The lead singer is Bob Geldof who received a "KBE" (Knight of the British Empire) from Queen Elizabeth II; though he's Irish and not a citizen of the Commonwealth, Geldof is often referred to as "Sir Bob Geldof." He was a political activist who organized Live Aid to help combat poverty in Africa and later on helped organizations combating AIDS. He co-wrote the song "Do They Know It's Christmas?" which has a stellar list of international musicians and singers. This video "I Don't Like Mondays" was highly played on MTV--it was of my favorite videos back then when MTV was in its infancy and aired nothing but music videos. Sadly, we're still vexed by school shootings.
What's terribly sad is that it's not nearly as shocking or appalling these days. I remember this and how absolutely horrified and in disbelief every one was.
@@JudyGurl So, so true! The Columbine Massacre affected so many people at the time but nowadays school shootings have pretty much become the norm. It's just sickening!
@@JudyGurl In fairness, it was shocking because it was a female shooter. The real horrifying thing is that even back then, we honestly couldn't care less what the boys did.
No, its not. But Mondays are the day we are thrown back into the mix of the real world. At least Tues. thru Fri. we already have the day before to look back on. Monday, we have had two days of relative peace. Then Monday comes along and we have to be thrown back into non-stop hell !
For those who don't know: On a Monday in 1979, 16-year-old Brenda Spencer pulled out a rifle that her father had given her for her birthday (Dad's probably still living with that), and shot up an elementary school playground, wounding seven children and killing the principal and the custodian. 36 rounds fired, 11 hits - the police were remarking on her accuracy. A local news outlet identified the house and got the phone number, and called. Brenda answered, and was asked, "Why." She answered: "I don't like Mondays." And that is what inspired this song.
Kenneth Tilton I read she said she thought he gave it to her for that reason. But I also heard that he married a girl he met at the juvenile center she was in. The girl looked just like Brenda and was younger so that speaks volumes about him
We could say that mental illness was at play in this instance. Or we could say that they were off thier rocker, certifiable. Either way its tragic that innocent people had to suffer.
I was in the UK when this song came out. Fell in love with it there. Summer memories. Then came back to the US and found out it was being banned in some communities...hit too close to home.
I jumped up onstage and did "the worm" dance with Boomtown Rats onstage at the Seattle Paramount in 1978 ! And if anyone has pictures of it I will pay HUGE $ for a pic ! Was hilarious.... Then I saw an open mic...grabbed it and yelled. "ROCK AND ROLL".... Bob got on his mic and said, "We don't need any local help"...... too funny.
She, like the overwhelming majority of the perpetrators of those types of crimes are very confused individuals. Sadly who weren't born in the right time, our society today produces these individuals.
The silicon chip inside her head Gets switched to overload And nobody's gonna go to school today She's going to make them stay at home And daddy doesn't understand it He always said she was as good as gold And he can see no reason 'Cause there are no reasons What reason do you need to be sure Oh, oh, oh tell me why I don't like Mondays Tell me why I don't like Mondays Tell me why I don't like Mondays I want to shoot The whole day down The Telex machine is kept so clean As it types to a waiting world And mother feels so shocked Father's world is rocked And their thoughts turn to their own little girl Sweet sixteen ain't that peachy keen Now, it ain't so neat to admit defeat They can see no reasons 'Cause there are no reasons What reason do you need oh, woah Tell me why I don't like Mondays Tell me why I don't like Mondays Tell me why I don't like Mondays I want to shoot The whole day down Down, down Shoot it all down All the playing's stopped in the playground now She wants to play with her toys a while And school's out early and soon we'll be learning And the lesson today is how to die And then the bullhorn crackles And the captain tackles With the problems and the how's and why's And he can see no reasons 'Cause there are no reasons What reason do you need to die, die Oh, oh, oh and the silicon chip inside her head Gets switched to overload And nobody's gonna go to school today She's going to make them stay at home And daddy doesn't understand it He always said she was as good as gold And he can see no reason 'Cause there are no reasons What reason do you need to be sure Tell me why I don't like Mondays Tell me why I don't like Mondays Tell me why I don't like, I don't like, I don't like Mondays Tell me why I don't like, I don't like, (tell me why) I don't like Mondays Tell me why I don't like Mondays I want to shoot, the whole day down, uh, uh, uh
in the 80's, the John Debella show on WMMR in Philadelphia used to wake me up every Monday morning at 6 am when I was in high school with this song. Every time I hear it I am worried that I am running late for some reason.
I grew up in pihilly in late 70s and remember this on the morning zoo also.just loved the song. While it’s about something dark it reminds me of my youth and I smile
The Boomtown Rats were making vids before MTV. They used to show them on late night tv on Friday and Saturday night here in the states back in the late '70's when I was in high school. that's how I got into them. I think Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe put out a few also.
+rjplamf61 bands were making videos long before that. I fell in lust with Cat Stevens in 1970 while watching the short film he made for Father and Son. They just weren't called videos back then! (And they were making them long before that, too!)
Look how far we have come. I was talking to a girl in high school in 1980 about the song "Another One Bites The Dust" . I asked her if she had seen the video and she said, "What's a video?". ( I had seen it on the syndicated show "Casey Kasem's Top Ten")
Brenda Ann Spencer, Grover Cleveland Elementary, San Diego, California, 29 January, 1979. Bang, bang, bang. A few bangs killed 2 adults and injured 8 children and a police officer. "Brenda Ann... why did you do this," they asked her. "i don't like Mondays. This livens up the day." Back then a school shooting seemed rare, as I remember. Long before Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook, I can't remember half of them.
