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Superchannel – The Alarm (EMI) Just as 45RPM roared its defiant way into the top 40 on the back of some stealth bombing by Mike Peters and his army of devoted Alarm fans, so Superchannel, similarly brim full of belligerent punk fire, looks to detonate in the upper echelons of the charts. And in doing so hopefully ripping a hole in people�s preconceived perceptions of Peters and his music. Stripped [read more]

I suppose it is fitting that start here with “Raw” as my first “preview-review” of “The Alarm 2000” releases, because, frankly, it has always been my least favorite of The Alarm�s studio albums. To me, the original sounded disjointed, messy and rushed. This was a far-cry from the lush and cohesive “Change” from two years prior. I always felt that “Raw” was missing something. After listening to the “Alarm 2000” [read more]

b>45 RPM Review: Manchester Online http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/ The Poppy Fields – 45 RPM (Snapper) Iain Hepburn *** THE debut single from what is claimed to be ‘youthful Chester four-piece punk wannabies The Poppy Fields’ wears its influences like a badly-stitched badge safety-pinned haphazardly to a torn denim jacket. Brief, bright and decidedly Sex Pistols-flavoured, on closer inspection it seems to be the work of The Alarm going under a pseudonym. It [read more]