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Desert Island Album Draft - 15th Anniversary Edition - 50 Rounds in the books, sign up now for KP's listening program (3 Viewers)

ANNOUNCE - EXECUTIVE DECISION

ANY OWED ROUND 40 PICKS (AND PICKS OWED FROM PRIOR ROUNDS) CAN BE MADE BETWEEN NOW AND 9 PM EASTERN.

AT 9 PM EASTERN, ROUND 41 IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS. ALSO, AT 9 PM EASTERN, I PLAN ON DRINKING ALCOHOL, ALL ARE WELCOME TO JOIN

THAT'S RIGHT, IT'S DESERT ISLAND AFTER DARK!##! :banned: :banned:

 
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39.25 - Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition - Performed by Andrej Hoteev (released in 2014)

Every time I listen to Pictures at an Exhibition, I hear something new.  I guess I'm a sucker for program music, and, like The Four Seasons, this pulls me in to feel like I am actually in a different physical locale.  In this case, as intended by Mussorgsky, I can actually feel myself looking at the relevant paintings as I move through the various movements.

Most of the recordings I've heard of this are the orchestral version, usually the one by Ravel, but as a pianist I equally enjoy performances that follow the piano version.  I'm choosing this re-envisioning by Hoteev, or maybe I should say a revisit of the original vision, who meticulously reviewed the original manuscript to come up with what he claims is the true original sound of the piece.  I'm less familiar with it due to its relative recency and the fact that no one plays this one publicly, and I'd like to spend time on my island listening and comparing this in my head to the version we've all accepted as accurate for the past 140 years.

No song choices for the sake of the mix.

 
 Kinda surprised no one has cracked open this fine vintage. I would not have batted an eyelash if someone took this in round 1.  I'm zipping along here trying to catch up on picks, not really soaking in the greatness.  If anyone has a strong recommendation for the songs chosen for the playlist, please share.

31.37 - Gravity, Alejandro Escovedo 1992

Last to Know

By Eleven

Cover of I Wish I was Your Mother, which is included on the Deluxe album version (unsure if it was on the original, but I have doubts)

 
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Mister CIA said:
 Kinda surprised no one has cracked open this fine vintage. I would not have batted an eyelash if someone took this in round 1.  I'm zipping along here trying to catch up on picks, not really soaking in the greatness.  If anyone has a strong recommendation for the songs chosen for the playlist, please share.

31.37 - Gravity, Alejandro Escovedo 1992

Last to Know

By Eleven

Cover of I Wish I was Your Mother, which is included on the Deluxe album version (unsure if it was on the original, but I have doubts)
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I made a mental note ~20 rounds ago to take one of his, and then forgot.  :doh:  

 
Dance time on my island:

39.31 Madonna - Madonna (1983)

Lucky Star

Borderline

Burning Up

I Know It

Holiday

Think of Me

Physical Attraction

Everybody

40.10 Pet Shop Boys - Please (1986)

Two Divided by Zero

West End Girls

Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)

Love Comes Quickly

Suburbia

Opportunities (Reprise)

Tonight Is Forever

Violence

I Want a Lover

Later Tonight

Why Don't We Live Together?

 
40.35 - Alone, Bill Evans (1970)

Saved the ultimate desert island title, by the most important artist of my listening/creative life for last of my 40 (it's classical from here on out)

Bill Evans is the point guard of music. Listen to "Here's That Rainy Day" - he's just standing at the top of the key, rockin' back 'n forth, sizing up what's in front of him. He knows everywhere he can go, everything he can do, but not where he will go, what he will do. Every fake (will it be a sub-reference from showtunes, to other jazz artists,  back to the blues?), every move (suspend, invert, go modal?), each cross (will he do the melody all in chords, break the chords into a secondary theme?) takes him closer to the hole even if it seems to move him farther away. Every choice on the fly, but ground in everything he feels, knows, has heard & practiced. And, vroomp, he's past you to his perfect ecstasy. And you feel blessed to have even stood across from him and borne witness.

Here's That Rainy Day

A Time For Love

 
40.15 - The Reindeer Section - Son of Evil Reindeer (2002)

If you set aside all Beatles and Beatles-adjacent works, this is one of my top five most-played records.  So why take it in the 40th round?  Because I knew I could.  I'd have thought a supergroup made up of, among others, members of Belle & Sebastian, Mogwai, Idelwild, Teenage Fanclub, and led by Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol would catch on, but despite two near-perfect albums, they didn't.

