Carl, Dramarama

Bill, the first full length "Declaration" is full of acoustic stuff, but basically it's very political balls out rock.

The second album "Strength" is pretty much one of the most perfect album ever made. More electric, but just unbelievable songwriting. Still political and very social. There is another hidden message beneath The Alarm that true fans know of, and many others don't pick up on, and it really is what they are all about.

If you can find the first EP, grab it! It goes for HUGE money on eBay though, but is worth it for the version of "Marching On" that is on that.

I am guessing that "Eye Of The Hurricane" might be Raggz fave. It's the third full length, and I don't like it much at all. That album kept me from buying the next two, which is a shame because the fourth album had the great song "Sold Me Down The River", or I think that was the name. But "Eye" was pretty much bad 80's Pop, as displayed in the hit single "Rain In The Summertime". Early Alarm is Folk meets Punk.

she mentioned a song called Sixty Eight Guns but to be honest, i have never heard anything by the Alarm before. I will have to pick some stuff up now.

"Sixty Eight Guns" is off of the first album. It's also the song that you will more than likely hear and go "THIS is The Alarm"!?! If you lived in the 80's, and were connected at all to the underground, you have heard "Guns". If you watch the show tomorrow, I am laying money on it that they do "Sixty Eight Guns" and "Rain In The Summertime". Though I would KILL to hear them do "Marching On", "Deeside" or "Father To Son". Hell, maybe they will actually let them do "Spirit Of '76" which is about a 10 minute song!!!

Give 'em a whirl. They might not be your thing, but I can't imagine you hating them. They were often unfairly compared to U2.

Oh, and back to Dramarama. Check out the VH1 boards to see people confused as to who the hell Dramarama were! LOL!!! I have to admit that when I saw them listed as a show, I was confused as to who the hell would be watching this episode! I didn't know anybody other than myself actually knew who the hell they were! I have NEVER met anybody else who has ever heard of them.

the only thing i have ever heard from dramarama is buckcherry's version of anything, anything.

And to tell you the truth, the Buckcherry version is SERIOUSLY lacking in the energy and attitude of the original. Not a bad version, but hardly as good as the original.

So its not a typo of Bananarama?

As I said in my below post, I recognized the tune by Dramarama from Nightmare on Elm Street 4. [img]smile.gif[/img]

That's funny Lycan. Over on the VH1 board, that was the association I made for people. I told them that if they saw that film, it was the work-out tune! LOL!!!

Not the workout tune, bro. That was a different one. Well, I guess there were two different workout scenes in there. This was the one with the kung fu workout (not the weights workout, which was some female singer). Before all the killings started. lol I dunno. There were some cool tunes in that movie but almost none were on the released soundtrack.