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Published July 28, 2005


The Rolling Stones celebrated Mick Jagger's 62nd birthday by announcing the Sept. 6 release of "A Bigger Bang" on Virgin Records, their first studio CD in eight years.

"While in the studio recording the album last year, the band came up with the title, `A Bigger Bang,' reflecting their fascination with the scientific theory about the origin of the universe," the Stones said in a statement Tuesday.

Sixteen songs will be featured on "A Bigger Bang," and Keith Richards sings on two tracks. The Stones kick off their world tour Aug. 21 at Boston's Fenway Park.

Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 29 July 2005 03:43 (twenty years ago)

Their fascination with the scientific theory about the origin of the whathafuck?

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 29 July 2005 04:25 (twenty years ago)

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ghetty green (eman), Friday, 29 July 2005 04:28 (twenty years ago)

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gear (gear), Friday, 29 July 2005 05:29 (twenty years ago)

wow, didn't realized it's been 8 years since the last one (which i haven't bothered listening to).
somehow, i still dream keith would make one last great album... like bluesmen getting better as they get old... or like dylan !

AleXTC (AleXTC), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:06 (twenty years ago)

i take it the stones haven't made a grime album, then.

Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 29 July 2005 10:08 (twenty years ago)

Keith need some turmoil. Change name back to Richard. Get missus that fuck around.

The Velvet Overlord (The Velvet Overlord), Friday, 29 July 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)

I heard the new single on the radio this morning and for a couple minutes I wasn't sure if it was new or the single from 40 Licks.

Al (sitcom), Friday, 29 July 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

their fascination with the scientific theory about the origin of the universe

Always wondered what the secret sauce was that has kept those guys together so long. See, they're the Rolling Stones Travelling Rock And Roll Circus And Kosmogonist Society.

rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 29 July 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

I could've sworn that Bridges to Babylon was around 2000 ... guess not.

Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Friday, 29 July 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

Rolling Stones - The Biggest of Bangs

Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Friday, 29 July 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

Word on the street is that it contains number of gritty rockers and the Stones haven't sound this energized since Tattoo You. I think there's a song about global warming and maybe another about Iraq.

Mark (MarkR), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

I think there's a song about global warming and maybe another about Iraq.

That will surely silence the critics and haters.

George Smith, Friday, 29 July 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

We sell 'em missiles, We sell 'em tanks
We give 'em credit, You can call the bank

It's just a business, You can pay us in crude
You love these toys, just go play out your feuds

Got no pride, don't know whose boots to lick
We act so greedy, makes me sick sick sick

So get up, stand up, out of my way
I want to talk to the boss right away
Get up, stand up, whose gonna pay
I want to talk to the man right away

We walk the highwire
Sending the men up to the front line
Hoping they don't catch the hell fire
With hot guns and cold, cold nights

We walk the highwire
Sending the men up to the front line
And tell 'em to hotbed the sunshine
With hot guns and cold, cold nights


Our lives are threatened, our jobs at risk
Sometimes dictators need a slap on the wrist

Another Munich we just can't afford
We're gonna send in the eighty-second airborne

Get up, stand up, who's gonna pay
I wanna talk to the boss right away
Get up, stand up, outta my way
I wanna talk to the man right away

We walk the highwire
Putting the world out on a deadline
And hoping they don't catch the shellfire
With hot guns and cold, cold nights

We walk the highwire
Putting the world out on a deadline
Catching the bite on primetime
With hot guns and cold, cold nights

Get up! Stand up!
Dealer! Stealer!
Hey!

We walk the highwire
We send all our men into the front lines
We're hoping that we backed the right side
With hot guns and cold, cold nights

miccio (miccio), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

Word on the street is that it contains number of gritty rockers and the Stones haven't sound this energized since Tattoo You.

Best Album Since Blood On The Tracks

rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 29 July 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

You should see this awful picture of Keef I clipped recently from a rock mag freebie in LA. Keef had dropped in to some place called "The Joint" and boy, he sure looked like someone's wrinkly joint -- with a bandana on it.

