- new wave, rock
- 53 min
- 15 tracks
- Island
The Fine Art of Surfacing is the third studio album by the Irish rock band the Boomtown Rats, released on 5 October 1979. The album peaked at No. 7 on the UK Albums Chart in 1979.
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Spare, classical in form, grave and character-led.
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
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Tracks
- 1Someone’s Looking at You4:24
- 2Diamond Smiles3:47
- 3Wind Chill Factor (Minus Zero)4:38
- 4Having My Picture Taken3:19
- 5Sleep (Fingers’ Lullaby)4:15
- 6I Don’t Like Mondays4:19
- 7Nothing Happened Today3:19
- 8Keep It Up3:39
- 9Nice ’n’ Neat2:50
- 10When the Night Comes4:45
- 11Episode #31:10
- 12Real Different3:14
- 13How Do You Do?2:40
- 14Late Last Night2:43
- 15Nothing Happened Today (live in Cardiff)3:43
15 tracks, 53 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- The Boomtown Rats
- Label
- Island
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Digital Media
- Country
- XW
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