Mondo Bongo

Mondo Bongo was The Boomtown Rats' fourth album. It peaked at No. 6 in the UK Albums Chart in February 1981, and No. 116 in the US Billboard 200.

It included the hit singles: "Banana Republic", which had reached No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart in November 1980 and "The Elephants Graveyard (Guilty)" which made No. 26 in January 1981.

Reception

The album received mixed reviews in the press, with American critics being generally more positive than their British counterparts. New Musical Express put down the record as "hollow pop, quaking under a plethora of poorly integrated rip-offs", while Sounds called it "self-indulgent" and lacking in depth or emotion.Rolling Stone, however, praised it as "an intoxicating mixture of pop and punk", and Trouser Press called it "an enormously enjoyable LP, with hardly a dry patch on it".

Track listing

All songs were written by Bob Geldof, except where noted.

Mondo Bongo (disambiguation)

Mondo Bongo is the name of

Los Mondo Bongo is the name of a band formed by Mike Peters (The Alarm), Derek Forbes (Simple Minds), Steve Harris (Gary Numan), Steve Barnard (The Mescaleros) and Pablo Cook (The Mescaleros).