Veruca Salt: Veruca Salt’s name actually comes from the ‘orrible spoilt kid in Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and then you think about what the words actually mean and vomit. Facebook. Salad: In the early 90s, Marianne Van Der Vlugt had a successful career as a VJ on MTV Europe, but was that enough for her? Beta Band – “Dry The Rain” 79. Shed Seven Fronted by Rick Witter, I defy you not to put ‘A Maximum High’ on this very second, whack the volume up to 10 and not think ‘hmmm, Shed Seven were better than I thought’. “It wasn’t all about laddish terrace anthems and Blur versus Oasis,” explains the veteran BBC 6 Music DJ. Crash Test Dummies: Altogether now in an impossibly deep voice: “Once there was this kid who…” This peculiar Manitoban five-piece had a massive hit in the UK with ‘Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm’ in the early 90’s, thanks to some disproportionate patronage from Radio 1’s Simon Mayo. But boy did they know how to shred the early-1990s indie space-time continuum. Because it was lovely, that’s why. Regular Fries: Baggy rose again in the late-90s under what some in the music press were calling Skunk Rock – a genre derived from the supposed penchant of its purveyors to smoke a bit of skunk. Flowered Up: Though Flowered up seemed to germinate from the Madchester scene of the late 80’s/ early 90’s, they were actually from Camden Town. Shack even signed to Noel Gallagher’s Sour Mash label alongside those other notorious non starters, Proud Mary. The rest of their stuff? Green Day. Read my full post about My Bloody Valentine. In the Name of the Father by Black Grape (1994) 99. The Wannadies: Such a fatalistic band name, and how perfect for Romeo and Juliet – the play that took “dead romantic” literally. Upon my first listen of The Egg, it never even occurred to me that it wasn’t considered one of the best indie-rock albums of the ‘00s outside of its immediate genre circle. Emily Barker. Chapterhouse were borderline Grebo. Alben Hits Bandliste.de - Bands mit kurzer Info, Bild, MP3, Song und Weblink, zahlreiche Konzerte, Festivals und Locations, sowie Konzertfotos und Forum. Birdland were pathetic. They did muster a few hits though, and those who heard angel-voiced East Kilbride-born singer Andrew Montgomery will not forget the experience in a hurry. They released three EPs in the space of eight glorious months in 1990. 4 Non Blondes: It turns out Linda Perry of 4 Non Blondes was a way better songwriter than she was a singer. The world's defining voice in music and pop culture since 1952. Haines says he’ll never reform the Auteurs, a pity given none of his records (except maybe Baader Meinhof) have come close to the diabolical brilliance of the band’s four underrated albums. Critics often overlook the Charlatans in favour of other more well known UK indie bands. They had a massive hit with ‘Teenage Dirtbag’ this lot, and if you don’t like it then you should be ashamed; I mean come on, how can you hate a song that mentions Iron Maiden in the chorus? 21st August 2014. Then they changed their name and the rest, as they say, is ‘History’. Lush provided a melodic antidote to Ride’s ultimate ‘fey’ boy-band aesthetic. He actually formed Shack with his brother in 1986, though much of the acclaim and the “lost genius” tag were bestowed in the late 90s. If you took the best bits of the Waterboys and U2, you might get The Wonder Stuff. David Prater is an Australian-born writer, editor and parent. Their debut LP, Spooky, arrived in 1992. Rusty Machines. Strangelove: Bristol’s Strangelove were led by the wonderfully peculiar Patrick Duff, and they somehow channelled the spirit of glam rock and the darkness of Joy Division at the same time. Not too much though. Put on, say, ‘Fait Accompli’, and you’ll see what we mean. Lush’s music was hook-laden, harmonic and edgy. Site and contents © David Prater 2000–2021 | All rights reserved, on Early-1990s UK indie bands: the definitive list, The herculean task of remembering all the 1990s UK indie band names ever, Read my full post about My Bloody Valentine, the early 1990s ended with the release of Oasis’, Swervedriver: the good guys of early-1990s UK indie, Oasis’ Definitely Maybe and the end of indie. It doesn’t get much better than this if you’re a fan of reverb-drenched, early-1990s indie. 15 Filipino Indie Bands You Should Listen To So You Can Say You Did "Before They Were Cool" INDIE ka magsisisi. Da ist es nur folgerichtig, dass wir eine Liste mit über 100 Songs aus den Neunzigern zusammengestellt haben, die aus lauter Knüllern besteht. Related Content: 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die: Stream a Huge Playlist of Songs Based on the Bestselling Book. Pages in category "British indie rock groups" The following 158 pages are in this category, out of 158 total. WhatsApp. Regular Fries made a psychedelic melange of big beats and searing guitar wig outs, and captivated their groovy north London fanbase until their premature conclusion in 2001. Please help by adding reliable sources.Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. Mmmm. The Auteurs: Luke Haines brought his acerbic songs to the Britpop party. If you recognise yourself in this musical target, it will cheer your spirit, gives a smile and maybe start an internal discussion about songs that are not there and should have been there. The 100 Best Indie Love Songs. What’s more surprising: that ’90s teen-grunge act Silverchair has broken up or that they were still together? Top tip to wedding DJs: ‘You’re Gorgeous’ still fills a floor with dancing uncles. Slowdive were the quiet/sad-face merchants of shoegaze. Swervedriver is no exception to my cobbled-together rule. Sneaker Pimps: Sneaker Pimps founder Chris Corner could never quite bring the attention back to himself once singer Kelli Ali departed the band, and the signature song she sang – ‘6 Underground’ – simply refused to die! Die Liste deutscher Punkbands ist eine Unterseite der Liste deutscher Rockbands.Zur Aufnahme müssen ein Wikipediaeintrag oder ein Beleg für überregionale Präsenz vorhanden sein. The Ukrainians have released several albums since, including an EP of covers of songs by The Smiths (in Ukrainian). You could say that Happy Mondays, not Guru Josh, invented the early 1990s. But they did not care. The band still play now and again; go show some love to these undervalued stalwarts. Got that? Nirvana. Yet. Here are 20 underrated ’90s bands. Vuukle Powerbar Widget. Oh and Pop Will Eat Itself? Bands are listed by the first letter in their name (not including the words "a", "an", or "the"), and individuals are listed by last name. Time travel may not really exist, but put ‘Hedonism’ on this second and I swear to Christ you’ll be transported back to the mid-90s in an instant. Okay, so this multi-platinum selling band are hardly forgotten, but perhaps they’re a little unfairly derided, no? Rollercoaster by Northern Uproar (1995) 96. Shack: Mick Head certainly had fans in the music press, but the admiration for his songwriting talents never really converted into record sales. Gay Dad: Gay Dad were figures of both derision and suspicion in the late ‘90s, and most of it came from the fact founding member Cliff Jones used to write for Melody Maker and The Face. Back in the early 1990s ‘The’ Verve were still called Verve. 1. I can’t even recall anything The Farm put out. Stone Temple Pilots: A poor man’s Pearl Jam was often levelled at Stone Temple Pilots in the 90s, though to be fair, their second album ‘Purple’ in 1994 saw them develop their own more psychedelic rock direction. …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead: Are Trail of Dead a 90’s band or an 00’s band? An almost even bigger upset nearly occurred when the Auteurs narrowly missed out to Suede for the 1993 Mercury Prize. March 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) 1990s UK indie bands were the best bands. View his full biography. The older I get, the more clear it becomes that I’m a child of the early 1990s. That’s why I’m claiming the Stone Roses for the early 1990s. Porno for Pyros: Jane’s Addiction are a band that have split up and got back together again even more times than The Wildhearts, Madness and The Libertines all rolled into one. 14 February 2020, 13:57 | Updated: 14 February 2020, 14:11. Wheatus: Good god, it’s Wheatus! Dare I say ethereal? …. Unfortunately the writer of their winsome signature tune – guitarist Doug Hopkins – killed himself whilst being treated for alcoholism that same year. Amen also featured Slayer’s former drummer Dave Lombardo for a while, and how could you not rock with Dave Lombardo in the band? The KLF – “What Time Is Love?” 77. Think on. Babylon Zoo: Jas Mann (not to be confused with Killing Joke’s Jaz Coleman) must have exploded with joy when ‘Spaceman’ was chosen for the new Levis advert in 1995. Since their inception at the end of the 80s, The Wildhearts have split up and reformed again no less than five times – whenever they split up they somehow end up rocking together again. After all, they’re a band idolised by Oasis. But