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Let's turn this dance floor into our own little nasty world!
It's Friday! It's 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 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. It will, however, be a tune which makes me smile, and which has 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:
Britney Spears - Toxic
Yup, a Britney Spears CD was the one I declined to name when listing my purchases at the record fair the other day.
This is my latest attempt to please all the people some of the time - in this case, I'm aiming to please the lowest common denominator. LCD, you know who you are :)
I must admit, I don't keep a terribly close ear on the charts and I missed Toxic when it was at number one. It is, however, a regular floor-filler at Crimes Against Pop.
Having listened to the promo best-of CD acquired from the record fair, I have to admit that I'm not about to become a massive Britney fan. There's some good pop moments on there - even Oops!... I Did It Again is, if you put aside the "aaargh it's Britney" reaction, a quality pop tune. Although it does bear out Nick Cave's theory that the lightest, fluffiest pop tunes can have the most sinister words - the sentiment behind the lyrics, with their insincere pout of apology, is very unpleasant.
However, there's also quite a lot of non-descript pop filler-dirge on the CD too. I'd recommend finding any cheap best-of style CD which has Toxic on it - it's worth it, and you might find a few other good tracks on it, too.
The best thing about Toxic is, of course, that bit. Small edible prizes may be distributed to anyone who can correctly identify which bit I mean by that bit. The best way of specifying your answer is probably elapsed time rather than trying to describe it.
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. It will, however, be a tune which makes me smile, and which has 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:
Britney Spears - Toxic
Yup, a Britney Spears CD was the one I declined to name when listing my purchases at the record fair the other day.
This is my latest attempt to please all the people some of the time - in this case, I'm aiming to please the lowest common denominator. LCD, you know who you are :)
I must admit, I don't keep a terribly close ear on the charts and I missed Toxic when it was at number one. It is, however, a regular floor-filler at Crimes Against Pop.
Having listened to the promo best-of CD acquired from the record fair, I have to admit that I'm not about to become a massive Britney fan. There's some good pop moments on there - even Oops!... I Did It Again is, if you put aside the "aaargh it's Britney" reaction, a quality pop tune. Although it does bear out Nick Cave's theory that the lightest, fluffiest pop tunes can have the most sinister words - the sentiment behind the lyrics, with their insincere pout of apology, is very unpleasant.
However, there's also quite a lot of non-descript pop filler-dirge on the CD too. I'd recommend finding any cheap best-of style CD which has Toxic on it - it's worth it, and you might find a few other good tracks on it, too.
The best thing about Toxic is, of course, that bit. Small edible prizes may be distributed to anyone who can correctly identify which bit I mean by that bit. The best way of specifying your answer is probably elapsed time rather than trying to describe it.
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*boogies*
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(At least fantastic! would be appropriate. Although incorrect.)
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Must admit, I may be biased. I did buy the single a few weeks after it came out - best song she's ever done. (Only one I've bought..)
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Oh no... now I just look like a sad, sci-fi bandwagoneer instead of a pioneering Britney fan :(
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When I first saw what Venta had chosen this week I was aghast - she has such good taste in music. Not everything she likes I like but her judgement is impeccable.
On the other hand, this is a Boogie At Your Desk feature and it counts for that. Last week's Jam track is one of the finest songs made, but surprised me as a BAYD nomintation -- although I guess I can see myself pogoing more enthusiastically to that than I would boogying to this pap.
Disclaimer: my opinions are usually wrong.
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I think I'd accept the accusation that last week's Jam song possibly wasn't the boogiest of boogie sounds. I boogie to it, but then I would.
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It's certainly fantastic when Richard Thompson does it.
My guess for "that bit" is the slowed-down whirring bit and then bouncing back into the chorus (at about 0:57, recurring at about 1:52). That's the bit where I'd want to jump up in the air, when it comes back in after the break.
Blimey, though, that's a good song. I don't think I knew it, and if I've heard it I certainly didn't realise it was Britney.
*boogies*
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W...
W...
WHAT?
Doesthisexistinrecordedformatanywhere? IfsowheredoIfindit?
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Oh, wait, it's actually on an album: 1000 years of popular songs. But AFAICT you can only buy it through Beesweb.
This comment brought to you by late-night bored websearching. :-)
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The scratchy strings eeeek bit? Or maybe the shadows guitar bit?
TBH I'm a bit of a closet britney fan but think that some of her songs should be speeded up.
that bit
Or the wailing bit nearer the end?
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My favourite Britney song is 'Every time'. Makes me cry everty time.
Interesting -
Re: Interesting -
Actually I think it depends on whether you need the song to stand alone. If it's the first track you're reacting to, then the interesting bits earlier in the track won't get a reaction. But if you're already up and bouncing then maybe the exceptionally twangy guitar at around 55 seconds will get a reaction.
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