V Deep

Artist: The Boomtown Rats
Label: Ume Imports
Category: Music

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Format: Limited Edition
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 602498267776
EAN: 0602498267776
ASIN: B00076SJQ4

Release Date: 2005-03-29

V Deep

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Tracks:

He Watches It All
Never In A Million Years
Talking In Code
The Bitter End
The Little Death
A Storm Breaks
Up All Night
House On Fire
Charmed Lives
Skin On Skin
Say Hi To Mick
No Hiding Place - B Side
House On Fire - 12' Dub Version
Up All Night - Long Version

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Album Description

2005 remastered reissue of 1982 and 5th album from The Boomtown Rats featuring frontman Bob Geldof. Contains 3 bonus tracks 'No Hiding Place' (B-side), 'House On Fire' (12inch dub version) & 'Up All Night' (long version). Mercury.

Album Details

Digitally Remastered by Jon Astley and Comes with a Stack of Rare Or Previously Unreleased Bonus Tracks, Demos, B-sides and Live Cuts, all Overseen by Bob Geldof and Boomtown Bassist, Pete Briquette.

Customer Reviews:

Down down to the deep they go.......2007-01-23

If "Mondo Bongo" was darker than the three previous albums by the Boomtown Rats, then what are we to make of "V Deep?" Unremittingly gloomy and dark, this album was so far off what most fans expected from the Rats that their American record company at first opted to not release it. It wasn't until Geldolf's starring turn in "Pink Floyd's The Wall" movie that "V Deep" hit American shelves, and then with a heavily revised track order.

It is easy to see why Columbia balked. There isn't anything even remotley close to the agitated new-wave raves of "Rat Trap" or the in-your-face confrontational power of "I Don't Like Mondays." The album even has Geldolf indulging in Cabaret influenced jazz singing on the Heroin Addict's lament "A Little Death." "House On Fire" and "Skin On Skin" are dub-mad dance records. The version of "Up All Night" on this CD was re-recorded in a more poppy arrangement for the American version of "Mondo Bongo." The tone of "V Deep" is consistently pessimistic, hardly the Rat Party of "A Tonic For The Troops" or "The Fine Art Of Surfacing."

Overall, this was The Rats trying their darndest to break with expectations but not really succeeding. Only the bitter-sweet "Never In A Million Years" (which Tony Visconti Bowie-fied the heck out of) makes the connection to Rats of old, both as a challenge and a great pop song. The brutal "Skin On Skin" is a close second, with its sexually charged lyrics, followed by "He Watches It All." The weirdest moment? "Talking In Code," which sounds like ersatz Depeche Mode.

Probably the lesser of the Boomtown Rat's six albums, "V Deep" is still an interesting document of The Rats' (and Geldolf's) musical evolution. They followed this with the vastly superior "In The Long Grass" swan song before finally calling it a day, but it was obvious that - on "V Deep" - the band was losing steam and becoming disillusioned to the point of their music suffering for it.

The Bitter End.......2006-08-16

In it defense it was slightly ahead of it's time. Produced by Tony Visconti & Godley & Creme who would not much later employ the same production values with New Romantics such as Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran, Ultravox and make it work, V Deep is one of those albums that has grown better with age. As a departure for The Rats I thought and still do that this album has stood the test of time in similar ways The Stranglers La Folie and Billy Idols Whiplash Smile branched them out and beyond the flag of convenience of the UK New Wave / Punk thing. For some it worked, Idol, The Police, Depeche Mode ( listen to the Vince Clarke inspired " Talking in Code " ) for mostly the others it did not. This is a good collection and The Bitter End, Little Death, Charmed Lives are truly the last good songs Gob penned before he embarked on annoying the hell out of the rest of us but mostly himself.

This CD Is A Classic.......2005-06-14

You may be disappointed if you are looking for the hard rock of their early albums, but anyone with an open mind will treasure this album. Great songwriting from beginning to end. "He Watches It All", "A Storm Breaks", and all the great singles make this a must have. The only weak link is "Talking In Code", which is easily skipped.

Worst Rats album by a landslide.......2005-04-23

I can not recommend this CD in any way, shape, or form. The Rats started to lose steam with "Mondo Bongo", but "V Deep" saw the Rat machine come to a grinding halt. Good God what an awful record! Gerry Cott saw the ship sinking and jumped off just in time. The horns killed the Rats!!!!!!
The one star is for the one good song on this CD "Never in a million years".

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