March
1978
999
(United Artists 30199)
Side One: Me And My Desire / Chicane Destination / Crazy / Your Number
Is My Number / Hit Me / I'm Alive
Side Two: Titanic (My Over) Reaction / Pick It Up / Emergency / No Pity
/ Direct Action Briefing / Nobody Knows
Notes.
Recommended CD re-issue: Captain
Oi! AHOY CD147
Bonus tracks: Quite
Disappointing / Nasty
Nasty / My Street Stinks
Original LP (without bonus tracks)
included on 2003 2 for 1 compilation '999 & Separates' (EMI5841232)
Album included in 2018 CD Box Set 'The
Albums 1977-80' (Cherry Red WAHOYBX354)
Re-issued 2021 on vinyl by Netherlands label Music On Vinyl MOVLP2533
Buy
here
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September
1978
Separates
(United Artists 30209)
Side One: Homicide / Tulse Hill Night / Rael Rean / Let's Face It /
Crime Part 1 / Part 2
Side Two: Feelin' Alright With The Crew / Out Of Reach / Subterfuge /
Wolf / Brightest View / High Energy Plan
Free 12" single (Waiting / Action) available in conjunction with Separates.
Notes.
Recommended CD re-issue: Captain Oi!
AHOY CD148
Bonus tracks: You Can't Buy Me / Soldier / Waiting / Action
Original
LP (without bonus tracks) included on 2003 2 for 1 compilation '999
& Separates' (EMI5841232)
Album included in 2018 CD Box Set 'The
Albums 1977-80' (Cherry Red WAHOYBX354) |
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1979
High Energy Plan
(USA: PVC/Radar PVC 7999. Canada: Passport/North American Records NA-025)
)
Side
One:
Homicide / Real Rean / Waiting / Let's Face It / Crime
Side Two: High Energy Plan / Feelin' Alright With The Crew / Action /
Subterfuge / Brightest View / Wolf
Notes.
North American release, both USA and Canada. Reworking of Separates LP.
Includes the tracks Waiting & Action from the UK 12" single available with Separates. Tulse Hill Night & Out Of Reach are omitted to make way. Crime is a 2:58 edit i.e. Part 1 only
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January 1980
The
Biggest
Prize In Sport (Polydor POLS 1013)
Side One: Boys In The Gang / Inside Out / Trouble / So Long / Fun Thing
/ Biggest Prize In Sport
Side Two: Hollywood / Stranger / Stop! Stop! / English Wipeout / Shake
/ Boiler
Notes.
Recommended CD re-issue: Captain Oi!
AHOY CD207
Bonus tracks: Made A Fool Of
You / Found
Out Too Late / Lie Lie Lie plus 'The Biggest Tour In Sport' 6 track USA
live mini-LP.
Record Store Day 2015: This
compilation was released as a double LP pressed on 180g green vinyl, on
Let Them Eat Vinyl LETV216LP.
Album included in 2018 CD Box Set 'The
Albums 1977-80' (Cherry Red WAHOYBX354)
May 2023 The Biggest Prize In Sport issued on green vinyl
in Italy (Radiation Reissues Italy RRS 204)
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2015
RSD Double LP
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April 1981
Concrete
(Albion ITS 999)
Side One: So Greedy / Lil Red Riding Hood / Break It Up / Taboo / Mercy
Mercy / Fortune Teller
Side Two: Obsessed / Silent Anger / That’s The Way It Goes / Bongos On
The Nile / Don’t You Know I Need You / Public Enemy No. 1
Notes.
Recommended CD re-issue: Captain Oi!
AHOY CD232
Bonus tracks: Change / Lie Lie Lie (live) / Wait For Your Number / I
Ain't Gonna Tell Ya (live) / Indian Reservation / So Greedy (Re-mix) /
Wild Sun (12" version) / Scandal In The City
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November 1983
13th
Floor
Madness (Albion AS 8502)
Side One: Use Your Imagination / Lookin’ Like You Do / Book Of Love /
It’s What You’ve Got / Don’t Want You Back / 13th Floor Madness
Side Two: Good To See You / Arabesque / Custer’s Last Stand / Hang It
All / Night Shift
Notes.
CD issue: Albion
ALCD 900073
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March 1985
Face
To Face
(LaBritain LABLP 1000)
Side One: Hallelujah / Black Sunshine / 20 Years / Walk In The Meadow /
Dancing On Me / Spiritual Independence
Side Two: Vicious Circle / Lucy Dead / I Can’t Face It / Maybe Someday
/ This Is Just A Lie / Dancing In The Wrong Shoes
Notes.
