Gig: 2/27/1984, The Alarm, Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, CA

‘Let The River Run Its Course’ [3:53] (The Alarm), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: The future�s deserted waiting there for you and me No past is going to stop us blowing down this road apiece Why we�ve come too far, too far to turn back now We can�t just throw it all away when something good goes wrong, oh no Nothing has been written which says which way we have to [read more]

ANTHEMIC: the Alarm had as much Beatles as Clash and U2 in them, with a strong dash of Mighty Mighty Bosstones camaraderie. Even in their ’80s heyday, the Alarm used to get knocked for writing too many anthems – as if coming up with rock anthems that worked were an easy thing to do. But the Welsh quartet wrote virtually nothing else: they took “The Stand,” they made the “Declaration,” [read more]

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