- new wave, rock
- 30 min
- 10 tracks
- Mercury Records
A Tonic for the Troops is the second album by Irish rock band the Boomtown Rats, released in June 1978.
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Classical in form, spare, grave and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
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Tracks
- A1Like Clockwork3:44
- A2Blind Date3:22
- A3(I Never Loved) Eva Braun4:38
- A4Living in a Island4:10
- A5Don’t Believe What You Read3:08
- B1She’s So Modern2:58
- B2Me and Howard Hughes3:11
- B3Can’t Stop
- B4(Watch Out for) The Normal People
- B5Rat Trap5:11
10 tracks, 30 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- The Boomtown Rats
- Label
- Mercury Records
- Released
- 1978
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 12" Vinyl
- Country
- NL
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