The Boomtown Rats - Someone's Looking At You

[@AdrianProctor-v2l]

Fantastic song great band wish there was mote songs like this today

[@coolmacatrain9434]

This is surely the most underrated song in rock history ...a sheer masterpiece.

[@paulfrost8895]

Think this was their follow up hit to I don 't like Monday 's ' brilliant masterpiece from late 70s.

[@debra1232]

@@paulfrost8895 This is 1980

[@coolmacatrain9434]

@James Hodson Diamond Smiles was the follow up single to I Don't Like Mondays

[@coolmacatrain9434]

@@paulfrost8895 I bought "I Don't Like Monday's" ...when it came out.

[@H3LLB0YITA]

Totally agree

[@andycuthbert2763]

Excellent-takes me right back to being a kid-and in 2023 I wish I could stay in that time-the world is becoming a crazy n unpleasant place.

[@dexymydog]

There's a spy in the sky, there's a noise on the wire. There's a tap on the line for every paranoid desire. Pure poetry ! Pure gold ! Pure Genius !

[@markrae1317]

...for every *paranoid's* desire

[@JulieJulieTheRockChickhermiz]

The Boomtown Rats wrote some very catchy and spectacular tracks, love them

[@pauleyles9536]

I agree with you. I will always love the Boomtown Rats. And some of Bob Geldof solo stuff is pretty good 2. I am a very big Human League fan(4ever) & I have been lucky enough to have a great signed photo of my favourite Human League member ie Joanne Catherall. Bob Geldof is a real gem.

[@paupajares9678]

Yeah its kinda sad these are not more known. Specially i never loved eva brown

[@talisbriedis]

Fine Art of Surfacing - highly underrated album. One of my top ten fav's of all time. Also one of few where I like every song on the album. Something really came together on this album and a masterpiece was born.

[@jocky2]

Totally agree!

[@geraintchamberlain5766]

First album I ever bought, loved it then love it now aged 57

[@yavidavi]

One of the greatest songs thanks for posting

[@dexymydog]

What a magnificent song !! The lyrics are only brilliant !! The way Geldof wraps the melody perfectly to fit the lyrics. Wonderful ! By far the best Rats song. Geldof is under rated as a song writer. Cier, Dublin

[@rallyboy101]

Just recently discovered this song…… amazing!

[@mrlowry6359]

TOTALLY BRILLIANT BAND. TOTAL GENIUS SONG. PLAYS MORE THAN ONCE OR TWICE, AND I WILL NEVER TIRE OF THIS SONG, SO IF ON REPEAT, PRESCRIBE ME THIS ALL YEAR LONG!!!

[@andyburrows9187]

when i bought this song in the early 80s it just said what was going on in the north of Ireland very hard hitting at the time

[@AlanDuke-z6k]

Ahead of its time this song! It seems more relevant now,

[@geraldmcnulty9325]

Best song they made

[@arnolddalby5552]

Absolutely brilliant song from the 20th century (1080's) from the master lyrical writer about the future. We knew in the early 1980's that in the future there would be lots of people looking at us all but it doesn't matter because they need that information. It's called compassion for the people trying to protect us. Haha. Loved the 1980's music.

[@paulfrost8895]

Think this was from 79 or possibly 80 ' can research.

[@mrlowry6359]

Magnificent Song And Group. Brilliant Lyrics.

[@Lassisvulgaris]

1979: I watch Boomtown Rats, and lose my self-control 2019: I watch Boomtown Rats and lose my remote-control

[@christopherholt7570]

I actually said hallo 2him and we talked 4 half hour in alone square it was in 1987

[@Lassisvulgaris]

@@christopherholt7570 Were someone looking at you...?

[@shirls3265]

i loved this song too x

[@chrisgreenwood4415]

Me and mates are in this - it was actually footage from having my picture taken for the crowd shots

[@kieranm4556]

Very underrated song 🎵

[@tonycleminson377]

What an awesome band bob geldof true legend

[@fredrikhillblom3221]

So nice in Stockholm to se them play. Was 30 year ago so fantastic

[@juliathomas1255]

I still listen to them now in 2023 …… (and so do my neighbours….. 🤣🤣) … played loudly to really appreciate their music and lyrics of course 😊

[@11ashestoashes]

Best song ever !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@paulobrito5728]

Wow... I saw this video around 1979 for the first time, I was 13 y. o. Here in Italy this video at the time was showed quite often. I imediately loved the song, the group, how Bob sings. Then I missed it. After 40 years happens that I resaw it... What a dive in my soul... and how ugly the world is now

[@paulfrost8895]

Several years after' he organized Live Aid/Band Aid for Third World hunger ' Bob Geldof is a true legend.

