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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.

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Today you are invited to Boogie At Your Desk to:

Violent Femmes - I Held Her In My Arms

Most of why I'd recommend the Violent Femmes can be deduced from the post I wrote a year ago after seeing them live.

Having said that, I was already a big fan of them from listening to a couple of CDs of theirs (initially pirate copies, I now own originals). Their debut album is very fine, but as an introduction I think I'd recommend the best-of, Add It Up.

The only Violent Femmes song anyone ever knows is Blister In The Sun, which is a grave shame. While it's a pretty good song, it's a pity that it's the only one you ever hear. I mean, it doesn't even have saxophones in it, never mind glockenspiel-wank. Nice bassline, though.

I'm not sure I Held Her In My Arms is really the song to start with, to be honest. I'm not sure it's representative. But it does have me Boogying At My Desk on a regular basis. So, er, why don't you Boogie to it too, then pop out and acquire a CD or two. Go on, you won't regret it.