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ventaIt'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:
The Only Ones - Another Girl Another Planet
Some time ago, I cited this is one of the greatest dancefloor tracks ever. A guaranteed floor-filler, I said. Very few people seemed to agree with me (in fact, most people said "who?" and "what?" and things like that) but it remains one of my favourites.
Sadly, my somewhat slim research suggests that The Only Ones never really recorded anything else that was any cop at all. However, help is at hand:
The Sound of the Suburbs compilation provides nearly twenty tracks to make you Boogie At Your Desk - they might almost have designed it with that purpose in mind. Do Anything You Wanna Do ? Teenage Kicks ? Turning Japanese ? Dammit, how could you not Boogie ?
If you ever want to drive around in the summer with music frothing out your car windows, you need a copy of this compliation. Trust me.
The first time I encountered this compilation, it was a copied-tape-copy, boxless, tracklistless, and just sculling about on a friend's floor. I taped it, slowly identified the songs (no internet in them days, y'know!), wrote a tracklist out, and played it practically to death.
Over the next couple of years, at the end of which I went to university, I found that many other people had this tape. Always, always a pirate copy - I began seriously to wonder whether it was just an inspired home-made mix tape that had replicated way out of its own social group.
Last year, on a bric-a-brac stall, I actually found an original tape. With, like, proper sleevenotes and stuff. I grabbed it gleefully. It's quite strange listening to it without the hideous squealing noises in the middle of Call Me (the copy I copied was chewed at that point - not sure why I never recopied it off anyone else).
And then someone -![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
smiorgan, I think? - mentioned on LJ that they'd bought it on CD! It still existed to buy, new! Wow.
Then I commented to a few people on its ubiquity, and they looked at me kind of blankly.
So, yes, I know polls and BAYD don't usually go together, but humour me:
[Poll #501698]
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:
The Only Ones - Another Girl Another Planet
Some time ago, I cited this is one of the greatest dancefloor tracks ever. A guaranteed floor-filler, I said. Very few people seemed to agree with me (in fact, most people said "who?" and "what?" and things like that) but it remains one of my favourites.
Sadly, my somewhat slim research suggests that The Only Ones never really recorded anything else that was any cop at all. However, help is at hand:
The Sound of the Suburbs compilation provides nearly twenty tracks to make you Boogie At Your Desk - they might almost have designed it with that purpose in mind. Do Anything You Wanna Do ? Teenage Kicks ? Turning Japanese ? Dammit, how could you not Boogie ?
If you ever want to drive around in the summer with music frothing out your car windows, you need a copy of this compliation. Trust me.
The first time I encountered this compilation, it was a copied-tape-copy, boxless, tracklistless, and just sculling about on a friend's floor. I taped it, slowly identified the songs (no internet in them days, y'know!), wrote a tracklist out, and played it practically to death.
Over the next couple of years, at the end of which I went to university, I found that many other people had this tape. Always, always a pirate copy - I began seriously to wonder whether it was just an inspired home-made mix tape that had replicated way out of its own social group.
Last year, on a bric-a-brac stall, I actually found an original tape. With, like, proper sleevenotes and stuff. I grabbed it gleefully. It's quite strange listening to it without the hideous squealing noises in the middle of Call Me (the copy I copied was chewed at that point - not sure why I never recopied it off anyone else).
And then someone -
smiorgan, I think? - mentioned on LJ that they'd bought it on CD! It still existed to buy, new! Wow.Then I commented to a few people on its ubiquity, and they looked at me kind of blankly.
So, yes, I know polls and BAYD don't usually go together, but humour me:
[Poll #501698]
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Date: 2005-05-27 02:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-27 02:38 pm (UTC)As for the Pink album, you're welcome to it.
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Date: 2005-05-27 03:29 pm (UTC)This would be the Beatles' little-known foray into gay pop ?
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Date: 2005-05-27 02:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-28 09:36 am (UTC)Top compilation but wasn't going to add much to my record collection.
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Date: 2005-05-27 02:06 pm (UTC)*boogies*
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Date: 2005-05-27 02:12 pm (UTC)I've got two!
Date: 2005-05-27 02:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-27 02:27 pm (UTC)However, if you can find the album by Peter Perret's shortlived nineties band, "The One", there's a raher good song called (IIRC) Nothing Worth Doing, whch is well worth a listen and quite upbeat.
Apparently Perret's sons are in a band called The Cuts. I know no more than this, though (and I only found this out a minute or two ago).
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Date: 2005-05-27 02:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-27 02:38 pm (UTC)That album sounds good. I might buy it when I have money.
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Date: 2005-05-27 02:41 pm (UTC)That'd be
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Date: 2005-05-28 10:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-28 11:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-27 02:44 pm (UTC)(and re: Sounds of the Suburbs: I don't own a copy, but Wadham bar had it on the jukebox, back in the day. And so does my local.)
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Date: 2005-05-27 02:52 pm (UTC)Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday! etc
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Date: 2005-05-27 04:14 pm (UTC)The image works frighteningly well :)
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Date: 2005-05-27 05:21 pm (UTC)Certainly a toon for a summer Friday afternoon whether at your desk and boogying or not ...
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Date: 2005-05-27 09:02 pm (UTC)Historically, "Guillotine" is also important as its sleeve notes are Richard Branson's first venture into print...and what strange stuff it is!