Please name 3 in order of preference, if you name more only first 3 will be counted.
3 pts for position 1 etc. If no order of preference 2 points each.
Will aim to have results on Christmas Day.
Reissue/Archive Release of the year
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And sticky please!
1. The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts – Bruce Springsteen and the E St Band
2. Plastic Ono Band Super Deluxe Edition – John Lennon (with Yoko Ono)
3.
Will name my 3rd one later after I listen to a few that are just out of shrink wrap. these two are superlative though. It definitely won’t be the very poor Let it Be one though, has become even more abundantly clear after watching Get Back.
Going to put Neil and the Horse’s Rust Bucket at 2 and POB goes down to 3
1. No Nukes – Springsteen
2. Way Down In The Rust Bucket – Neil Young & Crazy Horse
3. Live In Stuttgart – Can
Ooh forgot Neil
No particular order
Chocataw Ridge (Various)
Rust Bucket (Neil and The Horse)
Feel Flows (Beach Boys)
No Nukes (Bruce and the E Street Band)
Springtime in NY (Bob Dylan)
1. Beach Boys – Feel Flows
2, Beau Brummels – Turn Around The Complete Recordings 1964-1970
3. Waterboys – The Magnificent 7
Special mentions for: His Bobness, Bruce, Shakey, Steppenwolf, The Quiet Beatle, The Trees, Tangerine Dream, The Doors and quite a few 60`s Psychedelic box sets.
The Waterboys one is quick off the mark – it only came out on Friday! Haven’t even had chance to open mine yet.
That was a bit of hope it lives up to it’s promise. It arrived today, Monday and I’ve been playing it all day. This period, the Fisherman’s Blues Tour is one of my favourite Waterboys periods. Loving the CDs and the remaster of Room To Roam. The ‘Bootleg’ videos, Glastonbury & Milan ‘89 are iffy. Especially Glastonbury where there’s issues with the sound, Milan fares better but I’m glad Scotty included them. The 45rpm LP remaster is very good.
The book is enjoyable but bloody heavy especially with the pooch sat on my knees.
I just got the CD version. Played RTR first, and am just diving into the rest as I type. The reels have already lifted my spirits immeasurably. I was kind of hoping for an acoustic, demo-type version of How Long Will I Love You, as he performs it nowadays, but you can’t always etc
1. Neil Young – Way Down in the Rust Bucket
2. Neil Young – Carnegie Hall
3. Bob Dylan – Springtime in New York
I would have liked to include all of those sets in my list. Having to select just 3 in a year of superb archive releases was difficult.
1. Quireboys – A Bit Of What You Fancy (30th Anniversary)
2. Toe Fat – Bad Side Of The Moon (An Anthology 1970-1972)
3. Stiff Little Fingers – Live At Rockpalast 1980 & 1989
1. Marillion – Fugazi
Three votes are not enough! 😯
The Tigerman speaks the truth
You just have to decide which of your children you love the most
In that case, my three are
1) Jackie Leven – Straight out of Caledonia
2) Various – Choctaw Ridge
3) Beach Boys – Feel Flows
Aah, shit. Bin meanin’ to git maself a copy of that there Choctaw disc fer months now. Figure ah’ll just give maself a early Christmas present there. Shoot, wut the heck.
It’s well worth getting
I agree it’s a great collection.
Fabulous collection as ourmost of the other Bob Stanley ones.
Spreadsheet in action again.
1. Can – Live In Stuttgart 1975
2. The Beach Boys – Feel Flows (The Sunflower & Surf’s Up Session 1969-1971)
3. Karen Black – Dreaming Of You
Bubbling Under:
Jon Anderson – Olias Of Sunflower
Yoko Ono – Approximately Infinite Universe
The Beatles – Let It Be (Deluxe)
John Lennon – Plastic Ono Band
Third Ear Band – Mosaics: The Albums 1969-1972
The Loft – Ghost Trains & Country Lanes – Studio, Stage And Sessions 1984-2005
Nancy Sinatra – Start Walking (1965-1975)
Stereolab – Electrically Possessed (Switched On Volume 4)
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – Architecture & Mortality (The Singles)
Nice to see Olias Of Sunhillow in there ip. Absolutely seconded.