[@senaraanstey]

So am I, I may be a few decades too young, but this music is class!

[@paulfrost8895]

We need a time machine to go back to the 70s.

[@floserantes]

What a GREAT SONG!!!!!!

[@SPITFIRE80371]

CLASSIC...

[@slipofthetongue6443]

I forget how bloody good these guys were.

[@paulfrost8895]

They sure were ' punk was mostly about the establishment and the dominating power it had/has over us.

[@patrickryan5570]

Garry Roberts - RIP - Gone too soon

[@glyn6170]

Google, Amazon, Facebook, KZbin! There's always someone looking at you!

[@skipraida5497]

Oh oh oh...

[@philiprhodes5537]

Even the phone you posted this comment is always looking at you😂

[@AdmiralofU2]

This song was released around the same time the internet was invented (secretly).

[@andrewadcock5521]

Rainbow Theatre Finsbury Park London I do believe that concert footage is from,if it is I was at there that night must be about 1980. It was a brilliant concert.scary thing is where have all the yrs gone

[@gilbertlufc]

Absolute classic! Just like everything the Boomtown Rats did. If you were young when they did all this and Blondie were strutting their stuff, you'll know exactly where I'm coming from.It wasn't really fashionable amongst us Deep Purple fans to like this kinda stuff then, but NOW, well it's different now - I can like who I like. Bob Geldof for PM.

[@biggusdickus5986]

Strange, l never thought about being allowed to like a type of music, a song or tune, if l liked it l bloody well listened to it, from Charlie Drakes Puckwudgie, to Handles water music, Adam Faith, The Monkees, Slade, The Sweet, There's always Someone Looking At You, to I'm Horny Horny Horny, Elvis's l cant help Falling in Love With You, The Tranglers Golden Brown, A windmill in Amsterdam. Olivers Army, Andy Williams, l pick and choose a song that makes me happy, thoughtful, expresses some of what l feel, sheer silliness, l even like some of Deep Purple, it's all great if you like it. l have eclectic taste, or sh"*' as some people have called it, l just smile and turn up the volume,though l did start tuning out in the mid to late 80s as boy bands and rap took over, I've looked and listened but l can't find anything in rap other than relief when it stops, l know it ages me but l swear everytime l hear it as someone goes past in a car with it on full blast or l walk past a house with a window open and the rap coming out that it's the same tune just boom boom boom boom boom and someone shouting in the background, l have this theory that it reminds the fans of it of when they were in the womb and could hear their mother's heart banging away and the muffled voices of the people outside the womb talking to her.. But still if that's what the young uns like its what they like, my dad couldn't stand my Glam rock taste in music and thought my friends and l looked like clowns in our clothes, but l also liked the late fifties and 60s music, as well as Classical tho mostly Baroque. Everybody likes a good tune from our grandparents digging Bing Crosby to those who inexplicably like Jazz,.. Shudder.

[@isabelveidt655]

Primera vez que oigo esto y ya lo amo.

[@dogwithwigwamz.7320]

Pero, no es bueno verdaramente. Es en el Studio e recorded, madam Isabel Veidt mas hermosa.

[@isabelveidt655]

@@dogwithwigwamz.7320 No entendí muy bien, pero O.K.

[@gerdernst6897]

super geile Musik!!! Heute noch gut!

[@ChrisTomlinson-ih9vx]

Rest In Punk Guitar Garry Roberts! Thanks!!!!!

[@leslielenahan2619]

Great band great song

[@birdie2034]

Geldof has a pretty good singing voice #Very #Underratted

[@jbmc8769]

GELDOF COULD BE AS GOOD AS ANY SONG WRITER .this song is superb

[@Abuamina001]

Great track. Very much under rated.

[@pauleyles9536]

true. like the Human League r so underrated. I am a mega big Human League fan and I've seen the Human League play live 14 times and I have met the Human League 4times. The Boomtown Rats and the Jam r among many of my favourite bands Bob G FROM THE Boomtown Rats is a real gem. from Paul Eyles from Portsmouth

[@pauleyles9536]

Nexus 6 Hiya m8 I think that the Human League r ACE likewise the Jam and This band ie The Boomtown Rats. And m8. As the saying goes m8 The Jury is still out on the Style C.from Paul Eyles from Portsmouth

[@robertofraser101]

Very much agree its amazing song 🎵

[@fredrikhillblom3221]

So nice

[@MarkReynolds-dy1pl]

Memories He Made World Aid Concert 👍😍🇬🇧

[@jakandrijauskas6362]

Midge ur did, geldoff stole the credit

[@richardhills235]

My favorate rats song.

