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ventaIt's Friday! It's not three o'clock, though! But there's still time to Boogie At Your Desk!
[Bloody ntl connection fell over, so my remote posting didn't work when it was meant to :( ]
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 on 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. They will, however, be 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:
The Jam - Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
Now, I know what some of you'll be thinking. "I don't need an introduction to The Jam, I've known Down In The Tube Station At Midnight (oh-way-ohh-oh) for ever".
And some of you are probably right. But I bet there's a few who are in the same state I was about 18 months ago - perfectly aware of Jam songs as a sort of background thing, but never really paid attention to them.
Down In The Tube Station At Midnight is a great song, but have you ever really listened to the words ? Noticed the lovely bass lines in it ? Go on, give it your full attention for a couple of minutes.
Similarly, That's Entertainment was for ages in my mind the kind of slow one with the slightly droney chorus. But listen to it properly, and it's full of the most remarkable imagery and a slow-burning tension.
Enlightenment came when someone lent me a copy of Compact Snap!, which had old favourites on it, but also songs I'd never heard before. Strange Town has become one my favourite songs, and I'm surprised that things like the story-song Smithers Jones aren't better known.
My spies tell me that Compact Snap! is but £2.99 in HMV's sale at the moment, and if you don't own a copy then ignoring that is criminal. Rush your money to the record shops.
Incidentally, I believe Compact Snap! is officially slightly bad and wrong, because in order to fit the double album Snap! onto CD, they lost a few songs. Now, I never owned Snap!, so haven't missed them, and don't need to get cross with it in the same way I do the CD version of Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me. But just a warning that purists might disagree with my choice of recommendation :)
[Bloody ntl connection fell over, so my remote posting didn't work when it was meant to :( ]
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 on 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. They will, however, be 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:
The Jam - Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
Now, I know what some of you'll be thinking. "I don't need an introduction to The Jam, I've known Down In The Tube Station At Midnight (oh-way-ohh-oh) for ever".
And some of you are probably right. But I bet there's a few who are in the same state I was about 18 months ago - perfectly aware of Jam songs as a sort of background thing, but never really paid attention to them.
Down In The Tube Station At Midnight is a great song, but have you ever really listened to the words ? Noticed the lovely bass lines in it ? Go on, give it your full attention for a couple of minutes.
Similarly, That's Entertainment was for ages in my mind the kind of slow one with the slightly droney chorus. But listen to it properly, and it's full of the most remarkable imagery and a slow-burning tension.
Enlightenment came when someone lent me a copy of Compact Snap!, which had old favourites on it, but also songs I'd never heard before. Strange Town has become one my favourite songs, and I'm surprised that things like the story-song Smithers Jones aren't better known.
My spies tell me that Compact Snap! is but £2.99 in HMV's sale at the moment, and if you don't own a copy then ignoring that is criminal. Rush your money to the record shops.
Incidentally, I believe Compact Snap! is officially slightly bad and wrong, because in order to fit the double album Snap! onto CD, they lost a few songs. Now, I never owned Snap!, so haven't missed them, and don't need to get cross with it in the same way I do the CD version of Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me. But just a warning that purists might disagree with my choice of recommendation :)
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Date: 2005-07-01 10:37 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-07-01 11:08 pm (UTC)bloody NTL connection fell over ...
Date: 2005-07-01 11:25 pm (UTC)Good Choice ... :)I think you do have to give The Jam your attention to get the most out of the lyrics ... And listen out for the bass 'cos it is rather good :)
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Date: 2005-07-02 01:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-02 01:35 pm (UTC)I came home from the pub and flomped in the seat by the computer and listened to the track. If I wanted to have boogied then I'd have gone to Dead and Buried....
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Date: 2005-07-02 10:20 pm (UTC)"Sup up your beer and collect your fags, theres a row going on down near Slough"