You also have to watch the ridiculous "literal video version":
www.dailymotion.com/video/x71wj1p
Whoever had the idea for these videos is a comedic genius. Make sure to check out some others.
![The Beatles - The Beatles - Penny Lane (Official Music Video) [Remastered 2015]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uctjshovdbg2nuvppzqdhbrn/bafkreicii467b5pie6sc26ospvrl6uzpfno7v6oc3d7pdtn6pxt32cu3ke)
1000 Awesome #Songs in random order (189/1000)
The Beatles - Penny Lane
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-rB...
Favourite Lyrics:
"Behind the shelter in the middle of a roundabout
A pretty nurse is selling poppies from a tray
And though she feels as if she's in a play
She is anyway"
Komodo Dragon
Tiger
Collared trogon
Golden-headed lion tamarin
Finally made it to the London Zoo @londonzoo.bsky.social yesterday. Lovely weather and lots of interesting animals.
Cheers, and you!
#154 #Photoblog
1000 Awesome #Songs in random order (188/1000)
Rod Stewart - Baby Jane
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxl2...
Favourite Lyrics:
"The lesson learned was so hard to swallow
But I know that I'll survive
I'm gonna take a good look at myself and cry"
#153 #Photoblog
1000 Awesome #Songs in random order (187/1000)
Chris Rea - Windy Town
youtu.be/NCIeYowstYo
Favourite Lyrics:
"No car for kissing and nowhere to go
Except inside each other and I loved you so
I held your face as you shivered in the rain
Girl, I'll always love you and I'll love you again"
Good old Ilja Richter. "O M D im Z D F" is probably the worst introduction ("Anmoderation") I have ever heard, though German TV generally had a very high cringe factor back then.
#152 #Photoblog
1000 Awesome #Songs in random order (186/1000)
Peter Gabriel - Digging In The Dirt
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0C3...
Favourite Lyrics:
"Don't talk back, just drive the car
Shut your mouth, I know what you are
Don't say nothing, keep your hands on the wheel
Don't turn around, this is for real"
#151 #Photoblog
Backlit leaves
A purplish fern.
Palm leaves
A red and yellow tropical plant.
First time in RHS Wisley Garden this year.
1000 Awesome #Songs in random order (185/1000)
Hello Saferide - Berlin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1xL...
Favourite Lyrics:
"Do you recall the greatest lie you told
You made me feel like I could be
Just anything, just everything
Like you could see things hidden in me"
#150 #Photoblog
Please let this be good! Please let this be good! Please let this be good! Please let this be good! Please let this be good! Please let this be good! Please let this be good! Please let this be good! Please let this be good! Please let this be good!
#LifeIsStrange
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrxm...
I will always associate this song with Hongkong, Silvester 2002. I loaded it (and some other songs) on my new MP3-player (remember those?) and just went walking through the city for three days on my own.
1000 Awesome #Songs in random order (184/1000)
Our Lady Peace - Somewhere Out There
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SzF...
Favourite Lyrics:
"Last time I talked to you
You were lonely and out of place
You were looking down on me
Lost out in space"
#149 #Photoblog
Reducing the fees for EU students COULD cost universities £140m IF the reduction did not increase demand, which it almost certainly would. Could it be the government is actually more worried about higher numbers than universities' income? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
1000 Awesome #Songs in random order (183/1000)
The All-American Rejects - Swing, Swing
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktyp...
Favourite Lyrics:
"Did you think that I would cry
On the phone?
Do you know what it feels like
Being alone?
I'll find someone new"
#148 #Photoblog
1000 Awesome #Songs in random order (182/1000)
Bic Runga, Dan Wilson - Good Morning Baby
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlUn...
Favourite Lyrics:
"Between an overload of information
And a striving for a pure dedication
I find myself looking for the exit sign"
#147 #Photoblog
After listening to the latest #TheRestIsPolitics podcast discussing AI drone strikes, I am now convinced that in the apocalypse, humans will life underground while swarms of solar powered, self-repairing and -producing drones bomb anything that moves on the surface. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxX5...
1000 Awesome #Songs in random order (180/1000)
Lonely Dear - Sum
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-Ie6h7gXrc
Favourite Lyrics:
"Sum it up, all's been done.
Someone forgives you, the done is done"
International, The Romance of the Telescope, Silent Running, Radio Waves and Of All the Things We've Made are all great and accessible tracks, but I think many listeners never really gave them a chance because the experimental stuff coming earlier put them off. At least that was the case for me.
I wonder if Dazzle Ships, released yesterday 43 years ago, would have been a bigger success if #OMD had chosen a different the track order.
I initially rejected the album fairly quickly, but now it's one of my favourites.
#126 #Photoblog
1000 Awesome #Songs in random order (181/1000)
The Dangerous Summer - Where Were You When The Sky Opened Up
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkGD...
Favourite lyrics:
"I'd ask them for forgiveness
If I think they could discern it
I know I lost the one
And now I lost the way"