version of ourselves. Happily.
Don't judge your failure if your just no good at being a parasite in todays world..
When we die?
3 4
And 43
Saved my life few times.
Magnífico! 💀✨
So much emotion. "Something pulls you up..." Amazing.
Brilliant album. The Sound are one of the most underrated bands of the 1980s. This album is a masterpiece. From a dark place came great beauty.
Along with The Chameleons
Ditto
Those keyboards and bass is just pure impending doom approaching the coming vocals your way.
love that album cover, daniel in the Lions’ Den
Yes. It has been a powerful painting to me since I bought the album as soon as it came out. For me, lions have been the animal to instil the most fear in me, yet I have always been drawn towards them. I am a Leo and my name, well. Thought your great words deserve a response. Thanks.
My dad had this painting hanging on the wall in his room for a very long time. I clicked on the video because it reminded me about it. And discovered good music. Heh
@@morbidconsperacy5096 that is so amazing to hear about that. I'm guessing that your Dad and I were about the same age he put it up on the wall. It still blows me away. I've got this very deep tie to the painting, the band, the music, the leader Adrian. This band's music is as great as the very best music I've heard. I hope my story will inspire you to keep listening. I have been for about 40 yrs. Thank you for your story
This is definitely the most underrated band in history of music....
one of the best
Panos Liaros agree
100 % Agree with you !
onlyyesterday1967 a really great band .....
+onlyyesterday1967
This is good band & music but imo the most underrated is The Gathering (Dutch band).
Great band. RIP Mr Borland.
21 years ago we lost Adrian Borland, such precious soul. May he rest in peace. I keep coming back to his songs and discovering their beauty over and over again.
you are absolutely right. It is a pity that they became never famous and not more people discovered this beauty, as you say.
I have no record player anymore but I keep this album forever, just as a memory of this incredible good band.
they are becoming more famous NOW.. slow burner starting to flicker..
C.
What happened to him and in what age?
Bono ?
Ich liebe diesen Song, Andy Borland hat mit seiner Band ein Sound eingespielt der unwiederbringlich ist!Genau an dem Tag wo ich 57 werde , hat er sich vor 25 Jahren in Wimbledon das Leben genommen ! Ruhe in Frieden lieber Andy🥀
Classic lp in 1983 classic lp in 2023 .... From criminally underrated SOUND and their criminally underrated lp "Intu the Lions mouth " .... Adrian Borland RIP 😔🙏➕️.
I first heard this song in early 2022, as I was getting over a major medical scare from the year before and making an effort to get my life in order. It was such a punch to the gut. It became my most listened to song on Spotify that year. I still listen to it occasionally (usually four/five times in a row) just to keep me going and focused. It has a motivational power that very few songs do.
I like music that doesn’t sound like the the year it was released.
@virgo gal 1981
@virgo gal you put a question mark at the end. it looked like a question, my dude.
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This song has changed me. Thank you.
Damn you are sexy as hell.
Me too
same
I've only just discovered this band and song. It's beautiful
Me too
When CZcams randomly recommends something amazing. 😊
inphanta yes!
Nice right?. Check out "One Millionth Happy Customer" by "Cassandra Complex" and "Soul in Isolation" by "The Chameleons" if ya like this stuff m8!.
This song is the anthem of my life..
The Sound are criminally underrated. Adrian Borland's lyrics penetrate so sharply into what living with mental illness is like.
Or living with reflection
This tune is sick and I'm addicted to it 100%
That dissonant guitar riff that comes in 0:30 is the brilliance.
Same strange guitar but less speed is placebo ft bowie without you im nothing 🤩
I'm Portuguese!
Luckily I've found THE SOUND in 1992.
"From the lion's mouth" was (and is) with me in very different phases of my life! (1st love, 1st depression, questionning life, etc)
Just for this... Thank you Borland
I'm so grateful for the algorithms that brought me here
I listen to this song everytime I get sad. When my negative thoughts and hopeless despair over takes me. I just keep saying "I'm Winning". I'm not gonna succumb. You're not gonna fuckin bring me down!
