What "classic" pop/rock song do you just HATE?

[UdoKier]

You know, the well-worn pop/rock song that STILL plays on the radio CONSTANTLY, the one that everyone seems to like but you?

Classic, only in the sense that the song still gets airplay years after it was on the charts. Most any overplayed song of any genre qualifies, but it usually takes a few years for the hatred to really sink in.

For me it's got to be Soft Cell's "Tainted Love". The dreariest, most awful, most over played song of all time.


"Summer Breeze" is a close runner-up.

[HEyHEY]

1. Anything by Pink floyd

[taught_me_patience]

26. WTF!?!?!

aboslute heresy. Their song writing skills are second to none.

Anything from:

REO Speedwagon
Boston
Foreigner
Derek and the Dominoes
Journey
Meatloaf
Elton John

And songs:
"Layla"
"Born in the USA"
"Maggie"
"The Joker"
"Like a Rolling Stone"

[DelawareValleyDem]

59. You may have a point there nt

[Sandpiper]

2. Hotel California

:puke:

[Bridget Burke]

11. I agree, but I love "Take It Easy"...

Even though it's against my general anti-Eagles stance.

[liberalpragmatist]

78. As Jon Stewart Said of the Eagles...

From The Daily Show:

"As a Cardinal, Pope Benedict condemned rock music as evil, singling out Judas Priest, AC/DC, and The Eagles for criticism.

"To which the Devil responded, 'The Eagles? Do you really think I'm that much of a pussy?'"

[Dukkha]

123. one of the best unintentional remarks on The Eagles...

a review of their best of CD Hell Freezes Over where the reviewer said "Hell contains mostly their singles" SO TRUE!

[Magrittes Pipe]

28. Yes.

:cry:

[RandomKoolzip]

3. "Old Time Rock and Roll" by Bob Seger.

Useless.

[BigMcLargehuge]

13. a song written exclusively for weddings, wasn't it?

at least, those are the only events where I have to suffer through it.

[RandomKoolzip]

15. I thought it was written exclusively for inflicting pain.

[BigMcLargehuge]

21. I'd have liked the song better

if it was titled "I'm Bob Seger, please hit me very hard with this aluminum bat" then went on a national Bob Seger the Pinata Tour to promote it.

[UdoKier]

36. I actually liked that song when it came out.

But not for so long. Don't care for it much now.

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

60. Yes, but "Still the Same"

is a pretty good one. However, anyone who names their band "The Silver Bullet Band" instantly loses all cool points in my book.

[Zuni]

53. or 80s film soundtracks

[UdoKier]

55. Yes, "Top Gun" was a high-water mark for KRAP.

Especially "Highway to the Danger Zone".

[Zuni]

69. ack! I just vomited into my mouth a little bit

[BigMcLargehuge]

71. Kenny Loggins is the antichrist

[Zuni]

73. no, Jimmy Buffett is

:puke:

[BigMcLargehuge]

74. man I hate him

and I've grown to loath his legions of middle aged, pasty, white, upper middle class, leisure suit wearing, Florida vacationing fans too.

[Zuni]

79. uggghhh...blah

Jimmy Buffett concerts are how I envision hell...drunk ass high school jocks shotgunning beers in the parking lot to middle aged mothers baring their breasts in the crowd

[BigMcLargehuge]

81. happy idiot rock/folk for the Bud Light and Geritol crowd

[Zuni]

Have you ever seen Club Dread?

Bill Paxton plays a Jimmy Buffett soundalike washout who runs his own resort. He has a song called 'Pina Coladaburg'! It is hilarious

[BigMcLargehuge]

99. no and I missed my change to interview the Broken Lizard guys too

when that was released on DVD :-(

[Zuni]

103. are you a reporter?

that would have been really cool.

[BigMcLargehuge]

105. I write for a horror website magazine

www.horrorview.com

[Zuni]

107. Thats awesome

I have a friend who knows almost every horror film ever made and has probably half of them. He is also an expert on terrible cinema, B-movies and the like. It is remarkable.

[BigMcLargehuge]

read The Hall of Shame

that's my baby

[Zuni]

118. Dude, you are one of the two other people in the world who has seen

Reptilicus---the Danish Godzilla flick.

