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23 years ago today a little-known band released what�s still their best album and changed my life. I was 11, I started to hear the likes of �Why does it always rain on me?� and �Driftwood� on the radio and I was hooked.
There was no YouTube in those days, so when they appeared on the airwaves it was a real treat for someone without a CD or tape player. Their songs seemed to speak to me and lift me up, even though so many of their detractors called them �negative� or �depressing.� For me, they seemed to chime with the wonder I had for the world and all the things I wanted to do in life when I�d grow up.
Fast forward 7 months and 1 day and it�s Christmas �99. I�ve opened all those big boxes and weird shaped presents we all get excited about, and there�s only a couple left under the tree. I pick it up, know it�s a CD for my recently acquired player, and I dare to get excited. Will it be�I think it might be�hang on�it really has come with a little thanks to Santa and his elves!
I hold the artwork in my hands, read the booklet and cannot wait to get upstairs and play it. There�s tracks on there that haven�t made it onto the airwaves before so to say I�m excited would be an understatement.
23 years later I�ve still got that album and I�m listening to it (on Amazon Music lol) as I write this. When I think where the last 23 years have gone, I know they were spent with the soundtrack to my life playing in the background.
Here�s to many more happy years�
