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El Aguila
19-06-2002, 07:41 PM
Who amongst us can honestly say that he has never wasted a few sessions in the pub arguing which is the band's meisterwerk? Tell me which is your fave and why, and we'll pretend we're in the pub. OK?
LLCOOLSTEVE
19-06-2002, 07:50 PM
Originally posted by El Aguila
Who amongst us can honestly say that he has never wasted a few sessions in the pub arguing which is the band's meisterwerk?
Erm me..... :clown:
Jaffa
19-06-2002, 07:51 PM
Shame on you LL, The Stones are imo one of the greatest bands of our time.
DANGERMOUSE
19-06-2002, 07:54 PM
Why no Goat's Head Soup? Why no Rolling Stones or Out of Our Heads?
Anyway from the poll as presented, I've gone for Let It Bleed - opens with a classic, finishes with a classic, and has other top tunes as well - 'Midnight Rambler', 'Monkey Man', 'Live With Me'. A great album.
Beggar's Banquet is another cracker on your list, as is Sticky Fingers. And Exile on Main Street.
Not forgetting Give Out but Don't Give Up!!! :D :D :D
firesign
19-06-2002, 07:54 PM
Originally posted by LLCOOLSTEVE
Erm me..... :clown:
and me...
Has to be exile, with beggars banquet, let it bleed and sticky fingers coming a close joint second. Get yer yayas out also good if you like live albums.....
My favourite Stones album has to be the very underrated "Fred and Barney - lovesongs for Betty and Wilma"
Thin on Top
19-06-2002, 08:00 PM
I don't know which is my favourite album, but "She bangs the drum", and "Waterfall" are my favourite songs.
El Aguila
19-06-2002, 08:01 PM
Originally posted by firesign
and me...
OK, well you two p*ss off to the bar and get the drinks in. Mine's a pint of bitter with a double whisky chaser (and you can get yourselves a half of shandy).
Lords Eagle
19-06-2002, 08:05 PM
Big Hits, Hight Tide & Green Grass, contains all their early stuff, paint it black, little red rooster etc..
Reps AJ
19-06-2002, 08:07 PM
Its Sticky Fingers or Exile, maybe Sticky Fingers just for the original album cover. I'm going to have to go home and listen to both of them and vote tomorrow!
Or maybe, as Lords mentions what about some of the compiltaion albums.... Through The Past, Darkly
Beggars Banquet for me, as a precusor to Let it Bleed, Get yer Ya Ya's out and Sticky Fingers it set the tone for the Stones future sound. Tracks such as Symapathy for the Devil, Street Fighting Man and Stray Cat Blues are all time classics but now I start I'm being swayed towards Let it Bleed with Gimme Shelter and You can't always get what you want.
Now you've gone and got me all confused, I originaly voted for BB but now I think I may have to vote again.
Oh and if I ever get the hands on whoever stole my complete vynal collection of Stones albums up to and including Beggars I will kill the ****! There are some things you just don't do, the only thing I was left with was Their Satanic Majesties with the 3D cover which is pointless, looks good but is probably their worst album.:( :veryangry
El Aguila
19-06-2002, 08:15 PM
Don't think we can have compilations although nobody's record collection is complete without those two...... but we can have two more, I guess - make me a case for "Goat's Head Soup", I can't see it at all.
El Aguila
19-06-2002, 08:17 PM
Originally posted by TAK
Now you've gone and got me all confused, I originaly voted for BB but now I think I may have to vote again.
Bugger isn't it? I just voted for the last one I listened to.
DANGERMOUSE
19-06-2002, 08:19 PM
Originally posted by El Aguila
make me a case for "Goat's Head Soup", I can't see it at all.
'Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)' & 'Angie' are worth the money alone.
Psychokiller
19-06-2002, 08:37 PM
They're all classics in their own way, and it's a bit shyte asking us to vote for just one!
After much deliberation I went for Sticky Fingers simply because that was the first one I bought!
I've never heard any of their albums.
Well get out there and buy Let it Bleed & Beggars Banquet, rythm and blues infuenced rock at it's best (with the exception of Jeff Beck)
1fc3
Ultimately I'd have to go for Let It Bleed just pipping Exile on Main St, but as no-one else has, I'll also put in a good word for the first two Stones albums from their original RnB days.
