13th February 1984 : The Alarm – Declaration
Released on Vinyl, CD and Cassette
Track listing : Declaration, Marching On, Where Were You Hiding When The Storm Broke?, Third Light, Sixty Eight Guns, We Are the Light, Shout To The Devil, Blaze of Glory, Tell Me, The Deceiver, The Stand (Prophecy), Howling Wind

UK releases

Vinyl Album : Declaration, 13th February 1984 IRS Records, catalogue number IRS7044
Cassette Album : Declaration, 13th February 1984 IRS Records, catalogue number IRSC7044
CD Album : Declaration, 1984 IRS Records, catalogue number CDA7044

Europe releases

Vinyl Album : Declaration, February 1984 IRS Records, catalogue number ILP25887
CD Album : Declaration, 1984 IRS Records, catalogue number CDILP25887
Greece release
Vinyl Album : Declaration, February 1984 Illegal Records, catalogue number ILP25887
Netherlands release
Cassette Album : Declaration, February 1984 IRS Records, catalogue number 40-25887
Portugal release
Vinyl Album : Declaration, February 1984 IRS Records, catalogue number ILP25887
Spain releases
Vinyl Album : Declaration, February 1984 IRS Records, catalogue number IRS25887
Vinyl Album : Declaration, February 1984 Illegal Records, catalogue number ILP25887

Israel release
Vinyl Album : Declaration, 1984 IRS Records, catalogue number 25887

USA Releases

Vinyl Album : Declaration, 13th February 1984. IRS Records, catalogue number SP70608
Vinyl Album : Declaration, 1984 IRS Records, catalogue number SP70050 (Reissue)
Vinyl Album : Declaration, 1990 IRS Records, catalogue number SP75050 (Reissue)
Cassette Album : Declaration, 13th February 1984 IRS Records, catalogue number CS70608
Cassette Album : Declaration, 1984 IRS Records, catalogue number CS70050 (Reissue)
Cassette Album : Declaration, 1990 IRS Records, catalogue number CS75050 (Reissue)
CD Album : Declaration, 1984 IRS Records, catalogue number CD70608
CD Album : Declaration, 1990 IRS Records, catalogue number CD70050 (Reissue)
Canada Releases
Vinyl Album : Declaration, 1984 IRS Records, catalogue number SP70608
Cassette Album : Declaration, 1984 IRS Records, catalogue number CS70608
CD Album : Declaration, IRS Records, catalogue number CD69990

Australia releases
Vinyl Album : Declaration, 1984 IRS Records, catalogue number ELPS4430
Cassette Album : Declaration, 1984 IRS Records, catalogue number IRSA7044
CD Album : Declaration, IRS Records, catalogue number Cat. No. 7131152

Japan releases


Vinyl Album : Declaration, 1984 IRS Records, catalogue number 28AP 2845
Vinyl Album : Declaration, 1984 IRS Records, catalogue number 28AP 2845 (Promo
Cassette Album : Declaration, 21st June 1984 IRS Records, catalogue number 28KP 2845
CD Album –:Declaration, 21st June 1986 IRS Records, catalogue number 32DP 436 (Reissue)
CD Album : Declaration, 21st March 1991, catalogue number CBS/Sony 6086 (Reissue)

New Zealand release
Vinyl Album : Declaration, 1984 IRS Records/Illegal Records, catalogue number ELPS4430

South Korea release
Vinyl Album : Declaration, Asia Records, catalogue number ACH-1538

22nd April 1991 : The Alarm – Raw
Released on Vinyl, CD and Cassette
Track listing : Raw, Rockin’ In The Free World, God Save Somebody, Moments In Time, Hell Or High Water, Lead Me Through The Darkness, The Wind Blows Away My Words, Let The River Run It’s Course, Save Your Crying, Wonderful World

UK releases
Vinyl Album – Raw, 22nd April 1991 IRS Records, catalogue number EIRSA1055
Cassette Album – Raw, 22nd April 1991 IRS Records, catalogue number EIRSAC1055
CD Album – Raw, 22nd April 1991 IRS Records, catalogue number EIRSACD1055

