Seven and Six

1. Half Life

2. Miss You Twice

3. Willing to Trade

4. St. Helena

5. This Time

6. Catalina

7. I Thought That You Were Dead

8. Lately

9. Favorite Worry

10. Via Washington

Tracks:

Concept, The
Ain't That Enough
World'll Be OK, The
Everything Flows
Star Sign
Mellow Doubt
I Need Direction
About You
What You Do To Me
Empty Space
Sparky's Dream
I Don't Want Control Of You
Hang On
Did I Say
Don't Look Back
Your Love Is The Place Where I Come From
Neil Jung
Radio
Dumb Dumb Dumb
Planets
My Uptight Life

Customer Reviews:

These Brit-POWER "Pop"sters GREATEST HITS 1990-2003.......2007-04-02

I'll admit I am normally not a fan of GREATEST HIT albums; but to me - Four Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty Six Seconds: A Short Cut to TEENAGE FANCLUB...exceeded all my past expectations on that account. Many "Best Ofs" feature the band's recordings in chronological order from a debut through the band's last album, which may not have much variety in between. That is not the case for Teenage Fanclub though, they mix up and rearrange MOST of their best tracks on this Jam-packed 21 songs; clocking in at a GOOD 79 minutes worth of music!
So of course the band had to make some omissions, like "Metal Baby" - "December" - "I'll Make It Clear" and others.
It did however include my favorites: "Ain't That Enough" - "Star Sign" - "Sparky's Dream" - "Neil Jung" - "Radio" - "My Uptight Life", really all of them!
This is really all you need if you are at all interested in the absolutely brilliant songwriting skills of this trio: Norman Blake, Gerard Love & Raymond McGinley. Three talented minds heavily influenced by Big Star (you'll see the resemblance once you hear them) putting forth their best all on one Cd. 4766 Seconds...also include 3 new "hits" to add to this release(2003), along w/ 3 each from "Bandwagnesque"(1991) & "Howdy"(2001). There are 2 songs from "Thirteen"(1993) < considered somewhat of a low point in the Fannies' career, but Thirteen has my favorite song "Radio" on it, also on this. Four songs...from "Songs from Northern Britain & Five songs from "Grand Prix"(1995) If you are a fan, like me of Big Star #1 Record/Radio City, than I do believe you would REALLY like this. I still get chills once this Cd plays all the way through from opening track to closing track. - 5 STARS!

4766 Seconds of Pure Pop Genius........2005-03-10

4766 SECONDS is one of my all-time favorite cds, and in a world of dumbed-down popular music, Teenage Fanclub has never sounded better. This definitive "best-of" compilation is a work of pure pop genius. The band's warm, feel-good harmonies are reminiscent of a Sixties' band, a sweet blend of the Byrds, Beach Boys, and the Beatles, only with an edge, and the instrumentation is filled with fuzzy guitars, psychedelic riffs, and catchy hooks. The tracks on this compilation cd include "The Concept," "Ain't That Enough," "The World'll Be OK," "Everything Flows," "Star Sign," "Mellow Doubt," "I Need Direction" (my favorite song on the cd), "About You," "What You Do To Me," "Empty Space," "Sparky's Dream," "I Don't Want Control Of You," "Hang On," "Did I Say," "Don't Look Back," "Your Love Is The Place Where I Come From" (my second favorite tune), "Neil Jung," "Radio," "Dumb Dumb Dumb," "Planets," and "My Uptight Life." For the full effect, I recommend listening to this cd on an Apple iPod.

