# Tenor Saw — Ring the Alarm

Tenor Saw’s Ring the Alarm (1985) appears on 2 of our lists — Dancehall and The Eighties, highest at No. 3 in Dancehall. Every verdict, in full.

- **Released:** 1985
- **Label:** Techniques
- **On:** Dancehall and The Eighties
- **Updated:** 2026-08-29
- **Artist:** [Tenor Saw](https://waxonia.com/artist/tenor-saw/)
- **Canonical page:** https://waxonia.com/track/tenor-saw--ring-the-alarm/

## What 2 lists say

### No. 3 in [Dancehall](https://waxonia.com/genre/dancehall/)

The Stalag riddim's definitive vocal, cut by a nineteen-year-old who was dead within three years. Urgency is easy to fake and impossible to manufacture, and this is the real thing.

### Picked by [The Eighties](https://waxonia.com/theme/the-eighties/)

Winston Riley's own Kingston label, a rhythm reused for the next thirty years, and no multinational anywhere near it. Jamaica had been running the model this whole list describes since long before the decade started.

## Listen

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Tenor%20Saw%20Ring%20the%20Alarm) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=UpjLLw-cVzU)

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