The first album, mostly Blues covers, has cracking versions of Route 66 and I Just Want To Make Love To You, although some of the others are not quite as hot. The second album is more of the same, I really love Down the Road Apiece – 'mama cookin' chicken fried in bacon grease'.
They're not perfect (especially not with all we know now) but they capture a time and place that I would love to have been part of. Just imagine being packed into the Crawdaddy Club with a hundred or so others who'd never heard anything like it before and were at the very start of it all – it must have been amazing.
As a basic complilation 'Rolled Gold' offers the Stones novice a fantastic introduction – from Come On and Little Red Rooster, thru Lady Jane and Paint it Black to We Love You and onto Sympathy for the Devil, Honky Tonk Women and their greatest song Gimme Shelter.
Am I the only person in the world who actually likes Their Satanic Majesties? The Citadel is superb. Great photo on the cover too.
Keef on first meeting Mick on Dartford station: 'This cat's together right... he's got Chuck Berry's Rockin at the Hops and Best of Muddy Waters under his arm: "Hey man, nice to see ya... but where'dya get the records?"'
Cap'n Bob
19-06-2002, 09:06 PM
let it bleed, for many reasons, most notably the way in which love in vain tugs at my poor fragile heart, and for the joy of rolling "creeeeemon" around in my mouth.
Boris the charltonhater
19-06-2002, 09:07 PM
Originally posted by g23
I've never heard any of their albums.
I have heard of any either. Someone ought to added an option for odd people like me.
DANGERMOUSE
19-06-2002, 09:14 PM
Originally posted by Tony
Ultimately I'd have to go for Let It Bleed just pipping Exile on Main St, but as no-one else has, I'll also put in a good word for the first two Stones albums from their original RnB days.
I did!! But where can you get Rolling Stones No. 2? I've NEVER seen it on C.D. anywhere... :(
Am I the only person in the world who actually likes Their Satanic Majesties?
Yes. It's terrible.
Originally posted by DANGERMOUSE
I did!! But where can you get Rolling Stones No. 2? I've NEVER seen it on C.D. anywhere... :(
Sorry I don't know. I've had it on vinyl for years. How do you scratch CDs so they click and crackle and sound proper? ;)
Ultimately I'd have to go for Let It Bleed just pipping Exile on Main St, but as no-one else has, I'll also put in a good word for the first two Stones albums from their original RnB days.
The first album, mostly Blues covers, has cracking versions of Route 66 and I Just Want To Make Love To You, although some of the others are not quite as hot. The second album is more of the same, I really love Down the Road Apiece – 'mama cookin' chicken fried in bacon grease'.
They're not perfect (especially not with all we know now) but they capture a time and place that I would love to have been part of. Just imagine being packed into the Crawdaddy Club with a hundred or so others who'd never heard anything like it before and were at the very start of it all – it must have been amazing.
As a basic complilation 'Rolled Gold' offers the Stones novice a fantastic introduction – from Come On and Little Red Rooster, thru Lady Jane and Paint it Black to We Love You and onto Sympathy for the Devil, Honky Tonk Women and their greatest song Gimme Shelter.
Am I the only person in the world who actually likes Their Satanic Majesties? The Citadel is superb. Great photo on the cover too.
Keef on first meeting Mick on Dartford station: 'This cat's together right... he's got Chuck Berry's Rockin at the Hops and Best of Muddy Waters under his arm: "Hey man, nice to see ya... but where'dya get the records?"'
Granada allover
19-06-2002, 09:45 PM
Got to be Sticky Fingers.
Invention, class playing and, above all, Mick Taylor cutting loose before Mick and Keith got him shooting up and out of his head.
:p
Adrian
20-06-2002, 02:41 AM
I've been thinking a lot about this.
For me, Sticky Fingers was always the best, marking, as it did, the move away from Decca to their own label and the batch of brilliant songs that launched it (and I include Brown Sugar in that although it wasn't on the standard release of the album) and it was emphasized by the tour they did to promote it, the gig I saw being at Colston Hall in Bristol in 1971(?) We were at Exeter Uni at the time and drove up the A38 for the evening in a battered Ford Pop. Ah! Those were the days!! They were note perfect, from the minute they came on stage.
