Boogie nights are always the best in town

[venta]

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.

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Today you were invited to Boogie At Your Desk to:

The Coral - Dreaming Of You

If you can listen to this song, and avoid pulling silly faces singing along to the "wah-oooo" in the chorus, then you're a better man than I am. The video for Dreaming Of You involves a trumpet-playing bear: what more could you want ?

I own two Coral albums, The Coral and Magic And Medicine, and I'd thoroughly recommend both of them. (I also own Nightfreak & The Sons Of Becker, which I've never quite got along with).

The Coral, from which Dreaming Of You comes, is a romp of an album. Good boogie-potential and songs about setting sail for the Spanish Main, or about humans who turn into plants. (I kid you not: Now he swapped his legs for roots, his arms and soil are in cahoots). It's not, however, to be mistaken for a joke or novelty album, it's still got some fine and varied song writing on it.

Their second album, Magic and Medicine, is a much more mature and mellow offering. If you fancy yourself as a little sophisticated, go for the seond album. Less brassy (and indeed less brazen) than its sibling, it has some lovely, gentle songs on it; I'd recommend Liezah in particular. And no one turns into a plant at any stage. Magic and Medicine is excellent for slightly melancholy, late night listening, especially in the car. If you just fancy a bit of a bounce: first album.

Comments

[leathellin.livejournal.com]

And no one turns into a plant at any stage.

Clearly inferior.

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

I really liked Dreaming of You when it came out, but The Coral's recorded output left me otherwise underwhelmed. Then I saw them live at V two years ago (I think it was the only way to avoid David Gray or some such) and they were really good playing the same songs. So I'm a bit confused.

[eostar.livejournal.com]

And no one turns into a plant at any stage

Nor a trumpet-playing bear ?

[venta.livejournal.com]

Possibly not. There are trumpets on the second album, but they're much more subdued. So probably not played by bears.

[phlebas.livejournal.com]

Am I correct in thinking the wonderful Manfred-Mann-ness isn't present in the rest of their oeuvre?

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

Like the curate, their ouvre is excellent in parts.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Not to the same extent, no. There's flashed of it elsewhere on the first album, but that's the only really thoroughly Mannish example, I think.

I'm ignoring Onebyone's response because it hurt.

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

Ah! That's what that track is! I keep hearing it on Rado 6.

(Now downloaded: The Eponymous One. It's vg, innit!)

[pookee.livejournal.com]

If you can listen to this song, and avoid pulling silly faces singing along to the "wah-oooo" in the chorus, then you're a better man than I am.

Oh good, it's not just me that does that then. Wah-ooooo!

Having read your LJ on Friends Friends for a while, your taste in music (and lyric quotations) has finally got me hooked and I'm adding you to my FL so I don't miss any of these posts in future! :-)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Ooh, hullo - and thanks for introducing yourself, it's always odd to have people just randomly arriving :)

(Mind you, I don't introduce myself when I add someone I don't know... maybe I should start!)

No, it's not just you. I've seen otherwise quite dignified people pull the most ridiculous faces while wah-ooooing.

[pookee.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised other people do the wah-oooo's. I thought I was in the minority when it comes to singing the backing bits.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Rudolph did the "Waa-ooooo" bit. I just boogied quietly.

The odd thing is that I don't own any Coral, but know that track really well (but never knew who is was by or what it was called).

<grand turk>
Is that famous ?
</grand turk>

[venta.livejournal.com]

The track certainly got a lot of airplay a couple of years ago. I haven't heard it all that recently, though, I don't think.

<grand turkey>

Yes, I think it was in the charts around Christmas time.