Track of the Week - 10 April 2016
It's been a largely uneventful week so I'm going to have to make this tenuous. Our department at work moved offices. Not far, we just moved further down the corridor. Told you it was an uneventful week.
Rather stuck for office or corridor themed songs I found myself with this track. It opens 'In my* room, way at the end of the hall'** and as we've moved to the outer reaches of our floor it's as about as appropriate as I'm going to get this week.
From Marc Almond's side-project Marc and the Mambas, this track is from their patchily brilliant yet largely gloomy 1983 album Torment and Toreros. It's sad/depressing depending on your point of views and is a great vehicle for Almond's voice. Funny how someone who's sold 30 million records can be underrated.
It's been recorded many times, notably by The Walker Brothers, but as this is the one I know best this is what you're getting.
* It's not my room you understand. There's loads of us in there. I'm not bigtime like that.
**The next line is 'I sit and stare at the wall'. If anyone from work is reading, I don't do that.
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