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Any AC/DC tune will result in me getting the air axe out, particularly Let There Be Rock or Back in Black

If everyone were to get hold of "Camel Walk" and put it on full volume I bet that all of us, individually, would move around our own residence in exactly the same way. Not jumping; more strutting. Try it.

My 3 best mates and I shared a Young Ones-style house when we were at college.

To get ourselves in the mood to go out of an evening we liked nothing better than to jump up on down on the sofa and easy chairs and take it in turn to play exciting songs to arouse the inner party animals in us. A particularly good song would lead to us jumping around the room from chair to sofa to chair whooping & hollering.

If somebody felt the music wasn't sufficently uplifting, however, it would be immediately yanked off the record player & (avert your eyes vinyl freaks) thrown across the room (to our great delight) and then replaced by the next choice.

In one corner of the room there was a sad mountain of records, scratched to high heaven and mixed in with remnants of kebab and fag ash and which clearly housed families of anxious looking rodents.

Particular jumping favourites (that never reached this slag heap of songs)included:

Breaking Down The Walls Of Heartache - Dexy's

Banana Splits - The Dickies

Wings of A Dove - Madness

and even (with less bouncing but more community singing)
Every day I write the book - Elvis costello

These songs and this bouncing would put us in the right state of mind to go drink 12 pints of snakebite, be sick, have a kebab, maybe a pernod & black or two, pull chick, suck face, cop feel and sometimes even more! So although this tradition played havoc with my record collection (which, pre-college, had been alphabetisised) it was worth it!!

...Nirvana's album Nevermind takes me back to my 1970s childhood, when a build-up of mildly toxic (and now illegal) food additives kept me in a state of perpetual hyperactivity.

In a similar student hovel in Cardiff in late 70's 'Hanging on the telephone' was normally followed by The Undertones 'Girls don't like it' containing the deathless intro
"Wasn't Eddie driving that car?"
"Yeah I don't go for him do you?"

Microscopic pause followed by loud, zillion miles an hour pop and bangs on the wall from the neighbours as we threw ourselves about.

28 years later I spent 6 weeks in hospital having my back 'fixed'. I'm sure the two events are not unrelated.....

....I shared a flat above the Leeds Permanent Building Society in Wood Green High Road with a bunch of blokes, one of which simply couldn't go out of an evening until he'd lined this track up on his Pioneer turntable with SME tone arm and accompanying dust bug and let fly at plaster-loosening volume.
He would accompany it with all the actions.
He was wearing only his underpants.

by Cheap Trick. Irresistible.

I once woke up to find The Only Ones' Another Girl Another Planet clicking away on the run out groove, an empty Jameson's bottle beside the record player and hazy recollections of jumping around.