+George Tennessee Wiseman and the politicians did NOT start screaming about gun control as soon as the smoke cleared. It's only been since Columbine that this has been a goal of the leftists in this nation. I was a kid when the 1979 shooting occurred, I remember seeing it on the evening news. There have been similar incidents through the 80's.......but they never got much press. I remember one where a guy walked into a McDonalds and killed 20 people. I don't recall gun control being brought up en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Ysidro_McDonald%27s_massacre. Then there was the shooting at Luby's Restaurant in 91', I was in high school at that point. All of them perpetrated by mentally ill people, pointing early on to the deplorable mental healthcare system we have in this country.
+George Tennessee Wiseman dont you remember they tried to say she was on PCP and and shot from her bedroom window and hit and killed with such few shots and there is NO Way you can hit targets that far on PCP
+StormLaker1975 1979 was before we reached the tipping point of an ocean of guns and crazy people in the country. At that point, gun control was an overreaction. Now, it is an absolute necessity. We scream and scream when 5 people are killed by terrorists, and when 30 people die per day due to gun violence, we say there's nothing we can or should do about it except put more guns in the hands of scared, angry people. The rise in rampant mass shootings hasn't coincided with a rampant push for gun control--Democrats essentially dropped this issue 20 years ago, except for a couple of weak outbursts about it on occasion. It has coincided with the explosion of gun ownership.
We don't need gun control you knucklhead....we need people to parent their kids, and return to state institutions for mental health care- lock up the crazies.....problem solved. People like you will be victims one day of government over reach...don't expect people like me to protect you.
StormLaker1975 We do need people to parent their kids. And we do need to give more funding to mental health care institutions (I'm not sure you should be pointing at the Left here). And if we should be locking up crazy people, surely you agree that we shouldn't be allowing crazy people to so easily get weaponry. Again, you should ask the NRA why they fight so hard for crazy people and criminals to get guns. If you want to claim that it is their Second Amendment right to do so (which is quite debatable itself, since random citizens are not a "well regulated militia"), then you CAN'T simply lock them up. But ok. We do need these things. And we need gun control as well, because we see in every other Western country that it saves more lives than it costs. It is far more likely that I will be a literal victim of gun violence one day than that I will be a metaphorical "victim" of a government agent telling me that I need to have a more effective lock on my gun safe, or that I can only have 10 bullets in a magazine, or that my bullets have to have a unique stamp on them to identify which gun they came from. Right now, I am a "victim" of having to stop my car for a red traffic light, and having to pay a bit extra so that my meat doesn't have bacteria in it. Ooh, I feel like such a victim of government overreach. The government has to "reach" on this issue well before it "overreaches."
Dr. House also played the beginning piano part of it on the great TV show "House MD." Dave Mathews was a guest star, and he played it also. House was the best show ever.
You know what sucks? People remember Brenda Spencers name, but not the names of her victims. Just like everyone knows James Holmes and Jared Laughner, but not the people they killed. Principle Burton Wragg Custodian Mike Suchar who died trying to save school children from being shot RIP
I heard a few piano bars of this song on the TV show "House" and I was , "Oh, yeah! Boomtown Rats." Dug out the old cassette tape (I still have mine from high school in the 80s. Big deal, wanna fight about?!).🤪🤪😜
Lmao I remember this song when I was in my beginning years of band when I was in 4th grade, my band teacher told me about this song because me and my other friend were talking about how we hate Mondays, and after he told us about the song he told us the meaning
Its based on a real life school shooting where the 16 year old said she shoot up the school because " I don't like Mondays " it's supposed to creep you out
Most people don't know that this girl was doing drugs and drinking for seven days in a row when this happened. Also, she told her father that she was suicidal and her father gave her a rifle for her 16th birthday. What father gives a rifle to their daughter when they say they are suicidal? This video makes me cry so much. Never should have happened.....so many tears.
According to Bob Geldof, he wrote the sing after reading a telex report at the Georgia State University's campus radio station, WRAS, on the shooting spree of 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer, who fired at children in a school playground at the Glover Elementary School in San Diego, California, US on January 29, 1979, killing two adults, injuring eight children and one police officer. Spencer showed no remorse for her crime and her full explanation for her actions was "I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day". Geldof had been contacted by Steve Jobs to play a gig for Apple, inspiring 'Silicon chip'. The song was first performed less than a month later.
Anyone here notice how much this guy looks like Jerry Seinfeld? Well, if Jerry had been locked-up in a basement and not fed for like a month.........anyhow.....notice the similarities?
This is a song about an actual incident that happened in 1979. When the police asked the 16 year old girl that did the crime why she did it her only response at the time was, "I don't like Mondays". From what I have read and understand she is still in jail to this day.
The spoiled crazy child is really referring to the US being the UK's spoiled deranged child you bone head.....lol. You don't see Canada, Australia, India.... going around killing and bombing millions under the most crazy excuses. It was very relevant with Colon Powell and his dust powder at the UN....lmao! And obviously, it reflects in your schools and domestic culture. Learn by example.
***** So it's some other country that is always at the UN with xenophobic smear campaigns to start another war? And the US and it's lap dogs only follow resolutions in the US's favour. If not, they are ignored.
