Boomtown Rats: Tonic for the Troops - Democratic Underground

gratuitous

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Tue Dec-14-04 05:35 PM
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Boomtown Rats: Tonic for the Troops

If you don't own this record, on vinyl, you can never be as cool as me.

Thus sayeth gratuitous.

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LSparkle

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Tue Dec-14-04 05:37 PM
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1. That's a GREAT record!

Doesn't it have a song on it with the line "She's so 20th Century, she's so 1970s"? Dates me ...

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RandomKoolzip

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Tue Dec-14-04 05:41 PM
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2. "She's So Modern" is a good tune.

And "Rat Trap."

But Geldof's Springsteen thing was getting out of hand by that point.

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gratuitous

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Tue Dec-14-04 05:48 PM
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3. Sour grapes

Gotta change your handle to RandomNotAsKoolAsGratuitousZip.

And I never loved Eva Braun.

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RandomKoolzip

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Tue Dec-14-04 05:51 PM
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4. I have a theory that that song is the reason why

Roger Waters hired him for "The Wall." The first time I heard "Eva Braun," I could swaer I could almost see Waters listening HARD.

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FarLeftRage

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Tue Dec-14-04 06:06 PM
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5. Heh...

I bought the vinyl lp 2 weeks after its release back in the late 70's.

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Adenoid_Hynkel

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Tue Dec-14-04 06:17 PM
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6. i've got it

and a few others. Geldof is criminally underrated.

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indigobusiness

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Tue Dec-14-04 06:43 PM
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7. Joey's on the Street Again

Edited on Tue Dec-14-04 06:44 PM by indigobusiness

I've got it on transparent blue vinyl.

Bow to me.

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gratuitous

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Tue Dec-14-04 07:47 PM
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8. Must . . . resist . . . no proof . . .

You scan in a photo of it, and I would. But ONLY if you also have the entire "Kindling" collection.

I am a god.

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indigobusiness

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Tue Dec-14-04 08:20 PM
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11. Then

bow to yourself.

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corksean

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Tue Dec-14-04 08:03 PM
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9. That takes me back - shit, my acne is reappearing!

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corksean

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Tue Dec-14-04 08:05 PM
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10. Did anyone else notice at the time...

that when U2 first started out Bono live was no more than a Geldof clone? First saw U2 in Cork in '79 and didn't rate them at all because of that.

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