(Finished October 31st, 2026) Part 2 of Pump Up The Jam Songs, Let's Go Cougars!!

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My Cougars were able to beat the #2 Fighting Irish and then BYU moved up to #2. I hadn't been stressed for a game in a long time and it was four hours of intensity and agony. But ultimately the Cougars were able to beat Notre Dame. Sadly the next week the Cougars traveled to Florida and lost to UCF 39-31.

Now the Cougars return to the friendly confines of Lavell Edward Stadium Saturday. The now #8 Cougars will host Arizona State (4-3) Saturday at 1:30.

These are songs to pump up the Cougs to get that program defining win. A lot of these songs are songs I've loved for a long time. However I went to several other lists and was able to get additional songs. That's too many other websites to thank. This is one of the sites: https://recording-history.org/hype-songs/

18) Europe "The Final Countdown":

19) Sia featuring David Guetta "Titanium"/ "Beautiful People":

20) Bill Conti "Gonna Fly Now (Rocky's Theme)":

21) MC Hammer "U Can't Touch This":

22) Dua Lipa "IDGAF":

23) Guns N' Roses "Paradise City":

24) Rihanna "Diamonds":

25) Imagine Dragons "Radioactive":

26) Adele "Can I Get It":

27) Fergie featuring Q-Tip and GoonRock "A Little Party Never Killed No One (All We Got)":

28) The Black Eyed Peas "Let's Get It Started":

29) Rita Ora featuring DJ Fresh "Hot Right Now":

30) Kenny Loggins "This Is It":

31) Dua Lipa "Levitating":

32) Portugal. The Man "Feel It Still":

33) Christina Aguilera "Fighter":

34) The Chemical Brothers featuring Q-Tip "Galvanize":

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(Finished October 29th, 2026) Part 6 of The Smashing Pumpkins: "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" Disc Two

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Tonight is the night I'll be going to see The Smashing Pumpkins in concert here in Salt Lake with a friend. Rock on!!

After seeing Brandon Flowers and My Chemical Romance in the last few weeks, my next concert is The Smashing Pumpkins. I'll be posting a few different Smashing Pumpkins blogs. I was trying to post these videos in chronological order. However "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" has 28 tracks, thus I'm going to post that CD all by itself. On future blogs I'll post songs from "Adore" the two "Machina" CDs and maybe more CDs beyond that. I'll also post "Atum: A Rock Opera in Three Acts" in three different blogs.

I'm going to skip "Vieuphoria", which is essentially a live, greatest hits CD.

Disc two:

15) Where Boys Fear To Tread":

16) "Bodies":

17) "Thirty-Three":

18) "In The Arms of Sleep":

19) "1979":

20) "Tales of a Scorched Earth":

21) "Thru The Eyes of Ruby":

22) "Stumbleine":

23) "X.Y.U.":

24) "We Only Come Out At Night":

25) "Beautiful":

26) "Lily (My One and Only)":

27) "By Starlight":

28) Farewell and Goodnight":

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(Finished October 26th, 2026) Part 5 of The Smashing Pumpkins: "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" Disc One

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After seeing Brandon Flowers and My Chemical Romance in the last few weeks, my next concert is The Smashing Pumpkins. I'll be posting a few different Smashing Pumpkins blogs. I was trying to post these videos in chronological order. However "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" has 28 tracks, thus I'm going to post that CD all by itself. On future blogs I'll post songs from "Adore" the two "Machina" CDs and maybe more CDs beyond that. I'll also post "Atum: A Rock Opera in Three Acts" in three different blogs.

I'm going to skip "Vieuphoria", which is essentially a live, greatest hits CD.

Disc one:

1) "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" (Instrumental)":

2) "Tonight, Tonight":

3) "Jellybelly":

4) "Zero":

5) "Here Is No Why":

"The world is a vampire." Indeed it is. 6) "Bullet With Butterfly Wings":

7) "To Forgive":

8) "F You (An Ode To No One)":

9) "Love":

10) "Cupid De Locke":

11) "Galapagos":

12) "Muzzle":

13) "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans":

14) "Take Me Down":

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(Finished October 25th, 2026) Part 4 of The 5,000 All Time Best Songs

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This blog series is exactly what it sounds like. I'll post blogs until I get to 5,000 songs, then once I get to 5000 songs I will start deleting songs to maintain 5,000 songs. I'm then going to outdo that by trying to rank all 5000 songs in order of how much I like them. (Okay I'm no longer even going to attempt that idea.) I decided that last sentence is completely impossible, but I am going to try and rank the songs in someway. I thought about putting them in alphabetical order, but that would be too hard with 294 blogs. 

