Hear Me Out is a song that has two very different versions
The first one to be released was in 2002, this appeared on the A Flashing Blur Of Stripped Down Excitement album and would have been played live by Seventeen. This version was recorded as the Wallasey Sound Recording Studios demo in 1979
In 2013 for the Vinyl soundtrack another version of the song was recorded, appearing on the album to the film. This is a rawer version with different lyrics, apart from the chorus which dates from the era of The Toilets. The Toilets version would later evolve to what would become the version Seventeen played live. The Vinyl soundtrack includes versions of previously unrecorded songs that date from the days of the The Toilets
“Hear me out was a Toilets song first with the lyrics and arrangement like you hear in Vinyl.
It went into the Seventeen set with a new arrangement and different lyrics as can be heard on Flashing Blur….
It then morphed into Unbreak The Promise (the verse anyway)….. Mike Peters 19th October 2021“
1979 Wallasey Sound Recording Studios Demo
Running length 3:31
Written by Macdonald / Peters
Musicians & Credits
Mike Peters – Lead Vocals, Bass Guitar
Eddie Macdonald – Lead Guitar
Dave Sharp – Guitar
Nigel Buckle – Drums
Produced by Neil Richmond
Recorded at Wallasey Sound Recording Studios, Liverpool, England in 1979
Alternative studio recording ~ Vinyl soundtrack
2013 Vinyl soundtrack album recording
Running length 2:22
Written by Mike Peters
Musicians & Credits
Mike Peters – Vocals, Punk Rock Guitar
James Stevenson – Bass & Electric Guitar
Steve “Smiley” Barnard – Drums
Craig Adams – Bass Guitar
Steve Allan Jones – Piano, Farfissa Organ, Orchestration, Backing Vocals
Recorded at Aerial Studios, Wrexham, Wales and Bethel Chapel Studios, Dyserth, Wales
Recorded by Mark Warden, Martin Wilding and Mark Joy
Produced by Mike Peters
Music Supervisor Steve Allan Jones
Mastered by Kai Blankenberg @ Skyline Tonfabrik
Album appearances and discography of studio recordings
All the following are Worldwide releases except where stated
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2002 : Seventeen – A Flashing Blur of Stripped Down Excitement
Released on CD and vinyl by Vinyl Japan, catalogue numbers ASKCD135 (CD) ASKLP135 (Vinyl)
1979 Wallasey demo recording
15th March 2013 : The Alarm – Vinyl Free Rock and Roll
Twenty First Century Recording Company, catalogue number 21C062 (CD)
2013 Recording
Japanese Release :
2008 : Seventeen – A Flashing Blur of Stripped Down Excitement
Released on CD with paper sleeve by Vinyl Japan, catalogue number JASKCD135P
1979 Wallasey demo recording
Officially released live recordings – Audio
All the following are Worldwide releases on Twenty First Century Recording Company
(Except where stated)
23rd August 2003. Recorded at William Aston Hall, NEWI, Wrexham, Wales
Running Length 2:53
Performed by Mike Peters Solo acoustic
Released on CD in 2003 as Alarmstock Volume 1 – The Start Of The Beginning And The Point Of No Return by The Twenty First Century Recording Company
29th August 2004. Recorded at William Aston Hall, NEWI, Wrexham, Wales
Running Length 2:01
Performed by Mike Peters Solo acoustic
Released on CD in 2004 asAlarmstock 2 Volume 5 – Yesterday As If It Was Today by The Twenty First Century Recording Company
Lyrics
There’s something I want to say now
It’s straight up to the point I tell you
Or will you stop and listen
And tell me what I ask
It’s only what I ask from you
It’s not too much to ask, I know it
Cause I have seen you show it
And when you try to hide it
It only goes to show
It only goes to show I know
There’s now where to go I don’t know it
Woh-woh
No way you don’t show it
Woh-woh
Nowhere that I don’t call
Woh-woh Woh-woh
Oh hear me out
Woh ohhh
Hear me out
Woh woh ohhh
Hear me out
Woh woh ohh ohhh
There’s violence in what I’m say
Cause you might think I’m only playing
But when you won’t listen
I have to use these words
I aim them right between your eyes
There’s something that I want to say now
It’s straight up to the point I tell you
Or will you stop and listen
And tell me what I ask
It’s only what I ask from you
I said
There’s now where to go I don’t know it
Woh-woh
No way you don’t show it
Woh-woh
Nowhere that I don’t call
Woh-ho Woh-woh
Oh hear me out
Woh woh ohhh
Hear me out
Woh woh ohhh ohhh
Hear me out
Oh hear me out
ohhh
Oh hear me out
ohhh
Oh hear me out
ohhh
Oh hear me out
Woh Woh
Out
Woh Woh
Hear me out
Oh hear me out
Woh Woh
Oh hear me out
Woh Woh
Oh hear me out
Woh Woh
Oh hear me out
Woh Woh
Alternative lyrics ~ 2013 Vinyl Soundtrack
People don’t know how to say
What goes on from day to day
Explain myself in this way
It’s the only way I can say what I got to say
Hear me out
Out out
Hear me out
Out out
Hear me out out
Out out
Hear me out
Out out
Hear me out
Out out
Hear me out
Out out
Hear me out out
Out out
Hear me out
People stare at what I wear
People stepping cause their scared
People run and show their fear
People don’t understand cause I’m not that type of human being
Hear me out
Out out
Hear me out
Out out
Hear me out out
Out out
Hear me out
Out out
Hear me out
Out out
Hear me out out
Out out
Hear me out
Out out
Hear me out out
Out out
Hear me out
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Hear me out
Out out
Hear me out out
Out out
Hear me out
Audio & Visuals sources ~ 1 x Audio
Audio Link – Album version
The complete A Flashing Blur Of Stripped Down Excitement album can be listened to in the audio section of The Alarm Central web platform
(Page Updated 15/04/2022)