The Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays (Official Video)

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  • Опубликовано: 16 фев 2011
  • Official video for 'The Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays'. Bob Geldof's new album 'How To Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell' is available here: zaphod.uk.vvhp.net/v-v/1102211...
    #TheBoomtownRats #IDontLikeMondays #Vevo
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Комментарии • 7 тыс.

  • @melanieshaw1707
    @melanieshaw1707 3 месяца назад +522

    Who's listening to this in 2024 xxx

  • @thechildhoodruiner15
    @thechildhoodruiner15 3 года назад +2599

    The Pumped Up Kicks of its time.

    • @kabud7749
      @kabud7749 3 года назад +274

      actually, "pumped up kicks" is the "i don't like mondays" of it's time

    • @saoirseculligan6789
      @saoirseculligan6789 3 года назад +16

      Yeah but Tate Langdon owns the song pumped up kicks

    • @MagronesBR2
      @MagronesBR2 2 года назад +82

      Boomtown Rats walked so Foster The People could run

    • @marnuscoreyempanadaslooseb6760
      @marnuscoreyempanadaslooseb6760 2 года назад +5

      TONY ABBOTT

    • @misshantrope
      @misshantrope 2 года назад +3

      @@saoirseculligan6789 AS AN AHS FAN, YES I VERY MUCH AGREE

  • @injanhoi1
    @injanhoi1 3 месяца назад +29

    I've always thought of this as a good song, now after all these years, I'm 54 now, I think it's a great song!

  • @HarrySwanson-ni9uu
    @HarrySwanson-ni9uu 4 месяца назад +39

    What a song with such an interesting backstory I absolutely love the lyrics

  • @rougeakane
    @rougeakane 4 года назад +2259

    RUclips recommended this to me on a Monday. Well played, algorithm. Well played...

    • @SpadaFer
      @SpadaFer 4 года назад +8

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @najae084_
      @najae084_ 4 года назад +34

      Recommend this to me because I watched Brenda Ann Spencer school shootout in early 1970's and she doesn't like monday.

    • @janekerrigan3605
      @janekerrigan3605 4 года назад +14

      @@najae084_ yes sir Bob wrote this song shortly after the shooting when she was asked why she did it she answered I don't like Mondays

    • @spidey1753
      @spidey1753 3 года назад +9

      Very rarely do I actually laugh out load like I just did! Well done comment, well done!

    • @giganick
      @giganick 3 года назад

      @@SpadaFer
      N

  • @matthewtones118
    @matthewtones118 7 лет назад +2705

    sad story behind this song

    • @jackhanlon133
      @jackhanlon133 7 лет назад +274

      Matthew Tones Yes a girl shot up the school including the principle, a couple teachers and some classmates just because she doesn't like Mondays, very sad that innocent people died because of this messed up girl.

    • @Lspacehopper
      @Lspacehopper 7 лет назад +159

      Julie Barnes It wasn't commemorating it. It was something unheard of at the time and now a regular thing in The US.
      Bob Geldof said the girl wrote to him and said she didn't regret what she did and thanked him for making her famous. Bob finds it hard to live with that.

    • @sodaking6858
      @sodaking6858 7 лет назад +42

      Laura Jayne Paterson yea she loved the song and I'm sure if she could she would listen to it on a 24 hour loop he just wanted to point out the the problems modern life and social problems are leading to last I heard in 2005 she was denied parole and if she is still alive she would be 53

    • @sodaking6858
      @sodaking6858 7 лет назад +38

      Lord Bjørn --__-- what ever

    • @northerngamingdk3878
      @northerngamingdk3878 7 лет назад +33

      Teachers?? She killed the principle and the janitor, and wounedd 8 students? No teachers, as what I read

  • @jackspry9736
    @jackspry9736 Год назад +76

    RIP Garry Roberts (June 16, 1950 - November 9, 2022), age 72
    You will be remembered as a legend.

  • @Naturelover2
    @Naturelover2 2 года назад +115

    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
    'Cause there are no reasons
    What reason do you need to be shown?
    I don't like Mondays
    (Tell me why)
    I don't like Mondays
    (Tell me why)
    I don't like Mondays
    I wanna shoot the whole day down
    The Telex machine is kept so clean
    And it types to a waiting world
    Her mother feels so shocked, father's world is rocked
    And their thoughts turn to their own little girl
    Sweet sixteen, ain't that peachy keen
    Now it ain't so neat to admit defeat
    They can see no reasons
    'Cause there are no reasons
    What reasons do you need, oh oh oh oh?
    I don't like Mondays
    (Tell me why)
    I don't like Mondays
    (Tell me why)
    I don't like Mondays
    I wanna shoot 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 be learning
    And the lesson today is how to die
    And then the bullhorn crackles and the captain tackles
    With the problems and the hows and whys
    And he can see no reasons
    'Cause there are no reasons
    What reason do you need to die, die, oh oh oh?
    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
    'Cause there are no reasons
    What reason do you need to be shown?
    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 shoot the whole day down
    Source: Musixmatch
    Songwriters: Geldof Bob / Geldof Robert / Geldof Robert Frederick Zenon
    I Don't Like Mondays lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Ltd.

    • @vinnyvincent2862
      @vinnyvincent2862 Год назад +2

      Nature lover ! Many Thanks ! 👍

    • @SAHB
      @SAHB Год назад +1

      Really I don't like Mondays still Because we have to go back to work and we will have to continue THAT

    • @lotuselise4432
      @lotuselise4432 3 месяца назад +1

      Musk is doing it now.

