Can you dig it? - The Mock Turtles

This track shows just how far you can go in popular music with a good guitar riff properly laid down (something the song originally lacked when first recorded, apparently). As so often in popular music, the lyrics are totally inconsequential. Again, that may be because the title came before the song - it is apparently a line from the controversial 1979 film The Warriors (based on a 1965 novel by Sol Yurick). The whole thing probably took no time at all to write, although the recording may have taken a little longer. The Fat Boy Slim and Simon Thornton remix came out in 2003 (the original was a 1991 production)  and shows evidence of a lot of tinkering. The one bit of noticable inventiveness is the way the backing ceases at the beginning of the chorus and during the striking phrase "someone turned the light on". Although you could not listen to this too many times back to back without getting a little bored, it certainly makes you want to move.