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ventaIt'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:
Telstarr - Berserk
(If you don't want to download a file with an mp3 suffix, click here to get a zipped verison.)
Among my collection of treasured home-made tapes, there is one labelled "Obscure Shite". It was posted to me by ChrisC while I was still a student and had on the A-side a Helen Love album, and on the B-side a collection of (I think) Snug singles. Neither of these filled an entire side, and the gaps were plugged with some impressively obscure shite.
You've never heard of The Halo Benders ? The Shrinking Violets ? My Drug Hell ? Well, to be perfectly honest, neither have I in any other context.
I managed to mislay this tape for a few years, and completely forgot what was on it. When I unearthed it again, there was a new song on it. Well, not a new one, it had clearly been there all the time. But somehow it'd gone from being just a song to being something absolutely brilliant. I noticed this driving down the motorway one day, and had to rewind it to check.
Berserk was written to BAYD to, even if "it's not even Friday".
Even scraping around on the Interweb, Telstarr appear to have completely sunk without trace. When prodded, ChrisC managed to produce a whole two other singles released in the mid-90s, but I've never seen any evidence of an album. Which is a great shame. Maybe they changed their name to stop themselves getting confused with the record label ? Any information on the back of a sealed down LJ-comment, please.
I can't recommend a CD to buy today, I just feel Berserk deserves better exposure. At the very least, it deserves to turn up on Great Lost Indie Singles compilations now and again.
The Management apologises for the slightly rubbish quality of the mp3 today.
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:
Telstarr - Berserk
(If you don't want to download a file with an mp3 suffix, click here to get a zipped verison.)
Among my collection of treasured home-made tapes, there is one labelled "Obscure Shite". It was posted to me by ChrisC while I was still a student and had on the A-side a Helen Love album, and on the B-side a collection of (I think) Snug singles. Neither of these filled an entire side, and the gaps were plugged with some impressively obscure shite.
You've never heard of The Halo Benders ? The Shrinking Violets ? My Drug Hell ? Well, to be perfectly honest, neither have I in any other context.
I managed to mislay this tape for a few years, and completely forgot what was on it. When I unearthed it again, there was a new song on it. Well, not a new one, it had clearly been there all the time. But somehow it'd gone from being just a song to being something absolutely brilliant. I noticed this driving down the motorway one day, and had to rewind it to check.
Berserk was written to BAYD to, even if "it's not even Friday".
Even scraping around on the Interweb, Telstarr appear to have completely sunk without trace. When prodded, ChrisC managed to produce a whole two other singles released in the mid-90s, but I've never seen any evidence of an album. Which is a great shame. Maybe they changed their name to stop themselves getting confused with the record label ? Any information on the back of a sealed down LJ-comment, please.
I can't recommend a CD to buy today, I just feel Berserk deserves better exposure. At the very least, it deserves to turn up on Great Lost Indie Singles compilations now and again.
The Management apologises for the slightly rubbish quality of the mp3 today.
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Date: 2005-08-12 02:39 pm (UTC)Dear Sir
I am a regular reader of/listener to your "Boogie at your desk" feature, and write to thank you for two recent tracks, by The Magnetic Fields, and by Luke Haines. The latter prompted me to remember my bad-tape-recorded copy of After Murder Park, and to replace it (with Luke Haines is Dead). But the former was completely new to me, and I enjoyed "The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side" so much that I bought 69 Love Songs solely on the strength of that (well, that and the "lo-fi Divine Comedy" comment ;-)... [I can't maintain this voice and squee at the same time, so bye-bye letter-writing-persona.]
It's lovely! It's funny and clever and silly and sad and although there are several tracks I find wanky and self-indulgent, there are lots more that I love, and I'm finding myself liking songs in styles I don't normally like because a fragment of lyric has hooked me :-) Hurrah! Thank you!
PS Do you accept bribes to make compilation CDs of all the tracks featured on BAYD?
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