The Boys Next Door - The Cracked Portrait (live) (audio)

[drido]

Thank you so so much for sharing this.

[Flippaarn]

Rowland!

[cubanzombie]

I love Rowland's voice, it sounds so ghoulish.

[MachinaEYE]

rubies and pearls mine for the exchange for see him and his jaguar once again...

rip bro.

[FrancoDamn]

cool, they remind me to the last days of John Foxx-led Ultravox (1978-1979) and the early Depeche Mode (1980-1982). This is techno or synthpop, the less imagined side of Cave, Howard, Pew, Harvey and Calvert. Did Rowland also listen Kraftwerk or the early incarnations of Human League and Ultravox?

[oogie11]

@FrancoDamn I hear what you mean by John Foxx, yeah, most definitely :)

[FrancoDamn]

@oogie11 listen live bootlegs of Ultravox concerts in late 1978 and early 1979 plus the Systems Of Romance album

[brokenflower84]

R.I.P. Rowland. You will be missed.

[anklepantsmagazine]

Good stuff!

[anklepantsmagazine]

Also... Lyrics, anyone?

[StickyMike]

Until I die

Life is a cut of me

Cracked portrait I,

My footprints a story

Rubies and pearls

Mine for the exchange

The mark of the beast

There on my shoulder

By your side

[mitziell]

...I love this SO MUCH.

[stevok69]

Is this from one of the 3RRR radio simulcasts...it sure sounds familiar......damn Rowland couldn't sing for shit!

[hordesoftheundead]

nick cave and his band are amazing, but i just can't get into grinderman (i know this is not gm)

[catwic]

I used to love this song so much..great to hear it again..

[olindagt]

.. great australian band !