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Firstly I'm new to this forum, so hi. Being a Rats fan since 1978 I've waited years for my favourite songs to be released on CD. I've also got the DVd and great it is too. But I've been wondering, what else is there?
Was there ever proper video's for House on Fire, Charmed Lives? Also for releases overseas I've got the video for up all night, but was their video's for Go Man Go?
Lastly, as I said I have most things Rats, but does anyone (willing) have any copies of past concerts. The release of all things Rats has just enthused this 38 yr old to relive his youth.
Hi everyone - my first posting, I'm with you Steve trying to recapture my teenage years! - I fell off the planet for a long while and along the way lost all my Rats/Geldof vinyl and other stuff. The release of all the back catalogue has brought back all the great memories of a totally well spent misspent youth. The best music, the best gigs, the best times. Sorry I can't help with the archive stuff - had it all - but lost it in the wilderness years!! So like you I'm searching.
I've still got all the Vinyl. For a long while I felt almost embarrassed to say I was into the Rats. Esp from 1982 onwards. Everyone was into Duran or the Jam. I just loved them. Never forget standing out in the school yard (in the pouring rain) in 1981 waiting to hear on some girls radio where Never in a Million Years. It soon become obvious that it was either No1 or 100. I was so sad, but I stuck with them.
Now the Rats are not an embarrassment. Infact my peers now agree with me that they were so influential. You can hear the Rats from Pulp to the Strokes. And where would U2 be without Bob and the boys.
Listening to those Cds brought back so many wonderful memories. From seeing them for the first time in 1982 to the last time (with tears in my eyes) at Live Aid.
quote: Originally posted by: Steve " Now the Rats are not an embarrassment. Infact my peers now agree with me that they were so influential. You can hear the Rats from Pulp to the Strokes. "
Now it is strange I suddenly keep hearing about this influence of the Rats on Pulp. Pulp are my favorite band of all time, but I don't hear it [and I know both bands very well]. And I have never read it anywhere. I don't see the so-called Pulp influence on Franz Ferdinand either. Now if someone said Razorlight, I'd have no problem...
As for being an embarrassament, I only like embarrassing uncool bands (Sweet, Pulp (circa 1992) [and others]), so it's only fitting I like the Boomtown Rats. I am a little concerned that they are gaining some credibilty these days.
quote:Originally posted by: Steve " Now the Rats are not an embarrassment. Infact my peers now agree with me that they were so influential. You can hear the Rats from Pulp to the Strokes. "
Now it is strange I suddenly keep hearing about this influence of the Rats on Pulp. Pulp are my favorite band of all time, but I don't hear it [and I know both bands very well]. And I have never read it anywhere. I don't see the so-called Pulp influence on Franz Ferdinand either. Now if someone said Razorlight, I'd have no problem...
As for being an embarrassament, I only like embarrassing uncool bands (Sweet, Pulp (circa 1992) [and others]), so it's only fitting I like the Boomtown Rats. I am a little concerned that they are gaining some credibilty these days.
-- Edited by ArrGee at 00:50, 2005-03-06
I never got this 'uncool' thing everyone else goes on about. Bob Geldof was one of the most intelligent and articulate people to come out of the new wave/punk movement. He was a musical journalist and brave enough to put his head above the musical parapet in Ireland and Britain when he had everything to loose. The songs are self evidently literate and melodic and worthy to anybody who has ears. Too many music fans give their power away but absorbing second hand ideas and tastes from the music press.' The only act of revolution left... is thinking for yourself' as someone once said.
The Rats were 'cool' until the started having hit singles. It's so funny how the NME in the nineties were tired of underground bands and wanted bands like Oasis and Blur to be huge, like the Stones and The Beatles. When the Rats were hugh they got little thanks from some, not all of the music press.
Geldof and Jarvis are both strong, extrovert frontmen and great lyric writers. Both have a somewhat jaundiced, cynical take on life. Both bands wrote catchy, melodic tunes with socially realistic takes on ordinary life. The both documented their times pretty well, and both bands had a somewhat short lived period of popularity. When the seventies or the nineties are mentioned neither group are the first thing one thinks of musically, but dig underneath and I can see a certain kinship.
Whether the Rats new wave/r and b/ punk and Pulps nineties indie sound make the two bands dissimilar is a matter of how we view the music. I have always had a foot in both musical camps but it's the lyric writing and keen sense of social observation and uber tuneful songwriting craft that in some ways united the bands. The need not sound alike or even similar for their to be a certain affinity.
As for Razorlight I know almost nothing about them, except one of their songs sounded very vaguely like a take on Mondays.
-- Edited by noelindublin on Tuesday 27th of May 2014 02:08:32 PM
The only act of revolution left... is thinking for yourself' as someone once said.
