Ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight ?

[venta]

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 were invited to Boogie At Your Desk to:

Manuskript - No Reprise

(If you don't want to download a file with an mp3 suffix, click here to get a zipped verison.)

Well, having laid my musical credibility (if I ever had any) on the line already, I figure I might as well get some more of the embarassing stuff out the way.

Besides, it's always worth mentioning Manuskript once in a while to drag secondhand_rick out into the open and give him a chance to tell me what utter pants they are.

Manuskript are not the peak of musical excellence. They are the day A-Ha discovered black nailvarnish. They are a Saturday morning apocalypse with a drum machine.

This version of No Reprise comes off The Cyprus Recordings, which I can't find a single useful reference for online (bloody two-bit goth outfits). It's a collection of remixes, oddballs and covers (it's even got their version of The Sun Always Shines On TV on it, for heaven's sake) and it's a fantastic album to have in the car for those boring stretches of motorway at 3am.

If you feel the need to go crazy and buy a Manuskript release and can't track The Cyrpus Recordings down, go for Natural High. But the versions of the songs on The Cyprus Recordings are better, and really, No Reprise just isn't as good without the comedy key change.

Have we lost our sense of irony?

Er, yes, guys, quite possibly ;)

Comments

[redcountess]

I do like the subject heading quote from "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" - very appropriate.

[leathellin.livejournal.com]

Also made famous by the Joker...

[redcountess]

Oops, it is from "Midnight" as well though, isn't it? Or am I remembering wrongly?

[secondhand-rick.livejournal.com]

Besides, it's always worth mentioning Manuskript once in a while to drag secondhand_rick out into the open and give him a chance to tell me what utter pants they are.

Ooh, that's a bit harsh.

Manuskript are some of the nicest people ever to play a stage; Mike in particular is an absolute dear.

And I've known Tim¹ for years and years, from back in Sheffield in the days when he was in Autumn Of North and then Sins of The Flesh. And of course his marvelous 'Pretentious Moi?' solo project.

I did once say that one song of their in particular was utter pants; "Heads On Spikes", I seem to recall it was called, but I've don't think I've ever claimed that they as a whole are pants.


[1] - Becky's brother

[leathellin.livejournal.com]

No idea i'm afraid, I only ever really remember it from Batman.

"Tell me something, my friend. You ever dance with the devil by the pale moonlight?"

[redcountess]

Yes, Nicholson's Joker, the best baddie in the films :-)

Checking on Google, my memory of it being in "Garden" is definitely wrong - it was a line in Batman, and also quoted in Star Trek. So there you go.

[erming.livejournal.com]

Good track, but I'm sure I remember a cleaner and IMO nicer version of the song. (Probably the unremixed version)

[davefish.livejournal.com]

Fantastic!
Mind you, you probably were expecting a pretty positive response from me :) I do like Manuscript, they are a great deal of fun. I'll certainly go out of my way to see them live.

[marjory.livejournal.com]

Have we lost our sense of irony?

That be like tinny or goldy, roight?

btw Happy Birthday for... um... about 6 days ago as it happens....

[phlebas.livejournal.com]

Tenebrae Mix?

[venta.livejournal.com]

btw Happy Birthday

Thanks!

(And you win - I don't think I've got a clue when your birthday is, I'm afraid!)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Aye. I thought the post said that, but the words seem to have got lost somewhere :(

(Several posting attempts were required, as for dull reasons the power was going on and off in our house last Friday, and my auto-posting was a bit nadgered.)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Ah, ok. Apologies if I misrepresented you. I knew you liked them as people, but didn't think you had any time at all for their musical outputtings.

Good name for a solo project, though.

[1] - Becky's brother

Should I know which Becky you mean, there ? Surely not BeckyA ?

[secondhand-rick.livejournal.com]

Should I know which Becky you mean, there ?

You probably don't, but... should? Yes, you probably should, she's lovely.

For many, many years (especially on the goffic scene) she was introduced to people as, and generally referred to as "Becky, Tim's sister", or even just "Tim's sister". Which, understandably, caused her some ire. So I took to referring to Tim as "Becky's brother" at every available opportunity to help even the balance.

[marjory.livejournal.com]

Aha!

the info bits on LJs are... um...