What always strikes me about this song is the lyric, "You can see no reason, 'cause there are no reasons, what reasons do you need to be told?". It echoes back to my childhood. When I was a kid, I once asked why people hurt each other. "Because they're sick in the head". I often think now that the world would benefit more from this perspective than our current perspective. It doesn't matter why someone would shoot up their school. There are no reasons. They're just sick in the head. They should've been isolated from society to prevent them from hurting society. That's what psychiatric wards used to be for.
my parents knew her brother. they owned a doughnut factory and bakery when I was a kid and he was one of their customers. he was a nice person, I was often in our family business when he came in. after his sister did this monstrous thing, some thugs car jacked him, beat him nearly to death and left him in a ditch to die. he survived. she left her family as well as her victims and their families to live with this tragic event. to live with that name was impossible. I won't give his first name but often wonder what happened to him every time I hear this song
Just one of those rare musical masterpiecies..had the same affect on me 44 yrs ago at 19!..it's inspiration was so so sad..but the intence poetic mind of Sir Bob Geldorf writing I feel just tried to infuse utter compasdion to the story of this young 16 year old confused girl.. & moreso further compassion to the poor victims of a young mind in overload..Lord be with them All & Sir Bob..who has given so so much to humanity..& endured too much personal trajety..In respect to All.John.Ireland.
Forgot about this song from my early teen years. Just bingeing Handmaides Tale Season 3 Episode 1 started off with this song & a house fire.. Creepily eerie with a fire going thru the house. Another Oldie but Great brought back to relevancy!
The more frequently I watch this, the more I'm amazed the skill the director displayed in conveying such strong emotions from a very simple-yet-effective set-up. And the piano player really shows some acting chops! I'm just amazed at what the video accomplishes in just a few seconds shy of four minutes.
I had forgotten about this song for quite a while. Last night I watched a documentary on the real event that it was written about. The song is about a 16 year old girl who had planned to shoot people for fun. She lived across the street from an elementary school & had been planning it for a while & had told her best (male) friend. She started shooting kids, but she didn't kill them. When the male principal came out to help the kids, she killed him. Then the male custodian came out to help the principal & she killed him. The theory was that she could have killed all the kids if she'd wanted to. She was an incredible shot. A reporter started calling the houses around the school to see if he could find out what was going on. The 1st call he made was to the shooters house. She told him she was the shooter & he kept her on the line as long as possible. When asked why, her explanation was that she didn't like Mondays. Then she told him she had to go kill some more people because he was keeping her from her fun! When police called her they asked what she wanted & she said a burger. They told her she could have 1 when she came out. After a long standoff, about the time that school would have been getting out, she just walked out in the yard, put her gun down & let the police arrest her. She's supposed to be in jail for life. According to the documentary (I don't remember what year it was made. It may be different now.) she was the only known juvenile school shooter in US history. What also made hers different was that she didn't go to the school & she didn't have any personal problem w/anyone there, so they categorized her differently from all the other school shootings where kids are getting back at other kids, etc. Nise
I used to get depressed every Sunday night around 6 PM melancholy, on the Railroad for 35 years from 1985-2020 retired young at 55, I made a playlist on Alexa called- I don’t mind Mondays now playlist, hehe I’m free baby
I used to get that same feeling on Sunday evening. 30 years in the same factory, almost gave me a heart attack. Till the day I walked out and never looked back. Now..... Mondays aren't all that bad.
I notice Bob sings in a little kids voice if you notice. I used to think it was just his accent. But later on I realized after the second verse you’ll start to notice it. He’s trying to rein-act how the girl might have talked or acted. “HOWTODIE” and other stuff he says comes off as kiddish. Great tune!
Guess I like lame then, because this song is one of my favorites. I sing it often these days perhaps as a reminder of things that have recently past.. but also a reminder of 30 years ago. The song itself is artful and clever in its lyrics and in its instrumentals which I might add have been used in many many things since.
I am not a huge fan of the Boomtown Rats or any of this type of music, but I am an artist, and I can understand mr. Geldof's inspiration for this song. This was a story. A story about a terrible tragedy, and an unforgettable line uttered by the shooter. I can guarantee you he was not attempting to capitalize on this horrible tragedy, he was simply inspired by events unfolding around him. It's very interesting that nobody ever accuses U2 of attempting to capitalize off the tragedy in Derry. People make art because something inspires them, not to make a fortune. But I guess there will always be Phillistines. Peace all.
U2 are an Irish band, so of course they would sing about things that personally effected them, such as the English gunning down 28 unarmed Irish civilians in Derry. "Mr. Geldof" is not an American citizen or a resident of the State of California or the city of San Diego, so people claiming he is capitalizing off of a tragedy may have merit to their allegation. He makes a song about an event he has no personal connection to, so of course people will make assumptions.
Yeah from what I know, he heard about it in the news and thought Brenda's response/rationale of "I don't like Mondays" was the dumbest thing ever...so this song was actually mocking/criticizing her. That was his intent. But somehow he got word from her while she was in jail that she was flattered he wrote a song about her and he was like "damn" lol because his intent wasn't to celebrate or honor her at all. So I think it was a misstep, in a way. He thought she was ridiculous and did a song about that, but as it turned out... he actually was giving her and her awful deed attention, which is never good
He wrote this song about a young girl that shot and killed the students and principal of her school l. When asked why she had done it her reply was I don't like Monday's. This happened in the late 70,s.
wow! Bob Geldof singing about Silicon Chips and making music videos in 1979! For context, the first Apple Lisa wouldn't be brought to market for another four years, in 1983. And MTV is still two years out. Really ahead of his time.
OMG!!!!! -thank you for posting this. This song kept me sane for 3long years at ( HORACE MANN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ). Worst three years of my life, still one of my alltime favorite songs ever!!!!! -god bless u!!!!!
I loved this song the first time I heard it. Before I knew it’s history. Now, having read it’s history, I still like it. I can relate to it in a figurative sense. Sucks that it’s origins had to be so literal. I just feel a little cognitive dissonance when I hear it now.