52) The Human League "Love Action (I Believe In Love)":

53) After The Fire "Der Kommissar":

54) James Ingram "One Hundred Ways":

55) Three Dog Night "Joy To The World":

56) Against Me "White Crosses":

57) Alphaville "Forever Young":

58) Kenny Loggins "Danger Zone":

59) REO Speedwagon "One Lonely Night":

60) Young MC "Bust A Move":

61) Y & T "Summertime Girls":

62) Zager and Evans "In The Year 2525":

63) Yello "Oh Yeah":

64) Alison Moyet "Invisible":

R.I.P John. 65) John Anderson "Your Lying Blue Eyes":

This will likely be the newest song out of these 5,000 songs. 66) U2 "Silencio":

67) James "Laid":

68) Firehouse "Don't Treat Me Bad":

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(Finished October 23rd, 2026) Part 3 of The 5,000 All Time Best Songs

Hello,

This blog series is exactly what it sounds like. I'll post blogs until I get to 5,000 songs, then once I get to 5000 songs I will start deleting songs to maintain 5,000 songs. I'm then going to outdo that by trying to rank all 5000 songs in order of how much I like them. (Okay I'm no longer even going to attempt that idea.) I decided that last sentence is completely impossible, but I am going to try and rank the songs in someway. I thought about putting them in alphabetical order, but that would be too hard with 294 blogs. 

As of now this is the one and only Bay City Roller song on this list. 35) The Bay City Rollers "Saturday Night":

As of now this is the only Scorpions song on this list, but there will be several more. 36) The Scorpions "Wind of Change":

This is the first of two songs so far by Cat Stevens. 37) Cat Stevens "Morning Has Broken":

38) Carl Orff "Carmina Burana":

As of now this is the only Doors song on this list, although there will be several more eventually. 39) The Doors "The End":

40) Van Halen "Runnin' With The Devil":

This is the first three U2 songs that will be on this list. 41) U2 "Sunday Bloody Sunday":

42) Darius Rucker "Don't Think I Don't Think About It":

43) Gregory Abbott "Shake You Down":

44) Boys 2 Men "Motownphilly":

45) INXS "Guns In The Sky":

46) Jackyl "I Stand Alone":

47) Morton Stevens "Hawaii Five-O":

48) Vertical Horizon "Everything You Want":

49) Andrea True Connection "More More More":

50) twenty one pilots "Heathens":

51) Bryan Hyland "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini":

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(Finished October 19th, 2026) Part 1 of Best Solo Songs from Members of Successful 80s Bands

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As so often I do this blog idea came to me while I was on my walk. I love 80s music and musicians. Also I don't think I have ever done of one of these blogs. I want to focus on solo songs by members of popular 80s bands. Several bands and solo stars popped into my mind. The main question is which bands should I include and not include. I know that David Bowie was in Tin Machine in the 80s, but I can't include him in this blog series. However I've decided to include John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison. Black Sabbath did record two CDs with Black Sabbath in the early 80s, thus I will include him.

I will include most, in not all, songs by the solo artist.

Two members of U2. 1) The Edge and Sinead O'Connor "Heroine":

These next two members were both in Genesis. 2) Phil Collins "I Missed Again":

3) Peter Gabriel "Sledgehammer":

The lead singer in Wham! 4) George Michael "Freedom '90":

The lead singers of respectively Heart and Loverboy. 5) Ann Wilson and Mike Reno "Almost Paradise":

As stated above a singer for Black Sabbath and a few other bands. 6) Ronnie James Dio "Rainbow In The Dark":

Singer and guitarist from The Beatles and Wings. 7) Paul McCartney "Coming Up":

The lead singer from The Power Station. 8) Robert Palmer "Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)":

The singer from the 80s greatest new wave band, The Smiths. 9) Morrissey "Irish Blood, English Heart":

A singer for The Go-Go's. 10) Jane Wiedlin "Rush Hour":

One of the many singers from Fleetwood Mac. This is one of her more recent songs. 11) Stevie Nicks "The Lighthouse":

One of the four singers from Abba. 12) Frida "I Know There's Something Going On":

13) Donald Fagen "New Frontier":

A former singer and a back again singer of The Doobie Brothers. 14) Michael McDonald "I Keep Forgettin'":

Formerly of Adam and the Ants. 15) Adam Ant "Strip":

The bassist and drummer of U2. 16) Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. "Theme From Mission: Impossible":

The former lead singer of The Commodores. 17) Lionel Richie "Say You, Say Me":

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(Finished October 17th, 2026) Part 1 of Pump Up The Jam Songs, Let's Go Cougars!!

