The Boomtown Rats

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1985年にリリースされたベスト・アルバム。日本で独自にリリースされたものだろうか？Googleでも検索されないようだ。

Live Aidが行われたのが、1985年7月13日。ライナー・ノーツの日付は1985年10月3日。Live Aidをきっかけとしてリリースされたのだろうか。

俺はLive AidのDVDをきっかけとして「I don't like Mondays」を大好きになり、このCDを中古で買い、たまに聞くようになった。

Band Aid/Live Aidの発起人としてのボブ・ゲルドフは知っていてもBoomtown Ratsの音楽はLive AidのDVDを買うまでは聞いたことがなかったと思う。

ボブ・ゲルドフと言えば、俺にとってはPink Floydの映画『The Wall』の主人公であり、…（長くなるので以下省略）

「I don't like Mondays」は名曲だな。この代表曲が1979年の作品。デビューが1977年。パンクの年。ニューウェイヴか…。70年代と80年代を繋ぐバンドなんだな…。他の曲は（以下省略）

「I don't like Mondays」一曲だけでもBoomtown Ratsは俺にとって価値あるバンドだ。


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The silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload.
And nobody's gonna go to school today,
She's going to make them stay at home.
And daddy doesn't understand it,
He always said she was as good as gold.
And he can see no reason
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown?

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 want to shoot
The whole day down.

The telex machine is kept so clean
As 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 so peachy keen,
No, it ain't so neat to admit defeat.
They can see no reasons
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown?

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 want to shoot
The whole day down.

All the playing's stopped in the playground now
She wants to play with her 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 crackles,
With the problems and the how's and why's.
And he can see no reasons
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to die?

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 want to shoot
The whole day down.

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PV、昨日初めて見た。かっこいい



YouTube - The Boomtown Rats. I Don't Like Mondays.




「i dont like mondays」でぐぐれ
http://video.google.co.jp/videosearch?hl=ja&q=i+dont+like+mondays

「The Boomtown Rats I don't like Mondays」でぐぐれ
http://www.google.co.jp/search?hl=ja&num=100&q=The+Boomtown+Rats+I+don%27t+like+Mondays

ボブ・ゲルドフ - Wikipedia
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9C%E3%83%96%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89%E3%83%95

ブームタウン・ラッツ - Wikipedia
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%96%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0%E3%82%BF%E3%82%A6%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%83%84

哀愁のマンデイ - Wikipedia
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%93%80%E6%84%81%E3%81%AE%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3%E3%83%87%E3%82%A4



I don't like Mondays［2009年07月13日］
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