Track Listings (15) - Disc #1| All Artists: Boomtown Rats Title: Fine Art of Surfacing Members Wishing: 1 Total Copies: 0 Label: Ume Imports Original Release Date: 1/1/1979 Re-Release Date: 3/8/2005 Album Type: Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered Genres: Alternative Rock, International Music, Pop, Rock Styles: Hardcore & Punk, New Wave & Post-Punk, Europe, Britain & Ireland Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 602498267752 |
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2005 remastered reissue of 1979 and 3rd album from The Boomtown Rats featuring frontman Bob Geldof. Contains 4 bonus tracks 'Real Different' (B-side), 'How Do You Do' (B-side), 'Late Last Night' (B-side) & 'Nothing Hap... more » |
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Album Description 2005 remastered reissue of 1979 and 3rd album from The Boomtown Rats featuring frontman Bob Geldof. Contains 4 bonus tracks 'Real Different' (B-side), 'How Do You Do' (B-side), 'Late Last Night' (B-side) & 'Nothing Happened Today' (live in Cardiff). Mercury. Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsMany consider it their best; great remaster, odd track order R. C. Killian | Durham, North Carolina United States | 03/26/2005 (5 out of 5 stars) "Thankfully, this 1 re-release, out of 6, has an unperverted track order...but the price is still ridiculous, so check with the new/used dealers in the top right instead of Amazon... Anyway, I'm writing this review to note, for the less informed, to correct/make notes on the other reviews which are incorrect in their claims about original versions of the albums/sources of tracks: "Real Different" was ORIGINALLY released as the B-side to Elephant's Graveyard in 1981, about 6 months before the release of Rat Tracks. Rat Tracks, much like the Rolling Stones' Flowers "album" was a fabricated release made by North American record companies, outside the band's control. The same sort of treatment most bands used to get (and sometimes still do) when their music crosses the oceans to reach North America. A stupid, but very common, activity on the part of North American record companies. "How Do You Do?" was ORIGINALLY released as the B-side to "Like Clockwork" in 1978. Not intending to pick fights or criticize, mind you, I'm simply obsessive about the original placement of non-album tracks." Awesome Remaster of a classic album!!! M. D. Givetz | Southern California | 04/23/2005 (5 out of 5 stars) "This was always my favorite Boomtown Rats CD and I'm glad this and all the other Rats CD's have been remastered. "The fine art of Surfacing" is an amazing CD from start to finish. The lyrics and melodies are brilliant. God, I wish these guys would reform and tour again. C'mon Bob, reform the Rats." Classic 70s punk nu-wave, missing some essential "bonus" B-s G. Mitchell | Los Angeles, CA United States | 07/26/2007 (4 out of 5 stars) "THE ART OF SURFACING is flat-out the BEST Boomtown Rats album in their career, even better than TONIC FOR THE TROOPS, if that's possible - there's not a bad apple in the bunch - so this review isn't about the classic album that I original bought as a kid in 1979 (as well as the single "MONDAYS") - here is my big gripe: if you're going to go to the trouble of tacking on "bonus" tracks to lure in longtime fans, why did the record label make the (lame) decision to exclude what (IMHO) is the best Rats song ever: the B-side to "MONDAYS" single, "ALL THE RAGE"? RAGE is the hardest-hitting, most "punk" sounding song the rats ever produced - all blistering beats, roaring guitars, banging piano, and Geldof's bile-spewing snarl - all under 3 mins. To say it is a tragedy not to have this song included on the CD reissue of the Rat's best and most beloved album is not an understatement. Next time? Still, all the CD reissues are very nice, so collect them all now before they go OOP!"
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