For those who want more information, this song was written in 1979 in response to the shooting spree of one 16yo Brenda Ann Spencer, 29 January 1979. When questioned why she committed such an atrocious act - her response was "I don't like mondays. This livens up the day".
People sometimes just snap. We aren't machines, with fixed failure modes and crash statistics. Sometimes, we just lose it. The substrate we are created on is, by it's nature, half creation and half destruction. Our free will determines which will be expressed moment by moment and in what proportion. In this case, however, we can point to organic rather than functional damage. From Wikipedia: _She attended Patrick Henry High School, where one teacher recalled frequently inquiring if she was awake in class. Later, during tests while she was in custody, it was discovered Spencer had an injury to the temporal lobe of her brain. It was attributed to an accident on her bicycle.[9]_ So the chances are better that brain damage caused her atypical reaction to the beginning of the week. Though how many of US can say we love Mondays? We even imagine that cartoon cats hate Mondays.
Brenda Ann Spencer was 16 when she shot at little kids and killed the principle and the janitor while injuring an officer. When asked why she responded "I don't like Mondays and this livens it up". but obviously that was not the real reason why. She had issues with her parent's divorce and the fact that she had over 400 rounds of ammunition and a semi-automatic, did not exactly help. It is really sad.
@@Siggney1 she was raped regularly by her father and they only one bed, he was an alcoholic, she kicked her in the head causing permanent frontal lobe trauma, when she confided suicidal ideations to her therapist and her father he gifted her a gun for her 16th birthday, she should not be free, but she should not have been neither tried as an adult and she should be in a therapistic institution
It is haunting and beautiful, perhaps we can call it paradoxical. I think it raises questions. I think it is good to ask good questions about the cause of certain events. My impression is that the 16 year old girl was not seeking notoriety, although I know little about the case. I am rambling, it is Monday today and I returned to “the daily grind”. 😎
This was and is a modern style 'folk song' depicting a deeply tragic massacre. The Rats played at a park in my hometown last Saturday. Brilliant night. Bob G popped in to my sister's chemist and bought toothpaste and a tooth brush. The 25 year old sales girl didn't recognise him at all. She will in future, I bet.😀
The terrifying thing about this song is that you can apply the lyrics to so many mass murders. No reason, no cause and no motive. In the end, a messed-up person with a gun who just wanted to hurt someone; as many people as possible, in fact.
@@moonstone6133 yes but while "I don't like modays" is what she told reporters when she was called at home while the shooting was still taking place, it later came out that she lived alone with her father, they slept in the same bed, he was an alcoholic and a year aftee the shooting married the daughter's former cellmate who looked much like her and was 17 at the time, she then divorced him shortly after giving birth a couple of years later, the shooter also had a permanent head injury in the frontal lobe, initially she said she had it because of a bike incident, but later in life confided to some cellmates and prison staff it was actually her father that forced her to say that because it was actually because he kicked her in the head, the same year of the shooting she was going to therapy and when she confided suicidal ideations to her therapist and her father, he gifted her a gun for her 16th birthday, in 2001 she then accused her father of raping her regularly, which kind of corroborated by how the rest of her life was fucked up, she's still in prison
@@moonstone6133 that doesn't diminishes the fact that this shooting was a failing of: the school system, the child protective services, her therapist and anyone who knew her father. This could have been stopped if anyone cared about a teen with severe depression, instead they got a mass shooter that wanted suicide by cop because her life was horrible and the people who should have care about her either didn't care or were the abusers themselves, and after all that she continues to be a failing of the american prison industrial complex
i´ve heard this song on the radio the last days....since this day, it was a song like all the others.....shame on me...i didn´t know, that this song based on a true story...now, when i hear it, it´s so much more intensiv...thanks to you
brenda spencer caused the first school shooting in america, she killed 2 and injured 10-11 (i think) and when they asked her why she did it she said "i don't like mondays, i thought this would liven it up"
+Michaela Furgat Sorry, but Brenda Spencer was FAR from being the FIRST school shooting in the USA. There have been school shootings in the USA since the 1700's.
Prayers up for the victims, friends and families and especially the children affected by the senseless school shootings -which began in January 1979. The shooter age 16 (whom I choose not to glorify) was a child herself. Her only response when asked why when she opened fire, killing 2 and seriously injuring 8 students & a police officer, was "I don't like Mondays"
@@foobarmaximus3506 you dont need to tell people to fuck themselves because they are praying for people that were harmed. If you think thats something to tell someone because of that you truly are a pretty heartless bastard.
