You know the drill.

What I want to know this time is:

What 10 songs have you been listening to the most this summer. What was the soundtrack to your life for the last 6 months? Even songs you hate but can't quite erase from your internal 2 track. Good or bad, what was your summer playlist? Artist and title, please. With a brief critique, if you feel the need.

I'll go first: (cause, you know... I have to...)

01 - Natalie Merchant and 10,000 Maniacs - "More Than This"
Seldom has a cover been better suited to the artist covering it and this wistful little gem, originally by Roxy Music, stuck in my head like chewing gum all summer.

02 - Lifehouse - "Hanging By A Moment Here With You"
I know, it's been played to death since 2001, but it's a killer song with a great hook. And, yeah.. it reminds me of a girl I sort of dig who wouldn't give me the time of day if I bought her a Rolex. : )

03 - "I'm A Cow" (Internet Flash Video from Penland Creative) available here
This is the song I use to close the bar every night. The crew dances around like loons. It's wonderful.

04 - "Underworld" - Born Slippy (Trainspotting)
There's a band that plays the Round House that covers the first half of this song as an intro to a Basement Jaxx tune. Very haunting.

05 - Steve Earle - "Copperhead Road" Steve Earle is, for my money, a brilliant songsmith, and this plaintive and sinister piece weaves a flashback through the life of a white trash Viet Nam vet from a moonshiner clan. Give me chills. Especially when this guy covers it after about 16 Jack Daniel's.

06 - Tom Jones - "She's A Lady" Also a song that a Round House band covers, with appropriate irony, of course. The motherfucker is, they absolutely nail it. Perfect. This is the band, btw. Do you see a theme developing here? Should I get out more?

07 - The Five Satins - "In The Still Of the Night"
Actually, THIS is the song I close the bar with after "I'm A Cow" because it's my boss's favourite song. Classic doo wop. It might even be the only song that ever used "doo wop doo wop" as an actual lyric. Romantic, melancholy and definitive.

08 - The Temptations - "Since I Lost My Baby"
There had to be a Motown song in here, and this one is stuck in my head since I have spent three weeks mixing down a live recording of it by this band, (yeah... they play the Round Bar) that not only features my oldest friend and housemate, Russ (the hair farmer, fourth from the left) but whose drummer has consented to play on my CD this winter. "Since I Lost My Baby" is a true Motown gem, and if you don't like Motown, you're probably wrong. : )

09 - James Brown - "Sex Machine (Pt. 1)" This has gotten the shit played out of it on our jukebox all season long. James is da man, y'all. If you don't dig James, you just don't know what it's all about. "Hai!" I mean, that's an actual James Brown lyric. Somebody wrote that shit down. "HAI!" Did I mention dat James is da man?

10 - Emerson Drive - "Fall Into Me" A Canadian pop-country band. Go figure. I haven't heard the rest of the album, and the single is a bit sappy, yeah (most great love songs are), but this flawlessly-produced-by-Richard Marx paean to love in waiting - replete with fiddle and the most twangy guitar since .. well, ever - may be the most 99.9% pure piece of popcraft since the Beatles asked if they could hold your hand. A hook the size of Utah. They're doing county fairs, atm. Why, I have no idea.

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

I threw my name in for the next cd swap. This isn't necessarily my playlist, but this is what I've been listening to for the last year or so. I dig all the albums these songs came off of, but

Kinky--Kinky (entire album) this is a band from Monterrey, Mexico. I've been listening to their debut CD weekly or more for the last year. This description will give bunner a stroke: latin snyth pop.

FC/Kahuna--Glitterball and Hayling (SFA Dunk Dunk Dunk Mix). Another great debut album from start to finish. These are my favorite two tracks.

Underworld--2 Months Off

Looper-My Robot. Actually, my favorite Looper song is which ever song I'm listening to at the moment.

Belle & Sebastian--Scooby Driver. I'm not a huge B&S fan, but I do like a lot of their songs. This one comes off the Storytelling soundtrack.

Boards of Canada--Music Has the Right to Children...entire album, but in particular Telephasic Workshop, Roygbiv, and Aquarius

Beta Band--Alleged

Dirty Vegas--Throwing Shapes

Karl Denson--Dance Lesson No. 2. Solo album from the killer sax player behind Greyboy Allstars and Karl Denson's Tiny Universe.