I came across it on late night TV. I saw dudes wearing WWII British battledress and firing guns and cannon, so I thought it was a war flick. My mistake. But I watched it through...just like I did with many other atrocious movies.

There is one film I can recommend for your Hall of Shame---House of the Dead (2003), an incredibly bad film---nauseating even. Based on a Sega game, with bits of the game actually thrown in during action sequences. So bad that the guy at the ticket counter told me I should choose another film!

[BigMcLargehuge]

120. Yeah, Reptillicus is one of my favorites actually

I think I am the only man in the US who owns the DVD and the VHS of it... LOL.

"Then, everything went dark!... Even the electric eel went out!"

Sidney Pink and Ib Melchoir were just amazing hacks.

[Mugweed]

155. Very cool

You need your own forum.

[BigMcLargehuge]

157. we have one

at www.horrorview.com

it's called the freak forum, the link is on the home page.

[tigereye]

people still wear leisure suits?

thought it was just my 80 year old dad. ;)

[BigMcLargehuge]

4. I second Tainted Love

that song makes the voices in my head beg me to kill

[AlCzervik]

5. anything by Creed.

[Zuni]

27. they make me want to hurt people

[liberalpragmatist]

80. They don't really count for "classic rock"

At least I really hope so.

[Texasgal]

6. Fernado

By ABBA. Just heard it again today... ARRRRRG! :puke:

[maveric]

124. Anything by ABBA! I cant see why some actually think they are talented!

:puke:

[blondeatlast]

146. There is an enormous difference between talented and entertaining.

Like her or not, Paris Hilton is entertaining for some--but clearly not talented.

[Dr Fate]

Layla.

I HATE the high-pitch screeching guitars.

The rest of the Derek & the Dominoes record is much better.

[skypilot]

7. I LOATHE "Tainted Love"

I've hated that song ever since high school. I feel as though I'm being taunted when I hear it still. Never got the appeal.

Oh, and "Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd. One of the classic rock stations in my city used to have the horrible habit of playing that fucking song first thing in the morning when I was trying to motivate myself to wake up and go to work. WTF?!?!

[UdoKier]

12. I love Comfortably Numb.

But that is NOT a morning wake-up song. LOL.

[skypilot]

41. No, it most certainly is not.

I never really minded the song until a couple years ago. I swear to God the DJ would put it on within 5-10 minutes after I got up and turned on the radio. They must have a very limited playlist. Completely turned me off to the song and the radio station.

[Mugweed]

156. In 1995-6 in South Florida...

After the Howard Stern show ended, the "classic rock" station that aired it would start their programming with Barracuda. That first guitar lick will always make me angry. Not that Stern was good and I was mad his show was over, he was just background chatter. That F'ing song just got annoying after hearing the intro 5 days a week for 2 years.

[On the Road]

8. I Hated That Missy Eliot Song Last Year

I don't care about sexual lyrics, but it bothers me to hear a singer mocking young women for NOT being whores.

[BigMcLargehuge]

16. here's a little secret about that Missy Eliot song...

it came off an album that, in its entirety, stank like a heap of rotting carp in the middle of a windowless room in the midst of August's worst days.

Okay, maybe that's not a secret...

[Zuni]

31. what was the song?

If it was Missy Elliot, I probably hated it, because I really can't stand her somgs

[BigMcLargehuge]

34. get your freak on

I sold the freakin CD after three listens

[UdoKier]

That was a REALLY annoying song. Didn't know it told women to be whores..

I thought it just meant to "get down" (in either sense) but I never bothered to listen to the lyrics, because of the ANNOYING repetitive sitar lick!

[BigMcLargehuge]

44. I also have a really hard time with intentionally misspelled

song names, so she had a strike against her when I first opened the CD (it was a gift).

[mark414]

130. um...where in the lyrics does it do that?

[tigereye]

133. yeah I thought she was more female - friendly than that

I think she pushes her own sexuality... actually she is one of the few female rappers I find interesting.

[mark414]

136. exactly

she is an amazing talent...she just does her own thing and does it well

gotta be one of my favorite female emcees ever

[tigereye]

138. I like the few videos I have seen

she has an interesting style.

