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Sweat, like a train
I come, I come,
My body to dust
Scorched by the might of the sun
Burning light, burning white heat
Like wildfire
I sweat a fever
My body screams
Disintegrates in the heat
Our love is the FAITH that keeps on burning
I love to feel the RAIN IN THE SUMMERTIME
I love to feel the rain on my face
I love to feel the RAIN IN THE SUMMERTIME
I love to feel the rain on my face
Burnt at the stake, on a bed of fire
My body rises
Taking me higher
My loves desire
Is pure ascension fire
And love is the FAITH that keeps on burning
I love to feel the RAIN IN THE SUMMERTIME
I love to feel the rain on my face
I love to feel the RAIN IN THE SUMMERTIME
I love to feel the rain on my face
And then I run 'til the breath tears my throat
'Til the pain hits my side
As if I run fast enough
I can leave all the pain and the sadness behind
I love to feel the RAIN IN THE SUMMERTIME
I love to feel the rain on my face
I love to feel the RAIN IN THE SUMMERTIME
I love to feel the rain on my face
(I love to feel the rain on my face)
(In the summertime)
Check some pictures of The Alarm I took back in 1984 when they were supporting U2 in Belgium : http://bit.ly/alarmfn84 Enjoy !
That must have been confusing …
Really. Where have you been? :)
This is a great track, not heard it for years. Saw them at Wembley stadium supporting INXS... who were supporting Queen... what a gig!
Yes - I was there too - don't forget Status Quo! What a day. All for £14.50.
I love Bombay Sapphire. :)
Not really very punked out...more new romantic...thus your crush...do you feel the same about syd vicious?
I had a stomach ache in second grade but it went away.
This is a great track, not heard it for years. Saw them at Wembley stadium supporting INXS... who were supporting Queen... what a gig!
I was there too! The Alarm were supporting INXS who were supporting Status Quo who were supporting Queen. What a day. It was my first ever gig...
See also Beck, "Devil's Haircut" vs Charlatans "Jesus Hairdo"
any others?
Maybe they did, here - just a bit boring, sorry :(
"Well, Ramona likes her malt liquor
And a band from Wales that's called The Alarm
She said she cried when they broke up
She still plays their records at the snake farm"
Ray Wylie Hubbard, 'Snake Farm'
c.
Now THAT is a great reference!
My favourite Alarm song....saw Mike when he was in Big Country on their 2014 North American tour, great showman great frontman
Agree - not a big Alarm fan (I tried at that time, but never stuck for me). This is my fav tune from them.
"Well, Ramona likes her malt liquor
And a band from Wales that's called The Alarm
She said she cried when they broke up
She still plays their records at the snake farm"
Ray Wylie Hubbard, 'Snake Farm'
c.
I have to say it: The guy in the foreground of the album photo looks like a punked-out version of Michael Praed (the guy who portrayed Robin Hood in the Showtime series of the same name.) Yum. Regardless. And I still love this song.
Not really very punked out...more new romantic...thus your crush...do you feel the same about syd vicious?
Exactly what I was thinking!
Agree too!
I used to call my ex Boubou... Now were just friends and I call my friend Boubou
Exactly what I was thinking!
Not to say all 80's pop music was dreck- just 95%. In 1987, U2 released The Joshua Tree, a beautiful landmark album on themes of American experience, exceptionalism, and thought. It's still beautiful after 35 years. [With or Without You charted.]
I feel better now! But I gotta' admit it. If you ignore their countless miles of doo-doo pressed into their other records' record grooves, The Alarm blazed blindingly for 5 minutes and 12 seconds in that lost, long-forgotten time. This is an outstanding tune that damn near approaches the quality of U2's music- gasp! - but just the one tune. Strange... add them to The Hall of One-Hit Wonders, special mention.
U2 and The Alarm are your takeaways from the late 80s? I feel genuinely sorry for you.
Not to say all 80's pop music was dreck- just 95%. In 1987, U2 released The Joshua Tree, a beautiful landmark album on themes of American experience, exceptionalism, and thought. It's still beautiful after 35 years. [With or Without You charted.]
I feel better now! But I gotta' admit it. If you ignore their countless miles of doo-doo pressed into their other records' record grooves, The Alarm blazed blindingly for 5 minutes and 12 seconds in that lost, long-forgotten time. This is an outstanding tune that damn near approaches the quality of U2's music- gasp! - but just the one tune. Strange... add them to The Hall of One-Hit Wonders, special mention.
I'm picturing you with your Walkman and headphones and you're dancing like Napoleon Dynamite to 68 Guns...
I used to call my ex Boubou... Now were just friends and I call my friend Boubou
You don't say?
(It's still a good song)
When you're a celebrity they let you do that, I hear.
Best acoustics in the country in Massey Hall IMHO.
INXS, The Alarm, Status Quo, Queen, July 1986, Wembley Stadium. Quite a day, so it was!
Too true, except for the pretentious Michael Hutchence.
I lobbed an apple at him, hoping he might take a bite and shut up for a moment 😎
The resulting EP "Electric Folklore Live" is quite good. It seems they are/were better live than in the studio.
Thanks for pointing out that U2 is not the same band as without The Edge.
Agreed
INXS, The Alarm, Status Quo, Queen, July 1986, Wembley Stadium. Quite a day, so it was!
What?!
Easy Tiger....Grapefruit & Bananas are totally different!
c.
Those two and Big Country definitely occupied a similar niche at the time, in my head anyway. Welsh, Irish and Scots respectively, with Big Country even playing bagpipes on the guitar. ;)
Thanks for the link. I was there too at that time in Vorst Nationaal !
Awfully . . . good? Agreed. 8.
'Yum' indeed! :-D
I did re-rate my 6 to a7....maybe next listening i'll even go to an 8. Long Live RP!!
Ditto.
Interesting then that we are still listening to them, so obviously you were wrong.
https://thealarm.com/
Mike Peters and his lovely wife Jules have both had serious health problems, so they set up a charitable foundation called Love, Hope, Strength and he still performs at his annual "Gathering" festival get-together which celebrated its 25th Anniversary in 2017
Just a bit of trivia for all you RP folks :)
I thought the opening was that Bruce Springsteen thing from 2002
68 Guns is even better imho.
Yep. The Alarm got a lot of flak for being so overblown and that was deserved. This song's bombast doesn't fit the lyric at all. But 68 Guns? It works. Big themes, big sound.
By the way, all of these guys are super nice. After I met them I really wanted them to make it. I guess they did.
'Tis a barnet of great awesomeness, right enough.
68 Guns is even better imho.
That's true, but the same could be said about the hairstyles of a lot of performers from the 1960s and '70s.
Blimey - are they still going? I saw them at Wembley in about 86 when they were on the bill with INXS, Status Quo and Queen. Was a cracking gig and they were very good.
That sounds like an amazing show...even though I tend not to like large rock concerts.
Ironic, considering that The Alarm were labeled U2 clones when they came out.
Sweet!
Fixed that for you. :)
At first I thought this was U2, except that... I LIKED it.
Junior U2