August, 1999. My first (very hot!) month in Jerusalem. It's nice having cheap unlimited internet by night, but I'm listening to music on cassettes and CD's mostly. So one day my sister took me out for some music shopping. Our first stop was Tower Records on King George street - a huuuuge store with massive alternative and electronic sections... and not that cheap... so after looking and salivating on all the Warp and Ninja Tune CD's, we went to Shamai street to check out Picadilly Records. Only years later I realized that I saw the legendary store in its last days. This was the final sale and there were stocks upon stocks of CD's everywhere for ridiculous prices! We bought a few items, including the album that my sister bought because of the hit song. To our surprise, the album was very different from that one hit and very soon I was already listening to the album and skipping the hit song each time - it seemed so boring and even "usual", compared to the other songs. One of these songs became my favorite for many years - an ideal heartbreak tune for a romantic 16-year-old indie kid.
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