The Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays (Official Video)

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  • Official video for 'The Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays'. Bob Geldof's new album 'How To Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell' is available here: zaphod.uk.vvhp.net/v-v/1102211...
    #TheBoomtownRats #IDontLikeMondays #Vevo
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  • @melanieshaw1707
    @melanieshaw1707 Před 3 měsíci +548

    Who's listening to this in 2024 xxx

  • @thechildhoodruiner15
    @thechildhoodruiner15 Před 3 lety +2604

    The Pumped Up Kicks of its time.

  • @injanhoi1
    @injanhoi1 Před 3 měsíci +32

    I've always thought of this as a good song, now after all these years, I'm 54 now, I think it's a great song!

  • @HarrySwanson-ni9uu
    @HarrySwanson-ni9uu Před 4 měsíci +40

    What a song with such an interesting backstory I absolutely love the lyrics

  • @rougeakane
    @rougeakane Před 4 lety +2262

    CZcams recommended this to me on a Monday. Well played, algorithm. Well played...

    • @SpadaFer
      @SpadaFer Před 4 lety +8

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @najae084_
      @najae084_ Před 4 lety +34

      Recommend this to me because I watched Brenda Ann Spencer school shootout in early 1970's and she doesn't like monday.

    • @janekerrigan3605
      @janekerrigan3605 Před 4 lety +14

      @@najae084_ yes sir Bob wrote this song shortly after the shooting when she was asked why she did it she answered I don't like Mondays

    • @spidey1753
      @spidey1753 Před 3 lety +9

      Very rarely do I actually laugh out load like I just did! Well done comment, well done!

    • @giganick
      @giganick Před 3 lety

      @@SpadaFer
      N

  • @matthewtones118
    @matthewtones118 Před 7 lety +2709

    sad story behind this song

    • @jackhanlon133
      @jackhanlon133 Před 7 lety +275

      Matthew Tones Yes a girl shot up the school including the principle, a couple teachers and some classmates just because she doesn't like Mondays, very sad that innocent people died because of this messed up girl.

    • @Lspacehopper
      @Lspacehopper Před 7 lety +159

      Julie Barnes It wasn't commemorating it. It was something unheard of at the time and now a regular thing in The US.
      Bob Geldof said the girl wrote to him and said she didn't regret what she did and thanked him for making her famous. Bob finds it hard to live with that.

    • @sodaking6858
      @sodaking6858 Před 7 lety +42

      Laura Jayne Paterson yea she loved the song and I'm sure if she could she would listen to it on a 24 hour loop he just wanted to point out the the problems modern life and social problems are leading to last I heard in 2005 she was denied parole and if she is still alive she would be 53

    • @sodaking6858
      @sodaking6858 Před 7 lety +38

      Lord Bjørn --__-- what ever

    • @northerngamingdk3878
      @northerngamingdk3878 Před 7 lety +33

      Teachers?? She killed the principle and the janitor, and wounedd 8 students? No teachers, as what I read

  • @jackspry9736
    @jackspry9736 Před rokem +76

    RIP Garry Roberts (June 16, 1950 - November 9, 2022), age 72
    You will be remembered as a legend.

  • @Naturelover2
    @Naturelover2 Před 2 lety +115

    Lyrics
    The silicon chip inside her head
    Gets switched to overload
    And nobody's gonna go to school today
    She's gonna make them stay at home
    And daddy doesn't understand it
    He always said she was good as gold
    And he can see no reasons
    'Cause there are no reasons
    What reason do you need to be shown?
    I don't like Mondays
    (Tell me why)
    I don't like Mondays
    (Tell me why)
    I don't like Mondays
    I wanna shoot the whole day down
    The Telex machine is kept so clean
    And it types to a waiting world
    Her 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 reasons do you need, oh oh oh oh?
    I don't like Mondays
    (Tell me why)
    I don't like Mondays
    (Tell me why)
    I don't like Mondays
    I wanna shoot the whole day down
    Down, down, shoot it all down
    And all the playing's stopped in the playground now
    She wants to play with the toys a while
    And school's out early and soon we be learning
    And the lesson today is how to die
    And then the bullhorn crackles and the captain tackles
    With the problems and the hows and whys
    And he can see no reasons
    'Cause there are no reasons
    What reason do you need to die, die, oh oh oh?
    The silicon chip inside her head
    Gets switched to overload
    And nobody's gonna go to school today
    She's gonna make them stay at home
    And daddy doesn't understand it
    He always said she was good as gold
    And he can see no reasons
    'Cause there are no reasons
    What reason do you need to be shown?
    I don't like Mondays
    (Tell me why)
    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
    I don't like
    (Tell me why)
    I don't like Mondays
    (Tell me why)
    I don't like Mondays
    I wanna shoot the whole day down
    Source: Musixmatch
    Songwriters: Geldof Bob / Geldof Robert / Geldof Robert Frederick Zenon
    I Don't Like Mondays lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Ltd.

    • @vinnyvincent2862
      @vinnyvincent2862 Před rokem +2

      Nature lover ! Many Thanks ! 👍

    • @SAHB
      @SAHB Před rokem +1

      Really I don't like Mondays still Because we have to go back to work and we will have to continue THAT

    • @lotuselise4432
      @lotuselise4432 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Musk is doing it now.

    • @lotuselise4432
      @lotuselise4432 Před 3 měsíci

      @@SAHB - Everyday dislike a Sunday for me, Morrissey.

