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It’s not often that you see the clock on the silo saying eleven degrees while it’s the month of May. Certainly it’s the first time I’ve seen it since they refurbished the clock. Though I wasn’t high on the hill, nor was I looking over the bridge, but I was on the train instead (and I did whiz past the MCG).

This time last year the clock was in pieces so it wasn’t displaying anything at all, let alone eleven degrees. However, I was almost wondering if it’d happen this year since a few other times when I’ve been past in the last month it’s been switched off. One other time it was displaying 60˚ (I hope it meant Fahrenheit in that instance otherwise 60˚ is damn hot!) then later that day it was also switched off. Additionally the LEDs don’t provide the same viewing angle as the previous lightbulb things. Doesn’t look as though the refurbishment has been too smooth.

Remember this song?

I get knocked down but I get up again
You’re never gonna keep me down
I get knocked down but I get up again
You’re never gonna keep me down
….
Pissing the night away

Well apparently this song is now a golden oldie! I was driving along (having dropped my sister off at work where there are a lack of Sunday buses) and while flicking through radio stations, it came on. Though the radio station was non-other than Gold FM!

Seems a little crazy when it’s not only a song that was released during my lifetime, but also was all the rage when I was in my early teens. Kinda makes me feel a little old now.

None the less, was reading a little about the band. I always assumed that they were something of a one hit wonder, though they were actually more of a political band from the 80s. So it seems that they had just signed to EMI at around the time of Tubthumping and the label was doing as large labels do by flogging them to death. So that has to explain why they suddenly became so big for such a short while.

I’m certainly no anarchist and it was their most apolitical anyway, though the song can certainly parallel in life where one sets out to bring about some form of change. Whether that’s to do with public transport, technology or something else all together.