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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Bought this song in 1980. Never thought I'd be living in one.
4 years in the making
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.
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.
I had exactly the same experience.
@@JeromekJerome1972 well boomtown rats weren’t really “pop stars” imo
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.
Made better by the context of us knowing how the world turned after such a pronouncement- and we dismiss the incorrect guesses.
This music is not old, it's you who are infantile, unwise and foolish.
what a great song. first heard it in 1980. 31 years later it as relevant as ever. BOOMTOWN RATS = LEGENDS.
One of my all time rat hits.. YEAH BABY...
The most appropriate song ever written. Particularly in the 21st century. Absolutely brilliant . Absolutely tineless so appropriate for present day UK
easily 40 yrs since hearing this. Someone tweeted the usa is turning into a banana republic so of course I remembered this song
This was the last hit i remember The boomtown rats had in the charts - Wonderful song , i was a fan all them years ago
The Boomtown Rats were awesome.....love this song.
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!
It’s Irish not UK
No one but me among my friends loved them in the early 80s. This song sucks me back 40 years! Love you! @bobgeldof
Brilliant song by the rats. So relevent now 2023 🇮🇪😒
They seem ahead of their time in many ways.....before my time, great music.
love this song, love this band
favourite song of theirs, slight suspicion they might be miming here😂
just saw them live, amazing!
I miss the fact that politics isn't heard in pop music anymore.
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
Punk? They were never punk.
The new America is a banana republic. Sad days
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.
Bob dances like Mick Jagger on stage but his music is truly original - great stuff to hear again!
Now an ear-worm. Wished I'd not heard this again! 😆
You are an important man. You have changed a lot, for the better.
Such thanks and love to you ! xxxx
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.
this could have been written about ireland today in 2010...never mind the 80's...
Great song, first heard this on an Eastenders documentary about the Watts vs the Mitchells! Hahaha!
Boomtown Rats, the Police, Spandau Ballet, they were all writing about the Troubles in those days.
A good part of my youth. I don't like Mondays either!!!
there best one
Oh dear God
absoloute great stuff from bob
better than the garbage people suffer listening to the radio these days
die tollen 80er.
Great Lyrics - still relevant. Looks like a Top of the Pops mime.
@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.
Johnny Fingers looks like Sid Vicious
hip hip great song
My favorite tune of Geldof
wish this were a better recording - the bass line is good
I didn't know that, thanks :)
BA NANA REPUB A LIC!!!
I just had to wait through a 20 second one with no 5 second skip
they have fun with the playback LOL
@XXXPaulJXXX - Take another listen . the song was wonderful but the last i remember them having - remember the good old days
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.
Who was the guy on accordion?
@8000cheese Yeah, you're right, I just couldn't stop myself...
@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
Bob Geldof - Punks answer to John Travolta.
(Tugs at the heartstrings every time)
He ripped up John and Olivias photo on TOTOP when they knocked Em off no 1
This is a great live performance lol.No lip synching back in those days.
Does not look live to me
It's obviously the recorded song being played over the video. That doesn't make it bad though. 🤗
Are you for real?!
Something tells me this is playback...
@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?
Ok, I sing Banana Republic…septic eye🤷🏻♀️
lol nice song xD
@JoeJC i guess joe, we will agree to disagree. i love the boomtown rats, and the sawdoctors are sensational too.
the new irish anthem
Canadian anthem post-NAFTA, but given new meaning under Harper's Conada.
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?
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.
This is Ireland 2018-Celtic Tiger 2
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
@TheKamikazeMAR They are talking abouth Ireland
Jeesus !
die aufstrebenden stadtratten - HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
doin that kenny loggins dance
@10282021 SPOT ON!!!
to feel me . to the head
I can forgive Geldof anything after Live Aid 85.
….This is asking a lot, however.
he`s a better singer than a dancer hahaha
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
Wellcome to 2011
Its a slam on the band's home country
youtube is getting boring now with all the ads disrupting the songs
I think in this case you might mean sphincter syncing
;( i bee tha only one to right
what the hell did i just watch
that mic deffo aint working ;)
or Germany ...
*he's
This was about the time The Rats lost it for me. Loved their earlier stuff. But, they became just another pop band. Shame.
lip syncing? Yeah, it thought so.
Doesn’t age well......they were pissed off because their concert was cancelled.....anger is not a good motive....
Obviously you never seen a mirror in your entire life
Whatever happend to this guy!? ;-)
He got a haircut. No wait, that was someone else...
@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.
So outdated now its unreal
Omg...that is horrible
"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.
these guys are tacky