G. Merritt

Simply the best!!!.......2004-11-10

I am not going to bother you lot with too many superlatives about this Scottish band. Needless to say there are ommisions to this 'Best Of' compilation such as Mount Everest and If I Never See You Again, and yet it is a quality retrospective of their work. They remind me of The Beach Boys, not only because of the close harmonies, but also the fact that a lot of the songs are very understated in tone. But also Nirvana, as they could prove just as comfortable with an accoustic guitar as an electric guitar. The MAIN reason why I purchased this album though is because of the 3 new tracks available on it. Of the three new songs I would have to rate 'Did I Say' as not only the best track on the album, but quite possibly one of the most beautiful and uplifting tunes of the last ten years by anyone. Forget Travis, Coldplay and all the other British music chancers of recent years, Teenage Fanclub are the real deal!

exactly what i was looking for.......2004-08-04

it's true: when placed up against some of the 70s punk and 80s college rock bands that influenced them so profoundly, teenage fanclub's 90s alterna-pop songs can sound hopelessly thin. but we can't fault the fannies for that. this is as good an assembly of guitar pop songs as any other band that ever saw a stage could put out. teenage fanclub did for me what matthew sweet never could: they made this inherently flawed (and often transparent) genre emotional and significant. i'm glad i got this record: it's sunny, it's catchy, it's uplifting, well-constructed, easy to listen to, and good for those nostalgia trips...and, let's be honest: it means i don't have to buy any more teenage fanclub records.

A brilliant collection.......2004-07-30

This is a well thought out collection of the band's music. A few songs are taken from each record, and so the less catchy songs from Songs of Northern Britain are placed alongside the very melodious earlier songs. The listener is thus aware of the increased maturity of the band with time. Songs like Your Love is the Place I Come From can be ignored on a single listening, but with a few listens, become favourites from the album. Rather in the same manner that Dylan's One Too Many Mornings can be ignored at first.

An essential piece of music for anyone who loves melodies and one of the best cds I've heard in a long time.

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Laid-Back Post Rock
My first album of '07 could be the best

Casually Smashed to Pieces
The Six Parts Seven
Manufacturer: Suicide Squeeze
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000LC536I
Release Date: 2007-01-23

Tracks:

Conversation Heart
Stolen Moments
Knock At My Door
Falling Over Evening
Awaiting Elemental Meltdowns
Confusing Possibilities
Night Behind The Stars
Everything Wrong Is Right Again

Album Description

Their latest release weaves threads of rock, jazz and Americana that are emboldened by a stable of musicians whose chops and subtle psychic interplay are more evident than ever before. "Their tunes are sweetly folkish in mood, but rather than verse-chorus-verse song structure that might make the absence of a vocalist noticeable, the music gently swells toward peaks, keeping the focus on the guitar interplay. The result is incredibly fluid and familiar sounding" - Washington Post. "...that rare breed of band that create hypnotic, beautiful instrumental music without resorting to tired clichÃ© or melting away into boringness...churning guitars glide against each other as piano and bass support the interlocking melodies" - Skyscraper. "Epic indie rock" - All Music Guide.

Customer Reviews:

Laid-Back Post Rock.......2007-05-29

This is an album to just chill out to. Don't expect dramatic swells or intense instrumental interludes. "Casually Smashed to Pieces" is more for a Sunday afternoon backyard or porch party. Even though the tracks are solely instrumental and all relatively similar, you won't find yourself bored by listening to it at any point.

My first album of '07 could be the best.......2007-01-24

Most instrumental bands pull the listener in with the "silence to violence" scheme, but Six parts seven have created a happy medium here. Music for all..well, most moods. The lap steel guitar has more of a presence on this album than with their older stuff, and the trumpet is introduced on a track or two. Think American football and Stars of the lid with some folk and alt-country influences mixed in. Truly a moving album and 6P7's best yet. Standout tracks: "Conversation heart", "Falling over evening" and "Night behind the stars".

The Six Parts Seven/ The Black Keys - Split

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Great Stuff. Too Brief.
Solid but short EP.