If you had visited my house during certain of The Chicago Years, you would have been subjected to the following mandatory exercise:  lie on your back in the living room with all the lights out, and I will blast "Grand Parade" at you on the good speakers, the ones I bought for classical music.  Yes, stay in that position during the soft opening, then the louder and uncomfortably long instrumental part starting after the first minute, then the choral portion that concludes the record.  You'd have found yourself at the end a changed (wo)man.

This is one of my most complete albums on my or any island and should be listened start to finish to understand it, so I hesitate to choose two songs, but here we go.

The aforementioned "Grand Parade" - when this comes up in the mix, I insist that you follow the procedures above.  Or hell, why wait?  Just do it now.

You Are My Joy - chosen in part to irritate whoever it was (NV?) that didn't like the Lucinda Williams song "Joy" due to its having few lyrics.  This one doesn't have many more, and continues the joy theme!

 
krista4 said:
40.15 - The Reindeer Section - Son of Evil Reindeer (2002)

If you set aside all Beatles and Beatles-adjacent works, this is one of my top five most-played records.  So why take it in the 40th round?  Because I knew I could.  I'd have thought a supergroup made up of, among others, members of Belle & Sebastian, Mogwai, Idelwild, Teenage Fanclub, and led by Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol would catch on, but despite two near-perfect albums, they didn't.

If you had visited my house during certain of The Chicago Years, you would have been subjected to the following mandatory exercise:  lie on your back in the living room with all the lights out, and I will blast "Grand Parade" at you on the good speakers, the ones I bought for classical music.  Yes, stay in that position during the soft opening, then the louder and uncomfortably long instrumental part starting after the first minute, then the choral portion that concludes the record.  You'd have found yourself at the end a changed (wo)man.

This is one of my most complete albums on my or any island and should be listened start to finish to understand it, so I hesitate to choose two songs, but here we go.

The aforementioned "Grand Parade" - when this comes up in the mix, I insist that you follow the procedures above.  Or hell, why wait?  Just do it now.

You Are My Joy - chosen in part to irritate whoever it was (NV?) that didn't like the Lucinda Williams song "Joy" due to its having few lyrics.  This one doesn't have many more, and continues the joy theme!
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Bookmarking this for the special reserve.

 
38.30... Shriekback- Oil & Gold (1985) 

mix XTC and Gang of Four musicians... whammo. saw them open for Simple Minds in the latter's big break out tour following "don't you"... and flat out blew them out of the water. fun band live- committed to the sound, aesthetic, and generally letting it all out there. also noticed Michael Mann has a soft spot for them during this time. I'll go with their bigger hit for those that don't know them, and the haunting tune from "Manhunter". will miss not taking Everything That Rises (must converge)

Nemesis

This Big Hush

 
There have been many bands and many comments here where we've said something to the effect of "I'm surprised that was the first album taken..." by a band. And it makes sense, with so many people, so many different personal preferences. But the order this bands' albums have been taken I find particularly surprising... In any case:

40.32 - Queen - Sheer Heart Attack (1974)

Side one
1.    "Brighton Rock"     5:08
2.    "Killer Queen"         3:01
3.    "Tenement Funster"      2:48
4.    "Flick of the Wrist"      3:19
5.    "Lily of the Valley"      1:43
6.    "Now I'm Here"      4:10
Side two
7.    "In the Lap of the Gods"     3:20
8.    "Stone Cold Crazy"      2:12
9.    "Dear Friends"      1:07
10.    "Misfire"      1:50
11.    "Bring Back That Leroy Brown"    2:13
12.    "She Makes Me (Stormtrooper in Stilettoes)"    4:08
13.    "In the Lap of the Gods... Revisited"    3:42

 
Yo Mama said:
Yo Mama's Island

(40 is the new 30)

I'm digging plenty of my Seventies!

Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972)

Yes - Close to the Edge (1972)

Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy (1973)

Genesis - Selling England by the Pound (1973)

Steely Dan ** - Pretzel Logic (1974)

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (1975)

David Bowie - Station to Station (1976)

Bob Marley & the Wailers - Exodus (1977)

The Doobie Brothers – Minute by Minute (1978)

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All the ladies love my Eighties!

AC/DC - Back in Black (1980)

The Cure - Boys Don't Cry (1980)

Rush - Permanent Waves (1980)

Queen - The Game (1980)

Joe Jackson - Night and Day (1982)

U2 ** - War (1983)

The Cure ** - The Head on the Door (1985)

U2 - The Joshua Tree (1987)

Prince - Sign o' the Times (1987)

Depeche Mode - 101 (1989)

De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising (1989)

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Rockin' / Hip-Hoppin' my hiney in the Nineties!