@@tomjones2157 no surprise I'd guess her thinking was life is brutal because of people and I want to die.People deserve to die including myself.Like ''Paint It Black''!
I am just crazy about that song, it brings me back at high school ! Fantastic song ! Thank you for that song, it is absolutly what we all thought back then ! Benoit wish you happiness ! Greetings from Montreal
This song came out in 1979 The incident that this song is about happened in either the same year or the year before I was in my mid 20s and I remember it very well and I also remember The Boomtown Rats took a lot of heat for releasing it And that was before politically correct became a part of our vocabulary
The song came out in the same year just a few months after the event. They even went on tour to promote the song even more. They had also cancelled their San Diego show out of "respect" for the victims.
This song speaks to me... not the part where a little girl decided to become a murderer, just the whole "I don't like mondays" part. Funnily enough, as a child... I always thought it said "Cherry Wine" rather than tell me why.
Boomtown Rats were on tour in America when news of the girl taking pot shots at pupils going to school came across the radio, when asked WHY? Her reply was I Don't Like Mondays, thus inspiring the song...
Clarke:what do you thing you’re doing Jasper:what? Clarke: *thinks, he knows what.* You know what Jasper:people think it’s the end of the day not the end of days. :Clarke shhh keep you’re voice down! Jasper:*sings* THE WHOLE DAY.....DOWN!!
Ritualistic child abuse. Drugs in the food and water. Vaccines made to polarize the body. Mass media thought control. Children are being targeted. And they subconsciously know it. Watch and care for your children. Or they'll watch and take care of you.
Literally just now realizing the refrain is NOT "Tell me why I don't like Mondays?" and learning the story behind "Tell me why? I don't like Mondays!" This song will never be the same to me.
Do you know the story behind the song? Than you won't listen to it the same again either. Its about a school shooter who answered to the question why she did it: "i don't like Mondays"
+Alex Waren here's the story: girl gets gun for christmas, girl hates school, girl hates mondays for making her go to school, bitch goes mental, kills a bunch of people, attempts suicide, fails, gets arrested. there.
excellent song about a horrific incident. alot of blow back received by the rats because of the victim's ages and the location of the crime but this is the type of story that moves people and motivates songwriters to new and never before achieved heights.the same for niel young's song 'ohio'.
Then you did not understand the nature of why this was created by Bob Geldof. If you want to imagine something, imagine having the power to make these mass killers more famous than anyone on the planet, and doing just that, which is exactly what the news media does for these killers, lavishing with the attention they seek, 24/7 for days, weeks on end? Talk about weird, talk about sick... These people should get no more news than any of the KILLERS who slaughter 10,000 yes ten thousand Americans every year by drunk driving. They should get the same level of news air time, not second more.
I stopped listening to this on another dude's channel because he turned off commenting, I refuse to support any channel that shuts down dialogue, especially on a song as significant as this. Thank you for leaving comments open.
I agree with you about comment sections in most cases. There are a few exceptions like if the comment section is full of toxic emotionally abusive comments it can be damaging to people more so than allowing free healthy expression. We've all seen those areas. But usually a few toxic trolls should be ignored. Only if it's over run by them then maybe delete those and leave the rest.
Listening tot this for 20 years and only now its clicked, that this song is about America’s first school shooting. I think Geldof could have been less cryptic in his lyrics if he wanted to remember the victims instead of glorifying the killer with such an iconic song as this.
I’m not sticking with the killer, AT ALL. But y’all need to realize that she knew something was wrong with her and she asked for help but her parents didn’t believe her and just let her be. Plus, her father bought her a rifle as a gift for fucks sake. The parents should be held more responsible for this. I’m not saying that what she did was right but it’s also not fair and wrong to put all the blame on her, when her dad was kind of the cause of this.
Nigga that still doesn't mean you go out and kill people. She knew what she was doing. The bitch literally used a telescope to aim at the children. Y'all can stop with these excuse. Oh wait let me guess, you don't like Mondays either?
@@just_apotato yes I don’t like them and no I’m not going on a killing spree. But don’t put all the blame on her when you know damn well shes mentally ill and she tried to get help but no one cared. I’m not making excuses. But if the people around actually cared for her and believed her, then this whole thing wouldn’t have happened. Would you give you kid a fucking rifle on their birthday after them saying that they need some help??
@@blushingbae2011 I an not blaming her for the gun but HER actions after it. She willingly decided to shoot at an elementary school. She is responsible for her actions and she is also responsible for the consequences. Simple as that.
Brenda Ann Spencer is responsible for her actions. Unfortunately her father Wallace Spencer wasn't held accountable for being a pathetic loser father who caused & fed some of her psychological problems.
