She'll dance to anything but St. Etienne

[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:

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.

Comments

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Seems like your cron job kicked off 15 minutes early (or the server's clock is out), but it was worth the un-wait. Properly bouncy boogie stuff !

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 ?!)

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

The "cleanest" part of the track is the verses - I get a lyric, a bassline, a fairly high-pitched morse code synth and nothing else, so if you also have a high-frequency noise then that's different from me. Winamp's graphic equaliser agrees that there's not much going on at the top.

There's all kinds of high-frequency noise in the rest of the track - they probably call it "cymbals".

[venta.livejournal.com]

Actually, there was nothing cronny about that, it was genuinely posted by me from a net cafe in Whitby.

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 :)