http://www.irishrock.org/ipnw/bands/boomtownrats.html
I just read about a demo tape from the Rats pre-record contract. Interesting that the only songs to ever make it to record were Neon Heart and Born to Burn. Menage A Trois did get an airing on BBC Radio 1 back in 1979, but there are few unknown Rats songs. It is also possible that these tracks changed names and are familiar. However, I don't have any idea on that.
I guess no one has this. Do they? You know it's Christmas soon? Should you have it or a copy, let me know. But don't expect me to pay for it, I've given out plenty of rare MP3s/videos so I'm due some payback!
You can get a flavour of the tape from the originals. Use Spotify to construct a playlist, unless you happen to have all the tracks. I bought Burnin' by the Wailers yesterday, so bar a couple of tracks I have most of them somewhere.
There are 22 tracks on the tape with seven Rats originals. Dave Moloney (of Vipers fame) plays drums on the first 10 tracks, Simon Crowe on the rest.
In general, I have gone for the version The Rats are most likely to have copied rather than the true original.
| Side One | |
| Rolling Stones (Original Chuck Berry) | Little Queenie |
| Little Walter | My Babe |
| Boomtown Rats | Gettin' Back To Me |
| Wailers | Get Up Stand Up |
| Boomtown Rats | New Wave (New Age) |
| Boomtown Rats | Neon Heart |
| Chuck Berry | Promised Land |
| Ronnie Wood | I Can Feel The Fire |
| Rolling Stones (Original Nat King Cole) | Route 66 |
| Boomtown Rats | Born To Burn |
| Boomtown Rats | Jesse James |
| Side Two | |
| Eddie Cochran (Original Clyde McPhatter song) | Money Honey |
| Dr. Feelgood | All Through The City |
| Rolling Stones (Original Chuck Berry) | Carol |
| The Who | My Generation |
| Dr. Feelgood | Riot In Cell Block #9 |
| Little Walter | My Babe |
| Dr. Feelgood (Original John Lee Hooker) | Boom Boom |
| Dr. Feelgood | Don't You Just Know It |
| Boomtown Rats | Getting Back To Me |
| Boomtown Rats | Menage A Trois |
| Rolling Stones (Original Chuck Berry) | Little Queenie |