You got a subscribe for the Naruto profile. Diedara was a pretty funny character "art is an explosion" That idea of C4 pottery! it makes me laugh (yeh it shouldn't) but it is fairly clever. All the best!
With the Nashville shooting, this song and lyrics should be getting a lot of views shortly. Once people figure out the female shooter connection between these two events 1979 and 2023.
According to Geldof, he wrote the song after reading a telex report at Georgia State University's campus radio station, WRAS, on the shooting spree of 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer, who fired at children in a school playground at Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California, US on 29 January 1979, killing two adults and injuring eight children and one police officer. Spencer showed no remorse for her crime and her full explanation for her actions was "I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day".[3] The song was first performed less than a month later. Heres the story for anyone wondering no children died just got injured shame for the two adults that died tho..
The Brenda Spencer shooting happened in 1979...back when something like this was less common and more shocking than it was than even in the late 1990's...damn, what a fucked-up world...
They actually made it from inspiration when Brenda Spencer shot up the elementary school that was across the street from her house. She shot 30 rounds out of a .22 caliber and when asked why she did it, she answered: "I don't like Mondays."
I know this song's got a very serious topic and a sad background. But forget this background story for a moment and just listen to the refrain - then you've got my thoughts every Monday morning...
#1 UK in 1979, #73 in 1980, always felt this song was a bit too cutting edge for U.S. pop radio back in 1980 , also it seems to be that most of the U.S. pop listeners were more into Air Supply, Neil Diamond, Kenny Rogers, Christopher Cross, Barbra Streisand and Robbie Dupree.
It doesn't justify it but maybe if we didn't live in such a screwed up society events like those referred to in the song might not be as common as they are. People are quick to try to blame someone for being "crazy" but... lots of people with severe mental issues, in fact the MAJORITY of people with severe mental issues go through life hurting no more or perhaps less people than the average person does. It requires a very specific convergence of a persons environment, their own issues(which environment is often a contributing factor to) and even just... bad timing. How many people could easily have done this sort of thing-I am sure a lot more people than would like to admit it have thought about doing something like that, especially people with a long history of bullying and being abused-but didn't because someone said a kind word to them at the right moment or saw a beautiful sunset or... something, anything that gave them some perspective or gave them a reason to NOT try this sort of extreme act. So it doesn't justify it at all but still... the line between who does something like this and those who don't is probably a lot thinner than many of those who are willing to absolutely hate someone like Brenda without even sparing a second for any more compassionate thought would be willing to admit.
I feel horribly for parents, kids and teachers in the US. I can't imagine a life where being gunned down at school is a reality. I remember doing drills in school but for fire's, the thought of someone shooting up a school was unfathomable
I really hope that she doesn't get released. Hear me out, she has constantly expressed that she doesn't understand what she did wrong, and she doesn't understand how she could be in so much trouble for something "utterly trivial" in her mind. She's had all that time to sit and think about what she did, and she didn't take that opportunity. So, why let her out, ya know? Edit: Or she doesn't get released until she's proven to understand what she's done.
I just remembered Doctor House playing this song showing that it was Monday and he was even angrier as usually. I didn't know about the incident happened to that girl. Really terrible!!! Thanks!!!
Leute, ich sitz hier (ok, leicht angetrunken) und hör mir die Hits meiner Jugend an... gibt es wirklich jemanden, der meint, heutige musik sei "besser" ???
Der Tod ne ich bin 18 und mein Trommelfell ist schon total verkümmert wenn ich mir auf einer Party einen Abend lang diese Deutsch- Rap/ pseudo pop scheisse anhören muss, wo jedes Lied gott verdammt gleich klingt und immer das selbe thema behandelt nämlich das ein typ irgend ein girl geil findet 🤷🏼♀️
It’s this song and Pumped up Kicks by The Fosters that really trip me up because the melody sounds so happy but the meaning is horrid.
Ash Flowers, and next there was Enola gay or Rasputin... When I think I dance on a song that talks about a murder or the nuclear bomb...
Also with shots by imagine dragons
I like these kind of songs, Bullet by Hollywood Undead and Die Motherfucker Die by Get Set Go are also neat.
Well the children's nursery rhyme "Ring a ring of roses" is about the Black death that killed aprox 25 million.
What's super from is the meaning behind the nursery rhyme ring around the posie
Pumped up kicks: "Mom, is that you?"
Nice 👌😉
@RATHALOS your dad sucks
For those who want more information, this song was written in 1979 in response to the shooting spree of one 16yo Brenda Ann Spencer, 29 January 1979. When questioned why she committed such an atrocious act - her response was "I don't like mondays. This livens up the day".
