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A roadmap that reveals the highways, byways, ley lines and subterranean tunnels connecting rock, soul, pop, folk rock, R&B, garage, punk, funk, jazz, world music, and soundtracks from the twilight of the 1950s to the dawn of the 1970s. Larry Grogan is a DJ, writer, podcaster, collector, and the man behind Funky16Corners.

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format Approx. start time
Funky16Corners  Testify! Intro   Favoriting Best of Funky16Corners Volume One  Funky16Corners  2017  MP3  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Pursuit of Happiness  I'm an Adult Now   Favoriting Love Junk  Chrysalis  1988  CD  0:01:26 (Pop-up)
Moon Martin  Rolene   Favoriting Escape From Domination  Capitol  1979  LP  0:05:51 (Pop-up)
Dream Syndicate  Tell Me When It's Over   Favoriting Day of Wine and Roses  Slash  1982  LP  0:09:26 (Pop-up)
Sloan  Underwhelmed   Favoriting Smeared  DGC  1992  CD  0:12:58 (Pop-up)
Kirsty MacColl  A New England   Favoriting 12" Single  Stiff  1984  12"  0:17:39 (Pop-up)
 
Kings  Switching To Glide/The Beat Goes On   Favoriting Are Here  Elektra  1980  LP  0:31:50 (Pop-up)
Donnie Iris  Ah Leah   Favoriting 45RPM Single  MCA  1980  45  0:37:25 (Pop-up)
Specials  Gangsters   Favoriting Specials  Chrysalis  1979  LP  0:41:08 (Pop-up)
XTC  Respectable Street   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Virgin  1981  45  0:43:51 (Pop-up)
Any Trouble  Second Choice   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Stiff  1980  45  0:47:24 (Pop-up)
Biff Bang Pow  There Must Be a Better Life   Favoriting Pass the Paintbrush Honey  Creation  1985  CD  0:50:22 (Pop-up)
Dentists  I'm Not the Devil   Favoriting Some People Are on the Pitch They Think It's All Over It Is Now  Spruck  1985  LP  0:53:16 (Pop-up)
Let's Active  Every Word Means No   Favoriting Afoot  IRS  1983  EP  0:56:08 (Pop-up)
Game Theory  24   Favoriting Real Nighttime  Enigma  1985  LP  0:58:57 (Pop-up)
R.E.M.  South Central Rain   Favoriting Reckoning  IRS  1984  LP  1:01:39 (Pop-up)
Ocean Blue  Between Something and Nothing   Favoriting Ocean Blue  Sire  1989  LP  1:04:44 (Pop-up)
Peter Murphy  Indigo Eyes   Favoriting 12" Single  RCA  1988  12"  1:08:46 (Pop-up)
Peter Case  Satellite Beach   Favoriting Peter Case  Geffen  1986  LP  1:14:35 (Pop-up)
Syd Straw  Future 40s (String of Pearls)   Favoriting Surprise  Virgin  1989  CD  1:18:31 (Pop-up)
 
Fleshtones  The World Has Changed   Favoriting 45RPM Single  IRS  1981  45  1:29:38 (Pop-up)
Neats  Do the Thing   Favoriting Neats  Ace of Hearts  1983  LP  1:31:23 (Pop-up)
Monroes  What Do All the People Know   Favoriting Monroes  Alfa  1982  LP  1:35:14 (Pop-up)
Tommy Keene  Back Again (Try)   Favoriting Back Again (Try)  Dolphin  1984  EP  1:38:39 (Pop-up)
Bangles  Going Down To Liverpool   Favoriting All Over the Place  Columbia  1984  LP  1:42:32 (Pop-up)
Dumptruck  Going Nowhere   Favoriting For the Country  Big Time  1987  LP  1:46:05 (Pop-up)
The Lucy Show  A Million Things   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Big Time  1986  45  1:49:08 (Pop-up)
 
Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers  I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Like  1966  45  1:55:24 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!