I’m not quite ready to write a full paragraph about any of them. Made In India was an instant hit. His interests include mince pies, ice hockey and Joy Division. The Marc Almond-inspired ‘12 Reasons Why I Love Her’ was the first of a string of minor hits in the mid-90s and was quietly tremendous to boot. Moving on, we thought we would take a look at ten of the best “Female-fronted” Indie bands of the ’90s. Which makes them so early 1990s it hurts. These 100 bands and artists' music helped define the "alternative" rock era of the '90s and influenced the next generation of indie rock this century. Stay tuned, as they say. Picture: CSA Images/Getty Images It all began on December 28, 1976 at Indigo Studios on Gartside Street in Manchester. No top-10 list would be complete without its anti-list. How does an Irish band formed in the 1980s top a list of 1990s UK indie bands? © 2021 NME is a member of the media division of BandLab Technologies. Die erfolgreichsten Pop-Sänger, Gitarristen, Bassisten? They had some other songs that were quite good that no one remembers on account of the fact those songs didn’t have videos featuring a Bee Girl. They took the best of ecstasy (and acid house) culture and created something unique. This list about a living person needs additional citations for verification. But the Charlatans chose to bury their hard edges beneath layers of Hammond organ. The poacher-turned-gamekeeper’s ‘To Earth With Love’ was fine, the fairly execrable ‘Joy!’ ended up on a car ad. How might your 90s alternative 100 look like? INSPIRED BY PUNK, angered by Thatcher and in love with ’60s culture, the UK indie scene produced some of the greatest (and oddest) pop records of all time. Of course, there’s something self-selecting about band lists from a certain era. Skunk Anansie: Skunk Anansie were so big that they were given the Sunday night headline slot on Glastonbury’s Pyramid stage in ‘99. Arriving in a hailstorm of hype and riding the coattails of the New Wave of New Wave, they rattled on the top 75’s door a few times before staggering off to bed. The Gin Blossoms: Named after the boozy condition rosacea (a reddening of the skin that sometimes becomes a bulbous red nose), this thirsty alternative rock band from Arizona had a massive radio hit with ‘Hey Jealousy’ in 1993. Shame. Although the genre originated and was cultivated on independent labels, it is no longer exclusive to them. Idlewild: Idlewild were a fantastic Scottish indie band who saw shapes and had a brilliantly monikered singer called Roddy Woomble. Answer: Amen did rock. It caused much suspicion among record buyers (who were a really suspicious lot in the 90s). Genres mit besonders vielen gelisteten Bands sind in die folgenden Unterlisten eingeteilt: Selten kommt es zu Überschneidungen einzelner Bands. The drug, not the animal. Alisha Chinai . Indie pop forever FTW! This is a list of notable indie pop artists. Liste: Beste Rock Bands der Geschichte in Punk, Indie, Hard Rock, Metal, Wave, Electro. Earl Brutus: Probably less appreciated at the time than they are now, Earl Brutus created their own hoary motornik glam and wowed fans with their incendiary and often chaotic live shows. Hidden Agenda by Pitchshifter (1999) 98. Rialto’s big hit ‘Untouchable’ was a thrilling indie romp which borrowed liberally from Wham!’s ‘Last Christmas.’. It did well on its release, and then was used in the movie version of The Saint, doing even better on its re-release. Share. King Adora: King Adora were another band who emerged at the end of the millennium, proving to be the most exciting thing to come out of Birmingham since the pneumatic tyre, peaking shortly after the millenium with the glammy, booze-fuelled ‘Vibrate You’. Happy Mondays’ irrepressible hedonism was pivotal in the Madchester scene. I have always despised Manic Street Preachers. And, more than any other band, they embodied the indie-dance crossover phenomenon. In subsequent posts I’ll explore the musical careers of my own personal top 10 early-1990s UK indie bands. Hier findest Du alle Bands, die vom Rockpalast aufgezeichnet wurden Steve Lamacq wants to counter the prevailing narrative about ‘90s indie. Singer Skin was still pinching herself on the night, and to be honest, none of us could believe it either. And that’s why I loved them. Davey Dreamnation is the home of David Prater, a writer and editor based in Stockholm, Sweden. 