Europe release
Vinyl Album – Raw, 22nd April 1991 EMI Electrola, catalogue number 1C 064-713087 1
CD Album – Raw, 22nd April 1991 IRS Records, catalogue number 7130872

Italian Releases
Vinyl Album – Raw, 22nd April 1991 IRS Records, catalogue number E64 7130871
Cassette Album – Raw, 22nd April 1991 IRS Records, catalogue number 64 7130874

USA Releases
CD Album – Raw, 22nd April 1991 IRS Records, catalogue number X2-13087
Cassette Album – Raw, 22nd April 1991 IRS Records, catalogue number X4-13087

Canadian Release
CD Album – Raw, 22nd April 1991 IRS Records, catalogue number X2-13087

Japanese Release
CD Album – Raw, 22nd April 1991 IRS Records, catalogue number VICP-5054

2000 Raw [1990-1991] Remaster Release
CD Only release
Track listing : The Road (Previously unreleased mix), Rockin’ In The Free World (Previously unreleased extended version), Raw, The Wind Blows Away My Words, Unsafe Building [1990] (Previously unreleased extended version), God Save Somebody, Moments In Time, Let The River Run It’s Course (Previously unreleased extended version), Lead Me Through The Darkness, Hell Or High Water, Wonderful World, Save Your Crying, Up For Murder [1990] (Previously unavailable on album), Happy Xmas [War Is Over], Walk Forever By My Side  (Previously unreleased acoustic version)

Worldwide Release
CD Album – Raw [1990-1991] Twenty First Century Recording Company, catalogue number 21C016. Originally only available as part of the collection box set, catalogue number 21C018 it was later made available for sale at gigs as a single disc.

1995 : Mike Peters – Breathe The Acoustic Sessions
Worldwide release
Twenty First Century Recording Company, catalogue number 21C001
CD release


Track listing : Poetic Justice, Beautiful Thing, Who’s Gonna Make The Peace?, Spiritual, Breathe, Into The 21st Century, This Is War, Levi’s and Bibles, Love Is a Revolution, Train A Comin’.

1995 – Mike Peters – Second Generation Volume 1 Rare songs of the Alarm revisited
Worldwide release
Twenty First Century Recording Company, catalogue number 21C002.
CD release



Track listing : Second Generation, Majority, Elders & Folklore, Pavilion Steps, What Kind Of Hell, Rose Beyond The Wall, Unbreak The Promise, Reason 41, Up For Murder, The Peace Train (Chant Has Just Begun)

1997 : Mike Peters & The Poets of Justice – Abbey Road Sessions
Worldwide release. Twenty First Century Recording Company, catalogue number 21C003.
CD only release
Track listing : Introduction Interview, Afternoon Session (Closed) – Poetic Justice, Unstoppable, Train a Comin’, What the World Cant Give Me, Beautiful Thing. Evening Session (with Audience) – This Is War, One World Exodus, All I Wanted, 21st Century, No Better Than This, Spiritual, Refugees in the Westworld, Can’t Get Through, A New Chapter

28th October 1997 : Mike Peters – Acoustic Works 1981 – 1986
Worldwide release
Twenty First Century Recording Company, catalogue number 21C004
CD release




Track listing : Unsafe Building, The Stand, For Freedom, Lie Of The Land, Declaration, Marching On, Where Were You Hiding When The Storm Broke?, Sixty Eight Guns, We Are The Light, Shout To The Devil, Blaze of Glory, The Deceiver, Howling Wind, Thoughts Of A Young Man, Absolute Reality, Knife Edge, Strength, Dawn Chorus, Spirit Of 76, Deeside, Father to Son, Only The Thunder, Walk Forever By My Side

28th October 1997 : Mike Peters – Acoustic Works 1987 – 1991
Worldwide release
Twenty First Century Recording Company, catalogue number 21C005.
CD release



Track listing : Rain In The Summertime, Newtown Jericho, Hallowed Ground, Shelter, Rescue Me, Permanence In Change, Presence Of Love, Eye Of The Hurricane, Change I, Sold me Down The River, The Rock, Devolution Workin’ Man Blues, Love Don’t Come Easy, Hardland, No Frontiers, Where A Town Once Stood, How The Mighty Fall, Rivers To Cross, A New South Wales, Breaking Point, The Road, The Wind Blows Away My Words, Moments In Time

