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{{Infobox Album | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums -->
{{Infobox album
| Name = Mondo Bongo
| Type = [[Album]]
| name = Mondo Bongo
| Artist = [[The Boomtown Rats]]
| type = [[Album]]
| artist = [[the Boomtown Rats]]
| Cover = cover_-_mondo_bongo.jpg
| cover = cover_-_mondo_bongo.jpg
| Released = January 1981
| Recorded =
| alt =
| released = December 1980 (UK)<ref name="Melody Maker">{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=As It Happens... |newspaper=[[Melody Maker]] |publisher=IPC Magazines Ltd. |date=January 3, 1981 |page=3 }}</ref><br />February 1981 (US)
| Genre = [[Rock music|Rock]]
| Length =
| recorded =
| venue =
| Label = [[Mercury Records]] (UK)<br/> [[Columbia Records]] (US) |
| studio = Ibiza Sound Studios, Ibiza, Spain
| Producer = [[Tony Visconti]] <br> The Boomtown Rats
| genre = [[Rock music|Rock]], [[New wave music|new wave]]<ref name="AMG">{{cite web|author=William Ruhlmann |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/mondo-bongo-mw0000310737 |title=Mondo Bongo - The Boomtown Rats &#124; Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards |publisher=AllMusic |accessdate=2014-04-09}}</ref>
| Last album = ''[[The Fine Art of Surfacing]]''<br />(1979)
| length =
| This album = '''''Mondo Bongo'''''<br />(1981)
| Next album = ''[[V Deep]]''<br />(1982)
| label = [[Mercury Records|Mercury]] (UK)<br /> [[Columbia Records|Columbia]] (US)
| producer = [[Tony Visconti]] <br /> The Boomtown Rats
| prev_title = [[The Fine Art of Surfacing]]
| prev_year = 1979
| next_title = [[V Deep]]
| next_year = 1982
}}
}}
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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 [[United Kingdom|UK]] charts in November 1980 and "The Elephants Graveyard (Guilty)" which made No. 26 in January 1981.
'''''Mondo Bongo''''' was [[the Boomtown Rats]]' fourth album.<ref name="AMG"/> It peaked at No. 6 in the [[UK Albums Chart]] in February 1981,<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums"/> and No. 116 in the US [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]].<ref name="All Music">{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/mondo-bongo-mw0000310737/awards |title=Mondo Bongo - The Boomtown Rats &#124; Awards |publisher=AllMusic |accessdate=2014-04-09}}</ref> This is the band's last album to be recorded as six-piece band, as the guitarist [[Gerry Cott]] left the band shortly after the album's release.

It included the hit singles: "[[Banana Republic (song)|Banana Republic]]", which had reached No. 3 in the [[UK Singles Chart]] in November 1980 and "The Elephants Graveyard (Guilty)" which made No. 26 in January 1981.<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums">{{cite book
| first= David
| last= Roberts
| year= 2006
| title= [[British Hit Singles & Albums]]
| edition= 19th
| publisher= Guinness World Records Limited
| location= London
| isbn= 1-904994-10-5
| page= 71}}</ref>

==Reception==
The album received mixed reviews in the press, with American critics being generally more positive than their British counterparts. ''[[NME|New Musical Express]]'' put down the record as "hollow pop, quaking under a plethora of poorly integrated rip-offs", while ''[[Sounds (magazine)|Sounds]]'' called it "self-indulgent" and lacking in depth or emotion.<ref name="Rock Yearbook 1982">{{cite book
| year= 1981
| title= The Rock Yearbook 1982
| publisher= Virgin Books Ltd
| location= New York
| isbn= 0-312-68784-2
| page= [https://archive.org/details/rockyearbook198200newy/page/62 62]
| url-access= registration
| url= https://archive.org/details/rockyearbook198200newy/page/62
}}</ref> ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', however, praised it as "an intoxicating mixture of pop and punk", and ''[[Trouser Press]]'' called it "an enormously enjoyable LP, with hardly a dry patch on it".<ref name="Rock Yearbook 1982"/>


==Track listing==
==Track listing==
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# "Mood Mambo" (Geldof, [[Pete Briquette]]) – 4:06
# "Mood Mambo" (Geldof, [[Pete Briquette]]) – 4:06
# "Straight Up" – 3:15
# "Straight Up" – 3:15
# "This Is My Room" (Geldof, [[Simon Crowe]]) – 3:35
# "This is My Room" (Geldof, [[Simon Crowe]]) – 3:35
# "Another Piece of Red" – 2:35
# "Another Piece of Red" – 2:35
# "Go Man Go!" – 3:52
# "Go Man Go!" – 3:52
# "Under Their Thumb Is Under My Thumb" ([[Mick Jagger]], [[Keith Richards]], Geldof) – 2:41
# "Under Their Thumb is Under My Thumb" (music: [[Mick Jagger]], [[Keith Richards]]; new lyrics: Geldof) – 2:41
# "Please Don't Go" – 3:34
# "Please Don't Go" – 3:34
# "The Elephants Graveyard" – 3:43
# "The Elephants Graveyard" – 3:43
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# "Hurt Hurts" – 3:05
# "Hurt Hurts" – 3:05
# "Whitehall 1212" – 3:43
# "Whitehall 1212" – 3:43
# "Cheerio" - 1:24 (Hidden track)