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Today at 5:30pm my #8 BYU Cougars welcome #2 ranked Notre Dame. I haven't been this excited for a game for a long time. I'm not going to lie I think Notre Dame is going to win this game, but you never know. That's why they play the games.

More pressure to win is on Notre Dame than BYU. BYU is the home team, that and the altitude will give the Cougs an advantage in regard to those things. 

These are songs to pump up the Cougs to get that program defining win. A lot of these songs are songs I've loved for a long time. However I went to several other lists and was able to get additional songs. That's too many other websites to thank. This is one of the sites: https://recording-history.org/hype-songs/

1) Technotronic "Pump Up The Jam":

2) Survivor "Eye of The Tiger":

3) Imagine Dragons "Thunder":

4) Taylor Swift "Ready For It":

5) White Stripes "Seven Nation Army":

6) Van Halen "Right Now":

7) The Script and will.i.am "Hall of Fame":

8) Avicii "Wake Me Up":

9) Snap "The Power":

10) Seinabo Sey "Hard Time":

11) Queen "We Will Rock You":

12) Fort Minor "Remember The Name":

13) LMFAO featuring Lauren Bennett and Goonrock "Party Rock Anthem":

14) Sia "Never Give Up":

15) Rihanna "Only Girl (In The World)":

16) Kenny Loggins "Danger Zone":

17) 2 Unlimited "No Limit":

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(Finished October 16th, 2026) Part 4 of The Smashing Pumpkins: "Pisces Iscariot":

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After seeing Brandon Flowers and My Chemical Romance in the last few weeks, my next concert is The Smashing Pumpkins. I'll be writing a few different Smashing Pumpkins blogs. I was trying to post these videos in chronological order. However "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" has 28 tracks, thus I'm going to post that CD all by myself. On this blog I will post songs from "Siamese Dream" and "Adore". I will also post "Atum: A Rock Opera in Three Acts" all by itself. 

The compilation CD "Pisces Iscariot" was released on October 4th, 1994.

14) "Soothe":

15) "Frail and Bedazzled":

16) "Plume":

17) "Whir":

18) "Blew Away":

19) "Pissant":

20) "Hello Kitty Kat":

21) "Obscured":

I think they do a great job with this Fleetwood Mac classic. 22) "Landslide":

23) "Starla":

24) "Blue":

25) "Girl Named Sandoz":

26) "La Dolly Vita":

27) "Spaced":

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(Finished October 12th, 2026) Songs On My Mind Today

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Exactly one year ago I wrote this kind of blog and I thought it was time to do it again. Here are many great songs on my mind today for many various reasons.

1) Lauren Daigle "Still Rolling Stones":

The next band I'm going to go see in concert is The Smashing Pumpkins, thus a lot of their songs are on my mind today. 2) "Tonight, Tonight":

3) Ella Langley "Choosin' Texas":

4) David Bowie "Suffragette City":

5) Sinead O'Connor "Mandinka":

6) Tim McGraw "Red Ragtop":

I've always wondered where she has gone to and will she come back? These are three of her better songs. 7a) Duffy "Rockferry":

Bonus songs 7b) Duffy "Warwick Avenue":

7c) Duffy "Mercy":

8) Metallica "Nothing Else Matters":

9) Gavin DeGraw "The Best I Ever Had":

10) Rachel Platten "Fight Song":

Here in Utah we are having October rain. Speaking of rain "November Rain" is a Top 5 Guns N' Roses song. 11) "November Rain":

12) Metallica "One":

13) Ella Langley "Girl Who Drank Wine":

14) Paul Westerberg "Dyslexic Heart":

15) Rammstein "Du Hast":

16) U2 "Until The End of the World":

17) U2 "Silencio":

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(Finished October 15th, 2026) Part 3 of The Smashing Pumpkins: "Siamese Dream"

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After seeing Brandon Flowers and My Chemical Romance in the last few weeks, my next concert is The Smashing Pumpkins. I'll be writing a few different Smashing Pumpkins blogs. I was trying to post these videos in chronological order. However "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" has 28 tracks, thus I'm going to post that CD all by myself. On this blog I will post songs from "Siamese Dream" and "Adore". I will also post "Atum: A Rock Opera in Three Acts" all by itself.

"Siamese Dream" was released on July 19th, 1993.