Id be more curious about her story and what turned her into a sociopath.
Brenda ann spenser
People sometimes just snap. We aren't machines, with fixed failure modes and crash statistics. Sometimes, we just lose it.
The substrate we are created on is, by it's nature, half creation and half destruction. Our free will determines which will be expressed moment by moment and in what proportion.
In this case, however, we can point to organic rather than functional damage. From Wikipedia: _She attended Patrick Henry High School, where one teacher recalled frequently inquiring if she was awake in class. Later, during tests while she was in custody, it was discovered Spencer had an injury to the temporal lobe of her brain. It was attributed to an accident on her bicycle.[9]_
So the chances are better that brain damage caused her atypical reaction to the beginning of the week.
Though how many of US can say we love Mondays? We even imagine that cartoon cats hate Mondays.
Brenda Ann Spencer was 16 when she shot at little kids and killed the principle and the janitor while injuring an officer. When asked why she responded "I don't like Mondays and this livens it up". but obviously that was not the real reason why. She had issues with her parent's divorce and the fact that she had over 400 rounds of ammunition and a semi-automatic, did not exactly help. It is really sad.
Also she was abused at her home and she also took drugs and drank
Alex Waren
It's always the drugs, innit?
HAHAHA YES!!! smartalek180
Nah, she was fucked up in the head and decided fuck it, the fact she's in prison is good, not sad
@@Siggney1 she was raped regularly by her father and they only one bed, he was an alcoholic, she kicked her in the head causing permanent frontal lobe trauma, when she confided suicidal ideations to her therapist and her father he gifted her a gun for her 16th birthday, she should not be free, but she should not have been neither tried as an adult and she should be in a therapistic institution
If I didn't know the story behind this i would probably jam to this
the story makes jamming to it more fun
Hey coyote, funny seeing you here...
+Some random Douche bag lmfao!
i do jam to this and i know the story behind it, in fact, it makes it better.
hey, people still jam to song like this and na-na-na-nineteen (the vietnam one).
Every time I hear this song on the radio it gets stuck in my head for the rest of the day.
You're OCD. That is something you can work with to your favor.
It is haunting and beautiful, perhaps we can call it paradoxical. I think it raises questions. I think it is good to ask good questions about the cause of certain events. My impression is that the 16 year old girl was not seeking notoriety, although I know little about the case. I am rambling, it is Monday today and I returned to “the daily grind”. 😎
And that's not a bad thing, not at all.
Remember the Good Old Days, when mass shootings were so rare, people actually wrote SONGS about them?
"Rare" is a relative term when it comes to this sort of thing. According to FBI data mass shootings have been on the decline for quite a long time.
@@SmokeymcJoint420 school shootings they mean.And plus this was the first recorded school shooting.
@@SmokeymcJoint420 I think they are rising at the moment.
@Ricci Hardow 1979
Pumped up kicks: allow me to introduce myself
This was and is a modern style 'folk song' depicting a deeply tragic massacre. The Rats played at a park in my hometown last Saturday. Brilliant night. Bob G popped in to my sister's chemist and bought toothpaste and a tooth brush. The 25 year old sales girl didn't recognise him at all. She will in future, I bet.😀
The terrifying thing about this song is that you can apply the lyrics to so many mass murders. No reason, no cause and no motive. In the end, a messed-up person with a gun who just wanted to hurt someone; as many people as possible, in fact.
It was a bout the american system.
@@deepblueacc no wasnt it about a girl who tried to do a school shooting?
@@moonstone6133 yes but while "I don't like modays" is what she told reporters when she was called at home while the shooting was still taking place, it later came out that she lived alone with her father, they slept in the same bed, he was an alcoholic and a year aftee the shooting married the daughter's former cellmate who looked much like her and was 17 at the time, she then divorced him shortly after giving birth a couple of years later, the shooter also had a permanent head injury in the frontal lobe, initially she said she had it because of a bike incident, but later in life confided to some cellmates and prison staff it was actually her father that forced her to say that because it was actually because he kicked her in the head, the same year of the shooting she was going to therapy and when she confided suicidal ideations to her therapist and her father, he gifted her a gun for her 16th birthday, in 2001 she then accused her father of raping her regularly, which kind of corroborated by how the rest of her life was fucked up, she's still in prison
@@giordanocoresi2934 yes but things like that can still happen in any other country.
