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In the Long Grass

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Released
  
May 1984

Release date
  
May 1984

Label
  
Columbia Records

Artist
  
The Boomtown Rats

Producer
  
Peter Walsh

Genre
  
Rock music

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Similar
  
The Boomtown Rats albums, Rock music albums

In the Long Grass was their sixth and final studio album by The Boomtown Rats, released in 1984 in the UK and 1985 in the US.

Contents

The Boomtown Rats' least commercially favourable effort, it failed to appear altogether in the UK Albums Chart, but did reach No. 188 in the US Billboard 200.

Track listing

All songs written by Bob Geldof except where indicated.

  1. "A Hold Of Me"
  2. "Drag Me Down"
  3. "Dave"
  4. "Over Again"
  5. "Another Sad Story" (J. Fingers)
  6. "Tonight"
  7. "Hard Times"
  8. "Lucky" (J. Fingers)
  9. "An Icicle In The Sun"
  10. "Up Or Down" (S. Crowe, P. Briquette)

1985 US listing

For the US, the record company insisted that the track "Dave" needed to be reworked before it could be released in that country. New lyrics were written and sung over the same backing track; the new track was called "Rain". All songs written by Bob Geldof except where indicated.

  1. "A Hold of Me"
  2. "Drag Me Down"
  3. "Rain"
  4. "Over Again"
  5. "Another Sad Story" (J. Fingers)
  6. "Tonight"
  7. "Hard Times"
  8. "Lucky" (J. Fingers)
  9. "An Icicle in the Sun"
  10. "Up or Down" (S. Crowe, P. Briquette)

2005 bonus tracks

  1. "Dave" (Single Version)
  2. "Walking Downtown" (B. Geldof, P. Briquette) (B-side)
  3. "Precious Time" (S. Crowe) (B-side)
  4. "She's Not the Best" (Home Demo)

Personnel

  • Bob Geldof – vocals
  • Pete Briquette – bass, vocals
  • Johnny Fingers – keyboards, vocals
  • Simon Crowe – drums, vocals
  • Garry Roberts – guitar, vocals

    • Additional personnel

  • Peter Thoms - trombone - credited on the sleeve as :- Pete "Gidday" Thomas
  • Luke Tunney - trumpet
  • Gary Barnacle - saxophone
  • Martin Dobson - saxophone
  • Peter Claridge - guitar
  • Molly and Polly - backing vocals on Hard Times
  • Ian Richie - saxophone
  • Martin Salvador Rex - engineered
  • Ashworth - photography

    • Songs

    1A Hold of Me4:57
    2Drag Me Down4:31
    3Rain4:19

    References

    In the Long Grass Wikipedia
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