1) "Cherub Rock":

2) "Quiet":

3) "Today":

4) "Hummer":

5) "Rocket":

6) "Disarm":

7) "Soma":

8) "Geek U.S.A.":

9) "Mayonnaise":

10) "Spaceboy":

11) "Silver-":

12) "Sweet Sweet":

13) "Luna":

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(Finished October 4th, 2026) Part 5 of The Best Songs About or Mention Time

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The best songs about time or mention time. The first two blogs of this series were the top 34 time songs. 

69) The Housemartins "Happy Hour":

70) Aqua "Freaky Friday":

71) Delta Rae "Cold Day In Heaven":

72) Mary Chapin Carpenter "Quittin Time":

This is such an amazing song. 73) Tim McGraw "Red Ragtop":

I have no idea why this band isn't bigger. Eisley is a great band and their CD "Room Noises" is a modern classic. 74) Eisley "One Day I Floated Away":

A song that's as close to perfect as can see. The lyrics, the melody and the vocal performance all elevate this song to near perfection. 75) Vanessa Williams "Save The Best For Last":

76) The Doors "Strange Days":

77) Bryan Adams "Summer of '69":

78) Dream Theater "The Best of Times":

79) Edie Brickell "Good Times":

80) Collective Soul "December":

81) The Carpenters "Rainy Days and Mondays":

82) Asia "Only Time Will Tell":

83) 10,000 Maniacs "These Are Days":

84) Paul Young "Everytime I Go Away":

85) Five For Fighting "100 Years":

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(Finished October 2nd, 2026) Part 1 of 4 Greatest Country Songs of 1990-1993

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I watched the Kurt Warner movie "American Underdog" tonight. It's a great movie and it's such a heart warming, unbelievable, in overcoming all odds just to reach your dream. He literally won a Super Bowl in his first season as a starting NFL quarterback. Trent Green had to be injured for him to get his chance, but when he got that chance he took full advantage of it. He had learned earlier to always be ready. Honestly I thought I would be crying in this, but I did not. If they would have played the emotional aspect more I would have cried like a baby.

The first part of this movie is set in the early 90s and a few of those songs are in this movie. 1990-1993 had so many great country songs that I wanted to publish a few blogs about that amazing music.

1) Clint Black "Nobody's Home":

2) Travis Tritt "Anymore":

3) Reba McEntire "Rumor Has It":

4) Alan Jackson "Chattahoochee":

5) Mark Chesnutt "Your Love Is A Miracle":

6) Alan Jackson "Midnight In Montgomery":

7) Patty Loveless "Chains":

8) Alan Jackson "Dallas":

9) Tracy Lawrence "Alibis":

10) Dwight Yoakam "Turn It On, Turn It Up, Turn Me Loose":

11) Brooks and Dunn "Boot Scootin' Boogie":

12) Wynonna "No One Else On Earth":

13) Billy Dean "Somewhere In My Broken Heart":

14) Randy Travis "Hard Rock Bottom of Your Heart":

15) Brooks and Dunn "My Next Broken Heart":

16) Aaron Tippin "There Ain't Nothin' Wrong With The Radio":

17) Brooks and Dunn "Neon Moon":

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(Finished September 29th, 2026) Part 12 of the Definitive Songs, Albums, Soundtracks and Musicians of the 80s: The Albums That Built The 80s

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These blogs are out of order because I have two different blog series. The first is the definitive songs of the 80s and the second is the best songs of each year 1980-1989.

I have nothing to do with this Kickstarter project, I'm not even a backer. Of course I would love to see this movie but it's not important enough to me that I'll contribute to it.

What does it take to have the most and best representative music of the 80s? There are several groups that need to be represented. We need at least one song by Madonna, Michael Jackson, Duran Duran, Cyndi Lauper, Def Leppard, INXS, U2, Elton John, Billy Joel, Journey, Styx, Billy Idol, REO Speedwagon, The Smiths, The Police, Sheena Easton, The Thompson Twins, Motley Crue, Poison, Warrant, Guns N' Roses, ZZ Top, David Bowie, Tears For Fears, Lionel Richie, Whitney Houston, Foreigner, Heart, Bon Jovi, Bob Marley and the Wailers, The Bangles, The Go-Go's, Bryan Adams, The Pointer Sisters

We need at least one song from from the genres of rock, pop. hair metal, rap, soul, new wave, also needed a quirky or goofy song or two, at least a smattering of one hit wonders

