A Tonic for the Troops

A Tonic for the Troops
Studio album by
ReleasedJune 1978 (1978-06)
Recorded1978
StudioRelight (Netherlands)
GenreNew wave, art punk, pop punk[1]
Label
Producer
The Boomtown Rats chronology
The Boomtown Rats
(1977)
A Tonic for the Troops
(1978)
The Fine Art of Surfacing
(1979)

A Tonic for the Troops is the second album by Irish rock band the Boomtown Rats, released in June 1978.[2]

A Tonic for the Troops peaked at No. 8 on the UK Albums Chart in 1978.[3] The album included the singles "She's So Modern", "Like Clockwork" and "Rat Trap".[2] "She's So Modern" reached number 12 on the UK Singles Chart.[3] The most commercially successful track on the album was "Rat Trap", which made it to Number 1 on the UK Singles Chart.[3]

  1. ^ "A Tonic For The Troops (24/100 Greatest Irish Albums)". Hot Press. 17 November 2004. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference AMG was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ a b c Roberts, David, ed. (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). Guinness World Records Limited. p. 71. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.