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Jules and the Polar Bears – Got No Breeding (1978)

Dec 2, 2011, 1:18am Obscure Sound
Jules and the Polar Bears - You Just Don't Wanna Know
New Wave before New Wave had really solidified. Sort of like Springsteen, but sort of not. Perhaps it's most accurately described as an offering to bridge the Billy Joel-ers and the Rundgren-ites, a union which sounds fairly unappetizing. Big noses, effeminate hair, and lots of bland pontificating in obnoxious Long Island accents. I don't much
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Artist:Jules and the Polar Bears
Title:Convict
Link Text:Jules and the Polar Bears - Convict
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Artist:Jules and the Polar Bears
Title:You Just Don't Wanna Know
Link Text:Jules and the Polar Bears - You Just Don’t Wanna Know
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I Quite Like Wednesdays, Actually

Oct 5, 2011, 4:00am A Town Full of Losers
Bob Geldof's birthday comes around every year like clockwork & today he turns 60.
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Artist:Bob Geldof
Title:For the Good Times (Kris Kristofferson cover)
Link Text:For the Good Times (Kris Kristofferson cover) - Bob Geldof
File Name:for-the-good-times-kris-kristo fferson-cover-bob-geldof.mp3
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Genre:TFofL
Year:2006
Artist:Bob Geldof
Title:Sunny Afternoon (Kinks cover)
Link Text:Sunny Afternoon (Kinks cover) - Bob Geldof
File Name:sunny-afternoon-kinks-cover-bo b-geldof.mp3
Year:1992
Artist:Ron Sexsmith
Title:I Don't Like Mondays (Boomtown Rats cover)
Link Text:I Don’t Like Mondays (Boomtown Rats cover) - Ron Sexsmith
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Genre:TFofL
Year:2003
Artist:Smith And Jones
Title:Bob Geldof
Link Text:Bob Geldof - Smith & Jones
File Name:bob-geldof-smith-jones.mp3
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Genre:TFofL
Year:2004
Artist:The Boomtown Rats
Title:Lookin' After No. 1
Link Text:Lookin’ After No. 1 - The Boomtown Rats
File Name:lookin-after-no-1-the-boomtown -rats.mp3
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Genre:TFofL
Year:2005

Step back to 1979 – Part 3

Aug 30, 2011, 10:13pm Any Major Dude With Half A Heart
Step back to 1979 – Part 3 And here we leave the 1970s. The first year of the 1980s would turn out to be a fantastic year. If I'm still going to run this blog (as I am writing, I am short on time and, to be honest, motivation), I'll look forward to sharing the records that take me back to that year. * * * B.A. Robertson - Bang Bang.mp3 A pal of mine tells a great story about he lost his virginity [...]
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Artist:Boomtown Rats
Title:Diamond Smiles.mp3
Link Text:Boomtown Rats - Diamond Smiles.mp3
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Artist:Buggles
Title:Video Killed The Radio Star.mp3
Link Text:Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star.mp3
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Artist:Status Quo
Title:Living On An Island.mp3
Link Text:Status Quo - Living On An Island.mp3
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Artist:Tubeway Army
Title:Are ‘Friends’ Electric?.mp3
Link Text:Tubeway Army - Are ‘Friends’ Electric?.mp3
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Beat City Radio #576 - March 17, 2011: St. Patrick's Day Special

Mar 20, 2011, 6:12pm Beat City Radio
Beat City Radio #576 - March 17, 2011: St. Patrick's Day Special St. Paddy's Day show featuring several bands of Irish descent and more. Bonus mp3s: Crystal Stilts - Verdant Gaze [mediafire] The Cramps - Green Door [mediafire] Randy Alvey and the Green Fuz - Green Fuz [mediafire] New Order - Everything's Gone Green [mediafire] Stream: [...]
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Link Text:Beat City Radio #576
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Live Hate: Bob Geldof Addresses SXSW 2011

Mar 20, 2011, 4:16pm Music @ Blogcritics.org
Wherein Bob Geldof makes an ironic statement without even realizing it.
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Step back to 1978 – Part 2

Feb 16, 2011, 10:23pm Any Major Dude With Half A Heart
Step back to 1978 – Part 2 In the belated second part of the 1978 instalment in this series (in which I revisit songs that have the capacity to take me back to the time when they were hits), the 12-year-old version of Any Major Dude shows himself to be an eclectic sort. In the first part, which covered the first three months of 1978, we became reacquainted with Blondie's X-Offender and songs by the likes of Uriah Heep, Bonnie Tyler, Tom Robinson Band, Sex Pistols, Wings and The Stranglers. Here we revisit Blondie, Sham 69, Boomtown Rats, a couple of Italians, and some prog-rockers. [...]
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Boomtown Rats