    • @lotuselise4432
      @lotuselise4432 3 месяца назад

      @@SAHB - Everyday dislike a Sunday for me, Morrissey.

    • @blinkenschnaag777
      @blinkenschnaag777 Месяц назад

      ​@@SAHBWhat's a Monday? Is that some kind of strange creature?

  • @thomasturner6980
    @thomasturner6980 5 лет назад +2323

    This is the 1970s version of Pumped Up Kicks

    • @dr.emmettbrown5345
      @dr.emmettbrown5345 5 лет назад +29

      I guess i belong to the 70s since i cant stand pumped up kicks

    • @nuclearuranium235
      @nuclearuranium235 5 лет назад +90

      Thomas Turner No. Pumped up kicks is 21st century’s version of I don’t like Mondays.

    • @tedmccarron
      @tedmccarron 5 лет назад +31

      This song was based on a 1979 school shooting.

    • @madamebkrt
      @madamebkrt 5 лет назад +13

      *1980's
      Sorry...

    • @Bruce-1956
      @Bruce-1956 5 лет назад +18

      Thomas Turner, You mean Pumped Up Kicks (whoever they may be) are the later version of I don't Like Mondays.

  • @noodlesthe1st
    @noodlesthe1st 8 лет назад +260

    37 years and nothing has changed.

    • @garyproffitt669
      @garyproffitt669 7 лет назад +3

      Well done Sir Bob Geldof from the son of a guy that did the art work to sell band aids platinum records for charity back then. And well done for sticking it to the rich at that corporate bash today I'm proud of ya man.

    • @frostyguy1989
      @frostyguy1989 5 лет назад +10

      Aw, that's not true. It's gotten worse!

    • @ivyhockley5256
      @ivyhockley5256 3 года назад +4

      Ha even worse now

    • @lucahuman8827
      @lucahuman8827 3 года назад +2

      42 gotten worse

    • @Boilingfrogg
      @Boilingfrogg 2 года назад +1

      Go Brexit. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

  • @Intelligenzbestie
    @Intelligenzbestie 2 года назад +5

    German teen magazine BRAVO commented in 1979: This song expresses exactly what many of us feel (spricht vielen von uns aus der Seele)..

  • @rubberkas2
    @rubberkas2 2 года назад +75

    An absolutely brilliant classic masterpiece about a terribly sad event !!!

    • @Ashery193
      @Ashery193 2 года назад

      Facts:This song is actually a true story 👌m.ruclips.net/video/vG2atI0oVe0/видео.html

    • @dansexton676
      @dansexton676 2 года назад +2

      Lol

  • @dmnspdn-lz9rg
    @dmnspdn-lz9rg 5 лет назад +363

    Great song.
    Beautiful singer.
    Sublime voice.
    Sad story.

  • @Bustygirl-dz1wi
    @Bustygirl-dz1wi 3 года назад +831

    42 years later this song is still haunting

    • @leswe2517
      @leswe2517 3 года назад +37

      Mondays are still the same as 42 years ago ;)

    • @JAG8691
      @JAG8691 3 года назад +11

      @Richie Collins Governments are the biggest Mass Murderers in history we need to divest ourselves from Big unaccountable Governments if we want to survive as a Species.

    • @MultiChrisjb
      @MultiChrisjb 2 года назад +5

      or something that happens pretty regularly...

    • @Sammie551
      @Sammie551 2 года назад +6

      @@MultiChrisjb Yeah right now in Texas, he didn't like Mondays that high school dropout

    • @jensofdenmark
      @jensofdenmark 2 года назад +1

      You're getting old, gall ;)

  • @nataliejones5081
    @nataliejones5081 2 месяца назад +46

    Still gives me chills 44 years later

  • @raymondfunnel6856
    @raymondfunnel6856 11 месяцев назад +7

    This song had a story to it and is very haunting

  • @Ursulauu
    @Ursulauu 3 года назад +42

    Wow - that piano introduction by Johnnie Fingers deserves a 'like' of its own. 1979 was a great year for the Rats & for music.

  • @nikolajankovic4381
    @nikolajankovic4381 4 года назад +48

    "May we meet again" 🕊
    - Jasper

  • @javiervaldes5112
    @javiervaldes5112 Год назад +9

    Hello, the guy with the keyboards, every time I listen to him, he surprises me more, because he is capable of making music with his feet. Wonderful! Peace and love for everyone.

  • @skuhan
    @skuhan 6 месяцев назад +8

    I grew up in Asia where i still reside and i just used to listen to this song as it appeared on radio and the most catchy part was the piano. Never knew the history behind the song that time. Just thought it was unique.😊

  • @cynderfan2233
    @cynderfan2233 9 лет назад +72

    Interesting fact.
    This song was inspired by a mass shooting in a school. When the girl responsible was caught, her excuse was "I don't like mondays."

    • @98ewano
      @98ewano 9 лет назад +3

      My dad told me about this today

    • @cynderfan2233
      @cynderfan2233 9 лет назад

      kangarabbit "This song was inspired by"...