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Andrew in Toronto:

Hi there, Larry, and all other listeners!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @2:53
Hey Andrew! Welcome aboard!
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Yvang:

Some XTC tracks tonight? Where do I sign?
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Yvang @2:57
Hey Yvang!
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Yvang @2:57
Hiya, Yvang!
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Yvang:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @2:59
Hi Andrew, hi Larry and testifyers!
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Funky16Corners:

Just waiting for David to finish...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:01pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @2:59
I actually went to a YTC fanclub/nerdfest that was held in Barrie, Ontario. XTC were so cool! They even made a Fanclub only greeting video for all in attendence.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @3:01
That's cool!
  3:02pm
bradford:

Hey there Larry & everyone!
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Mxter Baba:

omx XTC yes! TESTIFY!!!!
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doctorjazz:

Oh YEah!!
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WLSClark:

Come on come all to TESTIFY!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ bradford @3:02
Hi bradford!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Mxter Baba @3:03
Hi Baba!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:04pm
StringOFperils:

Hey, it's Moe Berg. Still see that guy walkin' around now and then.
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TDK60:

Hi Larry. I haven't stopped by in a while. And, how about this, The Swindon band!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:04pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ doctorjazz @3:03
Hi Doc!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WLSClark @3:03
Hiya Clark!
  3:04pm
Andres:

↳ Song: "I'm an Adult Now" by "Pursuit of Happiness"
YES!!! CanCon Gold!!!
Hi, Larry and all.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ StringOFperils @3:04
Hey String!
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Erica:

Hi Larry
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WLSClark:

Hi Larry, Andrew, Yvang, bradford, Baba, Dr J, S o P, TDK, Andres and all!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ TDK60 @3:04
Hi TDK60!
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WLSClark:

ERICA!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:04pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ Andres @3:04
Hey Andres!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:04pm
StringOFperils:

Hi, Larry!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @3:04
Hey Erica!
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bixa:

hello world
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Yvang:

↳ WLSClark @3:04
Hi WLSClark!
  3:05pm
bradford:

↳ WLSClark @3:04
Howdy Clark!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:06pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ Andres @3:04
A numberof tracks from Canuckistan today!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:06pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ bixa @3:05
Hi bixa!
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StringOFperils:

Howdy ^ up there, Clark....and greets to all.
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:04
This is an incredible series of interviews with Andy. Quite in depth.

Andy Partridge of XTC (Part 2) - Episode 27 - The ProgCast
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ WLSClark @3:04
Hi, Clark!
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StringOFperils:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:06
Perfect! It's snowing like a rockstar's sinus passages up here right now.
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Michael 98145:

Woo! Hello, Everyone.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:08pm
Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:06
Andy interviews:

www.youtube.com...
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Michael 98145 @3:07
Hi Michael!
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doctorjazz:

↳ WLSClark @3:04
Hey, WLSClark!
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WLSClark:

MOON MARTIN! Great artist. Love this and No Chance!
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StringOFperils:

↳ Song: "Rolene" by "Moon Martin"
Nice!
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doctorjazz:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @3:06
Hi Andrew!
  3:09pm
Andres:

Me and my car were just sliding down the hill an hour ago.
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doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Rolene" by "Moon Martin"
The guitar reminds me of T-Rex a bit...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:10pm
StringOFperils:

Just swept the snow off the front steps, and it came right back and told me to get lost.
  3:10pm
Andres:

↳ StringOFperils @3:07
Has stopped here in Wellington County so should let up in GTA soon.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:11pm
StringOFperils:

The hits just keep on comin'!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:13pm
Sem:

Hello, Reverend Larry, folks in the pews, those outside sneaking a smoke, and all.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:14pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ Sem @3:13
Hi Sem!
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Funky16Corners:

OOHHHH CANADA!!!
  3:15pm
Andres:

↳ Song: "Underwhelmed" by "Sloan"
MASSIVE HIT!!!
  3:15pm
Andrew Taylorin Toronto:

↳ doctorjazz @3:08
Hiya, doc!
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Sem:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:15
Go, Sloan, go. Lived in Halifax when they got together ( from other bands). Great guys, gave them a piano one time,
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:17pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ Sem @3:17
That's cool!
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Michael 98145:

↳ Song: "A New England" by "Kirsty MacColl"
Love this so much
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Erica:

↳ Song: "A New England" by "Kirsty MacColl"
Kristy MacColl left us too soon.
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bixa:

↳ Song: "A New England" by "Kirsty MacColl"
<3 one of my fave songs of all time, never heard this version
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:22pm
Funky16Corners:

I love that Steve Lillywhite production. SO bright, SO MUCH treble!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:23pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ bixa @3:22
This is the version I remember from college radio
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Yvang:

↳ bixa @3:22
In the 80's they used to release extented mixes. Maxi singles!
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Yvang:

extended*
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:23pm
StringOFperils:

This takes me back, but Billy Bragg's original release a year earlier. Sort of the soundtrack to a bleak and squalid time for me.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:24pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "A New England" by "Kirsty MacColl"
Like her a lot!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ StringOFperils @3:23
I was so shocked when I found out this was a Billy Bragg song!
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doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "A New England" by "Kirsty MacColl"
Sorta sounds like a jangly Roches track...
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Sem:

Love this.
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Michael 98145:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:24
I play both versions a lot
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StringOFperils:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:24
Life's A Riot With Spy Vs Spy was a very powerful and original thing....
  3:27pm
Andres:

↳ Yvang @3:23
Some of those maxi singles not so hot but this one is a beaut!
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doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "A New England" by "Kirsty MacColl"
Beach Boys fade out...
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bixa:

↳ StringOFperils @3:23
yeah the billy bragg version is perfect for bleak and squalid times, i feel that too
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Erica:

Oh my
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WLSClark:

↳ Song: "Switching To Glide/The Beat Goes On" by "Kings"
I prefer Switchin to Glide--a fave back then!
  3:34pm
Andres:

↳ Song: "Switching To Glide/The Beat Goes On" by "Kings"
This is a party!!!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WLSClark @3:34
Since, in my world, the two are inseparable, you will hear it shortly!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:36pm
Funky16Corners:

I wonder if Aryan Zero still uses that name??
  3:36pm
bradford:

Wow Larry, I listened to WRSU & WPRB as a suburban Central NJ youth as well! WFMU was just a bit too far away to receive clearly on the regular...
  3:36pm
Andres:

They made it to American Bandstand with this!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:37pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ bradford @3:36
Yeah, WFMU was a harder pull, but I spent so much time north of my native latitudes I managed to hear it sometimes.
  3:37pm
Andres:

My friend booked The Kings for his 40th about a decade ago. This was the closer. The place exploded!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Andres @3:37
I can imagine!
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WLSClark:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:35
Great to hear this again. I pretty much quit current music about 1985. BUT Donnie Iris also was a fave artist then. "Love is Like a Rock" was like an anthem for me to blast in my car.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:40pm
Funky16Corners:

Where's Doug? Donnie was from his back yard!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:41pm
Funky16Corners:

Iris was a pretty big deal in the early days of MTV. I remember them broadcasting a concert of his.
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Erica:

↳ Song: "Ah Leah" by "Donnie Iris"
This song and Rolene by Moon Martin were featured on a Rhino CD series called Radio Daze Pop Hits of the 80s, which has a lot of yacht rock and some alternative and country music too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:43pm
Michael 98145:

↳ Song: "Gangsters" by "Specials"
Yes, sir!!
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Erica:

Sad Rhino only made 5 volumes of that compilation series.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @3:41
It was a pretty big hit in a bunch of regional markets
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Michael 98145 @3:43
This album is incredible
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:43pm
StringOFperils:

↳ Song: "Ah Leah" by "Donnie Iris"
The breakout of nerdy teen-angst power-pop was pretty exhilarating: a real feeling of joyous release from about 10 years of pompous, swaggering, ridiculous arena-rock excess
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:44pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Gangsters" by "Specials"
Great track!
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WLSClark:

This period was so odd for me. Started my 60s radio show in 1980 yet loved songs like Mexican Radio, Obsessed by 999, and many "out there" new wave songs.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:44pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ StringOFperils @3:43
Very well described!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WLSClark @3:44
So much of it had a 60s vibe
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Erica:

Going two tone now.
  3:45pm
Andres:

↳ Song: "Gangsters" by "Specials"
I heard something interesting coming out of a buddy’s headphones in history class. I asked for a listen. Hooked on the Specials ever since.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:45pm
Funky16Corners:

I mean this is a cover of a 1964 Prince Buster record called 'Al Capone'
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:45pm
StringOFperils:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:44
Thank you. Here, have your own show back. Ha ha ha. :)
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WLSClark:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:44
Endlessly by John Foxx, Generals & majors.....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:47pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ StringOFperils @3:45
I meant that sincerely! The feeling of these sounds coming after years of thud rock
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Erica:

More ska!
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Yvang:

The rockiest XTC album with the Lilliwhite drum touch.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:50pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @3:49
I would not describe Any Trouble as ska. More like power pop-adjacent
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Erica:

Jangle ska that is.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @3:50
That'll do!
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StringOFperils:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:47
Oh, I know. But I should leave the editorializing to the host, really. Enthusiasm aside...providing context is partly why you're doing this in the first place. Lucky us.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ StringOFperils @3:50
Nah, this is a DISCUSSION! I welcome input!
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Funky16Corners:

I LOVE Clive Gregson's voice
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Erica:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:50
But seriously though. The verses sound like ska but the refrain sounds like jangle pop.
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WLSClark:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:51
Your songs from that era bring up so many memories of MY faves too, so it's cool to hear yours!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:53pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ WLSClark @3:52
I'm experienced a self-induced pop overdose right now!
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David Shortell:

↳ Song: "There Must Be a Better Life" by "Biff Bang Pow"
I never heard of them. How apropos that they recorded on a label called Creation.
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Yvang:

↳ Song: "There Must Be a Better Life" by "Biff Bang Pow"
I loved this song so much...without even knowing the name of the band!
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WLSClark:

Gonna have to leave this fun soon, but gonna hang on till the WORKER comes home. haha
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:54pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ Yvang @3:54
Early days Creation stuff!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ David Shortell @3:53
Hi David!
  3:55pm
Andres:

↳ Song: "There Must Be a Better Life" by "Biff Bang Pow"
Never heard this but that warped guitar break is right on point for Creation.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:56pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ Andres @3:55
Alan McGee, the founder of Creation Records was in Biff Bang Pow
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Yvang:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:54
This McGee guy sure had good taste!
  3:56pm
Andres:

↳ Song: "I'm Not the Devil" by "Dentists"
Did somebody say Jangle? Digging!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:57pm
StringOFperils:

Alan McGee's CREATION label was pretty crazy.
  3:57pm
Andres:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:56
Well that explains it. :)
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Michael 98145:

Jeez. Cool time machine.
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Vincent The Soul Chef:

Just walked in the door with my late pass... good afternoon everybody.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:59pm
Funky16Corners:

Let's Active were HUGE for my brothers and I at the time.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Vincent The Soul Chef @3:59
Vincent!
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StringOFperils:

Mitch Easter's work and the first two dB's lps were total ecstasy for me back then too...re. above power-pop remarks
  4:00pm
Andres:

I was decades late to Let’s Active. Still fresh!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:01pm
StringOFperils:

↳ Song: "24" by "Game Theory"
...I was just gonna add this...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:01pm
Funky16Corners:

This is a Mitch Easter production, as is the next one
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:02pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:51
I only know of him from when he was part of the Richard Thompson band, with Christine Collister. While I thought they were both talented, I couldn't figure out what they were doing there...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:02pm
doctorjazz:

↳ StringOFperils @4:00
Those 2 albums are just the best!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ doctorjazz @4:02
I remember that period
  4:03pm
Fred R:

Afternoon Larry and all! Just tuned in
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Vincent The Soul Chef:

Best REM track ever... this one.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:04pm
StringOFperils:

Heartbreaking
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:04pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ Fred R @4:03
Hey Fred!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:04pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ Vincent The Soul Chef @4:03
Man, when I tell you my brothers and I were MAD for REM, hooboy. Got to see them a bunch of times early on.
  4:04pm
Andres:

First time I heard this REM was on Entertainment Tonight. Really.
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WLSClark:

I remember going into dance bars and dancing by hopping up and down mostly to this type of music and thinking, I am too old for this dancing! I was late 20's only!
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David Shortell:

↳ Song: "Every Word Means No" by "Let's Active"
I saw them at City Gardens in 1984. When I saw the Dex Romweber Duo a few times nearly three decades later, I didn't realize it was the same drummer. She died of cancer in 2019. The other woman in Let's Active also suffered a tragic fate.
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StringOFperils:

Saw REM on this tour. when Michael had super long hair that he hid behind while mumbling everything. Really good show.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ David Shortell @4:05
I might have been at that show!
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Vincent The Soul Chef:

YASSSSSSSS!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ StringOFperils @4:05
All the times I saw them were on the tours for Reckoning and Life's Rich Pageant
  4:07pm
Andres:

↳ StringOFperils @4:05
Larry’s Hideaway? Stories of bootlegs from early Toronto appearances.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Vincent The Soul Chef @4:07
These guys were from Hershey, PA!
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Vincent The Soul Chef:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:08
Nice one! So underrated. I've had this record for decades :)
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WLSClark:

↳ Song: "Between Something and Nothing" by "Ocean Blue"
has that "layered"sound of aforementioned "Endlessly" by John Foxx fave. Just cool thinking about such songs again.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:09pm
Funky16Corners:

↳ Vincent The Soul Chef @4:08
I think the next one is right up your alley...
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TDK60:

↳ Song: "24" by "Game Theory"
I played in band that got to open for Game Theory. '87?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:10pm
StringOFperils:

↳ Andres @4:07
O right, I forgot about that....must have been their second appearance when they bounced back to the old Masonic Temple...I think they warmed up for UB40. I did see some astounding things at Larry's though. (I live really near where that was)
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WLSClark @4:09
I wish the Sirius alt/80s station would play a more diverse selection
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Funky16Corners:

↳ TDK60 @4:09
No kidding!?
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Vincent The Soul Chef:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:09
I haven't heard this one in ages! I need to get a copy of "Deep" back in the crate stat.
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StringOFperils:

Still regret not going to see Bauhaus at Larry's Hideaway...some punks I was working with in a kitchen were going....who knew?
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bradford:

↳ Song: "Indigo Eyes" by "Peter Murphy"
This was in heavy rotation when I started doing college radio. Haven't heard it in years!
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WLSClark:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:10
I only listen to FMU basically if internet radio. Otherwise just my own music.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ bradford @4:12
Another great album all the way through
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David Shortell:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:13
I saw "The Hunger" at the Middletown multiplex when I was in high school. Only years later did I learn who the band in it was, or that Ann Magnuson was in the film!
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Brian in UK:

Hello Larry. Saw Clive Gregson at WOMAD one year in Nanci Griffith's band. Good quality pop.
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Andres:

↳ StringOFperils @4:10
Masonic Temple was the best. Many shows there burned into my memory.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Brian in UK @4:17
Hey Brian!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ David Shortell @4:17
Oh man, Ann Magnuson...
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Candy-O'67:

Hey Larry and all! Diggin' the '80's show today! Bringing back memories!
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StringOFperils:

↳ Andres @4:17
Forgotten Rebels? Bunch of Fucking Goofs. The Cramps. So much fun. Ah, what larks.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Candy-O'67 @4:19
Hey Candy-O!
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Brian in UK:

↳ doctorjazz @4:02
Agree doc, think that Christine Collister was torn twixt pop & folk. Great voice.
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doctorjazz:

↳ WLSClark @4:12
I listen to too much WFMU-as I've posted before, I buy music I hear and like on the station, but I listen so much to the station, I don't have a chance to play the albums...
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Funky16Corners:

Michael Stipe on backing vocals
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Brian in UK:

Just put a new stylus in & then the CD player goes dit dit dit.
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Funky16Corners:

Amazing supporting cast on this album, Marshall Crenshaw, the dBs, Richard Thompson, Van Dyke Parks, Dave Alvin, Daniel Lanois etc
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Andres:

Out Of Time was the first CD I bought maybe. Still in their drawers in this mess somewhere.
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Vincent The Soul Chef:

Yeah, this is more or less an eight hour shift at Sam Goody as a 19 year old. We used to beg the boss to let us play the promo tapes that I got from reps, but all he wanted to hear was George Strait and the Beatles lol. Remind me to tell you about the morning I played Swans so loud that all three wings of the mall were appalled :)
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Candy-O'67:

↳ doctorjazz @4:20
Same, doc!🤣
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WR:

↳ TDK60 @4:09
That's cool, what was the name of the band you played with?
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David Shortell:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:18
I heard that it was fellow Northamptonian Alan Moore who hipped Peter Murphy to the Hernandez Brothers' "Love and Rockets", and he then took the name for his new group.
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StringOFperils:

Donnie Iris. The Jaggerz? Really? Did not know that.
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bixa:

↳ doctorjazz @4:20
it is a vicious cycle 𖦹
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StringOFperils:

Saw Peter Case touring 'Sings Like Hell'. Totally great. Nearly no one there. In a bar.
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Brian in UK:

↳ Song: "I'm Not the Devil" by "Dentists"
Larry, that comment comes from the 1966 World Cup at Wembley.
www.youtube.com...
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Brian in UK @4:30
Thank you Brian!
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Discotech Underground:

Hey Larry, and thanks for the flashback to my 20's with today's show! I had almost all of these records!
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StringOFperils:

Marek's still on bass here. Really popping.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ StringOFperils @4:31
This single packs as much punch as some band's entire discographies
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TDK60:

↳ WR @4:24
It was an unknown local band, Octopus Typewriter. We did a demo, never a record proper. I think audio of the demo used to be found on a site of another band's stuff, Gene Pool. I haven't looked in ages. (Morgantown, West Virginia bands around the club Underground Railroad.)
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David Shortell:

↳ Song: "Satellite Beach" by "Peter Case"
I saw the Plimsouls and Josie Cotton play in Belmar last December.
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Tim in TN:

Larry, Agree a thousand percent on Syd Straw's Surprise. I trust you've heard her cover of Harper Valley PTA (with the Skeletons) on the Tom T. Hall tribute album.
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suzyhotrod:

Hi Larry! Suzy here from Mothership. Wanted to drop a line to say I'm really enjoying the show while I do my photo editing for work. thanks!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ suzyhotrod @4:33
Hi Suzy! Thanks!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ David Shortell @4:33
No shit? Where in Belmar?
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Tim in TN @4:33
Hey Tim! I have not heard that. I'll look for it.
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Funky16Corners:

God, I love these guys!
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David Shortell:

Salty's, which used to be Paul's Tavern. Hip shows started happening there last summer in a little room--while cover and jam bands play in the bar's other spaces!
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Brian in UK:

Good pop is priceless.
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Funky16Corners:

I remember seeing these guys on the Merv Griffin Show and being shocked that they looked like a bunch of middle school teachers.
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Tim in TN:

It's called Real - The Tom T. Hall project (1998). Calexico, Kelly Willis, Ralph Stanley, etc. and an unbelievable version of Spokane Motel Blues by Joel RL Phelps.
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Funky16Corners:

When I was in college, circa 80-82, my friends and I used to go see a New Wave bar band called The Watch that played stuff like this
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Erica:

This is really good. I need to check out more by the Monroes.
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hopey:

Oh, love this Tommy Keene! Excellent choice, Larry.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ hopey @4:41
Hey hopey! Thanks!
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WLSClark:

↳ Song: "What Do All the People Know" by "Monroes"
That song was a great song back then for me too.
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patrick321:

↳ David Shortell @4:38
Damn I was living over on Pitney in spring lake for some years taking care of my dad I would have loved that.
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Power Papi:

↳ Song: "Going Down To Liverpool" by "Bangles"
Surprised you didn't play the Katrina And the Waves version.
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David Shortell:

