@@stevelee8027 And me !! We were so blessed , the time went like the blink of an eye! But hey...we are survivors , and all the better for our good fortune when we were young!! 😊😁👍🤫
Saw a guy recently with an Alarm tshirt. I yelled nice shirt! He says, you like The Alarm? I said yeah, the original version! He looked at me like he had no idea what I was talking about!
Couldn’t agree more. A friend and I walked up Ben Nevis with Mike and his wife Jules,as part of the Ben Nevis Rocks cancer charity that Mike set up,and they are 2 of the nicest,most down to earth people you could ever meet.Mike standing with the acoustic guitar,outside the visitor centre,at 5 o’clock in the morning,singing ‘We Are The Light’just as the mountain was starting to appear out of the darkness in the background,was an experience I will remember for the rest of my life🥲
@@davejacobs9042 I think you are on the right track. I think it's about an intense and very personal desire that is uncertain as to whether or not it will be met. I also think of it as the longing of someone who was abused, perhaps sexually, and or deprived of love by someone who should have freely given it to them
I've been watching 80s videos for the last hour and this one did it for me, I couldn't take the nostalgia anymore and had to wipe away a few tears. If I had a time machine I would go back to live the rest of my days in the 80s.
we have chance to go 80s back. We know who created everyone and every decade's lives. Just trust your creator , believe Him, go on his road until the end of your life and voila! 80s is back for you to live in Heaven forever.
MASTER But how well are they known today Masterrudy? When was the last time you heard one of their songs on the radio? It's been a long time since I heard any of their songs on radio or music choice and that's what I was getting at!
Remember hearing this song for the first time in the Winter of 1988-89 on a Thursday afternoon High School ski trip to Greek Peak in Central New York. I was listening to this on my Sony Walkman. I remember it was a great time that day skiing after a storm brought great snow. To top it off my Dad had a Pizza waiting for me when i got home that night. Good times!
I have just spent the last 2 hours Head Phones on Listening to some epic 70's n 80's monsters....replayed this and The Cult She Sells Sanctuary till my Brain is numb. Get me a Time Machine back to these beautiful days from my past. Todays music will never stir the emotions like these.
Just met this band today in a tiny diner in Dickson, Tennessee. They stopped to eat and are on their way to Memphis. I talked to the singer. He seemed pretty cool.
Only 450,000 views? Are you serious? Man I work in a federal building with the IRS down the hall. I had this shit on blast today so the whole floor could hear. No one said a thing! Ironic it was raining today in Albuqueruqe, NM in a downpour!!!!
@@StevesUnemploymentPIN My friend you are right. I was in college when they were "big" here in the states, unfortunately they never got the credit they deserved...
Under the anvil of the sun 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)
Thanks for posting the lyrics, I love when people do that, so can sing along or read it along while playing the song the only way to boost it to the top is with likes so, here's mine
"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 " Seriously, nobody writes lyrics like this anymore.
One of the greatest bridges EVER! So right, intelligent writing. Now all we have is "ooh baby, yea yea yea MOt&^%rf*&^er". Where has all the artistry gone?
My daughter's name is Summer Rain because of this song!!!!!!!!! She is 16 now in August. Her name she goes by is Rain. This song is my baby's legacy! 💜💜💜
@@kyachdistent1301 some couple have probably called their kid Chelsea after jetting jiggy on a Bus to Chelsea .... dosent mean they are gonna call them Chelsea 211 Bus or think that people might think they named her after an Elvis Costello song
underrated but one of the greatest fan bases of rock history , I would say especially for Mike that The Alarm is certainly one of the most successful bands ever
Finally saw Mike Peters + The Alarm in September of '16. It only took me 35 years, but totally worth the wait. Mike joked that this was a "new" song...from 1987. He sounds great, such a positive energy and spirit. Glad to be a fan as I took my 21 year old son along - the circle continues.
Great band and fantastic memories of a decade that I had the pleasure of growing up in. My son always asks me "Dad were the 80s really that good ?" So I took him to see his first concert Tears For Fears when he was 13 16years ago and he still talks about it .. He's 29 now and says he grew up in the wrong music era ...