I think that discomfort may have been intentional. If I remember, he was being interviewed on a radio show when the news of the shooting came over the telex machine next to him. He was struck at how matter of fact the news was received and I believe this song was meant to have people feel something.
"This song came out before all of the school shootings that have gone down in the world within the last several years, a good song about a tragedy that happened,so sad. "-😥.
Not before all the school shootings. University of Texas at Austin in 1966 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_tower_shooting Shot 43 people in one incident.
Plain and simple a masterpiece and it used only a green screen so hardly no special effects so nowadays it got the message across for about.25 cents and way ahead of it’s time it should be re-released and just like it is. M.T
Yes it is a masterpiece and I never knew the back story to the song before I read it in comments. It looks like its shot on film as well 16MM would you say?.
I've always loved this song, but I only just learned what it was about. Absolutely chilling.
The lead singer is Bob Geldof who received a "KBE" (Knight of the British Empire) from Queen Elizabeth II; though he's Irish and not a citizen of the Commonwealth, Geldof is often referred to as "Sir Bob Geldof." He was a political activist who organized Live Aid to help combat poverty in Africa and later on helped organizations combating AIDS. He co-wrote the song "Do They Know It's Christmas?" which has a stellar list of international musicians and singers. This video "I Don't Like Mondays" was highly played on MTV--it was of my favorite videos back then when MTV was in its infancy and aired nothing but music videos. Sadly, we're still vexed by school shootings.
This song is still, if not more, relevant to this day.
more on rainy days and mondays
What's terribly sad is that it's not nearly as shocking or appalling these days. I remember this and how absolutely horrified and in disbelief every one was.
It’s Monday here in florida and it’s raining outside I can relate 😂😂😂
@@JudyGurl So, so true! The Columbine Massacre affected so many people at the time but nowadays school shootings have pretty much become the norm. It's just sickening!
@@JudyGurl In fairness, it was shocking because it was a female shooter. The real horrifying thing is that even back then, we honestly couldn't care less what the boys did.
the rest of the week is no picnic either
No, its not. But Mondays are the day we are thrown back into the mix of the real world. At least Tues. thru Fri. we already have the day before to look back on. Monday, we have had two days of relative peace. Then Monday comes along and we have to be thrown back into non-stop hell !
I don't know why, but this comment had me laughing my ass off. Thank u for that ^,^
I agree, this comment had me laughing hard too.....what day is a picnic anyhow? None, I suppose....
@@thaddeusdubois6209 Picnic Day.
THE WOLF....fabulous comment lol
Love the scene when they're on the couch and everytime the band says "tell me why" Bob gets knocked back a little.
For those who don't know: On a Monday in 1979, 16-year-old Brenda Spencer pulled out a rifle that her father had given her for her birthday (Dad's probably still living with that), and shot up an elementary school playground, wounding seven children and killing the principal and the custodian. 36 rounds fired, 11 hits - the police were remarking on her accuracy. A local news outlet identified the house and got the phone number, and called. Brenda answered, and was asked, "Why." She answered: "I don't like Mondays."
And that is what inspired this song.
I heard her father gave her the gun secretly hoping she would eventually use it on herself. Talk about a dysfunctional family.
Kenneth Tilton I read she said she thought he gave it to her for that reason.
But I also heard that he married a girl he met at the juvenile center she was in. The girl looked just like Brenda and was younger so that speaks volumes about him
We could say that mental illness was at play in this instance. Or we could say that they were off thier rocker, certifiable. Either way its tragic that innocent people had to suffer.
I was playing miniature golf at the course next to the elementary school when this happened.
She is basically Garfield.
I remember listening to this song as a kid...still gives me the chills as even then I knew what this song was about.
My Condolences to all the families who are affected..❤
I was in the UK when this song came out. Fell in love with it there. Summer memories. Then came back to the US and found out it was being banned in some communities...hit too close to home.
Gives me the chills every time I hear it because it's a masterpiece. It never gets old.
I don't know if its a masterpiece, but it does remind me of Peaches
Neither did her victims
@Cassandra Tried Bloody Americans love their pew pew guns shooting each other like they shot the red indians
@@andrewjackson7758 Yup, I'm American and I hate Americans.
@ghosttrain2066 Let me rephrase that, I have nothing but contempt for authoritarian, right wing, coward Americans. Other than that, I love America.
I jumped up onstage and did "the worm" dance with Boomtown Rats onstage at the Seattle Paramount in 1978 !
And if anyone has pictures of it I will pay HUGE $ for a pic !
Was hilarious....
Then I saw an open mic...grabbed it and yelled. "ROCK AND ROLL".... Bob got on his mic and said, "We don't need any local help"...... too funny.
The worm is the word!🤣😂🤣👍💯✌️
😂😂😂
That is extraordinary!
Ive got a pic
The female school shooter made me remember this song. So sad. We have to learn to solve our problems without choosing violence.
Importing Islam isn't helping with that.
She, like the overwhelming majority of the perpetrators of those types of crimes are very confused individuals. Sadly who weren't born in the right time, our society today produces these individuals.
Fantastic piano intro reverbed to the max, sounds very serious from the get go. A well deserved No1 for the rats back in 1978.
It was released July 19th, 1979 and was about Brenda Spencer who shot at a school on January 29th 1979.
Wish it was Sunday. That’s my fun day. I don’t have to run day. That’s why I don’t like Mondays 🎶😂
No Manic Mondays 🎉
Just another manic Monday, whoa oah
Haven’t heard this song in forever, but I started singing it out of random, and now I won’t ever forget it again, it’s possibly my favorite song
Despite the meaning behind the song… it’s a good song
same, wtf? could only remember like 3 words of a song that I couldn't remember who sang it, what song it was, just that it was operatic.
The silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload
And nobody's gonna go to school today
She's going to make them stay at home
And daddy doesn't understand it
He always said she was as good as gold
And he can see no reason
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be sure
Oh, oh, oh tell me why
I don't like Mondays
Tell me why
I don't like Mondays
Tell me why
I don't like Mondays
I want to shoot
The whole day down
The Telex machine is kept so clean
As it types to a waiting world
And mother feels so shocked
Father's world is rocked
And their thoughts turn to their own little girl
Sweet sixteen ain't that peachy keen
Now, it ain't so neat to admit defeat
They can see no reasons
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need oh, woah
Tell me why
I don't like Mondays
Tell me why
I don't like Mondays
Tell me why
I don't like Mondays
I want to shoot
The whole day down
Down, down
Shoot it all down
All the playing's stopped in the playground now
She wants to play with her toys a while
And school's out early and soon we'll be learning
And the lesson today is how to die
And then the bullhorn crackles
And the captain tackles
With the problems and the how's and why's
And he can see no reasons
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to die, die
Oh, oh, oh and the silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload
And nobody's gonna go to school today
She's going to make them stay at home
And daddy doesn't understand it
He always said she was as good as gold
And he can see no reason
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be sure
Tell me why
I don't like Mondays
Tell me why
I don't like Mondays
Tell me why
I don't like, I don't like, I don't like Mondays
Tell me why
I don't like, I don't like, (tell me why) I don't like Mondays
Tell me why
I don't like Mondays
I want to shoot, the whole day down, uh, uh, uh
in the 80's, the John Debella show on WMMR in Philadelphia used to wake me up every Monday morning at 6 am when I was in high school with this song. Every time I hear it I am worried that I am running late for some reason.
And now John Debella is retired and doesn't have to worry about Mondays lol
MMR in the morning and YSP I the afternoon!
you're free😂
I grew up in pihilly in late 70s and remember this on the morning zoo also.just loved the song. While it’s about something dark it reminds me of my youth and I smile
History repeats. Again.
Yup. The FBI dropped the ball again. The pattern is forming.
Yes fuck :(
Where has this been all my life?!!! I am in love with this song and the video is amazing. I am going to go cry now.. i want more!!
The Boomtown Rats were making vids before MTV. They used to show them on late night tv on Friday and Saturday night here in the states back in the late '70's when I was in high school. that's how I got into them. I think Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe put out a few also.
+rjplamf61 bands were making videos long before that. I fell in lust with Cat Stevens in 1970 while watching the short film he made for Father and Son. They just weren't called videos back then! (And they were making them long before that, too!)
Look how far we have come. I was talking to a girl in high school in 1980 about the song "Another One Bites The Dust" . I asked her if she had seen the video and she said, "What's a video?". ( I had seen it on the syndicated show "Casey Kasem's Top Ten")
So did The Beatles. On film, not video clip language but still way ahead of time.
They were called promos back then. Same thing, different name.
Even the Beatles made music videos...
Brenda Ann Spencer, Grover Cleveland Elementary, San Diego, California, 29 January, 1979. Bang, bang, bang. A few bangs killed 2 adults and injured 8 children and a police officer. "Brenda Ann... why did you do this," they asked her. "i don't like Mondays. This livens up the day." Back then a school shooting seemed rare, as I remember. Long before Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook, I can't remember half of them.
+George Tennessee Wiseman and the politicians did NOT start screaming about gun control as soon as the smoke cleared. It's only been since Columbine that this has been a goal of the leftists in this nation. I was a kid when the 1979 shooting occurred, I remember seeing it on the evening news. There have been similar incidents through the 80's.......but they never got much press. I remember one where a guy walked into a McDonalds and killed 20 people. I don't recall gun control being brought up en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Ysidro_McDonald%27s_massacre. Then there was the shooting at Luby's Restaurant in 91', I was in high school at that point. All of them perpetrated by mentally ill people, pointing early on to the deplorable mental healthcare system we have in this country.
+George Tennessee Wiseman dont you remember they tried to say she was on PCP and and shot from her bedroom window and hit and killed with such few shots and there is NO Way you can hit targets that far on PCP
+StormLaker1975 1979 was before we reached the tipping point of an ocean of guns and crazy people in the country. At that point, gun control was an overreaction. Now, it is an absolute necessity. We scream and scream when 5 people are killed by terrorists, and when 30 people die per day due to gun violence, we say there's nothing we can or should do about it except put more guns in the hands of scared, angry people. The rise in rampant mass shootings hasn't coincided with a rampant push for gun control--Democrats essentially dropped this issue 20 years ago, except for a couple of weak outbursts about it on occasion. It has coincided with the explosion of gun ownership.
We don't need gun control you knucklhead....we need people to parent their kids, and return to state institutions for mental health care- lock up the crazies.....problem solved. People like you will be victims one day of government over reach...don't expect people like me to protect you.
