''The Best of the Boomtown Rats'' featured 19 of

The Boomtown Rats The Boomtown Rats are an Irish rock music, rock band originally formed in Dublin in 1975. Between 1977 and 1985, they had a series of Irish and UK hit record, hits including "Like Clockwork", "Rat Trap", "I Don't Like Mondays" and "Banana Repub ...

best known work. A DVD was also available. The compilation album peaked at No. 43 in the

UK Albums Chart The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom. It was published for the first time on 22 July 1956 and is compiled every week by the Official Charts ...

in February 2005.

Track listing

# " She's So Modern" # "

Mary of the 4th Form "Mary of the 4th Form" is the second single by The Boomtown Rats. It was the first song taken from the band's first album ''The Boomtown Rats'' but the single is a different, re-recorded version from that on the album and 19 seconds longer. On Fr ...

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Rat Trap A rat trap is a trap designed to catch rats. Designs are often larger variations on mousetraps. Types of traps Spring traps for large rodent Rodents (from Latin , 'to gnaw') are mammals of the order Rodentia (), which are character ...

" # " Lookin' After No. 1" # "When the Night Comes" # " Someone's Looking at You" # "Joey's on the Street Again" # "

Banana Republic In political science, the term banana republic describes a politically unstable country with an economy dependent upon the export of natural resources. In 1904, the American author O. Henry coined the term to describe Honduras and neighboring c ...

" # "Dave" # "

I Don't Like Mondays "I Don't Like Mondays" is a song by Irish new wave group the Boomtown Rats about the 1979 Cleveland Elementary School shooting in San Diego. It was released in 1979 as the lead single from their third album, ''The Fine Art of Surfacing''. Th ...

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Like Clockwork "Like Clockwork" is a single by The Boomtown Rats. It was the band's first to reach the Top Ten in the UK Singles Chart, peaking at No. 6. Described as "simple, cool", in concerts supporting '' A Tonic for the Troops'', the song's agitated, stac ...

" # "(I Never Loved) Eva Braun" # "Neon Heart" # "Never in a Million Years" # " Diamond Smiles" # "Drag Me Down" # "I Can Make It (If You Can)" # "The Elephant's Graveyard (Guilty)" # "Fall Down"

DVD

Promo videos

# "Lookin' After No. 1" # "She's So Modern" # "Like Clockwork" # "Rat Trap" # "I Don't Like Mondays" # "Diamond Smiles" # "Someone's Looking at You" # "Banana Republic" # "The Elephant's Graveyard" # "Never in a Million Years" # "House on Fire" # "Dave" # "Tonight" # "Drag Me Down" # "A Hold on Me"

Live Hammersmith Apollo 1984

# "Intro" # "The Elephant's Graveyard" # "Charmed Lives" # "Lucky" # "Neon Heart" # "Someone's Looking at You" # "Dave" # "A Hold of Me" # "I Don't Like Mondays" # "Talk in Code" # "Rat Trap" # "Drag Me Down" # "Lookin' After No. 1"

Bonus material

# "The Music Machine" (1977) # "Lookin' After No. 1" (1977) # "Mary of the 4th Form" (''Top of the Pops'', 1977) # "Arnold Lane" (6.55 special 1982) # "Do They Know it's Christmas?" (''The Tube'' 1985) # "News Flash" (1980) # "Keep It Up" (live) # "Like Clockwork" (live) # Self Aid (1986 - "Joey on Streets Again")

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Best Of The Boomtown Rats The Boomtown Rats albums 2003 greatest hits albums 2003 video albums 2003 live albums Music video compilation albums Live video albums Albums produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange Albums produced by Tony Visconti Albums produced by James Guthrie (record producer)