The Alarm - 68 Guns

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  • Опубліковано 23 лют 2011
  • The Alarm was a very good rock group from the early to mid 80's. 68 Guns was one of their bigger hits.

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  • @1wongatonga
    @1wongatonga Місяць тому +6

    Lyrics From 1983 “And now there’re trying to take my life away”. 2024 and that’s the truth! Prophetic lyrics…🙏🏾

  • @PrincessNads1
    @PrincessNads1 4 дні тому

    What a band. The most underrated ever! Love their songs ❤

  • @simonboyes2550
    @simonboyes2550 2 роки тому +23

    A 3 minute pop song with a start, a middle bit and an ending. Harder than you might think

  • @clairemooney108
    @clairemooney108 2 роки тому +26

    What can I say??? Absolutely frigging amazing.

  • @stevewells5450
    @stevewells5450 10 місяців тому +7

    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❤

  • @ea1615
    @ea1615 2 роки тому +21

    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 ❤️❤️❤️

  • @jimmaher3576
    @jimmaher3576 2 роки тому +55

    Prophetic song in many ways. Many of these old punk songs from the UK seem to be foreshadowing exactly what is about to happen in 2021.

    • @flnikki1
      @flnikki1 2 роки тому +4

      Yes I see it too. Yet so many didn’t 🤷🏻‍♀️🤦‍♀️

    • @jimmaher3576
      @jimmaher3576 2 роки тому +4

      @@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.

    • @flnikki1
      @flnikki1 2 роки тому +7

      @@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

    • @eightiesmusic1984
      @eightiesmusic1984 11 місяців тому

      Eh?

    • @johnesson4943
      @johnesson4943 Місяць тому +1

      Check Warhead Uk Subs

  • @coliseumcards3307
    @coliseumcards3307 9 місяців тому +11

    This was a beast of a tune in the 80's. Still love it today.

  • @Jay68-ce7nd
    @Jay68-ce7nd 11 місяців тому +5

    This will always be awesome 😎

  • @zafonic5965
    @zafonic5965 Рік тому +9

    Top this 2023

  • @williamhenderson8608
    @williamhenderson8608 3 роки тому +20

    The Alarm at the Barrowlands Ballroom and Night Moves in Glasgow back in the eighties absolutely awesome

  • @edi1188
    @edi1188 2 роки тому +41

    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...

    • @kilnmaster
      @kilnmaster Рік тому

      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
      @SteveAbbott-Channel Рік тому +2

      vh1 bands reunited. Worth watching :). It's on UA-cam

    • @eightiesmusic1984
      @eightiesmusic1984 Рік тому +1

      @@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.

    • @sooneron
      @sooneron 8 місяців тому +3

      @@kilnmaster Spoken like someone that never listened to their music. Your take is weak.

    • @kilnmaster
      @kilnmaster 8 місяців тому

      I DID LISTEN TO THEM SCREW FACE@@sooneron THEY SUCKED

  • @daveshaw2342
    @daveshaw2342 2 роки тому +13

    Loved this song and the long player declaration. A very underated lp and band .

    • @eightiesmusic1984
      @eightiesmusic1984 2 роки тому +1

      Declaration is a great album, every track is top quality. It had a huge impact on me in the eighties and has stood the test of time.

  • @dayv2017
    @dayv2017 2 роки тому +6

    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.

  • @Thedaleb1
    @Thedaleb1 9 місяців тому +3

    Great song the past is the future glad I was 10 in 1980

  • @patrickfitzgerald409
    @patrickfitzgerald409 Рік тому +4

    Newcastle City Hall 1986 or thereabouts. One of the greatest live bands Ive ever seen. Euphoric!

  • @alsaiz
    @alsaiz 4 місяці тому +2

    Always awesome!

  • @celiaayneto9232
    @celiaayneto9232 2 роки тому +8

    'They don't know my name, they don't know my kind'

  • @angusmeigh5141
    @angusmeigh5141 3 роки тому +13

    The underpass is in this video is at Wandsworth bridge roundabout.

    • @eightiesmusic1984
      @eightiesmusic1984 2 місяці тому

      I like small details like this but how do you know?! The Alarm are brilliant.

  • @robbabcock_
    @robbabcock_ 4 роки тому +10

    Loved these guys!

  • @brianwomack4596
    @brianwomack4596 Рік тому +3

    Great song by a great group

  • @TheMidi1968
    @TheMidi1968 Рік тому +3

    Brilliant song

  • @binniesbags
    @binniesbags Рік тому +1

    Saw Mike Peters last week in our small town, up close and personal

  • @trupax2210
    @trupax2210 3 місяці тому +1

    Happy Birthday Mr Peters!

  • @SlapthePissouttayew
    @SlapthePissouttayew 2 роки тому +3

    Brings me back to the 97X WOXY days...love the 80s!

  • @jermainewilliams7108
    @jermainewilliams7108 4 роки тому +15

    Top band good childhood memories of the 80’s😎❤️✊🏾✌🏾🎮✌🏾👩‍🎤🎭🌌🪐

  • @chrisboyle7994
    @chrisboyle7994 Рік тому +2

    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.