However, the passage of time does even things out: I must agree with one or two others on here that Let It Bleed is really THE Stones album. Apart from containing a couple of Stones "anthems" (Midnight Rambler, Gimme Shelter) it really represents the band at the height of their power, showing that they didn't need psychedelia - they'd dabbled with it on Satanic Majesties and that was enough: with Let It Bleed they went back to doing what they did best - rocking.
I'm surprised - and delighted - that several have also mentioned Exile on Main Street: much underrated at the time (by the media and the critics anyway) but a brilliant album with several standout tracks.
Also worth mentioning:
LIVEr Than You'll Ever Be - the bootleg forerunner of Get Your Ya-Ya's Out - and superior IMHO;
Rolling Stones #2 - the second ever album I bought, containing their wonderful version of Everybody Needs Somebody to Love.
What a band!
Grunt
20-06-2002, 02:45 AM
Originally posted by Tony
Am I the only person in the world who actually likes Their Satanic Majesties? The Citadel is superb. Great photo on the cover too.
I was just going to write that when I saw your post. I think it's great hippy nonsense.
But I voted for Sticky Fingers because of Wild Horses and Can't You Hear Me Knocking.
And G23 should be completely ashamed of himself. From now on I shall emphatically disrespect his posts until he buys some Stones.
Tim of the 80's
20-06-2002, 02:46 AM
Only got the one - Out of Our Heads, but it is a belter. Will eventually get roand to buying Exile on Main Street, Sticky Fingers, etc etc.
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Adrian
20-06-2002, 12:26 PM
Originally posted by Tim of the 80's
Will eventually get roand to buying Exile on Main Street, Sticky Fingers, etc etc. Don't leave it too long, Tim: there's loads of them.....
Baloo
20-06-2002, 01:42 PM
I opted for Beggars Banquet, for two simple reasons: Sympathy for the Devil and Salt of the Earth. I should not need to say any more.
Let it Bleed is good, but too many throw-away tracks for my liking.
Exile is also good, full of "good" tracks, but IMO, not enough "excellent" tracks.
Although my mention of these particular albums may seemed very learned, and carefully selected from the many in my collection, in fact, they are the only three Stones albums I have.
In light of other postings I may consider acquiring Sticky Fingers in the near future. Can someone tell me whether it's mostly blues (a la Exile), groove (a la Sympathy), rock (a la Satisfaction), anthemic (a la Can't Always Get What you want) or pop (a la Ruby Tuesday).
Baloo
20-06-2002, 01:46 PM
BTW, here is a good fan-site with enough polls to keep you occupied for a while: http://www.keno.org/polls/poll_menu.asp
baroli
20-06-2002, 01:53 PM
I went for Beggars Banquet because there is so much going on throughout the entire album. However the first two they produced, The Rolling Stones and The Rolling Stones Volume Two are boith great albums with loads of energy and a couple of good cover versions on each.
Originally posted by Grunt
And G23 should be completely ashamed of himself. From now on I shall emphatically disrespect his posts until he buys some Stones.
Sounds fair, but can I buy my way to redemption by agreeing that J Mascis is a better guitarist than...almost anyone?
Lee B
20-06-2002, 05:31 PM
Tough, very tough, but I've got to say that 'Let It Bleed' goes on my turntable the most!
G23, go buy some Stones!!!!!!
Maidstoned Eagle
20-06-2002, 11:03 PM
I really like "Stripped", loads of energy from the band thats supposedly too old to rock. And if you haven't already go and buy "Goddess in the doorway" Micks latest solo effort. Excellent.
Stonewall
20-06-2002, 11:09 PM
Get yer ya ya's out (live lp):clown:
El Aguila
21-06-2002, 02:50 PM
Originally posted by g23
I've never heard any of their albums.
You lucky sod! Buy them now!
El Aguila
21-06-2002, 03:06 PM
Originally posted by Baloo
In light of other postings I may consider acquiring Sticky Fingers in the near future. Can someone tell me whether it's mostly blues (a la Exile), groove (a la Sympathy), rock (a la Satisfaction), anthemic (a la Can't Always Get What you want) or pop (a la Ruby Tuesday).
It's very druggy, basically.
I voted for Let it Bleed because I was listening to it just before I posted the poll - on CD. But then yesterday (being on strike) I started listening to Exile on vinyl - and thinking that it loses a lot on CD because you should be able to listen to it in any order you feel like - you put on one of the records 'cos you want to listen to "Torn and Frayed" or "Loving Cup", then you end up listening to the whole album. Plus that album has the lines "The sunshine bores the daylights out of me / Chasing shadows, moonlight mystery".
So today it's "Exile". Off to listen to Beggars Banquet......
Originally posted by El Aguila
(being on strike)
Sorry to go off topic, but you have to tell us more.
El Aguila
21-06-2002, 03:31 PM
Originally posted by g23
Sorry to go off topic, but you have to tell us more.
Have you bought those records yet? Are you worthy of response? Yes? Well there was a general strike in Spain yesterday - didn't you know? So I did my bit for the workers by not selling any records.
Originally posted by El Aguila
Have you bought those records yet?
No - but I will get around to it
Are you worthy of response? Yes?
No
Well there was a general strike in Spain yesterday - didn't you know? So I did my bit for the workers by not selling any records.
Thanks - your reward will be the approbation of a heffalump. Of course, depending on the records they bought, the workers might have been considerably better off if you'd opened for business.
El Aguila
21-06-2002, 04:33 PM
Originally posted by g23
Actually I'm the boss - so if I'd been at work I would only have been p*ssing around doing budgets and marketing plans and talking about the Rolling Stones on the BBS. Saw the Breeders the other day, they were brilliant, check them out when they play England.
I know you're a Mottola-type svengali and wouldn't have actually been taking cash for records, but are you saying you struck and left your sales staff the choice? I just figured that you being off would prevent people fom buying records (boo!)
Bought Title TK the other day but haven't given it a spin yet - am looking forward to it and might well try to catch them over here. Depends whether they play somewhere salubrious. :)
El Aguila
21-06-2002, 08:11 PM
All fifteen of us supported the strike (fortunately - otherwise I'd have had to come in to open the warehouse). What I mean is that my presence in or absence from the office is fairly academic as far as records getting sold is concerned..... I then went to see a fantastic gig, rolled in drunk at half past two and got up at seven to watch the footy.
2009
Originally posted by El Aguila
What I mean is that my presence in or absence from the office is fairly academic as far as records getting sold is concerned.....
Yeah, I'm fairly ineffectual at work too. :D
El Aguila
21-06-2002, 08:38 PM
Originally posted by g23
Yeah, I'm fairly ineffectual at work too. :D
Sends shivers down my spine imagining not being a boss and having to work for a living. How do they do it?
Dunno?
The Breeders? As in Cannonball, didn't know they were still going.
Grunt
21-06-2002, 08:43 PM
Originally posted by g23
Sounds fair, but can I buy my way to redemption by agreeing that J Mascis is a better guitarist than...almost anyone? Straight for my weak spot. Redemption granted.
El Aguila
21-06-2002, 08:45 PM
Originally posted by TAK
Dunno?
The Breeders? As in Cannonball, didn't know they were still going.
Nine years on, just released the follow up. Been "busy".
Grunt
21-06-2002, 08:45 PM
Originally posted by El Aguila
It's very druggy, basically.Sticky Fingers? You what?
Brown Sugar druggy? Wild Horses druggy? All the other ones druggy? (OK, maybe the last point reflects more of me forgetting now what the other ones were apart from Can't You Hear Me Knocking).
Grunt
21-06-2002, 08:46 PM
Originally posted by El Aguila
Sends shivers down my spine imagining not being a boss and having to work for a living. How do they do it? It's horrible - you're right.
Grunt
21-06-2002, 08:48 PM
Originally posted by El Aguila
Nine years on, just released the follow up. Been "busy". So do they love me now?
El Aguila
21-06-2002, 08:52 PM
Originally posted by Grunt
Sticky Fingers? You what?
Brown Sugar druggy? Wild Horses druggy? All the other ones druggy? (OK, maybe the last point reflects more of me forgetting now what the other ones were apart from Can't You Hear Me Knocking).
Well, there's "Moonlight Mile", "Dead Flowers" and "Sister Morphine"... can't think of a much better adjective for that record!
