Mondo Bongo

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Mondo Bongo
Mondo Bongo cover
Studio album by The Boomtown Rats
Released 1980
Genre Rock
Label Columbia Records
Producer Tony Visconti & The Boomtown Rats
Professional reviews
The Boomtown Rats chronology
The Fine Art of Surfacing
(1978)		 Mondo Bongo
(1981)		 V Deep
(1982)

Mondo Bongo was the Boomtown Rats fourth album and included the hit singles: "Banana Republic", which had reached No. 3 in the UK charts in November 1980 and "The Elephant's Graveyard (Guilty)" which made No. 26 in January 1981.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Bob Geldof except where indicated.

  1. "Mood Mambo" 4: 06 (Geldof, Briquette)
  2. "Straight Up" 3: 15
  3. "This is My Room" 3: 35 (Geldof, Crowe)
  4. "Another Piece of Red" 2: 35
  5. "Go Man Go" 3:52
  6. "Under Their Thumb... Is Under My Thumb" 2: 41 (Jagger/Richards)
  7. "Please Don't Go" 3: 34
  8. "The Elephant's Graveyard" 3: 43
  9. "Banana Republic" 4: 55 (Geldof, Briquette)
  10. "Fall Down" 2: 26
  11. "Hurt Hurts" 3: 05
  12. "Whitehall 1212" 3: 43

[edit] 2005 re-release bonus tracks

  1. "Cheerio"
  2. "Don't talk to me" (B-side)
  3. "Arnold Layne"
  4. "Another piece of red" (Live in Portsmouth)

[edit] Personnel

Bob Geldorf - Vocals

Johnny Fingers - Keyboards

Gerry Cott - Guitar

Gary Roberts - Guitar

Pete Briquette - Bass

Simon Crowe - Drums

[edit] Additional musicians

Dr. Dave McHale - Saxophone

T.V. - Backing vocals, Recorder

Tom Winter - Bazouki

Andy Duncan - Percussion