As we say goodbye to 2024, let’s take a break from the mid-winter greys and time-travel back a few months to peak fall foliage for this little rendition of Billy Bragg’s classic, made even more famous by the late, great Kirsty MacColl.

Back in October, the two of us were both, unusually, in the same place at the same time – namely New England, and the autumnal shades had us trying to choose songs we could do with a New Englandy theme.

Well, there’s one that literally has those words in its title, even if it’s not actually referring to north eastern USA, so how could we not? Look out for an errant leaf getting in on the act. 😉 Shot on location around New England.

So last month we were about to post this little fun They Might Be Giants song when world events cast a bit of a pall on stuff. So we did a different TMBG song instead. Anyway, one month and a bit on, perhaps there’s enough headspace for us to indulge in this little bit of nonsense for a couple of minutes. So join us as we go on down to Cowtown – a song that dates back to something like 1977, according to writers John Linnell and John Flansburgh, and predates They Might Be Giants as a band! It was released in 1988 on the album “Lincoln”, where we did not go to film the video (boooo!). However, the video was filmed in quite a few places – see if you can figure out all the wheres!

For the technically curious, the scream sound in the original is apparently “SCREAM2” from the Fairlight CMI library – we only had “SCREAM5” to hand, so that’s why it’s different. 😉

Also, see if you can spot all the things that are not cows.