It Took Seconds

Five minutes and fifty seconds: Today’s deadline has snuck up on me rather - and five minutes fifty is a rich seam. I could have written something on “Skank Bloc Bologna” and the arbitrariness of song length when you’re learning on the job. I could have written something about “Like A Prayer” or “Common People” - yer bona fide pop anthems, which make superb use of their almost-six minutes. But I’ve written enough for any man about “Common People” and “Like A Prayer”, like all upcoming Popular entries, is embargoed.

So honestly there was only one choice I could make. And here, for the third or fourth time in my internet career, is “Tickle Tune” by Sex Boots Dread. Thanks as ever to Tim Hopkins for finding this thing and bringing it into my life in the first place.

What 5’50” track would you have picked?