THE ALARM - 'STRENGTH' (Ian Stone's 2024 Remixed & Extended 'Ultimate Rhyl '87' Version)

AWESOME CLASSIC ROCK TRACK HERE FROM 1987 CALLED 'STRENGTH' WHICH WAS RECORDED AND RELEASED BY THE WELSH ROCKERS CALLED 'THE ALARM'.THIS EPIC ALTERNATIVE CHART HIT FEATURED ON THEIR WORLDWIDE HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL BRILLIANT SECOND STUDIO ALBUM ALSO ENTITLED 'STRENGTH' THAT WAS ORIGINALLY PUT OUT ON THE INDEPENDENT 'I.R.S. RECORDS' LABEL GLOBALLY.HAVING FORMED BACK IN 1977 UNDER THE NAME OF 'THE TOILETS' AFTER HEARING THE GREAT PUNK ROCK SOUNDS MAINLY BY THE LONDON BASED GROUP CALLED 'THE CLASH' THEY RECORDED TWO DEMO SONGS TRYING TO COPY THE SOUND SO FAST AND GUITAR BASED AT THAT TIME.IT TOOK FIVE MORE LONG YEARS UNTIL THEY GOT SIGNED UP 1982 AND BY THEN THEY WERE TO BE KNOWN AS 'THE ALARM' AND THEY HAD THE TRACKS READY TO CREATE THEIR DEBUT L.P. CALLED 'DECLARATION' WHICH WAS RELEASED IN LATE 1984.THEY HAD BY THEN A LARGE WELSH FOLLOWING BUT NEEDED TO GAIN SOME SUCCESS OVER THE WATER IN ENGLAND AND THE DEBUT SINGLE CALLED 'SIXTY EIGHT GUNS' GOT A RELEASE A YEAR EARLIER IN LATE 1983.IT WAS WELL RECEIVED AMONG THE ELECTRONIC SYNTH BASED TUNES THAT WERE DOMINATING THE U.K. BBC/GALLOP CHART AROUND THAT TIME PERIOD IT REACHED NUMBER FOUR WHICH WAS A GREAT ACHIEVEMENT AND THEY WERE OFF PLAYING STILL VERY MUCH RECORDING JUST LIKE THEIR HEROES 'THE CLASH' WITH THEIR TWIN GUITAR SOUND AND AT TIMES REAL SOCIAL TOPICS JUST LIKE THEM.OTHER EARLY SUCCESSFUL SONGS OF 'THE ALARM' INCLUDED THE BEXCELLENT 'WHERE WERE YOU HIDING WHEN THE STORM BROKE ?' ALSO TAKEN FROM THE DEBUT L.P. AND THEN A BIT LATER ON IN 1989 CAME THE FANTASTIC TRACK ENTITLED 'SOLD ME DOWN THE RIVER' THAT BECAME A MINOR HIT CHART SINGLE.ALTOGETHER FROM THAT DEBUT 1983 SONG 'SIXTY EIGHT GUNS' RIGHT THROUGH UNTIL 2023 WHEN THEY PUT OUT THE ALBUM CALLED 'FORWARDS' THEY HAD CREATED A TOTAL OF TWENTY TOP QUALITY ALBUMS AND DURING THIS SAME PERIOD AROUND TWELVE CLASSIC SINGLES WERE RELEASED AS WELL.MEMBERS OF 'THE ALARM' AROUND THE TIME OF 'STRENGTH' WERE ON THE MAIN LEAD VOCALS THE GREAT ARTIST CALLED 'MIKE PETERS' ALONG WITH BRILLIANT LEAD GUITAR BY THE GREAT ARTIST CALLED 'DAVE SHARP' AND ON THE WONDERFUL DRUMS WAS THE BRILLIANT ARTIST CALLED 'NIGEL TWIST'.COMPLETING THIS LINE-UP WAS ON THE BASS GUITAR THE EXCELLENT ARTIST CALLED 'EDDIE MacDONALD'.THERE WERE VARIOUS SESSION MUSICIANS USED FROM TIME TO TIME AS WELL ON MANY OF THERE SONGS SUPPLYING BRILLIANT BACKGROUND HARMONIES.RIGHT WELL THEN HERE WE FIND THAT 'IAN STONE' HAS TAKEN HOLD OF THE 1987 ALBUM VERSION OF 'STRENGTH' AND ADDED SOME GREAT REMIXED SECTIONS ON TO THE TRACK WHILE ALSO EXTENDING IT QUITE A BIT TO.THAT 1987 SOUND QUALITY HAS RIGHT HERE NOW BEEN COMPLETELY UPGRADED INTO TODAY'S 2024 HQ STEREO STANDARD READY FOR AUDIENCES TO EITHER DISCOVER HERE FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME OR MAYBE JUST TO LISTEN TO IT ONCE AGAIN THIS TIME TOTALLY REMASTERED FOR YOUR LISTENING PLEASURE AT YOUR LEISURE.