A Tonic For The Troops

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The Boomtown Rats' involvement with Band Aid (on which they all played) raised their profile again, and in January 1985, a revised version of In the Long Grass was finally released in the US. The album made the US charts at No. 188, but the associated singles failed to make an impact on the charts or on the radio. The band subsequently performed at Live Aid's charity performance. [1] Trash Glam Baby - Single by The Boomtown Rats on Apple Music". Apple Music . Retrieved 10 January 2020. The album is bookended by two Springsteenesque ditties (“Rat Trap” and “Joey’s on the Street Again”) that are so crammed with familiar riffs, sax bleats, hooks, and a wall-of-sound romanticism that you automatically start scanning the liner notes for references to Asbury Park, Jon Landau, and John Hammond.

The Boomtown Rats and other bands from yesteryear who have reformed". The Independent. 28 January 2013. Archived from the original on 11 August 2022. A Tonic For The Troops (24/100 Greatest Irish Albums)". Hot Press. 17 November 2004 . Retrieved 7 November 2020. Personally, I think it is certainly the greatest album of the 1970s and possibly the greatest album of all time! It wasn’t the volume that bothered me nor the music itself. It was all harmless battle-fatigued doomsday riffs with supermacho vocal lines about penile prowess pasted on top and extended solo pyrotechnics from a bunch of long-haired guys from England, overstuffed with money and fame, who had ruled the airwaves and manhandled Midwestern arenas for most of the 70’s, a syncopated metal grate that cut through the pot smoke and blasted across my high-school parking lot every morning before classes began. What’s so bad about being dumb?Rice, Jo (1982). The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits (1sted.). Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. p.193. ISBN 0-85112-250-7. Run: 21-8-10-8-12-16-17-24-24-30-34-38-42-0-40-43-24-16-13-14-12-9-10-12-13-13-11-17-13-22-21-33-44-37-41-59-68-0-71 (37 weeks) a b c Roberts, David, ed. (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19thed.). Guinness World Records Limited. p.71. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.

The band returned to the recording studio with Lange to produce a follow-up in 1979, while they embarked on a US tour in support of the album with moderate success. [3] The single " I Don't Like Mondays" was released in July, [1] also reached No.1 in the UK. [5] The song was written in response to a school shooting in California, and became a worldwide Top Ten hit, except for the United States. [8] It was the band's only song to reach the US Billboard Hot 100 and was included in the band's third album, The Fine Art of Surfacing released in November of that year. [1] The album also contained " Diamond Smiles" and their next Top 10 hit in the UK, " Someone's Looking at You". [1]Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (Illustrateded.). St. Ives, New South Wales: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrateded.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p.42. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. Bob Geldof blasts Brentwood Festival fans for wearing Primark clothes". The Daily Telegraph. 21 July 2016 . Retrieved 26 October 2017. A follow-up album entitled In The Long Grass was recorded in 1983, but was initially rejected by the group's label. [10] By 1984, the band was touring universities after becoming unable to fund the "guarantee" required to book mainstream concert halls. In The Long Grass was finally issued in the UK in May 1984, but failed to chart. Two singles, "Tonight" and "Drag Me Down", were taken from the album; these reached the lower rungs of the UK Singles Chart, but two further singles, "Dave" and "A Hold of Me", failed to register. [9]