God damn! I've never paid this song nearly the attention it deserves. I'm 53, so I heard this when I was a kid, but I never gave it a second thought. Right now, being mildly drunk and with the world getting more and more stupid by the second, is just the right moment for this fine piece of music to penetrate my brain. So much passion and power in his voice! I am now a fine, like 38 years late.
I woke up this morning with this song in my head. I didn't know who sang it. I was thinking Big Country but typed in "Rain In The Summertime" and came up with this. I totally forgot about The Alarm. What a great song!
Choone. A few years ago I woke up about 4am with Robert Palmer 'Johnny and Mary' in my braincase. I ended up having to get up and play it several times.
2:57 love how U2 used this riff in their music later. The Alarm, I was 16 in 1985 when I first heard them. Didnt care for the music, I was into Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath. Fast forward over 30 years to 6 months ago and I listen to The Alarm everyday in my car on a USB stick, everyday I play THIS song after a hard friggin day at work.
This song is gorgeous. I get it. Kind of U2ish, which The Alarm were competing with in this very short period. I give serious credit to them. Bravo, boys 💚
...Hermoso tema.. Me da una sensación de libertad inexplicable... No me canso de oírlo... Grande The Alarm... Cada vez que lo escucho me siento increíblemente LIBRE... Y me dan ganas de aprovechar al máximo mi vida...
I have been listening to this song (on my CD of The Alarm with song) for many years and just discovered that there is an official music video. Yes, I still listen to CDs, have many of them.
Love this song. I had got my best friend hooked on U2 and he got me hooked on the this band, way before this song. Years later we found out that Bono/U2 had been influenced by the The Alarm's style for Joshua Tree.
So glad to see this comment, I’m a huge U2 fan and didn’t know about this. I’ve not heard this in years and it’s put me in mind of U2, glad it makes sense.
I tried to fine the interviews with Mike Peters and Bono. And cannot find them on TH-cam. The Alarm had toured with U2 on the War or Unforgettable Fire. So, the sound of the Alarm was familiar. They are still friends to this day is my understanding.
It was the late 80s and my 2 favorite bands were U2 and The Alarm. I dragged my GF, who became my wife, and a bunch of friends to see these guys at Hammerjacks in Baltimore, MD on the end of the Electric Folklore tour... Hammerjacks is lone gone, right next to M&T Stadium today... absolutely incredible show... and then a few months later my buddy said they had broken up on stage. I was gutted, but it's so awesome that we still have their music and can relive the past!!! These guys could have been absolutely huge, in a way they were!!!
Ironic that I put this song on my bluetooth speaker today on blast. It then started raining in Albuquerque, NM. Think we got about an inch of rain - I haven't seen that in two years.
Was umpiring a baseball tournament a couple years and it started to rain. I went in the press box and started playing this song over the speakers. The parents were going nuts !!!!! A few of them had said they had forgotten the song or it reminded them of their college days. The rain eventually stopped by they kept playing it in the press box between innings anyway.
what a great song, this is one of my favorites along with the stand, strength, and sold me down the river!!!and NO... The Alarm was not a one hit wonder band!!!!
Great song ...period. No matter what the record labels intent, The Alarm had their own identity, easily distinguished from U2 , or Big Country. Definitely more blue collar.
Saw Mike Peters, solo and acoustic, last week. Looks and sounds great. When he did this song it gave me frickin chills. He's a great performer and story teller.
According to Wikipedia, this song came out in 1987; but I never heard this song until I watched this video on MuchMusic OR MuchMoreMusic sometime between 2003 and 2005 at a friend's place. It's all right in my book!
Brian Doucet I think this peaked early 1988. Good song but scenery is dull. Loved the guitar here. Even 27 years ago the best songs were not getting the most exposure.
I remember this song as well as The Stand. But I mainly remember this band for the fact the lead singer quit the band while onstage in 1991. This band always brings a bittersweet feeling to me whenever I think about them.:..
