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OK, so it's a song by The Alarm that isn't '68 Guns'. In fact, their only other Top 20 single, as it turned out.
I'm sure they wouldn't thank me for saying this, but it does sound rather like U2. Mind you, there's good reason for that: both bands formed in the post-punk era, but both of them obviously had bigger ambitions for bigger music. They were also both proud of their Celtic ancestry.
The trouble was, and I know this might seem a controversial thing to say, that in 1987 U2 were releasing songs of the calibre of 'With Or Without You'. And The Alarm were releasing this rather nondescript potboiler, which even their fans don't seem terribly impressed by. By the time U2 got this lame, they were already the biggest band in the world.
Available on: Best of the Alarm & Mike Peters
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