    • @dmbrkmn
      @dmbrkmn 9 лет назад +1

      it was banned in america

    • @JimmyneutronwasokayIguess
      @JimmyneutronwasokayIguess 9 лет назад +11

      Adam Brookman Of course it was. The US blame tragedies on rock stars all the time, because they are desperate for an answer of why this happened. The reason it keeps happening so consistently actually might have something to do with how wrong that approach is. No one gives a shit anymore what the real reason is and what we can learn from it to improve the human race, what they really care about is a target to blame so everyone can feel like they've found something and pat themselves on the back for "making the world better" even if they just sat on their arse to do so. The comfort of having an answer and something to blame is more important to them than searching long and hard over many years for what the real reason might be, the reason which will start an attempt to fix all of this suffering. "They see no reason 'cause there are no reasons, what reasons do you need to be shown". I think the entertainment industry would have been shocked by this and it's why the song is a work of genius.

    • @nideklena
      @nideklena 9 лет назад +3

      Brenda Spencer

  • @leemsvg
    @leemsvg 4 года назад +1469

    When I was little, I used to think this song was about Garfield...
    *Yeah.*

    • @leemsvg
      @leemsvg 4 года назад +25

      @Gabriel Chaves "I don't like Mondays"

    • @jankriz5544
      @jankriz5544 3 года назад +54

      When i was little, i thought this song is about hating mondays

    • @judithaefi1979
      @judithaefi1979 3 года назад +13

      my first thought as well...now all we need is a hit song about lasagna..😊😊

    • @FinkerMcBinker
      @FinkerMcBinker 3 года назад

      @Gabriel Chaves you should be

    • @fd7045
      @fd7045 3 года назад +19

      No about a Girl that shoot her School because she hates Mondays.

  • @tinietiptoes7682
    @tinietiptoes7682 Год назад +5

    Johnny Fingers is absolutely sublime.

  • @Ethan243
    @Ethan243 Год назад +8

    Since the Nashville shooting I can't get this song out of my head lol

  • @padpaddeno9402
    @padpaddeno9402 3 года назад +23

    I was in Ireland summer 79,this song was everywhere, even singing it in church, lol, 😁🇬🇧

    • @davidodonoghue1092
      @davidodonoghue1092 4 месяца назад

      Be careful. That is the UK flag... A whole other country... Just saying ;)

    • @kagenlim5271
      @kagenlim5271 3 месяца назад

      ​@@davidodonoghue1092more of the fact that this is a song about a mass shooting

    • @summerrr1
      @summerrr1 3 месяца назад

      @@davidodonoghue1092 Ireland is an island that is part British. He said he was in Ireland, not in the Republic. And you should know with a name like that.

  • @granfury1238
    @granfury1238 4 года назад +1314

    Well, despite the story behind this song it is still a masterpiece which I could listen to all day

    • @damienfaulkner7938
      @damienfaulkner7938 2 года назад +73

      I don’t understand why you say despite the social commentary only adds to its brilliance

    • @Ashery193
      @Ashery193 2 года назад

      Facts:This song is actually a true story 👌m.ruclips.net/video/vG2atI0oVe0/видео.html

    • @somebody1828
      @somebody1828 2 года назад +48

      It's the story that makes it a masterpiece. It's just that the sheep society doesn't get it. They can't unite their positive feelings with their negative rational thoughts.

    • @tsukishiro70
      @tsukishiro70 2 года назад +18

      No shit - I sang this as my party piece when out on Hallowe'en one year, doing what the Yanks call "Trick or Treating". Went down well. Lots of sweeties were acquired.

    • @mtjoy747
      @mtjoy747 2 года назад +20

      The best songs talk about the most difficult subjects, eloquently

  • @BruceLee-zd9bw
    @BruceLee-zd9bw Год назад +142

    This song was so unique back in the day, and it’s still as unique in 2023.
    That iconic piano opening, to the epic piano closing.
    What a masterpiece.
    Total respect to the band that have stood the test of time.
    I salute you.
    ✊🙏👏👏👏👏👏

  • @1993Bexy
    @1993Bexy 2 месяца назад +4

    Can’t wait to see them live at Rewind Scotland 2024 at Scone Palace Xxx

  • @zaqareemalcolm
    @zaqareemalcolm 3 года назад +411

    Father - I Don't Like Mondays
    Son - Psycho Killer
    Holy Spirit - Pumped Up Kicks

    • @freddyagain3843
      @freddyagain3843 3 года назад +3

      December 18th 2020: Thanks God It's Friday ( John Denver)
      Weekend: Saturday Night (Herman Brood & His Wild Romance)

    • @l0k0lightning51
      @l0k0lightning51 3 года назад +8

      Hey, I have a question for you; What's the background story behind Psycho Killer? Is it based on a school shooting like what Brenda Spencer did or Columbine? If there is, please tell me about it

    • @zaqareemalcolm
      @zaqareemalcolm 3 года назад +6

      @@l0k0lightning51 From what I can find, the song itself is just about a blank serial killer with no specific real life basis, although the idea of making a serial killer song was inspired by the character Norman Bates from Psycho. (who in turn was inspired by the real killer Ed Gein)

    • @l0k0lightning51
      @l0k0lightning51 3 года назад +1

      @@zaqareemalcolm Cheers for that

    • @ivyhockley5256
      @ivyhockley5256 3 года назад

      Idhbtfm choke XD

  • @muradtalukdar4401
    @muradtalukdar4401 5 лет назад +995

    It looks like it was partly shot in Father Ted's living room.

