MDC (band) "burn in hell bloodclot faggot." The incident resulted in the MDC song "Pay to Come Along". For MDC, 1982 ended with a tour of Europe with the Dead Kennedys which brought the band greater exposure in the punk scene outside of the U.S., especially in the UK. In 1983 the band began to deemphasize the "Dead Cops" aspect of its name, as drummer Al Schvitz noted in a "Flipside" interview: It's a problem of people can't see the [name] concept, they take it as a violent action of saying what to do. ... When we chose the name we really
The Sound (band) magazine wrote, "U2? Joy Division? Bunnymen? They pale in this band's shadow". A biography of Adrian Borland, titled "Book of (Happy) Memories", was published in 2001. In the same year, a tribute album titled "In Passing – A Tribute to Adrian Borland and the Sound" was released. The Sound have been cited to have been influenced by the Velvet Underground, the Stooges and Joy Division. The Sound (band) The Sound were an English post-punk band, formed in South London in 1979 and dissolved in 1988. They were fronted by Adrian Borland, and evolved from his previous band, the Outsiders. While