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Post by Horizontal Hippopotamus on Dec 2, 2007 19:10:23 GMT 1
Quite a mouthful!  Let me start off by posting the list for my favorite albums of 2007 and bear in mind that they are all amazing albums! HECTOR's TOP 75 ALBUMS OF 200775 Paul Van Dyk - In Between74 !!! - Myth Takes73 Kylie Minogue - X72 Stonebridge - Music Takes Me71 Justice - Cross70 Unkle - War Stories69 Mika - Life In Cartoon Motion68 Stars - In Our Bedroom After The War67 Low - Drums & Guns66 Boxcutter - Glyphic65 Bees - Octopus64 Caribou - Andorra63 Shins - Wincing The Night Away62 Wombats - A Guide To Love, Loss & Desperation 61 Siouxsie - MantaRay60 Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position59 Freemasons - Unmixed/Shakedown58 Horrors - Strange House57 Sugababes - Change56 Battles - Mirrored55 Happy Mondays - Unkle Dysfunktional54 Beirut - The Flying Club Cup53 Grand National - A Drink & A Quick Decision52 Rakes - Ten New Messages 51 1990's - Cookies50 Digitalism - Idealism49 Liars - Liars48 Dragonette - Galore47 Band Of Horses - Cease To Begin46 Silverchair - Young Modern45 Tori Amos - American Doll Posse44 Mark Ronson - Version43 Ravonettes - Lust, Lust, Lust42 Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City41 Rilo Kiley - Under The Blacklight40 Blonde Redhead - 2339 Interpol - Our Love To Admire38 Suzanne Vega - Beauty & Crime37 Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future36 Air Traffic - Fractured Life35 Field - From Here We Go Sublime34 David Ford - Songs For The Road33 Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare32 Bjork - Volta31 Chemical Brothers - We Are The Night30 Tracey Thorn - Out Of The Woods29 Burial - Untrue28 Cribs - Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever27 Underworld - Oblivion With Bells26 Annie Lennox - Songs For Mass Destruction25 St. Vincent - Marry Me24 Radiohead - In Rainbows23 Siobhan Donaghy - Ghosts22 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Trip The Light Fantastic21 Maximo Park - Our Earthly Pleasures20 Dolores O'Riordan - Are You Listening?19 New Pornographers - Challengers18 Dave Gahan - Hourglass17 Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala16 Super Furry Animals - Hey Venus!15 Britney Spears - Blackout14 National - Boxer13 Sia - Some People Have Real Problems12 Brett Anderson - Brett Anderson11 Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga10 PJ Harvey - White Chalk09 Go! Team - Proof Of Youth08 M.I.A. - Kala07 LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver06 Roisin Murphy - Overpowered05 Arcade Fire - Neon Bible04 Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank03 Feist - The Reminder02 Goldfrapp - The Seventh TreeAND MY #1 ALBUM OF 2007: 01 EDITORS - AN END HAS A STARTThe Top 107 Singles Of 2007 will commence by tommorow! |
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Post by Earl Purple on Dec 3, 2007 0:48:01 GMT 1
17 Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
Interesting. His single "Friday Night At The Drive-In Bingo" peaked at #3 in my chart but I didn't think anyone else on here had heard of him.
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Post by Smurfie on Dec 3, 2007 0:59:37 GMT 1
Do you have a week by week album chart H? If so, please post it in the Haven Album Chart Thread! |
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Post by o on Dec 3, 2007 14:20:11 GMT 1
Do you not have a singles Top 30 at the moment  Great #1 album though! |
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Post by Horizontal Hippopotamus on Dec 8, 2007 19:43:28 GMT 1
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Post by o on Dec 8, 2007 20:55:46 GMT 1
Oooh Air Traffic, nice one!
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Post by Horizontal Hippopotamus on Dec 9, 2007 20:06:11 GMT 1
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Post by o on Dec 9, 2007 21:41:04 GMT 1
Dragonette, whoo!
