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It's Friday! It's about three o'clock! It's time to Boogie At Your Desk!

Friday afternoons need a little something. I think they need a Top Tune. Something to make you shuffle in your seat and, if possible, Boogie At Your Desk. I'll be endeavouring to fill this gap some Fridays this year.

I'm not claiming that any track provided to enable At-Desk Boogying is one of the world's best or most profound pieces of music. It will, however, be one of the tunes which make me smile, and which have at some stage made me surreptitiously Boogie At My Desk.

Desks are not compulsory, of course. Feel free to boogie through your office, in your bedroom, round your lab, across your classroom, on the train - wherever you find yourself on a Friday afternoon.

If you like the track, go out and buy the album it belongs to - I'll try and recommend a suitable CD to purchase for any BAYD track.

The link will expire when I leave work this evening.

Today you were invited to Boogie At Your Desk to:

Hoodoo Gurus - I Want You Back

(Webspace kindly provided by [livejournal.com profile] broadmeadow, owing to getting-finger-out failure on my part. If the streaming link above flattens his server, this is a downloady link of the same song.)

I've been describing the Hoodoo Gurus to people as "big hair rock". I'm not sure quote how accurate that is, though - various websites seem to want to describe them as things like "trash pop" instead.

However they are cheerfully unashamed (in a very 80s way), Australian, and, which ever way you look it, there's something unavoidably Def Leppard about their sound. If they never had poodle perms, they damned well should have done.

I'm not terribly well educated in my Hoodoo Gurus, really, and don't own any proper albums. But if anyone fancies a good old lump of pop-rock with the occasional daft song-name (I Was A Kamikaze Pilot, Like Wow-Wipeout!) and a few splashes of surf guitar, they could do a lot worse than purchasing copy of Ampology.

([livejournal.com profile] eostar, you may now party. It's the weekend!)

Date: 2005-01-28 02:57 pm (UTC)
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They sound like a [livejournal.com profile] karmicnull band to me, althugh I'm pretty sure my friend Chris likes them.

Not bad. I'm surprised I've never heard anything by them before.

Date: 2005-01-28 03:01 pm (UTC)
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I'm slightly surprised you haven't, as well. I'm not sure I'd necessarily have expected you to like them, but I would have expected you to have falled across them at some point.

UBL (http:///www.ubl.com) tells me they reformed last year and released a new album, incidentally. I have no proof of this, though.

I don't think I'm aware of [livejournal.com profile] karmicnull, should I be ?

Date: 2005-01-28 03:04 pm (UTC)
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I don't think I'm aware of [info]karmicnull, should I be ?

Not necessarily. I can't think of any time you'd have met him. Well worth knowing if you get the chance, though. Very into various cowpunk and related stuff, including some stuff vaguely in that line.

Well, I guess there's the possibility of some Hoodoo Gurus in my future, then. Cheers - well worth hearing.

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