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On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht
| "Baby Come Back" - Player | 1 votes |
| "Baby, Come To Me" - James Ingram & Patti Austin | 0 votes |
| "Biggest Part of Me" - Ambrosia | 0 votes |
| "Escape (The Piņa Colada Song)" - Rupert Holmes | 1 votes |
| "How Long" - Ace | 3 votes |
| "Human Nature" - Michael Jackson | 1 votes |
| "I Keep Forgettin'" - Michael McDonald | 0 votes |
| "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight" - England Dan & John Ford Coley | 0 votes |
| "I'm Not In Love" - 10cc | 3 votes |
| "If You Leave Me Now" - Chicago | 1 votes |
| "Just Remember I Love You" - Firefall | 0 votes |
| "Key Largo" - Bertie Higgins | 1 votes |
| "Love Will Find A Way" - Pablo Cruise | 0 votes |
| "Rosanna" - Toto | 1 votes |
| "Sailing" - Christopher Cross | 1 votes |
| "Steal Away" - Robbie Dupree | 0 votes |
| "Still the One" - Orleans | 2 votes |
| "Summer Breeze" - Seals & Croft | 3 votes |
| "This is It" - Kenny Loggins & Michael McDonald | 0 votes |
| "What a Fool Believes" - The Doobie Brothers | 2 votes |
| Willets Point Jun 24 2011 12:28 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jun 24 2011 06:54 PM |
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If you had a yacht, you could steal away to a desert island, sailing to your own escape whenever you like. Sadly, the yacht has a ruptured hull and lays under 30 feet of water. You're not getting off this island. Your only consolation is that your desert island mix tape has one of the smooooothest songs ever to ease your mind - Yacht Rock.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 24 2011 12:40 PM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jun 24 2011 12:43 PM |
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Many of these artists are good candidates for DiMTs of their own.
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| Edgy DC Jun 24 2011 12:43 PM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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Loggins gets "This Is It."
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| TransMonk Jun 24 2011 12:43 PM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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"What A Fool Believes" started it all in Episode One, no?
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 24 2011 12:52 PM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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I've only lately begun to discover and appreciate the considerable talents of Graham Gouldman who wrote "I'm Not in Love" and no less than 100 million other great songs. And that song IS clever, very haunting if you listen to the delicate background harmonies, and unlike most of the others on this list and elsewhere for that matter.
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| seawolf17 Jun 24 2011 02:03 PM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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"Sailing." LOVE that tune.
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| sharpie Jun 24 2011 02:45 PM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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"I'm Not In Love."
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| Frayed Knot Jun 24 2011 03:10 PM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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'How Long' - on the strength of its great vocals.
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| Chad Ochoseis Jun 24 2011 03:15 PM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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I voted for "How Long", too. More interesting lyrics than the others, better vocals, vaguely subversive unsmooth beat beneath the smoothness.
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| G-Fafif Jun 24 2011 04:09 PM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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I'm gonna need a drink on my yacht. Oh, Rupert!
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| Frayed Knot Jun 24 2011 04:16 PM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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Is that Paul Carrack in the 'How Long' video?
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| Willets Point Jun 24 2011 07:33 PM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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"Human Nature" is a Yacht Rock crossover, composed by a member of Toto.
Everything is so smooooothed out that nothing sticks up.
Yeah, I also had some songs from the Yacht Rock eras of The Eagles and Steely Dan on the list originally but pared it down to (mostly) bands that were career Yacht Rockers.
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| metsguyinmichigan Jun 24 2011 07:58 PM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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"Hello, yeah, it's been a while
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| Gwreck Jun 24 2011 10:30 PM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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Indeed. Singing the song, too. Which is why it's the best choice here.
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 24 2011 11:52 PM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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Still internally debating here.
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| Edgy DC Jun 25 2011 05:37 AM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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If you can triangulate a sound withiin three acts acting as corners on a triangle, you've got a subgenre. The soft rock singer songwriter duo sound is triangulated within Seals & Croft, Loggins & Messina, and England Dan and John Ford Coley. I don't know if they all used ampersands, but I feel like the ampersand is an important part of the genre. Big, gorgeous, nineteenth centure, western nouveau ampersands.
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| Willets Point Jun 25 2011 07:33 PM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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I thought so to. That video just exudes the Yacht Rock ethos. It's almost like they started out trying to parody Yacht Rock and ended up making an homage. I wasn't able to find the original videos for a lot of these. "Sailing" is still the cornerstone of Yacht Rock, so I wonder how literal they made the video.
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| Edgy DC Jun 25 2011 07:40 PM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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If we're looking for defining acts, well, the Captain and Tennille were (a) late 70s, (b) a duo, and (c) featured a guy dressed as a yachtsman, for crying out loud.
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| cooby Jun 25 2011 08:07 PM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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Very nice pool. I kept thinking "yeah that one" and then I saw Summer Breeze and the rest were all just contenders.
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| metirish Jun 25 2011 09:00 PM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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Can't beleive over 24 hours in and I am the first vote for Rosanna , great song..
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| themetfairy Jun 25 2011 09:17 PM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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I chose Key Largo because, frankly, I overlooked this choice. I like Key Largo, but I've always loved this one.
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| G-Fafif Jun 26 2011 12:50 AM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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"Rosanna": My eighth-favorite song of all-time, but in the context of this scenario, I'm really going to need that Piņa Colada. Partial to most of these songs, and I've always felt vaguely proprietary about "Key Largo" since Bertie Higgins is from the Tampa area and he broke when I was college freshman there. I'm just delighted someone made a music poll for the perpetually uncool among us.
