The Alarm - Declaration

Original Release Date

1984

Release Information

UK LP 1984 (IRS - IRSA 7044)
US LP 1984 (IRS - SP 70608)
UK CD 1984 (IRS - CDA 7044)
US CD 1984 (IRS - CD 70050)

1 Declaration 0:45
2 Marching On 3:35
3 Where Were You Hiding When The Storm Broke? 2:56
4 Third Light 3:25
5 Sixty Eight Guns 5:49
6 We Are The Light 3:16
7 Shout To The Devil 4:10
8 Blaze Of Glory 6:04
9 Tell Me 3:14
10 The Deceiver 5:05
11 The Stand (Prophecy) 1:15
12 Howling Wind 6:44

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UK 2xCD 2018 (The Twenty First Century Recording Company - 21C096)

CD One (Declaration)
1 Declaration
2 Marching On
3 Where Were You Hiding When The Storm Broke?
4 Third Light
5 Sixty Eight Guns
6 We Are The Light
7 Shout To The Devil
8 Blaze Of Glory
9 Tell Me
10 The Deceiver
11 The Stand [Prophecy]
12 Howling Wind 1
CD Two
1 Peace Train
2 Where Were You Hiding When The Storm Broke? [Take One]
3 Sixty Eight Guns [Drum Take Version]
4 Unbreak The Promise [Acoustic Version]
5 Howling Wind [Acoustic Version]
6 What Kind Of Hell
7 Pavilion Steps
8 Reason 41
9 Second Generation
10 The Chant Has Just Begun [Single Version]
11 Bells Of Rhymney
12 Bound For Glory
13 The Chant Has Just Begun [12" Version]
14 Absolute Reality [Single Version]
15 Reason 36
16 Room at the Top

Chart Placings

UK Chart Hit: 6, 11 wks

Credits

LP:

Dave Sharp - acoustic & electric guitars, vocals
Mike Peters - acoustic guitar, harmonica, lead vocals
Twist - drums, percussion, vocals
Eddie MacDonald - bass & electric bowed guitars, vocals

Produced by Alan Shacklock
Engineered by Chris Porter
Recorded at Abbey Road & Good Earth Studios London, England, November 1983

Reviews & Opinions

MIKE WREN, SOUNDCHECK, 1984: If you've decided that The Alarm have come along by way of replacement for The Clash, you're not only mistaken on more than one count but you're also going to be extremity disappointed. Indeed, those who have misinterpreted what The Alarm are about will probably claim that this album effectively chronicles their downfall. Alternatively, if you re looking for a reasonably honest bunch of blokes who play fairly excitable; certainly accessible, quality pop songs - with a lyrical content stronger than 99 per cent of other chart material - then you need look no further. The Alarm have come clean with ‘Declaration', proving that they owe much more to the early-Sixties style of protest song than they do to the anarchist charge of the late Seventies.

IRA ROBBINS/SCOTT SCHNIDER, TROUSER PRESS: 'Declaration' further exploits the pose (and the big haircuts) with a batch of memorable tunes ("Sixty Eight Guns," "Blaze of Glory," "Where Were You Hiding When the Storm Broke?"), all smeared with Peters' melodramatic bawling. The Alarm's got an excess of passion; what they lack is the subtlety that keeps U2 from becoming histrionic.

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US CD 1984 (IRS - CD 70050)