StormLaker1975
We do need people to parent their kids. And we do need to give more funding to mental health care institutions (I'm not sure you should be pointing at the Left here). And if we should be locking up crazy people, surely you agree that we shouldn't be allowing crazy people to so easily get weaponry. Again, you should ask the NRA why they fight so hard for crazy people and criminals to get guns. If you want to claim that it is their Second Amendment right to do so (which is quite debatable itself, since random citizens are not a "well regulated militia"), then you CAN'T simply lock them up. But ok. We do need these things. And we need gun control as well, because we see in every other Western country that it saves more lives than it costs. It is far more likely that I will be a literal victim of gun violence one day than that I will be a metaphorical "victim" of a government agent telling me that I need to have a more effective lock on my gun safe, or that I can only have 10 bullets in a magazine, or that my bullets have to have a unique stamp on them to identify which gun they came from. Right now, I am a "victim" of having to stop my car for a red traffic light, and having to pay a bit extra so that my meat doesn't have bacteria in it. Ooh, I feel like such a victim of government overreach. The government has to "reach" on this issue well before it "overreaches."
never seems to get old - this song :(
Have loved this song since it 's release. Excited to see it included in Season 3, episode 1 of "The Handmaid's Tale".
Dr. House also played the beginning piano part of it on the great TV show "House MD." Dave Mathews was a guest star, and he played it also. House was the best show ever.
You know what sucks? People remember Brenda Spencers name, but not the names of her victims. Just like everyone knows James Holmes and Jared Laughner, but not the people they killed.
Principle Burton Wragg
Custodian Mike Suchar
who died trying to save school children from being shot RIP
Omg ikr I agree
Because they don't get lots of media attetion and people don't give a fuck about them they just want someone to hate
I agree with Dudeman5685. We give those who have committed heinous crime too much notoriety and attention. The victims are seldom remembered.
MIvarsson99
Those victims, the principal and the janitor died trying to keep their kids safe. They are heroes as is the cop.
Why so vitriolic and angry?
I heard a few piano bars of this song on the TV show "House" and I was , "Oh, yeah! Boomtown Rats." Dug out the old cassette tape (I still have mine from high school in the 80s.
Big deal, wanna fight about?!).🤪🤪😜
love this one of their finest songs well done bob ❤
I was born on a week that this song was No.1 on the charts in Australia.
It just has to happen that I was born on a Monday!!!!
Lmao I remember this song when I was in my beginning years of band when I was in 4th grade, my band teacher told me about this song because me and my other friend were talking about how we hate Mondays, and after he told us about the song he told us the meaning
I have not seen this in decades - it is FABULOUS, Wow, I had forgotten ( no wonder Tori did it so well, wow)
Bob Geldof's voice is ® of Elvis Costello Enterprises.
But Bob Geldof is Pinky in the Wall
Absolutely could not make a song with lyrics like this today. The meaning behind it….
There was "Pumped-Up Kicks," which proves you can write songs about school shootings if it bops.
Musical Genius, Musical Masterpiece! :)
this song has a weird feel to it the voices the instruments idk maybe its just me but it gives me a weird feeling
It’s suppose too
@@kody6838 It's about a mass shooting. It's supposed to representing tainted, broken innocence.
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Its based on a real life school shooting where the 16 year old said she shoot up the school because " I don't like Mondays " it's supposed to creep you out
I came here because today in 2024 told me about this song...And I didn't believe her! So funny❤😂😂😂😂
Black mirror brought me here and I love this song to death.
the rest of the week is no picnic either
Gives me the chills every time I hear it because it's a masterpiece. It never gets old.
well said!
and don't forget.. Bob Geldof played Pink.. in Pink Floyd's The Wall.
That was him!?
the very saaaame! rad huh? :) he's a cool guy.
Except for the fact that he hates Pink Floyd (my 2nd favorite band of all freaking time) and was basically sweet talked into doing the movie.
Sweet talk...? It was £Pounds not Pound cake... ;P
HOLY CRAP!! I thought he looked familiar but thought it was just from all the Jerry Seinfeld references. Thanks for that
A dark song ever even 40 years ago, still happing in this day and age
This is so relevant nowadays it's spooky.
Boomtown Rats, my very first concert was seeing you live. I love this song.
Most people don't know that this girl was doing drugs and drinking for seven days in a row when this happened. Also, she told her father that she was suicidal and her father gave her a rifle for her 16th birthday. What father gives a rifle to their daughter when they say they are suicidal? This video makes me cry so much. Never should have happened.....so many tears.
One of the best songs ever.SIMPLE AS THAT!
The song I'll never forget until my very last breath on this beautiful cruel earth.
Guess the lady in Nashville didn't like 'em, either...
I don’t like any days
now my kids like the 80ies - it helps that the Boomtown Rats 'don't like Mondays' LOL
Jasper from "the 100" brought me here 😂😂😂😂😂
The story behind this song is tragic. Too bad America paid no attention then.
America was in and still is in a trance.
@@Bluenote.19 What country are you from?
By design
Parents.
@@JoM-f7q she lived with Dad,
According to Bob Geldof, he wrote the sing after reading a telex report at the Georgia State University's campus radio station, WRAS, on the shooting spree of 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer, who fired at children in a school playground at the Glover Elementary School in San Diego, California, US on January 29, 1979, killing two adults, injuring eight children and one police officer. Spencer showed no remorse for her crime and her full explanation for her actions was "I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day". Geldof had been contacted by Steve Jobs to play a gig for Apple, inspiring 'Silicon chip'. The song was first performed less than a month later.
Anyone here notice how much this guy looks like Jerry Seinfeld? Well, if Jerry had been locked-up in a basement and not fed for like a month.........anyhow.....notice the similarities?
Absolutely
Not at all... Jerry is a tool. Geldolf is God
This song is 44 years old. Let that sink in.
This is a song about an actual incident that happened in 1979. When the police asked the 16 year old girl that did the crime why she did it her only response at the time was, "I don't like Mondays". From what I have read and understand she is still in jail to this day.
As she should be
But, so should her father be.
