Photo: The Alarm,7/17/2004

‘No Frontiers (acoustic)’ [3:05] (MacDonald/Peters), The AlarmLead Vocals:Mike PetersLyrics: A thousand miles before us Long is the road The mountain high The valley low Our love is stronger than we know In the tears of a river I see the wrong Hear the mountain cry Cry anger Feel the pain in the valley below I want to run Where the sunlight beats on my face I want to feel The [read more]

‘Reason 41 (Live KBFH)’ [2:52] (Sharp), The AlarmLead Vocals:Dave SharpLyrics: “OK This is a song called reason 41. One two three four” Well I used to wonder why that When it’s black there is no white And why that when it’s day There is never any night I got talking to a soldier and he tried to set things right He said, “If you want peace them you will always [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]