Boomtown Rats - Banana Republic 1980

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Boomtown Rats - Banana Republic 1980
(Instrumental)
Banana republic
Septic isle
Screaming in the suffering sea
It sounds like crying (crying, crying)
Everywhere I go, oh yeah
Everywhere I see
The black and blue uniforms
Police and priests
And I wonder do you wonder
While you're sleeping
with your whore
That sharing beds with history
Is like a-licking running sores
Forty shades of green yeah
Sixty shades of red
Heroes going cheap these days
Price; a bullet in the head
Banana republic
Septic isle
Suffering in the screaming sea
It sounds like crying (crying, crying)
Everywhere I go, oh yeah
Everywhere I see
The black and blue uniforms
Police and priests
Take your hand and lead you
Up a garden path
Let me stand aside here
And watch you pass
Striking up a soldier's song
I know that tune
It begs too many questions
And answers to,
Banana republic
Septic isle
Suffering in the screaming sea
It sounds like crying (crying, crying)
Everywhere I go, oh yeah
Everywhere I see
The black and blue uniforms
Police and priests
The purple and the pinstripe
Mutely shake their heads
A silense shrieking volumes
A violence worse than the condemn
Stab you in the back yeah
Laughing in your face
Glad to see the place again
It's a pitty nothing's changed
Banana republic
Septic isle
Suffer in the screaming sea
It sounds like crying (crying, crying)
Everywhere I go, oh yeah
Everywhere I see
The black and blue uniforms
Police and priests
Banana republic
Septic isle
Suffer in the screaming sea
It sounds like crying (crying, crying)
Everywhere I go, oh yeah
Everywhere I see
The black and blue uniforms
Police and priests
Banana republic
Septic isle

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@Revoltnow123 3 года назад

Bought this song in 1980. Never thought I'd be living in one.

@leevuong8843 3 года назад

4 years in the making

@cherylbrowne7097 5 лет назад

I listened to this song over and over and over when I was 7, living in England, having no idea what it meant or even what they were saying. The sound still gets me now, 39 years later. I'm so glad I rediscovered this song.

@JeromekJerome1972 4 года назад

I has that as well Cheryl at the same time and age. Funny isn't it? All these people were pop stars but the songs had very adult themes. Didnt think fans were morons. Great record.

@Bigglesfliesundone 3 года назад

I had exactly the same experience.

@duggyfresh8899 Год назад

@@JeromekJerome1972 well boomtown rats weren’t really “pop stars” imo

@sendtownjose 15 лет назад

One of the things I love about old music, is the way they could sing about very serious stuff in a sarcastic happy indirect way, ahead of their time, and build a very catchy and artistic song at the same time. Brilliant.

@drlarrymitchell 4 года назад

Made better by the context of us knowing how the world turned after such a pronouncement- and we dismiss the incorrect guesses.

@TrueNeutralEvGenius 2 года назад

This music is not old, it's you who are infantile, unwise and foolish.

@elizajohn5 13 лет назад

what a great song. first heard it in 1980. 31 years later it as relevant as ever. BOOMTOWN RATS = LEGENDS.

@novo611 Год назад

Brilliant song by the rats. So relevent now 2023 🇮🇪😒

@clumsydragon 2 года назад

One of my all time rat hits.. YEAH BABY...

@alextodd87 4 года назад

The most appropriate song ever written. Particularly in the 21st century. Absolutely brilliant . Absolutely tineless so appropriate for present day UK

@michealbarone 13 лет назад

This was the last hit i remember The boomtown rats had in the charts - Wonderful song , i was a fan all them years ago

@MetalGuruMessiah 13 лет назад

The Boomtown Rats were awesome.....love this song.

@susswin Год назад

No one but me among my friends loved them in the early 80s. This song sucks me back 40 years! Love you! @bobgeldof

@Prayergirl100 14 лет назад

I've been looking for this song for years! I love the bubbly tune even though the words are a little shady. I have something for UK music though...it ROCKS! Thank you so much for puttimg this on here!

@johngleeson1650 3 года назад

It’s Irish not UK

@eddygsmusicworld1708 3 года назад

easily 40 yrs since hearing this. Someone tweeted the usa is turning into a banana republic so of course I remembered this song

@jarileigh 14 лет назад

They seem ahead of their time in many ways.....before my time, great music.