Farmers Market--Jabber. Another description to make Bunner hurl: Gypsy Cajun Accordion Jazz Bluegrass Banjo Bulgarian Techno Folk Rock Pop Cyberfrench Cafepunk Music

Finally, I've been listening to a bunch of various DJ sets from the Breezeblock on BBC 1

01 - Evanescence "My Immortal" : I'm a sucker for sappy songs, and I really like Evanescence... i (i hate myself as i say this) burned the cd... and that's all I listened to while my family was gone for 2 weeks... I used the big stereo system upstairs and crashed on the futon up there... ahh, the memories

02 - Sean Paul "Get Busy" : This song is what me and my best-friend (at the time... we're not even friends anymore, which is sad because we were best friends for all of high school) would cruise to while driving down 8th Street (which is the Saskatoon Strip i guess you could say), whilst doing the boobie shimmy. Ahh...

03 - New Found Glory "Understatement" : I don't know why, but I can't stop listening to this song, even now. It just... pumps me up! Boo yeah!

04 - Tom Jones "Sex Bomb" : I bought this 2-Disc set in Scotland 3 years ago and this song was on it... And there were memories from that already, but I would blast this song in my 87 Chevy Caprice Classic and laugh at the stares i got. Hardcore Mafia car and Tom Jones music blasting while a girl with long blond hair weaves through traffic...

05 - AC/DC "Thunderstruck" : Does this song NEED an explanation?

06 - Corey Hart "Sunglasses at Night" : Again, a song with my best friend... we didn't know all the words, but we still sang along to the song... And the part where he gets all semi-yelling... we fully yelled it, and killed ourselves laughing every time we did it.

07 - Norah Jones "Don't Know Why" : Every time i hear this song, I cry. Don't know what it is, but I cry. Oh wait, i do know what it is...

08 - Blur "Song 2" : This song brought me back to my grade 7/8 days, and I rocked out hardcore. It was a good time... every time!!

09 - Evanescence "Hello" : Oh god... this song is SO much fun to sing... I love it... I would definitely bust out the 'Catholic Girl Choir Voice' for this song, as it is needed.

10 - Trippingbillee "I Fuck Goats" : This needs no explanation.

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Okay, Lindsay, are you forgetting that I was a professional twice over - an analyst and a therapist. The world's first analrapist.

I don't want to put these in order, so they're going alphabetical. Mostly rap. I know, I'm a loser.

BONE Enterprise - Bless Da 40 Oz
This is from.. 91? 93?.. somewhere around there. These guys changed they're name to Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, got famous, got rich and got a whole lot of SUCK. Songs about drinking are just fun. "If you're an alchy and you know it, take a swig" see?

Conrtist - Rock the Body
I don't know much about these guys, except one of them is not a guy. Girl rappers = hdb!

Geto Boys - Balls and my Word
This one doesn't count as rap. I first heard it on geto boys' Greatest Hits album, but more recently a fucked up version appeared on the Scarface album "Balls and my Word".

King Crimson - Happy With What You Have To Be Happy With
Nate told me about this in IRC one day. I haven't been able to get anything else by them unless I pay for it, which I don't want to do.

KMFDM - Bullets, Bombs & Bigotry
Three of my favourite things! Or, two of my favourite things and something that's not one of my favourite things. One of my favourite KMFMD tracks, probably only second to Urban Monkey Warfare, but this new so I've been listening to it more.

Macho Man Randy Savage - Remember Me
Yes, the wrestler. He is now also a rapper, and not a bad one.

Paris - Sheep to the Slaughter
This guy raps about war and politicts and stuff. Fun for the whole family.

Twiztid - Gravy Boatz
Kind of stupid song from an EP they gave away on twiztid.com after they cancelled a bunch of tour dates. This is what sparked my love for gravy boats.

Twiztid - Hom-Sha-Bom
A RAP story about a possesed lady and demons and violence and fun stuff like that.

Violent J - Yellow Brick Alleyway
From the Wizard of the Hood EP. The EP is a running story, so this one track doesn't make much sense on it's own. But I've been listening to the EP a lot, so I figured I had to put something down.

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Batman created by Bob Kane

No shit? Huh.
0.o

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

Oh man, I love doing these sorts of things:

Fran Healy from Travis famously said that "music is like a soundtrack for life, and some songs make you think of some of the times in your life, like a slide show"

I'll try and give you an idea of the stuff that's been the "slide-show" for my last 6 months; in no order:

Mad World - Tears For Fears
Covered by a guy whose name I can't remember for the "Donnie Darko" soundtrack, Chi_The_Cynic put this on his swap CD. It's haunting.

Look and Feel Years Younger - Brad Sucks
If the Wannadies covered this, they'd have a smash hit. I pray that they do. It's that good. I'm happy to say that Brad Sucks baptised my new flat's walls with rockin' goodness.

