They're not trying on the dance floor, no

[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.

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

Today you are invited to Boogie At Your Desk to:

Tullycraft - The Punks Are Writing Lovesongs [link to mp3 download expired, YouTube link may still be active]

I was contemplating, for the first time, having a BAYD double-header today. Because I just couldn't decide which Tullycraft song we should be boogying to. I've eventually gone with The Punks Are Writing Lovesongs, but if you're up for a double-length boogy workout I strongly recommend you have a little dance to Fangs on Bats as well.

Tullycraft have been around a while, and (until ChrisC met them on a Rough Trade compilation recently) I have been shamefully ignorant of them. Which really just isn't good enough, because they are most excellent.

Anyone else know of them?
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Anyway, our household is slowly working its way through their back catalogue in chronological order. Earlier albums are a bit lo-fi and a bit shaky in places, but still excellent. More recent stuff is brilliant.

And even better, for the first time in five years, they're active again and back in the studio and have just released a new single.

Anyway, if you like any of those songs, or like a bit of twee indie pop, or think you approve of songs with titles like Pop Songs Your New Boyfriend's Too Stupid To Know About, or have any interest at all in a band who cover Helen Love you should purchase Every Scene Needs a Center (available on emusic).

You can also listen to Tullycraft stuff on myspace. But really, you should buy the album. Not least because I'd like to astroturf enough support that they'll think it's worth playing in the UK ever again :)

You can keep your punk rock, ska, rap beats and house.

Comments

[lnr]

I thought "I quite like that, and have an Amazon gift voucher to spend" and followed the link - but it turns out I probably only liked it about £5 or £8, and not more like £10. Interesting!

[venta.livejournal.com]

You could have it on mp3 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Every-Scene-Needs-a-Center/dp/B001L9U2CA/ref=dm_cd_album_lnk) for <£8 :)

Annoyingly, physical CDs are not as trivial to track down (particularly not at decent prices!) as I'd like...

[lnr]

It's weird - I tend to be OK with downloads for the odd track - but I still really want whole albums on actual CD. I'm sure I'll grow out of it in time :)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Well, I haven't grown out of it either. I do actually download a lot of albums from eMusic, but I can't help noticing that the ones I really like I then go and buy on CD so I've properly got them :)

I'm glad you quite liked it, anyway, even if not enough to shell out for an extortioante import!

[zenithed.livejournal.com]

Am dead excited about the new single too. Have high hopes they'll play Indietracks in the summer (in which case they'll probably have a London warm-up gig as well).

[venta.livejournal.com]

Oooh, ooh, ooh, you reckon?

/me marks Indietracks in calendar, just because.

[zenithed.livejournal.com]

I've got nothing to go on, but they've not played there before so you never know. Helen Love has been rumoured as well.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I've heard general rumours about Helen Love and her possible impending live existence.

Although by contrast, I was a bit disappointed by her latest single :(

(And quite excited about Pulp's, and rather underwhelmed by Bowie's...)

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Although I guess Tullycraft should probably be just the sort of thing I like, I don't, much, for some reason. I have their version of 'Girl About Town' and that's it. Maybe it sounds to me a bit like they're trying too hard.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Although I'm conceptually excited about Helen Love covers, I concede that their version of Girl About Town isn't really up to much.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Not as good as Ash's 'Punk Boy', for sure.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Few things are :)

I'm a huge fan of Get Ready by the Temptations, and ChrisC got me a single with Ash's cover of it on the b-side for my birthday last year. It's pretty good, but it's still no Punk Boy.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

And their version of 'Goldfinger' was hopeless; nothing like the Shirley Bassey original at all :-)

[venta.livejournal.com]

:)