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ventaIt'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 a guest tune from ChrisC:
The James Taylor Quartet - Blow Up [link to mp3 expired, YouTube link may still be active]
(For the avoidance of confusion: The James Taylor Quartet does not involve James Taylor. At least, not that James Taylor.)
This is a bit of a con in many ways; for years ChrisC has been suggesting tunes for BAYD. However, that's a side effect of our having largely overlapping[*] taste in music, talking about music a lot, and having access to each other's CDs.
However! On any number of occasions when I've been wandering around the flat on a Friday morning asking "What shall we boogie to this afternoon?" he's suggested Blow Up.
Go on, he says, it's great. He met it in The Coven[**] in early university days, and finally learned what it was after asking the DJ on a number of separate occasions. It's a fun floor-filler, and ideally suited to at-desk boogying.
And I've always said "... nah" because although it's upbeat and it's got woogly Hammond organ I just don't really get it.
ChrisC's top tip is to buy Mission Impossible for all the instrumental Hammond Organ fun you could possibly want, and then ignore everything else the JTQ ever did. (If you're curious then yes, it does include the theme from Mission Impossible.)
And if you fancy providing the next guest tune, you should recommend one.
[*] According to ChrisC, I like good music and all that gothy shit.
[**] A now-sadly-deceased nightclub in Oxford, home to various club nights including the fabulous Panic! organised by the Indie Music Society when we were first years.
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 a guest tune from ChrisC:
The James Taylor Quartet - Blow Up [link to mp3 expired, YouTube link may still be active]
(For the avoidance of confusion: The James Taylor Quartet does not involve James Taylor. At least, not that James Taylor.)
This is a bit of a con in many ways; for years ChrisC has been suggesting tunes for BAYD. However, that's a side effect of our having largely overlapping[*] taste in music, talking about music a lot, and having access to each other's CDs.
However! On any number of occasions when I've been wandering around the flat on a Friday morning asking "What shall we boogie to this afternoon?" he's suggested Blow Up.
Go on, he says, it's great. He met it in The Coven[**] in early university days, and finally learned what it was after asking the DJ on a number of separate occasions. It's a fun floor-filler, and ideally suited to at-desk boogying.
And I've always said "... nah" because although it's upbeat and it's got woogly Hammond organ I just don't really get it.
ChrisC's top tip is to buy Mission Impossible for all the instrumental Hammond Organ fun you could possibly want, and then ignore everything else the JTQ ever did. (If you're curious then yes, it does include the theme from Mission Impossible.)
And if you fancy providing the next guest tune, you should recommend one.
[*] According to ChrisC, I like good music and all that gothy shit.
[**] A now-sadly-deceased nightclub in Oxford, home to various club nights including the fabulous Panic! organised by the Indie Music Society when we were first years.
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Date: 2013-03-15 03:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-03-15 03:16 pm (UTC)(And there's a bonus extra kudo for anyone who can tell me why I used it as a subject line... the usual policy of "a lyric about dancing from the featured band" falls a bit flat when they go and get all instrumental on you.)
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Date: 2013-03-15 03:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-03-15 04:10 pm (UTC)Extreme longshot guess: The horribly out-of-place looking dancer in the video is called something Robinson?
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Date: 2013-03-15 04:28 pm (UTC)no subject
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