A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory (1991)

Metallica - Metallica "The Black Album" (1991)

Ice Cube - The Predator (1992)

Beastie Boys ** - Check Your Head (1992)

Green Day - Dookie (1994)

Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die (1994)

Beastie Boys - Ill Communication (1994)

Beck - Odelay (1996)

Sublime - Sublime (1996)

Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape (1997)

Outkast - Aquemini (1998)

Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles (1999)

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Not to be obscene, here comes my Aughts' and Teens!

System of a Down - Toxicity (2001)

Muse - Absolution (2004)

Wolfmother - Wolfmother (2006)

The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers (2008)

Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (2009)

The Black Keys - El Camino (2011)

Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2 (2014)

Spoon - Hot Thoughts (2017)

** My post-30 double-ups (uh, uh!)

:headbang: :headbang: :headbang:
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This is definitely an island that would work for me.

 
MAC_32 said:
Question about the spotify playlist - it occurred to me on today's run that I'm not a premium member. I use amazon for customized playlists and spotify is more of a filter to get to our amazon catalog. Since I only use the free version of spotify might that be why I can't add songs to the shared FBG playlist? Sorry - this is just unreasonably bothering me.

Regardless, will a kind soul please add:

Audioslave (Self Titled album) - Show Me How To Live, I Am The Highway

Shakey Graves (Live Audiotree) - Roll the Bones, Word of Mouth
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I think that you could still do it on PC but it may not work on mobile

 
Raging weasel said:
Another band I had a hard time chosing the album to bring as they are all good and my favs are scattered. Went with this one as it's the one that got them noticed and probably best overall. The band is a big fan of Marvel comics and the Megasonic Teenage Warhead character in the Deadpool movie got her name from a track on this album. There is also a track called Ego,the Living Planet who was played by Kurt Russell in Gotg2.

Monster Magnet- Dopes to Infinity

Look to Your Orb for the Warning

King of Mars

Added to playlist
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Space lord mutha mutha

 
krista4 said:
39.25 - Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition - Performed by Andrej Hoteev (released in 2014)

Every time I listen to Pictures at an Exhibition, I hear something new.  I guess I'm a sucker for program music, and, like The Four Seasons, this pulls me in to feel like I am actually in a different physical locale.  In this case, as intended by Mussorgsky, I can actually feel myself looking at the relevant paintings as I move through the various movements.

Most of the recordings I've heard of this are the orchestral version, usually the one by Ravel, but as a pianist I equally enjoy performances that follow the piano version.  I'm choosing this re-envisioning by Hoteev, or maybe I should say a revisit of the original vision, who meticulously reviewed the original manuscript to come up with what he claims is the true original sound of the piece.  I'm less familiar with it due to its relative recency and the fact that no one plays this one publicly, and I'd like to spend time on my island listening and comparing this in my head to the version we've all accepted as accurate for the past 140 years.

No song choices for the sake of the mix.
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Love this album - totally forgot about it.

 
Northern Voice said:
There have been many bands and many comments here where we've said something to the effect of "I'm surprised that was the first album taken..." by a band. And it makes sense, with so many people, so many different personal preferences. But the order this bands' albums have been taken I find particularly surprising... In any case:

40.32 - Queen - Sheer Heart Attack (1974)

Side one
1.    "Brighton Rock"     5:08
2.    "Killer Queen"         3:01
3.    "Tenement Funster"      2:48
4.    "Flick of the Wrist"      3:19
5.    "Lily of the Valley"      1:43
6.    "Now I'm Here"      4:10
Side two
7.    "In the Lap of the Gods"     3:20
8.    "Stone Cold Crazy"      2:12
9.    "Dear Friends"      1:07
10.    "Misfire"      1:50
11.    "Bring Back That Leroy Brown"    2:13
12.    "She Makes Me (Stormtrooper in Stilettoes)"    4:08
13.    "In the Lap of the Gods... Revisited"    3:42
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nice.

and agree. for me, after The Game they turned into absolute schlock. I can't even listen to it.... and they were one of my first favorite bands and were my first concert (tour '80)

 
Long Ball Larry said:
Yo Mama said:
Yo Mama's Island

(40 is the new 30)

I'm digging plenty of my Seventies!

Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill (1972)

Yes - Close to the Edge (1972)

Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy (1973)

Genesis - Selling England by the Pound (1973)

Steely Dan ** - Pretzel Logic (1974)

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (1975)

David Bowie - Station to Station (1976)

Bob Marley & the Wailers - Exodus (1977)

The Doobie Brothers – Minute by Minute (1978)

------------------------------------------------------------------

All the ladies love my Eighties!