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Post by Horizontal Hippopotamus on Dec 11, 2007 1:02:09 GMT 1
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Post by Horizontal Hippopotamus on Dec 13, 2007 0:14:17 GMT 1
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Post by Horizontal Hippopotamus on Dec 14, 2007 21:13:55 GMT 1
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Post by Horizontal Hippopotamus on Dec 15, 2007 22:32:55 GMT 1
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Post by Horizontal Hippopotamus on Dec 19, 2007 21:02:20 GMT 1
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Post by Horizontal Hippopotamus on Dec 22, 2007 0:11:15 GMT 1
And starting off the top 10: 10 MODEST MOUSE - Dashboard I remember first hearing this track back in January & I thought that it was easily one of the best lead off singles I've heard from an American alternative band this decade. I knew that from the moment I heard Dashboard that the album was just going to be superlative - and I was right, resulting as my #1 album of the year during most of the Spring & ending up in my top 5 albums overall. And then I saw the video premiere in February and I was really amazed - the video had one of the best concepts I've seen all year with the pirate theme & how excellent the cinematography was - I knew they were pretty much ahead of their game with this tune & I was obsessed with seeing this video multiple times, especially considering the guitar buildup to the chorus was just divine. Dashboard is the American alternative anthem of 2007 in my opinion. Unforunately they mucked up the project by releasing the great but peculiar choice of Missed The Boat as the second single when it should have been We've Got Everything. I believe there were a total of 5 videos for this project but none of them matched up as well as this one - still though, the album is brilliant with songs like Fly Trapped Into A Jar, March Into The Sea, & Parting Of The Sensory. In my humble opinion, Modest Mouse still remains the best American alternative band of this year, although Band Of Horses & the National were pretty close with their resplendent LP's. 09 BJÖRK - Innocence As soon as I heard this, I knew I would be obsessed with it for the rest of 2007. Proving once again that Danja is a genius when it comes to producing great urban records with a pop delight. As soon as you hear the first ten seconds of this song, you just know that this song has so much passion, so much drive, and it's such a vigorous determination to get in your face & make you take notice & take charge - along with the Icelandic queen's vulnerable vocals, it is a mellifluous amalgamation of a remarkable instrumental & a raw, fresh acapella that just coalesce so perfectly together. I was hooked on this from the first listen & I'll still be ecstatic whenever I play this. Only problem was how this song was promoted - releasing a digital only single ages before the video was released. Atleast the video to this was excellent - the winning entry did an excellent job with the animation - it felt like playing an old Nintendo 64 console. Just a perfect song overall - as is the amazing Declare Independence which would be here if it wasn't released so late (both single & video!). 08 BLOC PARTY - Flux Synth-pop ambrosia, synth-pop ambrosia, synth-pop ambrosia. Innovative, not afraid of sounding like a cross between New Order & Cher, & better than a majority of the tracks on A Weekend In The City. Inexplicably rejected by Kylie Minogue for her current album X, as soon as this track leaked, it caused a worldwide sensation around the indie circuit & when I first heard it, I just knew that everything about this track just circled perfection & just clicked perfectly: from it's brilliant synths to the excellent guitar chords in the chorus & of course, that excellent bridge! Everything about this tune went in clockwork, from the memorable Japanese animation video that reminded you of a Power Rangers episode in the '90s, to the incredible extended 12" version which just takes this superlative dose of amazement to another level, & the JFK & Metal On Metal remixes are enjoyable treasures as well. The German & French versions of this song are just downright laughable though. :lol: :lol: With the release of this song, I just know that their next album is going to surpass the great efforts of both Silent Alarm & A Weekend In The City. Kele really is one of the most unique songwriters of this decade, with I Still Remember reminiscing about a past crush on a bloke he fancied as a young lad, and now Flux with the deep & meaningful lyrics that should have been on a huge epic, britpop ballad but instead just sounds purely marvellous with an upbeat melody integral to this pop gem. Everything about this song is just flawless - hopefully Kele will delve himself with vocoders more often. :lol: :lol: |