George Smith, Friday, 29 July 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

I would seriously give an eye for this album to be good, but I suspect my eye is safe for the time being

Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Friday, 29 July 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

I hear it's their best since [i]Dirty Work[/i]

Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Friday, 29 July 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

Better than STEEL WHEELS? Better than VOODOO LOUNGE? Better than BRIDGES TO BABYLON?

NO FUCKING WAY!!!!

miccio (miccio), Friday, 29 July 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

tracklisting

1. Don't Tell Me No
2. You Gotta Have It
3. American Dreamer
4. Touched
5. Young Heroes
6. She's Dancing
7. A Bigger Bang
8. Going To A Go-Go
9. These Streets
10. Alone With You
11. I Can't Say No To You
12. Satellites
13. Mine To Waste
14. Awakening
15. Nobody Knows
16. Sleeping With My Eyes Open

miccio (miccio), Friday, 29 July 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

Those are some ROCKIN' titles. This is gonna freegin'ROCK!!

Jay Vee (Manon_70), Saturday, 30 July 2005 08:08 (twenty years ago)

That track listing can't be right, because the single is called "Rough Justice." I heard it on the radio yesterday. It sucked.

pdf (Phil Freeman), Saturday, 30 July 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

THE FOOKING STAOWNES!

p.j. (Henry), Saturday, 30 July 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't track 8 there on Still Life?

rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 30 July 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

From Amazon:

Track Listings
1. Rough Justice
2. Let Me Down Slow
3. It Won't Take Long
4. Rain Fall Down
5. Streets Of Love
6. Back Of My Hand
7. She Saw Me Coming
8. Biggest Mistake
9. This Place Is Empty
10. Oh No, Not You Again
11. Dangerous Beauty
12. Laugh, I Nearly Died
13. Sweet Neo Con
14. Look What The Cat Dragged In
15. Driving Too Fast
16. Infamy


PS:The album cover looks REEAALLYYY BAD, albeit a sorta clever McCartney/Wings homage.

Marxism Goes Better With Coke (Charles McCain), Saturday, 30 July 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

14. Look What The Cat Dragged In

OMGWTF?!!! Stones in Poison-covering shockah!

Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 30 July 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

"Rough Justice" (which I just heard a moment ago) is a good latter-day Stones romp, but will ultimately be forgettable. And the Stones actually sound more like a Stones cover band now than anything else.

Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 30 July 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

It's not THAT bad. At least it's not some bullshit + lips logo.

Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Saturday, 30 July 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I actually like the cover art. If they weren't all so old, it could've easily been the art for one of their '60s albums.

Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 30 July 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

So they're still giving Daryl Jones the Ian Stewart treatment not letting him in on the photo sessions, eh?

Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Saturday, 30 July 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

There's an easy joke there somewhere... perhaps in the shadows.

Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Saturday, 30 July 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

Looks like the cover of an Alex Ross graphic novel.

miccio (miccio), Saturday, 30 July 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

I'm all for that cover, I gotta say

Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Saturday, 30 July 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

actually IS that an Alex Ross drawing? I can't tell if its a photo or not.

http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com/news_images/4131_11042_1.jpg

miccio (miccio), Saturday, 30 July 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

I don't keep up with comics. Who's that itty bitty little dude in the front there?

Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 30 July 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

Here's their gimmick, courtesy of Billboard:

Calling Billboard from tour rehearsals in Toronto, Jagger says the spirited play between he and Richards and switching up instruments helped bring a renewed energy to the album's creation.

"I was playing drums and all that sort of stuff I usually never do and that was fun," he says. "Happily for the fans, my drums never made it on the record apart from one or two little hits that were saved. Keith and I were just having a laugh with a lot of it."

Many of the tracks feature just Jagger, Richards and drummer Charlie Watts. Apart from guitarist Ron Wood, the only other musicians on the album are longtime Stones associates Darryl Jones (bass) and Chuck Leavell (keyboards).

"There's no hiding place if there's only three of you in the room," Jagger says. Or as Richards puts it, the album is "raw Stones."

Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 30 July 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

Whatev. They've got too many years of accumulated craft to record a bad album, so it's possible they've made the roots-rock return everyone's been waiting for since 1981.

Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 30 July 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

That's the Atom, dude. One of the building blocks of the universe.
WHICH THE ROLLING STONES ARE FASCINATED BY.
creepy

Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 30 July 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

Ah, it's all coming back to me now, those infrequent half hours I spent as a youth watching Super Friends on television.

Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 30 July 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

FOUR STAR JANN WENNER/ANTHONY DECURTIS REVIEW SPOILER ALERT!

Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 30 July 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

Here's their gimmick...

The day the Rolling Fucking Stones need a "gimmick" to hype a new rekkid is the day... er... right. Carry on then.

rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 30 July 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

It seems natural that they'd show an interest in the Big Bang -- they were there for it...

The Original Jimmy Mod (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Saturday, 30 July 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

Thanks, you've been great!

The Original Jimmy Mod (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Saturday, 30 July 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

I like the cover art - their best since Some Girls!

57 7th (calstars), Saturday, 30 July 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

16 tracks is surely 6 too many though -- why not cut the inevitable filler?

57 7th (calstars), Saturday, 30 July 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, save those six songs for the remastered and expanded version that comes out at Christmas

Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 30 July 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

"There's no hiding place if there's only three of you in the room," Jagger says.

did bill wyman used to slip behind the mixing board unnoticed?

Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 30 July 2005 21:56 (twenty years ago)

Excuse me?

13. Sweet Neo Con

joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 30 July 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

The cover is a Joseph Wright of Derby pastiche.

Masked Gazza, Saturday, 30 July 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

http://www.fyndo.com/wright-bird.jpg

Masked Gazza, Saturday, 30 July 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

http://staff.imsa.edu/socsci/kiely/orrery.JPG

Masked Gazza, Saturday, 30 July 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

THAT ALBUM COVER RULES THIS ALBUM RULES AND YOU PEOPLE ARE ASSHOLES

j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 30 July 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

hmmm kinda excited. really like the album cover. for what its worth, atleast they *look* like a great band. i love that whathis name looks more than ever like a founding father. and love that shits revolved around again to where they can look cool again ... which also leads me to think it could be time now, stars have alligned again, trends have revolved 360 into their favor and the music will be good. and i need rock to be good again.

Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 31 July 2005 07:03 (twenty years ago)

The last really great stones song was "Marry Me" from Decoration Day.

plebian plebs (plebian), Sunday, 31 July 2005 09:18 (twenty years ago)

Dear Stones Fan,

It has just been announced that Metallica will be the special guest for the Rolling Stones as part of their "A Bigger Bang" World Tour at SBC Park in San Francisco on November 13th and 15th!


!!!

Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 5 August 2005 06:07 (twenty years ago)

Artist upstaged by back-up musician

rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 5 August 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...
The stage:

http://www.productshopnyc.com/archives/rollingstonesbiggerbangstage

The Ghost of Dean Gulberry (dr g), Saturday, 20 August 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...
I saw them in Detroit. They put on a great, great live show for what it's worth. Slag on their albums all you fucking want, they put on a hell of a live show.

(Rough Justice was great live)

=====--(?), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

4 stars from the AMG!

Marxism Goes Better With Coke (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

I'm a little disappointed! It definitely sounds ROUGHER than Bridges to Babylon ... no question this thing is hairy. Not quite sure the SONGS are there, though.

"Rough Justice" totally smokes though; didn't some idgit disparage it up there? who cares, can't check .. "She Saw Me Coming" is pretty fucking reet too. hmm.. they got pretty close on this one. Should have just been an 8 songer like the good old days of Black and Blue maybe

Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 8 September 2005 04:10 (twenty years ago)

man it's crazy how loud the drums are mixed on this record! For a Charlie fanatic like me that is good. but it's also kinda bad too.

he does still sound fantastic though.

The second half of this record is better than the first. Definitely a 'half-great'-er, not too shabby. again, they all sound great. it's just that half the songs kind of blow. but there are 16 songs so there you go. Fucking CD's man.

Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 8 September 2005 04:38 (twenty years ago)

the one GLARING weakness: for the first time in five Rolling Stones studio albums, the Keith songs suck!! (let alone be among the BEST, which they ALWAYS were.) There isn't even a nice Keith ballad on here to keep and love. this is the worst disappointment for me, considering "Sleep Tonight", "Slippin Away", "The Worst", "Thru and Thru", etc...

Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 8 September 2005 04:46 (twenty years ago)

o no! i'm disappointed you're disappointed - i've heard good things about this one, no 'best since tattoo you' talk but lots of encouraging signs. i still haven't heard 'rough justice' yet - is it the single? i heard 'oh no not you again' is good too, someone said it sounds like the faces (which i guess means it sounds like the stones but mick had a sore throat???). they could fix the cd-length quality control problem if they'd just rip thru some covers for a quarter of the album. that's one of the three things i would do if i produced them.

j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 8 September 2005 05:05 (twenty years ago)

didn't some idgit disparage it up there?

Yeah, I retract that position. Now that I've heard it about 25 times, it won't leave my brain (in a good way).

Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 8 September 2005 05:14 (twenty years ago)

"the one GLARING weakness: for the first time in five Rolling Stones studio albums, the Keith songs suck!!"

I love "This Place is Empty," especially Mick's harmonies!

Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 8 September 2005 10:09 (twenty years ago)

It sounds a good record, quite amazingly... after all these years!

Paul Morley was clearly right when apparently imploring Jagger to split the Stones in about 1979; if they'd done so then and returned now with this, their reputation would be stratospherically higher than it stands.

Tom May (Tom May), Thursday, 8 September 2005 10:16 (twenty years ago)

God, this album is so good. I keep waiting for the moment when I'll realize that it's all a shuck: that Jagger isn't really singing (and playing!) with this much convinction, that it's too fucking long, that Charlie should retire gracefully. But after a dozen listens it hasn't happened yet.

Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

Stormy OTM about the shitty Keith songs.

So far my favorite tracks are "Rough Justice," "Oh No Not You Again," "Laughing I Nearly Died," and "Look What the Cat Dragged In" (a Poison tribute, yes!) The alleged Condaleeza song (which seems as much a Bush song to me == did Mick say it was about her in an interview or something?) is, um, at least better than Steve Earle's Condaleeza song. Beyond that, I reserve judgement about it for now.

xhuxk, Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

Anyway, overall: Best since *Dirty Work,* at least. Maybe even better than that. And so far, I like it better than the new Kanye album.

xhuxk, Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

Look for Kanye to guest on Mick's next solo album, Chuck. You read it here first!

Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I'm liking this a lot better than after my first run-through. It actually compels repeated plays! My initial opinion was tarnished by the rancid pall that "Streets of Love" casts over the album. That really is a putrid track. But yeah, I definitely forgot to big up "Oh No Not You Again"! That song totally rips. They played it live last night. "Rain Fall Down" is great. And I was a little hasty in evaluating the Keith tracks. "This Place is Empty" still totally sucks. But "Infamy" is growing on me. It's got a nice little lope and sounds more endearing after a few plays.

New tour pretty good -- they play three songs from the album: "Rough Justice", "Oh No Not You Again" and "Infamy". They also do "out of Control" from Bridges of Babylon, and "You Got Me Rocking" and "The Worst" from Voodoo Lounge. so that's 6 songs out of about 20 played, from their 90s-and-beyond period. so it's not really fair to accuse 'em of just going through the motions with their greatest hits..

Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 12 September 2005 01:59 (twenty years ago)

"Rough Justice"! That's what I heard on the car radio yesterday - mentioned on another thread - and mad me want to hear the rest of the album. Sounded JUICY (esp. the guitars). G'night. I'm toast.

