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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.

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

Today you are invited to Boogie At Your Desk to:

The Koffin Kats - Locket of Sin [link to mp3 download expired, YouTube link may still be active]

While I was Whitby in the autumn,

ceb and

damerell kept talking about "psychobilly". I concluded it was probably a name they'd made up, until Mysterious Anthony confirmed that it was a thing-comma-existent.

It seems there's a Wikipedia page about it and everything[*].

Anyway, on the principle that reading about genres is vaguely pointless, I asked for some band recommendations (preferably current). CEB said The Brains, and secondarily, The Koffin Kats.

I trotted off to do some downloading, which included Our Way & The Highway by the Koffin Kats, which I have been very much enjoying.

I'm not sure if I know what psychobilly is yet, though. And I fear CEB is going to tell me I've chosen a track which rather fails as an exemplar :)

If you do eMusic, then you can get Our Way & The Highway (and a bunch of other albums) from them (as I did).

[*] Trivia fans may wish to know that Wikipedia, he say: The term "psychobilly" was first used in the lyrics to the country song "One Piece at a Time", written by Wayne Kemp for Johnny Cash, which was a Top 10 hit in the United States in 1976.
Yay, I'm a big fan of One Piece at a Time, as well.