    • @bigc7326
      @bigc7326 5 лет назад +9

      Hahaha, it so does, hahaha

    • @vashvaama8822
      @vashvaama8822 5 лет назад +1

      Murad Talukdar do you live In Kolkata

    • @ScabbyCrab
      @ScabbyCrab 5 лет назад +14

      Yeah and I think it's father jack singing.

    • @skipraida5497
      @skipraida5497 4 года назад +7

      More tea father...

    • @Robin814
      @Robin814 4 года назад +2

      Wow! It’s uncanny.

  • @RK-zo9vs
    @RK-zo9vs Год назад +16

    This has always been a favourite one of mine because I've never liked Mondays. Unfortunately I found out it is not just a song about people not liking Mondays because they had to be back at work.

  • @fiatkallesdotter
    @fiatkallesdotter Год назад +89

    Tragic and scary! Today, Monday Mars 27 2023 history repeats itself and make this song exactly as relevant again.. 44 years later... Im crying 😢

    • @user-if1bp5cz8y
      @user-if1bp5cz8y 2 месяца назад +2

      О чем речь?

    • @notkimpine
      @notkimpine Месяц назад +1

      same. 6 months later i'm still don't know what is this about

    • @fiatkallesdotter
      @fiatkallesdotter Месяц назад +3

      @@notkimpine How you mean, same? If you dont know whats the song is about I mean.. 🤔 You really dont know the story? Anyways, its about a tragic and troubled teen who took a gun and killed and injured teachers and kids at a school across the street of her home. Lots of police of course but there were also reporters from radio and they asked her why she did it.. Her answer was 'I dont like Mondays'
      Bob Geldoff (the singer of the band) heard the story live and he felt he just had to write a song about it ❤️

    • @fiatkallesdotter
      @fiatkallesdotter Месяц назад +1

      @@notkimpine her name is Brenda Spencer.. Her story is all over Internet

    • @S_J_banana
      @S_J_banana Месяц назад

      Shootings happen everyday so what

  • @abbi3021
    @abbi3021 3 года назад +356

    My favourite song of all time, I listen to it multiple times every day and it never fails to give me goosebumps. Such a powerful song, will forever love it.

    • @viciouscircle7802
      @viciouscircle7802 3 года назад +8

      @@rocketscience4516 Probably better a psychologist cos psychiatrists just dole out the pills that help make some shooters tbf

    • @susannebuchholz785
      @susannebuchholz785 2 года назад +5

      Me,too! This song is timeless!✌🏻

    • @melianhoover1910
      @melianhoover1910 2 года назад +9

      Are you serious? Multiple times?

    • @ktcooki276
      @ktcooki276 2 года назад +1

      😆

    • @gand5231
      @gand5231 Год назад +4

      I play in shower before work and think, I don’t like Mondays

  • @MedusaLegend
    @MedusaLegend 4 года назад +1151

    A team of girls sang this song at the talent show of our school. The students found it catchy either because they didn’t get the lyrics or because they didn’t know the story behind it. (I must precise we are in Belgium were we don't have the US ubran legends). But for the parents and judges, it was pretty awkward... I mean, singing this in the middle of a school...

    • @reklessheart
      @reklessheart 3 года назад +22

      WHAT???

    • @MedusaLegend
      @MedusaLegend 3 года назад +35

      @@reklessheart the more I think of it, the more I think that the guys who wants to be trolls at school should sing that.

    • @fionamanson7682
      @fionamanson7682 3 года назад +10

      I bought this when I was 5, it resonated with me.

    • @MedusaLegend
      @MedusaLegend 3 года назад +20

      the girls actually got a blame for the troll., but they are still the stars of the school, because now everyone knows what was hidden behind the lyrics.

    • @thatcool-guyplays7831
      @thatcool-guyplays7831 2 года назад +1

      @@MedusaLegend omg what

  • @comicbookguygamecat
    @comicbookguygamecat Год назад +19

    This song is a masterpiece.

  • @TrueNeutralEvGenius
    @TrueNeutralEvGenius 2 года назад +153

    Boomtown Rats are phenomenal. Bob Geldof has one of the most sublime and truthful songwritings along with Mike Scott, Pete Townseheld and Bob Dylan. Absolutely brilliant. I was so glad this song exists, it was expressing my feelings so well, which I had in the 90s. And quit nothing changed, since human nature don't change even in thousands of years.

    • @isabellapompignoli3784
      @isabellapompignoli3784 Год назад +1

      Avevo 11 anni quando l ascoltai x la prima volta in Olanda e non era x loro così sconcertante !!!

  • @bigdmac33
    @bigdmac33 5 лет назад +502

    Few songs in pop culture capture the mind of the school shooter as this one. Think of the senseless horrors that have been inflicted upon so many children since the Boomtown Rats first sang this. Those days seem almost innocent now.

    • @LaWendeltreppe
      @LaWendeltreppe 5 лет назад +16

      you're right. One cannot listen to this now, without thinking ahead to all the terrible shootings in schools. when it came out, my English wasn't good enough, so I always thought it was a song about not wanting to go to school on Mondays.

    • @jacobcrabbe9011
      @jacobcrabbe9011 4 года назад +2

      @Ana Martins isnt she free now or still locked up

    • @jacobcrabbe9011
      @jacobcrabbe9011 4 года назад +2

      @Ana Martins aww okay i swear i seen something about her getting released she must be trying to get out or something

    • @markpurdie7608
      @markpurdie7608 4 года назад +1

      Spot on👍

    • @MrJonno85
      @MrJonno85 4 года назад +4

      Number 1 in UK forty years ago this month.
      The song itself is quite gentle and you wouldn't know what it was about without some background info - I certainly didn't at the age of nine.