[@jtownshend]

Just love this album!

[@christopherholt7570]

God bless you 😉

[@conorobrien5911]

The Rats are excellent

[@alannolan3514]

gonna see 'em in gateshead in nov

[@bezzerberry8958]

one of the great songs earlier coments he is sir bob geldoff

[@douglasbaldock6178]

Best rats song there is, nuff said.

[@dexmusic3245]

The Mick Jagger tribute is really coming out on this one. Great stuff.

[@HAIRYBIKER777]

+Dexmusic Exactly right. I followed them closely when they started out and never noticed the Jagger thing, but it was the first thing I thought as I watched this.

[@mattjames4358]

Sir Bob has always had a soft spot for Sir Mick ever since the latter burst onto his screen in the 1960s: Bob said in his autobiography that Mick made his "liver lips" fashionable and sexy

[@marguerita555]

Thanks!

[@westend37]

I remember Boomtown Rats in concert in 1981 in Essen!!!I loved the "Rats".

[@TheBenmod]

We're watching the Rats at Chagstock July this year :)

[@LarzGustafsson]

Fantastic album.

[@Beelzebubbbbles]

I would've been your older brother's era. The Fine Art was class, but I still remember how great it was to have A Tonic For The Troops and know it was Irish when most everything else was from over the water. Apart from SLF and the Radiators.

[@crapple009]

The Undertones were Irish as well.

[@hardloper070884]

maybe my favorite song in the 80's

[@DaleFrancisRobertson-u3k]

For you Joseph Soap,Gannon. Rest easy bud 🙏

[@さちこにしい-l5x]

❤❤❤❤❤❤だいすき

[@fisch1pl]

Myślę że również wspaniale będzie 21 czerwca na Lubelskiej Arenie.

[@craigmcmillan8815]

The fine art of smoking pot,they were grand days.Great music,Great times.and what a great man

[@detmm1]

Such a good SONG!!! The Boomtown Rats

[@MattJMcDade]

I distinctly remember listening to my elder brother's album The Fine Art of Surfacing when it came out in '79. I thought it was such a cool sound. 33 years ago now... that's scary.

[@showbizismylife]

40 now, Matthew......

[@RonaldGent-h2y]

The Rats were class

[@juliathomas9816]

Never a truer word spoken…… I loved their misc ….. clever lyrics that actually meant something…… legendary band …. I miss these days

[@melaniebrignell]

BOB GELDOF WAS THE REAL B.LOCKS 👍

[@jannertfol]

Prophetic.

[@chacartesrocker3365]

i like!

[@digler03]

so true today

[@CONEHEADDK]

Does anybody have a link to the original video, where there are tons of cameras and stuff in.? I watched it online 1-3 years ago, and had never seen it before, and can't find it any more..

[@44Celt]

do you mean this one? kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZpuooXd4qMqbnM0

[@230topcat]

best song Boom Town Rats did....Legend is Bob!!!!! x

[@jennifercafecafe1481]

Trying to find a song, some of the lyrics are.... "my camera sees things my can't see" I can't find it, I love the boomtown rats,

[@44Celt]

Having my picture taken kzbin.info/www/bejne/rau3pYhtlJqfr8k

[@katiesmith1725]

Is there a video of this track with better sound quality?

[@gaynor7600]

❤

[@jimmchale7348]

I know!

[@francisbegbie3326]

On a night like this I deserve to get kissed at least once or twice You come over to my place screaming blue murder, needing someplace to hide. Well, I wish you'd keep quiet, Imaginations run riot, In these paper-thin walls. And when the place comes ablaze with a thousand dropped names I don't know who to call. But I got a friend over there in the government block And he knows the situation and he's taking stock, I think I'll call him up now Put him on the spot, tonight. They saw me there in the square when I was shooting my mouth off About saving some fish. Now could that be construed as some radical's views or some liberals' wish. And it's so hot outside, And the air is so sweet, And when the pressure drop is heavy I don't wanna hear you speak. You know most killing is committed at 90 degrees. When it's too hot to breathe And it's too hot to think. There's always someone looking at you. S-s-s-s-someone. They're looking at you. And I wish you'd stop whispering. Don't flatter yourself, nobody's listening. Still it makes me nervous, those things you say. You may as well Shout it from the roof Scream it from your lungs Spit it from you mouth There's a spy in the sky There's a noise on the wire There's a tap on the line And for every paranoid's desire... There's always Somone looking at you. S-s-s-s-someone looking at you... They're always looking at you.