AC/DC - Back in Black (1980)

The Cure - Boys Don't Cry (1980)

Rush - Permanent Waves (1980)

Queen - The Game (1980)

Joe Jackson - Night and Day (1982)

U2 ** - War (1983)

The Cure ** - The Head on the Door (1985)

U2 - The Joshua Tree (1987)

Prince - Sign o' the Times (1987)

Depeche Mode - 101 (1989)

De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising (1989)

------------------------------------------------------------------

Rockin' / Hip-Hoppin' my hiney in the Nineties!

A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory (1991)

Metallica - Metallica "The Black Album" (1991)

Ice Cube - The Predator (1992)

Beastie Boys ** - Check Your Head (1992)

Green Day - Dookie (1994)

Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die (1994)

Beastie Boys - Ill Communication (1994)

Beck - Odelay (1996)

Sublime - Sublime (1996)

Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape (1997)

Outkast - Aquemini (1998)

Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles (1999)

------------------------------------------------------------------

Not to be obscene, here comes my Aughts' and Teens!

System of a Down - Toxicity (2001)

Muse - Absolution (2004)

Wolfmother - Wolfmother (2006)

The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers (2008)

Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (2009)

The Black Keys - El Camino (2011)

Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2 (2014)

Spoon - Hot Thoughts (2017)

** My post-30 double-ups (uh, uh!)

:headbang: :headbang: :headbang:
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This is definitely an island that would work for me.
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I like the balance. Something I've been trying to keep in mind for mine. Especially with the last ten picks where I'm going to make an effort to not just draft 10 more post-2000 indie rock albums (though I'll likely take 4 or 5)

 
wtf this is 40 rounds?

I thought it was 30 and was really having a hard time selecting only two.

Will be back later with a bucketful.

 
Since I might not be around for festivities tonight, I want to be sure to leave you with these upbeat, optimistic italicized lyrics from one of my favorite Reindeer Section songs:

I can't call you a friend
Cause when you left me here
You left me here to die
Don't worry I won't call you again
Cause when I take a hint
I take it pretty hard
And when you broke my heart
you broke it into shards of glass

 
bushmills #2 shuffle

Joe Jackson- Breaking us in two... he was another personal favorite growing up- saw all his shows until this album, which I liked- not loved. it's a nice song though, and good choice. I will say, this tour turned me on to Frank Sinatra and the title song, which is still my go-to karaoke number.

 
Northern Voice said:
I like the balance. Something I've been trying to keep in mind for mine. Especially with the last ten picks where I'm going to make an effort to not just draft 10 more post-2000 indie rock albums (though I'll likely take 4 or 5)
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Here's where I stand now:

  • Neil Young    -    Harvest    1971
  • Queen    -      Sheer Heart Attack   1974
  • Bruce Springsteen    -    Born to Run    1975
  • The Ramones    -    The Ramones    1976
  • David Bowie    -    Low    1977
  • Iggy Pop    -    Lust For Life    1977


  • Talking Heads    -    Remain in Light    1980
  • Janet Jackson    -    Rhythm Nation 1814    1986
  • Pet Shop Boys    -     actually.   1987
  • Nine Inch Nails    -    Pretty Hate Machine    1989


  • The La's     -      The La's   1990
  • U2    -    Achtung Baby    1991
  • Pearl Jam    -    Ten    1991
  • Pulp     -      His 'n' Hers    1994
  • The Smashing Pumpkins    -     Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness   1995
  • Alanis Morissette     -    Jagged Little Pill   1995
  • Sloan     -      One Chord to Another   1996
  • The Tragically Hip    -    Live Between Us    1997
  • Dixie Chicks    -    Fly    1999


  • The Strokes    -    Is This It?    2001
  • Spoon    -    Kill The Moonlight     2002
  • The Killers    -    Hot Fuss    2004
  • Arcade Fire    -    Funeral    2004
  • Franz Ferdinand    -    Franz Ferdinand    2004
  • Modest Mouse    -    Good News for People Who Love Bad News    2004
  • LCD Soundsystem    -    LCD Soundsystem    2005
  • The National     -     Alligator  2005
  • The Hold Steady    -    Boys and Girls in America    2006
  • Frightened Rabbit    -    The Midnight Organ Fight    2008
  • Arkells    -    Jackson Square    2008
  • Elbow    -    The Seldom Seen Kid    2008
  • Metric    -    Fantasies   2009


  • Robyn    -    Body Talk  2010
  • Tokyo Police Club     -    Champ    2010
  • Arctic Monkeys    -    AM    2013
  • Lorde    -    Pure Herione    2013
  • The Rural Alberta Advantage      -       Mended With Gold   2014
  • Taylor Swift    -    1989    2014
  • Courtney Barnett    -    Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit    2015
  • PUP    -    The Dream is Over    2016
 
35.37 - Live at Liberty Lunch, Joe Ely 1990

Much is made of the greatness of Texas Music, but outside possibly a Willie Nelson picnic, there has never been a greater live music player on that scene than Joe Ely.  He created some of the greatest country music heard by a relative few, and then he opened for The Clash in the 70s. 