    • @farmerdan7274
      @farmerdan7274 Рік тому +1

      Try to make contact. You don’t know how things will work out if you don’t. Life’s too short for regrets.

  • @cymruambyth1542
    @cymruambyth1542 2 місяці тому +1

    Great tune

  • @kishannaconandoyle1907
    @kishannaconandoyle1907 3 місяці тому +1

    I got this vinile 😊

  • @1lovesoni
    @1lovesoni Рік тому +1

    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.

  • @Bucky-Barnes.76
    @Bucky-Barnes.76 2 роки тому +4

    great !

  • @jonshaw9472
    @jonshaw9472 8 місяців тому

    Just watched this on top of the pops 40 years later...still fuckin ace!

  • @yoshi19661119
    @yoshi19661119 6 місяців тому

    シンガロングしたくなる名曲!懐かしい80年代の青春がよみがえるw XD))))

  • @gabmod65
    @gabmod65 Рік тому +1

    Saw this band probably 1992 at Hereford? Brilliant!! Plus Mike Peters is a Red! Sorry about his health..hope he's ok?

  • @jeffkaufman9875
    @jeffkaufman9875 3 місяці тому

    Anthemic song, daft video!..

  • @stpeteaustin
    @stpeteaustin 10 місяців тому

    A girl named Ramona really liked them, She said she cried when they broke up
    She still plays their records at the snake farm

  • @keplertagapan2912
    @keplertagapan2912 11 місяців тому

    Top 5 The Alarm English American 🇺🇸 Band Best Of Collection Single Hits New Waves 80s 90s Billboard Chart Legendary USA 🇺🇸

  • @sirknight1399
    @sirknight1399 2 роки тому +5

    Will be the National Anthem in Attila the Stockbroker's Zen Stalinist Britain.

  • @holdencaulfield4230
    @holdencaulfield4230 Рік тому +2

    Omfg o.o "dearly beloved" part of "jesus of suburbia" by Green Day ahahah

  • @user-hd6dv5jx5z
    @user-hd6dv5jx5z Рік тому

    大好きです。80年代、The AlarmはJapanでとても人気がありました。彼らは何度も来日して日本でコンサートを行いました。

  • @user-jy8et3gh8p
    @user-jy8et3gh8p 3 місяці тому

    Lekkere meeschreeuwrock uit '83. Zouden we dit nu stadionrock noemen?

  • @Beerchaser
    @Beerchaser 2 місяці тому +1

    They came out here in the States the same time as U2. U2 left them in the dust. I was pissed! Still am. Can't stand U2.

    • @patrickhaning6536
      @patrickhaning6536 Місяць тому

      Pretty sure the guys at MTV flipped a coin and decided they were gonna make U2 stars.

  • @MrDLOC11
    @MrDLOC11 2 роки тому +6

    They're after you to sign your life away . . .

    • @MELLYBOY58
      @MELLYBOY58 8 місяців тому

      And still they try !✌️✌️🇬🇧🇬🇧

  • @kevkingsnorth9222
    @kevkingsnorth9222 9 місяців тому

    Tuuune!!

  • @oreally8605
    @oreally8605 Рік тому +1

    The only band worthy of opening for U2 at Red Rocks.

  • @jonathanroman5067
    @jonathanroman5067 Рік тому +1

    At 1:12 The nun starts singing with the Alarm, lol!

    • @eightiesmusic1984
      @eightiesmusic1984 Рік тому

      Mike is like a living saint almost so it is to be expected. Nuns pick up on holy vibes.

    • @sderoski1
      @sderoski1 Рік тому

      Mike is nice, but he kept my manuscript and I asked him to mail it back to me

  • @BrooklynAvenue
    @BrooklynAvenue 6 місяців тому

    All the best songs begin with "And"

  • @Undercoverbrotherfromanother
    @Undercoverbrotherfromanother 6 місяців тому +1

    Their catalog blows away U2. Like Smiple Minds and The Church, they should all 3 still be touring and on top.

  • @voicesinkennyshead3691
    @voicesinkennyshead3691 Рік тому

    👍

  • @honkytrousers
    @honkytrousers 2 роки тому +1

    A Clockwork Orange anyone?

  • @EXTIQUE
    @EXTIQUE 2 роки тому +4

    68 farts,,,I still smell them and brew them in 2021.

  • @jeffkaufman9875
    @jeffkaufman9875 3 місяці тому

    An anthemic classic, but DAFT video that trivializes the passion and urgency of the song!..

  • @grahamjeffries4566
    @grahamjeffries4566 Рік тому +2

    Ireland u2 Scotland big country wales the alarm England…………………..give up

  • @mikecoles6602
    @mikecoles6602 Рік тому +1

    These guys are all members of the
    75 pound bench press club 💪 😆

  • @goldenretriever6261
    @goldenretriever6261 9 місяців тому +2

    Back when England was a white country.

  • @timfarnham826
    @timfarnham826 7 місяців тому

    Back when England was a far more racist country, actually., @ goldenretriever

  • @kilnmaster
    @kilnmaster Рік тому

    Music really sucked back then...thank God for Motorhead..

  • @littlecheese5281
    @littlecheese5281 6 місяців тому

    Brilliant