Rat's top 10 B sides

manatthetop · In the Long Grass

Rat's top 10 B sides

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

1. Do The Rat

2 Born to burn.

3 So Strange

4 Late last night.

5 Barefootin

6 Lying again.

7 It's all the rage.

8 How do you do.

9 Man at The Top

10 DUN LOAGHAIRE

suss · In the Long Grass

I'll stick with ranking as at http://boomtownrats.activeboard.com/t46869218/rank-the-b-sides/

Mark L · Loudmouth

Interesting Real Different tops the list for a fair few of us.

It's real brilliant and arguably better than Graveyard on the other side.

A wicker chair away from rehabilitation has to be the best b side line ever.

jamieuka · House on Fire

The best b side line ever could well be in the last verse of Late Last Night, I just haven't been able to decipher it yet!

suss · In the Long Grass

Late Last Night lyrics are on the reissue CD. I'll transcribe when I've got it to hand unless someone beats me to it.

noelindublin · Loudmouth

jamieuka wrote:
The best b side line ever could well be in the last verse of Late Last Night, I just haven't been able to decipher it yet!

The lyrics for Late Last Night and So Strange, two of the trickier lyrics to decipher are indeed published on the Surfacing reissued cd. Also the lyrics for How Do You Do. If you want them I can transcribe them, just let me know. smile

noelindublin · Loudmouth

Mark L wrote:
Interesting Real Different tops the list for a fair few of us.
It's real brilliant and arguably better than Graveyard on the other side.
A wicker chair away from rehabilitation has to be the best b side line ever.

I'll add Real Different as the best b side, and perhaps my fav Rats song of all time. Otherwise see Suss' Rats b sides link for full rankings.

One of the more 'neglected' b sides has always been Don't Talk To Me. I like it, and found it playing in my head a little lately. A solid enough track.

-- Edited by noelindublin on Friday 19th of December 2014 12:54:27 PM

suss · In the Long Grass

suss wrote:
Late Last Night lyrics are on the reissue CD. I'll transcribe when I've got it to hand unless someone beats me to it.

Were you really frightened cos I heard you late last night

You were screaming, were you dreaming? Is it ok? It's alright

Oh no, must be something I ate late last night

There's terror in the shadows and there's horror in the night

I don't like it in the dark, and I'm not so sure about the light

Oh no, it must have been something I ate late last night

Late Last Night I heard the madness stir inside my brain

Late Last Night I was calm I couldn't take the strain

Late Last Night I never want to hear that sound again

I'm falling and I'm spinning and I'm dying in my dreams

And the flies are sucking at my sores I'm leaking at the seams

Oh no, it must be something I ate late last night

Is it something I said? Is it something you'd die for?

Swill a stick around my head, inside it's always black and brown

I see white rooms, I see white tiles, white roofs and pure white walls and there's a neon strip of icy blue that's shining in the hall,

and then the blood, the blood starts seeping through the ventilator screen.

It's dribbling from behind the wall and soon I hear the screams.

Oh no, it must be something I ate late last night.....

jamieuka · House on Fire

Suss, thanks so much for transcribing those lyrics for me. Good to finally 'hear' them after all these years.

While the imagery is good, it's no Rat Trap!

noelindublin · Loudmouth

jamieuka wrote:
Suss, thanks so much for transcribing those lyrics for me. Good to finally 'hear' them after all these years.

While the imagery is good, it's no Rat Trap!

Let the song be a warning about overindulgence at Christmas, esp any late night snacking. Ps Congrats on Christmas gift teaser, reads a bit like a Dylan Thomas poem.

Irish mom toys=Mrs Browns toys. smile Groan

Derek The Dane · V Deep

Got a cheap record player the other day,bought 2 cheap speakers and bang it works.Cannot believe for £65 I can now play all my old vinyl stuff again.Listening to Born To Burn for the first time in years.Apparantly I can record them over to my computer but I have not tried that yet.

manatthetop · In the Long Grass

Talking of B sides lets hear your top 10

Derek The Dane · V Deep

Top 10,that is hard.I also really like Walking Downtown which is not mentioned in the list above.It would be in my top 10 along with It´s All The Rage and Born To Burn.Also Don´t Talk To Me was on the American version of Mondo Bongo.

noelindublin · Loudmouth

Fav b side is Late Last Night followed by Born to Burn. Also really like Walking Down Town, which Ian in Pompey almost gave top marks for in Rattyvision song contest.

b sides extensively covered in previous post.

http://boomtownrats.activeboard.com/t46869218/rank-the-b-sides/

Mike menzies · V Deep

My fave is no hiding place should've been a side instead of charmed lives second fave is hard times ( I know it's an album track as well as beside) still love it just the same ,

Mark L · Loudmouth

I don't think you can beat Real Different. This used to be on the turntable all the time in 1981 and I was never sure how Mood Mambo could be lead track on Mondo Bongo when stuff as good as RD was consigned to B-side status. That said, the Rats gave good bang for your buck when it came to the B side.

I also really like Late Last Night with similar group 'oh oh's' to end.

Mike menzies · V Deep

My fave is no hiing place and then hard times after that all others are ok apart from the dire manatthetop which was awful nice leaving gift from gerry Cott hahaha!