@@moonstone6133 that doesn't diminishes the fact that this shooting was a failing of: the school system, the child protective services, her therapist and anyone who knew her father. This could have been stopped if anyone cared about a teen with severe depression, instead they got a mass shooter that wanted suicide by cop because her life was horrible and the people who should have care about her either didn't care or were the abusers themselves, and after all that she continues to be a failing of the american prison industrial complex
Jasper’s voice was legendary 😂
the 100😭😂❤
Jasper Jordan ruled!!!
After watching the 100
lmao literally turned this on in the car for my parents and was like "for jasper"
👍😂
i can still remember this song when it first came out what a great song it is still until this day go boomtown rats
I remember singing this on the school bus on Monday mornings.
And did it jinx your day?
chile-
That would have freaked me out if I were on that bus LoL
You must be old like me 🙂
@@rossbowie1667 Only in years 😉
Boy this aged REALLY well
Definitely one of the best songs ever made
I love this song. Can't get enough of it.
i´ve heard this song on the radio the last days....since this day, it was a song like all the others.....shame on me...i didn´t know, that this song based on a true story...now, when i hear it, it´s so much more intensiv...thanks to you
brenda spencer caused the first school shooting in america, she killed 2 and injured 10-11 (i think) and when they asked her why she did it she said "i don't like mondays, i thought this would liven it up"
She shot and killed the principle and custodian and shot and wounded 8 children and a police officer.
Alexis Severson and we still dont like Mondays :)
+Michaela Furgat Sorry, but Brenda Spencer was FAR from being the FIRST school shooting in the USA. There have been school shootings in the USA since the 1700's.
according to wikipedia there have benn school shootings in usa going back to 18th century
And we all know how credible Wikipedia is lmao
Prayers up for the victims, friends and families and especially the children affected by the senseless school shootings -which began in January 1979. The shooter age 16 (whom I choose not to glorify) was a child herself. Her only response when asked why when she opened fire, killing 2 and seriously injuring 8 students & a police officer, was "I don't like Mondays"
@@foobarmaximus3506 you dont need to tell people to fuck themselves because they are praying for people that were harmed. If you think thats something to tell someone because of that you truly are a pretty heartless bastard.
She had had a proven serious head injury and was suicidal. Not a good communicator either.
I also remember she gave up because the police offered her a McDonald's meal, just a random tidbit about the whole thing.
@@tomjones2157 no surprise
I'd guess her thinking was life is brutal because of people and I want to die.People deserve to die including myself.Like ''Paint It Black''!
I don't get what the line about the silicon chip is about.
I am just crazy about that song, it brings me back at high school ! Fantastic song ! Thank you for that song, it is absolutly what we all thought back then ! Benoit wish you happiness ! Greetings from Montreal
This song came out in 1979 The incident that this song is about happened in either the same year or the year before I was in my mid 20s and I remember it very well and I also remember The Boomtown Rats took a lot of heat for releasing it And that was before politically correct became a part of our vocabulary
The song came out in the same year just a few months after the event. They even went on tour to promote the song even more. They had also cancelled their San Diego show out of "respect" for the victims.
This song speaks to me... not the part where a little girl decided to become a murderer, just the whole "I don't like mondays" part.
Funnily enough, as a child... I always thought it said "Cherry Wine" rather than tell me why.
XD bruv now that I saw the comment now all I hear is Cherry wine
@@7676lina The curse continues.
@@RETROTITANPLAYS Oh heck
@@RETROTITANPLAYS also if I may ask how do you feel about Tuesdays?
@@7676lina With Tacos? Mucho Grande!
Without Tacos? Mátalo con fuego!
Boomtown Rats were on tour in America when news of the girl taking pot shots at pupils going to school came across the radio, when asked WHY? Her reply was I Don't Like Mondays, thus inspiring the song...
I don't like mondays; i thought it would liven up the day. she was a fucked up kid/ has spent thirty years in prison/ let her out already.
@@shearslisa Let her out? No. Get her help? They should.
The 100
Novelas da Jaque - MX me too but jasper made the song sound way more cool to be honest
Emiah Morris I know Jasper made me keep singing 😂😂😂
The 100 is very really good
Jasper :(
Clarke:what do you thing you’re doing
Jasper:what?
Clarke: *thinks, he knows what.* You know what
Jasper:people think it’s the end of the day not the end of days.
:Clarke shhh keep you’re voice down!
Jasper:*sings* THE WHOLE DAY.....DOWN!!
This is such a great song, but the real events behind it are tragic as heck. I kind of feel bad for liking it. Rest in peace, all these victims.
I bet she's proud of herself. She started a trend
Someone had to be first
Ritualistic child abuse. Drugs in the food and water. Vaccines made to polarize the body. Mass media thought control. Children are being targeted. And they subconsciously know it. Watch and care for your children. Or they'll watch and take care of you.