The North American releases replaced "Fall Down" with "Don't Talk to Me" (2:50) and "Whitehall 1212" with "Up All Night" (3:33). The Canadian cassette release added "Whitehall 1212" as a bonus track at the end of Side 1, after "Under Their Thumb."
==U. S. Track listing==
All songs were written by [[Bob Geldof]], except where noted.
# "Mood Mambo" (Geldof, [[Pete Briquette]]) – 4:06
# "Straight Up" – 3:15
# "This Is My Room" (Geldof, [[Simon Crowe]]) – 3:35
# "Another Piece of Red" – 2:35
# "Go Man Go!" – 3:52
# "Under Their Thumb Is Under My Thumb" ([[Mick Jagger]], [[Keith Richards]], 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==
===2005 re-issue===
# "Straight Up" – 3:15
# "Straight Up" – 3:15
# "The Elephants Graveyard" – 3:43
# "The Elephants Graveyard" – 3:43
# "This Is My Room" – 3:35
# "This is My Room" – 3:35
# "Another Piece of Red" – 2:35
# "Another Piece of Red" – 2:35
# "Hurt Hurts" – 3:05
# "Hurt Hurts" – 3:05
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# "Whitehall 1212" – 3:43
# "Whitehall 1212" – 3:43
# "Mood Mambo" – 4:06
# "Mood Mambo" – 4:06
# "Cheerio"
# "Cheerio" - 1:15
# "Don't Talk to Me" (B-side)
# "Don't Talk to Me" (B-side) - 2:53
# "[[Arnold Layne]]" (Recorded for TV) ([[Syd Barrett]]) - 3:11
# "Another Piece of Red" (Live in Portsmouth)
# "Another Piece of Red" (Live in Portsmouth) - 3:33
This reissue caused some controversy amongst fans for not only mixing up the track order from the original LP, but for cutting out the short period of silence in the middle of "Cheerio" that was placed there to allow the listener to say something, as per the lyrics.


==Personnel==
==Personnel==
;The Boomtown Rats
*[[Bob Geldof]] - lead and backing vocals
*[[Bob Geldof]] - lead and backing vocals
*[[Johnny Fingers]] - keyboards, backing vocals
*[[Johnnie Fingers]] - keyboards, backing vocals
*[[Gerry Cott]] - guitar
*[[Gerry Cott]] - guitar
*[[Garry Roberts]] - guitar, backing vocals
*[[Garry Roberts]] - guitar, backing vocals
*[[Pete Briquette]] - bass, keyboards, backing vocals
*[[Pete Briquette]] - bass, keyboards, backing vocals
*[[Simon Crowe]] - drums, backing vocals<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/mondo-bongo-mw0000310737/credits |title=Mondo Bongo - The Boomtown Rats &#124; Credits |publisher=AllMusic |accessdate=2014-04-09}}</ref>
*[[Simon Crowe]] - drums, backing vocals
;Additional musicians

===Additional musicians===
*Dr. Dave McHale - saxophone
*Dr. Dave McHale - saxophone
*T.V. - backing vocals, recorder, drunken bass, guitar
*[[Tony Visconti|T.V.]] - backing vocals, recorder, occasional drunken bass, guitar
*Tom Winter - bazouki on "Please Don't Go"
*Tom Winter - bazouki on "Please Don't Go"
* Andy Duncan - percussion on "Please Don't Go"
* Andy Duncan - percussion on "Please Don't Go"{{citation needed|date=April 2014}}
;Technical
*Chris Porter, Tom Winter - engineer
*Mike Owen - photography

==Charts==
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"
!Chart
!Position
|-
|Australia ([[Kent Music Report]])||24<ref name=aus>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=42}}</ref>
|-
|align="left"|[[RPM (magazine)|Canadian Albums Chart]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.0314&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=jkbnsn4o4itqa11ot31qsvi060|title=Top Albums/CDs - Volume 34, No. 15|publisher=RPM|format=PHP|date=March 21, 1981|accessdate=July 20, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150217165341/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php|archive-date=February 17, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|22
|-
|align="left"|[[UK Albums Chart]]<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums"/>
|6
|-
|align="left"|United States [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]]<ref name="All Music"/>
|116
|}

==References==
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Latest revision as of 20:55, 28 November 2024

This article is about the Boomtown Rats album. For other uses, see Mondo Bongo (disambiguation).

