I'm 17 and I adore Boomtown Rats. They are soo much better than the music we have today. The 70's/80's had some of the best music ever.
@stephenmacconnoran47244 жыл бұрын
Still a great song!
@balearicsoundwave8912 жыл бұрын
summer of 1978,good memories .ga ga ga ga.
@WendyOWilbury5 жыл бұрын
the best
@bmgfl13 жыл бұрын
It's exciting for the veterans, and it's a tonic for the troops!
@jess_gem1610 жыл бұрын
She's so... MODERN!!!
@FPilotBierce13 жыл бұрын
Thank you Jeremy Clarkson! This song was included in his CAR YEARS program about the coming of the "Hot Hatchback" cars...specifically about the Heavy Chevy and the Lotus Sunbeam. Been wondering who recorded--especially since Jeremy mentioned "Rotten and Vicious" as a piece of poetic misinformation.
@wxdogs13 жыл бұрын
My fave band when I was in university. Geldof was a great front man back then. Their 1st 3 albums were great. Still listen to them.
@boomtownratforever54909 жыл бұрын
I love this so much
@brighton5914 жыл бұрын
Great Find........1979
@macfatty11 жыл бұрын
With one exception, your comment is right on the money. However, The Boomtown Rats, including this song and other cuts from "Tonic for the Troops," did get some radio play in NYC in the late 70s-early 80s on WNEW-FM and on WPIX-FM during the brief period that the latter had a punk/new wave format.
@LarzGustafsson12 жыл бұрын
One of the best punk songs.
@SEANBANOG411 жыл бұрын
im negative 15 and love this!
@cathead9412 жыл бұрын
@csiluver4lyf good on ya I used to see them in the pubs way to go sir bob
@didiergenin36715 жыл бұрын
What an intro !!!!!
@Lets1Eat2The3Chibis14 жыл бұрын
@nick1137 Because those were what was good in that time, as well as times around that too. For some types of music, this is still the style. It's about selling to the audience.
@manigoug39258 жыл бұрын
Big in Canada
@WendyOWilbury5 жыл бұрын
Good Morning, World. ::GRIN::
@AntiGuildProductions11 жыл бұрын
Im 15 and i agree
@Samalamalamdam13 жыл бұрын
@Lets1Eat2The3Chibis Not to mention that MTV was still a few years away.
@Aqua851912 жыл бұрын
I feel ya
@AntiGuildProductions11 жыл бұрын
yeah
@bohsgerry14 жыл бұрын
sick and tired of "experts" re-defining the boomtown rats as not really punk because of comments attributed to one "SIR" bob geldof talking about using punk to make them stars.geldof wa a big reason why the band split but they were very much a punk band early on-she's so modern,someone looking at ya,lookin after no one-all classic punk.it's a pity other members of the band,less self aggrandizing than geldof haven't been interviewed.then their punk beginnings would be better known
@petebest225 жыл бұрын
Wish we had power music like this now, so sad listening to the same people singing into mics and having their session players doing the music for them and having the cheek to call themselves a girl band or boybad 👎
@bohsgerry12 жыл бұрын
great punk band initially,some great releases.used to see them in dublin with the radiators,the vipers,the sinners,rocky devalera,fit kilkenny and the remoulds etc etc.pity geldof started slagging off punk and denying they were a punk band.signs by they split with recriminations and he becvame everything they despised.twat.
@macker3314 жыл бұрын
New music just dont got it.
@wxdogs13 жыл бұрын
My fave band when I was in university. Geldof was a great front man back then. Their 1st 3 albums were great. Still listen to them.