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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.

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The Buzzcocks - Orgasm Addict

Picture, if you will, a me of around 13-14 years old, happily listening to the chart pop of the time. Given the time in question, it was largely the works of Messrs Stock, Aitken and Waterman.

A friend of mine decided it simply wouldn't do. I was listening to bland pop and someone had to stop it, and teach me to like decent music. She was willing to take on the job.

And so it was that Penny more or less forcibly confiscated my Kylie tapes, and, rifling her elder brothers' record collections, force-fed me The Pixies, Devo, The Cure, Wedding Present, odd bits of Hendrix, Throwing Muses and, of course, The Buzzcocks.

Singles Going Steady was the first Buzzcocks album I ever owned, and somewhere I still have the battered, taped copy I made from her tape. Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn'tve)? (which is the only Buzzcocks song anyone ever knows) grabbed my attention, as did the opening track - Orgasm Addict.

This was the beginning of me realising that singing out loud isn't always a good plan.

Singles Going Steady is probably what I'd recommend as an introduction to The Buzzcocks, but these days you can experience practically their entire back catalogue by buying Product - for a mere £13.97 in Music Zone, my sources tell me - so to be honest, you might as well do that. You get all the fun of Singles Going Steady, plus numerous other great songs.