↳ Song: "Going Down To Liverpool" by "Bangles"
Leonard Nimoy is in the video. I think Susanna's mom knew him.
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Discotech Underground:

↳ Song: "Going Down To Liverpool" by "Bangles"
Love the video for this with Leonard Nimoy as their chauffer.
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Yvang:

↳ Song: "Going Down To Liverpool" by "Bangles"
Same vibe as « walking on sunshine »
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Discotech Underground @4:47
Hey Kip! One of his kids was on the Paisley Underground scene
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Discotech Underground:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:47
Thanks for the trip back to my 20's on the show today! I had almost all of these records back then.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Power Papi @4:46
Hey Power Papi! I know it but don't have it on hand.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Discotech Underground @4:48
Yeah, right? This is a goddamned Fountain of Youth. I'm rocking out here!
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Beantown Doug:

Except for being somewhat familiar with XTC, REM and the Bangles, all heretofore unknown to me. Looking forward to more of the same next week. Thanks, Larry!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Beantown Doug @4:49
Hi Doug! Lots of cool stuff coming next week.
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Power Papi:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:48
That whole album is filled with great songs.
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Discotech Underground:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:49
I was living in New Orleans for most of this period. Peter Buck from REM used to drop into the hole in the wall record shop I worked at in the French Quarter. Heady times...
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Erica:

↳ Song: "Going Nowhere" by "Dumptruck"
Spike Priggen was in Dump truck but left before 1987.
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David Shortell:

↳ patrick321 @4:43
The Plimsouls will return to Salty's Beach Bar (1705 Main Street, Lake Como, NJ) with Dead Boys and Richard Lloyd on May 19.
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TDK60:

↳ Song: "Going Nowhere" by "Dumptruck"
I got to see Dumptruck back then. Another one of those next-R.E.M. bands, we thought. Boston I think.

Oh, Larry I found that Game Theory gig I was at: Jan. 23, 1988.
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Sem:

Fun 2 hours, LG. Much obliged, and see you and all here next time.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ TDK60 @4:51
That date makes more sense
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WLSClark:

Gotta go to a retirement party. Been going to a few of them lately. Seems NO ONE wants to work since I retired. haha
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Discotech Underground:

↳ Song: "A Million Things" by "The Lucy Show"
Like a lot of the tracks you're playing, I first heard this on MTV's "120 Minutes". That show was like a Godsend as far as finding new tunes.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @4:51
I've known Spike online for a long time. I may have seen him play with them!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Sem @4:51
Thanks Sem!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Discotech Underground @4:52
Yes!
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doctorjazz:

Thanks, Larry, fun show! (I'm constantly thinking I'm hearing Marshall Crenshaw during the show, but he wasn't anywhere...)
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Funky16Corners:

↳ doctorjazz @4:53
Thanks Doc! Maybe next week!
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Erica:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:52
Awesome!
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bradford:

Many thanks Larry, had a blast!
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Andres:

Tons here that I missed before discovering the FM dial on my clock radio and lots that didn’t get on the radio here. Great stuff, Larry!!
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Discotech Underground:

Stick around for Discotech Underground next!

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Vincent The Soul Chef:

I can't wait for the archive so I can hear the whole thing, and I'm off to dig the walls for more. Many thanks, sir :)
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Yvang:

Thanks Larry for this hits-packed show!
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StringOFperils:

Thanks Larry. That was a fun time-trip. I hurt my little guitar a lot for the last 90 minutes. Ha ha.
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TDK60:

Thanks Larry.
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Erica:

I dug this show this week. Can't wait for next week. Thanks Larry!
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Funky16Corners:

Thank you everyone for listening!
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Michael 98145:

Thanks again ! Fun trip.
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WR:

Thank you! Larry, have been busy with work so I could not properly focus and keep up with the comment action, but enjoyed what I heard.

Thank you!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WR @4:58
Thanks WR!
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Candy-O'67:

Thx, Larry! Awesome show! Fleshtones rule! I've seen them a ton! Always a superb show!
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Andrew in Toronto:

What a fabulous episode!
Thanks, Larry!
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Funky16Corners:

Thanks, Candy-O and Andrew!
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