[Fleshdancer]

9. Anything by Rod Stewart

I can't stand his scratchy, high pitched voice.

[XNASA]

10. All of them.

[Taverner]

14. Anything by Bachman Turner Overdrive

God I hate their stuff!

[BigMcLargehuge]

19. even Takin Care of Business?

a song that is probably being played on some Clear Channel owned classic rock station even as I type this?

[UdoKier]

42. Argh! My ears started bleeding just from reading that!

nt

[SnowGoose]

17. Oh please! It's FREEBIRD people!

Can I get an amen?

[Texasgal]

20. FREEDOM ROCK!

AMEN! :)

[fudge stripe cookays]

82. "Well turn it UP, man!"

I keed.

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[Bok_Tukalo]

24. "Stairway to Heaven" is the worst

How many Godamillion times do we have to be subjected to the damn song?

[taught_me_patience]

30. Does it make me a hick

if I like Southern rock including Freebird... and I'm from LA?

[BigMcLargehuge]

35. yes

[crimson333]

37. nope just shows you have good taste

[SnowGoose]

129. Not a hick, no....

apprentice antichrist? Perhaps. Hick, no.

You know, I'm just funnin you - there's no accounting for taste, and I've got stuff in my collection that would probably make you want to throw up, so I'm not one to judge.

[taught_me_patience]

131. its a guilty pleasure...

:evilgrin:

and i aint apologizing one bit.

[ihaveaquestion]

49. AAAAAMEN

I can't stand to listen to Lynard Skynard, but most of all I HATE Freebird!

Like nails on a blackboard - SCREEEECH!!!!!!!

[Left Is Write]

143. Yes! Amen! I didn't see this before I posted.

I like Skynyrd, but I loathe, loathe, loathe that song.

[dean_dem]

18. "Brown Eyed Girl"

It makes me want to shan-na-na all over the face of the bar band that's usually playing it. Same goes for "Hotel California," and "Paradise by the Dashboard Light." Jesus, what were you old people smoking back then?

And "Tainted Love" kicks ass, so quit hating.

[BigMcLargehuge]

22. we didn't have the clean air act back then, it's not our fault honest

[dean_dem]

112. Okay, I'll accept that.

So....anyone want to explain Disco for me?

[tigereye]

134. Tainted Love makes me laugh

I don't really mind it.

and BTW, we weren't old back then. ;) I kind of like Meatloaf, he also makes me laugh. Guess I am easily amused.

[Beaverhausen]

23. I'll Melt With You

that song just won't go away.

[Pacifist Patriot]

57. Wait a minute!

Since when was that "classic rock?" That was the 80s. Classic rock is definitely pre-1980.

Please! I am sooo not ready to be a "classic." LOL!

[UdoKier]

58. "classic" only in the sense of still getting lots of airplay...

...well past its period on the charts.

Even late 90s crap like Creed would qualify, if it's still getting airplay.

[Pacifist Patriot]

66. Oh, well that's alright then. I thought I was being put out to...

pasture with the old cars. ;)

[Beaverhausen]

68. Tainted Love was the 80s wasn't it? That was the song the OP mentioned

sorry...

[Pacifist Patriot]

101. I was going after the OP next.

I sooo didn't need to feel old today. LOL! ;)

[Beaverhausen]

121. don't feel old!!! Here this will help

I graduated college in 1981. :cry:

[Pacifist Patriot]

125. LOL! Okay, it helped a little.

:toast:

[fudge stripe cookays]

86. Agreed!

I liked it when it came out, but JESUS CHRIST! After the 567,543th time, I want to rip my hair out by the roots.

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[DS1]

25. Anything by Van Halen

[BigMcLargehuge]

29. I slept through a Van Halen concert

second row center! I had to take my brother's friends when his car broke down.

[Texasgal]

38. You slept through a VH concert?

How could you? That post changed everything for me... damn. :P

[BigMcLargehuge]

39. it was Van Halen with Sammy "boring" Hagar

I saw DLR live the same year and LOVED IT

[Texasgal]

43. Oh. Okay.

That makes me feel better now. Carry on. :)

[Zuni]

45. Sammy Hagar was horrible

I remember their one song "Right Now"...the one with the public service messages in the video---I thought that shit was a jingle for some ad campaign, no lie, when I saw it on MTV.