1) Nancy Sinatra – these boots
2) Various artists – Choctaw Ridge
3) Can – live in stuttgart
Cant place Waterboys because it hasnt arrived yet but would imagine will replace on of these
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When the record industry – is there still a record industry? – cottons on to how to sell records again (it used to be so good at it), my contribution, with considerable regret, resembles:
4. A “no-hits clash – the one you’ve been waiting for – TOP 10 HITS” compilation.
5. The Tottenham Hotspur trophy cabinet.
6. A knee-trembler with a (married or unmarried) fat boy j. with the fat, slobbering, old etonian bastard wearing a f****** condom.
Rarities, all.
These are legitimate votes, Dai, mark them up.
Lay off the booze (or something)
Yes, the relentless shellacking of Bojo in every post is getting a bit obsessive.
We all know the man is a cunt and don’t need to be reminded of the fact every time we visit here
Yes, the pointless shellacking of Bojo in every post is getting a tad tiresome.
We all have to live with the fact that the man is a cunt 24/7 and don’t need to be reminded of the fact every time we visit here
“the pointless shellacking of Bojo”…lost Tolkein story to get Peter Jackson treatment
You can say that again, M. After all, I know I did
An intriguing change of emphasis between the two posts…
The Bollocking of Shejo is even better
. Get em out by Friday (hurrr)
I hadn’t noticed the err, ‘shellacking’ of The Great Leader or as he’s known around here The Yellow Bellied/Headed Twat.
Looking forward to the day he becomes the Lesser-spotted Yellow-bellied/headed Twat
Or, as he will likely become, Lord Barking
@mod-team, please delete Boris Johnson crap off my thread, thanks.
It’s not “your” thread though, is it? You just started it. You didn’t start the fire etc.
My threads are very much my threads because I’m the only bastard on them.
How helpful. It is a thread about a poll that I offered to do. If some troll posts irrelevant nonsense (again) then that is even less helpful
Can you not just scroll past it? Just as you might do if, frinstance, the same person says almost exactly the same thing on every single thread regardless of even the vaguest and most tenuous relevance? I agree it’s irritating, but God didn’t just give us fingers to stick in dykes (oh please).
Scroll on to freedom my friend.
Deep, calming breaths. It helps my mental health to treat those trolling posts as the work of some ‘bot, trigerred by certain keywords. Haven’t identified the keywords yet but the work goes on…
He’s been sent by the Russians or the Chinese to bore us all to death.
I find it entertaining that we have a member of the Afterword who was born aged sixty. The repetition is weirdly soothing for me. Probably because of its predictability.
He’s just gone all mardy because the Mods ignored his order that they make this poll a sticky.
Request. And they have done it. Thank you.
First- Dylan for the breadth and depth
Second Can – for the scarcity
Third Lennon – for the sound.
Nice workings out.
1. Lee Morgan – The Complete Live At The Lighthouse
2. Various – Journeys In Modern Jazz: Britain
3. Steven Wilson – Last Day Of June
4. The Church – Priest = Aura (vinyl reissue)
5. Matt Berry – Gather Up (must admit, this is pre-emptive. Due to arrive in a few days. Of course it’s going to be good).
I picked up Lee Morgan’s Sidewinder album on an impulse. I very glad I was impulsed to do so. I’m not a big jazz fan in fact I’m a very little jazz fan but I think I’ll be delving further into the man’s work.
It’s on Blue Note 🙂
Lee Morgan occupies a rabbit hole almost as large as Grant Green’s. Your wallet may suffer accordingly, but your ears will thank you.
The Complete Live at the Lighthouse set was issued this year and very good it is too. Eight discs. On vinyl as well but, at 300 quid, I opted for the CD version. My other vote goes to the excellent 20 disc Van Der Graaf Generator retrospective ‘The Charisma Years’.
Another vote for the VdGG box – huzzah! We’ve got it sown up this year!!
1. Can – Live in Stuttgart 1975
2. Toumani Diabate and the LSO (2008)
3. er, nothing else
I forgot about that Toumani Diabate – very good it is too.
I am sure dai will allow you to make amends for your errant ways.
Everybody can change until 11.59pm Dec 24th UK time. Mine probably will.
The Midnight Massive?
