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2 unusual facts about Burning Car


Burning Car

The title came from a chapter in J.G. Ballard's SF novel Concrete Island and its automobile reference was shared by a number of tracks on Metamatic.

Its staccato introduction was reminiscent of the metallic guitar notes that kicked off the track "Some of Them" from Systems of Romance, Foxx's last album with former band Ultravox.



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Drinking and Driving Wrecks Lives

Christmas Pudding, showing a burning Christmas pudding on a dinner table turning into the wreckage of a burning car, as a woman's Christmas dinner with her family is interrupted when the phone rings to inform her that her boyfriend (who had been drinking at another party) was killed on the road.