The Six Parts Seven/ The Black Keys - Split
The Six Parts Seven
Manufacturer: Suicide Squeeze
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ASIN: B0000AININ
Release Date: 2003-09-16

Tracks:

Blueprint of Something Never Finished - The Six Parts Seven
Moon
Thickfreakness
Yearnin'

Album Description

Full title - A Blueprint Of Something Never Finished. New gems from Ohio's finest dwellers of smaller towns near the bigger one of Cleveland. Includes one track from The Six Parts Seven 'A Blueprint of Something Never Finished' and 3 from The Black Keys recorded live on WMBR 5/16/03, 'The Moan', 'Thickfreakness' & 'Yearnin'. Suicide Squeeze. 2003.

Customer Reviews:

Great Stuff. Too Brief........2004-09-07

Despite being an EP, this is something that any Black Keys fan should own. It gives a different perspective to the Keys as the sounds are live and the vocals are fresh, not distorted. I also like the Six Parts Seven song, even though it definitely doesn't fit with the Keys' style. A wierd EP, but definitely worth the money. If this was a tad bit longer, 5 stars would definitely exist.

Solid but short EP........2003-10-30

This EP features four tracks from 2 Ohio bands: One song by The Six Parts Seven ("A Blueprint of Something Never Finished", which is re-mixed by Dave Bazan of Pedro the Lion on their CD "Lost Notes from Forgotten Songs"), and a three-song performance by the Black Keys from a WMBR radio session in May of 2003. Their songs include a song that has only been released on an early 7" (on Alive Records). Live recordings are always a plus -- especially from bands like the Black Keys who reach their peak when performing outside the studio -- and the fact that this is a radio recording means that the quality is great. Recommended for fans of either band, although be warned that this EP clocks in at just under 17 minutes.

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happiness takes place in small piano tunes
Cacaphonic Harmonious

Gurdjieff's Music for the Movements

Manufacturer: Channel Crossings
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00003CK7L
Release Date: 1999-12-14

Customer Reviews:

happiness takes place in small piano tunes.......2001-07-24

these short piano pieces are simple, but absolutely not boring. gurdjieff and de hartmann wrote some of the most thoughtful and sincere music you'll ever hear. I found this CD over a year ago and it's one I return to over and over again.

Cacaphonic Harmonious.......2001-07-15

Truly an exposition of beautiful "objective" listening. This music will not put you to sleep. Transitions are abrupt and engaging throughout the score's entirity. I play the music whenever I find myself searching for something to do or am bored. This music will consume all negativity and poke the listner to begin a stirring sensation in their own mentation. The music is not sophisticated or eligant by no means, but has a way about it which will intrige one to listen again and again.

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Beautiful and expressive performances
Masterpieces from Purcell's 21st year.
Masterpieces from Purcell's 21st year.

Purcell: Fantazias

Manufacturer: Naxos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000014FS
Release Date: 2000-10-06

Tracks:

Four-Part Fantazias: No.5 in B flat, Z.736
Four-Part Fantazias: No.8 in d, Z.739
Four-Part Fantazias: No.4 in g, Z.735
Fantazia in F, Upon One Note, Z.745
Four Part Fanzias: No.7 in c, Z.738
Four-Part Fantazias: No.6 in F, Z.737
Four-Part Fantazias: No.12 in d, Z.7843
Three-Part Fantazias: No.3 in g, Z.734
Three-Part Fantazias: No.2 in F, Z.733
Three-Part Fantazias: No.1 in d, Z.732
In Nomine Of Six Parts in g, Z.746
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Four-Part Fantazias: No.10 in e, Z.741
Four-Part Fantazias: No.11 in G, Z.742
In Nomine Of Seven Parts, 'Dorian', Z.747

Customer Reviews:

Beautiful and expressive performances.......2006-11-25

This is a superb (and cheap!) recording of some of Purcell's most beautiful, expressive and intimate music. Whilst France was watching big operas with big orchestras, Italians were writing operas and concertos and the Germans and Australians were making very exciting music with strings, brass and woodwind, the English were still composing viol consorts! It is as if the "Renaissance" didn't end in England until sometime late in the 17th century!