@@Merlodica dude vaccines are good
@@diarmuidmurphy5503 Why is that? Because Bill Gates says so? Why would you trust mega corporations with your health more so than yourself?
@@Merlodica are you an antivaxxer
Literally just now realizing the refrain is NOT "Tell me why I don't like Mondays?" and learning the story behind "Tell me why? I don't like Mondays!" This song will never be the same to me.
Do you know the story behind the song? Than you won't listen to it the same again either. Its about a school shooter who answered to the question why she did it: "i don't like Mondays"
Mehlfield: exactly
Thank you Jasper
I first herd when i was a kid this on the howard stern show when he was on AM radio. With my Dad. In his car. What memories. About 30 years ago.
the 100 brought me here xD
Berfin Boztepe jaspers a gem to his world
Finally, a thumbed up comment that has nothing to do with Brenda Fucking Spencer!!!!!
same
My mother listeting to Bon Jovi they singing this number
Berfin Boztepe same
"Jeremy spoke in class today"
Ron Jeremy spoke in class today
Pearl Jam
Who....Jeremy Kyle lol
We are studying the story behind this in drama
+Alex Waren So am I
+Alex Waren here's the story: girl gets gun for christmas, girl hates school, girl hates mondays for making her go to school, bitch goes mental, kills a bunch of people, attempts suicide, fails, gets arrested. there.
what's the story? girl goes beserk at school and shoots dead 2 teachers and injures a bunch of kids.
+Toby Royson buuuutttttt it wasn't a school she was a student at.
Alex Waren it's quite a controversial song isn't it?
I am so glad that this was in Mindhunter. Without Mindhunter I might have never found out about this story.
excellent song about a horrific incident. alot of blow back received by the rats because of the victim's ages and the location of the crime but this is the type of story that moves people and motivates songwriters to new and never before achieved heights.the same for niel young's song 'ohio'.
The song was released long before bang bang
Legit.
I remember when our now retired teacher played this when I was in the 7th grade. Damn the nostalgia ...
I would be very concerned if my teacher played this song about shooting kids down on Mondays in my class.
jasper!
Weird, this was my mother's cousin's favourite song and he died on a Monday.
The 100 with jasper
Why this is so good 😂 #100
Brilliant lyrics
Rest In Peace Jasper. He died a stoner. My man.
Did anyone else come from The 100 when Jasper was singing this song?
Me
Jasper and the 100 is zo good
Weird, this was my mother's cousin's favourite song and he died on a Monday.
YellowLuigi is not weird is coincidence
Is one in seven chance.
YellowLuigi kankri?
Irony’s a bitch
lol that is what I call irony
Jasper :'v
I miss him so much :'(
"And the lesson today is how to die"
Damn. Imagine a song like this done about Parkland and becoming a top ten bop? People from the 80s were weird.
Yes we were and I am Proud to be weird
Then you did not understand the nature of why this was created by Bob Geldof.
If you want to imagine something, imagine having the power to make these mass killers more famous than anyone on the planet, and doing just that, which is exactly what the news media does for these killers, lavishing with the attention they seek, 24/7 for days, weeks on end? Talk about weird, talk about sick...
These people should get no more news than any of the KILLERS who slaughter 10,000 yes ten thousand Americans every year by drunk driving. They should get the same level of news air time, not second more.
The 100 brought me here thanks 🥰
great song love it
Topcat 129 🔫
I stopped listening to this on another dude's channel because he turned off commenting, I refuse to support any channel that shuts down dialogue, especially on a song as significant as this. Thank you for leaving comments open.
I agree with you about comment sections in most cases. There are a few exceptions like if the comment section is full of toxic emotionally abusive comments it can be damaging to people more so than allowing free healthy expression. We've all seen those areas. But usually a few toxic trolls should be ignored. Only if it's over run by them then maybe delete those and leave the rest.
I love this song. I also agree with the title.
You know it's about a girl that went and shot up a school and her reasoning to police was the title of this song.
you also agree with the backstory?
The title is disturbing when you hear the backstory of the song
I never knew the meaning of this song as a kid when the tune was a hit on the radio... Now I feel bad for liking it! :-(
The 100 with jasper
I didn't know this song..i fell in love with it while watching "the 100"
Jasper's sing along 😂😢
I went to this school as a child and knew me Raggs, the principle who was shot. The shooting happen two years after I had moved away
Omg I totally forgot this aing until today! Love it!
handmaid's tale brought me here!
good song great vocals harmonies bob geldof a legend
Red alert guys, Brenda Spencer is once again up for parole this year, hopefully she'll be denied again. She is never seeing outside bars ever.
