Welsh lads choirsong celtic pride will never die just gotta love these stereophonics manic street preachers dame shirley bassey sir tom jones cymru stand tall❤
Seen the Alarm so many times over the years. Fantastic group, Mike Peters, Eddie Mcdonald. Nigel Twist and Dave Sharp changed my life. They sang how I felt and gave me Strength. Thanks guys ❤️❤️❤️
@@flnikki1 Yes, its erie how many of those old songs seem far more significant today than they did back then. Universal consciousness or something? I dunno.
@@jimmaher3576 I think they knew. It wasn’t going to get better. Back then we already had freedom of speech being taken with the labeling of music and in some instances you had to be over 18 to purchase the tapes or cds. Ughh
I heard a song called SNAKE FARM that has a line in it that say's " Well Ramona likes her malt liquor and a band from Wales that called the Alarm, she said she cried when they broke up, she still plays their records at the snake farm!" Lol, I had to check these guys out.
11 years & only 41,000 views? This was one of those great "what if" bands. Contemporaries of U2 (opening act). They had "Edge", Alarm had "Twist." I often internally debate whether this was a grossly underrated band or not. Anyhow, catchy tune all these years later...
yeah...what if I never listened to them? Like what?... they were your typical fem punk band, metro males with cool western overtones.. the whole movement was weak.
@@SteveAbbott-Channel It's very good. Notwithstanding the fact Mike Peters is almost saintly ( in a secular sense) and The Alarm made great music, I am surprised he announced his resignation from the band live on stage at the Brixton Academy in 1991. It is not entirely clear what happened but I think he has said there were divisions behind the scenes and it looks as if a spit was almost inevitable. The manner in which it happened is still surprising, not least of all as it came as news to the others. I have not listened to any of the Alarm music since the original band split- I just do not see the point as the odd track I have heard on the radio is not very good. I bought Mike's first solo album which is good.
This beauty was only able to shoot it's way to No.17 in The UK back in October 1983. I have a cousin called Tara, who I haven't had any contact with since 1987 and this was a band that she loved. I would love to get back in contact with Tara, but I don't think it'll ever be possible, because I have mild autism (which she wasn't aware of back in the '80s) and I think she would have issues with me because of that, but then again, she may not, I guess we'll never know.
In the USA we had a national amnesty for registering machine guns in 1968. So to this day collectors can freely buy/sell machines registered in 1968 (usually WW2 bring backs). So for US gun collectors this song has another double meaning.
I saw this band once back in 1985. I got up on stage into the stage dive, and those got thrown out of the club for doing that. This is a band that wanted to be radical but they fell so short of the mark. As a result of that night, I think I threw out the two alarm albums that I had, and rarely have listened to them since.I don’t know what this band was trying to be but they definitely weren’t punk. They definitely weren’t new wave and they definitely weren’t the radical guys. They claimed to be.