Issued on CD in 1993 on Obsession OBSESS CD003
& in 1994 on Japanese label Jimco Records JICK-89358
Re-issued 1999 on CD as Dancing
In The Wrong Shoes (Receiver RRCD 266)
Bonus tracks: Heart To Heart (live) / It's Not
What You Do
It's What You Got (live) / Book Of Love (live)
/ Hang It
All (live)
'Dancing In The Wrong Shoes'
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UK CD
Japanese
CD
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November 1993
You
Us It!
(Anagram CDGRAM 71)
Black Flowers For The Bride / (There Is No Glory In) Mary's
Story / Signed Dangerous of Hollywood / Bye Bye Bones / Everybody Needs
It / It's Over Now / Bye Bye England / All Of The Days / Big Fast Car /
Absolution / Deep In The
Shadow / Run For Your Life / Don't Tell Me / Crazy Crazy Crazy / White
Light
Notes.
Issued
for 1st time ever on vinyl
June 2016, on French label Combat Rock CR 089,
limited to
500 copies.
Side One: Black Flowers For
The Bride / (There Is No Glory In) Mary's
Story / Signed Dangerous of Hollywood / Bye Bye Bones / Everybody Needs
It / It's Over Now / Bye Bye England
Side Two: All Of The Days / Big Fast Car / Absolution / Deep In The
Shadow / Run For Your Life / Don't Tell Me / Crazy Crazy Crazy / White
Light
Album included in 2019 CD Box Set
'The
Albums 1987-2007' (Cherry Red)
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French
Vinyl
Pressing 2016
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March
1998
Takeover
(Get Back GBR010CD)
Takeover
/ Didn't Mean To / No Prisoners / Headcase / Salvage Mission / Fit Up /
Out Of Our Heads / I Can't Wait / Split Personality / Damp With Tears /
Edge Of The World / Falling / Really Like You / Jam Me Up (With
Something Nice) / Pile Up
Notes.
Neglected by label on initial release, CD re-issued in 2005 on Polish
label Noise Annoys NOISE 055
Re-issued in UK in 2016 on Westworld WW0039CD. Not issued on vinyl
Album included in 2019 CD Box Set 'The Albums 1987-2007'
(Cherry Red) |
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2007
Death
In Soho
(Overground OVER 119VP CD)
Gimme The World / The System / Innocent / Last Breath / 99
Days / Rock 'N Roll World / Get Off The Phone / Horror Story / Stealing
Beauty / What Do You Know / Deep Peace /
Too Much Money / Life Of Crime / The Avenue / Bomb You
Notes.
Issued
on vinyl in 2008 on Czech Republic label Papagájův Hlasatel Records PH
083, limited to 400 copies plus 100 copies on yellow vinyl.
Side One: Gimme The World / The
System / Innocent / Last Breath / 99
Days / Rock 'N Roll World / Get Off The Phone
Side
Two: Horror Story / Stealing Beauty / What Do You Know / Deep Peace /
Too Much Money / Life Of Crime / The Avenue / Bomb You
Album included in 2019 CD Box Set 'The
Albums 1987-2007' (Cherry Red)
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April 2020
Bish!
Bash! Bosh! (Cleopatra
Records CLO1677 / CLO1677VL)
Side
One: Don't
Want To Know / Shoot / Psycho Man / Monkey / Crazy Tuesday World /
Don't Start A Fight / I
Hate It All / Lifeline
Side Two: Addicted / My Dad Trashed My Submarine / The Midnight Express
/ Doctor Nick / Timebomb / Statue / The
Pit And The Pentagon
Notes.
First album
with Stoo (Stuart) Meadows on drums.
Issued on CD (CLO1677) and limited edition green vinyl
(CLO1677VL).
February 2021
Limited edition pink vinyl pressing issued. (CLO1677LP-PINK). |
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Key Compilations
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June
1980
999
Singles Album (United
Artists SOS 999)
Side
One: Nasty
Nasty / No Pity / Me And My Desire / Crazy / Emergency / My Street
Stinks / Feelin' Alright With The Crew
Side
Two: Titanic
(My Over) Reaction / You Can't Buy Me / Homicide / Soldier / I'm Alive
/ Quite Disappointing / Waiting / Action
Notes.
Classic
vinyl round up of all 999's A & B-sides recorded for UA. Also
includes Waiting & Action, which had only been issued on the
free
12" single available via the Separates LP.
Although
the
collection has since been expanded upon on CD (Punk Singles 1977-1980),
this vinyl only LP remains an important part of the 999 legacy.
