Any old dance that you wanna do, but let's dance

[venta]

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:

Ripchord - Pretty Boring [link expired]

Well, I've acquired a bunch of really great albums so far this year. Fever Ray. Amanda Palmer. The Horrors. The Low Anthem. PJ Harvey and John Parish. Mark Lanegan. They're all top, and you should check all or any of them out.

But BAYD and musical integrity never had more than a passing acquaintance, did they ? No, BAYD is all about big, dumb tracks to bounce along to on a Friday afternoon.

Accordingly, I present Ripchord, whom I encountered supporting The Twang some time last year. I ordered their album from their myspace page a couple of weeks ago (I think they're too small and rubbish to be on Amazon), and have been revelling in the sort of pop-rock that cannot legally be created by anyone over the age of 17 (I fear I may also be over the legal listening age).

Go on, buy a copy of Beginners Luck. It's only a tenner with p&p and will provide ideal driving-in-the-sunshine music.

Comments

[ext2366.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this tip. I'd never heard of Ripchord before.

Shameless self-promotion.

People can listen to the whole album for free[1] on the site I work for (We7) at
http://www.we7.com/album/Beginners-Luck?albumId=216272

Unfortunately it's not currently purchasable because Sony didn't include them in the last batch of high bitrate content. It should be available over the next month or two, and will cost about £8.25 for an MP3 download. Of course you'd get a real shiny CD from their myspace page for only a tenner.

[1] With audio adverts, but you can get a month without adverts using a promotion code on my lj.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Coo, I've not heard of We7. I'll keep half an eye on them for my downloadables, thanks!

[phlebas.livejournal.com]

Is the Lanegan one top enough that I won't just be bemoaning the lack of Isobel Campbell all the way through?

[venta.livejournal.com]

I think the considered opinions of myself and ChrisC were that it's not as good as Ballad of the Broken Seas, but better than Sunday at Devil Dirt.

This album is the first time I've really heard Mark Lanegan's solo stuff. It now seems kind of ridiculous that I originally bought Ballad of the Broken Seas because I was a fan of Belle & Sebastian :)

[phlebas.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I bought Ballad of the Broken Seas for the same reason and only quite liked it, whereas Sunday at Devil Dirt was one of the sexiest things ever and one of my favourite albums of last year. Reckon it's likely to be in between whichever way up we see things?

[venta.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I dunno. I haven't listened to SaDD so much as I don't own it - will nobble ChrisC's copy over the weekend and have a rethink.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Afraid I'll have to sample that when I (eventually) get home, as this office doesn't have my carefully worded IT policy. [grin]

However, I've got a couple of recommendations too (the support acts from the Therapy? gig), except that I'm not going to get to write a review until later today at the earliest.

Thanks for the tip, though!

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

I fear I may also be over the legal listening age

Are you dead? No? Listen to whatever you like, then! ;-P

[venta.livejournal.com]

I clearly am doing, I'm just slightly in fear of being arrested by the Musical Police :)

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I even know what they approve of these days!

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

revelling in the sort of pop-rock that cannot legally be created by anyone over the age of 17

Apparently Dodgy are doing a reunion tour this summer.