[@CMATbaby]

'Bob Geldof for PM' do you mean taoiseach

[@patriciathewisher2315]

The surveillance online, the surveillance in person and thru gadgets in everyday life. Why TF don’t ppl go and live their own lives. Saw these guys when I was about 14/15 Ulster Hall. First or second proper gig in a city. We stayed in Catherine’s older sisters flat afterwards. Felt we were really grown up. I was upset ppl spat at Bob. That ppl spat at all. After that I’ve just wasted 44/45 years.

[@CraigyBaby62]

@gilbertlufc LOL... I know exactly where you're coming from...but with me, Deep Purple and Led Zep were my guilty pleasures.... but now, well, I listen to what I like...hahaha!

[@mrlowry6359]

GREAT LYRICS, MUCH MORE ORIGINALITY AND CREATIVITY THAN MOST OF TODAYS MUSIC. I'VE UPLOADED MY OWN CREATIONS, ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS TO MY OWN CHANNEL. I'M OK, BUT LONG WAY TO GO TO EVER EQUAL BOOMTOWN RATS, ETC, STANDARDS...

[@akstone]

Reforming for the I.O.W Festival 2013 brought me here

[@richardsteele5187]

Teenage years s thanks Bob geldof sonnhelnstrahl und die Licht strahlen sunbeam and the light rays of Derby

[@Aqua8519]

I was wondering that myself, really frustrating.

[@birdie2034]

Boomtown Rat Geldofs best song Better than Monday's just in front of banana Republic

[@jonnymac2627]

Frank Bird I agree

[@markrae1317]

Diamond Smiles for me every time.

[@CONEHEADDK]

@@markrae1317 Yeah - art...

[@hazelb7218]

Before CCTV....!!

[@mummyd1990]

I always liked boomtown rats but also like Skrewdriver at the same time but which are better????hmm mmm.

[@richardsteele5187]

Laid back and pop riffs indie alternative 🎸 pop seventy eight my sistersaid I look like Bob geldof sonnhelnstrahl und die Licht strahlen l

[@peadarohuiginn1730]

Dun Laoghaire melody

[@bjornvonknorring5341]

HeY . Friends //// BEAR Sweden Love This HalfpunK =) Coool Coppy Wakes Upp SWEDEN

[@johncwik6618]

Not paranoid , ai knows your every move .

[@Johnwhite-xy2fq]

Give the f***ing money

[@hazelb7218]

why is the sound on VEVO so fucking quiet!!!!

[@JoeRivermanSongwriter]

Seems Bob was always shooting his mouth off about fish then.

[@stevewiles1769]

Great band in their time but, the new Album is shocking!! Really disappointed as they were my favourite band in my Youth.

[@madgeband4919]

this is kinda quiet

[@Eleventhearlofmars]

MadgeBand terrible sound

[@desertdocker]

Vote EU,,,, Bob "knows"

[@debra1232]

Strange how he wouldn't go home to live in an EU-member country -- He preferred Brexit Britain! 🤣😂🤣😅

[@elizajohn5]

West Brit Bob is a bollocks but i still love The Boomtown Rats.

[@davidpartridge3901]

Think Bob's inspired by Mick Jagger, but he'll never pull it off.

[@elizajohn5]

Mick is overrated.

[@isabelveidt655]

Who is Mick Jagger????

[@Paul-11]

Inspired by Dr Feelgood Bob said in his book

[@TheSchilz3]

Sounds like Springsteen

[@SweetAeromotion]

If you’ve never heard Springsteen, sure

[@paullavan6098]

They did great, for what is, let's face it, a pretty average band. The Undertones and The Skids were so much better than them.

[@didiergenin3671]

Pretty average, well, you're entitled to your opinion, trouble is no one in the Undertones ever wrote a masterpiece of "I don't like mondays" calibre ...

[@Barrehkerr]

didier genin What,like Teenage Kicks?

[@samanthahowell5512]

you are allowed to have your own opinion, even if it's pretty outrageous. Not one of their songs hit the level of any Boomtown Rats songs.

[@MrAladdino]

boomtown rats , the skids , undertones three amazing bands no matter what , no contest here , pure punk - new wave , nuff said !

[@p.g.u.d]

This is the only BR song that rates.

[@Corstopitum]

Mister Furious rat trap , I never loved Eva Braun , Diamond Smiles .

[@skipraida5497]

Very lou reed at the beginning 🤷‍♂️

[@suilvenmountain2395]

we voted leave.