    • @blinkenschnaag777
      @blinkenschnaag777 Před měsícem

      ​@@SAHBWhat's a Monday? Is that some kind of strange creature?

  • @thomasturner6980
    @thomasturner6980 Před 5 lety +2323

    This is the 1970s version of Pumped Up Kicks

    • @dr.emmettbrown5345
      @dr.emmettbrown5345 Před 5 lety +29

      I guess i belong to the 70s since i cant stand pumped up kicks

    • @nuclearuranium235
      @nuclearuranium235 Před 5 lety +90

      Thomas Turner No. Pumped up kicks is 21st century’s version of I don’t like Mondays.

    • @tedmccarron
      @tedmccarron Před 5 lety +31

      This song was based on a 1979 school shooting.

    • @madamebkrt
      @madamebkrt Před 5 lety +13

      *1980's
      Sorry...

    • @Bruce-1956
      @Bruce-1956 Před 5 lety +18

      Thomas Turner, You mean Pumped Up Kicks (whoever they may be) are the later version of I don't Like Mondays.

  • @noodlesthe1st
    @noodlesthe1st Před 8 lety +262

    37 years and nothing has changed.

    • @garyproffitt669
      @garyproffitt669 Před 7 lety +3

      Well done Sir Bob Geldof from the son of a guy that did the art work to sell band aids platinum records for charity back then. And well done for sticking it to the rich at that corporate bash today I'm proud of ya man.

    • @frostyguy1989
      @frostyguy1989 Před 5 lety +10

      Aw, that's not true. It's gotten worse!

    • @ivyhockley5256
      @ivyhockley5256 Před 3 lety +4

      Ha even worse now

    • @lucahuman8827
      @lucahuman8827 Před 3 lety +2

      42 gotten worse

    • @Boilingfrogg
      @Boilingfrogg Před 3 lety +1

      Go Brexit. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

  • @nataliejones5081
    @nataliejones5081 Před 2 měsíci +46

    Still gives me chills 44 years later

  • @rubberkas2
    @rubberkas2 Před 2 lety +75

    An absolutely brilliant classic masterpiece about a terribly sad event !!!

    • @Ashery193
      @Ashery193 Před 2 lety

      Facts:This song is actually a true story 👌m.czcams.com/video/vG2atI0oVe0/video.html

    • @dansexton676
      @dansexton676 Před 2 lety +2

      Lol

  • @dmnspdn-lz9rg
    @dmnspdn-lz9rg Před 5 lety +363

    Great song.
    Beautiful singer.
    Sublime voice.
    Sad story.

  • @Bustygirl-dz1wi
    @Bustygirl-dz1wi Před 3 lety +831

    42 years later this song is still haunting

    • @leswe2517
      @leswe2517 Před 3 lety +37

      Mondays are still the same as 42 years ago ;)

    • @JAG8691
      @JAG8691 Před 3 lety +11

      @Richie Collins Governments are the biggest Mass Murderers in history we need to divest ourselves from Big unaccountable Governments if we want to survive as a Species.

    • @MultiChrisjb
      @MultiChrisjb Před 2 lety +5

      or something that happens pretty regularly...

    • @Sammie551
      @Sammie551 Před 2 lety +6

      @@MultiChrisjb Yeah right now in Texas, he didn't like Mondays that high school dropout

    • @jensofdenmark
      @jensofdenmark Před 2 lety +1

      You're getting old, gall ;)

  • @Intelligenzbestie
    @Intelligenzbestie Před 2 lety +5

    German teen magazine BRAVO commented in 1979: This song expresses exactly what many of us feel (spricht vielen von uns aus der Seele)..

  • @raymondfunnel6856
    @raymondfunnel6856 Před 11 měsíci +7

    This song had a story to it and is very haunting

  • @Ursulauu
    @Ursulauu Před 3 lety +42

    Wow - that piano introduction by Johnnie Fingers deserves a 'like' of its own. 1979 was a great year for the Rats & for music.

  • @nikolajankovic4381
    @nikolajankovic4381 Před 4 lety +49

    "May we meet again" 🕊
    - Jasper

  • @javiervaldes5112
    @javiervaldes5112 Před rokem +9

    Hello, the guy with the keyboards, every time I listen to him, he surprises me more, because he is capable of making music with his feet. Wonderful! Peace and love for everyone.

  • @skuhan
    @skuhan Před 6 měsíci +8

    I grew up in Asia where i still reside and i just used to listen to this song as it appeared on radio and the most catchy part was the piano. Never knew the history behind the song that time. Just thought it was unique.😊

  • @leemsvg
    @leemsvg Před 4 lety +1469

    When I was little, I used to think this song was about Garfield...
    *Yeah.*

    • @leemsvg
      @leemsvg Před 4 lety +25

      @Gabriel Chaves "I don't like Mondays"

    • @jankriz5544
      @jankriz5544 Před 3 lety +54

      When i was little, i thought this song is about hating mondays

    • @judithaefi1979
      @judithaefi1979 Před 3 lety +13

      my first thought as well...now all we need is a hit song about lasagna..😊😊

    • @FinkerMcBinker
      @FinkerMcBinker Před 3 lety

      @Gabriel Chaves you should be

    • @fd7045
      @fd7045 Před 3 lety +19

      No about a Girl that shoot her School because she hates Mondays.