Jan 5, 2011, 5:11pm Unpiano
Boomtown Rats I still can't believe this dude wrote "Do They Know Its Christmas?". Boomtown Rats - Lookin' After No. 1 Download audio file (Lookin_After_No_1.mp3)
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Artist:The Boomtown Rats
Title:Lookin' After No.1
Link Text:Boomtown Rats - Lookin After No. 1
File Name:Lookin_After_No_1.mp3
Bitrate:320 kbps
Year:1977

Time of the Season

Oct 30, 2010, 11:59am A Town Full of Losers
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Artist:The Boomtown Rats
Title:Like Clockwork
Link Text:Like Clockwork - The Boomtown Rats
File Name:like-clockwork-the-boomtown-ra ts.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:1978
Artist:The Byrds
Title:The Times They Are A-Changin'
Link Text:The Times They Are A-Changin (Bob Dylan cover) - The Byrds
File Name:the-times-they-are-a-changin-b ob-dylan-cover-the-byrds.mp3
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Year:1990
Artist:The Zombies
Title:Time Of The Season
Link Text:Time Of The Season - The Zombies
File Name:time-of-the-season-the-zombies .mp3
Bitrate:205 kbps
Year:1969

Rock History 101: The Boomtown Rats' "I Don't Like Mondays"

Sep 5, 2010, 8:00am Consequence Of Sound
Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays (Live SPOB 1981)
Mondays are the bane of the working world's existence. Trudging to the office, there are numerous songs one can use as a soundtrack for the day. For those with a pep in their step, Fleetwood Mac's "Monday Morning" is a good option. However, for the majority, "I Don't Like Mondays" may be a more accurate selection. The 1979 single from Irish band The Boomtown Rats' The Fine Art of Surfacing was written by vocalist Bob Geldof upon first hearing the news of Brenda Ann Spencer. On Jan. 29, 1979 Spencer randomly opened fire on [...]
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Some Thoughts on Live Aid, 25 Years Later...

Jul 16, 2010, 10:44am Between Love & Like
Some Thoughts on Live Aid, 25 Years Later... As we mentioned earlier this week , Tuesday marked the 25th anniversary of the Live Aid . If you are a music dork and you watched it that day, most likely you still have the grainy video tapes somewhere because you taped it, even if you no longer own a VHS player. Looking back, the event, which took place before any of the global connectivity we have today was in place, it's kind of amazing that it even happened. And somehow, organizer Bob Geldof put the thing together in just three weeks. It's sad [...]
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Live Aid – 25 years ago

Jul 13, 2010, 3:38pm Any Major Dude With Half A Heart
Live Aid – 25 years ago Today marks the 25 th anniversary of Love Aid, a sentence that makes me feel old. I wrote what I think is my definitive take on the day two years ago. I have nothing new to add, except for a few minor edits. But it's the 25 th anniversary of a big event I actually attended, so I will recycle that post and re-upload my Live Aid mix, ripped from DVD. The music was mostly terrible, the artists tended to be self-serving and [...]
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Freakies, Pop Rocks, Mello Yello And McPizza

Jun 3, 2010, 8:34pm Barely Awake In Frog Pajamas
Freakies, Pop Rocks, Mello Yello And McPizza Though Paloma will likely roll her eyes, I'm not one to be swayed by commercials. Sure, there are things that are of use to me that I've learned about via an advertisement - the garden weasel or Hardee's mushroom and swiss thickburger - but I'm not going to merely goose-step to the store because of a celebrity or a snappy jingle. As a kid, though, it was far easier to be drawn to the siren song of commercials, especially the ones sprinkled throughout a morning of viewing cartoons on Saturday mornings. The main obstacle [...]
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Link Text:Bonnie Tyler - Its A Heartache
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Sig's Pick Six: Songs With "Monday" in Their Title

Apr 15, 2010, 8:00am Eat Sleep Breathe Music
This week's Pick Six is a pretty basic one: "Songs With 'Monday' in Their Title." "Monday, Monday" - The Mamas and the Papas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =h81Ojd3d2rY# "Monday, Monday" is a song about the often capricious nature of love. The whole story is told in the first verse, which for the sake of brevity I'll cite here: "Monday Monday, so good to me/Monday Monday, it was all I hoped it would be/Oh Monday morning, Monday morning couldn't guarantee/That Monday evening you would still be here with me." "Manic Monday" - The Bangles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =lAZgLcK5LzI The theme of "Manic Monday" can be summarized [...]
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Killer On The Rampage…Somewhere

Mar 24, 2010, 11:55am Barely Awake In Frog Pajamas
Killer On The Rampage…Somewhere I read the news most days. But, unlike my parents and their generation, I don't make a point to watch a news broadcast each day, merely pausing on the news channels if something catches my attention. The other night, as I was watching some basketball, there was a commercial for the local news. It was some perky chick yammering about a murder suspect possibly being loose - or, in the parlance of our legal system, on the lam - in the "mid-state area." Details, she assured me, would be provided at ten. [...]
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Link Text:Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
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Link Text:Die Toten Hosen - Gary Gilmores Eyes
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Friday's Forgotton Favourites - The Boomtown Rats