Dave Sharp really shines on this excellent song! all the best bands seem to have phenomenal lead guitarists, his guitar style seems to be improvised, making it really unique!
Bono cannot even approach the creativity and overall talent that the blessed Mike Peters possesses in tonnage. U2 were commercial cuties before they even realized that they were phony sellouts only interested in top 40 ditty’s. Since the savage, severe strength of “DECLARATION “, when I first noticed and started listening to their music, The Alarm are known only to folks who truly appreciate incredible songwriting, brilliant musicians who played to the hearts of those who really knew the importance of tremendous lyrical composition that stood for truth, faith, and the correct way of living through this depraved world of ours. May GOD Bless Mike Peters and the rest of the Chaps…
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they don't make music like this anymore......thank god i grew up in the 80's!!!!!
Me to where did the time go
@@stevelee8027 And me !! We were so blessed , the time went like the blink of an eye! But hey...we are survivors , and all the better for our good fortune when we were young!! 😊😁👍🤫
Amen...
Yes thanks the best nusic ever. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Yep the music helped you forget how bad the world was back then 😁👍
Anyone else appreciate this band more and more as time passes by? 80s legends and Mike Peters is just a great down to earth person
Saw a guy recently with an Alarm tshirt. I yelled nice shirt! He says, you like The Alarm? I said yeah, the original version! He looked at me like he had no idea what I was talking about!
I appreciate these guys so much! ❤️ Always thought they were so underrated!
Couldn’t agree more. A friend and I walked up Ben Nevis with Mike and his wife Jules,as part of the Ben Nevis Rocks cancer charity that Mike set up,and they are 2 of the nicest,most down to earth people you could ever meet.Mike standing with the acoustic guitar,outside the visitor centre,at 5 o’clock in the morning,singing ‘We Are The Light’just as the mountain was starting to appear out of the darkness in the background,was an experience I will remember for the rest of my life🥲
Indeed.
September 2023
2023, and this song still touches my spirit just as much as it did when I was 17 back in 1987.
Same
This is a very powerful song! Does anyone know what specifically this song is about, or has The Lyricist revealed its meaning?
@@bradbiesecker162It’s about wanting someone who left you back.
@@davejacobs9042 I think you are on the right track. I think it's about an intense and very personal desire that is uncertain as to whether or not it will be met. I also think of it as the longing of someone who was abused, perhaps sexually, and or deprived of love by someone who should have freely given it to them
Me to. I was 14
I cry when I hear this song. It flashes me back to the 1980's. It was an amazing decade for music. There will never be music like this again.
I grew up in the 1990s and boy did we too have out share of great bands. This is one kick-ass tune though.
I've been watching 80s videos for the last hour and this one did it for me, I couldn't take the nostalgia anymore and had to wipe away a few tears. If I had a time machine I would go back to live the rest of my days in the 80s.
Me too
Yup.
we have chance to go 80s back. We know who created everyone and every decade's lives. Just trust your creator , believe Him, go on his road until the end of your life and voila! 80s is back for you to live in Heaven forever.
A lot of us feel that way.
Same
I play this song whenever it rains at the high school soccer matches I announce. All the parents rock out!
But I don't suppose it rains in the summertime
does it?
Still sends chills up the spine all these years later. A truly beautiful song from an underrated band.
Reminds me of high school. The Alarm & Crowded House. Bittersweet nostalgia. Now I'm depressed.
MASTER .
MASTER But how well are they known today Masterrudy? When was the last time you heard one of their songs on the radio? It's been a long time since I heard any of their songs on radio or music choice and that's what I was getting at!
+MASTER Why the completely unkind and rude response over something so small?
I hear them on satellite radio channel 33 every day! :-)
This song brings me back to a time where life was so much fun.
Hear ya
Yes! My heart longs for those days!❤️🩹
@@TheLMC323 preach it girl!!✌💜🎶
Amen✌💜🎶
Remember hearing this song for the first time in the Winter of 1988-89 on a Thursday afternoon High School ski trip to Greek Peak in Central New York. I was listening to this on my Sony Walkman. I remember it was a great time that day skiing after a storm brought great snow. To top it off my Dad had a Pizza waiting for me when i got home that night. Good times!