Grunt
21-06-2002, 08:59 PM
Originally posted by El Aguila
Well, there's "Moonlight Mile", "Dead Flowers" and "Sister Morphine"... can't think of a much better adjective for that record! I suppose Moonlight (Moonlit?) mile sounds a bit druggy, but Dead Flowers is a good ol' fashioned rock and roll number - what's druggy about that? And Sister Morphine may be about drugs, but I think it's a very sad song about addiction - and a d@mned good one too.
Their Satanic Majesties is druggy. Sticky Fingers I'd say is inspired rock & roll/ blues.
El Aguila
21-06-2002, 09:02 PM
Er, "jonesy". Anyone up for a quick "ten druggiest albums of all time"?
The Clash "The Clash" - amphetamines
Sly Stone "There's a Riot" - cocaine
Fleetwood Mac - "Rumours" - ditto
Culture - "two Sevens Clash" (for example) - marijuana
Happy Mondays - "Pills thrills etc." - ecstasy
Syd Barrett - "Madcap" - acid
Lou Reed - "Metal Machine Music" - heroin
Grunt
21-06-2002, 09:05 PM
Originally posted by El Aguila
Er, "jonesy". Anyone up for a quick "ten druggiest albums of all time"?
The Clash "The Clash" - amphetamines
Sly Stone "There's a Riot" - cocaine
Fleetwood Mac - "Rumours" - ditto
Culture - "two Sevens Clash" (for example) - marijuana
Happy Mondays - "Pills thrills etc." - ecstasy
Syd Barrett - "Madcap" - acid
Lou Reed - "Metal Machine Music" - heroin
Good one - what about Spacemen 3 - Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To?
El Aguila
21-06-2002, 09:06 PM
Originally posted by Grunt
I suppose Moonlight (Moonlit?) mile sounds a bit druggy, but Dead Flowers is a good ol' fashioned rock and roll number - what's druggy about that? And Sister Morphine may be about drugs, but I think it's a very sad song about addiction - and a d@mned good one too.
Their Satanic Majesties is druggy. Sticky Fingers I'd say is inspired rock & roll/ blues.
"I'll be in my basement room / With a needle and a spoon" - is he talking about sewing? Sorry Grunt, thought you were kidding - I think "Wild Horses" and "Brown Sugar" are about / inspired by drugs, too - yeah, drug as metaphor - but drugs, at the end of the day.
El Aguila
21-06-2002, 09:08 PM
Originally posted by Grunt
Good one - what about Spacemen 3 - Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To?
"Are you Experienced" - anything he could get his hands on!
Grunt
21-06-2002, 09:09 PM
Originally posted by El Aguila
"I'll be in my basement room / With a needle and a spoon" - is he talking about sewing? Sorry Grunt, thought you were kidding - I think "Wild Horses" and "Brown Sugar" are about / inspired by drugs, too - yeah, drug as metaphor - but drugs, at the end of the day. Fair enough - you're obviously better at spotting these references than me. But I still think if someone bought the album thinking it would sound druggy they'd be disappointed. It's not all spaced-out stuff.
As to whether they were stoned when they recorded it - well the odds have to be in your favour on that one, I'll admit.
El Aguila
21-06-2002, 09:10 PM
Originally posted by Grunt
And Sister Morphine may be about drugs, but I think it's a very sad song about addiction - and a d@mned good one too.
Their Satanic Majesties is druggy. Sticky Fingers I'd say is inspired rock & roll/ blues.
Sister Morphine isn't just, exclusively about drugs, but, you know, er there's obviously a drug reference there!
1e47
Grunt
21-06-2002, 09:11 PM
Originally posted by El Aguila
Sister Morphine isn't just, exclusively about drugs, but, you know, er there's obviously a drug reference there! I understand there are drug references - I'm talking about how it sounds.
El Aguila
21-06-2002, 09:13 PM
Originally posted by Grunt
Fair enough - you're obviously better at spotting these references than me.
Cheeky monkey!