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Post by Horizontal Hippopotamus on Dec 22, 2007 20:48:27 GMT 1
Resuming with the latter portion of the top 10 from #'s 7-5: 07 GARBAGE - Tell Me Where It Hurts One of the esoteric cases where the first time a single leaked was courtesy of the music video. Sure, it was in rubbish quality but I knew that from the moment it leaked, I was instantly gravitated by the elegant production & the gorgeous pristine vocals of the everlasting Shirley Manson. With a guitar melody & lyrics this side of a Pretenders/Chrissie Hynde single, it was definitely a divine lead-off single to promote their Greatest Hits album Absolute Garbage. With lyrics such as I’ve been loved but I didn’t know how to feel it and I’ve been adored but I don’t know if I ever believed it
I’ve been loved my whole life but I didn’t know how to take it Until….. And then it all culminates to that stellar bridge that just sounds heavenly to these ears & that final chorus which feels so nostalgic in every way. The video really is perhaps the most stylish clip I've seen all year which Shirley looking gorgeous & pulchritudinous as ever, there's no way that she looks 41 at all - she looks atleast 26 in the video! The video was inspired by the classic French film Belle Du Jour  Proving once again that Sophie Muller knows her magic when it comes to making excellent videos - ala Shirley's best friend forever Gwen Stefani's Early Winter clip. There are so many different sides to Shirley that makes her look like a chameleon in the video: the fabulous red ensemble from the beginning, the scenes where she's atop the bed in her lingerie, the scenes where it's clear that she has issues with her lover in the living room, & the scenes where she's in a black outfit with a scarf over her head in the diner. Her facial expressions pretty much state it all in the video - a stupendous yet opaque video at the same time after watching it about 2 billion times. :lol: Unforunately the public didn't see it that way incredulously underperforming everywhere it was released, but what can you expect? Alternative acts from the 1990's have a hard time getting noticed by any commercial station other than Radio 2. Thankfully considering the fact that Garbage remains one of the most enduring & prominent acts of the 1990's - I will always buy their albums first day on release - & the fact that Shirley is set to release her solo album next year is building up an abundant amount of anticipation for me! I can't wait to hear it! 06 TIESTO FEATURING BT - Break My Fall Easily the most gorgeous dance single I've heard all year & Tiesto's best release since the classic Adagio For Strings. It has the best beginning of any dance song I've heard all year - first with the female backing vocals & then the excellent composer/producer/mixer/vocalist BT's amazing verses fusing excellently with the wicked instrumental provided by the most successful Dutch DJ of the past decade, Tiesto. Everything about this song is flawless - from it's uplifting vocals to it's throbbing beats to it's Balearic-style, atmospheric synths. For pretty much all of Summer & Fall 2007, this was always blasting loud & high on my stereo & has become for me, the defining dance single of 2007. Immensely better than that overrated In The Dark & Dance4Life. I loved the video for this as well, it had a very classy ambient feel & scenery for such a divine trance tune - really embodied how well this song would sound outside of a dance club. Well deservedly enough this was one of the biggest worldwide dance hits of 2007 & it is definitely much better than alot of the commercial dance songs that hit the UK pop charts this year. 05 BRITNEY SPEARS - Gimme More Oh Britney, where do we start? She's had an inscrutable year that we wouldn't even wish on our worst enemies. She has enough material to make a franchise movie deal just like the Star Wars series. From shaving her head bald to attacking an automobile with an umbrella to entering & leaving rehab as if it was a revolving door to the maligned 2007 MTV Video Music Awards performance to the insane