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German
Sleeve
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March 1984
Identity
Parade
(Albion ALB 118)
Side
One: I'm Alive
/ Nasty Nasty / Emergency / Me And My Desire / Feelin' Alright With The
Crew (Live) / Homicide / Found Out Too Late
Side Two: Trouble / Obsessed / Lil' Red Riding Hood / Indian
Reservation / Wild Sun / Blaze Of Noon
Notes.
Very
interesting cronological
vinyl & cassette round up of all 999's A-sides to-date. As well
the
unreleased Blaze of Noon (still unavailable elsewhere), both Obsessed
& Lil' Red Riding Hood are different mixes, unique to this
release.
The cassette also includes a version of Arabesque unavailable
elsewhere. Wild Sun is the 12" version edited down to a 7" length
rather than the
original 7" version. Feelin' Alright With The Crew is taken from The
Biggest Tour In Sport live album. Me And My Desire is the longer LP
edit.
The
cassette verson
(CALB 118) added 4 extra tracks taken from the band's recordings for
Albion: Wait For Your Number To Be Called / Ain't Gonna Tell Ya /
Scandal In The City / Arabesque (different version) |
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November 1986
In Case Of Emergency
(DOJOLP 31)
Side
One: Homicide / Nasty Nasty / Public Enemy No. 1 / Silent Anger /
Emergency / High Energy Plan
Side
Two: Lil Red
Riding Hood / Me & My Desire / Obsessed / Feelin' Alright With
The
Crew / Break It Up / Titanic (My Over) Reaction
Notes.
On the
face of it,
this is a random selection for a compilation, drawing heavily on the
Concrete era with 5 cuts from the 1981 LP. However it works well as a
vinyl
album mixing in 5 classic 77-78 singles, one B-side and the
magnificent High Energy Plan. An excellent listen.
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December
1990
The Cellblock Tapes
(Link LINK
LP 125)
Side
One (Live):
Quite Disappointing / Me And My Desire / Crazy / Lie Lie Lie / Rael
Rean / Soldier / Nasty Nasty / I'm Alive
Side
Two (Demos):
Dead Or Alive / Tomorrow's World / Kiss The Blood Of My Hands /
Arabesque / Got My Eyes On You / How Can I Tell You / Custer
Last
Stand
Notes. This album included in both
studio & live guides.
Side one live
- date/venue unknown. Side 2 studio demos.
Issued
on CD on
Step-1 Music (STEP 045) December 1994 coupled with Slaughter &
The Dogs'
The Slaughterhouse Tapes LP. |
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May 1992
The
Early Stuff
(The UA Years) (EMI
– CDP
7986022)
Homicide
/ Titanic (My Over) Reaction / Rael Rean / Emergency / Your Number Is
My Number / Let's Face It / Hit Me / My Street Stinks / Nobody Knows /
Subterfuge / Wolf / Feelin' Alright With The Crew / Me And My Desire /
Quite Disappointing / Pick It Up / Chicane Destination / Crazy / Nasty
Nasty / No Pity / Direct Action Briefing / I'm Alive / Action / Waiting
Notes.
The CD
debut of
999's classic UA Years. 23 tracks incorporating the pick of LP tracks
and A & B-sides.
It's a killer compilation with fabulous sequencing & a great
cover.
If one 999 CD is selected for a deep space probe, this is it! |
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June 1996
The
Albion Punk
Years (Anagram
CDPUNK 78)
Obsessed
/ Change / Lie Lie Lie (Live) / Lil Red Riding Hood / Wait For Your
Number To Be Called / I Ain't Gonna Tell You (live) / Indian
Reservation / So Greedy (Re Mix) / Taboo / Wild Sun (12" Version) /
Scandal in the City / Don't You Know I Need You / Sex (Previously
Unissued) / Painted Smile (Previously Unissued) / 13th Floor Madness /
Nightshift (Alternative Version) / Arabesque / Book of Love
(Alternative Version) / Hang It All (Alternative Version) / It's What
You've Got (Alternative Version)
Notes.
Cronological
CD round up of all 999's A & B-sides recorded for Albion
Records
'81-'83, plus unreleased tracks Painted Smile & Sex (early
version
of Obsessed). Alternative versions of 4 tracks are also
presented, making this essential.
