The Alarm discography
Studio albums19
Live albums29
Compilation albums8
Video albums10
EPs8
Singles35
Soundtrack albums2
Box sets5
Other albums23

This is the discography of Welsh rock band the Alarm.

Albums

Studio albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
UK
[1][2]
UK Indie
[3]
CAN
[4]
NL
[5]
NOR
[6]
NZ
[7]
SWE
[8]
US
[9]
US Indie
[10]
Declaration
  • Released: 13 February 1984
  • Label: I.R.S.
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
6 35 14 38 22 50
Strength
  • Released: October 1985
  • Label: I.R.S.
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
18 66 74 12 19 39
Eye of the Hurricane
  • Released: 19 October 1987
  • Label: I.R.S.
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
23 34 77
Change
  • Released: September 1989
  • Label: I.R.S.
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
13 26 75
Raw
  • Released: April 1991
  • Label: I.R.S.
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
33 59 161
Close [upper-alpha 1]
  • Released: 21 September 2002
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD
The Normal Rules Do Not Apply [upper-alpha 1]
  • Released: 26 October 2002
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD
Trafficking [upper-alpha 1]
  • Released: 10 December 2003
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD
Edward Henry Street [upper-alpha 1]
  • Released: 10 December 2003
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD
Coming Home [upper-alpha 1]
  • Released: 20 January 2004
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD
In the Poppy Fields [upper-alpha 2] 107 9
Under Attack [upper-alpha 3] 138
Guerilla Tactics [upper-alpha 4]
  • Released: 7 July 2008[13]
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD+DVD, digital download
Direct Action [upper-alpha 5]
  • Released: 12 April 2010[14]
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD+DVD, digital download
Blood Red [upper-alpha 6]
  • Released: 5 May 2017
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
Viral Black [upper-alpha 6]
  • Released: 22 September 2017
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
Equals
  • Released: 29 June 2018
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
72 6 46
Sigma
  • Released: 28 June 2019
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
10
WAЯ
  • Released: 25 February 2021
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Live albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions
UK
[1]
US
[9]
Electric Folklore Live
  • Released: November 1988
  • Label: I.R.S.
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
62 167
Live on the King Biscuit Flower Hour
Shepherds Bush Empire London 15.12.2000
  • Released: 2000
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: 2xCD
  • Limited release
Greatest Hits Live
  • Released: 2001
  • Label: Beyond
  • Formats: CD
The Garage Glasgow 4.12.2000
  • Released: 2001
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: 2xCD
  • Limited release
Live at Hammersmith Palais 1984
  • Released: 15 January 2003
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD
The Garage Glasgow 01.02.2003 [upper-alpha 7]
  • Released: 17 July 2003
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD
Masque Theatre Liverpool 06.02.2003 [upper-alpha 7]
  • Released: 17 July 2003
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD
London Mean Fiddler 07.02.03 [upper-alpha 7]
  • Released: 17 July 2003
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD
The Alarm MMIII in Session [upper-alpha 7]
  • Released: 2004
  • Label: Snapper Music
  • Formats: CD
Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall 7th February 2004
  • Released: 22 September 2004
  • Label: Snapper Music
  • Formats: CD
  • Limited release
Liverpool Academy 8th February 2004
  • Released: 22 September 2004
  • Label: Snapper Music
  • Formats: CD
  • Limited release
Pontypridd Muni Arts Centre 26th February 2004
  • Released: 22 September 2004
  • Label: Snapper Music
  • Formats: CD
  • Limited release
The Garage Glasgow 7th March 2004
  • Released: 22 September 2004
  • Label: Snapper Music
  • Formats: CD
  • Limited release
Live in the Poppy Fields [upper-alpha 2]
  • Released: 27 September 2004
  • Label: Snapper Music
  • Formats: CD+DVD
The Saturday Gigs [upper-alpha 3]
  • Released: 1 December 2006
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD
Spirit of '86
  • Released: 23 November 2007
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD+DVD
The Gathering Live 2011
  • Released: 2011
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: 2xCD+2xDVD
The Music Must and Shall Be Preserved – The Gathering Live 2012
  • Released: 2012
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: 2xCD+2xDVD
Abide With Us – The Gathering 2013
  • Released: 2013
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: 2xCD
No Barriers – The Gathering 2014
  • Released: December 2014
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: 2xCD+2xDVD
Hands Held High – Live at the Gathering 2015
  • Released: December 2015
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD+3xDVD
Declaration – Live at the Deaf Institute
  • Released: 7 December 2015
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD+DVD
Strength – Live at the Globe 2015
  • Released: 7 December 2015
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD+DVD
In Session 2016
  • Released: 2016
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD
'Orchestrated' – Live at Wales Millennium Centre [upper-alpha 6]
  • Released: October 2016
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: 2xLP
Strength Live '85
  • Released: 13 April 2019
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: 2xLP, digital download
Celtic Folklore Live
  • Released: 18 April 2020
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: LP
  • Limited release
Music Will Keep Us Strong
  • Released: 10 September 2020
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: 4xCD
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Soundtrack albums