We also have to have a representative sample of the best 80s CDs: the much underappreciated INXS with "Kick", AC/DC's "Back In Black", ZZ Top's "Eliminator" and "Afterburner", Billy Joel's "Glass Houses", Bruce Springsteen's "Born In The USA", Dire Straits "Brothers In Arms", Def Leppard's "Pyromania" and "Hysteria", Foreigner "4", Peter Gabriel's "So", 

We also have to have a representative sample of the best 80s soundtracks "Pretty In Pink", "Purple Rain", "Footloose", "Top Gun", "Flashdance", "Breakin'", "Less Than Zero", "Dirty Dancing", "Fame", "Urban Cowboy", "The Last Boys", Batman the Prince soundtrack, Batman the Danny Elfman score, "Urban Cowboy",

The musicians will be covered while discussing everything else. These are the best songs from "The Albums That Built That 80s". I didn't include all of those albums, just the ones I consider the best.

Ozzy Osbourne "Diary of a Madman":

52) "Over The Mountain":

I saw a few concerts back in the day at The Salt Palace, but I didn't see Ozzy. 53) "Flying High Again":

54) "Believer":

1982:

 Toto "4":

55) "Rosanna":

56) "I Won't Hold You Back":

57) "Make Believe":

58) "Africa":

59) "Waiting For Your Love":

Asia "Asia":

60) "Heat of the Moment":

61) "Only Time Will Tell":

62) "Sole Survivor":

63) "One Step Closer":

64) "Time Again":

65) "Wildest Dreams":

66) "Without You":

67) "Cutting It Fine":

68) "Here Comes The Feeling":

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(Finished September 27th, 2026) Part 4 of The 17 Most Intriguing/ Interesting CDs of the November 2025 Classic Rock Magazine: The Cardiacs "LSD"

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My favorite magazine currently is Classic Rock. I love how many great articles it has and it has the best review section of any magazine. Also it's supposed to be a monthly magazine, but it feels like I get an issue every three weeks. These are the 15 most intriguing/interesting CDs/DVDs.

I'll be using the current tracklists, rather than what the tracklists may have been November of last year. 

I know if you click on the play button the videos don't play. I hate when a song/video only has one picture for most of the songs. Since the videos don't play I try to vary the picture from the video. There aren't a lot of choices for this particular CD. For this blog specifically I varied those pictures as much as I could.

I'm not sure what Classic Rock magazine but I think this CD is terrible. I mean there are a couple of decent songs but for the most part it's a pretty forgettable CD. 

7) Cardiacs "LSD":

60) "Men In Bed":

61) "The May":

62) "Gen":

63) "Woodeneye":

64) "Spelled All Wrong":

65) "By Numbers":

66) "The Blue and Buff":

67) "Skating":

68) "Breed":

69) "Volob":

70) "Busty Beez":

72) "Lovely Eyes":

This song has several videos to choose from. I like the lyrics videos. 73) "Ditzy Scene":

74) "Downup":

75) "A Roll from a Dirty Place":

76) "Made All Up":

77) "Pet Fezant":

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(Finished September 24th, 2026) Part 4 of themusicaddict's Mandatory Monday Metallica Blog

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It's time for a Mandatory Monday Metallica blog, although it's only mandatory on some Mondays. These are the most played Metallica songs on my iTunes. It's not a coincidence that the five most highest played songs are from The Black Album. There are from 313 related to Metallica on my iTunes. These are cover songs, original songs, live tracks and songs from The Metallica Blacklist. 

Just a couple of days ago I found out that Metallica will be coming to my hometown, Salt Lake City. I bought a couple of tickets tonight. This is their setlist from their last show they played at, which was in London, England.

From tape AC/DC "It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)":

Ennio Morricone "The Ecstasy of Gold":

1) "Whiplash":

2) "For Whom The Bell Tolls":

3) "Ride The Lightning":

4a) "The Memory Remains":

4b) "The Memory Remains" (Live):

5) "72 Seasons":

6) "Screaming Suicide":

It seems like that's a real momentum killer, the "singing" somehow makes it worst. 7) "Kirk and Rob Doodle (featuring Black Sabbath's "Electric Funeral" and Sex Pistols "Holidays In The Sun")

8) "The Day That Never Comes":

9) "Wherever I May Roam":

10) "The Call of Ktulu":

11) "The Unforgiven":

12) "Whiskey In The Jar (preceded by "And Justice For All)":

13) "Blackened":

featuring Lady Gaga 14) "Moth Into Flame":

15) "One":

16) "Enter Sandman":

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