Dance me to the end of love

[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.

This link will expire at some point in the future.

Today you are invited to Boogie At Your Desk to:

Less Than Jake - All My Best Friends Are Metalheads

I first encountered Less Than Jake singing a song called Dope Man on a CD that came free with a pair of Doc Martens. Later, I bought their double album Hello Rockview/Losing Streak because I found it cheaply in an Edinburgh record shop.

I'm not sure it contains two albums worth of good stuff, but it cost the same as a single album and easily contains one album's worth of loud, bouncy fun. I described it to a friend as sounding like what you'd get if you shook Offspring and Madness up in a box - the mail I got in reply said "You haven't heard much American ska, have you?".

I always lump the Dropkick Murphys (folk), Less Than Jake (ska) and Reel Big Fish (indie) as playing the same music, but from completely different backgrounds. I have no idea whether that's just me talking bollocks.

Comments

[triskellian]

Your link is broken :-( (The blacktreacle one, that is)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Whoops, fixed now.

[triskellian]

Yay! Boogieing :-)

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Gotta love that trumpet (trombone ? horn ?) noise !

[venta.livejournal.com]

Now that I'm within reach of the CD sleevenotes, I can report that the dramatis personae lists two trombone players and one baritone sax. So some combination of those, I should think.

[violetdisregard.livejournal.com]

The Less Than Jake song certainly has about the right amount of bounciness for this afternoon. Boogie at my desk while doing some incredibly boring link checks :-)

[lnr]

"I always lump the Dropkick Murphys (folk), Less Than Jake (ska) and Reel Big Fish (indie) as playing the same music, but from completely different backgrounds. I have no idea whether that's just me talking bollocks."

I don't think it's bollocks. I'd never really come across any of them til going out with Mike, but they do sit pretty well together. Good stuff. Makes me wish once again that I could boogie at my desk with the rest of you. Maybe when my mythical new desktop computer appears it will have a soundcard.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's bollocks.

Phew. If there's two of us, we've got a corner to fight.

If it was just me, I'd be a lone nutter or something :)

[keris.livejournal.com]

I *almost* got to see Less Than Jake play their home city. Only I'd only just arrived in their home city and didn;t hear about it soon enough to get a ticket.

[venta.livejournal.com]

<consults sleevenotes>

Blimey.
Yes.
They are from there, aren't they.

I never knew that.

[keris.livejournal.com]

*hums along to Gainesville Rock City...*

[(Anonymous)]

Strapline Jack Vettriano?

[venta.livejournal.com]

Sort of. But he filched it from Leonard Cohen, which was what I was thinking of, so you only get half a kudo :)

[liriselei.livejournal.com]

tangent - will give that Queen Adreena CD to secutatrix today, prod her if she doesn't promptly pass it on !