Beggar's Banquet BBL65CD. 1985
Many a good album could have been a great album if the chorus pedal had never been invented.
I bought a brand spanking new Mazda MX-5 in 1997. One of the first 10 of the MkII model to be delivered to Newcastle. the 1.8iS sport model, with limited slip diff, Nardi Torino leather sport steering wheel, and lots of other motor gumph I can't remember. Gleaming black. After throwing it around the back roads of the Lake District for a while, I decided to head off to the Alps on a camping/motel driving jaunt with FGC. This is pre-mp3/iPod days, and we only had a 6-cd multichanger crammed into the tiny boot along with packs of quick-cook rice and tins of beans. We took 12 cds (6 in the changer, 6 in the cd wallet). This was one of them. I remember charging around Alpine roads, top-down, with nought but a kerb between the car and a pant-soiling plummet down a snow-capped mountainside, with Ian Astbury bellowing from the incredibly expensive uprated speakers. We called time on the relationship shortly after that, and I wept uncontrollable as I drove that sweet little two-seater rocket up the A1 to the driver waiting to take it away to a daarn-saarf dealer. I couldn't afford to keep it on a single wage. I believe Scar Tissue by Red Hot Chili Peppers was the last track I played in it, just before handing over the keys.
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