PAULYBEES definitive top 50 albums of 2007 - Page 2

PAULYBEE2656 · 12.13.2007, 10:01 AM

thanks guys..
stars of the lid, i havent heard it....

as for the order, well they are my preference, they are my favourites in that order. im not saying that these are the best albums this year musically, im saying that they are my favourites... end of story!

for anyone who cares, pre, throbbing gristle, growing and deerhoof just missed out, as much as id love to include them on the list, they just missed out..

les savy fav, hella and interpol are not on the list because those albums are awful!

Moshe · 12.13.2007, 10:15 AM

Nice list. Mine will look similar.

davenotdead · 12.13.2007, 01:52 PM

stars of the lid is a stunner....everyone should be checking that

PAULYBEE2656 · 12.18.2007, 01:36 PM

bump to ad to the other top 2007 lists...

and i forgot totally about the silver daggers album!

atsonicpark · 12.18.2007, 03:27 PM

Kinda sad that more people haven't heard scissor shock's "tease the skeleton", that'd obviously be #1 on a lot of people's lists.

atsonicpark · 12.18.2007, 03:29 PM

Also, pauly, I enjoy your list, I don't agree with placements of certain things, but you do have plenty of albums I had forgotten about (to kill a petty bourgeosoipfupsoiufsepoiuf for example) so I revised my list a bit when I posted it to my LJ.

And I'm glad we both agree that the new Hella is fucking TERRIBLE...

nicfit · 12.18.2007, 03:39 PM

really nice list (Pauly's, need to read atari's and cooley's with more attention), I agree with lots of those mentioned, don't care much for the "position" in the list.. I'd add:

the mini cd Rolo Tomassi put out
ulan bator released a great "compilation" of unreleased material
bloody panda - Pheromone + split with kayo dot

will think about a more personal list after my birthday.

SpectralJulianIsNotDead · 12.18.2007, 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by █████████

i havent heard 50 albums from 2007.

I don't think I've heard 50 albums from any year.

atsonicpark · 12.18.2007, 04:20 PM

bloody panda's cool, didnt realize that stuff was 2007 though.

nicfit · 12.18.2007, 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by atsonicpark

bloody panda's cool, didnt realize that stuff was 2007 though.

I think... will check, I get quite confused with release dates...

edit: the split is 2006, the album 2007 (if I'm not mistaken)...

a couple more great albums :
Black Engine - "Ku Klux Klowns"
Bachi da Pietra - "non io"

Everyneurotic · 12.19.2007, 12:05 AM

i'm probably the only one who liked the new hella, i need to re-listen to it, but it was great in a voivod kinda sense.

atsonicpark · 12.19.2007, 12:10 AM

Yeah, I listened to it twice, it was a chore for sure. A stepup from that double disc thing they did which was pretty much unlistenable, but...

Too Mars Volta like in parts.. my girlfriend liked it a lot, for some reason..

Everyneurotic · 12.19.2007, 12:16 AM

ohh, church gone wild is unlistenable, you want to tear your hair 5 minutes into it.

Everyneurotic · 12.24.2007, 12:10 AM

i think i got it, but i'll play it safe and say it's a draft, so here are the 50 top great albums for me; i didn't listen to some stuff this year so, unfortunately, some things didn't make it. i'll have a list of 50 bottom great albums of the year too; for now here are the very greats. also, i cheated on some places.

in no particular order:

Ghost - In Stormy Nights
Descartes A Kant - Paper Dolls
Hot Cross - Risk Revival
Sutcliffe Jügend - This Is The Truth
Los Llamarada - The Exploding Now!
The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb
Neurosis - Given To The Rising
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO - Crystal Rainbow Pyramid In The Stars
Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound
Melt Banana - Bambi's Dilemma
Astro - Astral Orange Sunshine/Galax - Never Ending Space Trackin'
Lasse Marhaug - The Great Silence
Smegma - 33 1/3
Job For A Cowboy - Genesis
Hentai Lacerator - Covered In Fun
Jesu - Conqueror
Wolves In The Throne Room - Two Hunters
Circle - Panic/Circle - Katapult/Sunburned Circle - The Blaze Game/Pharaoh Overlord - Live In Suomi Finland
Kousokuya - Echoes From Deep Underground/Ray Night, 2006.10.18.
Heavy Winged - Feel Inside
Xiu Xiu Larsen - ¿Spicchiology?
Kemilliset Ystävät - Untitled
Islaja - Ulual Yyy
PJ Harvey - White Chalk
Benighted - Icon
Pharaohe Munch - Desire
Oxbow - The Narcotic Story
Rhys Chatham - A Crimson Grail (For 400 Guitars)
James Blackshaw - The Cloud Of Unknowing
Einstürzende Neubauten - Alles Wieder Offen
Bongripper - Hippie Killer
Unsane - Visqueen
Bloody Panda - Pheromone
Vibracathedral Orchestra - Wisdom Thuderbolt
Baroness - Red Album
Om - Pilgrimage
Angels Of Light - We Are Him
Oren Ambarchi - In The Pendulum's Embrace
Municipal Waste - The Art Of Partying
Watain - Sworn To The Dark
Original Silence - The First Original Silence
Múm - Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy
Prurient - Adam Tied To Stone
Bad Brains - Build A Nation
Alcest - Souvenir D'un Autre Monde
Lesbian - Power Hör
Wold - Screeching Owl
Mammal - Lonesome Drifter
Boris with Merzbow - Rock Dream/Boris with Michio Kurihara - Rainbow

Everyneurotic · 12.24.2007, 12:33 AM

here's pretty much, the bottom greatest 50 albums of 2007 for me, these are great albums that, while very well done, don't really break the mold or had that extra something, yet are still fantastic. again in no particular order:

My Cat Is An Alien - Leave me in the black No-Thing
Psyopus - Our Puzzling Encounters Consideres
The Bark Haze - The Bark Haze
Astral Social Club - Super Grease/Neon Pibroch
Zozobra - Harmonic Tremors
The Fall - Reformation Post TLC
Jimmy Eat World - Chase This Light
Polysics - Karate House
Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today
High On Fire - Death Is This Communion
Weedeater - Godluck and Goodspeed
Sunburned Hand Of The Man - Earth Do Eagles Do
Pre - Epic Fits
Darkthrone - F.O.A.D.
Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao
Death Ambient - Druken Forest
Sir Richard Bishop - Polytheistic
Andrew Bird - Armchair
Gallhammer - Ill Innocense
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Thurston Moore - Trees Outside The Academy
RTX - Western Xterminator
Sigh - Hangman's Hymn
To Kill A Petty Bourgeoisie - The Patron
Silverchair - Young Modern
The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
The Painful Leg Injuries - If The Devil's In The Details Then How Many Details Can You Fit Upon A Match
Behemoth - The Apostasy
Pita - A Bas La Culture Marchande
Boredoms - Super Roots 9
Alasehir - The Stone Sentinels
Burning Star Core - Blood Lightning/Operator Dead...Post Abandoned
Pan Sonic - Katodivaihe
Carlos Giffoni - Arrogance
Demons - Frozen Fog
Antigama - Resonance
Suishou No Fune - The Light Of Dark Night
Zoroaster - Dog Magic
Meat Puppets - Rise To Your Knees
Destroyer Destroyer - Littered With Arrows
BBBlood - Experiment 50
Rubbish - Vexanation, The Great American Outhouse
Battles - Mirrored
Armenia + Cornucopia - Un Infierno Total
Stars Of The Lid - And Their Refinement Of The Decline
108 - A New Beat From A Dead Heart
Kenji Siratori - Survival Mind
Eluvium - Copia
Six Organs Of Admittance - Shelter From The Ash
Clockcleaner - Babylon Rules

atsonicpark · 12.24.2007, 07:36 AM

I didn't realize "in stormy nights" was 2007.. that would make my list too...

Everyneurotic · 12.24.2007, 11:04 AM

yeah, in stormy nights is amazing.

Glice · 12.24.2007, 12:38 PM

I'm quite surprised that, while I'm familiar with a fair few of people's top 50, I have only actually bought one recorded that was originally released this year. So, my top 1 consists of the new Fall record, which is by an astonishing margin, the best record I bought that was new this year. With honourable mentions to the Michael North plays Bach on the Lute box set re-issued this year.

Edit: by surprised I mean pleased. And by pleased I mean smug.

Katy · 12.24.2007, 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by atari 2600

Should I post my top fifty list in this thread, wait until someone starts a best of '07 thread, or start my own best of '07 thread?

Note that the above is a bit of a rhetorical question.

(I cut around twenty titles to pare this down to fifty)
What the hell...

1 The Original Silence - The First Original Silence
2 Battles - Mirrored
3 Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
4 Neil Young - Chrome Dreams II
5 Thurston Moore - Trees Outside the Academy
6 I'm Not There Motion Picture Soundtrack
7 Bruce Springsteen - Magic
8 Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond
9 Melt-Banana - Bambi's Dilemma
10 Björk - Volta
11 Meat Puppets - Rise To Your Knees
12 Patti Smith - Twelve
13 Bad Brains - Build A Nation
14 The Stooges - The Weirdness
15 Suzanne Vega - Beauty & Crime
16 Liars - Liars
17 Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
18 Radiohead - In Rainbows
19 T.I. - T.I. vs. T.I.P.
20 Einstürzende Neubauten - Alles Weider Offen
21 XBXRX - Wars
22 Magik Markers - Boss
23 Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound
24 Zu & Nobuzaku Takemura - Identification with the Enemy: A Key to the Underworld
25 Brad Mehldau - Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz Radio Broadcast
26 Wolf Eyes - Black Wings Over Sand
27 Black Dice - Load Blown
28 Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
29 Xiu Xiu & V/A - Remixed & Covered
30 John Fogerty - Revival
31 Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
32 Ween - La Cucaracha
33 The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
34 Built To Spill - You In Reverse
35 Grinderman - Grinderman
36 Ron Carter - Dear Miles
37 Cowboy Junkies - At the End of Paths Taken
38 Richard Thompson - Sweet Warrior
39 Merle Haggard - The Bluegrass Sessions
40 Public Enemy - How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul?
41 Tomahawk - Anonymous
42 Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist
43 The White Stripes - Icky Thump
44 Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. -
Crystal Rainbow Pyramid Under the Stars
45 The Fall - Reformation Post T.L.C
46 Duran Duran - Red Carpet Massacre
47 Low - Drums and Guns
48 Skinny Puppy - Mythmaker
49 The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
50 Wilco - Sky Blue Sky

First list i've seen that's included The Stooges record.

atari 2600 · 12.24.2007, 02:10 PM

Oh shit, I've been quoted...no more reshuffling and editing for me!

Thanks for noticing. My list notes lots of different types of music and dares to go with some fairly unpopular choices. And while one of my all-time favorite performers, Paul McCartney, released a new album this year, the effort did not make the cut. Bryan Ferry's Dylanesque tribute is absent as well, but The I'm Not There soundtrack shot right up near the top. I haven't heard a considerable amount of the music on other best of lists, but I did eliminate over twenty titles to make it a top fifty. I passed over Blonde Redhead, Spoon, the V/A Joni Mitchell tribute, Mehldau and Metheny, Beastie Boys, Frog Eyes, Merzbow, the V/A Darfur thing, and The Hottest State soundtrack just to name a few.

I think I originally had The Weirdness at number seventeen or eighteen, but bumped it up, and damn what people think hehe! I really should have it even higher than fourteen the more I think about it. Despite some level of disappointment, the other half or so of the album is really good. "Passing Cloud" is particularly wonderful and one of my very favorite songs of this year. This candle's blown.

