Tim: I’ve recently been gradually watching my way through all nine years of The Office —
Tom: Crikey. That’s a lot of cringe-humour: I can’t take more than an episode of it, generally.
Tim: — and in one episode there was a sort of party room set up where the employees to go to dance when they got stressed. This was one of the tracks that was played, and it’s really quite good.
Tim: It’s not a very nice track, lyrically – “you wear me out, there’s nothing I can do” – but play this loud and dammit, it’s just a good party track.
Tom: It is, and I’m surprised I haven’t heard it before. I thought it sounded about a decade old, and was rather glad a bit of research discovered that I was more or less exactly right.
Tim: You were indeed. The sound just works, like so many pop/indie/rock/punk tracks did back in the mid-00s. Stick this on a playlist with Blink 182, New Found Glory, Bowling For Soup, Boys Like Girls and all the others, whack the speakers up, splurge a load of spirits into a bowl with a token litre of pineapple juice and you’ve got yourself the recipe for a great house party.
Tom: Or a terrible one.
Tim: Ah, the wonderful Mongrels. A song for every occasion.