11th October 1999 : Coloursøund
Worldwide release
Twenty First Century Recording Company under exclusive licence to Sanctuary Music Productions PLC, catalogue number 21C008
CD only release



Track listing : Under The Sun, Fountainhead, State Of Independence, Heavy Rain, View From A Different Window, Alive, This Life, All Kinds Of Wonderful, For The Love Of, Where Do You Want To Go?, Fade In Fade Out, Fade Away

5th January 2000 : Mike Peters – Flesh & Blood
[Inspired by the stage play Flesh & Blood written by Helen Griffin]
Worldwide release
Twenty First Century Recording Company, catalogue number 21C009
CD only release


Track listing : House of Commons, Life Can Be Beautiful [Sometimes], Flesh & Blood, Steve’s Theme, Staring Into The Thin Air, If I Ruled The World, Those Were The Days [Bastard Days], Lucky Numbers, Semi-Circles, [She’s Got] Two To Think Of Now, St. David’s Day, Working Class Heroine, A New Wales

2001 – The Alarm – Alt-Strength
Worldwide release
Twenty First Century Recording Company
Alarm Records Collectors Club catalogue number ADECC001
Double CD release

Track Listing Disc 1: Knife Edge : Different lyrics and longer version, Absolute Reality : Originally intended to be the title track of the album, Sons Of Divorce : Unreleased Macdonald/Peters song. Never plated live, One Step Closer To Home : Electric version, Rose Beyond The Wall : Completely different arrangement / lyrics to 1987 Hurricane version, Steeltown : Different lyrics, title changed to Deeside when Big Country released an album called Steeltown, We Are Majority : Legendary We Are lyric version, Black Side Of Fortune : UnreleasedDave Sharp song occasionally played live around 84/85, The Day The Ravens Left The Tower : Slightly different lyrics to official version, Get In On (T Rex), Summertime Blues (Cochran, The Who), Gimme All Your Lovin’ (ZZ Top), Alarm Alarm (Toilets/17), Radar Love (Golden Earring), Burn (Deep Purple), Black Night (Deep Purple), Can’t Always Get What You Want (Rolling Stones), Walk On The Wild Side (Lou Reed), Vicious (Lou Reed), All Right Now (Free), Communication Breakdown (Led Zep), It’s In The Charts (unknown), Maggie May/Maggies Farm/Stand Down Margret (Rod Stewart), Dawn Chorus : 4th April rough mix, faster, no keyboard version, eventually slowed down and resung before release, Knife Edge : Roundhouse studios rough mix 10th April 1985

Track Listing Disc 2 : Give Me Love : Contains quotes from Dylan’s All Along the Watchtower. Eventually retitled/recast as Strength, In The Cold Light Of Day : Despite working fast, Roger Daltry received the song too late to consider the song for his own sessions. Eventually reworked as Only Love Can Set Me Free and released on Eye of The Hurricane in 1987, River Still To Cross : Demo taped by Dave Sharp during a late night session at Marcus. despite the insistence of the rest of the band, Dave Sharp preferred not to re-record the song for the album, but save it for later use. it was eventually reworked and added to by Peters and Macdonald durign the Change album session 1988/1989, Strength : Give Me Love now titles Strength with still working lyrics and a different guitar part. At this point the band decided to drop Absolute Reality from the album and use this song as the title track, Spirit Of ’76 : Backing track with very different lyrics, Deeside : Live in the studio version. No harmonica, For Tomorrow : Eventually retitled Father To Son live in the studio with different lyrics, Majority : Live in the studio with final lyrics after suggestion from Bono during shows with U2 in Europe, Absolute Reality : Live in the studio unreleased take. A studio version as cut for the US release although the song was originally left off the UK vinyl version as a single version had been issued to promote The Absolute Tour, One Step Closer To Home : Live in the studio. left off the album after Dave Sharp failed to complete the vocal overdubs after three day drinking binge with Jimmy Page of Led Zep, Only The Thunder : Live in the studio version, Day The Ravens Left The Tower : Live in the studio version. Different lyrics in middle section, Walk Forever By My Side : Piano and vocal version only, live in the studio. No Brass Band, Strength : Rough mix with keyboard intro, no backing vocals and an acoustic part left out of released mix, Spirit Of ’76 : Rough mix of final version, possibly even better than released