However, rather than remaining stuck in the past, music in England continued to develop in its own unique way. Purcell's viol consorts are not inferior to the concerti grossi of his Italian contemporary, Arcangelo Corelli, in any way, even though they are ostensively composed in a style which was already obsolete in Italy even in Monteverdi's time 80 years earlier!

These works are beautiful, strange, lyrical and sublime and quite unlike any other music from this period in history. Yes, Henry Purcell was a musical genius.

There is nothing cheap about this recording. It would still be amongst the best interpretations of these works, and a potential first choice, even if this recording was at a normal full price.

Masterpieces from Purcell's 21st year........2004-04-02

Purcell's lean and clean musical language is already recognizable in these wonderful works that date from 1680. The 12 fantazias, each about two pages long, are not played in numerical order here, and there are three other similar pieces for consort of viols shuffled in amongst them, providing a CD of 53 minutes duration. The sound of a consort of viols can sometimes be grating and strident. Everything here falls easily on the year. The famed English group, the Rose Consort of Viols, plays with searching intensity, finding the special character in each of these works, and the group's leader, John Bryan, provides the annotations.

Masterpieces from Purcell's 21st year........2004-04-02

Purcell's lean and clean musical language is already recognizable in these wonderful works that date from 1680. The 12 fantazias, each about two pages long, are not played in numerical order here, and there are three other similar pieces for consort of viols shuffled in amongst them, providing a CD of 53 minutes duration. The sound of a consort of viols can sometimes be grating and strident. Everything here falls easily on the ear. The famed English group, the Rose Consort of Viols, plays with searching intensity, finding the special character in each of these works, and the group's leader, John Bryan, provides the annotations.

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04
Six by Seven
Manufacturer: First Time Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000EHR8NQ
Release Date: 2007-02-27

Tracks:

'Untitled'
Sometimes I Feel Like...
Ready For You Now
Ocean
Say That You Want Me
Lude I
There's A Ghost
Catch The Rain
Bochum (Light Up My Life)
Lude II
Leave Me Alone
Hours
She Didn't Say
Pretty Baby

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Whatever it is it's quite wonderful
Missing Everything You Never Had

Everywhere and Right Here
The Six Parts Seven
Manufacturer: Suicide Squeeze
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ASIN: B0002N6AIG
Release Date: 2004-08-31

Tracks:

What You Love You Must Love Now
Already Elsewhere
Saving Words for Making Sense
This One or That One?
What (Can We Just Make Out)
Quick Fire - The Man I Fell in Love With
Blueprint of Something Never Finished
Night Long

Customer Reviews:

Whatever it is it's quite wonderful.......2006-03-08

It's as hard to write about 6 parts 7 as it is easy to listen to them. I think of Wagner: "Music is the art of transition," Gertrude Stein (on her collaborator Virgil Thomson) that "underneath his music is special and strange but he puts a layer of banal sounds on top to put people off," and Duke Ellington's favorite term of praise, "beyond category." This album is their most complex yet, with a vibraphone prominent in most of the cuts--not the usual sound for a pop album. And what's more unusual (though familiar to fans) is that the long, slowly-transforming instrumentals move through time in a way much closer to classical music than to pop. Yet the sensiblity is not classical at all.

I found the structure of the pieces hard to grasp at first, and (as always with this band) I found myself wondering at first just how much substance there was to it. But that's because the substance isn't in the usual places--sudden modulations, odd chords, melodic surprises. I also found myself unable to stop listening. This album stayed in my car's CD player for weeks until I could commit the pieces to memory. Like all really important and worthwhile art, 6 parts 7's best music demands to be approached on its own terms. And every cut on this album is among their best.

Missing Everything You Never Had.......2004-11-14

This cd is a masterpeice. Many of the songs take you away to another place. They are peacful and traquilizing, allowing you to reach a peace of mind. This is not a fast paced roller coaster- this cd is boat floating on gentely rocking waves while you float down a crystal clear river. I recommend this cd to anyone who apprectiates music.

