TS: The Call v. The Alarm

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80's WELTERWEIGHT ROCK-BOUT
feat. BATTLE CRY ANTHEMS & BONOESQUE FRONTMEN
...
representing Santa Cruz California, it's "THE CALL"
&
in the opposite corner, from RYLES, WALES: "THE ALARM"

Now have a clean fight let's go dingdingding

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Sunday, 2 April 2006 06:31 (twenty years ago)

68 Guns Will Never Die!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 2 April 2006 06:35 (twenty years ago)

Never a huge fan of either, but I'd take The Call in a pinch. They were all ugly and it's more fun to root for the underdog.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 2 April 2006 06:48 (twenty years ago)

Bananafish interviewed Greg Freeman (who later went on to record many good SF bands, play in Virginia Dare and other bands) about his years in the Call and the egomania of the singer dude, it's a completely hilarious article.

― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Sunday, 2 April 2006 06:49 (twenty years ago)

I still love "Everywhere I Go".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 2 April 2006 12:34 (twenty years ago)

Alex-as much as I appreciate your assistance lately, i must tell you that you very, very wrong…

both bands are horrible, but I guess I go with the Call…

― veronica moser (veronica moser), Sunday, 2 April 2006 19:47 (twenty years ago)

Easterhouse!

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 2 April 2006 20:20 (twenty years ago)

god, did i ever love "The Stand" when i was 14 or 15. That first EP that IRS put out, they wore that shit out on the college radio station i grew up with.

"Among The Living" -vs- "The Stand"

stephen king rock is so underrated.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 2 April 2006 20:22 (twenty years ago)

"The Stand" is still good. I once heard that the Alarm were originally called "the Toilets."

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 2 April 2006 21:19 (twenty years ago)

*ding*

Okay, Round 1 was pretty tame. So, c'mon, which is better...
The Walls Came Down vs 68 Guns
Everywhere I Go vs Rain in the Summertime

Now come out swingin'!

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Monday, 3 April 2006 21:10 (twenty years ago)

I never understood what The Alarm were fighting for. What the heck did they have to be Marching On about?

They should have come to my high school back in 1987. They could have had any one of the smoking hot goth chicks who worshipped them. That would have eased their pain.

The Call, if only for Walls Came Down.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Monday, 3 April 2006 23:28 (twenty years ago)

You don't march about anything, you just keep Marching The Fuck On.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 3 April 2006 23:33 (twenty years ago)

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII LOVE TO FEEL THE RAIN IN THE SUMMERTIME
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII LOVE TO FEEL THE RAIN ON MY FAAAAAACE

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Monday, 3 April 2006 23:36 (twenty years ago)

what scott said--easterhouse! what ever happened to them?

between the call and the alarm, it'd be alarm all the way.

also, we can thank/curse the Call's Michael Been for his son's band, BRMC.

― c@md3n (c@md3n), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 14:52 (twenty years ago)

Well, I could NOT stand that William Petersen-looking motherf*&ker in The Call. Seemed like a real pompous ass. If Greg Freeman defended his time in The Call, then I could be swayed to go that way as he's a fine producer (TFUL 282, Barbara Manning amongst others). But let's face it, I consider him a member of Pell Mell before I'd consider him a member of The Call.

So, The Alarm wins for "The Lie Of The Land" (and that creepy androgynous guitarist).

― hector savage, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 00:33 (twenty years ago)

"The Walls Came Down" is better than "The Stand" but I never bought the album. Loved hearing the Max Weinberg Seven cover "Walls."

― Pete Scholtes (Pete Scholtes), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 19:47 (twenty years ago)

Tie-breaker: Big Country

― Pete Scholtes (Pete Scholtes), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 19:48 (twenty years ago)

I might have liked "Let the Day Begin" as a lad if dude hadn't had a beard. But I had bad taste then; I heard the song a few years ago and it sounds awful.

So The Alarm, all the way. "Where Were You Hiding When The Storm Broke?" rules all other grandiose midtempo vaguely-punkish arena bombast anthems.

― Jason Toon (Jason Toon), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:35 (twenty years ago)

The Alarm, obv.

Two classic albums and a bunch of classic singles from 1982 to 1985 makes them classic all the way.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 6 April 2006 13:37 (twenty years ago)

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