That's what you think.
She has another one in September 2021. If the world doesn't end by then
@@blackjack3320 The world hasn't ended... yet
@@mathiasnielsen6003 Haha we are still in April so you never know 😁, 5 more months to go ⏳ .
Wanna bet?
Listening tot this for 20 years and only now its clicked, that this song is about America’s first school shooting. I think Geldof could have been less cryptic in his lyrics if he wanted to remember the victims instead of glorifying the killer with such an iconic song as this.
But anything more subtle, wouldn't hare raised awareness to many
I’m not sticking with the killer, AT ALL. But y’all need to realize that she knew something was wrong with her and she asked for help but her parents didn’t believe her and just let her be. Plus, her father bought her a rifle as a gift for fucks sake. The parents should be held more responsible for this. I’m not saying that what she did was right but it’s also not fair and wrong to put all the blame on her, when her dad was kind of the cause of this.
Nigga that still doesn't mean you go out and kill people. She knew what she was doing. The bitch literally used a telescope to aim at the children. Y'all can stop with these excuse. Oh wait let me guess, you don't like Mondays either?
@@just_apotato yes I don’t like them and no I’m not going on a killing spree. But don’t put all the blame on her when you know damn well shes mentally ill and she tried to get help but no one cared. I’m not making excuses. But if the people around actually cared for her and believed her, then this whole thing wouldn’t have happened. Would you give you kid a fucking rifle on their birthday after them saying that they need some help??
@@blushingbae2011 I an not blaming her for the gun but HER actions after it. She willingly decided to shoot at an elementary school. She is responsible for her actions and she is also responsible for the consequences. Simple as that.
Brenda Ann Spencer is responsible for her actions. Unfortunately her father Wallace Spencer wasn't held accountable for being a pathetic loser father who caused & fed some of her psychological problems.
A classic song...making art out of tragedy. Also, Bob Geldof is hot. ;)
I like to think that Jasper and Maya are jamming to this tune somewhere...
May 24 2022
Another mass shooting, another listen to this song
good to know im not alone
This song is timeless
You got a subscribe for the Naruto profile. Diedara was a pretty funny character "art is an explosion" That idea of C4 pottery! it makes me laugh (yeh it shouldn't) but it is fairly clever. All the best!
I discovered this song from The 100
Damn I miss Jasper......
You'd better run better run outrun my gun
I guess she doesn't like Tuesdays thru Sunday either now.
this song just made me feel so bad may all those people who died on that day rest in peace
This song reminds me of the I Hate Mondays upload from Actually Happened.
With the Nashville shooting, this song and lyrics should be getting a lot of views shortly. Once people figure out the female shooter connection between these two events 1979 and 2023.
It's not Monday, but I'm having a shitty day so here we are.
Sir Bob struggles to this day with the letter he received from the girl...kind of sad really, but a wonderfully written piece.
jasper!
According to Geldof, he wrote the song after reading a telex report at Georgia State University's campus radio station, WRAS, on the shooting spree of 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer, who fired at children in a school playground at Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California, US on 29 January 1979, killing two adults and injuring eight children and one police officer. Spencer showed no remorse for her crime and her full explanation for her actions was "I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day".[3] The song was first performed less than a month later.
Heres the story for anyone wondering
no children died just got injured
shame for the two adults that died tho..
would never get a song like this now its like if they made a song about the Colombine massacre or something. Be an outrage.
Toby Royson no kidding an its a shame cuz this song is stuck in my head too dang singable.....tell me why? Not funny my bad
Wasn't pumped up kicks about a school shooting though
They did make a song about columbine it's called Cassie by flyleaf
The Brenda Spencer shooting happened in 1979...back when something like this was less common and more shocking than it was than even in the late 1990's...damn, what a fucked-up world...
They actually made it from inspiration when Brenda Spencer shot up the elementary school that was across the street from her house. She shot 30 rounds out of a .22 caliber and when asked why she did it, she answered: "I don't like Mondays."
More chilling and relevant now than ever.
I don't like mondays
I don't like Mondays either just because you had to face another week of work just got to except it
im autistic and have to go to school.i dont like school.work soun harder then school
Same because I have to go to school D:
+Shane Inkster I wish I could except it. Instead, I have to accept it.
Shane Inkster Tru dat
Just a good ol' song about one of Americas faverouite pass-times sports.
Live fire drills make for good fighters
I know this song's got a very serious topic and a sad background.
