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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.

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