court drama she's had with that waste of space Kevin Federline to losing full custody of her children to showing her vajayjay manifold times etc... It got to a point where I was actually getting sick of Britney, the media figure & I was just anxiously awaiting Britney, the artist to return & just dominate the charts like she did back in 2000 & 2004. And she did just that with the excellent comeback single for Gimme More, which has the signature trademark musical catchphrase of 2007 with It's Britney, bitch![/b]. As soon as you hear that beginning statement, you know it's going to be brilliant. It has an amazing instrumental & Britney's vocals are as raw & ruthless as ever - just purely amazing. The verses are just brilliantly esconced with her acapella - Every time they turn the lights down, just want to go that extra mile for you, your public display of affection, feels like no one else in the room & The center of attention, even when we're up against the wall, you've got me in a crazy position, if your on a mission you got my permission. It just flows so powerfully with the instrumental & the chorus is one of the most irresistable hooks that I've heard all year & the most I've sang Gimme More in public/private since ABBA's 1977 classic Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight). My favorite part of this classic has to be the bridge, like Tell Me Where It Hurts, it just has that amazing buildup that stacks up so attentively up until the final chorus. This song is just a superlative, plenipotentiary choon that will sound excellent for years to come. I've even grown to adore that carcrash of a video that's become a cult classic for moi after watching it over 100 times. :lol: :lol: (Thankfully the Piece Of Me excellence is eons better than the former!) Blackout remains the greatest album of her career, & in my futile, humble opinion she is one of atleast 10 artists I know whose albums have gotten progressively more superior with each forthcoming release. There are so many brilliant tunes on this excellent album & remains one of the few pop albums that I have played loads all year - hopefully she can be able to straighten herself out of the imbroglio she's unforunately gotten herself in since early 2005. Because most people will see her sink to her absolute nadir just to see her soar over like the enigmatic firecracker that she is! |
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Post by Horizontal Hippopotamus on Dec 28, 2007 21:26:24 GMT 1
And on with the top 5: 04 FEIST - My Moon My Man Emerging from the brilliant Canadian indie group Broken Social Scene, Leslie Feist really did have perhaps the best year ever by releasing her second solo album The Reminder, which is every bit as excellent as her superlative 2005 record Let It Die... while it's not as immediate as the former to the hardcore Leslie Feist/Feist/Broken Social Scene zealot, it's definitely a bit more accessible with songs as ebullient as a Spring day like I Feel It All, Sea Lion Woman, Honey Honey & 1234, to midtempo choons like My Moon My Man, Brandy Alexander, Intuition, Limit To Your Love, Past In Present to the most heartwrenchingly gorgeous dose of ballads like So Sorry, The Park, The Water & How My Heart Behaves. Everything Feist did this year was just astronomical - to the brilliant performances she's given on tour, to the manifold videos she's made for Sea Lion Woman, The Park, The Water, & dual video versions of both 1234 & the song that I'm about to give a compendium of now: My Moon My Man. As soon as I first heard that My Moon My Man was going to be the lead single, I was ecstatic with joy - & she made 2 videos for this as well! Everything about this tune is just remarkable & magnificent - from the incredible instrumental, to Leslie Feist's crisp & clear acapella amalgamates into one of the best pop-indie hooks of 2007 - My moon and me, not as good as we’ve been, It’s the dirtiest clean I know, simple & yet intrinsic lyrics that I can really relate with - & both of the videos for this song captured the essence of this tune - esconced into a serene nocturnal utopia mellifluous to my ears. The atmospheric feel of this track was just too predigious to be ignored & I adored every inclination of it: from it's original version to the excellent Boyz Noise Classic remix of this that I adored all throughout 2007. All in all, Leslie Feist in her career has done no wrong & ranks as my favorite female artist of 2007. The Reminder & Let It Die = divine musical treasures of this decade. 