The Alarm - 68 Guns

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

[@stevewells5450]

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❤

[@coliseumcards3307]

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

[@simonboyes2550]

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

[@clairemooney108]

What can I say??? Absolutely frigging amazing.

[@johntrayers2647]

This song takes me back to a better time

[@ea1615]

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 ❤️❤️❤️

[@1wongatonga]

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

[@Thedaleb1]

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

[@jimmaher3576]

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]

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

[@jimmaher3576]

@@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]

@@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]

Eh?

[@johnesson4943]

Check Warhead Uk Subs

[@dayv2017]

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.

[@christate2348]

Watched them in Chicago with my mate Denis who'd seen them about 20 times, bit before my time but had a ripper night!!!

[@williamhenderson8608]

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

[@daveshaw2342]

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

[@eightiesmusic1984]

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.

[@edi1188]

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]

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]

vh1 bands reunited. Worth watching :). It's on KZbin

[@eightiesmusic1984]

@@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]

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

[@kilnmaster]

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

[@Jay68-ce7nd]

This will always be awesome 😎

[@alsaiz]

Always awesome!

[@PrincessNads1]

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

[@trupax2210]

Happy Birthday Mr Peters!

[@angusmeigh5141]

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

[@robbabcock_]

Loved these guys!

[@zafonic5965]

Top this 2023

[@fedupbin]

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

[@patrickfitzgerald409]

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

[@JonWS55]

I was there too ! Awesome times

[@celiaayneto9232]

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

[@brianwomack4596]

Great song by a great group

[@SlapthePissouttayew]

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

[@jermainewilliams7108]

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

[@larrylambert1220]

I blinked, and the whole era was gone.

[@chrisboyle7994]

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]

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

[@nikk3251]

Completely understand xx

[@yoshi19661119]

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))))

[@TheMidi1968]

Brilliant song

[@jonshaw9472]

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

[@cymruambyth1542]

Great tune

[@jeffkaufman9875]

Anthemic song, daft video!..

[@dark2023-1lovesoni]

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.

[@kishannaconandoyle1907]

I got this vinile 😊

[@gabmod65]

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

[@jonhadley-zx2iu]

I didnt know that Mike Peters was a red, but then again all the best musicians are Weller Strummer Bragg Dean Dammers & Hall

[@keplertagapan2912]

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

[@HannekeErnst-Jan]

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

[@stpeteaustin]

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

[@thomasmarshall3021]

Saw them at barrowland tremendous

[@Bucky-Barnes.76]

great !

[@AKITAINU-f3d]

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。

[@holdencaulfield4230]

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

[@sirknight1399]

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

[@timwalker2778]

There is no Britain now

[@jonhadley-zx2iu]

I hope that all's going well for Mike Peters

[@lambofdog2584]

Now I look at ticketmaster and say "oh no.... £250"

[@MrDLOC11]

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

[@MELLYBOY58]

And still they try !✌️✌️🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@Undercoverbrotherfromanother]

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

[@Beerchaser]

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]

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

[@oreally8605]

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

[@kevkingsnorth9222]

Tuuune!!

[@jonathanroman5067]

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

[@eightiesmusic1984]

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

[@sderoski1]

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

[@shawnmiles-w7q]

Anybody listening 4/7/24

[@eoinh1]

One day too late

[@BrooklynAvenue]

All the best songs begin with "And"

[@grahamjeffries4566]

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

[@EXTIQUE]

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

[@jeffkaufman9875]

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

[@voicesinkennyshead3691]

👍

[@honkytrousers]

A Clockwork Orange anyone?

[@mikecoles6602]

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

[@goldenretriever6261]

Back when England was a white country.

[@PatientlyWaiting495]

Shame this is an 80s song really, the shit decade.

[@timfarnham826]

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

[@kilnmaster]

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

[@eightiesmusic1984]

Said no-one ever.

[@clairedarkins2079]

😂 You can like both mind

[@civilwarreports5665]

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.

[@mrnobody1067]

BRITAIN FOREVER 👍❤❤❤❤❤❤🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