  • @granfury1238
    @granfury1238 Před 4 lety +1314

    Well, despite the story behind this song it is still a masterpiece which I could listen to all day

    • @damienfaulkner7938
      @damienfaulkner7938 Před 2 lety +73

      I don’t understand why you say despite the social commentary only adds to its brilliance

    • @Ashery193
      @Ashery193 Před 2 lety

      Facts:This song is actually a true story 👌m.czcams.com/video/vG2atI0oVe0/video.html

    • @somebody1828
      @somebody1828 Před 2 lety +48

      It's the story that makes it a masterpiece. It's just that the sheep society doesn't get it. They can't unite their positive feelings with their negative rational thoughts.

    • @tsukishiro70
      @tsukishiro70 Před 2 lety +18

      No shit - I sang this as my party piece when out on Hallowe'en one year, doing what the Yanks call "Trick or Treating". Went down well. Lots of sweeties were acquired.

    • @mtjoy747
      @mtjoy747 Před 2 lety +20

      The best songs talk about the most difficult subjects, eloquently

  • @tinietiptoes7682
    @tinietiptoes7682 Před rokem +5

    Johnny Fingers is absolutely sublime.

  • @Ethan243
    @Ethan243 Před rokem +8

    Since the Nashville shooting I can't get this song out of my head lol

  • @cynderfan2233
    @cynderfan2233 Před 9 lety +73

    Interesting fact.
    This song was inspired by a mass shooting in a school. When the girl responsible was caught, her excuse was "I don't like mondays."

    • @98ewano
      @98ewano Před 9 lety +3

      My dad told me about this today

    • @cynderfan2233
      @cynderfan2233 Před 9 lety

      kangarabbit "This song was inspired by"...

    • @dmbrkmn
      @dmbrkmn Před 9 lety +1

      it was banned in america

    • @JimmyneutronwasokayIguess
      @JimmyneutronwasokayIguess Před 9 lety +11

      Adam Brookman Of course it was. The US blame tragedies on rock stars all the time, because they are desperate for an answer of why this happened. The reason it keeps happening so consistently actually might have something to do with how wrong that approach is. No one gives a shit anymore what the real reason is and what we can learn from it to improve the human race, what they really care about is a target to blame so everyone can feel like they've found something and pat themselves on the back for "making the world better" even if they just sat on their arse to do so. The comfort of having an answer and something to blame is more important to them than searching long and hard over many years for what the real reason might be, the reason which will start an attempt to fix all of this suffering. "They see no reason 'cause there are no reasons, what reasons do you need to be shown". I think the entertainment industry would have been shocked by this and it's why the song is a work of genius.

    • @nideklena
      @nideklena Před 9 lety +3

      Brenda Spencer

  • @padpaddeno9402
    @padpaddeno9402 Před 3 lety +23

    I was in Ireland summer 79,this song was everywhere, even singing it in church, lol, 😁🇬🇧

    • @davidodonoghue1092
      @davidodonoghue1092 Před 4 měsíci

      Be careful. That is the UK flag... A whole other country... Just saying ;)

    • @kagenlim5271
      @kagenlim5271 Před 3 měsíci

      ​@@davidodonoghue1092more of the fact that this is a song about a mass shooting

    • @summerrr1
      @summerrr1 Před 3 měsíci

      @@davidodonoghue1092 Ireland is an island that is part British. He said he was in Ireland, not in the Republic. And you should know with a name like that.

  • @BruceLee-zd9bw
    @BruceLee-zd9bw Před rokem +142

    This song was so unique back in the day, and it’s still as unique in 2023.
    That iconic piano opening, to the epic piano closing.
    What a masterpiece.
    Total respect to the band that have stood the test of time.
    I salute you.
    ✊🙏👏👏👏👏👏

  • @RK-zo9vs
    @RK-zo9vs Před rokem +16

    This has always been a favourite one of mine because I've never liked Mondays. Unfortunately I found out it is not just a song about people not liking Mondays because they had to be back at work.

  • @zaqareemalcolm
    @zaqareemalcolm Před 3 lety +411

    Father - I Don't Like Mondays
    Son - Psycho Killer
    Holy Spirit - Pumped Up Kicks

    • @freddyagain3843
      @freddyagain3843 Před 3 lety +3

      December 18th 2020: Thanks God It's Friday ( John Denver)
      Weekend: Saturday Night (Herman Brood & His Wild Romance)

    • @l0k0lightning51
      @l0k0lightning51 Před 3 lety +8

      Hey, I have a question for you; What's the background story behind Psycho Killer? Is it based on a school shooting like what Brenda Spencer did or Columbine? If there is, please tell me about it

    • @zaqareemalcolm
      @zaqareemalcolm Před 3 lety +6

      @@l0k0lightning51 From what I can find, the song itself is just about a blank serial killer with no specific real life basis, although the idea of making a serial killer song was inspired by the character Norman Bates from Psycho. (who in turn was inspired by the real killer Ed Gein)

    • @l0k0lightning51
      @l0k0lightning51 Před 3 lety +1

      @@zaqareemalcolm Cheers for that

    • @ivyhockley5256
      @ivyhockley5256 Před 3 lety

      Idhbtfm choke XD

  • @muradtalukdar4401
    @muradtalukdar4401 Před 5 lety +995

    It looks like it was partly shot in Father Ted's living room.

    • @bigc7326
      @bigc7326 Před 5 lety +9

      Hahaha, it so does, hahaha

    • @vashvaama8822
      @vashvaama8822 Před 5 lety +1

      Murad Talukdar do you live In Kolkata

    • @ScabbyCrab
      @ScabbyCrab Před 5 lety +14

      Yeah and I think it's father jack singing.

