The Alarm - Strength 1985-1986 (Expanded) (2019)

Posted By: delpotro
Date: March 14, 2019

The Alarm - Strength 1985-1986 (Expanded) (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 694 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 232 Mb | 01:42:50
Alternative Rock, New Wave | Label: 21st Century Records

The band’s classic 1985 album Strength has been expanded, remastered and revised and will be made available for pre-release online and in record stores worldwide from February 4th 2019. All titles have been remastered from the original master tapes by mastering engineer Pete Maher (u2, White Stripes…) under the supervision of Mike Peters.

The comprehensive re-mastering process has been undertaken to allow the band’s music to fully embrace digital and online streaming services and ensure the music of The Alarm can be listened to by future generations as intended by the band when recorded and committed to tape for all time.

Strength 1985-1986 is being released through The Twenty-First Century Recording Company – which has been ‘home’ to all Mike Peters and The Alarm music since 1994.

Strength 1985-1986 is being officially released to record stores on March 15th 2019, in both Double CD and Vinyl LP formats and also on all online music streaming services.
Painstakingly put together by Mike Peters from original sources, the ‘Strength 1985-1986’ CD Edition brings together all three original 1985/86 Alarm singles and B-sides from the era, two of which have never been released in CD or digital formats, including the ‘Strength 7″ single version, and the ‘Spirit Of ’76 7″ Single version.
Strength 1985-1986 has also has been restored to its original 1985 running order with the US version featuring on the CD that includes the album session version of ‘Absolute Reality’.

DIGITAL RELEASE – Features the US album track listing along with previously unreleased and alternative 7″ mixes of 1985’s Strength single that has never been heard before, along with an unreleased alternative 7″ mix of the 1986 ‘Spirit Of ’76’ single. Also included is the band’s preferred ‘lost’ mix of the Knife Edge single B-side ‘Caroline Isenberg’, along with a recently discovered 1986 radio mix of ‘Absolute Reality’ that has never been released until now.

The digital formats also include a remastered version of the Absolute Flexi Disc recording that was originally issued as part of the band’s tour program and remastered versions of all the ‘live’ tracks that were used as b-sides for the 1986 ‘Spirit Of ’86’ UK ONLY single release and also the ‘Live For Life’ US Only compilation album track ‘Howling Wind’ which was sourced from the same live concert in Boston from November 9th 1985.
Tracklist:
1 KNIFE EDGE [Album Master]
2 STRENGTH [Album Master]
3 DAWN CHORUS [Album Master]
4 SPIRIT OF ’76 [Album Master]
5 DEESIDE [Album Master]
6 FATHER TO SON [Album Master]
7 ONLY THE THUNDER [Album Master]
8 THE DAY THE RAVENS LEFT THE TOWER [Album Master]
9 ABSOLUTE REALITY [Album Master – CD / Digital ONLY]
10 WALK FOREVER BY MY SIDE [Album Master]
11 ONE STEP CLOSER TO HOME [Radio Session Version]
12 WALK FOREVER BY MY SIDE [Radio Session Version]
13 ABSOLUTE FLEXI DISC
14 STRENGTH 7″ [Unreleased alternative single mix]
15 SPIRIT OF ’76 [UNRELEASED ALT SINGLE VERSION]
16 CAROLINE ISENBERG [UNRELEASED Band Mix]
17 ABSOLUTE REALITY [UNRELEASED 1986 RADIO MIX]
18 WHERE WERE YOU HIDING WHEN THE STORM BROKE? [LIVE]
19 DEESIDE [LIVE]
20 HOWLING WIND [LIVE]
21 SIXTY EIGHT GUNS [LIVE]
22 KNOCKING ON HEAVEN’S DOOR [LIVE]

All additional and unreleased tracks on the Digital Format are EXCLUSIVE to the Digital format.

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