1. VA – Do You Have The Force? (Jon Savage’s Alternative History of Electronica 1978-82)
2. Don Cherry – Organic Music Theatre: Festival de Jazz de Chateauvallon, 1972
3. Can – Live in Brighton 1975. (out last week and just edges over Stuttgart, I think)
Bubbling under: the UK psych comp “Think I’m Going Weird” and French “Pop Psychedelique”; 1981 electro-pop review, “Music, Music, Musique 2.0”, ; Albert Ayler Quintet, 1966: Berlin, Lorrach, Paris and Stockholm Revisited; and Stereolab, Switched on Vol. 4.
Can
Sound System International Dub LP
1. Paul Quinn & The Independent Group – Unadulterated/unincorporated
2. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – B-Sides & Rarities, Parts I and II
3. The Beach Boys – Feel Flows
*fistbump* for the Paul Quinn – I was lucky enough to see him with The Independent Group at the Glasgow Film Theatre. A special event.
Luck man indeed!
That is in the box set, too!!
1. Nancy Sinatra – Boots
2. Various Artists – Shake The Foundations (Militant Funk & The Post-Punk Dancefloor 1978-1984)
3. The Orb – Auntie Aubrey’s Excursions Beyond The Call Of Duty Part 3: The Orb Remix Project.
4. Various Artists – Dance Masters (Shep Pettibone)
5. Reducer– Brand New From the 80s
1. Van der Graaf Generator – The Charisma Years 1970 – 1978
2. Robert Fripp – Music for Quiet Moments
3. Jethro Tull – Benefit 50th anniversary
Bubbling under:
Various – Journeys In Modern Jazz: Britain
Can – Live in Stuttgart
Black Sabbath – Sabotage superdeluxe
Jon Anderson – Olias of Sunhillow
1. LAMF – Hearbreakers (FINALLY!! A VIBRANT MIX of a great album)
2. Lanquidity – Sun Ra (Did I really need the 4LP version … turns out I did!)
3. Turiya Sings – Alice Coltrane (Classic Sunday morning sounds)
1. Marc Almond – Enchanted (2021 Expanded Edition)
2. Margo Guryan – Take A Picture (2021 Mono Mix)
3. George Harrison – All Things Must Pass (50th Anniversary Super Deluxe)
Number one being miles above the other two…
Ah now this is why I like these end of year lists. I had no idea that Enchanted had been reissued. Great record, I’m up for that.
One of my favourite albums of all time. The extra disc of remixes and 12″ versions, etc, is quite fun, but the true star is the expanded track list of the original album, with added B-sides that are as good as the rest of the tracks, absolutely brilliant! I’ve been playing it a LOT.
He peaked there didn’t he? I like The Stars We Are and Tenement Symphony, but they’re not as good, for different reasons. I love Enchanted, it’s like being in a Jeunet & Caro film or Les Enfants du Paradis for 40 minutes.
Well…yes of course it is a peak, as every single track is brilliant and unforgettable, but at the same time I can’t think of a Marc Almond album that I didn’t like or love when it came out – but some of them don’t get revisited as much anymore. He had a slump, but the last few albums have been much better!
Now, can I get a clear ruling here, @dai: is the new Gerry Rafferty album (Rest In Blue) counted as an “archive” album or a new one? I didn’t put it in this list because I planned to fit it into my Best Of 2021 list of new albums…but if it won’t count there I’d like to change this list.
In that case my list is:
1: Marc Almond (as above)
2. Gerry Rafferty – Rest In Blue
3. Margo Guryan (as above)
George will unfortunately get kicked off the list, but that’s OK – I like some of the tracks better in the new remixes, but prefer others in the old style.
@Locust I would say that if they were songs he was working on before this death that have been finished that is a new album like George Harrison’s posthumous Brainwashed, if it is a compilation from various stages of his career then that would be an archive release
It counts as new. All previously unreleased.
Looked it up, it’s a comp of unreleased songs from all stages of his career, some from as early as 1970, so it’s an archive release similar to Dylan’s bootleg series, Neil Young’s Archives, Tracks by Springsteen etc.
Personally, I agree with retro, seems more logical to me. But I don’t make the rules, and as long as my vote for it counts somewhere, I’ll accept the verdict, Your Honour! 😉
It’s Gerry’s new album that I’m really waiting for.