03 EDITORS - An End Has A Start ANTHEM, ANTHEM, ANTHEM! As soon as I first heard The Back Room album & it's subsequent singles like Munich & Bullets, I became a big fan of theirs but I didn't really become a massive fan until they released their successful followup album An End Has A Start & it's agglomeration of fantastic tracks like The Weight Of The World, Bones, When Anger Shows, Escape The Nest, Spiders, Well Worn Hand, A Thousand Pieces & of course, the singles! Especially the title track which I was so happy it was chosen as the second single, even though it should have been the first! Reminiscent of an '80s & '90s Britpop choon in it's heyday, everything about this track was just incredible to the maximum power: from that brilliant instrumental in the beginning & the chorus to Tom Smith's powerful & compelling vocals, & it has the most enigmatic chorus of 2007 for a single in my opinion: You came on your own, And that's how you'll leave, With hope in your hands, And air to breathe, You'll lose everything, But in the end, Still my broken limbs, Will find time to mend. I adore this track for numerous reasons: the way it just aggrandizes each passing second with Tom's lovely acapella, the direct celerity of the lyrics, the dexterous instrumental that still sounds fresh to these ears, to the wacky Feist-like video for the track that makes no sense whatsoever despite being an excellent performance video which all fuse into such a universal anthem with such felicitious verses that flow so perfectly! And this band knows how to give immaculate live performances of the album tracks from both An End Has A Start & The Back Room - just incredible - for many reasons alone, they are currently my favourite band at the moment & Tom Smith is a god for numerous reasons - exceedingly talented man. Congrats on his future upcoming baby with his girlfriend.  02 EDITORS - The Racing Rats Perfect, perfect single choice that was even miraculously stronger than the brilliant title track - and was the best one they could have chosen for a third single (besides When Anger Shows, The Weight Of The World, Spiders & Escape The Nest), everything about this track is perfect: from the beginning chords to Tom Smith's vigorous, passionate & plenipotentiary vocals singing every verse as if he's been in the music industry for decades. Every lyric in the superlative dose of perfection that is The Racing Rats is sung magnificently: I push my hands up to the sky
, shade my eyes from the sun, as the dust settles around me, suddenly night time has begun & Standing at the edge of your town, With the skyline , in your eyes, reaching up to God, the sun says its goodbyes just leave me speechless whenever I hear it. And that bridge is f***ing supreme in every way with Tom's vocals at their most preponderant with such a momentual insurgence, most notable in the verses: [/i]Oh come on now, You knew you were lost, But you carried on anyway, Oh Come on now, You knew you had no time, But you let the day drift away[/i]. And then it kicks into that final chorus that just sounds so elephantine & sublime. This song was also carried by it's excellent video with Tom & the band in a suburban Desperate Housewives setting in slow motion with Tom noticing a girl who looks like the girl from Poltergeist drawing a solar eclipse which ironically appears directly parallel causing it to light up spectacularly as the band look on in awe. I love how the entire video is felicitious to the song's lyrics - especially during the scene where Tom raises his arm with his hand directly facing the eclipse like the musical paratrooper that he is - with the video becoming all in all a lighter version of Soundgarden's Black Hole Sun. In 3:17 minutes, this track is just meritorious from start to finish. Tom Smith is a god indeed - & every track on An End Has A Start is just amazing & just testament as to why they're one of the most prominent alternative bands in the UK indie circuit lately. Tom Smith is a god & here's hoping they achieve even greater heights of success in 2008. And for that & many reasons alone, the An End Has A Start album is easily my favorite album of 2007 - a superlative dose of excellence. |
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Post by o on Dec 29, 2007 10:57:05 GMT 1
That Garbage track deserved better, nice to see the editors do so well, not surprising if their album is your #1 of the year I guess?
Will you have a new singles chart before friday this week?