    • @skipraida5497
      @skipraida5497 Před 4 lety +7

      More tea father...

    • @Robin814
      @Robin814 Před 4 lety +2

      Wow! It’s uncanny.

  • @fiatkallesdotter
    @fiatkallesdotter Před rokem +89

    Tragic and scary! Today, Monday Mars 27 2023 history repeats itself and make this song exactly as relevant again.. 44 years later... Im crying 😢

    • @user-if1bp5cz8y
      @user-if1bp5cz8y Před 2 měsíci +2

      О чем речь?

    • @notkimpine
      @notkimpine Před měsícem +1

      same. 6 months later i'm still don't know what is this about

    • @fiatkallesdotter
      @fiatkallesdotter Před měsícem +3

      @@notkimpine How you mean, same? If you dont know whats the song is about I mean.. 🤔 You really dont know the story? Anyways, its about a tragic and troubled teen who took a gun and killed and injured teachers and kids at a school across the street of her home. Lots of police of course but there were also reporters from radio and they asked her why she did it.. Her answer was 'I dont like Mondays'
      Bob Geldoff (the singer of the band) heard the story live and he felt he just had to write a song about it ❤️

    • @fiatkallesdotter
      @fiatkallesdotter Před měsícem +1

      @@notkimpine her name is Brenda Spencer.. Her story is all over Internet

    • @S_J_banana
      @S_J_banana Před měsícem

      Shootings happen everyday so what

  • @comicbookguygamecat
    @comicbookguygamecat Před rokem +19

    This song is a masterpiece.

  • @MedusaLegend
    @MedusaLegend Před 4 lety +1151

    A team of girls sang this song at the talent show of our school. The students found it catchy either because they didn’t get the lyrics or because they didn’t know the story behind it. (I must precise we are in Belgium were we don't have the US ubran legends). But for the parents and judges, it was pretty awkward... I mean, singing this in the middle of a school...

    • @reklessheart
      @reklessheart Před 3 lety +22

      WHAT???

    • @MedusaLegend
      @MedusaLegend Před 3 lety +35

      @@reklessheart the more I think of it, the more I think that the guys who wants to be trolls at school should sing that.

    • @fionamanson7682
      @fionamanson7682 Před 3 lety +10

      I bought this when I was 5, it resonated with me.

    • @MedusaLegend
      @MedusaLegend Před 3 lety +20

      the girls actually got a blame for the troll., but they are still the stars of the school, because now everyone knows what was hidden behind the lyrics.

    • @thatcool-guyplays7831
      @thatcool-guyplays7831 Před 2 lety +1

      @@MedusaLegend omg what

  • @abbi3021
    @abbi3021 Před 3 lety +356

    My favourite song of all time, I listen to it multiple times every day and it never fails to give me goosebumps. Such a powerful song, will forever love it.

    • @viciouscircle7802
      @viciouscircle7802 Před 3 lety +8

      @@rocketscience4516 Probably better a psychologist cos psychiatrists just dole out the pills that help make some shooters tbf

    • @susannebuchholz785
      @susannebuchholz785 Před 2 lety +5

      Me,too! This song is timeless!✌🏻

    • @melianhoover1910
      @melianhoover1910 Před 2 lety +9

      Are you serious? Multiple times?

    • @ktcooki276
      @ktcooki276 Před 2 lety +1

      😆

    • @gand5231
      @gand5231 Před rokem +4

      I play in shower before work and think, I don’t like Mondays

  • @TrueNeutralEvGenius
    @TrueNeutralEvGenius Před 2 lety +153

    Boomtown Rats are phenomenal. Bob Geldof has one of the most sublime and truthful songwritings along with Mike Scott, Pete Townseheld and Bob Dylan. Absolutely brilliant. I was so glad this song exists, it was expressing my feelings so well, which I had in the 90s. And quit nothing changed, since human nature don't change even in thousands of years.

    • @isabellapompignoli3784
      @isabellapompignoli3784 Před rokem +1

      Avevo 11 anni quando l ascoltai x la prima volta in Olanda e non era x loro così sconcertante !!!

  • @1993Bexy
    @1993Bexy Před 2 měsíci +4

    Can’t wait to see them live at Rewind Scotland 2024 at Scone Palace Xxx

  • @bigdmac33
    @bigdmac33 Před 5 lety +502

    Few songs in pop culture capture the mind of the school shooter as this one. Think of the senseless horrors that have been inflicted upon so many children since the Boomtown Rats first sang this. Those days seem almost innocent now.

    • @LaWendeltreppe
      @LaWendeltreppe Před 5 lety +16

      you're right. One cannot listen to this now, without thinking ahead to all the terrible shootings in schools. when it came out, my English wasn't good enough, so I always thought it was a song about not wanting to go to school on Mondays.

    • @jacobcrabbe9011
      @jacobcrabbe9011 Před 4 lety +2

      @Ana Martins isnt she free now or still locked up

    • @jacobcrabbe9011
      @jacobcrabbe9011 Před 4 lety +2

      @Ana Martins aww okay i swear i seen something about her getting released she must be trying to get out or something

    • @markpurdie7608
      @markpurdie7608 Před 4 lety +1

      Spot on👍

    • @MrJonno85
      @MrJonno85 Před 4 lety +4

      Number 1 in UK forty years ago this month.
      The song itself is quite gentle and you wouldn't know what it was about without some background info - I certainly didn't at the age of nine.