12.13.2007, 10:01 AM	#21
PAULYBEE2656 invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: wexford, rep of ireland Posts: 6,930	thanks guys.. stars of the lid, i havent heard it.... as for the order, well they are my preference, they are my favourites in that order. im not saying that these are the best albums this year musically, im saying that they are my favourites... end of story! for anyone who cares, pre, throbbing gristle, growing and deerhoof just missed out, as much as id love to include them on the list, they just missed out.. les savy fav, hella and interpol are not on the list because those albums are awful! __________________ myspace facebook *twitter*
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12.13.2007, 10:15 AM	#22
Moshe Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 5,896	Nice list. Mine will look similar.
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12.13.2007, 01:52 PM	#23
davenotdead invito al cielo Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 7,784	stars of the lid is a stunner....everyone should be checking that __________________
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12.18.2007, 01:36 PM	#24
PAULYBEE2656 invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: wexford, rep of ireland Posts: 6,930	bump to ad to the other top 2007 lists... and i forgot totally about the silver daggers album! __________________ myspace facebook *twitter*
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12.18.2007, 03:27 PM	#25
atsonicpark invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 28,843	Kinda sad that more people haven't heard scissor shock's "tease the skeleton", that'd obviously be #1 on a lot of people's lists. __________________
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12.18.2007, 03:29 PM	#26
atsonicpark invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 28,843	Also, pauly, I enjoy your list, I don't agree with placements of certain things, but you do have plenty of albums I had forgotten about (to kill a petty bourgeosoipfupsoiufsepoiuf for example) so I revised my list a bit when I posted it to my LJ. And I'm glad we both agree that the new Hella is fucking TERRIBLE... __________________
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12.18.2007, 03:39 PM	#27
nicfit invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: banana boat Posts: 15,570	really nice list (Pauly's, need to read atari's and cooley's with more attention), I agree with lots of those mentioned, don't care much for the "position" in the list.. I'd add: the mini cd Rolo Tomassi put out ulan bator released a great "compilation" of unreleased material bloody panda - Pheromone + split with kayo dot will think about a more personal list after my birthday. __________________ 11:11 11-11-11 I Ascended.
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12.18.2007, 04:20 PM	#29
atsonicpark invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 28,843	bloody panda's cool, didnt realize that stuff was 2007 though. __________________
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12.19.2007, 12:05 AM	#31
Everyneurotic invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mexico Posts: 15,713	i'm probably the only one who liked the new hella, i need to re-listen to it, but it was great in a voivod kinda sense. __________________ Richard Clayderman found alive and still bland! Repo Man has all night! Photographic evidence of Monosodic's existance! New Kiddieriot shit after all! Never too late to share fave rex from the year before! David Keenan is a douchebag! Ron Asheton missed!
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12.19.2007, 12:10 AM	#32
atsonicpark invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 28,843	Yeah, I listened to it twice, it was a chore for sure. A stepup from that double disc thing they did which was pretty much unlistenable, but... Too Mars Volta like in parts.. my girlfriend liked it a lot, for some reason.. __________________
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12.19.2007, 12:16 AM	#33
Everyneurotic invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mexico Posts: 15,713	ohh, church gone wild is unlistenable, you want to tear your hair 5 minutes into it. __________________ Richard Clayderman found alive and still bland! Repo Man has all night! Photographic evidence of Monosodic's existance! New Kiddieriot shit after all! Never too late to share fave rex from the year before! David Keenan is a douchebag! Ron Asheton missed!
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12.24.2007, 12:10 AM	#34
Everyneurotic invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mexico Posts: 15,713	i think i got it, but i'll play it safe and say it's a draft, so here are the 50 top great albums for me; i didn't listen to some stuff this year so, unfortunately, some things didn't make it. i'll have a list of 50 bottom great albums of the year too; for now here are the very greats. also, i cheated on some places. in no particular order: Ghost - In Stormy Nights Descartes A Kant - Paper Dolls Hot Cross - Risk Revival Sutcliffe Jügend - This Is The Truth Los Llamarada - The Exploding Now! The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb Neurosis - Given To The Rising Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO - Crystal Rainbow Pyramid In The Stars Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound Melt Banana - Bambi's Dilemma Astro - Astral Orange Sunshine/Galax - Never Ending Space Trackin' Lasse Marhaug - The Great Silence Smegma - 33 1/3 Job For A Cowboy - Genesis Hentai Lacerator - Covered In Fun Jesu - Conqueror Wolves In The Throne Room - Two Hunters Circle - Panic/Circle - Katapult/Sunburned Circle - The Blaze Game/Pharaoh Overlord - Live In Suomi Finland Kousokuya - Echoes