It was that bad

[BigMcLargehuge]

47. yep, did you ever listen to the record with Cherone on lead vocals?

makes me long for the bland days of Sammy Hagar.

[Zuni]

51. fuck no

I hated him when he was in Extreme, and I hate Van halen. Ughhh, the horrors...:scared:

[BigMcLargehuge]

52. it was a virtual cacaphony of mediocrity

I've been more excited listening to radio static

[Zuni]

54. That was the best description for a bad album I have heard in ages

:toast:

[coloradodem2005]

111. Sammy "Republican" Hagar.

Whatever charisma he had as frontman was lost after Montrose.

Sorry Sammy Robert Plant and Roger Daltrey you ain't.

[Dukkha]

114. I know exactly what you mean

I'm at work right now listening to the Best of CDs
The difference between the DLR and Hagar songs are night & day. Diamond Dave's vocals just mesh with the style of music better. Hagar seemed like he's desperately trying to prove himself to the old fans and constantly sounds fatigued. The old VH songwriting is much better! Much more aggressive, energetic, and a harder edge. Most of all Eddie's guitar playing was wonderfully revolutionary and awe inspiring back in the day. By the 90's he just stopped caring.

I also Saw DLR live twice. Awesome! Steve Vai can wipe up the floor with EVH

[Jessica]

32. Same here.

:grr: x(

[crimson333]

33. I used to hate tainted love until

Marylin Manson remade it

[Zuni]

40. I think Sublime were fucking hacks

they were by far the most overrated mass produced faux-reggae garbage of the 1990s next to No Doubt, who were also revolting

[BigMcLargehuge]

46. here here!

God I couldn't/can't stand them. Add 311 to the list of overplayed hacks and I am right there with you.

[Zuni]

50. duly noted

311 of were even more obnoxious than Sublime

[DS1]

63. 311 is a definite

Gawd! They were played because they were young, they sucked but they were young, so it was okay to suck. Now they're much older, and still suck.

Let's go for a trifecta --

Local H

[BigMcLargehuge]

64. the quadfecta... Godsmack

[DS1]

67. Pentafecta

Seven Mary Three :D

[Zuni]

72. hexafacta

Good Charlotte :scared:

[BigMcLargehuge]

77. Septafecta

Staind

[Zuni]

84. or any of the legions of soundalike 'alternative' bands

they were all awful. I can't even remember most of their names at this time

[BigMcLargehuge]

90. again, I'm with you there!

[Zuni]

93. just think about Fat Records

and all of the monstrosities they unleashed upon us, the soundalike pop punk craze

[BigMcLargehuge]

98. that's like shooting fish in a barrel

and since there aren't too many disaffected, gloomy, hormone confused 13YOs around to tell us we are "square" it doesn't seem worth it.

[Zuni]

106. alright---lets move to bigger game--NIN

you still with me?

[BigMcLargehuge]

109. I gotta bail on that one, with a proviso

it's not his fault that Spin named him the Godfather of Inustrial music in 1992. I bow out of NIN because he recorded and produced all of Pretty Hate Machine in a motel room with a Mac, and that's an OLD Mac, a REALLY old Mac, and it still sounded better than most of the similar studio stuff (like from Waxx Traxx) at the time.

[Zuni]

113. I didn't say he wasn't a good producer

I just don't care for his music

[Zuni]

91. oh dear, we haven't even STARTED on the Pop-Punkers yet!!!

one after the other, music industry whores, pumping out identical song after identical song...

Joe Strummer is turning in his grave (RIP)

[DS1]

94. Octfecta

Disturbed

:banghead:

[Zuni]

100. Sum 41--- whatever a 9-fecta is

[catzies]

153. Nonafecta

Creed



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[DS1]

62. YES!!!!

It's trendy to like Sublime, I think they suck balls.

[MrSlayer]

48. All Right Now, Born to be Wild, American Woman, Wild Thing.

Brown Eyed Girl and anything from Yes.

