Change is the fourth studio album from The Alarm

The Alarm

The Alarm are an alternative rock band that emerged from North Wales in the late 1970s. They started as a mod band and stayed together for over ten years. As a rock band, they displayed marked influences from Welsh language and culture...

. It was released in 1989 on IRS Records.

The album was released initially on vinyl LP, cassette and CD, reaching No.13 in the UK charts and No.75 in the US charts.

An extended re-mastered version was released, including extra tracks.

Track listing

All songs written by Mike Peters

Mike Peters (musician)

Mike Peters is a Welsh musician, best known as the lead singer of The Alarm. He currently lives in Dyserth, North Wales with his family. After The Alarm split up in 1991, Peters wrote and released solo work, which he has been releasing under the name "The Alarm" since 2000...

 & Eddie MacDonald.

1. "Sold Me Down The River" - 5:25
2. "The Rock" - 4:39
3. "Devolution Workin' Man Blues" - 4:11
4. "Love Don`t Come Easy" - 4:08
5. "Hardland" - 4:09
6. "Change II" - 2:52
7. "No Frontiers" - 3:53
8. "Scarlet" - 4:17
9. "Where A Town Once Stood" - 3:48
10. "Black Sun" - 4:30 *
11. "Prison Without Prison Bars" - 3:48
12. "How The Mighty Fall" - 4:19 *
13. "Rivers To Cross" - 3:42
14. "A New South Wales" - 4:46

• Release as limited edition free single with vinyl LP

Single releases

Sold Me down the River was released before the album, reaching No. 40 in the UK singles chart. This was followed after the album release by A New South Wales, which reached No.22 and saw the band on Top of the Pops

Top of the Pops

Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006. After 25 December 2006 it became a radio program, now hosted by Tony Blackburn...

 and Wogan

Wogan

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. Love Don't Come Easy was the third and final single, just failing to reach the Top 40.

Credits

Arranged By - The Alarm

The Alarm

The Alarm are an alternative rock band that emerged from North Wales in the late 1970s. They started as a mod band and stayed together for over ten years. As a rock band, they displayed marked influences from Welsh language and culture...

Bass - Eddie Macdonald

Drums - Twist

Engineer - Tony Visconti

Guitar - Dave Sharp

Dave Sharp

Dave Sharp is an English guitarist who co-founded, along with Mike Peters, the Welsh punk rock band The Alarm.-Early career:...

Keyboards - Mark Taylor

Producer - Tony Visconti

Vocals - Mike Peters

Notes: Lookout management: Elliot Roberts and Barry Dickens

Recorded at the Skylight Suite and Mixed Good Earths Studios

A New South Wales Recorded at BBC Wales Cardiff with the Morriston Orpheus Male Voice Choir and members of the Welsh Symphony Orchestra

Track listing

1. "Gwerthoch Fi I Lawr Yr Afon" - 4:09
2. "Y Graig" - 4:39
3. "Datganoli Y Falen Gweithiwr" - 4:11
4. "Dydi Cariad Byth Yn Hawdd" - 4:08
5. "Hiraeth" - 4:09
6. "Newid II" - 2:52
7. "Dim Ffiniau" - 3:53
8. "Ysgarlad" - 4:18
9. "Ble Sefa Dref" - 3:48
10. "Rhyddid Caeth" - 3:48
11. "Croesi'r Afon" - 3:42
12. "Hwylio Dros Y Môr" - 4:47

Japanese promotional release

A Japanese 15-track promo-only CD was released including a different track list, custom picture sleeve and Japanese biography.

Track listing

1. "Declaration"
   
2. "Marching"
3. "68 Guns"
4. "The Stand (Full Length Version)"
5. "Absolute Reality"
6. "Strength"
7. "Spirit of '76"
8. "Rain in the Summertime"
9. "Rescue Me"
10. "Sold Me Down the River"
11. "Hardland"
12. "Change II"
13. "No Frontiers"
14. "Black Sun"
15. "A New South Wales"

Remastered release

Released in 2000, the remastered edition featured a revised track listings, b-sides and previously unreleased recordings, new and original artwork, unseen photos, lyrics,
sleeve notes by Mike Peters and interactive programming information to play the album in its original form.

Change demos

Two-disc release including 16 acoustic tracks from a 1988 L.A. demo session with Mike Peters and Eddie MacDonald and 20+ electric tracks with the full band at the 1988-1989 Kinmell Hall demo sessions in Wales.