  • @smoky3302
    @smoky3302 4 года назад +1019

    If her father bought her radio as she wanted for Xmas inestad of gun this song will never be written.

    • @kylie9687
      @kylie9687 4 года назад +14

      shreyansh patel pro and con
      Pro to what happened because we have this song
      Con because the ordeal happened at all

    • @judy2381
      @judy2381 4 года назад +54

      Kylie 96 how could you consider this a pro? it’s basically as though saying I’m happy this happened because we received a good song from it.🙄

    • @shaunmowe8843
      @shaunmowe8843 4 года назад +12

      judy abdelrahman cause it’s a tune

    • @alalbiston694
      @alalbiston694 3 года назад +7

      hold my flux capacitor

    • @spiderj379
      @spiderj379 3 года назад +7

      its a good song

  • @justinmatias6411
    @justinmatias6411 7 месяцев назад +18

    One of the best songs of the 70s. Thank you, TBR.

  • @user-em2tv3se5e
    @user-em2tv3se5e 9 месяцев назад +2

    First heard this whilst sitting on a riverbank on the Blackwater River (Eire) fishing - after graduating as a teacher.
    Still love the track, and have requested it for my funeral - which will be held on a Monday - many years from now - i hope!!!

  • @MEZNAY
    @MEZNAY 8 лет назад +1543

    the story behind this song makes it so depressing

    • @ronb8450
      @ronb8450 8 лет назад +35

      People.... Everyone forget what this song really says.... And yes you are right it odd. and nowadays so wrong. In fact I recently (last month) fb posted about this song but no one got what I was saying, 'he made money from a tragedy' but hey just my opinion

    • @GermanLeftist
      @GermanLeftist 8 лет назад +112

      +arron bond Yes, he made money from a tragedy, but so did all musicians writting about 9/11. Was that wrong as well? Artists write about things and stories that affect him and this shooting clearly did affect Bob Geldorf.

    • @user-go4fb7se8i
      @user-go4fb7se8i 8 лет назад +83

      I actually like the twisted black humor of this song. If it wasn't for this song no one would've know the tragic story behind it, USA need to improve their way to deal with and identify mentally ill people...Both the dad and the daughter were not sane.

    • @sodaking6858
      @sodaking6858 7 лет назад +4

      אנונימית אנונימי I would like you to know a fact about america the year is the mid seventies the year abortion was legalised in america now from that. time 70s -2013 over 550k people died in america from guns I know that's serious problem John Lennon is one of them anyway now the people killed by abortion from the 70s -2013 was over 60million people in america under 40 years 60million dead I'm not saying all of these shouldn't have happened but Jesus Christ if that's not a genocide I don't know what one is I call abortion the hidden genocide

    • @revol148
      @revol148 7 лет назад +36

      there are over 7 billion people on this planet ANYTHING which keeps the numbers down has to be a good thing

  • @waynemcdonnell910
    @waynemcdonnell910 4 года назад +74

    This song plays in my head every Sunday night

  • @TheLolli84
    @TheLolli84 6 дней назад +1

    Listening on sunday night before fall asleep

  • @SayatGroum
    @SayatGroum Год назад +14

    our teacher puts this on every monday morning and we sing along

    • @QuinnPrivat
      @QuinnPrivat 2 месяца назад

      A bit macabre when you remember that this song is about a shooting

  • @vickytate7132
    @vickytate7132 7 лет назад +248

    This song still gives me chills after 37 years and I was only 5 when it was number 1 in the charts in 1979

    • @georgiehenderson8750
      @georgiehenderson8750 5 лет назад +8

      What????? 37 years!!! No way, this can't 😲be true. I was 6 years old.....when it came out, now if I do the math today, it has been 39 years....where did all those years go.... I start to sound like my grandma. I love that song and still hate Mondays. Have a great week, Vicky!

    • @rjjcms1
      @rjjcms1 5 лет назад +4

      It went to number 1 in July that year,at the start of the school summer holidays,and stayed there for 4 weeks. I was 14 at the time,and though I had a great summer holiday overall,it started not so well with our school having a general crackdown on our unruly behaviour,in which a number of boys and one or two girls were expelled following a rather anarchic year. Some of the stunts we pulled were funny,one or two might not be believed by everybody on an internet comments section,but we drove several staff members nuts to the point of trying to scale down their having to supervise us :-o
      Needless to say details of our shenangians reached our homes in time for the summer holidays,and comeuppances were dished out according to the mores and attitudes of that past era. My parents much preferred to speak and reason with me and treat me more like an adult than discipline me,which I appreciated. But my part in the misbehaviour we were all involved in,a mixed school report and more deeds I was guilty of following my return home,particularly some involving the misuse of foodstuffs taken from the kitchen cupboards,combined to try their patience to the limit. So I got the riot act read to me by both of them individually,and received a punishment for once,the most of which was to do with parts of the hallways and stairs in our house,which were bare floorboards because although we'd been living there for more than 4 years no-one had got round to putting carpets or lino on them (!),(for a time there were some missing boards on the ground floor leaving gaps and holes into which the cats loved disappearing to explore on the off chance of finding any mice or something). I had a habit of cheerfully spilling drinks and cups of sugary tea on some of those floorboards in the hallways and on the stairs and then not bothering to ever clean it up. So I was down on my bare knees in one of the pairs of dinky 70s/80s shorts I used to wear most of the time in the summer months,with a bucket of soapy water and a scrubbing brush cleaning them :-( That was all done before too long,though,and mild compared to what befell one or two of my less fortunate friends. And I was still free to go out and stay out until dusk to,whether on my roller skates,playing tennis,swimming or to the cinema matinee/afternoon screening with my sister or whatever else I was doing,plus the usual plenty of family evenings out and day trips for a variety of things,visits to other relatives and away on holiday together for a couple of weeks later that summer.

