Boomtown Rats Best Of The Boomtown Rats(mp3 320kbs)ICM369
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Originally released in Oct 2003 by Eagle Records
Re-Released in April 2004, Feb 2005 by Universal
The Boomtown Rats Compilation album The Best Of, was first released in Oct 2003
on Eagle Records with a re-release with new artwork on Universal Records in
April 2004 and again in February 2005 with yet another new cover.
The tracks were chosen by the visitors to this website,Boomtownrats.co.uk and
the Japanese site Banana Republic.
Bob and Pete were keen that the fans had a say in the listing, the amount of
votes cast was quite staggering, and it took many hours to compile the final
list for Bob and Pete to chose from.
Originally, Hold On Me from In The Long Grass was also included, but at the
production and mixing stage, one track had to go.
Released to coincide with the re-issue of all six of the Rats' albums - all
remastered and with previously unavailable bonus tracks - this Best Of package
is a timely reminder of what a great band this six piece from the wrong side of
Dublin actually were.
Bursting onto a London music scene dominated by punk acts in the late 1970s, the
Rats had the attitude and the look to fit in alright, but they differed from their
safety pin-bedecked colleagues in one vital respect; they had great songs.
Tunes such as Joey's On The Street Again & the band's first UK number one Rat Trap
are plaintive, almost Springsteen-esque cries from the heart about the plight of
working class youth, while I Don't Like Mondays, the Rats' second chart topping
single inspired by the story of a US schoolgirl shooting dead several of her
classmates simply to brighten up the first day of the week, showed frontman
Bob Geldof's observational skills were not restricted to detailing life on the
housing estates of north Dublin.
It's ironic too that the Rats' first hit, Looking After No. 1, naturally featured
here, was to be the last song the band ever played live, in Dublin, 1986; a song
about pure self-interest, sung by the man then - as now - admired around the world
for launching the most famous charity project ever seen.
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1. She's So Modern
2. Mary Of The 4th Form
3. Rat Trap
4. Looking After No. 1
5. When The Night Comes
6. Someone's Looking At You
7. Joey's On The Street Again
8. Banana Republic
9. Dave
10. I Don't Like Mondays
11. Like Clockwork
12. (I Never Loved) Eva Braun
13. Neon Heart
14. Never In A Million Years
15. Diamond Smiles
16. Drag Me Down
17. I Can Make It (If You Can)
18. The Elephants Graveyard
19. Fall Down
EAGLE RECORDS EAGCD202
RE-RELEASE ON UNIVERSAL APRIL 2004 AND FEB 2005
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Format : MPEG Audio
File size : 6.90 MiB
Duration : 3mn 0s
Overall bit rate : 320 Kbps
Album : Best of the Boomtown Rats
Track name : She's So Modern
Track name/Position : 1
Performer : Boomtown Rats
Accompaniment : The Boomtown Rats
Composer : Bob Geldof/Johnnie Fingers
Publisher : Universal International
Genre : Alternative
Recorded date : 2004
MCDI : Yes
Audio
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Mode : Joint stereo
Duration : 3mn 0s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 320 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Stream size : 6.90 MiB (100%)
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Mp3
Ripped:320
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