It was a reporter who asked, not the police. Also, she's not in jail she's in prison.
This song has become eerily relevant today. RIP
The spoiled crazy child is really referring to the US being the UK's spoiled deranged child you bone head.....lol. You don't see Canada, Australia, India.... going around killing and bombing millions under the most crazy excuses. It was very relevant with Colon Powell and his dust powder at the UN....lmao! And obviously, it reflects in your schools and domestic culture. Learn by example.
Rabi Ben Lavi Tell us how you really feel Rabi. Its not obvious enough that you're a xenophobic asshat yet.
***** from the biggest xenophobic arseholes at the UN. What country isn't living up to America this week. Go back to your cia tor you sick pig.
Rabi Ben Lavi You realize the UN is more than america, right?
***** So it's some other country that is always at the UN with xenophobic smear campaigns to start another war? And the US and it's lap dogs only follow resolutions in the US's favour. If not, they are ignored.
What always strikes me about this song is the lyric, "You can see no reason, 'cause there are no reasons, what reasons do you need to be told?". It echoes back to my childhood. When I was a kid, I once asked why people hurt each other. "Because they're sick in the head". I often think now that the world would benefit more from this perspective than our current perspective.
It doesn't matter why someone would shoot up their school. There are no reasons. They're just sick in the head. They should've been isolated from society to prevent them from hurting society. That's what psychiatric wards used to be for.
Thank your local Leftist politician for blaming everyone but the insane shooters
@@docsavage8640Actually Americans can thank Reagan for closing down the asylums and the GOP for refusing to ever fund mental health care.
A School Shooting in Nashville TN today Monday, March 27th 2023. 44 Years later and we have done Nothing, NOTHING At All ....
The song is not about school shootings.
I bet u want g-u-n control! Cause criminals will turn thiers in if we make it a law.
@@joeblow2069oh sweetie, google Brenda Ann spencer
This shooter the song is about lived across from an elementary school and shot it up from her house. The principal and a custodian were killed.
my parents knew her brother. they owned a doughnut factory and bakery when I was a kid and he was one of their customers. he was a nice person, I was often in our family business when he came in. after his sister did this monstrous thing, some thugs car jacked him, beat him nearly to death and left him in a ditch to die. he survived. she left her family as well as her victims and their families to live with this tragic event. to live with that name was impossible. I won't give his first name but often wonder what happened to him every time I hear this song
I have heard this song for Years and years. This is the first time ever seeing the video. Haha WOW!
Ahh so that what real music sounds like
Just one of those rare musical masterpiecies..had the same affect on me 44 yrs ago at 19!..it's inspiration was so so sad..but the intence poetic mind of Sir Bob Geldorf writing I feel just tried to infuse utter compasdion to the story of this young 16 year old confused girl.. & moreso further compassion to the poor victims of a young mind in overload..Lord be with them All & Sir Bob..who has given so so much to humanity..& endured too much personal trajety..In respect to All.John.Ireland.
Well said thank you
Love the song but the song and video give me goosebumps 🥲
Forgot about this song from my early teen years.
Just bingeing Handmaides Tale Season 3 Episode 1 started off with this song & a house fire..
Creepily eerie with a fire going thru the house.
Another Oldie but Great brought back to relevancy!
good song...bad memories....Bob Geldof is an artist we can still appreciate
The more frequently I watch this, the more I'm amazed the skill the director displayed in conveying such strong emotions from a very simple-yet-effective set-up. And the piano player really shows some acting chops! I'm just amazed at what the video accomplishes in just a few seconds shy of four minutes.
I had forgotten about this song for quite a while. Last night I watched a documentary on the real event that it was written about. The song is about a 16 year old girl who had planned to shoot people for fun. She lived across the street from an elementary school & had been planning it for a while & had told her best (male) friend. She started shooting kids, but she didn't kill them. When the male principal came out to help the kids, she killed him. Then the male custodian came out to help the principal & she killed him. The theory was that she could have killed all the kids if she'd wanted to. She was an incredible shot. A reporter started calling the houses around the school to see if he could find out what was going on. The 1st call he made was to the shooters house. She told him she was the shooter & he kept her on the line as long as possible. When asked why, her explanation was that she didn't like Mondays. Then she told him she had to go kill some more people because he was keeping her from her fun! When police called her they asked what she wanted & she said a burger. They told her she could have 1 when she came out. After a long standoff, about the time that school would have been getting out, she just walked out in the yard, put her gun down & let the police arrest her. She's supposed to be in jail for life. According to the documentary (I don't remember what year it was made. It may be different now.) she was the only known juvenile school shooter in US history. What also made hers different was that she didn't go to the school & she didn't have any personal problem w/anyone there, so they categorized her differently from all the other school shootings where kids are getting back at other kids, etc. Nise
Happened in 1979
Did she get her burger? 🍔
I used to get depressed every Sunday night around 6 PM melancholy, on the Railroad for 35 years from 1985-2020 retired young at 55, I made a playlist on Alexa called- I don’t mind Mondays now playlist, hehe I’m free baby
Congratulations!! all the other Assholes should be telling you that but they’re all jealous of you
I used to get that same feeling on Sunday evening. 30 years in the same factory, almost gave me a heart attack.
Till the day I walked out and never looked back. Now..... Mondays aren't all that bad.
I call them Smonday.... When you spend most of Sunday loathing what's to come.
Free at last 😢
Had to find this song because of the My Favorite Murder podcast!!!!!!! Awesome :) Can you imagine if we all hated Mondays as much as Brenda did?!
