Thread: Music: Cutting Edge and What You Are Listening To?

I am showing my age here again but I remember when this song first came out and I first time I heard it. I even have the original ALBUM, yes folks an LP! I fell in love with it then, still like it and often quote it.

"I Don't Like Mondays" by the Boom Town Rats.

Who would have thought that 30+ years later the lead singer, Bob Geldof, would go on to be knighted, nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and one of the world's biggest political activists. He is also known for playing the role of Pink in Pink Floyd's 1982 film Pink Floyd The Wall.

In this day and age of autotune, backup singers and fake this and that... here is an old live performance that he did with just a piano to back him up and it is probably my favorite version of the song. The way he paces the song, times each syllable, his mannerisms. Even the audience is spellbound, you could hear a pin drop.

Even if you have heard the song, you may not know that it was based on an actual event that took place in California. I Don't Like Mondays - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Song: I Don't Like Mondays
Artist: Boom Town Rats
Album: The Fine Art of Surfacing
Composer: Bob Geldof
Year: 1979

Lyrics:
The silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload
And nobody’s gonna go to school today
She’s gonna make them stay at home
And daddy doesn’t understand it
He always said she was good as gold
And he can see no reasons
'Cos there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be show-ow-ow-ow-own?

Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
I wanna shoo-oo-woo-woo-woo-oot the whole day down

The Telex machine is kept so clean
And it types to a waiting world
And mother feels so shocked
Father’s world is rocked
And their thoughts turn to their own little girl
Sweet 16 ain’t that peachy keen
Now that ain’t so neat to admit defeat
They can see no reasons
'Cuz there are no reasons
What reasons do you need?
Oh Oh oh whoa whoa

Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
I wanna shoo-oo-oo-woo-woo-oot
The whole day down, down, down, shoot it all down

And all the playing's stopped in the playground now
She wants to play with the toys a while
And school's out early and soon we'll be learning
And the lesson today is how to die
And then the bullhorn crackles
And the captain tackles
(With the problems of the how's and why's)
And he can see no reasons
'Cos there are no reasons
What reason do you need to die, die?
Oh Oh Oh

Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
Tell me why
I don’t like
I don’t like (Tell me why)
I don’t like Mondays
Tell me why
I don’t like
I don’t like (Tell me why)
I don’t like Mondays
Tell me why
I don't like Mondays
I wanna shoo-oo-oo-woo-woo-woot the whole day down



I forgot... we have a number of "House" fans on the forum and it was used in an episode and this is a great fan video!