Classic Album Selection: Six Albums 1977-1984

Compilation by The Boomtown Rats

Released 21 October 2013

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Reviews

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Tracklist

CD 1: The Boomtown Rats
1
Lookin’ After No.1
3:10
4.6 ★
2
Mary of the 4th Form
3:33
5.0 ★
3
Close as You’ll Ever Be
3:24
5.0 ★
4
Neon Heart
3:54
4.0 ★
5
Joey’s on the Streets Again
5:30
4.0 ★
6
I Can Make It If You Can
5:47
4.0 ★
7
Never Bite the Hand That Feeds
2:47
4.0 ★
8
(She’s Gonna) Do You In
3:54
4.0 ★
9
Kicks
4:11
3.0 ★
10
Doin’ It Away (1975 live demo)
2:42
4.0 ★
11
My Blues Away (1975 live demo)
2:54
3.0 ★
12
A Second Time (1975 live demo)
4:11
4.0 ★
13
Fanzine Hero (1975 live demo)
3:13
3.0 ★
14
Barefootin’ (live in Moran's Hotel Dublin 1975)
3:21
3.0 ★
15
Mary of the 4th Form (single version)
3:52
5.0 ★
CD 2: A Tonic for the Troops
1
Like Clockwork
3:44
4.0 ★
2
Blind Date
3:22
4.0 ★
3
(I Never Loved) Eva Braun
4:38
3.0 ★
4
Living in an Island
4:10
3.0 ★
5
Don’t Believe What You Read
3:09
4.0 ★
6
She’s So Modern
2:58
4.0 ★
7
Me and Howard Hughes
3:12
4.0 ★
8
Can’t Stop
2:19
9
(Watch Out for) The Normal People
2:54
10
Rat Trap
5:14
4.0 ★
11
Neon Heart (John Peel radio session)
4:10
12
Do the Rat
2:13
13
D.U.N.L.A.O.G.H.A.I.R.E.
2:17
14
Rat Trap (live in Stoke)
5:49
CD 3: The Fine Art of Surfacing
1
Someone’s Looking at You
4:24
5.0 ★
2
Diamond Smiles
3:52
4.0 ★
3
Wind Chill Factor (Minus Zero)
4:38
4.0 ★
4
Having My Picture Taken
3:20
3.0 ★
5
Sleep (Fingers’ Lullaby)
4:16
6
I Don’t Like Mondays
4:19
4.0 ★
7
Nothing Happened Today
3:19
4.0 ★
8
Keep It Up
3:39
4.0 ★
9
Nice n Neat
2:51
4.0 ★
10
When the Night Comes
4:45
4.0 ★
11
Episode #3
1:10
12
Real Different
3:15
13
How Do You Do
2:41
14
Late Last Night
2:43
15
Nothing Happened Today (live in Cardiff)
3:44
CD 4: Mondo Bongo
1
Straight Up
3:21
4.0 ★
2
The Elephant’s Graveyard
3:46
5.0 ★
3
This Is My Room
3:44
4.0 ★
4
Another Piece of Red
2:40
4.0 ★
5
Hurt Hurts
3:07
4.0 ★
6
Please Don’t Go
3:38
4.0 ★
7
Fall Down
2:32
4.0 ★
8
Go Man Go!
4:05
4.0 ★
9
Under Their Thumb Is Under My Thumb
2:50
4.0 ★
10
Banana Republic
5:05
3.0 ★
11
Whitehall 1212
3:48
3.0 ★
12
Mood Mambo
4:10
4.0 ★
13
Cheerio
1:20
3.0 ★
14
Don’t Talk to Me
2:55
4.0 ★
15
Arnold Layne
3:12
3.0 ★
16
Another Piece of Red (live in Portsmouth)
3:33
3.0 ★
CD 5: V Deep
1
He Watches It All
3:16
4.0 ★
2
Never in a Million Years
3:51
5.0 ★
3
Talking in Code
2:56
4.0 ★
4
The Bitter End
4:28
4.0 ★
5
The Little Death
3:35
6
A Storm Breaks
5:58
4.0 ★
7
Up All Night
3:38
4.0 ★
8
House on Fire
4:45
4.0 ★
9
Charmed Lives
4:02
4.0 ★
10
Skin on Skin
4:41
3.0 ★
11
Say Hi to Mick
1:36
12
No Hiding Place
3:09
13
House on Fire (12″ dub)
5:54
14
Up All Night (long version)
6:55
CD 6: In the Long Grass
1
Dave
4:32
4.5 ★
2
Over and Over
3:45
3
Drag Me Down
4:08
4.0 ★
4
A Hold of Me
4:57
4.0 ★
5
Another Sad Story
3:42
4.5 ★
6
Tonight
3:53
4.0 ★
7
Hard Times
3:54
4.5 ★
8
Lucky
3:37
4.5 ★
9
An Icicle in the Sun
3:50
4.0 ★
10
Up or Down
3:33
3.0 ★
11
Dave (single version)
4:19
12
Walking Downtown
5:20
13
Precious Time
4:34
14
She’s Not the Best (Home demo)
0:59

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Release credits

Bill Price
engineer [6]
Bob Carter
arranger [6]
Bob Clearmountain
mix [1, 3-8, 10]
Fiachra Trench
strings [6]
James Guthrie
producer [6, 11]
Martin Rex
engineer [1, 3-8, 10]
Peter Walsh
producer [3, 7-8]
Phil Wainman
producer [6]
Robert John “Mutt” Lange
producer [1.1-4, 1.8-9, 1.15, 3.1-4, 3.7-10]
Steve Brown
engineer [1-4, 8-9]
The Boomtown Rats
producer [6.1, 6.3-8, 6.10-11, 4.1-8, 4.11-12]
Tony Visconti
producer [1-8, 11-12]

Issues

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Classic Album Selection: Six Albums 1977-1984
6x CD
21 October 2013