I'm with you!
The power of music. Sometimes it's the only thing holding us together
@@hamishmitchell884: ¡ Indeed !
The saddest and most poignant lyrics, you can hear the pain in his voice. Goosebumps each time.
I keep replaying this song
Great music 1981💓❤️💓❤️💓❤️
My ears enjoyed this.
This album, this song... has towed me through adolescence, 30 years ago - it’s towing me through the pandemic as we speak 😷 Sisters, brothers....we are winning, Adrian wasn’t... but we, the leftovers, we are !!
Adrian's winning now
@@Joky47 hope so
@@TangentChaos We won !
@@koenamundsen2007 🙌💜
Damn right we did !!! 🍾🥂
This album cover alone deserves my like, oh, the song started, im subbed.
I keep hearing this repeatedly for days to reassure myself, but it's just making me cry. (:(
As bad as life may get, and as many expectations we try and fail to live up to, don't forget that if you're still hanging in there, you're winning.
Always coming back to this one 😣
I didn't know this band... amazing song!
Adrain Borland, not only a great songwriter and singer, but a great guitarist as well.
I always find myself drawn to songs like this that talk about depression
One of the *best* songs ever..
What holds your hope together,
Make sure it's strong enough
When you reach the end of your tether
It's because it wasn't strong enough,
I was going to drown,
Then I started swimming
I was going down,
Then I started winning
Winning - winning
When you're on the bottom
Crawl back to the top
Something pulls you up,
and a voice you can't stop,
I was going to drown,
Then I started swimming,
I was going down
Then I started winning
Winning - winning
Giselle Martinez thanks for lyrics!
WINNING.... WINNNNIN
@@SylkaChan is that really all you have to say?
My turn!
DONE! Mais uma cumprida ( exatos 3 meses depois- só olhar acima deste comentário)
" Então comecei a nadar, estava me afogando
Então comecei a vencer, vencer e vencer! "
One of the best albums ever
Sublime....A mix of Joy Division, The Cure and Echo and the Bunnymen...I love The Sound....
I think they are more like darkwave version of The Chameleons
It’s never enough...Melody for the soul...
Truly a band ahead of its time.
REST IN PEACE ADRIAN BORLAND - THANKS A LOT FOR THIS MASTERPIECE!!!
They sound like the Sound,truly unique and Brilliant.
this is one of the best songs I've ever heard holy shit I had goose bumps
batboy JESUS CRIST I RECOGNIZE THAT HAND
Klassik 🎶. Grt lp covA.
There are no words to describe a masterpiece….!!!
THE 80S, WHAT A GREAT DEAL, THANK YOU ❤
That bass line!
Fantastique chanson 😍 très grand groupe 👍 inoubliable 😔
This sounds like it's from the 90's, not '81. They sound ahead of their time
They were ahaed of their time...with more than a decade, together with the band the opened for on concerts...Joy Division
i feel something. finally.
i know...right?
The intro could come straight out of a Joy Division song, although his voice reminds me more of Robert Smith of The Cure. But strangely enough there's something unique about this band too.
Great song.
Absolutely a masterpiece.
Omg, I totally forgot about this music, but already with the first sounds I bursted out in tears, so beautiful, so many memories came back from my teens.
On 5 December 1987 I finally could see them, they performed somewhere in the Netherlands.
They played for about twenty minutes and stopped, went backstage.
Then Adrian Borland came back to apologise, they stopped playing forever, they split up that very moment...
Poor guy..
Fuckk
Only just discovered them...where have I been. Such a beautiful song
WOW
Wat een verhaal Astrid.... ik krijg er gewoon kippevel van.... heb hen 2 X kunnen zien in België, 2 maal op Seaside Festival in De Panne aan de kust. Magistraal.....
Legendary music.
🖤from Italy
A great detail of Post Punk bands... The bass sound... Like Joy Division, The Cure, and many more... I Have thought... Why i like me too much the sound of Soul - Funk and Post Punk? The bass sound.
