Deep in the Heart of Nowhere is ex-Boomtown Rats lead singer Bob Geldof

Bob Geldof

Robert Frederick Zenon "Bob" Geldof, KBE is an Irish singer, songwriter, author, occasional actor and political activist. He rose to prominence as the lead singer of the Irish rock band The Boomtown Rats in the late 1970s and early 1980s alongside the punk rock movement. The band had hits with his...

's first solo studio album. It was released in 1986 with the main single being 'This Is the World Calling' and 'Love Like a Rocket

Love Like a Rocket

"Love Like a Rocket" is a song and single by Bob Geldof that appears on the 1986 album Deep in the Heart of Nowhere, the song is the second single Geldof's album with the first being This Is the World Calling....

' being a later single. It was remastered and re-released in 2005 with his (at the time) 3 other solo albums as part of The Great Songs of Indifference: The Anthology 1986-2001 collection, and included 4 bonus tracks.

Track listing

All songs were written by Bob Geldof

Bob Geldof

Robert Frederick Zenon "Bob" Geldof, KBE is an Irish singer, songwriter, author, occasional actor and political activist. He rose to prominence as the lead singer of the Irish rock band The Boomtown Rats in the late 1970s and early 1980s alongside the punk rock movement. The band had hits with his...

, except where noted.

1. "This Is the World Calling" (Geldof, Raymond Doom) – 4:29
2. "In the Pouring Rain" – 4:30
3. "August Was a Heavy Month" – 5:07
4. "Love Like a Rocket" (Geldof, Doom) – 5:23
5. "I Cry Too" – 4:25
6. "When I Was Young" – 5:51
7. "This Heartless Heart" – 4:13
8. "The Beat of the Night" – 5:33
9. "Truly, True Blue" – 1:19
10. "Pulled Apart by Horses" – 4:29
11. "Words from Heaven" – 4:40
12. "Good Boys in the Wrong" – 5:18
13. "Night Turns to Day" – 4:53
14. "Deep in the Heart of Nowhere" – 1:19

Great Songs of Indifference re-release

15. "Life Is the Hardest Thing" – 3:13
16. "Friends for Life" – 5:29
17. "August Was a Heavy Month (Instrumental)" – 4:01
18. "Dig a Ditch" – 4:28

Personnel

• The Brothers of Doom – producer
  Record producer
  A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
  
   on "This Is the World Calling" and "In the Pouring Rain"
• Jimmy Iovine
  Jimmy Iovine
  James "Jimmy" Iovine is an American music producer, entrepreneur and chairman of Interscope-Geffen-A&M.-Biography:...
  
   – producer
  Record producer
  A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
  
   on "This Is the World Calling" and "In the Pouring Rain"
• Rupert Hine
  Rupert Hine
  Rupert Neville Hine is an English musician, songwriter and prolific record producer, having produced albums for artists including Kevin Ayers, Tina Turner, Howard Jones, Saga, The Fixx, Bob Geldof, Thompson Twins, Stevie Nicks, Chris de Burgh, Suzanne Vega, Rush, Underworld, Duncan Sheik, and ...
  
   - producer
  Record producer
  A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
  
   on all tracks
• Stephen W Tayler
  Stephen W Tayler
  Stephen Tayler is a mixing and recording engineer, music producer, composer and sound designer who has contributed this collection of talents to hundreds of world-class albums for artists including Kate Bush, Suzanne Vega, Peter Gabriel, Underworld, Duncan Sheik, Howard Jones, Stevie Nicks, Rush,...
  
  - engineer and mixer

Singles

• "This Is the World Calling" / "Talk Me Up" (October 1986)
• "Love Like a Rocket" (Remix) / "Pulled Apart By Horses" (February 1987) (UK & European release)
• "Heartless Heart" / "Pulled Apart By Horses" (1987) (US release)
• "I Cry Too" / "Let's Go" (June 1987) (UK release)
• "In the Pouring Rain" / "Let's Go" (1987) (Non-UK European release)