The Alarm – Music Television – Brand new album – April 19th 2024 – Pre-Order 1900 UK

On Friday April 19th 2024, The Alarm will release a brand new limited edition album entitled Music Television, that features 11 brand new tracks celebrating both influential and underrated artists from the MTV era that changed and influenced the lives of so many.

Inspired by David Bowie’s Pinups album, Music Television by The Alarm will step back into the future by reimagining songs from some of rock’s most influential and defining moments in visual music. “The Alarm came of age in the MTV era” says Mike Peters. “So many of our longstanding fans also grew up on MTV and saw The Alarm for the first time on MTV’s The Cutting Edge or via the historic ‘Sprit Of ‘’86 Live Global Broadcast concert, and have stayed with us ever since.”

Music Television by The Alarm will be released in a 250 x Limited Edition and numbered Yellow and Purple Vinyl press each signed personally by Mike Peters and also as a Digipak CD Edition. Music Television is available exclusively via www.thealarm.com

MUSIC TELEVISION SPECIAL OFFER: Buy both the Vinyl and CD and receive a FREE bonus CD featuring 8 extra tracks including The Message, Safe European Home, Going Underground, Better Scream, The Cross, Should I Stay Or Should I Go, Chance and Get Down and Get With It.

Music Television Yellow Ltd. Ed. LP = £27.50 plus postage and handling charges

Music Television Purple Ltd. Ed. LP = £27.50 plus postage and handling charges

Music Television CD Digipak Edition = £17.50 plus postage and handling charges

MUSIC TELEVISION BUNDLE LP/CD + Bonus CD Package (choice of yellow / purple vinyl) = £42.50 plus postage and handling charges

The first single from Music Television is a psychedelic David Bowie-inspired / Nirvana-influenced acoustic cover of The Man Who Sold The World, which Peters attributes to his fascination with the ground-breaking MTV Unplugged acoustic performance series. “Unplugged was a series that redefined music as we knew it,” he says. “I remember watching in awe at some of the incredible stripped-down arrangements of classic songs and, at the same time envious that I had been denied the opportunity to appear on the show back in the day. [The Alarm appeared in the series’ first season but without Peters]. This is my chance to take back part of music television history and pay my respects to an era that changed everything.”

Music Television kicks off with a reimagining of the first ever song to be played on MTV back in 1981 – The Buggles “Video Killed The Radio Star” with a subtle lyric change that reflects the threat of A.I. and new technology on rock and roll as we know it today. Dire Straits MTV anthem “Money For Nothing” (the first song to be played on MTV Europe in 1987), is re-modelled into a garage rock harmonica-driven anthem in the electro-acoustic style of Neil Young’s Crazy Horse. Among other songs getting re-imaginings include INXS’ “Don’t Change,” The Blow Monkeys’ “Live Today Love Tomorrow,” Michael Jackson’s “Beat It,” and Modern English’s classic “I Melt With You” (full track listing below).

A redrawing of Phil Collins’ “In The Air Tonight” embraces the original’s spacious atmospherics and injects raw electronic blues into the mix, centering it on Peters’ iconic vocals. “I was walking with my guitar in NYC’s Central Park when I came across a busker playing a stripped-back minor key version on a beat-up old guitar and I joined in,” recalls Peters about his chance encounter in 2023. “It was truly amazing to hear a song so familiar in unfamiliar surroundings. I asked him where he first heard the song, and he said ‘MTV, Man!’ and that gave me the inspiration for this version of the track.”

Music Television by The Alarm has been produced by George Williams and also features a rev up of the original Man On the Moon MTV Theme. The Music Television artwork has been created by graphic artist Dan Shearn.

MUSIC TELEVISION Digipak CD Edition

  

Music Television by The Alarm

LP Track Listing:

Money For Nothing

Video Killed The Radio Star

Live Today Love Tomorrow

Imagination

Beat It

Don’t Change

In The Air Tonight

I Melt With You

Screaming For Emmalene

The Man Who Sold The World