Issued as Scandal In The City
in Germany by Line Music (LMS 9.01326) with different sleeve. |
German
Sleeve
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August 1997
Emergency
(Receiver RRCD 245)
Don't
You Know I Need You / Crazy / Feelin' Alright With The Crew / Emergency
/ Pick It Up / Indian Reservation / Quite Disappointing / My Street
Stinks / Rael Rean / Subterfuge / Hollywood / Inside Out / The Biggest
Prize In Sport / Chicane Destination / Obsessed / Hit Me / Nasty Nasty
/ Tulse Hill Night / Mercy Mercy / English Wipeout / Fun Thing /
Titanic (My Over) Reacyion / Boys In The Gang / Lil Red Riding Hood /
Me And My Desire / Homicide / Let's Face It / I'm Alive / Found Out Too
Late
Notes.
The 'compilation' is a reworking of the band's better known
songs. Forget the misleading cover, this is the Arturo line-up. It's a
mixed bag with the rockier tracks sounding great. Those requiring more
studio wizardry such as Obsessed, are less successful. Nevertheless,
it's nice to have an alternative to the established versions, and
is well worth a listen. |
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March 1999
Slam!
(Overground OVER 84CD)
Inside
Out / Heart
To Heart / Investigation / Cruel World / Raindance / Kiss The President
/ Scandal In The City / Don't You Know I Need You / Change / Christmas
Cards / Slam / V.G.C. / Brent Cross / That's The Way It Goes / Taboo /
Public Enemy No.1 / Mercy Mercy / Bongos On The Nile / No Prisoners
(listed on sleeve but not on CD - possibly same as Kiss The President)
Notes.
Collection of unreleased studio
demos,
including Slam!, written about the infamous slam dance craze. Tracks
V.G.C & Christmas Cards are well worthy of your attention. Cruel World would be reworked as
So Long on The Briggest Prize In Sport, & Kiss The President
evolved into No Prisoners on the Takeover LP. |
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2001
The Punk Singles 1977-1980
(Captain Oi! AHOY CD 176)
I'm
Alive / Quite
Disappointing / Nasty Nasty / No Pity / Emergency / My Street Stinks /
Me And My Desire / Crazy / Feelin' Alright With The Crew / Titanic (My
Over) Reaction / You Can't Buy Me / Waiting / Action / Homicide /
Soldier / Found Out Too Late / Lie Lie Lie / Trouble / Made A Fool Of
You / Boys In The Gang / Brent Cross (live)
Notes.
Cronological
CD round up of all 999's A & B-sides '77-'80, including
German/Austrian only single Boys In The Gang / Brent Cross. The perfect
companion to 'The Albion Punk Years'.
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2003
Outburst! Demos &
Outtakes '77-'79
(Overground OVER 95VP CD)
Titanic
(My Over)
Reaction / Crime / Don't Deny / Feelin' Alright With The Crew / Soldier
/ Games We Play / Like Any Other / Waiting / Tulse Hill Night / The
Biggest Prize In Sport / English Wipeout / Argue / Stop! Stop! /
Trouble / Solution / Heart To Heart
Notes.
Collection of unreleased studio
demos
& outtakes,
including vastly different versions to those released during the
period. The songs are all in different stages of development; the track
Solution would eventually emerge as the more familiar Boiler on
The Briggest Prize In Sport.
This
version of Titanic (My Over) Reaction was issued in Australia as a
single on the Wizard label in 1979 b/w Emergency.
Brilliant. Every 999 fan should own this.
Notes.
Issued for 1st time ever on vinyl October 2020, on French label Combat Rock CR
100,
limited to 300 copies.
Side One.
Titanic Reaction / Crime / Don't Deny / Feelin' Alright With
The Crew / Soldier
/ Games We Play / Like Any Other
Side Two. Waiting / Tulse Hill Night / The
Biggest Prize In Sport / English Wipeout / Argue / Stop! Stop! /
Trouble / Solution / Heart To Heart
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French
Vinyl
Pressing 2020 |
November 2017
Punk Rock Halloween
(Cleopatra CLO0713)
Various
artists 27 track compilation includes specially recorded 999 song Everyday's Like Halloween.
Also
includes tracks
by Anti-Nowhere League, UK Subs, Reel Big Fish, Sylvain Sylvain, The
Vibrators, The Members, The Adolescents & many more.
