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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.

This link will expire when I leave work this evening. Unless

broadmeadow is willing to leave it up for a bit longer, as some people tell me they like a sneaky post-work boogie of a Friday evening.

Today you were invited to Boogie At Your Desk to:

Dropkick Murphys - Heroes From Our Past

Nearly a year ago, I went to see the Dropkick Murhpys in London. Despite them being a little patchy live, it still remains (I think) the most enthusiastic gig I've ever been to.

Ideal for a bit of at-desk boogying, I think.

And if nothing else, you can all have a good giggle at the idea of someone singing, in a punk-stylee, "When we think back to our ancestors respectfully we hark...". Woah, yeah, man, it's anarchy! Smash the system, but with due respect to the ancestors.

I only own one Dropkick Murphys CD, which is Sing Loud, Sing Proud!. And if you want seven slightly drunken blokes (plus bagpipes) cheerfully yelling their way through the occasional traditional (mostly Irish) folk song, and some original compositions (including the remarkably good The New American Way), then you want this CD.

I certainly wouldn't unconditionally recommend this band, CD, or indeed track. It's easy to have too much of them, and I'm sure some people will loathe them on hearing. But for a bit of simple, singalong fun, they're a damn good bet. I prescribe buying an album, then occasionally plonking a couple of tracks onto a late-night driving compilation.