2002 : Seventeen – A Flashing Blur Of Stripped Down Excitement
Released on Vinyl and CD
Track listing : Talking About The Weekend, Stop Thinking About Yourself, I Can’t Control Myself, Street Of A Thousand Faces, Hear Me Out, Night’s Over Now, Please Please Me, Say What I Think, Nothing Lasts Forever, It’s Only Natural, Every Night Of The Week, Here Comes Tonight, Don’t Let Go, Bank Holiday Weekend

UK Releases

Vinyl Album : A Flashing Blur Of Stripped Down Excitement
Released in 2002 by Vinyl Japan, catalogue number ASKLP135
CD Album : A Flashing Blur Of Stripped Down Excitement
Released in 2002 by Vinyl Japan, catalogue number ASKCD135

Japanese Release
CD Album : A Flashing Blur Of Stripped Down Excitement
Released in 2008 by Vinyl Japan, catalogue number JASKCD135P

2013 – Vinyl Free Rock and Roll
Worldwide release
Twenty First Century Recording Company, catalogue number 21C062
CD and DVD collectors edition double pack



CD track listing : A Breed Apart, Free Rock And Roll, Rip It Up, La La La London, Tomorrow Calling, Cowpat Town, You’re Only Young [And Innocent] Once, Kill To get What You Want [Die For What You Believe In], Three Sevens Clash, Where Have All the Good Times, Gone?, Standing On The Corner, ASBO, Nothing To Do, Social Security, Hear Me Out, Alarm Alarm, Zeros And Ones, Immediate Girl, Nuclear, 45 RPM, Free Rock And Roll [Reprise]

DVD : Recording of the Soundtrack film, 45 RPM ‘The True Story” by Mike Peters, The Videos – 11 Alarm/Vinyl performance films including Free Rock And Roll.

2015 – The Alarm – Majority
Worldwide release
Twenty First Century Recording Company, catalogue number 21C071
CD release



Track listing : Majority, Reason 36, Black Side Of Fortune, Vigilante Man, Knocking On Heavens Door, Caroline Isenberg, Sons Of Divorce, The Chant Has Just Begun, Room At The Top, Unbreak The Promise, Memorial Day, We Are Majority

2018 – The Alarm – Declaration 1984-4985
Worldwide release
Twenty First Century Recording Company, catalogue number 21C096
Double CD release


Track listing – Disc One : Declaration, Marching On, Where Were You Hiding When The Storm Broke?, Third Light, Sixty Eight Guns, We Are The Light, Shout To The Devil, Blaze Of Glory, Tell Me, The Deceiver, The Stand (Prophecy), Howling Wind
Track listing – Disc Two : Peace Train, Where Were You Hiding When The Storm Broke? (Take One), Sixty Eight Guns (Original Drum Take version), Unbreak The Promise (Acoustic version), Howling Wind (Acoustic version), What Kind Of Hell, Pavilion Steps, Reason 41, Second Generation, The Chant Has Just Begun (Single version), Bells Of Rhymney, Bound For Glory, The Chant Has Just Begun (12″version), Absolute Reality (Single version), Reason 36, Room At The Top

1st October 2019 – Mike Peters Presents The Alarm – Stream [Hurricane of Change] 
Worldwide release
Twenty First Century Recording Company, catalogue number 21C112
Double CD release



Track Listing CD 1 – Downstream : A New South Wales, Newtown Jericho, Ghosts Of Rebecca, The Ballad Of Randolph Turpin, Irish Sea, My Land Your Land, Hallowed Ground, Eye Of The Hurricane, A Rose Beyond The Wall, Shelter, Rescue Me, Rain In The Summertime, Only Love Can Set Me Free, Permanence In Change, World On Fire, Presence Of Love, A Time To Believe, One Step Closer To Home, Elders And Folklore