Man, I forgot what a great song this was. Such powerful memories..... long live the '80s.
B. Vaughan one of if not the best decades for music.
@@mikew7561 70s were really good to
The Alarm & Big Country were my favourite bands in 80's lucky enough to see them both,fantastic times.
Yes, great song for sure.
A big hit in the UK singles charts in the Autumn of 1987.
@@mikew7561 I totally agree Mike!
Heard this today, July 2023, and was reminded just how damn good this song is! What a band too.
Billy Corgan (The Smashing Pumpkins) brought me here from a radio interview. Great song, can't believe I've never heard this.
Watching that same interview eleven months later brought me here as well. Nice song!
@@MrSmithOriginal Thanks for the comment, now I get to listen to it again lol.
@@SupermanNew52 You're welcome, Maybe someone will remind us both again in the future! lol
Sane here just heard this on Sirius yesterday, love it!!
Pues escucha el resto del trabajo de la banda, no tiene desperdicio.
Another 80s diamond 💎 there definitely was, so many great songs in the 80s.
30 years later it's still a great song.
I have just spent the last 2 hours Head Phones on Listening to some epic 70's n 80's monsters....replayed this and The Cult She Sells Sanctuary till my Brain is numb. Get me a Time Machine back to these beautiful days from my past. Todays music will never stir the emotions like these.
It's because back then we were YOUNG with all the emotions that come with it.
Just went down an 80’s rabbit hole!
Random find on TH-cam music about 2 weeks ago.. haven't stopped playing it since!! lol. Awesome song!!
Just met this band today in a tiny diner in Dickson, Tennessee. They stopped to eat and are on their way to Memphis. I talked to the singer. He seemed pretty cool.
With the look like Macguyver and the voice like Bono, it doesn’t get more 80s than this
You knocked that one out of the park!
When this song first played on the radio I thought it was U2.
Macguyver😂
Yep...poor man's U2 that rivaled U2 in my opinion!
Ppppppfffffttttt bono wishes their songs were his
I saw them open for Bob Dylan back in 1989. They started with this song, it was outdoors and raining in the summer time. Great times.
Man, that is one underrated group!
Totally!
Only 450,000 views? Are you serious? Man I work in a federal building with the IRS down the hall. I had this shit on blast today so the whole floor could hear. No one said a thing! Ironic it was raining today in Albuqueruqe, NM in a downpour!!!!
garneroutlaw1 I haven't heard this song in a long time.
Maybe in your country. Do some research and you will discover they are HUGE in the UK and Wales.
@@StevesUnemploymentPIN My friend you are right. I was in college when they were "big" here in the states, unfortunately they never got the credit they deserved...
Under the anvil of the sun
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)
Thanks for posting the lyrics, I love when people do that, so can sing along or read it along while playing the song the only way to boost it to the top is with likes so, here's mine
I always thought it was “our love is the FLAME that keeps on burning”. Makes more sense, although I see “faith” in lots of lyric postings.
"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 "
Seriously, nobody writes lyrics like this anymore.
You're right, nobody does anymore. Isn't it a pity!
One of the greatest bridges EVER! So right, intelligent writing. Now all we have is "ooh baby, yea yea yea MOt&^%rf*&^er". Where has all the artistry gone?
You are kidding, right? The industry? Have a cocktail.
Exactly what country do you live in?
Well, punk was never truly popular\mainstream.
The Alarm and Big Country are the best bands of the 80’s
Been ten years since someone commented so ill comment.. What a brilliant song..!
Just loved this band ,still do
My daughter's name is Summer Rain because of this song!!!!!!!!! She is 16 now in August. Her name she goes by is Rain. This song is my baby's legacy! 💜💜💜
Shouldn't it be in Rain In Summertime, or we'll think she's named after a Belinda Carlisle or Alphaville one?
