juff @juffowup.bsky.social

Probably the opposite mood you're trying to invoke but I thought about this song a lot earlier this week when I learned from a cryptic crossword (The Guardian probably?) that apparently "go west" is an idiom in the UK meaning "to die" and I listened to it three times and man it's just haunting now.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 08, 2024 at 05:32 UTC

That was actually one of the reasons they covered it. Their version was an ode to those lost to the AIDs epidemic, at a time when it was still technically illegal to 'promote' homosexuality on TV.

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