    • @Electronicmadness123
      @Electronicmadness123 7 месяцев назад +1

      :"c

    • @DonDonLiom
      @DonDonLiom 5 месяцев назад +1

      Why does everyone say it’s haunting what’s the story behind it if any could inform me thank you

  • @JaquieDanielsMusic
    @JaquieDanielsMusic 3 года назад +59

    Right from the moment I first heard this song I loved it - the arrangement and the topical story it tells made it stand out.

  • @davidbateman-fe8vu
    @davidbateman-fe8vu 9 дней назад +2

    Brilliant song brilliant video...brilliant memory....The only thing that spoils it is BG's personality...Nauseating guy...

  • @vjwoollett361
    @vjwoollett361 Год назад +18

    This song was me. As a kid & and teenager, I was bullied to the degree I had thoughts of this. Hated Mondays because I meant I had to go to school.

    • @MCoTEDDY
      @MCoTEDDY Год назад

      Then they should've put you in the psych ward you're a danger for society

  • @declankessler8815
    @declankessler8815 5 лет назад +18

    this song is such a classic

  • @vickytate7132
    @vickytate7132 6 лет назад +281

    such a classic still gives me goosebumps after 38 years

    • @TechNed
      @TechNed 4 года назад +5

      It's a bloody masterpiece.

    • @HarryJSmith
      @HarryJSmith 2 года назад +5

      It’s still a bloody masterpiece

    • @HeatherGardiner
      @HeatherGardiner Год назад

      Age of #reason, maybe

    • @haydomatt
      @haydomatt 9 месяцев назад

      Come back Vicky

  • @ruthmpalanga1247
    @ruthmpalanga1247 11 месяцев назад +3

    It's 2023 and I still play this song on Mondays😭😭😭

  • @paulinvagny6848
    @paulinvagny6848 3 месяца назад +5

    my favorite moment of the clip is here at 0:58 the schoolchildren who ask him the question and him insisting on his answer little by little, making an increasingly angry face while remaining calm all the same

  • @Rob-ox6sv
    @Rob-ox6sv 8 лет назад +96

    sad story to the song r.i.p. those who died that day

    • @probrogaming4113
      @probrogaming4113 4 года назад +1

      Poker Face so one like two people, people should talk more about the poor kids and the teacher who died in the dunblane shooting

    • @xenon53827
      @xenon53827 2 года назад +1

      @@probrogaming4113 Dunblane? that was the last in the UK. The government banned handguns after that and it has never been repeated here. Maybe the US should do the same.

    • @probrogaming4113
      @probrogaming4113 2 года назад +1

      @@xenon53827 ye exactly

  • @verena9911
    @verena9911 4 года назад +29

    Can we talk about how beautiful Bob was

    • @helveeta
      @helveeta 3 года назад +3

      I never thought he was that hot when I was younger but I can appreciate him now. Daaaaayum!

    • @ILK97
      @ILK97 2 года назад

      there is an actor i can't name right noe but he looks like Bob back in thr days.

  • @shane2236
    @shane2236 Год назад +42

    What great memories in the 80s... gone but never forgotten!!!

    • @markl8740
      @markl8740 Год назад +4

      1979 actually!

    • @Regan743
      @Regan743 9 месяцев назад +1

      😂😂

  • @estherthian-3802
    @estherthian-3802 Год назад +6

    A true classic, ❤😮, takes you straight back to those boring Mondays and keeps you smiling as you look ahead waiting to die..........

  • @colinmiles27
    @colinmiles27 4 года назад +46

    UK #1 single exactly 40 years ago and still as relevant as ever.

    • @cockoffgewgle4993
      @cockoffgewgle4993 Год назад

      How is it relevant? It's about an event which happened 40 years ago.

    • @colinmiles27
      @colinmiles27 Год назад

      @@cockoffgewgle4993 Yes - a shooting in a school - which in the US continues to happen on a fairly regular basis even 44 years later.

    • @e.j9932
      @e.j9932 Год назад

      ​​@@cockoffgewgle4993 because of similar events that are happening in the u.s

    • @kagenlim5271
      @kagenlim5271 3 месяца назад

      ​@@e.j9932iirc mass shootings have been on the uptick overall across the world, like even germany had a mass shooting

  • @kenofuro4123
    @kenofuro4123 4 года назад +130

    My dad’s sports teacher’s name was ‘Monday’, so he and his class used to sing this song whenever they had sports.

  • @cybork12
    @cybork12 4 месяца назад +5

    Winter has come, every day is like Monday

  • @pdmfuture53
    @pdmfuture53 7 месяцев назад +2

    Listening to this Makes Mondays feel good

  • @Tboi2206
    @Tboi2206 10 лет назад +72

    RIP Peaches.

    • @begoodjohnny1866
      @begoodjohnny1866 7 лет назад +5

      Tobi Areje Peaches come from a can. They were put the by a man. In a factory downtown.

