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Hard to take in this song was No. 1. 37 years ago. My God how the years have gone by in a flicker. This song is still as fresh today as it was way back in the cold days of discontent 78/79
I got the first album after TFAOS. In fact that may have been the first album by the Rats that I bought - I had Tonic on a tape from somebody else's LP at first though later bought it ...
Actually I was listening to TFAOS this morning and really enjoying it. I usually mainly listen to the first 2, but had "forgotten" how much I like the 3rd album. It transported me back in time though - happy memories. Funny how that sometimes happens ...
I got the first album after TFAOS. In fact that may have been the first album by the Rats that I bought - I had Tonic on a tape from somebody else's LP at first though later bought it ... Actually I was listening to TFAOS this morning and really enjoying it. I usually mainly listen to the first 2, but had "forgotten" how much I like the 3rd album. It transported me back in time though - happy memories. Funny how that sometimes happens ...
So many emotions attached to Rat music. It really does take you back and it feels like those teen years all over again.
This was the song that first introduced me to the Boomtown Rats. Everyone was going mad about Grease at the time, and Bob ripping up a picture of ONJ and JT on TOTP is an ever-lasting memory for me. I bought Tonic for the Troops and The Boomtown Rats LP's as a result and the rest is history.
Mine was the 1st album having seen them on the Mark Boland show then on the last late show doing his hate the world thing then going on to sing Lookin after No 1.And that was me I had heard of them b4 this but did not take much time to look them out. But the sure did hit the ground running
I don't know why I bought the second album first, given that I first saw them on TOTPs and was switched on to them within seconds. Before that I wouldn't have had the money, I suppose, and just bought the new album rather than the old one.
First TV performance? They were on TOTPs August 1977.
I imagine he means for Rat Trap.
Imagine watching that on Kenny Everett in the heat of summer and it's not until the cold and frost of November that it's number one. It had a 15 week chart life so it was still hanging around the lower reaches of the chart in February 1979.
Recently received rat trap with living in an island on bside ( think it's an Aussie one ). On Mercury label another to add to collection
Another Derek, although he has half a dozen copies of each. My collection is poor by compariso. I'd probably need to move to move house if I had all this