Boomtown Rats - C/D?

Geldof's talent is for publicity not songwriting.

Actually I quite like the Vegetarians of love album he did, its a decent Van the Pan/Dylan rip off but nothing else he ever did had the subtlty or depth of that album.

And the Boomtown Rats stank, Rat Trap just shows his talent for publicity and Mondays was crap then and is crap now.

"Someone's Looking At You," "Banana Republic,""Up All Night," "Rat Trap,"......classics.

"Stairway to Heaven"?

"I Don't Like Mondays">>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>"Jeremy"

"I Don't Like Mondays">>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>"Jeremy"

Yeah, but in "..Mondays," isn't it the teacher that turns the guns on the kids? Or am I just projecting that?

What IS classic is Geldorf's bitter outrage about the Clash and the Pistols getting all the credit for punk. Still goes on about it.

I did! A few months ago. It's good! I remembered most of the songs even though I hadn't heard them in nearly a quarter century! Also it should be noted for the permanent record that my 7-inch copy of "I Don't Like Mondays" (which I never got rid of) has a good punky B-side called *It's All the Rage*, copyright 1979 but not available on either *Tonic for the Troops* or *Fine Art of Surfacing* (US vinyl editions anyway; not sure re: other versions.)

Classic if only for Fimgers's pajamas.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-x_hRRYx11KM/Tck_KBH0i6I/AAAAAAAACsw/XCRnrSo1E48/s1600/johnny%2Bfingers.jpg

Reformed!

Thought this was a revive for Monday.

Oh fuckin' classic!
"Someone's Looking At You," "Banana Republic,""Up All Night," "Rat Trap,"......classics.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, September 16, 2002 12:08 PM (11 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not alone.

just bought the boxset for a few quid including download so soaking it all up again with the requisite alcohol groove.

yeah, bob is/was a cnut .. but sorry, this band had a chunk of new wave punk pop in their oeuvre that stands up all these years later ..

the classics plus - 'nice n neat', 'wind chill factor', 'when the night comes' ..

summary : "fine art of surfacing" is a damn fine album and should not be judged on the follow up career of bob etc.

Dud

lol someone was watching the hootenanny yesterday

even when he was in the same space as Putin, Bono and Blair his biggest wanker in the room energy was very strong

Did he do anything other than "She's so modern"? That was um terrible (and I used to like that one, but it *is* cartoon Ramones, well it was...)

I Don't Like Mondays. Caught the end of it, that was enough.

"it's a rat trap judy -- and we've been caught!"

^^^trenchant

I'd never heard "Rat Trap" before and dunno if it was just the performance but boy did that feel like the most blatant of Springsteen rip offs.

this did not go unnoticed back in 1978

the only good* Boomtown Rats song, Banana Republic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfMwWLnpgGw

*but not brilliant

i feel like 'i don't like mondays' is the 70s 'where do you go to (my lovely)'

on the surface 'credible' for their cynicism derived from what was hip or at least shorthand for hip in a middlebrow way (dylan, new wave), while also not at all because of what the songs are sullied with (like being actorly-sung an ostensibly doofus up himself singer) to distance them from those things, and both songs are ballads widely loved by a lot of the british public while also treated with venom by the majority of heads i have met or come across over the years.

probably worded this super shitely but i'm a bit drunk and quite fancy doing some join the dots so just excuse this ig

i also quite like both songs

best boomtown rats single is "house on fire" - i guess it seemed desperate as belated 2-tone ambulance chasing at the time but it has amazing production jfc, proper plutonium dub, they weren't messing around

"House on Fire" was really good yeah, almost good enough to outweigh Geldof's gargantuan cuntishness