94 here, so that’s something.) I feel like I grew up with the sounds of early-1990s indie music, most of which came from the UK. Sounds vaguely Ned’s Atomic Dustbin, though …. Terris: Newport’s much-hyped and woefully unsuccessful Terris are one of those bands whose activity straddles two millennia, though having formed in ‘98 and having broken up again in ‘02, that’s about as interesting as it gets for this lot. They reproduced the 1960s aesthetic on their early releases with reverence. In the meantime, I’m covering all my bases by making 10 honorary mentions. Everyone surely remembers ‘What’s Up’. Mit unserer 90er Playlist begibst du dich auf eine musikalische Zeitreise in eine Zeit, in der Michael Jackson, Britney Spears, Matthias Reim, Céline Dion oder die Spice Girls die Charts dominierten. Mkai, Grebo. Both were brilliant but I’ve never been able to identify the band. Campag Velocet: Towards the end of the 90’s Pete Voss’ Portsmouth prowlers were unlikely NME cover stars, imbuing the menace of A Clockwork Orange had Alex’s droogs developed an unhealthy fetish for cycling gear. Ugly Kid Joe: It’s odd to think these dumbass Californian surfer rock dudes reached double platinum status in the early 90s thanks to their MTV-approved monster smash ‘Everything About You’. Enter the 2000s, with the internet and file sharing firmly in-place — the scene saw a massive explosion with several bands who started as indie artists achieving mainstream success and notoriety. I mean, it was out of step with everything else going on around them. This is an alphabetically ordered list of bands. Their best song was ‘Pets’, though everyone thinks it’s Jane’s Addiction anyway. Their sound was genuine 1960s heritage in timbre. Including themselves. Kicking off the list we have Echobelly. Um die Liste in einer angemessenen Länge zu halten, müssen die Bands zur Aufnahme mindestens einen Wikipediaartikel vorliegen haben. Babybird: Everyone remembers ‘You’re Gorgeous’, a sarcastic ode to the objectification of woman by sleazy photographers that would become the albatross around mainman Stephen Jones’ neck. The 90s were dripping with influence from the Velvet Underground, and it began to show in 90s Indie bands, in fact a lot of the obscure art rock and krautrock bands from the late 60s and early 70s had profound influence on the Indie scene of the 90s. The Wannadies appeared on the soundtrack of the Baz Luhrmann version, and how we swooned at ‘The You and Me Song’. If only they had left things there, and retired with dignity. It was a lethal combo of Alisha’s vocals & supermodel Milind Soman’s greek god looks. Do the band even remember? Marion: In the mid-90s Macclesfield’s Marion made lots of new friends touring with Radiohead, and their album ‘This World and Body’ was a classic for sensitive bedroom-dwelling eyelinered types with an aversion to sunlight. Singer Nick Sanderson played in late period Jesus and Mary Chain, and when he tragically died from lung cancer aged 47, the Reid brothers put their differences aside to play together at his funeral. Huggy Bear were the agit-pop answer to Bikini Kill, and DIY as all get-up. by Isabelle Laureta. Brett Anderson attempted to sprinkle stardust unto them when he recorded backing vocals on their ‘Love and Other Demons’ album, but the rest of the world wasn’t quite ready and they dissolved in 1998. James? ‘Race’ scraped the top 40 and they disappeared without trace soon after. They also did a pretty great version of Erasure’s ‘A Little Respect’, so you know, a little respect eh? My Drug Hell: My Drug Hell had their 15 minutes when secret indie obsessive Robbie Williams was snapped wearing their t-shirt, with the tabloids assuming he was commenting on his own life rather than just wearing the t-shirt of a band he was digging at the time. Cud, to borrow Shaun Ryder’s immortal phrasing, can go do one. Without the La’s, the early 1990s as an historical moment would be meaningless. The Carmarthen warriors may not have worried the charts too much, but their five years together is now spoken about in reverent, hushed whispers having taken folk to somewhere spiky, interesting and delightful. Moose drifted too far up their own fundament. And if you don’t agree with that, I suspect you shouldn’t be here. The fact that this new guard were absolute gurners set the scene for what would be a wild few years. Since she broke the band up in ‘95, she’s worked with Courtney Love, Gwen Stefani, Sugababes and most famously Christina Aguilera. In the first of these posts, I make clear why the early 1990s ended with the release of Oasis’ Definitely Maybe. List Rules Please consider an artist's '90s work ONLY when voting (lucky Weezer.) Hmmmm…. Their