Six Days, Seven Nights: Original Soundtrack

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More of Anne Heche, please...
Tropical Romantic Memories
Edelman gives his six days and seven nights of fame.
Very pleasant, but no "party" tunes here...
Just plain grand !

Six Days, Seven Nights: Original Soundtrack
Randy Edelman
Manufacturer: Hollywood Records
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ASIN: B000007O8H
Release Date: 1998-06-09

Tracks:

Into The Mist
Maketea
Pink Kawala
Crashdance
Floating Pontoons
Fixing The Old Beaver
Robin
A Ray Of Hope
Quinn's Brilliant Idea
Saying Goodbye
Panorama
Discovery
Lunching With Peacocks
Subways And Skyscrapers
Pirates
Just A Small Snake
End Of A Journey
Flying Injured
On The Edge
Six Days And Seven Nights
The Calypsonians - Taj Mahal

Customer Reviews:

More of Anne Heche, please..........2006-06-24

Six Days Seven Nights, brings to the screen the story of an unlikely pair that gets stranded on a South Pacific isle, "Lost-style."
Harrison Ford, Anne Heche and Jacqueline Obradors (both of whom are GORGEOUS!), David Schwimmer (who is in his familiar "Ross" role), and the rest of the cast, carry out their performances very well, though the plot could have been a lot better.
The major setbacks were in relation to their unrealistic encounters with the pirates and the unrealistic way and ease by which they fixed up their plane, took off, and then landed again. It was a bit much...
Overall, the setting, the acting, and the music are very good, while the plot, the humor, and the dialogues could have been better.
Though by far not a masterpiece, Six Days Seven Nights is a movie worth watching, as it will provide for an evening's entertainment. 3 1/2 Stars

Tropical Romantic Memories.......2003-10-06

Great Album! A super mix of various tropical themes uncluttered by vocals expressing a variety of moods. Very good background for carribean themed parties or just soft listening.

Edelman gives his six days and seven nights of fame........2002-10-08

Randy Edelman continues to impress me scoring hit after hit and this one is a perfect example of that. Edelman goes hawaiian with this score (due to the setting of the film) and throws in an impressive orchestral sound to accompany it. The theme first appears in "Into the Mist" and has that trademark Edelman sound with soaring strings and cymbal crashes that put the icing on the cake. The theme itself is the love theme of the film and is pretty. It occurs a lot throughout the score in various places, but is not overused. The other motif is a hawaiian dance tune, complete with guitars, synthesizers, orchestra, and lots of percussion. It makes you want to get up and dance like an idiot (I wouldn't try it). This thematic material occurs most noticeably in "Maketea", "Pink Kawala", "Fixing the Old Beaver", and the odd sounding "Lunching with Peacocks", which I read somewhere sounds like "Lunching with Alka-Seltzer" (listen to the beginning of the track to see what I mean). The other tracks to point out are "Crashdance" and "Pirates" which has the same percussion work as "The Race" in "The Skulls" soundtrack also composed by Edelman. Tailing off the soundtrack is a song by Taj Mahal which is one of the dumbest songs i've ever heard. Your best bet is to stop after track 20 and skip track 21, unless off-beat music with lyrics that you cannot understand are your thing. All in all, a fine work and a job well done by Edelman, who is one of my favorite composers today.

Very pleasant, but no "party" tunes here..........2001-12-20

There is apparently some confusion regarding the type of music contained in this recording. This is not a "Jimmy Buffett" style, have a good time, party album. Most of the twenty instrumental tracks, are straight orchestral pieces. Perhaps seven of the tracks have what I would call a "tropical" influence, characterized by a "jungle" or "island" drumbeat with the melody played above by various instruments. Except for the too short, "Pink Kawala" there are no dance tunes here.