Buy here
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May 2018
The Albums 1977-80
(Cherry Red / Captain Oi! AHOYBX354)
Disc 1:
999 LP
Disc 2: Separates LP +
Waiting / Action 12"
Disc 3:
The Biggest Prize In Sport LP
Disc 4: Rarities. Compilation,
rounds up the following:
Singles
versions & non-LP A & B-sides: I'm Alive (Single
Version) / Quite Disappointing / Nasty Nasty / No Pity (Single Version)
/ My Street Stinks / Me And My Desire (Single Version) / You Can't Buy
Me / Homicide (Single Version) / Soldier / Found Out Too Late / Lie Lie
Lie / Made A Fool Of You / Brent Cross (Live) / Hollywood (USA Single
Mix)
Live at Hope & Anchor
Front Row Festival LP: Quite Disappointing
/ Crazy
The
Biggest Tour In Sport live mini-LP: Homicide / Feelin'
Alright With The Crew / Inside Out / Titanic (My Over) Reaction /
Emergency / Boys In The Gang
Notes.
4 CD Box set. Buy here
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February 2019
The Albums 1987-2007
(Cherry Red / Captain Oi! AHOYBOX368)
Disc 1:
Lust Power And Money (CD version with 2 bonus tracks)
Disc 2:
Takeover
Disc 3:
You Us It!
Disc 4:
Death In Soho
Notes.
4 CD Box Set. Buy here
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November 2019
The Sharpest Cuts
(Gutterwail GWR07)
Side
One: Black
Flowers For The Bride / All Of The Days / Stealing Beauty / Signed
Dangerous / Last Breath / It's Over Now
Side Two: Absolution / Crazy
Crazy Crazy / Bomb You / Gimme The World / The Avenue / Boys
In The Gang (Live at WFMU New Jersey) / Nasty Nasty (Live)
Notes.
Vinyl only US compilation covering the LPs You Us It! & Death
In Soho.
Issued 9th
November 19. Made available in UK from 29th November 19.
Pressed in a wide variety of limited edition covers and vinyl colours.
Initially available in pink, green, & orange - each with a
unique variant cover. Plus black vinyl with standard cover.
Further limited editions:
Clip Art release with unique sleeve.
Test Pressing with unique sleeve.
Subsequently available with
random colour in generic sleeve.
Black Friday 29 Nov 19: Gold Club Edition - gold/brown vinyl (in
gold/black sleeve) ltd to 50.
Test Pressing Sleeve
Gold Club Edition
Buy
UK edition here |
Standard Generic
Sleeve
Green
Vinyl Variant Sleeve (pink & orange versions also available)
Clip Art Sleeve |
May
2022
A Punk Rock Anthology
1977-2020 (Captain Oi! AHOY CDD 385)
Disc
One: I'm Alive (Single Version) / Quite Disappointing / Nasty Nasty /
No Pity (Single Version) / My Street Stinks / Me And My Desire (Single
Version) / Chicane Destination / Titanic (My Over) Reaction / Emergency
/ Homicide (Single Version) / Tulse Hill Night / Let's Face It /
Feelin' Alright With The Crew / High Energy Plan / Waiting / Found Out
Too Late / Lie Lie Lie / Made A Fool Of You / Boys In The Gang / Fun
Thing
Disc
Two: The Biggest Prize In Sport / Inside Out / English Wipeout /
Lil Red Riding Hood / Mercy Mercy / Obsessed / Don’t You Know I Need
You / Indian Reservation / 20 Years / Lust Power & Money /
Black Flowers For The Bride / (There Is No Glory) In Mary’s Story /
Absolution / Crazy Crazy Crazy
/ Takeover / Didn’t Mean To / Gimme The World / Last Breath / Shoot /
The Pit And The Pentagon
Notes. 40 tracks spanning 999's career from the debut single through to
cuts from Bish! Bash! Bosh!. Buy
here
Issued in Japan (Ultra Vybe) 2023. Identical to UK issue + obi strip.
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June 2023
High Voltage Punk: A Tribute To AC/DC
(Cleopatra CLO3658)
14 Track CD / 12 Track red vinyl
Various
artists compilation. 999 contribute a cover of Jailbreak.
Also
includes tracks
by Anti-Nowhere League, D.I., UK Subs, Fear, The
Vibrators, Skids, & many more. |
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August 2023
The Sharpest Cuts Too
(Gutterwail GWR14)
Side
One: Pile Up / Really Like You / (There Is No Glory In) Mary's Story /
Everybody Needs It / 99 Days / The System / This Is Just A Lie
Side Two: Deep In The Shadow / Damp With Tears / Salvage Mission / Takeover / Lust Power And Money / Hallelujah / 20 Years
Notes.
Vinyl only US compilation covering the LPs Face To Face, Lust Power And Money, You Us It!, Takeover, and Death In Soho.
Pressed in a wide variety of limited edition covers and vinyl colours. |
Standard Generic
Sleeve |
| Guide
compiled
by Phil Singleton |
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