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She'll dance to anything but St. Etienne
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 were invited to Boogie At Your Desk to:
Helen Love - Does Your Heart Go Boom?
This is a Whitby BAYD special. It's the Whitby Goth Weekend which means that not only am I in Whitby, but all the really miserable, mopey, gothy types who read this LJ are as well. So, we can take advantage of their absence and have something relentlessly cheerful. Don't tell them, will you ?
My first encounter with Helen Love was the CD single of Does Your Heart Go Boom?, somewhere in the region of seven years ago. I forget how it arrived - by post or delivered in person - but I believe it was a notional birthday present. I fell in love with it immediately, and played it at everyone who would stand still long enough.
They all hated it.
Fools.
Helen Love is bubblegum punk-pop (disco, don't stop!), willing to namecheck anyone and everyone in a song (Atari Teenage Riot, Bush, Kula Shaker and Manchester United in this track alone). At the height of their indie credibility, Ash covered the Helen Love song Punk Boy. Despite that, Helen Love has been languishing in near-total obscurity ever since.
However, with the might of Dave Gorman and Phil Jupitus championing them (them ? her ? I've never been 100% sure), there is a new single out a week on Monday. Buy the Bubblegum Killers EP, or miss out on the underground musical revolution of the century.
Anyone who's willing to register a username and password can download more tracks from Helen Love's own site.
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 were invited to Boogie At Your Desk to:
Helen Love - Does Your Heart Go Boom?
This is a Whitby BAYD special. It's the Whitby Goth Weekend which means that not only am I in Whitby, but all the really miserable, mopey, gothy types who read this LJ are as well. So, we can take advantage of their absence and have something relentlessly cheerful. Don't tell them, will you ?
My first encounter with Helen Love was the CD single of Does Your Heart Go Boom?, somewhere in the region of seven years ago. I forget how it arrived - by post or delivered in person - but I believe it was a notional birthday present. I fell in love with it immediately, and played it at everyone who would stand still long enough.
They all hated it.
Fools.
Helen Love is bubblegum punk-pop (disco, don't stop!), willing to namecheck anyone and everyone in a song (Atari Teenage Riot, Bush, Kula Shaker and Manchester United in this track alone). At the height of their indie credibility, Ash covered the Helen Love song Punk Boy. Despite that, Helen Love has been languishing in near-total obscurity ever since.
However, with the might of Dave Gorman and Phil Jupitus championing them (them ? her ? I've never been 100% sure), there is a new single out a week on Monday. Buy the Bubblegum Killers EP, or miss out on the underground musical revolution of the century.
Anyone who's willing to register a username and password can download more tracks from Helen Love's own site.
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Was I the only person who had barely audible high-frequency noise over the top of the whole track ? (Or is it part of the track ?!)
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There's all kinds of high-frequency noise in the rest of the track - they probably call it "cymbals".
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I'm not sure about the high-frequency noise. If it sounds like a synth, it probably is. If not, I'm not sure. I can always lend you the CD if you want to check :)
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My favourite song of theirs is Girl about Town, including the wonderful lines "He'd be all right if he didn't hit her / And go to bed with the babysitter".
I had no idea they were still going. Wonders will never, etc!
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Fools.
Ize fule then...
(apart from that, BAYD marks the turning point of the weekend for me, so hurrah anyway and sucks to my taste!)
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I've managed to avoid listening to music like that for the last 3 years, precisely because I know that I end up listening to it too much.
I'm doomed now, you realise. Completely, and utterly, doomed.
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Of course, whom we aim to please is more open to debate.
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However Virgin Radio seems to be catching up on bayd, as they were playing Block Party as their featured album of the week this morning.
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