The Boomtown Rats release new compilation

The Boomtown Rats, who re-formed last year for the Isle Of Wight festival and went on to tour the UK and Ireland will release a new compilation of classic Rats tracks on October 13th.

Entitled 'So Modern – The Boomtown Rats Collection', it mixes some of the bands biggest hits including the number 1 smashes 'I Don't Like Mondays' and 'Rat Trap' with some of the bands deeper album tracks and is a fantastic introduction to a group with an incredible legacy.

The full tracklisting of 'So Modern – The Boomtown Rats Collection' is:

1. I Don't Like Mondays (from the album The Fine Art Of Surfacing [1979])
2. She's So Modern (from A Tonic For The Troops [1978])
3. Rat Trap (from A Tonic For The Troops)
4. Like Clockwork (from A Tonic For The Troops)
5. Mary Of The 4th Form (from The Boomtown Rats [1977])
6. Someone's Looking At You (The Fine Art Of Surfacing [1979])
7. Keep It Up (The Fine Art Of Surfacing)
8. Never In A Million Years (V Deep [1982])
9. Me And Howard Hughes (A Tonic For The Troops)
10. When The Night Comes (The Fine Art Of Surfacing)
11. Joey's On The Street Again (The Boomtown Rats)
12. (I Never Loved) Eva Braun (A Tonic For The Troops)
13. Dave (Originally released as a single MER 79 (11/84)
14. Drag Me Down (In The Long Grass [1984])
15. Tonight (In The Long Grass [1984])
16. House On Fire – Dennis Bovell 12" Dub Version
Originally released on 12" MERX 91 (3/82)
Edited by Pete Briquette, Abbey Road, 8/14
17. Lookin' After No. 1 (The Boomtown Rats [1977])
18. The Boomtown Rats (Back To Boomtown: Classic Rats Hits [2013])

The Boomtown Rats 2014 previously announced 'Ratlife' tour will visit:

OCT

18th WOLVERHAMPTON Wulfrun Hall
19th NEWCASTLE O2 Academy
20th GLASGOW O2 ABC
22nd SHEFFIELD O2 Academy
23rd LIVERPOOL O2 Academy
25th MANCHESTER Ritz
26th LINCOLN Engine Shed
28th LEAMINGTON SPA Assembly
29th BRISTOL O2 Academy
31st PORTSMOUTH Pyramids Centre

NOV

1st OXFORD O2 Academy
3rd CAMBRIDGE The Junction
4th LEICESTER O2 Academy
6th BOURNEMOUTH O2 Academy
7th LONDON The Forum

The Boomtown Rats were one of the most successful bands of the 1970s in the UK, as central to the decade's dying embers as Chic, Abba, the Clash, the Specials and the Jam. Their grown-up new wave and real time stories captured the imagination of a mass audience in a way that many of their peers did not. The legacy of the Rats is based primarily on their remarkable street songs; if punk supposedly was all about the outsider, then they, the Rats, were on the outside of the outside. Dublin was not big or sexy then; the craic was not in the everyday lingua franca. As the Rats grew bigger, they seldom lost sight of those roots. The Rats are back, as brilliantly spiky, funny and irreverent as ever, and So Modern: The Boomtown Rats Collection celebrates that fact.