| features in: Album Chart of 1980 ● Album Chart of the Decade: 1980s |
The fourth album in four successive years for the Rats who, try as they might, can't get near the high of “A Tonic For The Troops” in '78. Fair play to them for trying different things and pressing forward, athough I always find them to be at their best when they just focus on getting all dramatic with a dark tale and “This Is My Room” on side one gives me what I want in this regard: “I wake from sleep with little rest, It's 10 by 9 and in a mess, A window shut but facing west, A worn out rug, an old address, And This is my room, Yes This is my room, I often stay at home, I often sleep alone”. I don't know what it says about me that I enjoy such grimness but there you go. The best tracks of the set were the first two singles released from it, the ROI-leaders-bashing “Banana Republic” (#3) and “(The Elephant’s Graveyard (Guilty)” (#7) which digs at the complacent ones and their sin of sloth. Mind you, he'd soon be banging tables and asking them for their f**cking money, but that's a whole different story : - )
The Jukebox Rebel
08–Jun–2018
| Tracklist |
| A1 | [04:06]  The Boomtown Rats - Mood Mambo (Bob Geldof, Pete Briquette) Alternative Dance |
| A2 | [03:15]  The Boomtown Rats - Straight Up (Bob Geldof) New Wave |
| A3 | [03:35]  The Boomtown Rats - This Is My Room (Bob Geldof, Simon Crowe) New Wave |
| A4 | [02:35]  The Boomtown Rats - Another Piece Of Red (Bob Geldof) Songwriter |
| A5 | [03:52] The Boomtown Rats - Go Man Go! (Bob Geldof) New Wave |
| A6 | [02:41]  The Boomtown Rats - Under Their Thumb Is Under My Thumb (Bob Geldof, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, ) New Wave |
| B1 | [03:34]  The Boomtown Rats - Please Don’t Go (Bob Geldof) New Wave |
| B2 | [03:43]  The Boomtown Rats - The Elephant’s Graveyard (Guilty) (Bob Geldof) New Wave |
| B3 | [04:55]  The Boomtown Rats - Banana Republic (Bob Geldof, Pete Briquette) Reggae |
| B4 | [02:26]  The Boomtown Rats - Fall Down (Bob Geldof) Songwriter |
| B5 | [03:05]  The Boomtown Rats - Hurt Hurts (Bob Geldof) New Wave |
| B6 | [03:43]  The Boomtown Rats - Whitehall 1212 (Bob Geldof) New Wave |
