I was dancing when I was twelve
Oct. 21st, 2005 06:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ventaYes, I know. It's stupid o'clock in the morning. But by three I shall be on a plane, flying my way towards the US. (Note for those who aren't keeping up: I'm off to the US for a fortnight.)
Be good, all of you, and no reading past the line til this afternoon, ok ?
It'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:
Johnny Cash - The One On The Left Is On The Right
I have vague memories of television coverage of Glastonbury '94. I forget who was presenting the show, but I remember them predicting that the best moment of the festival would be when a guy all in black stepped up to the mic and said:
Hi. I'm Johnny Cash.
At the time I wasn't really interested. Johnny Cash was some old guy, a country singer and I didn't like country.
Fast forward to a couple of years ago, and someone sent me a link to the video for Johnny Cash's cover of the NIN song Hurt. The video later went on to be nominated for about a million awards, and at the time I was completely bowled over by it. It remains one of my favourite music videos ever, and it's a wonderful version of the song.
It also served as my introduction to Johnny Cash, and I've been happily discovering his work ever since. There's, er, a lot of it. The One On The Right Is On the Left is at the light, cheerful, boppy end and it makes me laugh.
There are innumerable Cash best-ofs around for purchase. This one, for example, is very fine.
However, as a good introduction, I'd recommend Johnny Cash at San Quentin. It's a live recording of a prisoners' concert Cash did in San Quentin jail, complete with snippy asides to the guards. If you've ever seen this photo, I believe it was taken there as Cash gestured at the television crews who were persistently getting between him and the audience he cared about.
And do I still dislike country ? Er... I'm not sure I'm entirely clear what country is, exactly. Cash's songs are good songs, whether he's singing traditional ballads or covering industrial tracks. Banjos get involved occasionally, which I have to disapprove of, but glossing over that, I guess I must like country music. It talks to me in my sleep.
Be good, all of you, and no reading past the line til this afternoon, ok ?
It'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:
Johnny Cash - The One On The Left Is On The Right
I have vague memories of television coverage of Glastonbury '94. I forget who was presenting the show, but I remember them predicting that the best moment of the festival would be when a guy all in black stepped up to the mic and said:
Hi. I'm Johnny Cash.
At the time I wasn't really interested. Johnny Cash was some old guy, a country singer and I didn't like country.
Fast forward to a couple of years ago, and someone sent me a link to the video for Johnny Cash's cover of the NIN song Hurt. The video later went on to be nominated for about a million awards, and at the time I was completely bowled over by it. It remains one of my favourite music videos ever, and it's a wonderful version of the song.
It also served as my introduction to Johnny Cash, and I've been happily discovering his work ever since. There's, er, a lot of it. The One On The Right Is On the Left is at the light, cheerful, boppy end and it makes me laugh.
There are innumerable Cash best-ofs around for purchase. This one, for example, is very fine.
However, as a good introduction, I'd recommend Johnny Cash at San Quentin. It's a live recording of a prisoners' concert Cash did in San Quentin jail, complete with snippy asides to the guards. If you've ever seen this photo, I believe it was taken there as Cash gestured at the television crews who were persistently getting between him and the audience he cared about.
And do I still dislike country ? Er... I'm not sure I'm entirely clear what country is, exactly. Cash's songs are good songs, whether he's singing traditional ballads or covering industrial tracks. Banjos get involved occasionally, which I have to disapprove of, but glossing over that, I guess I must like country music. It talks to me in my sleep.