Soundtrack to "$" - Quincy Jones
The last piece of vinyl I bought - it's top quality atmospheric vibes with a dose of funk and soul - Quincy Jones can do no wrong in my book. Played in full at my flat-warming, great background music.

Finlandia - Sibelius
My grandfather died in August and this was played at his funeral. The introduction is immense - it sounds like it should be on a film soundtrack if it isn't already: I thought my old granddad had put it in his will that he was going to get Stormtroopers to file in and gun us down, the music was so awesome! It's the intro to my latest swap CD.

Nothing - A and Always: Your Way - My Vitriol
Two tracks from a few summers ago - I'm really liking A at the minute even though I missed the boat by a year or so - they sound like an American nu metal band but are from Leeds. They rock a LOT. And I bought My Vitriol's album on the cheap last time I went to Edinburgh and discovered I really like them.

Mrs. Fletcher's Unauthorised Theme - John Sensebe

I love owning property. The new town I've moved to is a beautiful place. But it's DULL.
I've not made any friends there yet :-(

So I spend a lot of time on IRC, as you may have noticed. This track is by Bargaintuan and cheers me up.

Boards of Canada - Base Free
Dark. Reminds me of being in a shop at Liverpool St. Station in London, on the way to a flat warming party in July. From the Twoism EP. Heavy and dark.

jes_lawson - untitled works - So yeah, I've been listening to myself play the guitar, coming up with scores for independant films that will never be made.

The Clash Versus the Electric 6 - No More Gay Bars
Dani and I go clubbing to cheesy discos at weekends. I hate them, but she can't get enough of them, but I'm not complaining as I get to dance with her.

If we had to agree on a track we both like it would be this - "Whatever Happened to the Heroes" with the vocals from Electric 6's "Gay Bar" run over the top of it. Cheesy but creative, the soundtrack to nights out in London with the gf.

76:13 - Global Communication
The best ambient record ever made. First heard this about 10 years ago on John Peel's radio show, *finally* bought my own copy in June. Never has the tick of a grandfather clock sounded so good.

Other contenders:
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[*]Stop Coming to My House - Mogwai
[*]You're So Damn Hot - OK Go
[*]New Born - Elbow
[*]Qtio EP - Brothomstates (Warp records)
[*]Do You Feel Like We Do? - Peter Frampton
[*]Classical guitar - J.S. Bach
[*] Anything by Roy Budd
[*]Stripcreator Swap CDs
[*][B]John Peel on BBC Radio 1[/b]
[*]local pirate radio
[*] Christian O'Connell on XFM - soundtrack to driving to work and source of a lot of my exposure to new music these days.
[*]BBC Radio 4 - The soundtrack to driving anywhere
[*]BBC Radio 5 Live football commentary - the soundtrack to my Saturday afternoons
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And finally, my own Stripcreator Swap CDs.

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Please replace the handset, and try again.

I'm fired up now, I had to reply.

Long and rambling commentary follows:

Mister Bunnerabb:

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Me next, me next.

The Decemberists "Billy Liar" I just got the new CD a few days ago and it has been going non-stop on the old CD player. The first album sounded like an album that you found under the floor boards of an old house. This album sounds like the lost album of some experimental 1930's band. Most of the songs are stories, bizarre little stories.

The Walkmen "We've been had" From the ashes of Jonathan Fire-Eater comes these guys, mellow and grooving. The singer has an awesome voice. I nerded out so hard when i first heard it, I emailed Kajun. Why? I couldn't even say.

Elvis Costello "When I was Cruel No. 2" My hero. And I haven't had the cash to buy the new one.

Count Basie "Dance of the Gremlins" Makes for a great soundtrack for work whilest I sit at my desk.

Snoop Dogg "From tha chuuch to tha Palace" Damn this hooky ass song. I'm not crazy about the album, but it seemed to follow me, so I bought it. GFunk baby.

Evan Dando "In the grass all wine colored" This gets stuck in my head quite often, and if you hear it once, you know the words. saw him play a few days ago. Good stuff.

Mamas and The Papas "California dreamin'" My grandmother passed away in September and I must have heard this song 6 times in 4 days on the radio. It has no real connection but I'll probably connect the two incidents forever.

Tha Liks "da-da-da-da" This song gets in my head and I've had to sing the words when bored. It's fast and fun, if you enjoy hiphop, that is.

Fountains of Wayne "Halley's Waitress" This song has a real Burt Bacharach feel to me, and it's a very pretty way to sing about a bad waitress.

Badly drawn Boy "Silent Sigh" I guess I've been kind of melancholy lately, because this is another slow song, but he's Gifted with those Beatle-esque melodies and great hooks.

