It is a bit over the top at times, though – the strings and piano make it feel like a showtune – and Geldof does ham it up, especially when we get to the actual shooting: The lesson today is HOW TO DIE!! (OK, Bob. Again it’s a ‘new wave’ band putting the old guard to shame with their inventiveness. This is a great song, a brilliantly confident number one by a band flitting between genres, drunk on musical possibilities. When asked why she did it she replied: ‘I just don’t like Mondays…’ Think of that next time you whistle this in your driveway… The song is based on true events from January 1979, when a sixteen-year-old girl opened fire on an elementary school playground in San Diego, killing two people and injuring eight children. And yet, I wasn’t exaggerating in my introduction. Tell me why… I don’t like Monday’s! It’s a chorus that’s entered popular culture, one that you mighty mutter to yourself at the start of the week as you close the front door. Nobody’s going to go to school today, She’s gonna make them stay at home… Bob Geldof doesn’t just look like a young Mick Jagger, he also sounds like an Irish version of the Stones’ frontman here… The silicon chip inside her head, Gets switched to overload… A young girl – perhaps it’s Judy from ‘Rat Trap’? – has had enough. Not only is there a memorable intro the opening lyrics are also very ear-catching. They then gather speed, twined with ominous strings, and it all sounds like the start of a Jim Steinman rock opera, while sounding nothing like Boomtown Rats’ first chart-topper, ‘Rat Trap’. It’s a dramatic intro: all piano cascades and flourishes, but twisted and taunting compared to, say, ‘I Will Survive’s famous flutter. I Don’t Like Mondays, by The Boomtown Rats (their 2 nd and final #1)Ĥ weeks, from 22 nd July – 19 th August 1979
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