Save the last dance for me
Dec. 30th, 2005 02:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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.
This link will expire at some point in the future.
Today you were invited to Boogie At Your Desk to:
Shed 3 The Killers - Mr. Brightside
Some time ago, I received an mp3 via email for a (then practically unknown) song. I liked it immensely, and found myself Boogying whilst sitting at my office desk. Often, I would look up to find![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ach glaring at me over the top of his notebook screen. "You", he would say, in tones of great contempt, "are bopping again". Thus was the idea of BAYD born.
The mp3 was of Mr Brightside. Later, when I'd bought the album and Shed 3 had spilled all over the music press, I found myself Boogying with equal pleasure to Somebody Told Me. The album, Hot Fuss, is actually a bit of a fillerfest, but I think it's worth it for those two songs alone.
Now, while I don't expect that I'm liable to stop posting mp3s, this is the last of the weekly BAYD posts. I missed three Fridays this year, making this the 49th.
I expect BAYD will still pop up for special occasions - Christmas, a particularly good upcoming gig, the anniversary of the Queen's accession and so on. However, I hope you've all grown, become better people, and have learnt how to Boogie At Your Desks; you shouldn't need me to provide your Top Tunes any more.
If anybody is interested, here's the complete list of songs provided for Boogying At Desks throughout this year:
(things in []s denote weeks where I failed to post up a tune)
Week 1: Dogs Die In Hot Cats - Godhopping
Silver Sun - Lava
Adam Green - Emily
Hoodoo Gurus - I Want You Back
Baxendale - Music for Girls
Bloc Party - Banquet (Disco Phones Remix)
[off sick]
Dropkick Murphys - Heroes From Our Past
St Etienne - He's On The Phone
Week 10: The Housemartins - We're Not Deep
The Coral - Dreaming Of You
[Good Friday]
Idlewild - You Held The World In Your Arms
Andrew WK - Ready To Die
The Clash - Spanish Bombs
Helen Love - Does Your Heart Go Booooom?
Less Than Jake - All My Best Friends Are Metalheads
4ft Fingers - Busted
Jools Holland - Dr Jazz
Week 20: Buzzcocks - Orgasm Addict
The Only Ones - Another Girl Another Planet
Punish The Atom - Filthy Advice
Ash - Kung Fu
Magnetic Fields - The Luckiest Guy On The Lower East Side
The Zutons - Remember Me
The Jam - Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
Britney Spears - Toxic
The Ramones - Rockaway Beach
REM - It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Week 30: Luke Haines and the Auteurs - Lenny Valentino (Das Capital version)
New Model Army - Ambition
Telstarr - Beserk
Blyth Power - Summer Song
The Witches of Elswick - Honey For The Bee
Manuskript - No Reprise (Tenebrae Mix)
[off sick]
Barenaked Ladies - New Kid (On The Block)
Snug - Supermodel (el version del Muttley Crew)
Joie/DBG - Another Journey
Week 40: Rancid - Old Friend
PWEI - Def Con One
Johnny Cash - The One On The Right Is On The Left
Zombina and the Skeletones - Horror Highschool
The Front Lawn - When You Come Back Home
Smoking Popes - Writing a Letter
The KLF - Last Train To Trancentral
Carter USM - Let's Get Tattoos
Violent Femmes - I Held Her In My Arms
Flanders and Swann - A Transport of Delight
Week 50: Lush - Hypocrite
Sultans of Ping - Xmas Bubble Gum Machine
Shed 3 - Mr Brightside
Thanks to all those who've expressed interest in the BAYD tracks, those who've commented on them and especially those who actually went and bought albums as a result :)
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.
This link will expire at some point in the future.
Today you were invited to Boogie At Your Desk to:
Some time ago, I received an mp3 via email for a (then practically unknown) song. I liked it immensely, and found myself Boogying whilst sitting at my office desk. Often, I would look up to find
ach glaring at me over the top of his notebook screen. "You", he would say, in tones of great contempt, "are bopping again". Thus was the idea of BAYD born. The mp3 was of Mr Brightside. Later, when I'd bought the album and Shed 3 had spilled all over the music press, I found myself Boogying with equal pleasure to Somebody Told Me. The album, Hot Fuss, is actually a bit of a fillerfest, but I think it's worth it for those two songs alone.
Now, while I don't expect that I'm liable to stop posting mp3s, this is the last of the weekly BAYD posts. I missed three Fridays this year, making this the 49th.
I expect BAYD will still pop up for special occasions - Christmas, a particularly good upcoming gig, the anniversary of the Queen's accession and so on. However, I hope you've all grown, become better people, and have learnt how to Boogie At Your Desks; you shouldn't need me to provide your Top Tunes any more.
If anybody is interested, here's the complete list of songs provided for Boogying At Desks throughout this year:
(things in []s denote weeks where I failed to post up a tune)
Week 1: Dogs Die In Hot Cats - Godhopping
Silver Sun - Lava
Adam Green - Emily
Hoodoo Gurus - I Want You Back
Baxendale - Music for Girls
Bloc Party - Banquet (Disco Phones Remix)
[off sick]
Dropkick Murphys - Heroes From Our Past
St Etienne - He's On The Phone
Week 10: The Housemartins - We're Not Deep
The Coral - Dreaming Of You
[Good Friday]
Idlewild - You Held The World In Your Arms
Andrew WK - Ready To Die
The Clash - Spanish Bombs
Helen Love - Does Your Heart Go Booooom?
Less Than Jake - All My Best Friends Are Metalheads
4ft Fingers - Busted
Jools Holland - Dr Jazz
Week 20: Buzzcocks - Orgasm Addict
The Only Ones - Another Girl Another Planet
Punish The Atom - Filthy Advice
Ash - Kung Fu
Magnetic Fields - The Luckiest Guy On The Lower East Side
The Zutons - Remember Me
The Jam - Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
Britney Spears - Toxic
The Ramones - Rockaway Beach
REM - It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Week 30: Luke Haines and the Auteurs - Lenny Valentino (Das Capital version)
New Model Army - Ambition
Telstarr - Beserk
Blyth Power - Summer Song
The Witches of Elswick - Honey For The Bee
Manuskript - No Reprise (Tenebrae Mix)
[off sick]
Barenaked Ladies - New Kid (On The Block)
Snug - Supermodel (el version del Muttley Crew)
Joie/DBG - Another Journey
Week 40: Rancid - Old Friend
PWEI - Def Con One
Johnny Cash - The One On The Right Is On The Left
Zombina and the Skeletones - Horror Highschool
The Front Lawn - When You Come Back Home
Smoking Popes - Writing a Letter
The KLF - Last Train To Trancentral
Carter USM - Let's Get Tattoos
Violent Femmes - I Held Her In My Arms
Flanders and Swann - A Transport of Delight
Week 50: Lush - Hypocrite
Sultans of Ping - Xmas Bubble Gum Machine
Shed 3 - Mr Brightside
Thanks to all those who've expressed interest in the BAYD tracks, those who've commented on them and especially those who actually went and bought albums as a result :)
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Date: 2005-12-30 06:56 pm (UTC)Jolly good show! Sad to see BAYD leave its regular slot but I'm sure it's for the best and you've another trick up your sleeve.