Hey jes, you're the first person I've heard reference the Wannadies. I let a friend borrow their first album and never saw it again and hadn't heard anything about them sense. Are they still putting out stuff?

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Peeing sitting down is the gift you give yourself.

I absolutely adore the movie "Shrek" and I've been listening to
"Hallelujah" (John Cale's version) and
"You belong to me" (Jason Wade's version)
Also Todd Rundgren, a few little-known tunes
"It wouldn't have made any difference" and a beautiful but sad a capella song called
"Pretending to care"
Jessica Andrews "There's more to me than you" -She did 2 versions of this song, a slower ballad and a faster one. I prefer the faster version. "I'm not saying I'm battered and bruised but I might as well be with the words you use... I believe in myself, and that makes me stronger..."
Yeah, can you tell how well my Zoloft is working?
Coldplay "Clocks" (as I've been wondering if I'm part of the cure or part of the disease).
Evanescence "Bring me to life" ...bid my blood to run, before I come undone... save me from the nothing I've become. Ooooh.
Pat Benatar "We Belong" because it's in my voice range and I can actually sing it well, and the lyrics are outstanding.
Peter Gabriel "Salisbury Hill" is just plain cool.
E L O "Mr. Blue Sky" I don't normally listen to much electronic / techno stuff but this song makes you want to bounce all over the house nekkid.

DexX recently introduced me to an excellent Aussie group called The Whitlams, their music is similar
to The Proclaimers imo. I'm crazy about "Royal in the afternoon" and "Cries too hard" makes me cry too hard. It also made me aware of Frida Kahlo, who wrote in her diary:

"He doesn't see the color. He has the color.
I make the shape. He doesn't look at it.
He doesn't give the life he has.
He has life.
Warm and white is his voice.
He stayed but never arrived.
I'm leaving."

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“It is only with the heart that one sees rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” - The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1945)

I absolutely love that song... I love to belt it out and I love to work out to the whole Evanescence CD... its one hella fun time!!
Rock on, Pita!!

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Okay, Lindsay, are you forgetting that I was a professional twice over - an analyst and a therapist. The world's first analrapist.

I'm not going to explain why for each song, I just like the way they sound and how they feel.

Pink Floyd - Shine on you Crazy Diamond

The Flaming Lips - Approaching Pavonis Mons By Balloon

Coldplay - Everything's Not Lost

Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition - Promenade-The Gnome- The Old Castle - Hut on Fowls Legs/Baba Yaga

Placebo - Pure Morning

Queen - Princes of the Universe

Radiohead - A Punchup at a Wedding

slint - nosferatu man

Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes

Super Furry Animals - Drygioni
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Props on the Sibilus jes. And you can always download more King Crimson dcom.

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Hey jes, you're the first person I've heard reference the Wannadies. I let a friend borrow their first album and never saw it again and hadn't heard anything about them sense. Are they still putting out stuff?

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Hi, I'm Pita's son.

I've been listening to:

1) Simple Plan - "Perfect"
2) Evanescence - "Going Under"
3) "My Last Breath"
4) "Imaginary" and
5) "Taking over me"
6) Good Charlotte - "The Young and Hopeless" and
7) "Boys and Girls"
8) Linkin Park - "Numb" and
9) "Somewhere I Belong"
10) Trust Company - "Slipping Away"

boo...hiss...clap

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web nerds listing music tracks? i'm in...

The Bad Plus--"Big Eater" and their cover of BLONDIE's "Heart of Glass" from These Are The Vistas 2003. piano/bass/drums=life

Radiohead--"A Punchup At A Wedding" and "Myxomatosis" from Hail To The Thief 2003. The CD is a bit too long, but these two songs always catch my attention.

Brad Mehldau--"Dropjes," "Sabbath," and "Free Willy" from Largo 2002. Mehldau experiments with sound yet stays grounded in groove and melody. A rising force in jazz.

Johnny Cash--"Cocaine Blues" from Live At Folsom Prison 1968. "The Man Comes Around" and "I Hung My Head" from American IV: The Man Comes Around 2003. The first one was included on my CD Swap. As for Mr. Cash's recent spate of covers, I wonder if Rick Rubin went to him and said, "Play these," or if these were songs Johnny heard and wanted to play.

ABBA--"Fernando" from ??. I must admit I heard this one night on a syndicated repeat of That 70s Show. I can neither get it out of my head nor stop singing along when I hear it.