From Deep Underground/Ray Night, 2006.10.18. Heavy Winged - Feel Inside Xiu Xiu Larsen - ¿Spicchiology? Kemilliset Ystävät - Untitled Islaja - Ulual Yyy PJ Harvey - White Chalk Benighted - Icon Pharaohe Munch - Desire Oxbow - The Narcotic Story Rhys Chatham - A Crimson Grail (For 400 Guitars) James Blackshaw - The Cloud Of Unknowing Einstürzende Neubauten - Alles Wieder Offen Bongripper - Hippie Killer Unsane - Visqueen Bloody Panda - Pheromone Vibracathedral Orchestra - Wisdom Thuderbolt Baroness - Red Album Om - Pilgrimage Angels Of Light - We Are Him Oren Ambarchi - In The Pendulum's Embrace Municipal Waste - The Art Of Partying Watain - Sworn To The Dark Original Silence - The First Original Silence Múm - Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy Prurient - Adam Tied To Stone Bad Brains - Build A Nation Alcest - Souvenir D'un Autre Monde Lesbian - Power Hör Wold - Screeching Owl Mammal - Lonesome Drifter Boris with Merzbow - Rock Dream/Boris with Michio Kurihara - Rainbow __________________ Richard Clayderman found alive and still bland! Repo Man has all night! Photographic evidence of Monosodic's existance! New Kiddieriot shit after all! Never too late to share fave rex from the year before! David Keenan is a douchebag! Ron Asheton missed!
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12.24.2007, 12:33 AM	#35
Everyneurotic invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mexico Posts: 15,713	here's pretty much, the bottom greatest 50 albums of 2007 for me, these are great albums that, while very well done, don't really break the mold or had that extra something, yet are still fantastic. again in no particular order: My Cat Is An Alien - Leave me in the black No-Thing Psyopus - Our Puzzling Encounters Consideres The Bark Haze - The Bark Haze Astral Social Club - Super Grease/Neon Pibroch Zozobra - Harmonic Tremors The Fall - Reformation Post TLC Jimmy Eat World - Chase This Light Polysics - Karate House Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today High On Fire - Death Is This Communion Weedeater - Godluck and Goodspeed Sunburned Hand Of The Man - Earth Do Eagles Do Pre - Epic Fits Darkthrone - F.O.A.D. Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao Death Ambient - Druken Forest Sir Richard Bishop - Polytheistic Andrew Bird - Armchair Gallhammer - Ill Innocense Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam Thurston Moore - Trees Outside The Academy RTX - Western Xterminator Sigh - Hangman's Hymn To Kill A Petty Bourgeoisie - The Patron Silverchair - Young Modern The Shins - Wincing The Night Away The Painful Leg Injuries - If The Devil's In The Details Then How Many Details Can You Fit Upon A Match Behemoth - The Apostasy Pita - A Bas La Culture Marchande Boredoms - Super Roots 9 Alasehir - The Stone Sentinels Burning Star Core - Blood Lightning/Operator Dead...Post Abandoned Pan Sonic - Katodivaihe Carlos Giffoni - Arrogance Demons - Frozen Fog Antigama - Resonance Suishou No Fune - The Light Of Dark Night Zoroaster - Dog Magic Meat Puppets - Rise To Your Knees Destroyer Destroyer - Littered With Arrows BBBlood - Experiment 50 Rubbish - Vexanation, The Great American Outhouse Battles - Mirrored Armenia + Cornucopia - Un Infierno Total Stars Of The Lid - And Their Refinement Of The Decline 108 - A New Beat From A Dead Heart Kenji Siratori - Survival Mind Eluvium - Copia Six Organs Of Admittance - Shelter From The Ash Clockcleaner - Babylon Rules __________________ Richard Clayderman found alive and still bland! Repo Man has all night! Photographic evidence of Monosodic's existance! New Kiddieriot shit after all! Never too late to share fave rex from the year before! David Keenan is a douchebag! Ron Asheton missed!
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12.24.2007, 07:36 AM	#36
atsonicpark invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 28,843	I didn't realize "in stormy nights" was 2007.. that would make my list too... __________________
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12.24.2007, 11:04 AM	#37
Everyneurotic invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mexico Posts: 15,713	yeah, in stormy nights is amazing. __________________ Richard Clayderman found alive and still bland! Repo Man has all night! Photographic evidence of Monosodic's existance! New Kiddieriot shit after all! Never too late to share fave rex from the year before! David Keenan is a douchebag! Ron Asheton missed!
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12.24.2007, 02:10 PM	#40
atari 2600 invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 8,212	Oh shit, I've been quoted...no more reshuffling and editing for me! Thanks for noticing. My list notes lots of different types of music and dares to go with some fairly unpopular choices. And while one of my all-time favorite performers, Paul McCartney, released a new album this year, the effort did not make the cut. Bryan Ferry's Dylanesque tribute is absent as well, but The I'm Not There soundtrack shot right up near the top. I haven't heard a considerable amount of the music on other best of lists, but I did eliminate over twenty titles to make it a top fifty. I passed over Blonde Redhead, Spoon, the V/A Joni Mitchell tribute, Mehldau and Metheny, Beastie Boys, Frog Eyes, Merzbow, the V/A Darfur thing, and The Hottest State soundtrack just to name a few. I think I originally had The Weirdness at number seventeen or eighteen, but bumped it up, and damn what people think hehe! I really should have it even higher than fourteen the more I think about it. Despite some level of disappointment, the other half or so of the album is really good. "Passing Cloud" is particularly wonderful and one of my very favorite songs of this year. This candle's blown.
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