Mondo Bongo
Studio album by
the Boomtown Rats
ReleasedDecember 1980 (UK)[1]
February 1981 (US)
StudioIbiza Sound Studios, Ibiza, Spain
GenreRock, new wave[2]
LabelMercury (UK)
Columbia (US)
ProducerTony Visconti
The Boomtown Rats
The Boomtown Rats chronology
The Fine Art of Surfacing
(1979) 		Mondo Bongo
(1980) 		V Deep
(1982)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Rolling Stone[3]

Mondo Bongo was the Boomtown Rats' fourth album.[2] It peaked at No. 6 in the UK Albums Chart in February 1981,[4] and No. 116 in the US Billboard 200.[5] This is the band's last album to be recorded as six-piece band, as the guitarist Gerry Cott left the band shortly after the album's release.

It included the hit singles: "Banana Republic", which had reached No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart in November 1980 and "The Elephants Graveyard (Guilty)" which made No. 26 in January 1981.[4]

Reception

[edit]

The album received mixed reviews in the press, with American critics being generally more positive than their British counterparts. New Musical Express put down the record as "hollow pop, quaking under a plethora of poorly integrated rip-offs", while Sounds called it "self-indulgent" and lacking in depth or emotion.[6] Rolling Stone, however, praised it as "an intoxicating mixture of pop and punk", and Trouser Press called it "an enormously enjoyable LP, with hardly a dry patch on it".[6]

Track listing

[edit]

All songs were written by Bob Geldof, except where noted.

  1. "Mood Mambo" (Geldof, Pete Briquette) – 4:06
  2. "Straight Up" – 3:15
  3. "This is My Room" (Geldof, Simon Crowe) – 3:35
  4. "Another Piece of Red" – 2:35
  5. "Go Man Go!" – 3:52
  6. "Under Their Thumb is Under My Thumb" (music: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards; new lyrics: Geldof) – 2:41
  7. "Please Don't Go" – 3:34
  8. "The Elephants Graveyard" – 3:43
  9. "Banana Republic" (Geldof, Briquette) – 4:55
  10. "Fall Down" – 2:26
  11. "Hurt Hurts" – 3:05
  12. "Whitehall 1212" – 3:43
  13. "Cheerio" - 1:24 (Hidden track)

The North American releases replaced "Fall Down" with "Don't Talk to Me" (2:50) and "Whitehall 1212" with "Up All Night" (3:33). The Canadian cassette release added "Whitehall 1212" as a bonus track at the end of Side 1, after "Under Their Thumb."

2005 re-issue

[edit]
  1. "Straight Up" – 3:15
  2. "The Elephants Graveyard" – 3:43
  3. "This is My Room" – 3:35
  4. "Another Piece of Red" – 2:35
  5. "Hurt Hurts" – 3:05
  6. "Please Don't Go" – 3:34
  7. "Fall Down" – 2:26
  8. "Go Man Go!" – 3:52
  9. "Under Their Thumb" – 2:41
  10. "Banana Republic" – 4:55
  11. "Whitehall 1212" – 3:43
  12. "Mood Mambo" – 4:06
  13. "Cheerio" - 1:15
  14. "Don't Talk to Me" (B-side) - 2:53
  15. "Arnold Layne" (Recorded for TV) (Syd Barrett) - 3:11
  16. "Another Piece of Red" (Live in Portsmouth) - 3:33

This reissue caused some controversy amongst fans for not only mixing up the track order from the original LP, but for cutting out the short period of silence in the middle of "Cheerio" that was placed there to allow the listener to say something, as per the lyrics.

Personnel

[edit]
The Boomtown Rats
Additional musicians
  • Dr. Dave McHale - saxophone
  • T.V. - backing vocals, recorder, occasional drunken bass, guitar
  • Tom Winter - bazouki on "Please Don't Go"
  • Andy Duncan - percussion on "Please Don't Go"[citation needed]
Technical
  • Chris Porter, Tom Winter - engineer
  • Mike Owen - photography

Charts

[edit]
Chart Position
Australia (Kent Music Report) 24[8]
Canadian Albums Chart[9] 22
UK Albums Chart[4] 6
United States Billboard 200[5] 116

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "As It Happens...". Melody Maker. IPC Magazines Ltd. 3 January 1981. p. 3.
  2. ^ a b c William Ruhlmann. "Mondo Bongo - The Boomtown Rats | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 9 April 2014.
  3. ^ Fricke, David (28 May 1981). "Mondo Bongo". Rolling Stone. New York: Straight Arrow Publishers: 71.
  4. ^ a b c Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 71. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  5. ^ a b "Mondo Bongo - The Boomtown Rats | Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 9 April 2014.
  6. ^ a b The Rock Yearbook 1982. New York: Virgin Books Ltd. 1981. p. 62. ISBN 0-312-68784-2.
  7. ^ "Mondo Bongo - The Boomtown Rats | Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 9 April 2014.
  8. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 42. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  9. ^ "Top Albums/CDs - Volume 34, No. 15". RPM. 21 March 1981. Archived from the original (PHP) on 17 February 2015. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
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