@philbartlett8308 10 месяцев назад

favourite song of theirs, slight suspicion they might be miming here😂

@ScreamingLordRocky 11 лет назад

love this song, love this band

@angelagreen8221 5 лет назад

So glad found, loved this brought still got song on single record with picture sleeve, Also brought have , LP , record !! Tonic for the Troops, There second Album. I was 15 when came out, me my younger brother just loved playing, also just on note Bob was living near Chessington at time, we living Ashtead Surrey up road , well bit , and tried get see him just loved music and we both still do, till this day terrific album.

@beaschwii 13 лет назад

just saw them live, amazing!

@sylviaesparza3122 4 года назад

The new America is a banana republic. Sad days

@TheEmilylander 11 лет назад

You are an important man. You have changed a lot, for the better. Such thanks and love to you ! xxxx

@RobDeManc 14 лет назад

I miss the fact that politics isn't heard in pop music anymore.

@mintythemoose 10 дней назад

Now an ear-worm. Wished I'd not heard this again! 😆

@mfrost71w 4 года назад

The Rats were the naffest band of the punk movement but this was a great song. I can see the Clash doing it and it would have been a classic

@deletebilderberg Год назад

Punk? They were never punk.

@Yolticat 13 лет назад

Bob dances like Mick Jagger on stage but his music is truly original - great stuff to hear again!

@divoinblue 11 лет назад

I defer to your superior judgement, all-knowing one. Thank god we have people around like you who can tell us which music is good and which is not.

@samthebfg 14 лет назад

Great song, first heard this on an Eastenders documentary about the Watts vs the Mitchells! Hahaha!

@microfeck 14 лет назад

this could have been written about ireland today in 2010...never mind the 80's...

@markholmes7248 4 года назад

A good part of my youth. I don't like Mondays either!!!

@stephenhubbard2257 9 лет назад

Boomtown Rats, the Police, Spandau Ballet, they were all writing about the Troubles in those days.

@SuperBoogley 13 лет назад

absoloute great stuff from bob better than the garbage people suffer listening to the radio these days

@crash8563 3 года назад

Johnny Fingers looks like Sid Vicious

@mrbdel 14 лет назад

Great Lyrics - still relevant. Looks like a Top of the Pops mime.

@davieodell9369 Год назад

Oh dear God

@scagus 14 лет назад

there best one

@jarileigh 14 лет назад

I didn't know that, thanks :)

@elizajohn5 13 лет назад

@JoeJC an old joke. geldof is a legend. a great musician, a man of charity, a man of peace. enough said. give me those tickets any day of the week.

@PeterEvermann 10 лет назад

die tollen 80er.

@trhsailor 13 лет назад

hip hip great song

@Engelbird 7 месяцев назад

Who was the guy on accordion?

@EconAtheist 4 года назад

wish this were a better recording - the bass line is good

@truthreignsforever9286 2 года назад

My favorite tune of Geldof

@angiepanjie 2 года назад

Ok, I sing Banana Republic…septic eye🤷🏻‍♀️

@michealbarone 13 лет назад

@XXXPaulJXXX - Take another listen . the song was wonderful but the last i remember them having - remember the good old days

@leegray99 11 лет назад

I just had to wait through a 20 second one with no 5 second skip

@htfussman32 12 лет назад

Something tells me this is playback...

@MacMark2 14 лет назад

they have fun with the playback LOL

@bazscott4633 6 лет назад

This is Ireland 2018-Celtic Tiger 2

@thetwilightzone100 13 лет назад

@calboy64 no mondo bongo was a good album V Deep and In the long grass was when they lost it. Well when they were considered to have lost it i like V deep and in the long grass personally

@gatoechado 14 лет назад

@TheKamikazeMAR They are talking abouth Ireland

@TheEmilylander 12 лет назад

I was born in 65 .......... and you where the thing, Dont not be confident about the music , it was and s great. Banana is my thing.

@ahosek 11 лет назад

I trust you were saying this both to me and the person to whose post I responded, since we were saying equally judgemental things. Or do you just post when you disagree with something someone types?

@hyweltthomas 13 лет назад

@bkhorshidian Let's see; he wrote some of the best songs of the 70s and 80s, fronted a very popular band, set up the biggest concert the world has ever seen and raised millions for the starving. What a waste of a life. What was your name again?