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| cooby Jun 26 2011 12:42 PM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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A perfect description of a beautiful song
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| Fman99 Jun 26 2011 07:54 PM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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These are some smoothies, like, get your bananas and strawberries and yogurt out type stuff. I went with "What a Fool Believes," despite the fact that it is really the only Doobie Brothers' song featuring Michael McDonald that I like.
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| Ashie62 Jun 26 2011 09:21 PM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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10 CC..Solid songwriters always.
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| TheOldMole Jun 26 2011 10:09 PM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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Well, you know who I voted for.
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| Edgy DC Jun 27 2011 04:23 AM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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We're gonna need a bigger yacht.
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| Willets Point Jun 27 2011 07:17 AM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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I can't get these songs out of my head!!!
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| TheOldMole Jun 27 2011 10:42 AM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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LOL Edgy.
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| Willets Point Jun 27 2011 11:03 AM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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Edgy has been on fire in this thread.
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 27 2011 11:51 AM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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Is anyone else made irrationally angry by Rupert Holmes' "Escape?"
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| themetfairy Jun 27 2011 12:21 PM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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Because these two cheating asswipes find out that they're made for each other? I guess they deserve each other, but yeah - two lying scumbags realizing that they're made for each other isn't my idea of a happy ending.
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| Willets Point Jun 27 2011 12:29 PM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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I'm just annoyed by his repeated use and enunciation of "my lay-day".
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| Edgy DC Jun 27 2011 12:33 PM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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"Escape" feels a little herky-jerky syncopated compared to the other tracks. That and "Rosanna" feel a little off-center in this poll. Sort of like cousins among siblings. "Still the One," also, doesn't quite feel... muted enough.
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| Willets Point Jun 27 2011 03:11 PM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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There are definitely songs from the 80s in this poll.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 27 2011 03:42 PM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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What oughta happen is a vote off between top 3 or 4, don't allow write-ins.
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| Ashie62 Jun 27 2011 04:11 PM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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10CC ..currently being used as Edgy's signature line..
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| Edgy DC Jun 27 2011 06:55 PM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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Indeed it its. And click that 10cc video link and get the psychedelic passage in place of the first bridge that the radio doesn't have the guts to play.
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| Willets Point Jun 27 2011 07:08 PM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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Will do. I'll leave this open for a couple of days. I haven't even voted myself.
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| G-Fafif Jun 27 2011 08:35 PM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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"Touch Me When We're Dancing" is an understated beauty. The cover by Alabama also softly kicks ass.
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| Willets Point Jun 27 2011 08:53 PM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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Chicago is one of those bands that seems like two completely different bands going from their jazzy/funky sometimes psychedelic, sometime political early years and the remolding themselves around Petera Cetera's tenor and tender love ballads. The Doobie Brothers made a similar transition when Michael McDonald came on board. Other bands that I can think of that completely revamped themselves are Genesis and Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship/Starship (although the latter at least changed their name to acknowledge the difference). I don't know, maybe they evolved gradually, but in hindsight the difference between the early and later eras of all of these bands is stark.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 27 2011 09:03 PM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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In the case of Chicago, there was a bullet involved. Most of those others also involve personnel changes.
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| Edgy DC Jun 28 2011 07:28 AM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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ELO from 10-piece studio-centered orchestral art rock to five-pieced campy synthetic disco. A lot of not-yet-old bands in the late seventies were confronted by new wave, punk and disco, and didn't know which way to to zag.
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| G-Fafif Jun 28 2011 01:14 PM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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Shea's A/V squad played "This Is It" shortly before the final game of the 2007 season. Struck me as very meta-. Naturally, I can't hear it anymore without shuddering over the events of 9/30/07.
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| Willets Point Jun 29 2011 09:05 AM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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I finally voted in my own poll and went with Player. I have distinct memories of riding home from my Grandparents' place in Brooklyn in the back seat of my father's cavernous Chevy Nova with "Baby Come Back" lulling me to sleep as we bumped along the BQE. Music always sounds better when you're drifting off to sleep.
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| Edgy DC Jun 29 2011 09:19 AM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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Extra points to "Sailing" and "Key Largo" for literally invoking yachtsmanship. "Escape" also incudes lyrics abouts making love in the dunes by the Cape, which, presumably would offer fine views of yachts. "Summer Breeze" has no aquatic lyrics, but how are you going to sail without a "Summer Breeze"? You're not, that's how.
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| TheOldMole Jun 29 2011 09:59 AM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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I hate "Escape," but come on, guys, they're not married. They've been dating, and they're starting to drift apart.
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| G-Fafif Jun 29 2011 10:42 AM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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I agree. They've been together too long. Like a worn-out recording of "Him," my favorite Rupert Holmes song. [youtube]tUygQh0iaf8[/youtube]
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| Willets Point Jun 29 2011 11:00 AM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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| G-Fafif Jun 29 2011 11:10 AM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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[youtube:28xsoq6z]vXpSoAHGDh8[/youtube:28xsoq6z]
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| Willets Point Jun 29 2011 12:17 PM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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When I saw SCTV in this thread, I thought it was going to be this clip:
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| G-Fafif Jun 29 2011 12:28 PM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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That one floored me when I first saw it 30 years ago. "YES! THAT'S EXACTLY IT WITH THAT GUY FROM THE DOOBIE BROTHERS BEING IN EVERYBODY'S SONGS!"
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| Willets Point Jun 29 2011 12:46 PM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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I was thinking Paul Carrack was the guy who sang "Every Time You Go Away" but I looked it up and that was Paul Young. Thing is, both Pauls were in Mike + the Mechanics! Freakin' incestuous these yacht rockers be.
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| Edgy DC Jun 29 2011 01:21 PM Re: On a Desert Island, You're Gonna Want a Yacht |
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Paul Carrack is blue-eyed soul, not a yacht rocker, but an older relative of yacht rock.
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