Title Album details
Vinyl – Free Rock and Roll [upper-alpha 5]
  • Released: 15 March 2013
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD, digital download
  • Soundtrack to the film Vinyl
Man in the Camo Jacket... A Story of Love Hope Strength
  • Released: 22 April 2017
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: LP, digital download
  • Soundtrack to the Mike Peters documentary film

Compilation albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
UK
[1]
CAN
[4]
US
[9]
Standards
  • Released: November 1990
  • Label: I.R.S.
  • Formats: CD, LP, MC
47 78 177
The Best of the Alarm and Mike Peters
  • Released: 13 April 1998
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: CD
Eponymous 1981–1983
  • Released: 2000
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD
The Collection
  • Released: 5 November 2007
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: CD
BBC Radio Sessions 1983–1991
  • Released: 14 November 2008
  • Label: BBC
  • Formats: CD
21
  • Released: 2 November 2009
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD, digital download
  • Contains re-recordings and remixes
Best of Live
  • Released: 18 November 2018
  • Label: Secret
  • Formats: LP
History Repeating 1981–2021
  • Released: 4 June 2021
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD, 2xLP, digital download
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Box sets

Title Album details
The Alarm 2000 Collection
  • Released: August 2000
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: 8xCD
The Sound & the Fury – Live 1981 to 1991
  • Released: 20 October 2003
  • Label: Shakedown
  • Formats: 2xCD+DVD
The Gathering Collection
  • Released: January 2005
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: 8xDVD
Counter Attack
  • Released: 2008
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: 8xCD
Poppies Falling from the Sky
  • Released: 10 October 2016
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: 2xCD+DVD

Video albums

Title Album details
Spirit of '86
  • Released: 1986
  • Label: Hendring
  • Formats: VHS, Beta
Change. E.P.
Standards
  • Released: November 1990
  • Label: I.R.S.
  • Formats: VHS
Blaze Of Glory – Live in Concert from the Brixton Academy
Greatest Hits Live
  • Released: 10 June 2002
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: DVD
VH-1 Bands Reunited Uncut
  • Released: 2003
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: 3xDVD
The Story of the Alarm
  • Released: 30 November 2002
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: 2xDVD
Rock and Roll Circus – Live at the Marquee Club, London, England
  • Released: 28 June 2006
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: DVD
The Alarm MMVII Live from the Gathering 2007
  • Released: 23 November 2007
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: DVD
Tactical Response from the Gathering 2008
  • Released: 14 November 2008
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: DVD

Other albums

Title Album details
Newid
  • Released: 1989
  • Label: I.R.S.
  • Formats: CD, LP
  • Welsh-language version of Change
Tân
  • Released: 1991
  • Label: Crai
  • Formats: CD, MC
  • Welsh-language version of Raw
Declaration 1984–1985
  • Released: 2000
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD
  • Expanded reissue of Declaration
Strength 1985–1986
  • Released: 2000
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD
  • Expanded reissue of Strength
Eye of the Hurricane 1987–1988
  • Released: 2000
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD
  • Expanded reissue of Eye of the Hurricane
Electric Folklore Live 1987–1988
  • Released: 2000
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD
  • Expanded reissue of Electric Folklore Live
Change 1989–1990
  • Released: 2000
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD
  • Expanded reissue of Change
Raw 1990–1991
  • Released: 2000
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD
  • Expanded reissue of Raw
Three Sevens Clash [upper-alpha 8]
  • Released: 7 July 2007
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD
Fightback [upper-alpha 8]
  • Released: 2 August 2007
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD
This Is Not a Test [upper-alpha 8]
  • Released: 10 September 2007
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD
Situation Under Control [upper-alpha 8]
  • Released: 3 October 2007
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD
Call to Action [upper-alpha 8]
  • Released: 9 November 2007
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD
1983/84 Revisited [upper-alpha 8]
  • Released: 1 December 2007
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD
Counter Attack [upper-alpha 8]
  • Released: 12 February 2008
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD
The Sound and the Fury
  • Released: 6 June 2011
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD+DVD digital download
  • Contains re-recordings of previously released songs
Declaration [30th Anniversary]
  • Released: 13 February 2014
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD, LP
  • Re-recording of album
Peace Train
  • Released: 2014
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD
  • Companion to the re-recorded Declaration album
Strength [30th Anniversary]
  • Released: 25 February 2015
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD, LP
  • Re-recording of album
Majority
  • Released: 16 March 2015
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD
  • Companion to the re-recorded Strength album
Eye of the Hurricane [2019 Edition]
  • Released: October 2019
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: LP
  • Re-recording of album
Change [2019 Edition]
  • Released: October 2019
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: LP
  • Re-recording of album
Sun Studio Sessions 2019
  • Released: December 2019
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD

EPs

Title Album details Peak chart positions
US
[9]
The Alarm
  • Released: 15 June 1983
  • Label: I.R.S.
  • Formats: 12", MC
126
Spirit of '76
  • Released: 1985
  • Label: I.R.S.
  • Formats: LP
  • Mini-album
Compact Hits
  • Released: May 1988
  • Label: A&M
  • Formats: CD
Save It for Later
  • Released: 1988
  • Label: I.R.S.
  • Formats: CD
Unbreak the Promise
  • Released: 20 June 2011
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD, digital download
Where the Two Rivers Meet
  • Released: 21 April 2018
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: 12"
  • Limited release
The Red Wall of Cymru
  • Released: 28 May 2021
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: CD, digital download
Spirit of '58 EP
  • Released: 12 June 2021
  • Label: The Twenty First Century Recording Company
  • Formats: 7"
  • Limited release
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Singles

Title Year Peak chart positions Albums
UK
[1][15]
UK Indie
[16]
CAN
[17]
IRE
[18][19]
NZ
[20]
US
[21]
US Alt
[22]
US Main
[23]
"Unsafe Building" 1981 Non-album single
"Marching On" 1982 Declaration
"The Stand" 1983 86
"Sixty Eight Guns" 17 16 106 39
"Where Were You Hiding When the Storm Broke?" 1984 22
"The Deceiver" 51 104
"The Chant Has Just Began" 48 Non-album single
"Absolute Reality" 1985 35 Strength
"Strength" 40 61 12
"Spirit of '76" 1986 22 23 29
"Knife Edge" 43
"Rain in the Summertime" 1987 18 44 30 48 71 6 Eye of the Hurricane
"Rescue Me" 48 34
"Presence of Love" 1988 44 77 16
"Sold Me Down the River" 1989 43 19 50 3 2 Change
"A New South Wales" [upper-alpha 9] 31
"Hwylio Dros y Mor" [upper-alpha 10] Newid
"Devolution Workin' Man Blues" 88 11 9 Change
"Love Don't Come Easy" 1990 48 55 33
"Unsafe Building 1990" 54 Standards
"Happy Christmas (War Is Over)" [upper-alpha 11]
"The Road" 1991 64 7 16
"Raw" 51 54 15 29 Raw
"45 R.P.M." [upper-alpha 12] 2004 28 6 In the Poppy Fields
"New Home New Life" [upper-alpha 2] 45
"Close" [upper-alpha 2]
"Superchannel" [upper-alpha 3] 2006 24 Under Attack
"Raindown" [upper-alpha 3]
"Free Rock and Roll" 2013 Vinyl – Free Rock and Roll
"In the Poppy Fields" [upper-alpha 6] 2016 Poppies Falling from the Sky
"There Must Be a Way" [upper-alpha 6] 2017 Blood Red
"Heroine" [upper-alpha 6] Viral Black
"Beautiful" 2018 Equals
"Two Rivers"
"Time to Start Over!" 2021 Non-album single
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Part of the "In the Poppyfields" bond, exclusively available via the Alarm's website, in which one album was released every month for four months. A bonus fifth album, Edward Henry Street, was given away to those who bought the bond in advance.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Released as the Alarm MMIV.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Released as the Alarm MMVI.
  4. Released as the Alarm MMVIII.
  5. 1 2 Released as the Alarm MMX.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Released as Mike Peters & the Alarm.
  7. 1 2 3 4 Released as the Alarm MMIII.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Part of Counter Attack Collective, released as the Alarm MMVII and the Alarm MMVIII.
  9. Features the Morriston Orpheus Male Voice Choir.
  10. Welsh-language version of "A New South Wales".
  11. Only released as a single in Japan and as a promo-only single in the US.
  12. Released as the Poppy Fields.

References

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  4. 1 2 Peak positions for the Alarm's albums in Canada:
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