@@kyachdistent1301 stop it karen
C300 free fr
@@kyachdistent1301 some couple have probably called their kid Chelsea after jetting jiggy on a Bus to Chelsea .... dosent mean they are gonna call them Chelsea 211 Bus or think that people might think they named her after an Elvis Costello song
Beautiful
Always loved this band. Singer is a cross between McGuyver and Bono
Hahahaha this comment is spot on! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
It does sound a lot like U2
There is something U2-ish about this song.
that guitar work s absolutely brilliant...so melancholic
The Alarm had a knack for anthemic songs. Totally underrated.
not under rated , just not promoted properly
underrated but one of the greatest fan bases of rock history , I would say especially for Mike that The Alarm is certainly one of the most successful bands ever
I was at the Alarm's album release party in Deep Ellum in Dallas, TX when this album came out. I still have the original vinyl in mint condition.
An absolute SCORCHING vocal by Mike Peters! Highly under appreciated band.
I remember the first time hearing this song. Now, it means more to me than you can imagine. When you share it with someone you love.
Nice comment. One of my favorite songs that I listen to often.
@@cliffherren9811 Mine too!! Brings a smile
@@steph5208 Nobody cares, Stephanie. I'm sick to death of people like you who have to brag on youtube about your great life.
We just brought this up to our 7 year old daughter. I played it loud while waiting for a storm here in Chicago. I actually teared up.
Finally saw Mike Peters + The Alarm in September of '16. It only took me 35 years, but totally worth the wait. Mike joked that this was a "new" song...from 1987. He sounds great, such a positive energy and spirit. Glad to be a fan as I took my 21 year old son along - the circle continues.
Top man Dave!
I just saw them last night and thought the same thing. Great energy, positive and uplifting too!
Its not the same band, only one member of the original band left.
Anyone listening to this gem in 2022??
One of the best, short-lived bands to come out of the 80's. I still listen to their greatest hits in my car.
Hard to believe that this only charted at 71 in the US. It's lightyears ahead of a lot of stuff from 1987.
No.18 in the UK, the second of only two top twenty hits
The album went to no1 in the college charts 😎😎
@@bigcountry3413 college charts? In the UK you only ever hear of the official top 100
Hello from Hamilton, Ont. Canada
@@ohglubbits6649 sorry USA college charts back in the day, pretty big
It's a hot July afternoon in Atlanta, GA - it's raining and I'm listening to the timeless classic.
Can i have a show of hands if you're still listening to this in 2020
Going to see them in August!
where are they touring
Just been covered by The Killers at Cardiff Castle. Mike was watching. Great surprise ♥️♥️
This song has always been and will always be part of my life soundtrack.
Bronc Chesterfield 😁👍👊
Going through the top 1002 songs of all time from 1999 and came across this classic. So glad to have rediscovered it. What a great classic 80's hit!
This song makes me cry every time I hear it. Such a sweet song. A true love song.
It's not a love song, you dolt.
Please don't ask who's listening in 2021. We never stopped listening.............
Great band and fantastic memories of a decade that I had the pleasure of growing up in. My son always asks me "Dad were the 80s really that good ?" So I took him to see his first concert Tears For Fears when he was 13 16years ago and he still talks about it .. He's 29 now and says he grew up in the wrong music era ...
So your son is a special snowflake then?
God damn! I've never paid this song nearly the attention it deserves. I'm 53, so I heard this when I was a kid, but I never gave it a second thought. Right now, being mildly drunk and with the world getting more and more stupid by the second, is just the right moment for this fine piece of music to penetrate my brain. So much passion and power in his voice! I am now a fine, like 38 years late.
I woke up this morning with this song in my head. I didn't know who sang it. I was thinking Big Country but typed in "Rain In The Summertime" and came up with this. I totally forgot about The Alarm. What a great song!
Choone.
A few years ago I woke up about 4am with Robert Palmer 'Johnny and Mary' in my braincase. I ended up having to get up and play it several times.