  • @smoky3302
    @smoky3302 Před 4 lety +1019

    If her father bought her radio as she wanted for Xmas inestad of gun this song will never be written.

    • @kylie9687
      @kylie9687 Před 4 lety +14

      shreyansh patel pro and con
      Pro to what happened because we have this song
      Con because the ordeal happened at all

    • @judy2381
      @judy2381 Před 4 lety +54

      Kylie 96 how could you consider this a pro? it’s basically as though saying I’m happy this happened because we received a good song from it.🙄

    • @shaunmowe8843
      @shaunmowe8843 Před 4 lety +12

      judy abdelrahman cause it’s a tune

    • @alalbiston694
      @alalbiston694 Před 3 lety +7

      hold my flux capacitor

    • @spiderj379
      @spiderj379 Před 3 lety +7

      its a good song

  • @justinmatias6411
    @justinmatias6411 Před 7 měsíci +18

    One of the best songs of the 70s. Thank you, TBR.

  • @user-em2tv3se5e
    @user-em2tv3se5e Před 9 měsíci +2

    First heard this whilst sitting on a riverbank on the Blackwater River (Eire) fishing - after graduating as a teacher.
    Still love the track, and have requested it for my funeral - which will be held on a Monday - many years from now - i hope!!!

  • @MEZNAY
    @MEZNAY Před 8 lety +1543

    the story behind this song makes it so depressing

    • @ronb8450
      @ronb8450 Před 8 lety +35

      People.... Everyone forget what this song really says.... And yes you are right it odd. and nowadays so wrong. In fact I recently (last month) fb posted about this song but no one got what I was saying, 'he made money from a tragedy' but hey just my opinion

    • @GermanLeftist
      @GermanLeftist Před 8 lety +112

      +arron bond Yes, he made money from a tragedy, but so did all musicians writting about 9/11. Was that wrong as well? Artists write about things and stories that affect him and this shooting clearly did affect Bob Geldorf.

    • @user-go4fb7se8i
      @user-go4fb7se8i Před 8 lety +83

      I actually like the twisted black humor of this song. If it wasn't for this song no one would've know the tragic story behind it, USA need to improve their way to deal with and identify mentally ill people...Both the dad and the daughter were not sane.

    • @sodaking6858
      @sodaking6858 Před 7 lety +4

      אנונימית אנונימי I would like you to know a fact about america the year is the mid seventies the year abortion was legalised in america now from that. time 70s -2013 over 550k people died in america from guns I know that's serious problem John Lennon is one of them anyway now the people killed by abortion from the 70s -2013 was over 60million people in america under 40 years 60million dead I'm not saying all of these shouldn't have happened but Jesus Christ if that's not a genocide I don't know what one is I call abortion the hidden genocide

    • @revol148
      @revol148 Před 7 lety +36

      there are over 7 billion people on this planet ANYTHING which keeps the numbers down has to be a good thing

  • @waynemcdonnell910
    @waynemcdonnell910 Před 4 lety +74

    This song plays in my head every Sunday night

  • @SayatGroum
    @SayatGroum Před rokem +14

    our teacher puts this on every monday morning and we sing along

    • @QuinnPrivat
      @QuinnPrivat Před 2 měsíci

      A bit macabre when you remember that this song is about a shooting

  • @TheLolli84
    @TheLolli84 Před 11 dny +1

    Listening on sunday night before fall asleep

  • @vickytate7132
    @vickytate7132 Před 7 lety +248

    This song still gives me chills after 37 years and I was only 5 when it was number 1 in the charts in 1979

    • @georgiehenderson8750
      @georgiehenderson8750 Před 5 lety +8

      What????? 37 years!!! No way, this can't 😲be true. I was 6 years old.....when it came out, now if I do the math today, it has been 39 years....where did all those years go.... I start to sound like my grandma. I love that song and still hate Mondays. Have a great week, Vicky!

    • @rjjcms1
      @rjjcms1 Před 5 lety +4

      It went to number 1 in July that year,at the start of the school summer holidays,and stayed there for 4 weeks. I was 14 at the time,and though I had a great summer holiday overall,it started not so well with our school having a general crackdown on our unruly behaviour,in which a number of boys and one or two girls were expelled following a rather anarchic year. Some of the stunts we pulled were funny,one or two might not be believed by everybody on an internet comments section,but we drove several staff members nuts to the point of trying to scale down their having to supervise us :-o
      Needless to say details of our shenangians reached our homes in time for the summer holidays,and comeuppances were dished out according to the mores and attitudes of that past era. My parents much preferred to speak and reason with me and treat me more like an adult than discipline me,which I appreciated. But my part in the misbehaviour we were all involved in,a mixed school report and more deeds I was guilty of following my return home,particularly some involving the misuse of foodstuffs taken from the kitchen cupboards,combined to try their patience to the limit. So I got the riot act read to me by both of them individually,and received a punishment for once,the most of which was to do with parts of the hallways and stairs in our house,which were bare floorboards because although we'd been living there for more than 4 years no-one had got round to putting carpets or lino on them (!),(for a time there were some missing boards on the ground floor leaving gaps and holes into which the cats loved disappearing to explore on the off chance of finding any mice or something). I had a habit of cheerfully spilling drinks and cups of sugary tea on some of those floorboards in the hallways and on the stairs and then not bothering to ever clean it up. So I was down on my bare knees in one of the pairs of dinky 70s/80s shorts I used to wear most of the time in the summer months,with a bucket of soapy water and a scrubbing brush cleaning them :-( That was all done before too long,though,and mild compared to what befell one or two of my less fortunate friends. And I was still free to go out and stay out until dusk to,whether on my roller skates,playing tennis,swimming or to the cinema matinee/afternoon screening with my sister or whatever else I was doing,plus the usual plenty of family evenings out and day trips for a variety of things,visits to other relatives and away on holiday together for a couple of weeks later that summer.

