Slow down and dance with me. Yeah, slow.
Jun. 30th, 2006 03:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ventaIt'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 occasional 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:
The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
Many moons ago I went to a club, heard a song, liked it, and subsequently googled for the lyrics. I concluded it must be Such Great Heights, by Iron & Wine. Then![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pigeonhed told me Iron & Wine was "a bit Will Oldham-ish", and I concluded that I must be wrong.
The other day, rummaging through the directory of my mp3 collection named Random_Shite, I found a track called Such Great Heights. It turned out to be by The Postal Service, and be the one I'd heard[*] (so I'd had it on my HD all the time...). I like it. It's a bit on the gentle side for Boogying At Your Desk, but we all have quiet days.
I believe this is the original, with Iron & Wine covering it for the Garden State sountrack. Which, incidentally, is a very fine film.
A while back, obtaining information on bands from my favourite source (the ladies' in Kilburn Luminaire, more on that another day), I observed that someone had written in several of the cubicles, in fancy script, Such Great Heights. In one cubicle, someone had scribbled over the top "fucking emo twats". Not everyone's cup of tea, then.
I have yet to purchase the album by The Postal Service (who are, if it interests you, a postal collaboration between someone I've not heard of who records as Dntel and the vocalist from Death Cab For Cutie). If anyone has heard it, do let me know what it's like. The above track, another track, and various videos can be downloaded legitimately from The Postal Service's owb website.
[*] Yes, if anyone checked back, I did claim it was a female vocalist. Which it isn't. Which just shows how bad I am at that kind of thing.
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 occasional 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:
The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
Many moons ago I went to a club, heard a song, liked it, and subsequently googled for the lyrics. I concluded it must be Such Great Heights, by Iron & Wine. Then
pigeonhed told me Iron & Wine was "a bit Will Oldham-ish", and I concluded that I must be wrong.The other day, rummaging through the directory of my mp3 collection named Random_Shite, I found a track called Such Great Heights. It turned out to be by The Postal Service, and be the one I'd heard[*] (so I'd had it on my HD all the time...). I like it. It's a bit on the gentle side for Boogying At Your Desk, but we all have quiet days.
I believe this is the original, with Iron & Wine covering it for the Garden State sountrack. Which, incidentally, is a very fine film.
A while back, obtaining information on bands from my favourite source (the ladies' in Kilburn Luminaire, more on that another day), I observed that someone had written in several of the cubicles, in fancy script, Such Great Heights. In one cubicle, someone had scribbled over the top "fucking emo twats". Not everyone's cup of tea, then.
I have yet to purchase the album by The Postal Service (who are, if it interests you, a postal collaboration between someone I've not heard of who records as Dntel and the vocalist from Death Cab For Cutie). If anyone has heard it, do let me know what it's like. The above track, another track, and various videos can be downloaded legitimately from The Postal Service's owb website.
[*] Yes, if anyone checked back, I did claim it was a female vocalist. Which it isn't. Which just shows how bad I am at that kind of thing.