2:57 love how U2 used this riff in their music later. The Alarm, I was 16 in 1985 when I first heard them. Didnt care for the music, I was into Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath. Fast forward over 30 years to 6 months ago and I listen to The Alarm everyday in my car on a USB stick, everyday I play THIS song after a hard friggin day at work.
@A.C. B. ART English, look into it.
A Spectacular and Poweful Song, one of the best.
This song is gorgeous. I get it. Kind of U2ish, which The Alarm were competing with in this very short period. I give serious credit to them. Bravo, boys 💚
I remember playing this song constantly. So brilliant ❤️🎶
2022 still awesome.
...Hermoso tema.. Me da una sensación de libertad inexplicable... No me canso de oírlo... Grande The Alarm... Cada vez que lo escucho me siento increíblemente LIBRE... Y me dan ganas de aprovechar al máximo mi vida...
Describiste de 0 a100 lo que yo siento tambien, algo tiene esta cancion que nos transporta a volar !!!😎😎😎😎😎
LOVE this track ...not heard it for years!! Thanks! They were a great band! Deserved more success
Forgot about this one, Beautiful song❤😊
I have been listening to this song (on my CD of The Alarm with song) for many years and just discovered that there is an official music video. Yes, I still listen to CDs, have many of them.
I love this song to the depths of my soul.
@Kerri Easterly I do too. I think it saved my sould back then. Did you ever go to see them live? I didn't.
Great songs like this are timeless!
Love this song. I had got my best friend hooked on U2 and he got me hooked on the this band, way before this song. Years later we found out that Bono/U2 had been influenced by the The Alarm's style for Joshua Tree.
Yes! Finally found a comment like yours....
So glad to see this comment, I’m a huge U2 fan and didn’t know about this. I’ve not heard this in years and it’s put me in mind of U2, glad it makes sense.
I tried to fine the interviews with Mike Peters and Bono. And cannot find them on TH-cam. The Alarm had toured with U2 on the War or Unforgettable Fire. So, the sound of the Alarm was familiar.
They are still friends to this day is my understanding.
Not the first band U2 ripped off
That is so Cool
2024 anyone?
Yep 😊
Seeing them May 3, 2024 in Houston w/Gene Loves Jezebel 🥳
Hell yea, this is a banger I play while at the gym. People hate it when I belt out the chorus, but I don't really care.
Yez
@erich2186 hope ur in tune lmao ml
It was the late 80s and my 2 favorite bands were U2 and The Alarm. I dragged my GF, who became my wife, and a bunch of friends to see these guys at Hammerjacks in Baltimore, MD on the end of the Electric Folklore tour... Hammerjacks is lone gone, right next to M&T Stadium today... absolutely incredible show... and then a few months later my buddy said they had broken up on stage. I was gutted, but it's so awesome that we still have their music and can relive the past!!! These guys could have been absolutely huge, in a way they were!!!
I love everything about this song!
Discover this song through the interview of Billy Corgan in Apple podcast saying that he loved this song !
I saw these guys at the University of Connecticut when the Spring Weekend concerts were awesome bands. The year was 1983.
I remember seeing these guys in Philly in the mid 80's and they are still the only band that brought me to tears :)
What a great song. An all-time classic.
I first heard this in the Arizona desert during a rain storm. So appropriate.
Ironic that I put this song on my bluetooth speaker today on blast. It then started raining in Albuquerque, NM. Think we got about an inch of rain - I haven't seen that in two years.
i live in Seattle , i live this every Summer its seems the most of my life ,
Nice ya Spudboy!
Thank God for the 80s!
I didn't know until recently this was an Alarm song. I love it to bits.
please make this no.1 in the charts this summer!. If you see this message please spread this amazing summer anthem that no one can remember!
80s music and videos, THE BEST!!!!!
came here cuz the Corgan shout out. I dig it.
this has always been one my favorite s !!!! nothing like that rain. baby !!! ml.
FANTASTIC!!! 80'S RULE!!!!!!!!! (AGAIN) WITH THE ALARM, the dj
Saw him last night with BIG COUNTRY. The man is a vocalist in it's truest form.