1 Jackie Leven – Straight Outta Caledonia
2 Springsteen – No Nukes
3 Virginia Astley – From Gardens Where We Feel Secure
The re-release of Jackie’s The Mystery of Love will no doubt top next year’s list as, whilst the CD version is out now the album version isn’t out until next year and that’s the one I’m getting
Virginia Astley – didn’t know this had been re-released. I’ll be buying that, oh yes…
Bought. I had an digital copy but pretty low bitrate. Now upgraded via Bandcamp. One of my favourite albums.
But am I allowed to vote for it, if I had it already and am not in possession of the reissue?
Could be issues voting for Jackie’s masterpiece next year if the CD is already out and it is because I’ve been playing it. A lot. I’m also waiting for the LP.
Had we been able to vote for 10 archive releases I’d have included it.
Personally speaking, I’d have shoved the JL reissue you mention at or near the top of my list.
Awareness of JL and his many, many splendid songs and albums remains shockingly low so the more people who get to hear about and hopefully then check out man and his music the better
1. Marry Waterson & Oliver Knight – The Days That Shaped Me
2. Whipping Boy – Heartworm
That’s yer lot. The first one is the album I’ve listened to most in 2021. It think it’s wonderful. I bought the 2nd as a result of Pete Paphides’ Twitter campaign. Never heard of the band or album but I can see why he liked it so much first time round
I came here to nominate Whipping Boy! Loved it at the time but had long since lost my copy.
1. Whipping Boy – Heartworm
2. Super Furry Animals – Rings Around the World
I was wondering if anybody liked the Super Furrys….
I do. And Whipping Boy.
(shout from audience)…”WHIPPING POST!”
171 hrs left to vote
There must be some more choices surely?
I broke up for my holidays at 5pm yesterday. I have a week to decide which three are going to make the cut.
1. Springtime In New York – Bob Dylan
2. Déjà Vu – CSNY
3. Impulse: Music, Message And The Moment – Various
(Was going to have the Bill Evans box set in there but discovered it was actually a 2020 release.)
Do you mean the “Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans – A Career Retrospective” box, dwight?
If so, that definitely came out in July this year.
I thought it was this year, but when I checked the copyright date it was 2020.
Ditto: I bought it this year and only found out when I checked that it must have been released last year…
Anyway, even if I wanted to reconsider my choices, the Impulse box set came with an Impulse logo turntable mat which merits its inclusion in the top 3 by itself.
It’s a great album, mat or no mat.
I was going to include the Complete Village Vanguard Recordings 1961 4 LP box set which I bought this year, but it was actually released in 2014. I paid £56 for it, but it’s now going for £350 on Amazon. The other Bill Evans issue in 2021 was “On A Friday Evening”, a live recording made in 1975 at Oil Can Harry’s in Vancouver and subsequently broadcast on a local radio station. The tapes lay on a shelf before being acquired by Craft Records and released on a double LP this year.
It’s been a good year for reissues and historical recordings. Surprisingly few 50th bumper editions given that 1971 is meant to be peak album.
In alphabetical order:
The Beach Boys – Feel Flows
The Beatles – Let It Be remix
David Bowie – Brilliant Adventure 1992-2001
CAN – Live In Stuttgart 1975/Live In Brighton 1975
Alice Coltrane – Kirtan: Turiya Sings
John Coltrane – A Love Supreme Live In Seattle
CSNY – Deja Vu
DJ Stryda – Cream Of Bristol Roots Pirate!
The Doors – LA Woman 50th Anniversary
Faust – 1971-1974
George Harrison – All Things Must Pass superdeluxe (the demos are essential)
LCD Soundsystem – The Long Goodbye: Live At Madison Square Gardens
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band – The Ultimate Collection
Bob Marley and The Wailers – The Capitol Session ’73 (Live)
Joni Mitchell – Archives Volume 2: The Reprise Years 1969-1971
Lee Morgan – The Complete Live At The Lighthouse
Leo Nocentelli – Another Day
PJ Harvey – Is This Desire?
