Like renegades from a rock ‘n' roll western, The Alarm came striding into town in the early ‘80s trailing punk earnestness, acoustic power chords, and lyrical mythmaking in their wake. Drawing equally from Ennio Morricone and The Who, Mike Peters wrote the blazing “Sixty Eight Guns” and “Spirit of ‘76” as a romantic view of the band as a gang of wild youths (with a little bit of Springsteen's sense of lost promise to tug at the heart). “The Stand” and “Where Were You Hiding When the Storm Broke” both are a furious call to arms, testaments to his belief in the insurrectionary power of rock music.