Mondo Bongo


Mondo Bongo was The Boomtown Rats' fourth album. It peaked at No. 6 in the UK Albums Chart in February 1981, and No. 116 in the US Billboard 200.
It included the hit singles: "Banana Republic", which had reached No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart in November 1980 and "The Elephants Graveyard " which made No. 26 in January 1981.

Reception

The album received mixed reviews in the press, with American critics being generally more positive than their British counterparts. New Musical Express put down the record as "hollow pop, quaking under a plethora of poorly integrated rip-offs", while Sounds called it "self-indulgent" and lacking in depth or emotion. Rolling Stone, however, praised it as "an intoxicating mixture of pop and punk", and Trouser Press called it "an enormously enjoyable LP, with hardly a dry patch on it".

Track listing

All songs were written by Bob Geldof, except where noted.
  1. "Mood Mambo" – 4:06
  2. "Straight Up" – 3:15
  3. "This Is My Room" – 3:35
  4. "Another Piece of Red" – 2:35
  5. "Go Man Go!" – 3:52
  6. "Under Their Thumb Is Under My Thumb" – 2:41
  7. "Please Don't Go" – 3:34
  8. "The Elephants Graveyard" – 3:43
  9. "Banana Republic" – 4:55
  10. "Fall Down" – 2:26
  11. "Hurt Hurts" – 3:05
  12. "Whitehall 1212" – 3:43

    US album listing

All songs were written by Bob Geldof, except where noted.
  1. "Mood Mambo" – 4:06
  2. "Straight Up" – 3:15
  3. "This Is My Room" – 3:35
  4. "Another Piece of Red" – 2:35
  5. "Go Man Go!" – 3:52
  6. "Under Their Thumb Is Under My Thumb" – 2:41
  7. "Please Don't Go" – 3:34
  8. "The Elephants Graveyard" – 3:43
  9. "Banana Republic" – 4:55
  10. "Don't Talk to Me" – 2:50
  11. "Hurt Hurts" – 3:05
  12. "Up All Night" – 3:33
  13. "Cheerio"

    2005 re-issue

  14. "Straight Up" – 3:15
  15. "The Elephants Graveyard" – 3:43
  16. "This Is My Room" – 3:35
  17. "Another Piece of Red" – 2:35
  18. "Hurt Hurts" – 3:05
  19. "Please Don't Go" – 3:34
  20. "Fall Down" – 2:26
  21. "Go Man Go!" – 3:52
  22. "Under Their Thumb" – 2:41
  23. "Banana Republic" – 4:55
  24. "Whitehall 1212" – 3:43
  25. "Mood Mambo" – 4:06
  26. "Cheerio"
  27. "Don't Talk to Me"
  28. "Arnold Layne"
  29. "Another Piece of Red"

    Personnel

;The Boomtown Rats
;Additional musicians