THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.
632-The Boomtown Rats-Rat Trap.
1978-Number 1 single.
Best Bit-At 3.01 No one plays a candelabra like Sir Bob.
When the song went to Number 1 for two weeks in November 1978 the Boomtown Rats became the first Punk or New Wave act to have a chart topper.They also became the first Irish Rock act to have a UK Number 1.
The song tells the tale of a boy called Billy who feels the town he lives in is a ‘Rat Trap.’It was based on Bob Geldof’s then job in an abattoir,he wrote the lyrics in 1973.
In 1996 Geldof recorded a self mocking cover version of the song with RTE television puppet character ‘Dustin the Turkey,’the song was the Christmas Number 1 in Ireland that year.
‘It’s a rat trap Judy and we’ve been caught.’
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