He's a legend in my heart.

Letter to L.A.

Me and Billy the Kid

 
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El Floppo said:
bushmills #2 shuffle

Joe Jackson- Breaking us in two... he was another personal favorite growing up- saw all his shows until this album, which I liked- not loved. it's a nice song though, and good choice. I will say, this tour turned me on to Frank Sinatra and the title song, which is still my go-to karaoke number.
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oops... had meant to do a bunch...

Cypress Hill- how I could just kill a man... oh #### yes. an adorable canadian 1st year in grad school would shout this one out over her headphones... scooby doo y'all. love this one and missed it get drafted

Beck- the golden age... my favorite beck album- love it. guess I would've gone different pick for this, but still puts me back into that mindset of hearing this for the first time from the beginning- and this song pulled me right in. 

Green Day- Holiday/Boulevard of Broken dreams... sure. I've grown to appreciate them more for their ability to craft good hooks and pop tunes. not my favorite of theirs, but still good to hear.

Coltrane- Giant Steps... hfs- I think this is the first of my picks I've gotten to hear. not the easiest transition from Green Day and will make me want to have 3 more bushmills out on the porch and not listen to anyhing other than jazz... hmmm... decisions... decisions... wait! win/win- I can have 3 more AND skip this for other tunes. but damn... my resistance fades the more I hear...

The Ocean Blue- Drifting Falling... huh. I know I've listened to them and seen them live- but wouldn't have been able to place their music at all. nice. not super-grabby... reminds of me somebody else that I'll think of later...

Slade- Run Runaway... sweet jeebus- is this a dance mix 12"? yikes. no gracias.

Allman Bros- Ain't wasting time no more... I've been having a hard time even listening to more than a couple measures of a lot of "classic" rock, punk and new wave tunes. so much of it I've just listened to too much and don't need to hear more of. but this one- always loved the album, and I guess didn't OD on it. hitting the sweet spot right now on a hot drinks night.

Sandro Perri- how will I?... by hitting the skip button at first moment of flute. feels like a man appropriated version of joni mitchell.

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists- under the hedge... back on track. puts me in the mood for GBV, but isn't quite scratching the itch.

Jay-Z- Hola' Hovito... just realizing I've listened to very little Jay Z. this tune in this moment isn't really stoking that fire to remedy. 

ES Posthumus- Nineveh... never heard of this. I'm visualizing a balding pony-tailed greek guy playing an oversized drum kit stage front and center in front of an orchestra, choir and rick wakeman. with both fans going nuts.

 
Bonzai said:
Just worked my way up to the 3rd division a couple nights ago. 💪
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Do they still have the option where you can all play on the same team at once in different positions?  I used to find that fun.  I remember we used to have an FBG team on XBox....you were probably on it?  Me, Sebowski, a handful of others.  

 
madonna- material girl... oh come on- I'm in HS all over again and fine with that... even though I didn't like her back then. I've matured to like this immature crap.

The Clash- Police on my Back... I feel like Sandinista was either the first clash album I bought on CD, or the last one I bought on cassette. kind of a soft spot for it, and the song's great.

THS- stuck between stations... I'll be honest- I like THS, I really do. I have a hard time differentiating their albums and songs most nights. could be a "me" thing. doesn't keep me from liking them and their song.

The Band- whispering pines... no. it's nice. but no... putting me to sleep right now. must skip or sleep. will skip.

Boards of Canada- wildlife analysis... whoa- haven't listened to them in... a decade? also sleep inducing... must skip.

Tenacious D- rock your socks.... oh- I get it. it rocks and their joking about it rocking. always liked both of them, but I think I'm turning into a surly drunk and getting sour about the tunes coming at me.

Neil Young- harvest moon... #### you neil. skkip.

yusuf/cat stevens- where do the chil...oh #### this. skip

talking heads- cities... it's official. nothing's working for me. time to shut this down.

 
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