Track Listing CD 2 – Upstream : Where A Town Once Stood, New Frontiers, Hardland, Black Sun, The Firing Line, Change II, Corridors Of Power, How The Mighty Fall, Sold Me Down The River, Breaking Point, Prison Without Prison Bars, Scarlet, Devolution Working Man Blues, Love Don’t Come Easy, The Rock, Rivers To Cross, Change I, A New Day

2020 – The Alarm – Music Will Keep Us Strong
Worldwide release
Twenty First Century Recording Company, catalogue number 21C118
4 x CD set release


Track listing:
Disc One
Episode One: Broadcast 21st March 2020
We Are The Light, Lie Of The Land, The Rock, In The Beauty Of My Surroundings, Cenotaph, Beautiful, Unsafe Building, Marching On. Where Were You Hiding When The Storm Broke?, Sixty Eight Guns
Episode Two: Broadcast 28th March 2020
Right Back Where I Started From, My Town, In A Big Country, World On Fire, Deeside, Majority, Howling Wind, Elders And Folklore, No Better Than This, Blaze Of Glory
Episode Three: Broadcast 4th April 2020
Only The Thunder, Street Of A Thousand Faces, Bells Of Rhymney, Breathe, Be Still, The Wind Blows Away My Words, Absolute Reality
Episode Four: Broadcast 11th April 2020
Poetic Justice, Rain In The Summertime
Disc Two
Episode Four: Broadcast 11th April 2020
Broken Silence, Maggie May/Stand Down Margaret/Maggie’s Farm, Rescue Me, Love Hope Strength, One Step Closer To Home, Rockin’ In The Free World
Episode Five: Broadcast 18th April 2020
Peace Now, Knife Edge, Presence Of Love, A Breed Apart, Alarm Calling, The Normal Rules Do Not Apply, Permanence In Change, No Frontiers
Episode Six: Broadcast 25th April 2020
Time, Second Generation, Hellfire, Marching On, Walk Forever By My Side, Rise, My Calling, Flesh And Blood, Love And Understanding, After The Rock And Roll Has Gone
Episode Seven: Broadcast 2nd May 2020
Twenty First Century, What The World Can’t Give Me, Regeneration
Disc Three
Episode Seven: Broadcast 2nd May 2020
Feel Free, Transcendental, The Unexplained, Superchannel, Without A Fight
Episode Eight: Broadcast 9th May 2020
Close, St. David’s Day, New Home New Life, World On Fire, Reason 41, In The Poppy Fields, Golden Brown
Episode Nine: Broadcast 16th May 2020
Devolution Working Man Blues, When Everything Was Perfect, Badge Of Honour [Part One], Two Rivers
Episode Ten: Broadcast 23rd May 2020
All Seeing, You’re Only Young [And Innocent] Once, I Never Left I Only Went Away, Hail And Farewell, The Road, Unsafe Building, The Stand, Sixty Eight Guns, Where Were You Hiding?, Absolute Reality, Strength
Episode Eleven: Broadcast 30th May 2020
The Rock And Roll, It’s Alright It’s Ok, This Is The Way We Are
Disc Four
Episode Eleven: Broadcast 30th May 2020
Spirit Of’76, Rain In The Summertime, Rescue Me, Sold Me Down The River, A New South Wales, Happy Xmas [War Is Over]
Episode Twelve: Broadcast 6th June 2020
History Repeating, For Freedom, Strength To Strength, A New Chapter, Down The Road, Swansong, Blood Red Viral Black
Episode Thirteen: Broadcast 13th June 2020
Peace Agreement, Rain Down, Terms And Conditions, This Is Life [Get Used To It], Rip, First Light
Episode Fourteen: Broadcast 20th June 2020
Dead Man Blues, The Devil’s Music, One Guitar, 45 RPM
Episode Fifteen: Broadcast 27th June 2020
In Circles, State Of Independence, Situation Under Control
Episode Sixteen: Broadcast 4th July 2020
Love And Understanding, Neutral