    • @Electronicmadness123
      @Electronicmadness123 Před 7 měsíci +1

      :"c

    • @DonDonLiom
      @DonDonLiom Před 5 měsíci +1

      Why does everyone say it’s haunting what’s the story behind it if any could inform me thank you

  • @declankessler8815
    @declankessler8815 Před 5 lety +18

    this song is such a classic

  • @vjwoollett361
    @vjwoollett361 Před rokem +18

    This song was me. As a kid & and teenager, I was bullied to the degree I had thoughts of this. Hated Mondays because I meant I had to go to school.

    • @MCoTEDDY
      @MCoTEDDY Před rokem

      Then they should've put you in the psych ward you're a danger for society

  • @ruthmpalanga1247
    @ruthmpalanga1247 Před 11 měsíci +3

    It's 2023 and I still play this song on Mondays😭😭😭

  • @vickytate7132
    @vickytate7132 Před 6 lety +281

    such a classic still gives me goosebumps after 38 years

  • @JaquieDanielsMusic
    @JaquieDanielsMusic Před 3 lety +59

    Right from the moment I first heard this song I loved it - the arrangement and the topical story it tells made it stand out.

  • @paulinvagny6848
    @paulinvagny6848 Před 3 měsíci +5

    my favorite moment of the clip is here at 0:58 the schoolchildren who ask him the question and him insisting on his answer little by little, making an increasingly angry face while remaining calm all the same

  • @shane2236
    @shane2236 Před rokem +42

    What great memories in the 80s... gone but never forgotten!!!

  • @Rob-ox6sv
    @Rob-ox6sv Před 8 lety +96

    sad story to the song r.i.p. those who died that day

    • @probrogaming4113
      @probrogaming4113 Před 4 lety +1

      Poker Face so one like two people, people should talk more about the poor kids and the teacher who died in the dunblane shooting

    • @xenon53827
      @xenon53827 Před 2 lety +1

      @@probrogaming4113 Dunblane? that was the last in the UK. The government banned handguns after that and it has never been repeated here. Maybe the US should do the same.

    • @probrogaming4113
      @probrogaming4113 Před 2 lety +1

      @@xenon53827 ye exactly

  • @verena9911
    @verena9911 Před 4 lety +29

    Can we talk about how beautiful Bob was

    • @helveeta
      @helveeta Před 4 lety +3

      I never thought he was that hot when I was younger but I can appreciate him now. Daaaaayum!

    • @ILK97
      @ILK97 Před 2 lety

      there is an actor i can't name right noe but he looks like Bob back in thr days.

  • @cybork12
    @cybork12 Před 4 měsíci +5

    Winter has come, every day is like Monday

  • @estherthian-3802
    @estherthian-3802 Před rokem +6

    A true classic, ❤😮, takes you straight back to those boring Mondays and keeps you smiling as you look ahead waiting to die..........

  • @colinmiles27
    @colinmiles27 Před 4 lety +46

    UK #1 single exactly 40 years ago and still as relevant as ever.

    • @cockoffgewgle4993
      @cockoffgewgle4993 Před rokem

      How is it relevant? It's about an event which happened 40 years ago.

    • @colinmiles27
      @colinmiles27 Před rokem

      @@cockoffgewgle4993 Yes - a shooting in a school - which in the US continues to happen on a fairly regular basis even 44 years later.

    • @e.j9932
      @e.j9932 Před rokem

      ​​@@cockoffgewgle4993 because of similar events that are happening in the u.s

    • @kagenlim5271
      @kagenlim5271 Před 3 měsíci

      ​@@e.j9932iirc mass shootings have been on the uptick overall across the world, like even germany had a mass shooting

  • @kenofuro4123
    @kenofuro4123 Před 4 lety +130

    My dad’s sports teacher’s name was ‘Monday’, so he and his class used to sing this song whenever they had sports.

  • @pdmfuture53
    @pdmfuture53 Před 7 měsíci +2

    Listening to this Makes Mondays feel good

  • @davidbateman-fe8vu
    @davidbateman-fe8vu Před 14 dny +2

    Brilliant song brilliant video...brilliant memory....The only thing that spoils it is BG's personality...Nauseating guy...

  • @Tboi2206
    @Tboi2206 Před 10 lety +72

    RIP Peaches.

    • @begoodjohnny1866
      @begoodjohnny1866 Před 7 lety +5

      Tobi Areje Peaches come from a can. They were put the by a man. In a factory downtown.

    • @suilvenmountain2395
      @suilvenmountain2395 Před 7 lety +2

      she had a shit father

    • @sodaking6858
      @sodaking6858 Před 7 lety +1

      Suilven Mountain hey hey hey she could have had worse like Michael Jackson or if jimmy savile had any kids or bill Cosby

    • @smallworldslife4470
      @smallworldslife4470 Před 7 lety

      no she never rofl?

