The Boomtown Rats: I don't like Mondays

The Boomtown Rats es una banda irlandesa de new wave que cosechó una serie de éxitos en Irlanda y en el Reino Unido. El grupo es liderado por el vocalista Bob Geldof. Los demás miembros de la formación original eran Garry Roberts (guitarra principal), Johnnie Fingers (teclado), Pete Briquette (bajo),Gerry Cott (guitarra) y Simon Crowe (batería). The Boomtown Rats se separaron en 1986, pero volvieron a reunirse en 2013, sin Johnnie Fingers ni Gerry Cott.

No me gustan los lunes, no es una canción inocente sobre la pereza de tener que iniciar la semana.

En 1979 editaron "I Don't Like Mondays", canción escrita en respuesta al tiroteo llevado a cabo por Brenda Ann Spencer en una escuela de California, y que llegó al puesto n.º 1 en Inglaterra. Fue un éxito a nivel mundial, excepto en Estados Unidos ya que en dicho país las emisoras de radio no ponían el disco supuestamente debido a los temores ante posibles demandas y acusaciones de mal gusto. El presunto boicot fue noticia de primera plana en la revista Variety, (a la que le gustaba crear falsas polémicas con fines de venta), y fue la única vez que  The Boomtown Rats obtuvo una cobertura tan destacada. 


Lyrics:

I don't like Mondays


The silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload.
And nobody's gonna go to school today,
She's going to make them stay at home.
And daddy doesn't understand it,
He always said she was as good as gold.
And he can see no reasons
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown?

Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
I want to shoot
The whole day down.

The telex machine is kept so clean
As it types to a waiting world.
And mother feels so shocked,
Father's world is rocked,
And their thoughts turn to
Their own little girl.
Sweet 16 ain't so peachy keen,
No, it ain't so neat to admit defeat.
They can see no reasons
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need?

Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
I want to shoot
The whole day down, down, down.
Shoot it all down

All the playing's stopped in the playground now
She wants to play with her toys a while.
And school's out early and soon we'll be learning
And the lesson today is how to die.
And then the bullhorn crackles,
And the captain crackles,
With the problems and the how's and why's.
And he can see no reasons
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to die?

The silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload.
And nobody's gonna go to school today,
She's going to make them stay at home.
And daddy doesn't understand it,
He always said she was as good as gold.
And he can see no reasons
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown?

Tell me why?
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.