28th September 2020 – Coloursøund [Remastered]
Worldwide release.
The Great North Western Recording Company Productions
CD release, catalogue number – GNWRCD001
Blue Vinyl release with additional 7″ single side single, catalogue number – GNWRC001 – Limited edition of 250
Red Vinyl release with additional 7″ single side single, catalogue number – GNWRC001 – Limited edition of 250
Black Vinyl release, catalogue number – GNWRC001



Track listing : Under The Sun, Fountainhead, State Of Independence, Heavy Rain, Alive, Fade In Fade Out, Fade Away, This Life, For The Love Of, View From A Different Window, Where Do You Want To Go?, All Kinds Of Wonderful
Bonus 7″ single free with Red and Blue vinyl release : Fade In Fade Out Fade Away [2020 Recording]

December 2020 – The Alarm – Mike Peters Christmas Jukebox
Worldwide release
Twenty First Century Recording Company, catalogue number 21C121
CD release



Track listing : All Around The World It’s Christmas Time, Do They Know It’s Christmas, Last Christmas, Lonely This Christmas, Love Hope and Strength at Christmas, Merry Christmas Everyone, Merry Xmas Everybody, Snow in the Wintertime, Step Into Christmas, Walk Forever By My Side [Christmas Night]
(Note the cover includes Happy Xmas (War Is Over), but this does not appear on the release

4th January 2021 – Mike Peters – Tine // 1981-2021
Worldwide release
Twenty First Century Recording Company, catalogue number 21C116
CD release



Track listing – spoken word pieces and songs : The First Time, Unbreak The Promise, The Second Time, Time To Believe, The Third Time, Moments In Time [Swansong Version], The Fourth Time, Poetic Justice, The Fifth Time, Break Bread With Me, The Sixth Time, You’re Only Young [And Innocent] Once, The Seventh Time, The Rock And Roll, The Eight Time, Without A Fight, The Ninth Time, Time, The Tenth Time, History Repeating [Acoustic Version]

July 2021 – The Alarm – History Repeating 1981-2021
Staycation release. Twenty First Century Recording Company, catalogue number 21C129
CD only release. Only available to those staying at the Alarm40 Experience Staycation weekend 2021

Track listing :

November 2022 – The Alarm – Warriors Live In Manchester
Worldwide release
Twenty First Century Recording Company, catalogue number 21C124
Double CD release


Track listing Disc One : Protect and Survive, Absolute Reality, 45 R.P.M., Fail, Rain In The Summertime, Superchannel, Safe From Harm, Two Rivers, What Kind Of Hell?, Cenotaph

Track listing Disc Two: In the Poppy Fields, The Stand, Deeside, Beautiful, The Deceiver, Majority, Third Light, Shout To The Devil, For Freedom, Marching On, Close, Unsafe Building, Where Were You Hiding When The Storm Broke?, Knife Edge, Walk Forever By My Side, My Town, Sixty Eight Guns, Spirit Of ’76, Rescue Me, Blaze of Glory, In The Poppy Fields [Reprise], Declaration, Breathe, Psalm, Warriors

24th November 2022 – Mike Peters presents The Alarm – 40th Anniversary Acoustic Concert Selection Rhyl Town Hall 11th/12th March 2022
Worldwide release
Twenty First Century Recording Company, catalogue number 21C125
CD release

Track listing : Brighter Than The Sun, Time, Cenotaph, Hellfire, A Breed Apart, Loaded, Badge Of Honour [Part Two], Plastic Carrier Bags, Situation Under Control, My Town, Its Alright / Its Ok, This Is The Way We Are, You’re Only Young [And Innocent] Once, House Of Commons, Transcendental, All Is Forgiven, Broken Silence, A New Chapter, Breathe, Moments In Time, Rocking In The Free World, The Wind Blows Away My Words, The Road, No Frontiers

16th November 2022 – The Alarm – Forwards
Worldwide release
Twenty First Century Recording Company, atalogue number 21C131CD (CD), 21C131LP (White Vinyl) 21C131LPG (Green Vinyl)
CD, Green Vinyl, White Vinyl, Digital Download Releas

Track listing : Forwards, The Returning, Another Way, Love and Forgiveness, Next, Whatever, Transition, Lobe Disappearing, New Standards, X