  • @indisugartaufik
    @indisugartaufik Před 10 lety +15

    i remember watched this video on MTV classic as a kid. RIP MTV.

    • @jps-NL
      @jps-NL Před 10 lety +3

      i remember the time that '' Music TeleVision'' really was about music!

    • @Boilingfrogg
      @Boilingfrogg Před 3 lety

      Empty V

  • @matthewbailes4388
    @matthewbailes4388 Před rokem +1

    Just show in the darkness a classic can be born

  • @GoodMrDawes
    @GoodMrDawes Před měsícem +1

    When you compose a modern classic like this, just sit back, nothing left to prove musically. Clever Cats

  • @nikkical1222
    @nikkical1222 Před 6 lety +67

    I love how old artists are always so good at acting in their music videos, like the music and videos actually meant something to them and came from their own unique take on the world! 👌

    • @TheMarcusrobbins
      @TheMarcusrobbins Před rokem +5

      Yeah, watch his face. It's stunning what he manages to say in the spaces between the words.

    • @emilal
      @emilal Před 7 měsíci +1

      They still do. It’s funny, because I actually thought Bob’s lip syncing was pretty overdone and bad here when compared to the stuff you see today.

    • @nikkical1222
      @nikkical1222 Před 7 měsíci

      It's not about the lip syncing guys! 🤣

  • @backinashT64
    @backinashT64 Před 7 lety +469

    i don't like monday, Ruby tuesday, Wednesday Morning, Thursday's Child,, the saturday night fever, bloody sunday, but it's friday, i'm in love !

    • @taras6806
      @taras6806 Před 6 lety +46

      Finally an intelligent comment to Cure us all.

    • @annied1827
      @annied1827 Před 5 lety +3

      It was no ones fault buts hers there are plenty of kids who have a crap upbringing yet they don't round shooting people basically she was bored and as she said to the reporter who called during the shooting to find out what was happening and asked if she knew about the crazy shooter she said i am the shooter he asked why she was doing it she said because i don't like mondays and it's fun i was bored she described with joy of the suffering of the people she shot saying it was great target practice and was laughing then said I have to go as I've got more kids to shoot !! So no it's her fault and only her fault no one made her do it she knew right from wrong she purposefully got the car keys from her dad pretending to need something she left in it and took his ammunition this was a planned senseless cold blooded slaughter of which she had no regret or remorse other than she was stopped she given 20 to life in prison sentence and should never get out as i believe she will do it again as she it a typical sociopath who gets please from others pain and suffering

    • @pablomiguez2733
      @pablomiguez2733 Před 5 lety +1

      @@michaelm2889 but it's a worse song.

    • @Patricia2010Stream
      @Patricia2010Stream Před 5 lety

      Jajajaja

    • @LegoDonut18
      @LegoDonut18 Před 5 lety +4

      But Saturday night is alright for fighting

  • @MandyBirch-wz1sy
    @MandyBirch-wz1sy Před rokem +1

    Miss those days epic 2023 living it up 👆 blessings xxx

  • @marklynn5899
    @marklynn5899 Před 2 lety +5

    Listening to this whenever having pleasant Monday

  • @Cheeseanonioncrisps
    @Cheeseanonioncrisps Před 9 lety +577

    God! This was my favourite song all through Primary school- the one I'd sing at talent shows and stuff. I can even remember telling my friends that it was a song about 'a girl who went to school and shot all the teachers!"
    No wonder my teachers always looked a bit jittery come Monday morning...

    • @hiendlxxl
      @hiendlxxl Před 8 lety +7

      +Cheeseanonioncrisps so were u good at the talent shows xD ?

    • @DOSRetroGamer
      @DOSRetroGamer Před 8 lety +24

      wow, I never imagined this cute little song had such a dark background. I should start listening to lyrics a little closer :-)

    • @andymcghee5121
      @andymcghee5121 Před 8 lety +15

      +DOSRetroGamer I think the song was boycotted in certain parts of the US for being distasteful. No 1 over here though (Brenda Spencer - the 16 year old shootist Geldof wrote the song about - is still in prison at the age of 52).

    • @Shrekfromthehitmovieshrek
      @Shrekfromthehitmovieshrek Před 6 lety +1

      Cheeseanonioncrisps haha

    • @Shrekfromthehitmovieshrek
      @Shrekfromthehitmovieshrek Před 6 lety

      Cheeseanonioncrisps haha

  • @trave6298
    @trave6298 Před rokem +1

    2023 still iconic!

  • @InnocentAbyssinianCat-eb7ge
    @InnocentAbyssinianCat-eb7ge Před 2 měsíci

    Played at least three times a week on Australian TV on 1979

  • @steffanhoffmann1906
    @steffanhoffmann1906 Před 4 lety +17

    Imo for it's content and the psychological evaluation?
    This is the greatest song ever written

  • @DreamBelief
    @DreamBelief Před 3 lety +6

    I first heard this as a kid on the 2005 Live Aid DVD my father had. I've loved it ever since. I have autism, and sometimes it feels like that

  • @shayneomahoney902
    @shayneomahoney902 Před 5 měsíci +4

    Love this song😊

  • @ishikasingh1895
    @ishikasingh1895 Před 5 lety +5

    Today is 2nd July and last month on 3rd of June i lost my dad. It was a Monday. He was 57 and bedridden since January. Everytime i hear this song i feel this strong connection to it with the huge pain in my heart

    • @nazneensaleem7723
      @nazneensaleem7723 Před 3 lety

      Sorry for your lost may God continue to give you hope and braveness so you can fight more pain than anyone else!