What makes this collection interesting is of course the "tropical" influence, the mixing of different instruments and rhythms, with the traditional orchestral sound. The results are mostly positive. It would have been nice if there a few more upbeat "parrothead" party type tunes, but that was not what composer Randy Edelman had in mind. Choosing to go with an orchestral approach, with some modern touches. It seems that synthesized sounds are used a good deal in the rhythm tracks, which kind of gives the music a "robotic" groove at times. There are instances where the music sounds just a bit too clean and "unnatural".

There are no strong repetitive musical themes, and the overall package is a pretty good combination of styles. Tracks like "Crashdance", "Fixing The Old Beaver", Subways and Skyscrapers", "Maketea", "Pirates" and "A Ray of Hope" are among the best to be found here. Nothing really outstanding, just a pleasant change of pace. Like a vacation!

Just plain grand !.......2001-03-29

After the movie at the theater, I had to get the VHS. Now that I have a DVD, I had to get the disc, and finally, not least the audio CD. It's just plain grand litening to these tunes while working, driving, falling to sleep, whatever ! I even recorded the film soundtrack on audio cassette, makes also great entertainment while working...

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Great Album

Seven and Six
Bellwether
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Customer Reviews:

Great Album.......2005-10-07

For those of you who are familiar with the band...it's in the spirit of "Home Late", an incredible acoustic album, and 7&6 may indeed surpass it. For those of you are not familiar with the band, but like great acoustic music that can be listened to from front to end, you will enjoy it. In the spirit of Ryan Adams' "Heartbreaker" acoustic stuff, and throw in some Jeff Tweedy acoustic work, and you'll have a good idea of what it is. Great songwriting, great lyrics, and great vocals. Listen to some of the songs if you can on amazon or Itunes. I haven't taken the CD outta my car in over a week, and play a few over and over...I hope the rumors aren't true that they broke up.

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Late Soft Machine

Six & Seven
The Soft Machine
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Late Soft Machine.......2005-01-30

1970-71 were turbulent years for Soft Machine with many comings and goings, notably the departure of Robert Wyatt and Elton Dean. For most people that was the end of the story and it is often forgotten that there was a distinctive late edition of the band in 72-74, featuring regulars Ratledge and Hopper joined by drummer John Marshall and multi-instrumentalist Karl Jenkins, which recorded two final albums for CBS.

"Six" was a double album - in the vogue of the time one disc live / one disc studio, all included on a single CD here. Arguably this was the most musically accomplished version of the band. The live album is one long suite, effortlessly gliding back and forth through tunes and themes (mostly drawn from "FIFTH"). It's very tight and fluid, driven by understated, shifting funk or rock rhythmic patterns. The studio album contains just four tracks. "Sot Weed Factor" and "Chloe" are developments out of the languorous style pioneered on parts of "THIRD": Terry Riley-ish loops, loping repetitive funk drum and bass, tinkling keyboards. Jenkins generally eschews jazzy improv, preferring to overlay the tracks with elegant, repetitive, extended lines on oboe or soprano.
It's an over-used word but I'd have to describe this music as "cool". It's a far cry from the hyperactive fusion music of the 70s and might even prefigure some of the ambient, trance and trip-hop of the 90s. The cool-muzak sensibility even reminds me sometimes of Air (well, Soft Machine always were big in France!). The other two studio tracks are busier, sounding like sketches for compositions and don't stand up so well.

The suspicion that the composing was in decline is confirmed on "SEVEN". Apparently recorded in a hurry and with Hopper replaced by Roy Babbington on bass, the first half relies too much on manic riff-based fusion cliché. There's also one track plagiarized wholesale from MacLaughlin's "EXTRAPOLATION". The second half reverts to the cool trancey mode which, personally, I quite like. Bizarrely Karl Jenkins is now Britain's most popular living classical composer (of the "new age" variety I believe).

This 2CD reissue is tackily packaged and has a liner note which goes on about Canterbury and swinging London and has little to do with the actual music on these albums or its context. No bonus cuts. But it is cheap and, given that "SIX" was a double album, not bad value. It usefully rounds up the late era Soft Machine and as such is recommended to fans.

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