@Paul69416 12 лет назад

This is a great live performance lol.No lip synching back in those days.

@jsanders100 3 года назад

Does not look live to me

@billkirchgassner4996 3 года назад

It's obviously the recorded song being played over the video. That doesn't make it bad though. 🤗

@YaoEspirito 2 года назад

Are you for real?!

@samthebfg 13 лет назад

BA NANA REPUB A LIC!!!

@hyweltthomas 13 лет назад

@8000cheese Yeah, you're right, I just couldn't stop myself...

@Megabambam 15 лет назад

lol nice song xD

@elizajohn5 13 лет назад

@JoeJC i guess joe, we will agree to disagree. i love the boomtown rats, and the sawdoctors are sensational too.

@whirlpoolzend 12 лет назад

Bob Geldof - Punks answer to John Travolta. (Tugs at the heartstrings every time)

@johngleeson1650 3 года назад

He ripped up John and Olivias photo on TOTOP when they knocked Em off no 1

@primus7776 5 лет назад

I can forgive Geldof anything after Live Aid 85. ….This is asking a lot, however.

@offmymedsgeezer 11 лет назад

Canadian anthem post-NAFTA, but given new meaning under Harper's Conada.

@stellamaris1419 11 лет назад

Also, if you lived in Ireland during the 70s and 80s you would understand the lyrics of this song and appreciate both the song & its writer a bit more. But your more than likely a 'tiger baby' id say.

@TheBrinaleck 14 лет назад

the new irish anthem

@kusaorange 14 лет назад

doin that kenny loggins dance

@5eurocups2005 15 лет назад

this is so embarrassing watching bob geldof here trying to dance, he is so gormless i think i read somewhere that morrisey said bob geldof only got involved with live aid to make a name for himself because his music wasn't that good

@diazlavalladeandres 14 лет назад

he`s a better singer than a dancer hahaha

@davythehibee 12 лет назад

youtube is getting boring now with all the ads disrupting the songs

@elizajohn5 13 лет назад

@10282021 SPOT ON!!!

@misterscabs 13 лет назад

Wellcome to 2011

@SistorCarrera 12 лет назад

that mic deffo aint working ;)

@FINTZZZ 13 лет назад

I was a huge 'Rats fan until they brought this out. We Irish all gripe about Ireland but we love the place all the same. He(Geldof) bad mouthed our country to the auld enemy and to anyone else whom he thought would win him influence. Bet he's bessie mates with Wogan

@jwilkcom 8 лет назад

to feel me . to the head

@isabelladestegonzaga5529 4 года назад

die aufstrebenden stadtratten - HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

@bkhorshidian 11 лет назад

I think in this case you might mean sphincter syncing

@johnclouse8554 7 лет назад

Jeesus !

@ScreamingLordRocky 11 лет назад

*he's

@burb3868 7 лет назад

Its a slam on the band's home country

@michellepeoplelikeyoumurde8373 7 часов назад

Yes, 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

@Megabambam 15 лет назад

;( i bee tha only one to right

@samderrida 5 лет назад

Doesn’t age well......they were pissed off because their concert was cancelled.....anger is not a good motive....

@WeThePeople11 14 лет назад

what the hell did i just watch

@Bodyguard4you38 14 лет назад

or Germany ...

@robtuohy1 13 лет назад

lip syncing? Yeah, it thought so.

@Shinerfox666 13 лет назад

This was about the time The Rats lost it for me. Loved their earlier stuff. But, they became just another pop band. Shame.

@bassatnight 15 лет назад

Whatever happend to this guy!? ;-)

@PaulTaylor1 4 года назад

He got a haircut. No wait, that was someone else...

@elizajohn5 13 лет назад

@JoeJC geldof isnt a great singer, then again neither was dylan. geldof wrote some excellent songs and the boomtown rats played their own instruments and influenced many bands that went on to become household names. and for you to say he did all that charity work for personal reasons is a disgrace. in fact his charity work stereotyped him and hindered his career. youre way off the mark.

@Kriegerdammerung 15 лет назад

Obviously you never seen a mirror in your entire life

@Irish780 4 года назад

So outdated now its unreal

@ahosek 11 лет назад

"some of the best songs of the 70s and 80s". Really? That's way, way beyond a stretch...Geldof would be as popular as he is today even without the band. Mediocre at best.