The girls of the 1990s formed an army of belly dancers

[venta]

It'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'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.

The link to the mp3 will expire at some point in the future.

Today you are invited to Boogie At Your Desk to:

Herman Dune - 1, 2, 3 Apple Tree [mp3 download link expired, YouTube link may still be active]

Today I feel we should be dancing to something appropriate to the end of civilisation - but, er, the only obvious candidate appeared on BAYD years ago. And I don't know what else is good for dancing out the end of the world.

Paradise By The Dashboard Light Part III (Praying For The End Of Time), by Meat Loaf? Maybe not. Art Will Save The World, by Luke Haines? No, that's hardly a floor-filler. If anyone has any decent suggestions for the playlist for the end of days, please trot 'em out and we can dance while the world crumbles around our ears.

But right now, I don't appear to be able to think past REM so instead, we have a nice, gentle, completely non-apocalyptic (and non-Christmassy) track from the quirkily twee Herman Dune. 1, 2, 3 Apple Tree comes from Giant, but if you're new to Herman Dune I'd recommend checking out Not On Top.

Comments

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

I liked that, although it did remind me rather of The Woodentops (which, sorry, I prefer).

[venta.livejournal.com]

I don't know the Woodentops at all, but can see why you'd think of them :)

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Apocalyptic Disco:
Dancing With Tears In My Eyes
We Will All Go Together When We Go
Don't Fear The Reaper
The End
The Final Countdown
Gimme Shelter
The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Any More
Here Comes The Flood
Skyfall
The Sun Is Burning (oh, the guy who wrote this died last month, boo)
1999
The End of the World
Apocalypse Please

[phlebas.livejournal.com]

End of the World (by the Carpenters, or Future Sound of London, or Blackfield, or...)
Armageddon It
I Feel The Earth Move
Until The End Of The World
Waiting for the End of the World
Hurry Down Doomsday The Bugs Are Taking Over

I'll grant you some of those aren't very boogie-able.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

I'm Still Standing
I'm Still Here [Mitch Benn]
Still Standing
Still Alive
Not Dead Yet [from Spamalot]

End of the World (Carpenters) is The End of the World in my list. :)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yeah, boogie-able is a problem.... people seem to go all low-tempo and miserable when they're singing about the end of the world.

If by I Feel The Earth Move you meant the Martika one, I'll give you that :)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Quite a few of those I don't know by name, so am not sure who they're by. Others are a fair cop :)

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

In the most famous incarnations: Ultravox, Tom Lehrer, Blue Oyster Cult, The Doors, Europe, Rolling Stones, Walker Brothers (used very well in 'Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World'), Divine Comedy, Adele, Simon & Garfunkel, Prince, Carpenters, Muse. I reckon one could boogie - FSVOB - to most of those, although the folk song might take a bit too much creative licence.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I'm sure one could boogie to almost anything if sufficiently determined - and doubtless the end of the world would concentrate the mind wonderfully :)