Another underrated band, many thanks internet.
What a great song.
Absolute brilliant band , should have been massive, I respect and remember Adrian, a true writer who just couldn't handle real life, I can understand that feeling, I just wish he was still with us
This is the best thing to use 4 minutes and 19 seconds on.
Brilliant song'and best album cover ever!!!
Sound was the best band in the 80's . I love them!
The lyrics are so simplistic, yet extremely powerful! Dope band!
Sage comment.
What a talent Adrian was R.I.P. .......................
Rest in peace dude!
He was 41 years old
I bless the CZcams algorithm for this tremendous Reccomendation
If this isn't the most somber song about getting out of a depression, then I don't know. I love how Adrian Borland made everything that cathartic.
@@davidbeckett3345 He had Schizophrenia....
@@davidbeckett3345 that doesn't mean it won't help others
@@rolyatnad You are right , my stupid comment has been deleted
I view it as the opposite: a futile struggle, a win that wasn't worth it, life that couldn't be fulfilled. That's what the music tells me in conjunction with the lyrics
love the ominous undertone, this song always makes me feel like the singer is winning by sacrificing his morals and losing himself as he's "winning", great song.
So good...soooo underrated!
Rest in peace Adrian, legend.
What a masterpiece
Στην λευκη με αγαπη αλεξανδρος 1991 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Amazing song.
Still have it in vinyl...no words to describe this brilliant lp
What a perfect agony
One on my favorite album since 80 years
I WAS GOING DOWN THEN I STARTED WINNING, WINNING
Masterpiece
WOW. Thank you for blowing me away while I'm in quarantine. Life is still GOOD!
Excellent.
Que música! Isso é arte
Really love this band and this song! Very underrated band...
Best song by the best rock lyricist EVER...''When you reach the end of your tether...it's because it wasn't strong enough'' Think about this line and tell me otherwise.
Magnificent, still after all these years.
As someone in Gen Z who has listened to The Smiths, The Offspring, Rise Against, Linkin Park, Emphatic, Fuel, Foo Fighters, and A Thousand Foot Krutch I have to say this band is definitely up there with some of my favorite bands man.
80's rock had a really unique sound.
90's was a little different with even more diversified bands, and from the late 90's to the 2000's you had the greatest rock to exist in my opinion. Grunge, nu-metal, and punk rock which was a really unqiue sound and these bands still exist, just finding some good original ones is hard. Even the way Shimmer by Fuel was arranged I have not been able to see replicated by another band. Even the melody in this song and the way it is arranged is super unique along with the little influences of dance music here and there.
As someone from the Gen Z myself, I agree with you entirely. Finding good stuff like this can be terribly hard. Though I think that there are loads of other bands who were just as glorious as The Sound. I suggest you check out the following records...
1- Lowlife (Sometime Something)
2- The Chameleons (Soul in Isolation)
And if you're looking for modern stuff, go for "Porcelain" by The Agnes Circle and "Atomic Summer" by Manicure.
Super Lied! Habe diesen Song in Jungen Jahren sehr oft gehört!!
A great, great song from such an underrated band ....
Love the sound
I like this song cause it cheers me up when I'm down.
+Alex Roque I like this song cause it brings me down when I'm up. How did I manage to miss this band? I thought I knew them all.
Alex Roque were you going to drown? Did you start swimming?
Same here
Alex Roque seriously me toooo
Totally
35 years ago !!!!!!!!!!! awesome album !!!! i'm proud to listen this track when come back to the college at this time :) now it's my son :)
Uma banda que nunca teve seu reconhecimento. Muito grande!!
Immortal!!!... Nothing like this nowadays! 80's in their best!
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one of the best songs of all times!!
High point in an incredible body that of work; stellar, magnificent song!! Thanks to videos ppl are finally discovering what a few of us knew back then in 81
Un grand merci à mon poto Anthony qui m’a fait découvrir ce morceau, il est émotionnellement très puissant, sublime… 🖤