appearance on Top of the Pops in November 1989 signalled a change of the guard. Imagine the boilersuits you could buy with that now. Electronic: Electronic was formed by two quintessential pillars of indie rock, but in the hubbub of all their other revered work of legend, it’s easy to forget all about what Sumner and Marr did together for a few years in the 90s. I trawl these lists because I once had a tape in my old mark 2 VW golf that I inherited with the car. New music took a while to arrive. The song was sort of like a love song, but wherever you’d expect the word ‘love’, they changed it to ‘hate’. Sadly singer Liam Maher died of a heroin overdose in 2009. Their debut album ‘Drink Me’ made no.16 in the UK charts. In fact, their sophomore album, Loveless, is the pinnacle of early-1990s indie. ‘Get The Message’ was understated yet still somehow astonishing, and ‘Getting Away With It’ had Neil Tennant on it! probably one of the best new indie bands of the early 90s, Yeah man, i remember them very well. Some you win, some you lose…. I mean, come on. …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead. She also recently married Darlene from Roseanne (actress Sara Gilbert)! Side a was a jangly guitar post punk uk band that I’ve never been able to identify and side b was Lithuanian folk music. Their influence was massive but delayed. 3 Colours Red: Although named after the Krzysztof Kieślowski arthouse film of the same name, there was nothing highfalutin about these hard drinking, hard rocking miscreants (they apparently stuck a pin in Time Out when choosing their name). It might not seem like it sometimes, but there was more to ’90s indie than the Gallagher bros. Take The Longpigs for example, who tasted success with a couple of hits, though it was when everyone took their eye off the ball that Crispin Hunt produced his ‘99 chef d’oeuvre, ‘Mobile Home’. Let me know if I’ve hit the mark. A kind of mania swept the land and the slightly haunting tune landed at No.2. White Town: What a peculiar tale this was, and one that could only really have happened in the 90s because a) people still gave a hoot about the charts and b) Mark Radcliffe had power. This list may not reflect recent changes ( learn more ). A supergroup worth remembering then…. Air – “Sexy Boy” 76. And while you’re at it, you might want to take a look at Flavorwire’s surprising list of “105 ‘90s Alternative Bands that Still Exist.” via Metafilter/Medium. And they only released one album. Kingmaker: Early ’90s Hull trio Kingmaker were feted by the music press for a while, but soon seemed like the naffest thing in the world soon after their moment in the sun. It all really depends where you picked up the trail, but the hairy Austin rockers and wanton destroyers of drumkits (sometimes two drum kits) actually formed in 1994. Epic track ‘Fools Gold’ laid the blueprint for the ‘indie-dance crossover’ phenomenon. Most of it in the UK in the early-1990s. Twitter. Most of it in the UK in the early-1990s. If you fancy more list mania, here are the top 100 dance songs of the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, and last of all, the 2010s. Amen: Casey Kasem died recently, but whatever happened to his (almost) namesake Casey Chaos, who was everywhere in the late 90s looking like Robbie Williams dressed up as Frank N. Furter? Top-10 lists are so reductive, doncha think? We all wanted to get high on music that was all about getting higher than the sun. No it wasn’t. Or message me with your thoughts on early-1990s UK indie! The Servant: Formed partially from the remnants of underground artpop collective Minty (led by the late great Leigh Bowery), The Servant named themselves after a tremendously creepy Dirk Bogarde movie and featured the simian-obsessed Dan Black on vocals. It sounds to me like that tape could have been an album by The Wedding Present (definitely jangly guitar post punk UK: see ‘Shatner‘ from the George Best LP for example) on side A, and something by The Ukrainians on Side B. I know you described it as Lithuanian folk music but the reason I suspect it might actually be the Ukrainians is that The Ukrainians started out as a Wedding Present project, with Ukrayinski Vystupy v Johna Peela (Ukrainian John Peel Sessions: full album on YouTube) released in 1989. The Stairs made the Stones sound ironic and cool. The problem was, the bit chosen for the advert – the cool intro bit – was great, the song itself that proceeded afterwards was a bit of a drudge. Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci: If proof were needed there isn’t a God, then just look at the success of the Stereophonics and the fact Gorky’s stayed relatively below the radar. Mansun: Mansun were much-loved by a barmy few in the mid-90s, and back when record companies had more money than sense, they memorably chucked away £25,000 at Liverpool Street Station to promote single ‘Taxloss’. Altogether now, “she’s in the corner, giving the orders.”. Ride set a standard by which critics would later judge all other UK indie bands. It may seem ironic to include the La’s in this top 10 list of early-1990s UK indie bands. Their remaining rabid fans still hold out hope for reformation, but singer Paul Draper says ‘no’ about once every Tuesday. A playlist capturing the best alternative rock releases from the 90s. Curve: Back in the dark ages (ie the early 90s), Toni Halliday of Curve probably got more attention for her pulchritude than for her considerable talent in the music press, but she was a hero and an inspiration to many and without her the likes of Garbage and The Kills would sound very different indeed. After one album and a falling out they dissolved in 1999, but last year they came back with a magnificent album called ‘Play For Today’, a record you’ve almost certainly not checked out and one you would be foolish not to. Teenage Fanclub deserve an entire post of their own. Scarfo: If you’ve ever looked at Jamie Hince and thought ‘Christ, he looks old, maybe he’s just had a hard life,’ the truth of the matter is he is actually quite old. During one sabbatical, Perry Farrell even took seriously the prospect of having another band for a while, hence Porno for Pyros. Well, My Bloody Valentine did an awful lot of indie, over a very long period of time. Until then, please feel free to leave a comment below. At least in the kind of early-1990s UK indie bands I deem worthy of writing about. Northside were a bit too Hammond for me. Rialto: Louis Eliot of Rialto was so posh he made George Osborne look like Ozzy Osbourne – his surname comes from the Port Eliot family of the famous Cornish literary festival. These figureheads of Skunk Rock divided opinion, confused indie rock fans, though ultimately they remained a niche concern peaking at no.75 in the charts with ‘Vito Satan’. No one bought it but that didn’t make it any less brilliant. 1. Echobelly. Pearl Jam. Jones had wildly prolific periods right up to 2012 when Babybird quit, but nothing ever came close to that success. Curve adhered to the ‘three EPs followed by an LP’ rule. They’re still going and their ninth album – cleverly titled ‘IX’ – is out later this year. Sharp-eyed readers may already see a pattern emerging. The Vessel was prone to shaving carrots on his head when playing live, as you do. Auch Pearl Jam gehörten zu den Bands, die in den 90er Jahren den Grunge salonfähig … In fact, their sophomore album, Loveless, is the pinnacle of early-1990s indie. Well, My Bloody Valentine did an awful lot of indie, over a very long period of time. There was something peculiar about being a fan of UK indie while living in Australia. Amen to that. At some point they got rid of their ace drunken bass player Bob, headed off in a new bland REM b-sides direction and everyone yawned and forgot about them. Criteria: Artists are ranked by their influence, musical and cultural impact, popularity, and innovation.This list considers "indie rock" to be a genre with a discernible sound rather than a designation of label status. Bands der Neuen Deutschen Welle sind in einer eigenen Liste enthalten.. These Animal Men: Brighton’s These Animal Men had it all; the swagger, the cool threads, the major label deal and the rock star behaviour. Primal Scream, of course, pre-date the 1990s. 1. How does an Irish band formed in the 1980s top a list of 1990s UK indie bands? And Cornershop managed to fight the power and mock Morrissey at the same time. Their biggest hit – ‘Gepetto’ – was about the famous wooden toymaker who is currently being investigated by Operation Yewtree. Jyoti Prakash never really did trouble the charts again, though some of his other stuff was quite good too. They started off as a freewheeling, psychedelic act. Pearl Jam. These bands were indie enough, UK enough and active early enough in the 1990s to count. Ned’s Atomic Dustbin were worth a listen for the name alone. Well, go tell it on the Intramanet. The band were formed in 1994 and gained reasonable chart success with their singles King of the Kerb, Dark Therapy and Great Things. 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