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Post by Horizontal Hippopotamus on Dec 31, 2007 22:40:25 GMT 1
And now for the unveiling of my favorite single (s) of the year. MY chart, MY rules.  HECTOR'S #1 SINGLE (S) OF 200701 THE PRESETS - MY PEOPLE God bless this electronic duo from Sydney, Australia. The creative masterminds of Julian Hamilton & Kimberley Moyes have managed to make the most perfect piece of industrial, electronic music I've heard all year. They have been around for ages with excellent choons like Down Down Down & Are You The One? but this is my opinion, is their masterpiece. This song just screams ANTHEM for numerous anthems. As soon as you hear that incredible instrumental, mixed along with Julian Hamilton's robotic & dominant vocals & the accompaniment of partner Kim Moyes, it becomes a massive beast of a record! And every verse in this tune just clicks like magic along with those gorgeous synths & industrial blasts. My favorite verses: Tall & tan & young & lovely, I’ll follow all around the world for you
And you’ll find out tonight oh it’s a world of extreme & Soldiers on the water front, They wanna ship me far away, I’ll find my way tonight so I can find my way to you - just orgasmic. And the chorus is just a elephantine stormer: I'm here with all of my people, locked up with all of my people, So let me hear you scream if you're with me. Everything about this track is remarkable in every single way: from that brilliant techno instrumental to Julian's excellent acapella to those divine synths to that heavenly bridge: And it feels so
And it feels so good
And it feels so
And it feels so good
And it feels so
And it feels so good
And it feels so
And it feels so good
And it feels soThe video is f***ing astounding too - it's literally out of this world looking like an astronomical universal quest with enough special effects to make it feel like you've been on acid for 3 days! But the D.I.M. remix takes this song to a whole another level - showcasing the synths to it's full power making them sound incredibly gorgeous & supreme whilst making the vocals still feel immensely omnipresent in this mix. This song is currently the best thing ever at the moment for moi: it's an musical aphrodisiac that I don't want to get rid of - the type of song that would spend atleast 10-15 weeks at #1 on my personal chart - it's superlative in every single way & it has all the ingridients I wanted in a year end #1 single: a spectacular instrumental, a vigorous acapella, and enough passion & drive to just sound completely fabulous. ALL HAIL THE PRESETS! Now while this ranks the best upbeat single of the year.... 01 LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - SOMEONE GREAT     This would definitely rank as the most gorgeous song of the year even though I much prefer the 6 minute album version to the choppy 3 minute single version. James Murphy really is one of the top 5 most talented men in music today, especially with the impeccably delicious album Sound Of Silver. He can make the most effrevescent of party songs like North American Scum, Us V. Them, Get Innocuous, & Time To Get Away, the beautifully serious midtempo tunes like All My Friends, New York I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down, and then comes his heartwrenching synth-pop ballad Someone Great which originated from music he was producing for a Nike commerical. This song was always a clear favorite on the exceedingly brilliant Sound Of Silver album from the main beginning. From those hypnotic synths to those touching lyrics, this track is a magnetic opus & one of the most beautiful threnodies I've heard in recent years with the perfect amount of melancholiness thrown in. The track is about the aftermath of losing someone extremely close to you & dealing with the fact that your life goes on without him/her. This heartwrenching track can be interpreted in many ways: how a person feels after losing someone to a tragic death, or the horrific breakup after a romantic relationship, or if a personal loved one moves far away after they've been close for a manifold number of years. The video approriately demonstrates how it's very difficult to try to live a normal life because you keep imagining the fact that that person is still there & how a person can be experiencing so many things: denial, delusion, depression, loneliness & several more. Despondent lyrics like these just vastly beautiful for example: The worst is all the lovely weather
I'm stunned it's not raining
The coffee isn't even bitter
because, what's the difference?
There's all the work that needs to be done
It's late for revision
There's all the time and all the planning
and songs to be finishedThe fact that these lyrics are James Murphy's most personal & sincere to date is more than enough reason to rank this as a dual #1 for my favorite single of the year. |
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Post by krescendo on Jan 2, 2008 10:13:11 GMT 1
Nice to see Tiesto that high with Break My Fall |
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Post by wonderwall on Jan 2, 2008 10:56:44 GMT 1
you have probably the best taste in music ive seen on this forum |
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