Grunt
21-06-2002, 09:14 PM
Originally posted by El Aguila
Cheeky monkey! Monkey maybe, but at least my short-term memory's intact.;)
Did you mean created whilst on or just about, here's my top ten favourites anyway:
Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads - Cocaine
Ratus - The Stranglers - Heroin
A nod is as good as a wink... to a blind horse - The Faces - Alcohol
What's the story morning glory - Oasis - Cocaine
Exodus - Bob Marley - Weed
Are you experienced - Jimi Hendrix - Everything possible
Pearl - Janis Joplin - Alcohol and downers
The White Album - The Beatles - LSD
Anything by Primal Scream
Anything by Depeche Mode
Anything by Iggy Pop
Actually 11
El Aguila
21-06-2002, 09:20 PM
Originally posted by Grunt
I understand there are drug references - I'm talking about how it sounds.
I guess the difference between Satanic Majesties and Sticky Fingers is that TSMR was made at the height of acid lunacy, generally, in the U.K. and was self-consciously druggy - whereas Sticky Fingers is informed by what had by then become pretty gargantuan drug use by Richards, Taylor and to a lesser extent Jagger (ever the dilettante). But if anyone would buy the record because they wanted a record to take drugs to - if people do that kind of thing - then, yeah, I guess you're right - it's kind of implicit. Just sounds to me as if they're all off their faces - but bear in mind I spend my whole life hanging around with rock musicians and have a pretty jaundiced view of them.
Grunt
21-06-2002, 09:24 PM
Originally posted by El Aguila
bear in mind I spend my whole life hanging around with rock musicians and have a pretty jaundiced view of them. Cool - is it all the same as in Spinal Tap then or what?
El Aguila
21-06-2002, 09:25 PM
Originally posted by TAK
Did you mean created whilst on or just about, here's my top ten favourites anyway:
Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads - Cocaine
Ratus - The Stranglers - Heroin
A nod is as good as a wink... to a blind horse - The Faces - Alcohol
What's the story morning glory - Oasis - Cocaine
Exodus - Bob Marley - Weed
Are you experienced - Jimi Hendrix - Everything possible
Pearl - Janis Joplin - Alcohol and downers
The White Album - The Beatles - LSD
Anything by Primal Scream
Anything by Depeche Mode
Anything by Iggy Pop
Actually 11
Good shouts there. Now we need G23 (who is down with the kids) to point us in the way of a crack album.
El Aguila
21-06-2002, 09:26 PM
Originally posted by Grunt
Cool - is it all the same as in Spinal Tap then or what?
Er what were we talking about again?;)
Seriously - no, it's often worse. Or better.
El Aguila
21-06-2002, 09:57 PM
Magic Mushrooms - Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, "Bwyd Time". Glue - "The Ramones".
Originally posted by El Aguila
Good shouts there. Now we need G23 (who is down with the kids) to point us in the way of a crack album.
The kids tell me that crack can be a little too debilitating - apparently if you try recording while on it nothing much happens, and if you try recording stuff about the experience of being on it your memory isn't able to drag much up. Having said that, the first Ol' Dirty B*stard album comes about as close as I can imagine it might be like. Records by the likes of Gravediggaz, Prince Paul, Dr Octagon and many of the Wu-Tang affiliated artists can be characterised for their association with Crystal Meth, it seems.
How 'bout Gong, Caravan and The Soft Machine for 'shrooms and acid?
Thatch
25-06-2002, 10:15 AM
Originally posted by El Aguila
Nine years on, just released the follow up. Been "busy".
Their new single (The Breeders) sounds a lot like early Clash IMO.
Adrian
25-06-2002, 12:59 PM
Erm....this is supposed to be a thread about the best Stones album.........................
:rolleyes:
El Aguila
25-06-2002, 01:34 PM
Er, yes it was..... so do you think it's fair enough to call "Sticky Fingers", druggy? Do you think it's reasonable that the early sixties, the mid-seventies and almost the whole of the eighties and nineties are unrepresented in the poll options?
Thatch
26-06-2002, 04:04 AM
What about "The Best of The Rollong Stones" ?:p
El Aguila
30-03-2004, 09:29 PM
I reckon it's "Sticky Fingers" this week.
Neil the Eagle
30-03-2004, 09:42 PM
Don't get me started on these fcukers...
They are one of the few bands I would grant a "PK Wish" to.
Gosling
30-03-2004, 09:44 PM
I voted for Aftermath, but only because I like Paint It Black.
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