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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 at some point in the future.

Today you are invited to Boogie At Your Desk to:

Idlewild - You Held The World In Your Arms

(Or there is a downloadable version in non-stream-o-vision here. Many thanks to

broadmeadow for the hosting.)

Earlier today I was writing about my favourite Idlewild song. This is not it.

My favourite Idlewild song is When I Argue I See Shapes. However, I like that song in an intellectual sense - it's clever, and it has arguably the best middle-eight in the world.

Emotionally, though, You Held The World In Your Arms is my favourite. It's a song to make you throw your arms open, and run round in very large circles in open spaces outdoors. It does exactly what it says on the tin - makes you want to hug the world and rejoice in it.

This isn't really 100% suited to BAYD - it's much too much of a large, sweeping sort of song for at-desk use, really. If you have tolerant colleagues, get up and dance expansively round the office[*]. If you don't, then just do your best at your desk.

[*] Anyone who produces evidence that they actually did this, before I leave work tonight, wins a Tw*x.