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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 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.
Today you were invited to Boogie At Your Desk to:
Rancid - Old Friend
A few years ago, when I was first getting the hang of our satellite TV and starting to have music channels on to cover up our lack of a downstairs radio, MTV2 played me a song which grabbed my attention.
I managed to miss the title and artist, but caught enough of the lyrics to google for it later: Black hat, white shoes, cadillac, yeah! The boy's a time bomb. MTV2 were plugging it heavily at the time, so I assumed it was a new band.
Googling eventually found me the lyrics for Time Bomb, by Rancid, which threw me. I knew the name Rancid, and thought they were a early 80s punk band, very much out on the shouty/noisy/nasty edge of punk that doesn't particularly interest me.
Not long afterwards, ChrisC lent me ... And Out Come The Wolves, and I discovered I was quite wrong about everything. Firstly, Time Bomb hadn't been a current single, it was years old and I have no idea why MTV2 had been giving it do much airtime.
Secondly, Rancid are actually fantastic old-skool punk with a bit of ska. Like The Clash, but with better basslines. ... And Out Come The Wolves is an utterly wonderful album. Rancid playing in Brxiton in 2003 is up there on the list of best gigs I've ever been to.
I was having something of a dilemma about which track to post up, though. My favourites for Boogying to have always been Ruby Soho and Olympia WA which are big, sing-along tracks with little sophistication. They do, however, completely fail to show what a god of bassplaying Matt Freeman is. Other suggestions were the catchy Time Bomb itself, or one of the other singles like Roots Radical.
In the end, a completely unexpected outsider (with a not terribly remarkable bassline) won, simply because it was the one I was most enjoying Boogying to during my test-listening yesterday.
I really do recommend ... And Out Come The Wolves very highly. Though if you're a bass player, you should probably get Rancid as well, purely to listen to Axiom (which is mysteriously listed as Antom by Amazon).
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 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.
Today you were invited to Boogie At Your Desk to:
Rancid - Old Friend
A few years ago, when I was first getting the hang of our satellite TV and starting to have music channels on to cover up our lack of a downstairs radio, MTV2 played me a song which grabbed my attention.
I managed to miss the title and artist, but caught enough of the lyrics to google for it later: Black hat, white shoes, cadillac, yeah! The boy's a time bomb. MTV2 were plugging it heavily at the time, so I assumed it was a new band.
Googling eventually found me the lyrics for Time Bomb, by Rancid, which threw me. I knew the name Rancid, and thought they were a early 80s punk band, very much out on the shouty/noisy/nasty edge of punk that doesn't particularly interest me.
Not long afterwards, ChrisC lent me ... And Out Come The Wolves, and I discovered I was quite wrong about everything. Firstly, Time Bomb hadn't been a current single, it was years old and I have no idea why MTV2 had been giving it do much airtime.
Secondly, Rancid are actually fantastic old-skool punk with a bit of ska. Like The Clash, but with better basslines. ... And Out Come The Wolves is an utterly wonderful album. Rancid playing in Brxiton in 2003 is up there on the list of best gigs I've ever been to.
I was having something of a dilemma about which track to post up, though. My favourites for Boogying to have always been Ruby Soho and Olympia WA which are big, sing-along tracks with little sophistication. They do, however, completely fail to show what a god of bassplaying Matt Freeman is. Other suggestions were the catchy Time Bomb itself, or one of the other singles like Roots Radical.
In the end, a completely unexpected outsider (with a not terribly remarkable bassline) won, simply because it was the one I was most enjoying Boogying to during my test-listening yesterday.
I really do recommend ... And Out Come The Wolves very highly. Though if you're a bass player, you should probably get Rancid as well, purely to listen to Axiom (which is mysteriously listed as Antom by Amazon).
