‘The Cross’ [??:??] (Prince), The Alarm

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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]

Here is very interesting blog post from Derek Bell at over at Stevens Point Journal.  It echos some of the sentiment from my 2005 post about The Alarm and U2. <a href= http://thealarm.com/dispart.asp?id=1081 >Close, The Alarm, And U2: The Words I’ve Been Holding In For Too Long</a>.  Here is an excerpt:   <i> For what was once the journey of rock and roll brethren, on a mission to recapture the [read more]