“Happy Christmas (War Is Over)” : The Alarm : (single) 1990

Back in 1981, The Alarm was being hailed by some as the next Clash, but just as many were tagging the band as phony Clash poseurs. Ten years, and many ups and downs later, they’ve all but shed those labels and become just another intrepid rock’n’roll band from Wales. Which isn’t a bad thing, considering some of the overdubbed new wavish atrocities they released in the mid-to-late 80’s (a fact [read more]

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Producer: The Alarm I.R.S. Records A line in the song “Moments in Time” from Raw, the latest release from the Alarm, seems to sum up songwriter Mike Peters’ current vision for this band: “Somewhere we got lost along the way.” Indeed, the title is apt; what we have here is one of those back-to-basics, we-can-be-a-garage-band collection of artful yet angry songs that eschews the sequencer formula the band has perfected [read more]