Jay Vee (Manon_70), Monday, 12 September 2005 04:54 (twenty years ago)

Listening to the radio 1 chart show yesterday - "and now in at no2, some old wrinklies, I'm going to play as much as i can stand" (record starts playing) "yell out when you want it to stop" (what sounds like the voice of an 11yo girl shouts "stop", dj cuts the record) I was surprised how outrages I felt w/r/t this, fucking shithead dj. I forget what was no1 but it was lamer than the brief clip of the stones by quite a way. Oh hang on it ws james blunt!!! so the stones are unacceptable b/c they're old, whilst fucking al stewart jr, whos songs all sound the same, is hip enough for the kids. wtf.

Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 12 September 2005 10:27 (twenty years ago)

That's a terrible slur on the noble name of Al Stewart.

Anyway, cheer up, Pick Of The Pops with Dale Winton's back on Radio 2 next Sunday afternoon!

Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 12 September 2005 10:30 (twenty years ago)

>"Infamy" is growing on me<

As in you got it in fa' me. This reminds of of the Dave Matthews band for some reason! And for some reason I am hating it (slightly) less now, too.

Does "Look What The Cat Dragged In" have the same bassline as "Shakedown Street," "Nighttime in the Switching Yard," and "I Need You Tonight"? Or is it some other track? I gotta go back and check...

Tomorrow night, I see them live for my first time ever.

xhuxk, Monday, 12 September 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

they were on Dateline NBC last night, it was kind of interesting to hear that Jagger works out before each show. Watching them soundcheck is weird, I tend to not even think of them as a band any more. I really wish I was seeing them this time around; the last tour was great, this looks to be the same setup: they do a set play by themselves, without all the session players, in the middle of the audience. Wish they'd do the whole show that way.

kyle (akmonday), Monday, 12 September 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)

This album is so good that I'm actually playing Bridges To Babylon to find out what I missed (not much, so far).

Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 12 September 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)

http://www.nwobhm.com/images/blackout.jpg

President Busch (dr g), Monday, 12 September 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

Got this off Slsk - Rough Justice & Oh No Not You Again both rock! I kinda like It Won't Take Long as well.

I'm pretty surprised, but then I suppose there's always the odd song I like here and there in their post-70s stuff. Maybe I should get that Forty Licks comp...

Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...
my wife told me about this a few weeks ago. this is hysterical. every day the universe becomes more absurd.

kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 23 October 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

"Let Me Down Slow" is a nice tune

for HOOM the bell tolls (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 25 February 2010 22:59 (fifteen years ago)

this one earned the BEST ALBUM SINCE 1934 plaudits.

Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 February 2010 23:13 (fifteen years ago)

wow I guess they really have been around forever haven't they

dead clown handjob (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 25 February 2010 23:14 (fifteen years ago)

They were the Munich house band when Chamberlain and Hitler signed their pact, I think.

Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 February 2010 23:27 (fifteen years ago)

nazism never sounded so funky

for HOOM the bell tolls (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 25 February 2010 23:34 (fifteen years ago)

I hear Ernst Rohm used to hit on Jagger between sets

dead clown handjob (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 25 February 2010 23:56 (fifteen years ago)

"Have You Seen Your Fuhrer Baby Sieg Heiling in the Shadow"

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 25 February 2010 23:58 (fifteen years ago)

"(I Can't get No) Sauerbraten"

François de Roobabe (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 26 February 2010 00:10 (fifteen years ago)

"I'm Frei"

for HOOM the bell tolls (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 26 February 2010 00:31 (fifteen years ago)

"Gimme Scheisse"

dead clown handjob (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 26 February 2010 00:44 (fifteen years ago)

"i am waiting (for the third reich to rise again)"

('_') (omar little), Friday, 26 February 2010 01:05 (fifteen years ago)

"Munich Hotel"

Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 February 2010 01:12 (fifteen years ago)

"I rode a tank, held a general's rank when the Blitzkrieg raged and the bodies stank." Somebody should write a song!

Fruitless and Pansy Free (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Friday, 26 February 2010 03:19 (fifteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

Loaded this onto my iPod last night after another marathon ripping session, stands up pretty well! I mean, lol old Stones, but I don't know, as a whole I'll probably take this over any of the 90s albums.

one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 20:05 (fourteen years ago)

twelve years pass...

Still good!

SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 23 October 2023 15:07 (two years ago)


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