Pretenders – The Pretenders II 3CD set
Radiohead – Kid A Mnesiac
Bunny Scott – To Love Somebody
Nancy Sinatra – Start Walkin’ 1965-1976
Sun Ra – Lanquidity definitive edition
Various Artists – Do You Have The Force? Jon Savage’s Alternate History Of Electronica 1978-1982
Various Artists – Duppy Vaulted 2011-21
Various Artists – Edo Funk Explosion Vol. 1
Various Artists – Journeys In Modern Jazz: Britain
Various Artists – Now Thing 2
Various Artists – Sound System International Dub LP
How do I pick just three from that lot? Impossible. Therefore, I’m selecting three that haven’t been voted for yet, as far as I can see.
John Coltrane for the historical importance
Joni Mitchell for the quality of the whole package
Bob Marley for the intimacy of the performance
There were 3 50th Beatle related anniversary sets that were all delayed a year, so expect 1971 sets next year, I know Who’s Next is coming out
And did you buy all those?@Tiggerlion
Not all. Some were gifts.
“Some”?
How do you all find the time?! I think I have heard (and bought) precisely one reissue box this year, the Dylan Springtime in New York. I am not going to register a vote for it, therefore, but I did enjoy it.
1. George Harrison – All Things Must Pass (50th Anniversary Super Deluxe). An album I had previously not really bothered with but was spurred on to revisit with the re-release and was knocked out by it. Sooo much better than I had remembered.
2. Virginia Astley – From Gardens Where We Feel Secure. Thanks to @Bogart for flagging this was re-released. A gem of an album
3. Jah Wobble – Metal Box Rebuilt in Dub – does this count? Complete re-recordings but they make such a positive difference to a classic album. I think I prefer these to the originals.
1. Nick Lowe – The Convincer (20th Anniversary Ed) – his best album, close to a masterpiece and possibly the greatest middle-aged album ever made. Three very pleasant new tracks.
2. Lloyd Cole – Antidepressant (first time on vinyl, does that count? I think it does). Another great middle-aged album (an advancing-age theme emerging here) and his best solo album (IMHO).
3. Bob Dylan – Springtime in New York. Not the best of them but lots of fine and fascinating stuff proving the period wasn’t the best but certainly not the total dud of legend.
1. Various Artists – Think I’m Going Weird – Original Artefacts from the British Psychedelic Scene 1966-68 (truly fabulous 5 CD set from Cherry Red)
2. George Harrison – All Things Must Pass
3. The Beatles – Let It Be
#1 The Beatles ~ Let It Be
#2 George Harrison ~ All Things Must Pass
#3 Bob Dylan ~ Springtime in New York
Initially I was disappointed with the fabs box set , what with all the stuff they omitted but now having spent a month with the docuseries, I can listen with new ears and it sounds great to me.
1. The Owl Service: Magic Stories They Have Brought To Me, A Beginners Guide to the Owl Service
2. Rod Stradling: Treacle and Bread
3. Beanpicker’s Union: Greatest Picks
If I leave out all the irritating Beatles and Bowie stuff (the »Plastic Ono Band« box is great though, especially the BluRay with the Yoko Ono sessions!), and don’t count all those fantastic little boxes from Cherry Red with weird Glam Rock and early 70s Prog, I’m left with these:
1. R&B in DC | Rhythm & Blues, Doo Wop, Rockin’ Rhythm and more 1940-1960
(16 CDs plus a fat & heavy 352-page hardcover book in LP-size, full of fascinating stories about Washington DC’s entertainment scene, the African-American press and record labels. It even includes a list of Ahmet Ertegun’s record collection!)
2. Nucleus | Live At The BBC
(13 CDs of surprisingly beautiful and listenable sessions and concerts – from bonkers big band arrangements to bopping’ combos: the perfect soundtrack to rainy weekends in lockdown.)
3. Rodger Wilhoit | The ‘Social World’ Of Rodger Wilhoit
(On LP only – but comes in a lavish gatefold that tells the full story of this strange country album and its performer. Truly in a league with George Jones and Merle Haggard.)
If I have any cash left after the festivities, Nucleus at the Beeb will be my first purchase of 2022…
Please f(X), tell me more of this Cherry Red “weird glam rock” boxset of which you speak…
Van Der Graaf Generator – the Charisma Years.
distant second and third places. Everything else.
