Back To Boomtown Video

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

Back To Boomtown Video

Jules · The biggest Geldof fan in the world, bar none!

Thanks. Love the video and enjoying the song. Good to hear it is growing on you. They obviously aren't going to produce anything akin to the first 3 albums, so I'm just enjoying it for how it is now

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Mark L · Loudmouth

It is a real grower, peppered with lots of fluttery hooks, harmonies and inflections etc. This is an abridged version (so will it be a single release?) that was played just over 2 weeks ago on Radio 2 a few times. Generally not a fan of such things Rats-wise (think the longer versions of Elephant's Graveyard/House on Fire etc are superior and more complete-sounding) and prefer the album version of this too. This edit sounds incomplete without the story of the rains coming/the stolen dream/nightmare scene lines but it's really really growing on me and getting several plays a day in the car round this way.

Perhaps jumping the gun here but I'm off to the Rank the Singles topic!

suss · In the Long Grass

Mark L wrote:
This is an abridged version (so will it be a single release?)

There was a 1 track promo of this track up on eBay, so not out of the question I'd say

Mark L · Loudmouth

Fingers crossed?

...or should that be Fingers cross? Wonder what he makes of all this?

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

Jules wrote:
They obviously aren't going to produce anything akin to the first 3 albums...

I think they can. They just have to pull their fingers out

Geldof solo does have tracks that are up there, not many but a handful. Just need to get a dozen of them,

Jules · The biggest Geldof fan in the world, bar none!

Or do you mean if we get Fingers out?

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

Jules wrote:
Or do you mean if we get Fingers out?

You've Cott to be joking!

(I'll get my coat)

noelindublin · Loudmouth

ArrGee wrote:
http://vevo.ly/LuBpef

You know, this song is growing on me...

-- Edited by ArrGee on Saturday 21st of September 2013 09:32:49 AM

The video is a lot better than the other new track. Most of it was projected onto the big screens at Cork, though they seem to have added new bits and better colouring.

Re the song it's ok, but if the Rats had done Blowfish (Geldof solo track) I would be happier.

Mark L · Loudmouth

Know what you mean Noel. However, I'm loving Back to Boomtown - not for many a year has a song stuck in my head so firmly (It's insisting, Lord there's no resisting!) For me, Geldof sings this really well with lots of emotion, reminds in a way of Million Years meets Elephants Graveyard (if that's possible) which were both very good singles, particularly the latter. Simon's drumming is superb, together with (presume) his backing vocals. A very clever, well written song. After 'It's bleeding...Boomtown's lying bleeding' you can hear what I think is the deliberate allusion to the opening of Rat Trap (except piano is swapped for guitar) to take us into the reference to 'Billy', not to mention the sax comparison.

If this song is a sign of things to come, I shall be more than happy.

I think Diffbrook is absolutely spot on when he said yesterday (see Lisa, I remembered!)

The Boomtown Rats - Sorry its, rubbish. I don't like that genre and I don't think the Rats did it well in any case.

Back to Boomtown. Much better. A real grower.

Lisa · Mondo Bongo

Mark L wrote:
I think Diffbrook is absolutely spot on when he said yesterday (see Lisa, I remembered!)

Thank you! But now I'm feeling guilty for putting pressure on you to think straight in the early hours! Maybe you should just go to bed earlier ... biggrin (Oh dear, now I'm sounding like your Mum)

Derek The Dane · V Deep

I won the 1 track promo on ebay,let you know when I get it and find out whether it is different from the album version.

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

Derek The Dane wrote:
I won the 1 track promo on ebay,let you know when I get it and find out whether it is different from the album version.

I am not surprised by that! Have you told the missus yet?

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

I don't suppose there are any plans for a vinyl single, my mp3 is wearing out...

Derek The Dane · V Deep

Have I told the mrs about the 5 copies + 1 autographed and the £35 1 track cd promo..........of course NOT confuse .

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

suss wrote:
Blimey - last time I looked it was about £15 with a short while to go.
Out of interest Derek, is there anything in back catalogue you don't own???
Don't tell me you've got the apocryphal 10 track 1st album, that no one ever seems to have even seen.

I don't have it, there were only ever a handful of copies. I should look more carefully when I see a copy in Oxfam. You never know, it may have passed through my hands unnoticed.