Cafe Tacuba--"Bicecleta" and "Dos Ninos" on the song-based Yosoy disc and "M.C." (with the KRONOS QUARTET) on the mostly instrumental Reves disc--all from the double set Reves/Yosoy 1999. I don't understand most of the lyrics, but this is good stuff. Future Swap material, for sure. Rock En Espanol!

Cody ChestnuTT--The Headphone Masterpiece 2002. Two discs set full of magic and mistakes. Still a great listen with or w/o headphones. Highlights include "Magic in a Mortal Minute" "Boylife in America" "Bitch, I'm Broke" "The Seed" "Batman vs. Blackman (instrumental)" "The World Is Coming to My Party" "Family on Blast" "My Women, My Guitars" "Eric Burdon" "On a Joyride" and "6 Seconds."

The Clash--"Straight To Hell," "Ghetto Defendant," and, of course, "Rock The Casbah" from Combat Rock 1982. I think this album gets overlooked because of "Casbah," but it's sophisticated, complicated, and still fun.

Dexy's Midnight Runners--"Come On Eileen."
Big Country--"Big Country."
The Pretenders--"Brass In Pocket." I DLed a ton of 80s songs and soundbites when my friend threw his wife an 80s themed birthday party this summer. These songs still get airplay at WFUM.

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Chicken Feather Bed Bugs Bunny Hop Sing Out Side Street Walker Texas Ranger Cookie Dough Boy Wonder Years

Not a song, more like a band,but definitely been most of my summer...anything Live Phish. Shows, tapes, soundchecks, jams...

Radiohead - I will.
Hail to the Thief has had some serious rotation, but this track always makes me do a little 'harmony dance'.

She Said, She said - The Beatles
I've been popping in Revolver a fair amount to get to this John Lennon ditty.

Aphex Twin - (First track on 'The Richard D. James Album)
I don't know the names of anything I listen to, because I tend to listen to a lot of shows or instrumental stuff. This whole album is great driving music.

Phish - Stash (any version from 1994)
yeah, I know I already mentioned them, but this song's awesome jams around that year bring me to musical orgasms about every time.

Medeski Martin and Wood - The Dropper
It's also an album that is spec-awesome-ular.

Bela Bartok - Every single string quartet
I know that's unspecific, but I can't pick a favorite.

That's not ten. I don't tend to listen to particular songs more than I listen to albums/artists.

Overall, my summer was defined by Phish.

phish phish phish.

Did I mention Phish?

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Also, did you know that KMFDM stands for "Kill Mother Fucking Depeche Mode?"
Ha ha! - It's like I'm 17 again and laughing my ass off at being told that!

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Not in any order:

Radiohead- The Bends
AFI-...but home is nowhere
The Misfits- Astro Zombies
The Ramones- Today your love, tommorow the world
Sex Pistols- Sixteen
Thrice- The Artish In The Ambulance
Tiger Army- Cupids Victim and Nightfall
The Beatles- Yesterday, Let it be, Eleanor Rigby
Anti-Flag- Seattle was a riot
Nofx-San Francisco Fat
The Strokes- Someday

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"No obscene images." I guess I'll just have to settle for saying cocksucker a lot.

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in no particular order:

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Dead Milkmen - Bitchin' Camaro
Oingo Boingo - Wild Sex in the Working Class
Nirvana - Heart Shaped Box
Electric Six - Gay Bar
Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood
Deep Purple - Smoke
Fountains of Wayne - Stacy's Mom
The Offspring - Pretty Fly for a White Guy

and now for a song i totally hate but it's been trapped in my head forever:

Aqua - Barbie Girl

dammit. they played this song on the radio forever and ever and now it's been permanently fused into my brain. i will have to carry it throughout my life. *sob*

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It's grime time.

I've tried to get into Emo but it's not happening. Dashboard Confessional put me off. Coldplay, Travis and Kings of Convenience are my emo, but I agree that NFG rock a lot. So hell yeah for this one.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay I can NOT stress this enough.
Dashboard isn't emo at all, nor is A New Found Glory.
NFG is a pop-punk band, like good charlotte, simple plan, ramones, rancid, stuff like that.
I'm not sure what dashboard is, but I know for DAMN sure it isn't emo. Emo is short for Emotive Hardcore. If you want to hear real emo, download some Saetia, Orchid, Indian Summer or Rites of Spring.

or go to www.fourfa.com

thank you

Oh, and coldplay, while an awesome band, is in one of the newer music genres; "dancecore"

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Wow that's one of the gayest things I've ever heard.

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Wow that's one of the gayest things I've ever heard.

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No, this is: http://members.optushome.com.au/citizen_will/ucsf-foamrubber.mp3

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