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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'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 are invited to Boogie At Your Desk to:

Hard-Fi - Tied Up Too Tight [link expired]

Earlier this afternoon, I received an email which just had the subject line "BAMD!" The email had no body, but in context I reckoned I could guess pretty well what the sender was B-ing at their D to.

Anyway, I was slightly jealous, and decided that there probably wasn't enough B-ing going on in general, and thus we should have an occasional BAYD just to liven things up a bit.

I've had Hard-Fi in my head all week, ever since the drive last Saturday night round to

lathany and

bateleur's house. That's the trouble with songs that reference place names.

As we journeyed straight[*] out of West London I was cheerfully warbling away to myself (I fear to the annoyance of ChrisC who was rather hoping I'd tell him which exit to take, and was possibly less interested in whether or not Feltham was singing out).

I think Tied Up Too Tight is a much underrated song; a slow-burner rather than an immediate boppy number. The album from which it comes, Stars of CCTV is also quite worthwhile, especially since the likes of Fopp (hurray! Fopp's re-opened!) are flogging it for a mere £3 these days.

[*] Where by "straight" I mean extremely slowly. My advice to you: do not attempt to drive through Neasden during Diwali. Or in fact anywhere near Neasden.

Neasden, in the London borough of Brent = The Shri Swaminarayan Mandir = arguably the largest Hindu temple outside of India. So the only thing which could be said about the traffic on Saturday was that it wasn't half as bad as the traffic on the Friday (the main day of Diwali).

Still, at least they gave me fireworks to watch on Friday while I sat in my traffic jam. Someone had spent serious money on those fireworks.