    • @suilvenmountain2395
      @suilvenmountain2395 7 лет назад +2

      she had a shit father

    • @sodaking6858
      @sodaking6858 7 лет назад +1

      Suilven Mountain hey hey hey she could have had worse like Michael Jackson or if jimmy savile had any kids or bill Cosby

    • @smallworldslife4470
      @smallworldslife4470 7 лет назад

      no she never rofl?

  • @indisugartaufik
    @indisugartaufik 10 лет назад +15

    i remember watched this video on MTV classic as a kid. RIP MTV.

    • @jps-NL
      @jps-NL 10 лет назад +3

      i remember the time that '' Music TeleVision'' really was about music!

    • @Boilingfrogg
      @Boilingfrogg 2 года назад

      Empty V

  • @GoodMrDawes
    @GoodMrDawes Месяц назад +1

    When you compose a modern classic like this, just sit back, nothing left to prove musically. Clever Cats

  • @matthewbailes4388
    @matthewbailes4388 Год назад +1

    Just show in the darkness a classic can be born

  • @nikkical1222
    @nikkical1222 6 лет назад +67

    I love how old artists are always so good at acting in their music videos, like the music and videos actually meant something to them and came from their own unique take on the world! 👌

    • @TheMarcusrobbins
      @TheMarcusrobbins Год назад +5

      Yeah, watch his face. It's stunning what he manages to say in the spaces between the words.

    • @emilal
      @emilal 7 месяцев назад +1

      They still do. It’s funny, because I actually thought Bob’s lip syncing was pretty overdone and bad here when compared to the stuff you see today.

    • @nikkical1222
      @nikkical1222 7 месяцев назад

      It's not about the lip syncing guys! 🤣

  • @backinashT64
    @backinashT64 7 лет назад +469

    i don't like monday, Ruby tuesday, Wednesday Morning, Thursday's Child,, the saturday night fever, bloody sunday, but it's friday, i'm in love !

    • @taras6806
      @taras6806 6 лет назад +46

      Finally an intelligent comment to Cure us all.

    • @annied1827
      @annied1827 5 лет назад +3

      It was no ones fault buts hers there are plenty of kids who have a crap upbringing yet they don't round shooting people basically she was bored and as she said to the reporter who called during the shooting to find out what was happening and asked if she knew about the crazy shooter she said i am the shooter he asked why she was doing it she said because i don't like mondays and it's fun i was bored she described with joy of the suffering of the people she shot saying it was great target practice and was laughing then said I have to go as I've got more kids to shoot !! So no it's her fault and only her fault no one made her do it she knew right from wrong she purposefully got the car keys from her dad pretending to need something she left in it and took his ammunition this was a planned senseless cold blooded slaughter of which she had no regret or remorse other than she was stopped she given 20 to life in prison sentence and should never get out as i believe she will do it again as she it a typical sociopath who gets please from others pain and suffering

    • @pablomiguez2733
      @pablomiguez2733 5 лет назад +1

      @@michaelm2889 but it's a worse song.

    • @Patricia2010Stream
      @Patricia2010Stream 5 лет назад

      Jajajaja

    • @LegoDonut18
      @LegoDonut18 5 лет назад +4

      But Saturday night is alright for fighting

  • @MandyBirch-wz1sy
    @MandyBirch-wz1sy 11 месяцев назад +1

    Miss those days epic 2023 living it up 👆 blessings xxx

  • @trave6298
    @trave6298 Год назад +1

    2023 still iconic!

  • @marklynn5899
    @marklynn5899 2 года назад +5

    Listening to this whenever having pleasant Monday

  • @steffanhoffmann1906
    @steffanhoffmann1906 4 года назад +17

    Imo for it's content and the psychological evaluation?
    This is the greatest song ever written

  • @InnocentAbyssinianCat-eb7ge
    @InnocentAbyssinianCat-eb7ge 2 месяца назад

    Played at least three times a week on Australian TV on 1979

  • @Cheeseanonioncrisps
    @Cheeseanonioncrisps 9 лет назад +577

    God! This was my favourite song all through Primary school- the one I'd sing at talent shows and stuff. I can even remember telling my friends that it was a song about 'a girl who went to school and shot all the teachers!"
    No wonder my teachers always looked a bit jittery come Monday morning...

    • @hiendlxxl
      @hiendlxxl 8 лет назад +7

      +Cheeseanonioncrisps so were u good at the talent shows xD ?

    • @DOSRetroGamer
      @DOSRetroGamer 8 лет назад +24

      wow, I never imagined this cute little song had such a dark background. I should start listening to lyrics a little closer :-)

    • @andymcghee5121
      @andymcghee5121 8 лет назад +15

      +DOSRetroGamer I think the song was boycotted in certain parts of the US for being distasteful. No 1 over here though (Brenda Spencer - the 16 year old shootist Geldof wrote the song about - is still in prison at the age of 52).

    • @Shrekfromthehitmovieshrek
      @Shrekfromthehitmovieshrek 6 лет назад +1

      Cheeseanonioncrisps haha

    • @Shrekfromthehitmovieshrek
      @Shrekfromthehitmovieshrek 6 лет назад

      Cheeseanonioncrisps haha

  • @DreamBelief
    @DreamBelief 3 года назад +6

    I first heard this as a kid on the 2005 Live Aid DVD my father had. I've loved it ever since. I have autism, and sometimes it feels like that

  • @giovanniaria7584
    @giovanniaria7584 9 месяцев назад +2

    People were different ! People were better people

  • @shayneomahoney902
    @shayneomahoney902 5 месяцев назад +4

    Love this song😊

  • @Hatiecomments
    @Hatiecomments 10 лет назад +10

    Now more than ever :(

  • @brigidcraig4280
    @brigidcraig4280 5 лет назад +18

    I can't stop playing this tune, Sir Bob is such a legend.