  • @Hatiecomments
    @Hatiecomments Před 10 lety +10

    Now more than ever :(

  • @50Neelix
    @50Neelix Před 2 lety +2

    My catchy tune when I went to work as an apprentice in 1980.

  • @mbradfield53
    @mbradfield53 Před rokem +2

    R.I.P Garry. Thanks for the memories

  • @brigidcraig4280
    @brigidcraig4280 Před 5 lety +18

    I can't stop playing this tune, Sir Bob is such a legend.

    • @katoness
      @katoness Před 8 měsíci

      Sir?? You would think an Irishman would have more cop on!!

  • @the-nomad
    @the-nomad Před 3 lety +12

    Damn, takes me back... I remember listening to this for the first time, my mate Vince brought it over to play...gave me shivers down my spine, then was told what the song was about!

  • @giovanniaria7584
    @giovanniaria7584 Před 9 měsíci +2

    People were different ! People were better people

  • @dj_grim
    @dj_grim Před 4 měsíci +6

    It was 45 years ago today. And the USA have still not learnt.

  • @nikoskabbadias
    @nikoskabbadias Před 8 lety +14

    I m a bartender and I LOVE Mondays

  • @aminahaggan6298
    @aminahaggan6298 Před 7 lety +6

    I have loved this song for years. And just watched Lisbugs video and found the meaning behind behind this song.

  • @tymonszt7772
    @tymonszt7772 Před rokem +12

    piekna muzyka łącze sie ze wszystkimi w bólu

  • @townsville1724
    @townsville1724 Před 2 lety +61

    42 years later and this song still has relevancy, sadly. Great tune, lyrics capture the senselessness that is still occurring... 'silicon chip gets switched to overload'... more relevant now than when it was written!

    • @kurtpunchesthings2411
      @kurtpunchesthings2411 Před rokem

      as things stand Brenda Spencer is set to Shatter Records for longest prison sentence for a Female she's not even in her 60s and has been detained for 43 years now

    • @shethingsd
      @shethingsd Před rokem +2

      Definitely. TikTok and Instagram... I have no idea what is going on with youth these days. Those were not even imagined in the day of this song. It was unfortunately predictive of the youth and it's not getting better.

  • @suzannepitchford4558
    @suzannepitchford4558 Před 4 lety +35

    One of the best songs of its time.

  • @user-mk6hy8ob3d
    @user-mk6hy8ob3d Před rokem +1

    I like music in ’79

  • @tracysweeney5404
    @tracysweeney5404 Před 2 lety +5

    Wow.. 40 yrs ago.. And still eerie but brilliant 🤘

    • @fordy2604
      @fordy2604 Před 2 lety

      43 years ago bro 1979

    • @ozzie2612
      @ozzie2612 Před rokem

      @@fordy2604 44 and still in prison not liking mondays

  • @raymondbegley9431
    @raymondbegley9431 Před 4 lety +14

    old schools days we thought life was all bad ,,,,,,best days and we did not know it

  • @hoddsy1
    @hoddsy1 Před 4 lety +14

    Dam that takes me back to my childhood late 70s Middlesbrough UK

  • @ianbell7342
    @ianbell7342 Před 2 měsíci +1

    one of their best ones x well done bob❤❤❤

  • @ryanhenderson1
    @ryanhenderson1 Před rokem +1

    so much truth for the days

  • @EARGASmickTRON
    @EARGASmickTRON Před 3 lety +99

    The 100 . Jasper singing this song in the shower and asks if Monty wants a hug. LMAO 😂

  • @elli875
    @elli875 Před 9 lety +8

    this is such a genius song
    one of my very favourites

  • @debbielangton8371
    @debbielangton8371 Před měsícem +1

    This is actually a true story😢❤

  • @nanaOmg11
    @nanaOmg11 Před 2 lety +9

    Come here after the school shot in texas, RIP to all the victim 🙏

    • @onlinefriend3889
      @onlinefriend3889 Před rokem +1

      43 years later and we still didn't learn... what a sad world we live in 😢

  • @derrotepaul3485
    @derrotepaul3485 Před 4 lety +10

    I saw Bob in the live concert, ist was terrific. What an Icon !🎸⚡️🇬🇧🇩🇪

  • @evonnecarson1854
    @evonnecarson1854 Před 5 lety +266

    Even though there is a sad story to this song I personally have my own reasons why I love this song as this was the first record my dad bought me. Let’s face it. We all hate Monday’s lol x

    • @JaseekaRawr
      @JaseekaRawr Před 5 lety +49

      Well... It's good he bought you a record rather than a rifle, lmao.

    • @evonnecarson1854
      @evonnecarson1854 Před 5 lety +7

      Jaseeka Rawr 😁 hell yeh I would be dangerous with a rifle 😂

    • @Isa-cr7fd
      @Isa-cr7fd Před 5 lety +1

      it’s a PHAT MOOD there’s times I wish the school would burn down but that doesn’t mean if watch it burn down down down

    • @stepheng5727
      @stepheng5727 Před 4 lety +3

      I love Monday

    • @notsureiL
      @notsureiL Před 4 lety +3

      Don't count me in ;) I hate Sundays Mondays are 😎 like a fresh start.

  • @AlanSimms-yo4hg
    @AlanSimms-yo4hg Před 8 měsíci +1

    Old people love this song ❤