But forget this background story for a moment and just listen to the refrain - then you've got my thoughts every Monday morning...
#1 UK in 1979, #73 in 1980, always felt this song was a bit too cutting edge for U.S. pop radio back in 1980 , also it seems to be that most of the U.S. pop listeners were more into Air Supply, Neil Diamond, Kenny Rogers, Christopher Cross, Barbra Streisand and Robbie Dupree.
No they just didn't want to hear about it, and still don't
It doesn't justify it but maybe if we didn't live in such a screwed up society events like those referred to in the song might not be as common as they are. People are quick to try to blame someone for being "crazy" but... lots of people with severe mental issues, in fact the MAJORITY of people with severe mental issues go through life hurting no more or perhaps less people than the average person does. It requires a very specific convergence of a persons environment, their own issues(which environment is often a contributing factor to) and even just... bad timing. How many people could easily have done this sort of thing-I am sure a lot more people than would like to admit it have thought about doing something like that, especially people with a long history of bullying and being abused-but didn't because someone said a kind word to them at the right moment or saw a beautiful sunset or... something, anything that gave them some perspective or gave them a reason to NOT try this sort of extreme act. So it doesn't justify it at all but still... the line between who does something like this and those who don't is probably a lot thinner than many of those who are willing to absolutely hate someone like Brenda without even sparing a second for any more compassionate thought would be willing to admit.
Why does this sound like Elton John and queen made a song together
maybe
Sounds more like Elvis Costello to me.
If that's true, then it proves that two wrongs do make a right.
Lmao
Jerry Seinfeld on lead vocals, Elton John backup vocals, and Freddy Mercury playing piano.
Im here because the 100 jasper songs you now
I feel horribly for parents, kids and teachers in the US. I can't imagine a life where being gunned down at school is a reality. I remember doing drills in school but for fire's, the thought of someone shooting up a school was unfathomable
Rip jasper
a top notch song!
i bet the killer likes lasagna
Lol yas
Who doesn't?
|-/
Well, Garfield and Brenda Spencer are both gingers...
Geldof may divide opinion but this was an absolute classic from the rats
because jasper hahaha
My social studies teacher plays this song in class whenever there's a school shooting, I never noticed until he told us about it today
Mondays are bad...
But with Sunday you know its coming, the sins crawl behind your back
Veel,velen,houden niet van maandag is een van de moeilijkste dag vanhet week,de 1 ste dag. Ik kan het wel begrijpen.Mooie song. I like it.
Did she get released in 2019; wasn't that her next parole chance.
According to Wikipedia, she's still in prison and her next parole hearing is scheduled for September 2021.
I really hope that she doesn't get released. Hear me out, she has constantly expressed that she doesn't understand what she did wrong, and she doesn't understand how she could be in so much trouble for something "utterly trivial" in her mind. She's had all that time to sit and think about what she did, and she didn't take that opportunity. So, why let her out, ya know?
Edit: Or she doesn't get released until she's proven to understand what she's done.
She’ has schizophrenia....
@@angelikacruz4352 Is that an excuse
I just remembered Doctor House playing this song showing that it was Monday and he was even angrier as usually. I didn't know about the incident happened to that girl. Really terrible!!! Thanks!!!
I think Tuesdays is the worst day of the week
For me Sundays
Wednesday
@@hughjanus4535 I agree
Hits 2024 summers ❤
I could've sworn this song had lyrics talking about some things some kids were doing, even gave some of them names, before the shooting happened.
God I still love this song!!
Pumped up kicks: hold my gun.
What a great that still bring a tear.
Leute,
ich sitz hier (ok, leicht angetrunken) und hör mir die Hits meiner Jugend an...
gibt es wirklich jemanden, der meint, heutige musik sei "besser" ???
Ich kann es auch nicht nachvollziehen, aber anscheinend denken das viele Leute...
Der Tod ne ich bin 18 und mein Trommelfell ist schon total verkümmert wenn ich mir auf einer Party einen Abend lang diese Deutsch- Rap/ pseudo pop scheisse anhören muss, wo jedes Lied gott verdammt gleich klingt und immer das selbe thema behandelt nämlich das ein typ irgend ein girl geil findet 🤷🏼♀️
@@mrsfahrenheit Jedem das Seine 😂
I remember that happened! Love this Song!
BRENDA SPENCER WAS THE 16 YEAR OLD GIRL WHO DID THE SHOOTING
Do You feel better for making the effort to write that and be sarcastic?? Try embracing the notion of KARMA!!
Maggie Jansen
O.K man, will do!!
no shit
my fave by the boomtown rats