#buddy Holly everyday

[biceratops7]

So about Buddy Holly…

Guys my heart is gonna burst 😭, so I was watching the trailer and pausing it every two seconds to catch every detail (you know, having a normal one), when I got a bit fixated on the music.

I had the idea to sing along to the parts of the score that were recognizably the melody to “Everyday” in order. (So the tune would play the equivalent of the first verse, then some vocalizing would happen, then the tune again but this time it’d be the second verse, so in and so forth.)

And you won’t believe what verse is playing over that scene where Aziraphale flashes back to the candlelight dinner, it’s a real shocker /s:

“Everyday, it's a-gettin' faster

Everyone said, "Go up and ask her"

Love like yours will surely come my way

A-hey, a-hey, hey”

…So uh… putting aside the fact that the implications are very adorable (encouraging Aziraphale to just have a nice time with Crowley and don’t overthink it), it also sure sounds familiar.

MARK MY WORDS, something Happened at that damn dinner. He worked up the courage to invite Crowley inside for what was an obvious date, then Crowley probably, you know, acted accordingly, and Aziraphale got overwhelmed. Like babe no offense but I feel like you went to fast for yourself, lmao.

So now let’s pay close attention to the actual part containing sung lyrics, with the only discernible lines being:

“everyday, it’s a gettin’ closer,

Going faster than a roller coaster,

Love like yours will surely come my way”

So interestingly “love like yours” plays specifically when the trailer reaches its climax, flashing image after image to tell us to expect some element of chaos and urgency in the events to come. This is maybe a reach but it’s gotten me even more convinced that the romance(s?) aren’t gonna simply be a very important B plot but directly effecting whatever strangeness/ danger is occurring in the main mystery.

…Look I’m really gunning for an “oops, we broke the universe with gay pining” angle, lol. First of all that would just be funny. Second of all, I think it would be utterly fascinating to explore any number of implications Aziraphale and Crowley’s whole thing has for the natural order of things. Or even the possibility that the “Great Plan” was about reconciliation instead of war, but perhaps more on that in a later post.

[cobragardens]

Boomer music slaps and I will die on this hill

Mickey Ralph, the graphic designer of Good Omens ❤ :)

[astronomicalthingz]

The Song of the Day:

Everyday - Buddy Holly

"Everyday" written by Buddy Holly and Norman Petty, recorded by Buddy Holly and the Crickets on May 29, 1957, and released on September 20, 1957 featured in his debut studio album, Buddy Holly (1958). It was recorded by his band, the Crickets.

[timecrayon]

neil gaiman really likes that song huh?

[lordroma]

12. Clue Everyday, it's a gettin' closer...

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

🎵 Every Day

Crows are gettin' smarter!

Their stone age

Is during our Downfall

Wish we could be alive

To see their Bronze Age

Caw Caw

Caw Caw Caw Caw

Every day

Crows are really learnin'!

They know how

To trick us dumb humans

Wish we could let them know

They're doing just great

Caw Caw

Caw Caw Caw Caw 🎵

[rainbowpopeworld]

I bet the jukebox just plays Queen’s Greatest hits, Everyday by Buddy Holly, and two songs by Tom Jones

[tiefy]

Good Omens's "Everyday" is like Moon Knight's "A Man Without Love"

[cryptidspacepirate]

buddy holly was right. every day it IS a-getting closer

[personinthepalace]

Ineffable Bureaucracy - Everyday (SPOILERS for Good Omens Season 2)

[bellltreee]

play a nightingale sang in berkeley square by vera lynn or everyday by buddy holly in any public space and see who starts crying

[i-only-ever-asked-questions]

It's Buddy Holly's Everyday!

The Season 2 Poster Details

From top to bottom :)

This is a Buddy Holly song Everyday which was originally supposed to be the Good Omens theme :)

Neil talks about it in the Introduction to the Script Book: “In the scripts, Buddy Holly’s song ‘Every Day’ runs through the whole like a thread. It was something that Terry had suggested in 1991, and it was there in the edit. Our composer, David Arnold, created several different versions of ‘Every Day’ to run over the end credits. And then he sent us his Good Omens theme, and it was the Good Omens theme. Then Peter Anderson made the most remarkable animated opening credits to the Good Omens theme, and we realised that ‘Every Day’ didn’t really make any sense any longer, and, reluctantly, let it go. It’s here, though. You can hum it.”

Book The Crow Road by Iain Banks. The novel describes Prentice McHoan's preoccupation with death, sex, his relationship with his father, unrequited love, sibling rivalry, a missing uncle, cars, alcohol and other intoxicants, and God, against the background of the Scottish landscape

Book Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad. An early and primary event in the story is the abandonment of a passenger ship in distress by its crew, including a young British seaman named Jim. He is publicly censured for this action and the novel follows his later attempts at coming to terms with himself and his past and seeking redemption and acceptance.

There is book The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson. Its characters were based on criminals in the employ of real-life surgeon Robert Knox (1791–1862) around the time of the notorious Burke and Hare murders (1828). Neil said: Oddly enough, episode 3 will take us to a little stint of body snatching in the era.

There is Catch-22 book by Joseph Heller that coined the term Catch-22: situation from which an individual cannot escape because of contradictory rules or limitations.

Is there only one hand or are there two? :) EIther 6 ;), or 6:30 :).

Through the window we can see the coffeeshop Give Me Coffe or Give Me Death where Nina works! :)

Azi is wearing his nifty glasses :).

Crowley is wearing his new glasses, they are RIGARDS X UMA WANG - THE STONE ECLIPSE (VINTAGE BLACK/BLACK STONES) - $435

There seems to be a broken phone :).

Azi is reading A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens published in 1859, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie whom he had never met. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. 

Another book there is Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - Neil said said that we will learn a lot about Jane Austin we didn’t know before.

And finally the Treasure Island book by - again :) - Robert Louis Stevenson, an adventure novel with pirates.

There are three lizard-y cuties. Who are they? Pets? Is Ligur haunting the bookshop? Who knows :).

A mysterious pamphlet, 'The Resurrectionists’ leaflet. (unofficial spoiler :)).

Also there is an old camera... mmm 🤔 Did Azi made some photos (of what? Him and Crowley, ducks? :)) Will we see them? :)

Their positions is an homage to the book covers! :)(x)

Will update this as fandom discovers new things! :)❤

[bl0ndwave]

My shuffle suggested me Everyday on Spotify today (thanks to Good Omens S02 of course), and I was amazed how christmassy does the song actually sound. I mean, just browsing through the shops, searching for presents while listening to “everyday, it's a-getting closer” like it's about Christmas? And the bells in the instrumental part? Wow. It didn't strike me until now.

(The fact that the author's name is Buddy Holly makes me even more convinced.)

[noisyvoidllama]

This entire time, I thought the song had an important message, that it was a warning or Gabriel trying to tell them something BUT NOOOOO

BOY WAS JUST S I M P I N G

Beelzebub said ONCE that they liked the song and this man made it play forever in their pub 😭

[ethicallmurder]

and they were roomates (oh my god. they were roomates)

[aduckwithears]

Hearing Buddy Holly’s Everyday:

Before S2: Good song! Catchy! Neil and Terry thought of it as the unofficial Good Omens theme tune!

After S2: Feeling quite unwell. Re-experiencing trauma.