A Gift of Geology

In The Long Grass Released May 1984

For thirty six years, this was destined to be the Rat's last studio album. Released in 1984, sales were impacted by another project that the band got involved in - Band Aid. The least commercially successful of all the albums, this included some of their finest songs including Dave (which Pete Townshend rightly described as 'one of the best songs of 1984' - err, one of the best songs of the entire eighties), Drag Me Down (which one reviewer described as having a hook strong enough to raise the Titanic) and the should-have-been-on-the-album-if-not-a-single Walking Downtown. This was the first Rats' album to be produced by the band's bass player, Pete Briquette and had all the elements for success.