Songs that start off really exciting

Do you ever get that thing with songs where the start of them is just really, really, exciting.

Like they've sat down and thought, how can we make this song really, really exciting, so that when it starts, people just feel all tingly and they've got butterflies in their stomach and say they're at a wedding disco or something and they just go a bit crazy, they jump up, maybe spilling a glass of beer on the way, grab their friends who are perfectly happily having a normal conversation and then once you've dragged your friends out onto the dance floor and forcibly wheeled your friend in a wheelchair out onto the floor knowing he had no choice in the matter, that's when the song starts proper.

It's like the actual start of the song was a false start, it's like it's an advert for the song but it's not the actual song.

And then you're into the song proper and you're standing on the dance floor with your friends and you know, it's in your eyes, that the song's not really that good, and then you, slightly embarrassed, because you've dragged everyone there, then have to over compensate for the song and start doing all this crazy dancing to try and get everyone into it, but you know.

And they know.

And you know they know.

And no amount of disco pointing or inane grinning or spinning your wheelchair bound friend around is going to disguise the fact. The start of the song was the best bit.

It's a bit like going for a curry.

You sit down, you order, you have poppadoms and a cold, lager. You order all manner of bhunas and kormas and baltis that you think you want and then you're eating the poppadoms and drinking the lager and thinking, "this is great, why don't I come for curries, like all the time, why don't I eat curry for breakfast?"

And then they take the poppadoms away and the main course comes and you just don't want it. And then they bring another dish and another dish and you think, did we really order all of this.

And then fleetingly the idea comnes into your head, do we have to pay for everything we've ordered if we don't actually eat it, could we send some thing back, because of course, if you ran a restaurant and someone ordered something and then when it came they said they no longer wanted what they'd asked you to cook do they still have to pay for it,of course, if that were you, you'd be cool with that.

So that's the thing.

It's the same thing with poppadoms and the pointer sisters. And there's a sentence you don;t hear too often.

The first bit's always the best bit.

But you never learn. I never learn. If the pointer sisters came on right now, despite knowing all the things I know I would still be consumed by the start of the song, and try and grab someone, the nearest person to me and get them to get up and dance.

I have an infinite capacity for forgetting lessons learned.

(then as I walk off, track starts again and do this, adopt maniacal look and try and grab some poor bastard from the audience.)