Let The Day Begin...Let The Day Start!: Day 338 - The Alarm

Standards - The Alarm

I.R.S. Records

Released November 1990

UK Chart #47

US Chart #177

Single Released from Standards

Released October 1990

UK Chart #54

A-Side: Unsafe Building 1990

B-Side: Up For Murder 1990.

It was also released on two CD singles featuring both tracks and had the original 1981 versions of Unsafe Building/Up For Murder as a bonus track on each CD.

There is also in existence a 6 x 7" Promotional Box Set

Tracklisting

A Marching On    
B The Stand

    
C Sixty Eight Guns    
D Where Were You Hiding When The Storm Broke? 

   
E Absolute Reality    
F Spirit Of '76  

  
G Rain In The Summertime    
H Rescue Me   

 
I A New South Wales    
J Sold Me Down The River 

   
K Unsafe Building 1990    
L Up For Murder 1990

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Standards was the first sort of "Best of" from The Alarm and was released in 1990.

Throw in some hit singles, a couple of album tracks, a "Classic Christmas" cover version and a reworking of the debut single and you have a 15 track smash hit...well I guess that was plan by I.R.S. Records!

In April the following year they released what turned out to be the final album (at least with the original line-up) - Raw and by the end of June they were no more!

Let The Day Begin...Let The Day Start!