Sun Spin: Boomtown Rats

MORE TO BOB GELDOF THAN CHRISTMAS AND LIVE AID Some records stand on the cusp of things, prescient artifacts hovering betwixt "now" and "then." What was lingers in the fading background and what will be isn't quite fully formed, but there's churning energy in such sonic collisions, as exemplified by this week's pick. The Boomtown Rats were a divisive gaggle of snot nosed Irish punks when they emerged in the mid-70s but they caught a fine future current with 1979's The Fine Art of Surfacin...

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