Jan 22, 2010, 4:10pm 2 U I Bestow
Friday's Forgotton Favourites - The Boomtown Rats The rats are often overlooked when people talk about Ireland's best bands. To me they are right up there with Rory Gallagher, U2 and Thin Lizzy in terms of quality singles and albums. I suppose the epic work of Bob Geldolf with Live Aid pushed The Boomtown Rats music in to the background. Their 1980 song 'Banana Republic' with the great line "septic isle screaming in a suffering sea" could easily be written in the present tense! Banana Republic I read recently that the Irish people's individual contributions to forign [...]
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Artist:Boomtown Rats
Title:Banana Republic
Link Text:Banana Republic
File Name:0855 - Boomtown Rats - Banana Republic.mp3
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Year:1981
Artist:The Boomtown Rats
Title:Keep It Up
Link Text:Keep It Up
File Name:Keep It Up.mp3
Bitrate:192 kbps
Year:2005

Boomtown Rats - North London 1978

Jan 15, 2010, 7:21am Beehive Candy
Boomtown Rats - North London 1978 This is the Boomtown Rats live in concert at the Middlesex Polytechnic in Hendon, North London, back on the 16th September 1978. This recorded version has been circulated as 'Dont Believe What You Hear' and is reckoned to be the best audio quality boot of the show, however it unfortunelty misses the last song of the gig (Do The Rat). BBC TV recorded the concert, and from distant memory I think it was shown 'live', I remember watching it, and from Bob Geldof's comments it would appear to be the case. The sheer energy [...]
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Christmas Song of the Day: "Do They Know It's Christmas?" by Band Aid

Dec 17, 2009, 1:31am 30 Days Out
Christmas Song of the Day: "Do They Know It's Christmas?" by Band Aid After seeing a BBC report on famine in Ethiopia, Boomtown Rats frontman Bob Geldof thought he needed to do something to try and stop all the suffering. On Nov. 25, 1984 he gathered some of the biggest acts in British and Irish pop music for one 24-hour period to record a tune he had written with Midge Ure titled "Do They Know It's Christmas?" Paul McCartney, U2, Phil Collins, Queen, Duran Duran, Boy George, George Michael, Sting, and many others took part in what started the "all star charity song" wave of the mid-80s. [...]
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I Don't Like Mondays…This Livens Up the Day

Dec 1, 2009, 12:33am JamsBio Magazine
The song has endured thanks to oblivious DJs who trot it out every Monday morning as a way to signify the start-of-the-work-week doldrums to their listeners. The song's true meaning often slips by though, as it did by me when I was a kid.
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Blast from the Past: The Boomtown Rats' 'The Fine Art of Surfacing'

Oct 14, 2009, 8:56am Pop Tarts Suck Toasted
Blast from the Past: The Boomtown Rats' 'The Fine Art of Surfacing' Two weeks ago I found myself in Ireland celebrating the marriage of my girlfriend's cousin along with the rest of her family. It was my first time in the country and I didn't get very much time to see the sights and search around the country with all the family events going on. It was still an absolute blast to get over to the land of my ancestors and I would love to visit again very, very soon. One of the few things that really struck me about the country was how similarly crappy their radio stations are [...]
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Artist:Boomtown Rats
Link Text:The Boomtown Rats - "Diamond Smiles"
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Artist:Boomtown Rats
Link Text:The Boomtown Rats - "Having My Picture Taken"
File Name:A4 Having My Picture Taken.mp3
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Artist:Boomtown Rats
Link Text:The Boomtown Rats - "I Don't Like Mondays"
File Name:B1 I Don't Like Mondays.mp3
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Artist:Boomtown Rats
Link Text:The Boomtown Rats - "When the Night Comes"
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THE CLASS OF '79 (Part 34)

Oct 11, 2009, 1:00am THE VINYL VILLAIN
THE CLASS OF '79 (Part 34) Not everything in this series has dealt with the cool kids in the class of 79..... Even at the height of their fame, The Boomtown Rats divided opinions among those of us who liked new wave bands. They were dismissed in some quarters as bandwagon-jumping pub-rockers who just got lucky. I don't think there's much disagreement that while some of their early singles such as Mary of The 4 th Form , [...]
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Artist:Boomtown Rats
Title:Diamond Smiles
Link Text:The Boomtown Rats - Diamond Smiles
File Name:Boomtown Rats - Diamond Smiles.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Year:2009
Artist:Boomtown Rats
Title:Having My Picture Taken
Link Text:The Boomtown Rats - Having My Picture Taken
File Name:Boomtown Rats - Having My Picture Taken.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Year:2009
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