I don't have anything rare. I have all the UK singles in one format or another, some in 7", some in 12", some in both. All the UK versions of albums released in vinyl and CD, except Back To Boomtown, and some US versions. I even picked up a couple of Mulligan singles last time I was in Dublin. But they were 3 for £1 not £35 for 1. For what it's worth I struggled to find a third disc, but settled on Talk Talk in the end.

-- Edited by ArrGee on Wednesday 25th of September 2013 08:28:56 PM

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

Derek The Dane wrote:
Have I told the mrs about the 5 copies + 1 autographed and the £35 1 track cd promo..........of course NOT.

£35 !!!! 79p on Amazon for the mp3, sounds exactly the same. I might make some one track promos of my own...

suss · In the Long Grass

Blimey - last time I looked it was about £15 with a short while to go.

Out of interest Derek, is there anything in back catalogue you don't own???

Don't tell me you've got the apocryphal 10 track 1st album, that no one ever seems to have even seen.

suss · In the Long Grass

I've picked up a fair few odds and sods since 'the day', but Screwfix league player compared to Premiership Derek.

Like you (ArrGee), pretty comprehensive on the standard catalogue, with a few imports thrown in. Not so extensive on the promo or rarities front, although I have got the 1 sided Mondo promo that official site claims as 'perhaps the rarest'. Put it this way, there were 2 on eBay at same time when I got mine, so far from impossible.

Tantalising that the first album (250 copies?) could well be in some charity shop or unsuspecting loft, or even skip cry . Assume cover identical apart from extra track listed.

Think my proudest possession, on vinyl at least, must be the French jukebox single that has Eva Braun as a b-side. Can't even readily remember what A side is - either Clockwork or Rat Trap from memory. Only reason for that (pride) is I've never seen it referenced anywhere.

Apologies (again) for going way off topic.

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

suss wrote:
Not so extensive on the promo or rarities front ...

My copy of In The Long Grass is a promo, and the guys at bobgeldof.com kindly gave me promo CDs of all the remasters to review, but those aside nada.

The signed 7" of House on Fire is perhaps the coolest item I have I did bring a Tonic cover to the polo club, but as band weren't that accessible I didn't get it signed. I should have brought it to Cork, though it would have ended up very bashed and creased.

Derek The Dane · V Deep

I do not have the 10 track debut album,I have heard of it but never seen it.I must have about 400 records and cds(of both Bob and Rats),I have all 6 American albums + lots of singles including Up All Night/Another Piece Of Red and Never I A Million Years/Charmed Lives.I have 5 flexi disc,all 6 albums on cd + promos.I think I have all the Japanese singles upto and including Never In A Million Years,starting to get the albums now as well(Rat Trap has Like Clockwork on the b-side and I have never seen She´s So Modern from Japan).I also have Joey as a single from Australia.Good knows how many promos I have but I can tell you my collection actualy really took of when I left England back in 1986.I started going to record fares and buying record collector and it just rolled on from there.Luv it and my mrs does not seem to mind.

Jules · The biggest Geldof fan in the world, bar none!

Derek The Dane wrote:
I do not have the 10 track debut album,I have heard of it but never seen it.I must have about 400 records and cds(of both Bob and Rats),I have all 6 American albums + lots of singles including Up All Night/Another Piece Of Red and Never I A Million Years/Charmed Lives.I have 5 flexi disc,all 6 albums on cd + promos.I think I have all the Japanese singles upto and including Never In A Million Years,starting to get the albums now as well(Rat Trap has Like Clockwork on the b-side and I have never seen She´s So Modern from Japan).I also have Joey as a single from Australia.Good knows how many promos I have but I can tell you my collection actualy really took of when I left England back in 1986.I started going to record fares and buying record collector and it just rolled on from there.Luv it and my mrs does not seem to mind.

I haven't even got half or a quarter of that amount. One or two promos and I remember paying £30 for How to Compose, just to get 2 extra tracks. That was in the days I had a bit of money to spend lol

Derek The Dane · V Deep

The one track promo is shorter that the album version,4.02 compared to the album 4.54 version.Trying to find out what they have cut out.

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

Derek The Dane wrote:
The one track promo is shorter that the album version,4.02 compared to the album 4.54 version.Trying to find out what they have cut out.

So you get 20% less and pay about 2000% more