I saw them back in i think 1988 in Dallas, TX. They opened for Bob Dylan. I remember it being an amazing show too!
One of my favourite bands. sure do miss them
watched them in Cardiff in 1987 when they supported u2 at the time I was a massive u2 fan but these guys blew us all away when they played this
This song just came up on Songpop...I had forgotten about them. Thank you, Songpop🥰
LOVE this song, the Alarm rocks!
Was umpiring a baseball tournament a couple years and it started to rain. I went in the press box and started playing this song over the speakers. The parents were going nuts !!!!! A few of them had said they had forgotten the song or it reminded them of their college days. The rain eventually stopped by they kept playing it in the press box between innings anyway.
I love this! More mullets than you can shake a stick at!!! The 80's were awesome!
Mullet, haircut of the gods!!!!!
Still keeping the 80's alive!
1985 High School sophomore The Alarm was a band a fellow classmate turn me on to to this day one of my favorite.
what a great song, this is one of my favorites along with the stand, strength, and sold me down the river!!!and NO... The Alarm was not a one hit wonder band!!!!
Mario Viana, and Outkast is a perfect Xample of how me brother said there hasn't been good music since the Alarm split.
There were so many good rock and new wave bands from that time....What happened to all the great music?!
Great song ...period. No matter what the record labels intent, The Alarm had their own identity, easily distinguished from U2 , or Big Country. Definitely more blue collar.
This is a good group! Love their different styles of music that still sound great!
Wow ..Just stumbled on this great 80's tune by fluke...awesome, and brings back early high school memories..
Words cannot describe how much I love this song and video performance - Top Brass!
Saw Mike Peters, solo and acoustic, last week. Looks and sounds great. When he did this song it gave me frickin chills. He's a great performer and story teller.
According to Wikipedia, this song came out in 1987; but I never heard this song until I watched this video on MuchMusic OR MuchMoreMusic sometime between 2003 and 2005 at a friend's place. It's all right in my book!
Brian Doucet
I think this peaked early 1988. Good song but scenery is dull. Loved the guitar here. Even 27 years ago the best songs were not getting the most exposure.
+Brian Doucet lunatic kinda nice one thou!
+Brian Doucet i never heard it until 2010
Wave forever. Wish to be back in the 80's. Need a time travel machine.
I'm going to see The Alarm play LIVE in Los Angeles in a few days!
I remember this song as well as The Stand. But I mainly remember this band for the fact the lead singer quit the band while onstage in 1991. This band always brings a bittersweet feeling to me whenever I think about them.:..
the May 2023 Billy Corgan interview on Apple Music podcast brought me here
Same
Intensely beautiful guitar work
My favorite Alarm song. I've always wondered if anybody in U2 heard this and thought, "Damn, that sounds like one of ours."
Great song from the 80's. Dig those mullets!
Dave Sharp really shines on this excellent song!
all the best bands seem to have phenomenal lead guitarists,
his guitar style seems to be improvised, making it really unique!
saw them open for U2 on St Patty's Day of 1985 in Denver.....best opening act I've seen
Great to hear this again ...loved the Alarm ...a really great band
I can't go back and listen to anything after war by U2. I go back and listen to every Alarm record they're all amazing.
Mike Peters is who Bono strives so hard to imitate. Great band and timeless music.
Bono cannot even approach the creativity and overall talent that the blessed Mike Peters possesses in tonnage. U2 were commercial cuties before they even realized that they were phony sellouts only interested in top 40 ditty’s. Since the savage, severe strength of “DECLARATION “, when I first noticed and started listening to their music, The Alarm are known only to folks who truly appreciate incredible songwriting, brilliant musicians who played to the hearts of those who really knew the importance of tremendous lyrical composition that stood for truth, faith, and the correct way of living through this depraved world of ours. May GOD Bless Mike Peters and the rest of the Chaps…
Excellent song from a fantastic era, these guys should've gone further, got bigger. Great to hear it again.