Huzzah! It’s Van der Graaf’s year, at last…
3 from me:
1. Jackie Leven – Straight Outta Caledonia
2. Lloyd McNeill – Tori
3. Neil Young – Down in the Rust Bucket
Belly – Bees. Just got it kicked out of Lodey’s list.
Sun Ra – Lanquidity
Nucleus – Nucleus Live at the BBC (Thank you Colin!)
Various – Journeys In Modern Jazz: Britain
Bubbling under in no particular order:
Virginia Astley – From Gardens Where We Feel Secure
Third Ear Band – Mosaics: The Albums 1969-1972
Jackie Leven – Straight Out Of Caledonia
In order or 2 pts each?
In order.
Gotcha
You’re welcome! 😀
1 more for me please:
The Band – Stage Fright 50th Anniversary reissue. The Deluxe version with the extra CD of The Band live at the Royal Albert Hall, which is wonderful with great sound and the band on top form. Please put this at #3 in my list. Thanks for the work you’re doing with this
It’s been a very good year for re-issues; less so for new music IMO.
1) Jackie Leven – Straight out of Caledonia
2) Can – Live In Stuttgart 1975
3) Neil Young – Down in the Rust Bucket
All various artists compilations
1. What Goes On – The Songs Of Lou Reed
2. Psychedelic Soul – Produced By Norman Whitfield
3. Fire Over Babylon: Dread Peace and Conscious Sounds at Studio One
1) “Give Me The Sonic Kill (1999-2003)” – Pop Threat
2) “Chocataw Ridge”
3) “Sorted!” – Party Day
Two points each:
Pharoah Sanders – Africa
Hugely enjoyable mid-80s set – inc storming version of “You’ve got to have freedom”- with top notch band featuring the mighty John Hicks on piano, Curtis Lundy and Idris Muhammad. Saw them live around this time and they were just brilliant.
Laura Nyro – Go find the moon: the audition tape
Only 20 minutes long – and not the greatest quality recording – but wonderful to hear the 18-year-old Laura work her way through “And when I die” and “Lazy Susan” and even a brief stab at a couple of standards after being asked by the producer whether she “just performed her own songs? Could you do Moon River.” Probably for completists only.
V/A – People Get Ready: the Curtis Mayfield Songbook
Latest in the Ace Records “Songbook” series with the usual mix of the familiar and unknown. So many highlights spanning the 60s/70s/80s – Gladys Knight’s version of “The Making of You” as always a standout.
And finally – a 7 inch single released by a small Spanish label – Adrianna Evans “Looking for your Love” – a classic slice of mellow 90s RnB/Soul brilliance.
Rare Bird – Beautiful Scarlet: The Recordings 1969 – 75
It Bites – The Remasters
In order @niallb or 2 pts each?
In order, pls.
Got it
As detailed on a separate thread:
1. Gëstu de Dakar – Diabar
2. Russell Potter – Volume II: Neither Here nor There
3. Culture – Children of Zion: the High Note Singles Collection
1. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band – The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts
2. Bob Dylan – Springtine in New York
3. Marianne Faithfull – Marianne Faithfull: The Montreux Years
1) Jackie Leven – Straight Outta Caledonia
2) Van der Graaf Generator – The Charisma Years
3) Can – Live in Stuttgart 1975
Last minute entry from me….
1. Big Big Train – The Underfall Yard
2. Bruce Springsteen – No Nukes
3. George Harrison – All Things Must Pass
I’m sure I’ve forgotten something – problem is that I file all the albums digitally by original year of release, so couldn’t just do a sort on year – and I can’t remember everything I bought this year……
11 hours to go …
1. Whipping Boy – Heartworm
2. Belly – Bees
3. World Party – Goodbye Jumbo
@fentonsteve
I missed that
Goodbye Jumbo thingy.
The whole lot remastered (on vinyl), including some that were only CD before. Egyptology delayed due to cock-up at the printers. Talk of another volume of diary/box set on the way and new LP next year.
Last 2 hours before polls close…
In that case, I’ll add:
Sex Pistols 76/77
Not because it was the “best” but because now I’ve got all the odds and ends in one box
Disqualified as you already chose your 3 above!
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Worth a try to sneak an extra vote in … oh well
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