Hate, Hate, Hate.

[Zuni]

75. Steppenwolf should be executed for crimes against humanity

[blondeatlast]

147. X's version of "Wild Thing" gets a pass. nt

[Pacifist Patriot]

56. Stairway to Heaven

*ducking and running*

[meatloaf]

61. Jessie's Girl

And here's a bit of irony, this topic comes up after my wife decides to put me on hold while listening to... Yup.

She thought it was the funniest thing in the world. She usually does that to me once or twice a year.

hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

65. DEVIL WITH A BLUE DRESS BLUE DRESS BLUE DRESS

DEVIL WITH A BLUE DRESS ON!!!!!!!!!!!!

That song is GRATING!!!

[kwassa]

70. What ??? Mitch Rider and the Detroit Wheels!!!! A classic rocker !!!

[UdoKier]

76. Hello! The thread's about songs that everybody likes but you hate!

It's only natural that some people will love some of these songs, and that's cool. You have to be tolerant for the sake of the thread. I love Prince's "I wanna be your lover", but it may annoy the hell out of somebody else.

[coloradodem2005]

83. I would second "Summer Breeze".

Horrible horrible song.

[BigMcLargehuge]

85. just think how many stupendous mob beatings were handed

out with that song as the background music?

[coloradodem2005]

96. What do you mean by that?

[BigMcLargehuge]

104. HAHAHA I confused it with "Summer Wind" by Sinatra

which is also tremendously overrated and was probably used as the background noise to hundreds of mafia ass kickings in the 60s.

[Zuni]

126. now I got the fuckin' thing STUCK in my head

:grr:

[Supply Side Jesus]

87. Anything by George Thorogood

Just those opening rifts from "Bad to the bone" sends me diving to change the station.

[BigMcLargehuge]

88. bbbbbbad... bbbbbbbad.... bbbbbbbbbad

bbbbad fuckin song.

[UdoKier]

115. No words...

just... :puke:

[Zuni]

128. I'll second that. I have a violent hatred for that shithead

[Zuni]

127. he is the worst thing EVER to happen to Blues music

I despise the man. He took good old blues and turned it into garbage hair metal. :puke:

[Supply Side Jesus]

135. perfkect!

well said!

[belladonna]

145. That's mine

All I need to hear is the opening chords and my blood pressure starts to rise as my ears bleed. What a horrid song :puke:

[kwassa]

163. I love me some George Thorogood!

I have several albums by him.

I apologize in advance for injecting a positive opinion into this conversation. I can't stop myself.

[Parrcrow]

89. Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell

can't stand that stupid laugh at the end.:banghead:

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

97. I can't stand it when

people who know the lyrics to that song sing along to the whole thing including the laugh at the end. Now THAT'S fuckin' annoying.

[kwassa]

102. Another great song!

[BigMcLargehuge]

92. bring on the flames but, Patty Smith

horses, horses, horses... johhny... johnny... johnny...

Listening to her insane prattle is like getting a root canal from a silverback gorilla

[RandomKoolzip]

158. I totally agree. Patti Smith's "Horses" is SO overrated.

Her other stuff's not horrid, though.

[kwassa]

95. The original version of "Tainted Love" by Gloria Jones is much better

here is a bit of bio on her:

http://www.mp3.com/gloria-jones/artists/14791/biography.html

When the name of Gloria Jones comes up in rocktalk, it's usually as a trivia question. Firstly, in the mid-'60s she recorded the original version of "Tainted Love," which was covered by Soft Cell for a huge international hit in 1982. She was also the girlfriend of British glam rocker Marc Bolan, in addition to singing and playing keyboards in his T. Rex band. Her considerable talent as as a soul singer gets lost in the shuffle, especially because few of her recordings are currently available.

Jones earns a spot in rock history on the merits of "Tainted Love" alone. This propulsive mid-'60s soul stomper, wholly dissimilar to Soft Cell's wimpy synth-pop cover, is one of the great '60s hits that never was.

