Change | |
Type: | Studio album |
Artist: | The Alarm |
Cover: | The Alarm Change.jpg |
Released: | September 1989 |
Recorded: | 1988–1989 |
Genre: | Rock |
Length: | 58:52 (English CD version) |
Label: | IRS Records |
Producer: | Tony Visconti |
Prev Title: | Electric Folklore Live |
Prev Year: | 1988 |
Next Title: | Standards |
Next Year: | 1990 |
Change is the fourth studio album by The Alarm. It was released in September 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.
"Sold Me Down the River" was released before the album, reaching No. 43 in the UK singles chart. This was followed after the album release by "A New South Wales", which reached No. 31 and saw the band on Top of the Pops and Wogan. "Love Don't Come Easy" was the third and final single, just failing to reach the Top 40.
All songs written by Eddie Macdonald and Mike Peters, except where noted.
Note
Arranged by The Alarm.
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
An edition of the album sung in Welsh called Newid was released in 1989.
A Japanese 15-track promo-only CD was released including a different track list, custom picture sleeve and Japanese biography.
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.
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.