Mondo Bongo
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Mondo Bongo was The Boomtown Rats
fourth album and included the hit singles: "Banana Republic", which had reached No. 3 in the UK
charts in November 1980 and "The Elephants Graveyard (Guilty)" which made No. 26 in January 1981.
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The Boomtown Rats
The Boomtown Rats were an Irish punk rock band that had a series of Irish and UK hits between 1977 and 1985. They were led by vocalist Bob Geldof.-Biography:All six members were originally from Dún Laoghaire, Ireland...
fourth album and included the hit singles: "Banana Republic", which had reached No. 3 in the UK
United Kingdom
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charts in November 1980 and "The Elephants Graveyard (Guilty)" which made No. 26 in January 1981.
Track listing
All songs were written by Bob GeldofBob Geldof
Robert Frederick Zenon "Bob" Geldof, KBE is an Irish singer, songwriter, author, occasional actor and political activist. He rose to prominence as the lead singer of the Irish rock band The Boomtown Rats in the late 1970s and early 1980s alongside the punk rock movement. The band had hits with his...
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- "Mood Mambo" (Geldof, Pete BriquettePete BriquettePete Briquette is the stage name of Patrick Cusack . His pseudonym refers to the fact that he hails from the Irish countryside; peat briquettes are a type of refined turf burned in fires instead of coal.-Boomtown Rats:He was the bass guitarist, backing vocalist, occasional songwriter, and sometime...
) – 4:06 - "Straight Up" – 3:15
- "This Is My Room" (Geldof, Simon CroweSimon CroweSimon Crowe was the drummer for the Irish new wave bandThe Boomtown Rats.The original name of the Boomtown Rats was the "Nightlife Thugs". The name Boomtown Rats was taken from a novel entitled Bound for Glory by Woody Guthrie.The Boomtown Rats had eighteen hit singles in the UK, including "Rat...
) – 3:35 - "Another Piece of Red" – 2:35
- "Go Man Go!" – 3:52
- "Under Their Thumb Is Under My Thumb" (Mick JaggerMick JaggerSir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is an English musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and a founding member of The Rolling Stones....
, Keith RichardsKeith RichardsKeith Richards is an English musician, songwriter, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. Rolling Stone magazine said Richards had created "rock's greatest single body of riffs", and placed him as the "10th greatest guitarist of all time." Fourteen songs written by Richards and songwriting...
, Geldof) – 2:41 - "Please Don't Go" – 3:34
- "The Elephants Graveyard" – 3:43
- "Banana RepublicBanana Republic (Boomtown Rats song)"Banana Republic" was the first single from The Boomtown Rats' album Mondo Bongo. It peaked at number three in the UK charts and was the band's last major commercial success. Breaking from the band's previous new wave sound the song opens with a ska-reggae hook . However the song itself is a more...
" (Geldof, Briquette) – 4:55 - "Fall Down" – 2:26
- "Hurt Hurts" – 3:05
- "Whitehall 1212" – 3:43
U. S. Track listing
All songs were written by Bob GeldofBob Geldof
Robert Frederick Zenon "Bob" Geldof, KBE is an Irish singer, songwriter, author, occasional actor and political activist. He rose to prominence as the lead singer of the Irish rock band The Boomtown Rats in the late 1970s and early 1980s alongside the punk rock movement. The band had hits with his...
, except where noted.
- "Mood Mambo" (Geldof, Pete BriquettePete BriquettePete Briquette is the stage name of Patrick Cusack . His pseudonym refers to the fact that he hails from the Irish countryside; peat briquettes are a type of refined turf burned in fires instead of coal.-Boomtown Rats:He was the bass guitarist, backing vocalist, occasional songwriter, and sometime...
) – 4:06 - "Straight Up" – 3:15
- "This Is My Room" (Geldof, Simon CroweSimon CroweSimon Crowe was the drummer for the Irish new wave bandThe Boomtown Rats.The original name of the Boomtown Rats was the "Nightlife Thugs". The name Boomtown Rats was taken from a novel entitled Bound for Glory by Woody Guthrie.The Boomtown Rats had eighteen hit singles in the UK, including "Rat...
) – 3:35 - "Another Piece of Red" – 2:35
- "Go Man Go!" – 3:52
- "Under Their Thumb Is Under My Thumb" (Mick JaggerMick JaggerSir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is an English musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and a founding member of The Rolling Stones....
, Keith RichardsKeith RichardsKeith Richards is an English musician, songwriter, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. Rolling Stone magazine said Richards had created "rock's greatest single body of riffs", and placed him as the "10th greatest guitarist of all time." Fourteen songs written by Richards and songwriting...
, Geldof) – 2:41 - "Please Don't Go" – 3:34
- "The Elephants Graveyard" – 3:43
- "Banana Republic" (Geldof, Briquette) – 4:55
- "Don't Talk to Me" – 2:50
- "Hurt Hurts" – 3:05
- "Up All Night" – 3:33
- "Cheerio" [secret track]
2005 definitive re-release
- "Straight Up" – 3:15
- "The Elephants Graveyard" – 3:43
- "This Is My Room" – 3:35
- "Another Piece of Red" – 2:35
- "Hurt Hurts" – 3:05
- "Please Don't Go" – 3:34
- "Fall Down" – 2:26
- "Go Man Go!" – 3:52
- "Under Their Thumb" – 2:41
- "Banana Republic" – 4:55
- "Whitehall 1212" – 3:43
- "Mood Mambo" – 4:06
- "Cheerio"
- "Don't Talk to Me" (B-side)
- "Another Piece of Red" (Live in Portsmouth)
Personnel
- Bob GeldofBob GeldofRobert Frederick Zenon "Bob" Geldof, KBE is an Irish singer, songwriter, author, occasional actor and political activist. He rose to prominence as the lead singer of the Irish rock band The Boomtown Rats in the late 1970s and early 1980s alongside the punk rock movement. The band had hits with his...
- lead and backing vocals - Johnny FingersJohnny FingersJohnnie Fingers is a pop pianist, and was a founding member of the new wave band, The Boomtown Rats. He was notable for his stage costume of striped pyjamas as well as his melodic piano style.-Background:...
- keyboards, backing vocals - Gerry CottGerry CottGerry Cott was a guitarist and songwriter with the Irish new wave band, The Boomtown Rats.He started playing flamenco guitar when he was 11 years old....
- guitar - Garry RobertsGarry RobertsGarry Roberts is the former lead guitarist with the Irish band, The Boomtown Rats, which came into being in 1976...
- guitar, backing vocals - Pete BriquettePete BriquettePete Briquette is the stage name of Patrick Cusack . His pseudonym refers to the fact that he hails from the Irish countryside; peat briquettes are a type of refined turf burned in fires instead of coal.-Boomtown Rats:He was the bass guitarist, backing vocalist, occasional songwriter, and sometime...
- bass, keyboards, backing vocals - Simon CroweSimon CroweSimon Crowe was the drummer for the Irish new wave bandThe Boomtown Rats.The original name of the Boomtown Rats was the "Nightlife Thugs". The name Boomtown Rats was taken from a novel entitled Bound for Glory by Woody Guthrie.The Boomtown Rats had eighteen hit singles in the UK, including "Rat...
- drums, backing vocals
Additional musicians
- Dr. Dave McHale - saxophone
- T.V. - backing vocals, recorder, drunken bass, guitar
- Tom Winter - bazouki on "Please Don't Go"
- Andy Duncan - percussion on "Please Don't Go"