| Boomtown Rats - documentary on Iplayer 15:23 - Jun 8 with 1359 views | Keno |
well worth a watch |  |
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| Boomtown Rats - documentary on Iplayer on 16:04 - Jun 8 with 1320 views | DebsyAngel |
We actually watched this Saturday night (we had recorded it when it was first shown), and thoroughly enjoyed it. Very well done and liked the opening part! |  | | |
| Boomtown Rats - documentary on Iplayer on 16:05 - Jun 8 with 1320 views | jeera |
I caught some of that last week [?]
It was a good watch, even if Bob looked around 14 and it made me feel both old and nostalgic. |  |
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| Boomtown Rats - documentary on Iplayer on 16:07 - Jun 8 with 1319 views | Keno |
| Boomtown Rats - documentary on Iplayer on 16:05 - Jun 8 by jeera |
I caught some of that last week [?]
It was a good watch, even if Bob looked around 14 and it made me feel both old and nostalgic. |
I know what you mean about feeling old and nostalgic.
I had forgotten quite how big they were | |
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| Boomtown Rats - documentary on Iplayer on 16:21 - Jun 8 with 1297 views | dickie |
I had never been into them before I saw them at Latitude a few years ago - they put on such a great, fun live show! Bob was the consummate performer |  | | |
| Boomtown Rats - documentary on Iplayer on 16:30 - Jun 8 with 1288 views | FenboyBlue |
It was a really good documentary. I've always quite liked the Boomtown Rats but not quite enough to buy their records. (It's the same with Squeeze). The really interesting bit was where Bob was theorising about the crucial bit where bands have a set time period where you have to take the initial UK success over to the US otherwise you'll lose all the momentum & never make it big internationally and the Rats messed up like most UK & Ireland bands. |  | | |
| Boomtown Rats - documentary on Iplayer on 17:16 - Jun 8 with 1241 views | factual_blue |
| Boomtown Rats - documentary on Iplayer on 16:07 - Jun 8 by Keno |
I know what you mean about feeling old and nostalgic.
I had forgotten quite how big they were |
You've got your special photos of Penny out again then? |  |
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| Boomtown Rats - documentary on Iplayer on 17:17 - Jun 8 with 1237 views | Keno |
| Boomtown Rats - documentary on Iplayer on 17:16 - Jun 8 by factual_blue |
You've got your special photos of Penny out again then? |
Paula surely? | |
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| Boomtown Rats - documentary on Iplayer on 17:22 - Jun 8 with 1230 views | Radlett_blue |
| Boomtown Rats - documentary on Iplayer on 16:30 - Jun 8 by FenboyBlue |
It was a really good documentary. I've always quite liked the Boomtown Rats but not quite enough to buy their records. (It's the same with Squeeze). The really interesting bit was where Bob was theorising about the crucial bit where bands have a set time period where you have to take the initial UK success over to the US otherwise you'll lose all the momentum & never make it big internationally and the Rats messed up like most UK & Ireland bands. |
I think the decision by the guy at their American record company to post a dead rat to 1,000 American DJs as an encouragement to give "Rat Trap" air time was the best moment. |  |
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| Boomtown Rats - documentary on Iplayer on 17:23 - Jun 8 with 1228 views | usm |
Yep, agreed. I watched it when it aired on BBC 2 a couple of weeks ago.
It even prompted me to get my "Tonic for the Troops" LP out of the loft.
I'd forgotten all about Mary of the 4th Form...... |  |
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| Boomtown Rats - documentary on Iplayer on 18:52 - Jun 8 with 1160 views | GeoffSentence |
| Boomtown Rats - documentary on Iplayer on 17:23 - Jun 8 by usm |
Yep, agreed. I watched it when it aired on BBC 2 a couple of weeks ago.
It even prompted me to get my "Tonic for the Troops" LP out of the loft.
I'd forgotten all about Mary of the 4th Form...... |
Looking After Number One on Top Of The Pops was my first exposure to punk music and I hated it. I liked Abba. I didn't know why they weren't singing properly, why Bob Geldof insisted on shoving his ugly, sneering, mug right in the camera and why he was prancing around the stage in that cocky manner.
Fast forward a couple of months, Abba was binned off, I couldn't get enough punk and Looking After Number One was, and remains, my favourite Rats track. |  |
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| Boomtown Rats - documentary on Iplayer on 18:54 - Jun 8 with 1158 views | jeera |
| Boomtown Rats - documentary on Iplayer on 18:52 - Jun 8 by GeoffSentence |
Looking After Number One on Top Of The Pops was my first exposure to punk music and I hated it. I liked Abba. I didn't know why they weren't singing properly, why Bob Geldof insisted on shoving his ugly, sneering, mug right in the camera and why he was prancing around the stage in that cocky manner.
Fast forward a couple of months, Abba was binned off, I couldn't get enough punk and Looking After Number One was, and remains, my favourite Rats track. |
Many tastes are acquired huh?! | |
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| Boomtown Rats - documentary on Iplayer on 19:04 - Jun 8 with 1138 views | reusersfreekicks |
| Boomtown Rats - documentary on Iplayer on 17:23 - Jun 8 by usm |
Yep, agreed. I watched it when it aired on BBC 2 a couple of weeks ago.
It even prompted me to get my "Tonic for the Troops" LP out of the loft.
I'd forgotten all about Mary of the 4th Form...... |
Wasn't that the previous album? |  | | |
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