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Revision as of 11:07, 15 March 2022

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]

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

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

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

  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

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

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

  1. ^ "As It Happens...". Melody Maker. IPC Magazines Ltd. January 3, 1981. p. 3.
  2. ^ a b c William Ruhlmann. "Mondo Bongo - The Boomtown Rats | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 2014-04-09.
  3. ^ Fricke, David (May 28, 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 2014-04-09.
  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 2014-04-09.
  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. March 21, 1981. Archived from the original (PHP) on February 17, 2015. Retrieved July 20, 2014.
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