Comments on: The Alarm

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sat, 20 Dec 2003 14:55:07 +0000

i assume you guys have all found http://www.thealarm.com by now??
or at least http://www.100welshheroes.com :)
if not, come on and join, it’s great.
all are welcome

By: cydniey

cydniey — Sat, 29 Nov 2003 20:30:47 +0000

i remember because of that self righteousness i was allowed to listen to it. remember the years of the mormon music nazis? where i lost a human league LP because “hard times in the past” just had to be referring to a hard on . . .
i just hid the alarm behind a christian mask . . . for about a year i had nothing but them, U2 (pre-90s), and big country to listen to.

did you know that stuart adomson courted the mormon church? i met one of the missionaries who taught he and his family, ultimately he didn’t commit, but i think it affected his music, i can see a lot of the joseph smith mythos in some of the later songs.

the letter from mike was brief, but reall, and smelled like biro. lord what a hilight that was, i’d almost forgotten. but since there’s been johnette napolitano, and john doe, and henry rollins . . . easy to forget the nuances of the 80′s.

By: mwsmedia

mwsmedia — Sat, 29 Nov 2003 20:21:58 +0000

You’ve got a letter from Mike Peters???

Funny you should say “full of ourselves.” I was wondering why I can only really listen to the Alarm every so often, and when I do, I gorge myself on them and then I’m fine for, like, a year or so.

I think it’s because of the self-righteousness. It comes across just a little on those DVDs — like Peters is taking full responsibility, in a way, for the whole band — he even intros one song by paraphrasing the freakin’ Beatles: “It was twenty years ago today / Mikey Peters taught the band to play..!”

I mean, come on…

The Christianity aspect of it gets on my nerves, too…

Man, see how fickle I am? I’m back to listening to Son Volt.

Oh yeah … go to the Borders in Vegas or Henderson… if they don’t have the Dvd, they can order it easily enough…

By: cydniey

cydniey — Sat, 29 Nov 2003 19:54:58 +0000

i hang my 12″ on the wall now.
keep my letter from mike peters in a frame.
and search for any mp3 i can find of them.
with no guilt at all, i paid for each release at least once.
mike peters comes here occasionally (who doesn’t)
but i haven’t seen him
now just the opening bars of the songs make me weep
remembering that time we were all so full of ourselves and so full of naive hope . . .

gotta find those DVDs

By: cjmarsicano

cjmarsicano — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 09:25:19 +0000

“Come damn close to meeting your maker, get so ill you can barely stand…”

Sorry, I couldn’t resist! :)

By: mwsmedia

mwsmedia — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 09:22:01 +0000

Oh, you bet! I still have that one, also the original EP (“The Alarm”, “Declaration,” and a bunch of 12″s… I was there when they did their free “Spirit of ’86″ concert at UCLA.

Saw them at the old Fender’s Ballroom here in LA, too — as I recall, the Cruzados opened for them (former members of the Plugz, a great LA area punk band.) I’m pretty sure that slam pit was where I caught mono — a lot of strange sweat flying around in the air!

I was down for a month, after that. Worth it, though!

By: cjmarsicano

cjmarsicano — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 09:08:38 +0000

The first I remember of the Alarm was “The Stand”. I still have that first 12″ of theirs.