I notice Bob sings in a little kids voice if you notice. I used to think it was just his accent. But later on I realized after the second verse you’ll start to notice it. He’s trying to rein-act how the girl might have talked or acted. “HOWTODIE” and other stuff he says comes off as kiddish. Great tune!
"The Telex machine is kept so clean.." I used a Telex machine. Man, I am getting old.
Clearly ahead of their time. Loved these guys, I even saw them in concert in Berkley back in the day.
Guess I like lame then, because this song is one of my favorites. I sing it often these days perhaps as a reminder of things that have recently past.. but also a reminder of 30 years ago. The song itself is artful and clever in its lyrics and in its instrumentals which I might add have been used in many many things since.
Mass shooting here in Nashville today (Monday March 27th 2023). The shooter was reportedly a teenage girl. I thought of this song immediately.
Not a teenage girl, but actually a 28-year old woman who police thought looked like a teenage girl.
My childhood brought me here.
1979 now 2023 on a monday
2024
I was 15 when this song came out, I had a huge crush on Bob.
this song is one of those "they don't write music like they used to" stories. It's a classic.
Well I would not say that. Pumped up kicks tells a similar story in the lyrics.
I had those same sunglasses in 1982!
Well, this became relevant again last week. Great song, though!
Yep
Damn. I felt like I listened to and watched a train wreck.
I am not a huge fan of the Boomtown Rats or any of this type of music, but I am an artist, and I can understand mr. Geldof's inspiration for this song. This was a story. A story about a terrible tragedy, and an unforgettable line uttered by the shooter. I can guarantee you he was not attempting to capitalize on this horrible tragedy, he was simply inspired by events unfolding around him. It's very interesting that nobody ever accuses U2 of attempting to capitalize off the tragedy in Derry. People make art because something inspires them, not to make a fortune. But I guess there will always be Phillistines. Peace all.
U2 are an Irish band, so of course they would sing about things that personally effected them, such as the English gunning down 28 unarmed Irish civilians in Derry. "Mr. Geldof" is not an American citizen or a resident of the State of California or the city of San Diego, so people claiming he is capitalizing off of a tragedy may have merit to their allegation. He makes a song about an event he has no personal connection to, so of course people will make assumptions.
well said
Yeah from what I know, he heard about it in the news and thought Brenda's response/rationale of "I don't like Mondays" was the dumbest thing ever...so this song was actually mocking/criticizing her. That was his intent. But somehow he got word from her while she was in jail that she was flattered he wrote a song about her and he was like "damn" lol because his intent wasn't to celebrate or honor her at all. So I think it was a misstep, in a way. He thought she was ridiculous and did a song about that, but as it turned out... he actually was giving her and her awful deed attention, which is never good
He wrote this song about a young girl that shot and killed the students and principal of her school l. When asked why she had done it her reply was I don't like Monday's.
This happened in the late 70,s.
Another Sad Monday this week.
wow! Bob Geldof singing about Silicon Chips and making music videos in 1979! For context, the first Apple Lisa wouldn't be brought to market for another four years, in 1983. And MTV is still two years out. Really ahead of his time.
A hard song to forget... I'll always remember The Boomtown Rats!!
OMG!!!!! -thank you for posting this. This song kept me sane for 3long years at ( HORACE MANN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ). Worst three years of my life, still one of my alltime favorite songs ever!!!!! -god bless u!!!!!
google brenda spencer gives the song a dark feeling to it
ikr when i found that out i couldnt listen to the song for ages afterwards so creepy and sad:(
Hello, this is one of a memories of my younger years, Z28's and the love of my life!
the killers are always mythologized and the victims always become unfortunate footnotes in history.
Garfield’s theme song
I found this because of "My favorite murder" podcast!
Heard this on Black Mirror, “Demon ‘79” episode.
Wow! Bob Geldof was once young and handsome - love the hair!
Being a kid in the 80s I think that this song above all others of the time captures that time and the new wave ethos for me. Simply brilliant.
I loved this song the first time I heard it. Before I knew it’s history. Now, having read it’s history, I still like it. I can relate to it in a figurative sense. Sucks that it’s origins had to be so literal. I just feel a little cognitive dissonance when I hear it now.
I think that discomfort may have been intentional. If I remember, he was being interviewed on a radio show when the news of the shooting came over the telex machine next to him. He was struck at how matter of fact the news was received and I believe this song was meant to have people feel something.
"This song came out before all
of the school shootings that have gone down
in the world within the last several years,
a good song about a tragedy that happened,so sad. "-😥.
Not before all the school shootings. University of Texas at Austin in 1966 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_tower_shooting Shot 43 people in one incident.
We All Know Why The Song Was Written. Y'all Can Stop With The Wikipedia Paragraphs In The Comments.. Damn..!!
Shocking that this still goes on, it's horrific
The Fine Art of Surfacing was a great album! Thanks for posting!
Every music video in the late 70's/early 80's had to involve an over exposed white room at some point.
The lead singer said in an interview that he did that to mock pop music videos. Similarly, the indoor scene was supposed to mock Coronation Street.
"you're not worth the salt in my tears" a guy playing guitar in a bright white room
the "lead singer" is bob geldof. has a bit of a name now.
Plain and simple a masterpiece and it used only a green screen so hardly no special effects so nowadays it got the message across for about.25 cents and way ahead of it’s time it should be re-released and just like it is. M.T
Yes it is a masterpiece and I never knew the back story to the song before I read it in comments. It looks like its shot on film as well 16MM would you say?.
The MOST generous man in the history of rock.
42 treatment centers later....damn did i have fun being a teenager in the 80s!!!
My small hometown radio station played it every Monday morning during the bus ride to school.