    • @katoness
      @katoness 8 месяцев назад

      Sir?? You would think an Irishman would have more cop on!!

  • @50Neelix
    @50Neelix 2 года назад +2

    My catchy tune when I went to work as an apprentice in 1980.

  • @the-nomad
    @the-nomad 3 года назад +12

    Damn, takes me back... I remember listening to this for the first time, my mate Vince brought it over to play...gave me shivers down my spine, then was told what the song was about!

  • @nikoskabbadias
    @nikoskabbadias 8 лет назад +14

    I m a bartender and I LOVE Mondays

  • @mbradfield53
    @mbradfield53 Год назад +2

    R.I.P Garry. Thanks for the memories

  • @dj_grim
    @dj_grim 4 месяца назад +6

    It was 45 years ago today. And the USA have still not learnt.

  • @aminahaggan6298
    @aminahaggan6298 7 лет назад +6

    I have loved this song for years. And just watched Lisbugs video and found the meaning behind behind this song.

  • @suzannepitchford4558
    @suzannepitchford4558 4 года назад +35

    One of the best songs of its time.

  • @user-mk6hy8ob3d
    @user-mk6hy8ob3d Год назад +1

    I like music in ’79

  • @townsville1724
    @townsville1724 2 года назад +61

    42 years later and this song still has relevancy, sadly. Great tune, lyrics capture the senselessness that is still occurring... 'silicon chip gets switched to overload'... more relevant now than when it was written!

    • @kurtpunchesthings2411
      @kurtpunchesthings2411 Год назад

      as things stand Brenda Spencer is set to Shatter Records for longest prison sentence for a Female she's not even in her 60s and has been detained for 43 years now

    • @shethingsd
      @shethingsd Год назад +2

      Definitely. TikTok and Instagram... I have no idea what is going on with youth these days. Those were not even imagined in the day of this song. It was unfortunately predictive of the youth and it's not getting better.

  • @ishikasingh1895
    @ishikasingh1895 5 лет назад +4

    Today is 2nd July and last month on 3rd of June i lost my dad. It was a Monday. He was 57 and bedridden since January. Everytime i hear this song i feel this strong connection to it with the huge pain in my heart

    • @nazneensaleem7723
      @nazneensaleem7723 3 года назад

      Sorry for your lost may God continue to give you hope and braveness so you can fight more pain than anyone else!

  • @debbielangton8371
    @debbielangton8371 Месяц назад +1

    This is actually a true story😢❤

  • @ianbell7342
    @ianbell7342 2 месяца назад +1

    one of their best ones x well done bob❤❤❤

  • @raymondbegley9431
    @raymondbegley9431 4 года назад +14

    old schools days we thought life was all bad ,,,,,,best days and we did not know it

  • @hoddsy1
    @hoddsy1 4 года назад +14

    Dam that takes me back to my childhood late 70s Middlesbrough UK

  • @tymonszt7772
    @tymonszt7772 Год назад +12

    piekna muzyka łącze sie ze wszystkimi w bólu

  • @AlanSimms-yo4hg
    @AlanSimms-yo4hg 8 месяцев назад +1

    Old people love this song ❤

  • @EARGASmickTRON
    @EARGASmickTRON 3 года назад +99

    The 100 . Jasper singing this song in the shower and asks if Monty wants a hug. LMAO 😂

  • @elli875
    @elli875 9 лет назад +8

    this is such a genius song
    one of my very favourites

  • @ryanhenderson1
    @ryanhenderson1 Год назад +1

    so much truth for the days

  • @royjenkins9681
    @royjenkins9681 3 месяца назад +1

    Now I'm retired I finally like Monday's.
    it's like an extra Sunday nowadays!

  • @derrotepaul3485
    @derrotepaul3485 4 года назад +10

    I saw Bob in the live concert, ist was terrific. What an Icon !🎸⚡️🇬🇧🇩🇪

  • @evonnecarson1854
    @evonnecarson1854 5 лет назад +266

    Even though there is a sad story to this song I personally have my own reasons why I love this song as this was the first record my dad bought me. Let’s face it. We all hate Monday’s lol x

    • @JaseekaRawr
      @JaseekaRawr 5 лет назад +49

      Well... It's good he bought you a record rather than a rifle, lmao.

    • @evonnecarson1854
      @evonnecarson1854 5 лет назад +7

      Jaseeka Rawr 😁 hell yeh I would be dangerous with a rifle 😂

    • @Isa-cr7fd
      @Isa-cr7fd 5 лет назад +1

      it’s a PHAT MOOD there’s times I wish the school would burn down but that doesn’t mean if watch it burn down down down

    • @stepheng5727
      @stepheng5727 4 года назад +3

      I love Monday

    • @notsureiL
      @notsureiL 4 года назад +3

      Don't count me in ;) I hate Sundays Mondays are 😎 like a fresh start.

  • @oliverprikoszovich353
    @oliverprikoszovich353 2 года назад +1

    I like this song but maybe we should forget this song......for ever!