(jump)

In 1974, Jones joined T. Rex (which by that time was fading rapidly) as a keyboardist and backing vocalist. Becoming romantically involved with the singer, she also helped sway him into a more soul/dance-oriented direction. Bolan in turn helped her out on her solo album Vixen, playing guitar and writing songs. After having a child, their time together came to a tragic end when Bolan was killed in a car accident in 1977, with Jones at the wheel. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide

[UdoKier]

117. I just listened to it, and it was better.

Unfortunately, the song is "tainted" by the memory of the horrible Soft Cell version.

[kwassa]

108. "Stairway to Heaven" should be outlawed

[LynneSin]

161. I absolutely agree - I cringe when I hear that song

and yet I'm the biggest Zep fan here. Legend has it that Plant won't sing the song ever again

[1gobluedem]

110. Horse With No Name

I have always loathed that song.

[onager]

119. Hey Jude

Worst Beatles song ever, lasting about 7 damn minutes too long. An Evil Harbinger of the pap McCartney would unleash once he escaped from John Lennon's sarcasm.

na-na-na-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA... Argh! STFU!

[fudge stripe cookays]

137. Funny "Hey Jude" story....

My brother (12 years older than me), was a heavy duty Beatles fan back in the day.

When I was 2, my dad got posted to Clark AFB in the Philippines, so my mom, brother and I had to go live with my grandmother down in the Rio Grande Valley for a year or so.

My mom's younger sister was still living at home with grandma too. She got SOOOOOOOO sick of my brother palying his 45 of "Hey Jude" over and over and over that she told me years later that she buried it out in the backyard!

He was confused for quite awhile; couldn't remember WHAT he had done with it! He lived with it for a little bit, then promptly when out and bought the album.

She was not amused.
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[Bullwinkle925]

160. "Cat's in the Cradle" & "Midnight at the Oasis" make me barf.

[Ann Arbor Dem]

150. I agree with you

It's a horrible song!

[Dukkha]

116. The entire Lynard Skynard library!

even God hates them and sent them down in a firery crash. But then they came back like a bad monster movie.

[deutsey]

122. Cat Scratch Fever

I hated it when it first came out, and I loathe it now thanks to "the Nuge's" :eyes: rightwing psychosis.

I kinda like "Summer Breeze", probably for the memories it evokes of when it first came out than the song itself.

[ceile]

132. "Piano Man"-B. Joel and anything by Elton John

[Zuni]

141. very, very true

If I hear Piano Man or Crocodile Rock or that f-in Candle In the Wind I want to break things.

[mvd]

139. The one that comes to mind first is..

"You Light Up My Life" by Debbie Boone. Boring and overplayed.

[BlueJazz]

140. FreeTurd..I mean..FreeBird..

[Left Is Write]

142. Freebird.

[Pool Hall Ace]

144. Well, I don't know if other people like this or not, but I can't stand

anything by Kansas, "Dust in the Wind" probably being the worst.

Otherwise, "Sweet Home Alabama" bugs me more than "Freebird" (though both are overplayed to a nauseating degree).

[blue neen]

148. Rocky Mountain Way by Joe Walsh.

It makes me want to stab an ice pick into my eardrum.

BTW, Joe Walsh was also once a member of The Eagles!

[shawmut]

149. Anything by the Steve Miller Band

:thumbsdown: :puke:

[General Zod]

151. "Hot Legs" by Rod Stewart........

....When he released that turd, you knew it was over. He decided to be a sex symbol instead of a rock-n-roller.

[Mallifica]

152. Loveshack - by th B52s

does that count as "classic" pop/rock?

[Mugweed]

154. Why would you listen to a station that plays things you hate?

Radio bites...unless it's XM...then it bites only slightly less due to the constant advertising of THEMSELVES when I already have the fucking service! There is nothing left except as many mp3s of your favorite stuff as memory can hold.

[aeolian]

159. Blinded by the Light

God, how I hate that song.

WRITE ANOTHER FUCKING VERSE!!!!!

:nuke:

[benny05]

162. I will get flames for this one

But I never cared for Minnie Ripperton's "Loving You". The song is beautiful in tome, but I would have liked it by someone else.

[fudge stripe cookays]

164. Fucking "American Pie"

plus half the other stuff mentioned here.

I punch the button with extra fury when American Pie comes on.
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