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Post by 2old2standup2fat2try on Dec 5, 2010 12:51:11 GMT
I was bored, so I did this. I thought I might as well post it here. I've only taken Jethro Tull tunes into account (ie. no solo work), basically to make it easier, but I might put the solo stuff in at a later date - some of it would be near the top of the list, for sure. Anyway, here's the list.
1) Songs from the Wood 2) Thick as a Brick 3) Velvet Green 4) A Passion Play 5) Sealion 6) Dun Ringill 7) Teacher 8) Baker St. Muse 9) Critique Oblique 10) One Brown Mouse
11) Witches Promise 12) Minstrel in the Gallery 13) Skating Away (on the Thin Ice of the New Day) 14) Living in the Past 15) A Christmas Song 16) Black Sunday 17) For Michael Collins, Jeffrey And Me 18) Jack-in-the-Green 19) WarChild 20) Left Right
21) The Whistler 22) Cross-Eyed Mary 23) Quizz Kid 24) North Sea Oil 25) My God 26) With You There to Help Me 27) A Song for Jeffrey 28) Glory Row 29) ...And the Mouse Police Never Sleeps 30) Pibroch (Cap in Hand)
31) Aqualung 32) One White Duck / 010 = Nothing At All 33) Birthday Card at Christmas 34) Look into the Sun 35) Clasp 36) Nothing to Say 37) Life is a Long Song 38) Dark Ages 39) Mother Goose 40) Sweet Dream
41) Living in These Hard Times 42) The Pine Marten's Jig 43) Cold Wind to Valhalla 44) Roots to Branches 45) Fat Man 46) Jack Frost and the Hooded Crow 47) Reasons for Waiting 48) Far Alaska 49) Hunting Girl 50) Nothing is Easy
51) Last Man at the Party 52) Rare and Precious Chain 53) The Third Hoorah 54) A New Day Yesterday 55) Thinking Round Corners 56) Out of the Noise 57) Ring Out, Solstice Bells 58) Back to the Family 59) Sossity; You're A Woman 60) Up the Pool
61) Pan Dance 62) Son 63) Fire at Midnight 64) Ladies 65) For a Thousand Mothers 66) Dangerous Veils 67) Hymn 43 68) Beltane 69) Coronach 70) Acres Wild
71) Post Last 72) To Cry You a Song 73) My Sunday Feeling 74) Locomotive Breath 75) Nobody's Car 76) This Free Will 77) Beggar's Farm 78) Salamander 79) Wind Up 80) Broadsword
81) No Lullaby 82) Love Story 83) Bourée 84) Cup of Wonder 85) Pussy Willow 86) Pied Piper 87) Warm Sporran 88) The Whaler's Dues 89) Valley 90) Flying Dutchman
91) Play in Time 92) Summerday Sands 93) Old Ghosts 94) Heavy Horses 95) Mayhem, Maybe 96) Under Wraps #2 97) Dot Com 98) Jack-A-Lynn 99) Dogs in the Midwinter 100) Beside Myself
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Post by steelmonkey on Dec 5, 2010 17:37:55 GMT
One of the best, if not the best ( excluding tour news) post i've ever read....I need to sit still and do the same next slow day at work ( fat chance) I got 4 of the same top ten and think we need to figure out how to categorize stuff like critique oblique....the three bits on 20 year box were clearly new songs...but do the play fragments on nightcap count? What a great list
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Post by nonrabbit on Dec 5, 2010 19:37:30 GMT
hear hear need to analyse it thoroughly guess what I looked for first? anything from Benefit - No 17 the first glimpse tut tut tut
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Post by boydie1 on Dec 6, 2010 9:59:43 GMT
My top 100 tracks are from the following records:
1. Benefit 2. Thick as a Brick 3. Aqualung 4. Warchild 5. A Passion Play 6. Minstrel 7. Stand Up
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Post by bunkerfan on Dec 6, 2010 20:06:25 GMT
I was bored, so I did this. I thought I might as well post it here. I've only taken Jethro Tull tunes into account (ie. no solo work), basically to make it easier, but I might put the solo stuff in at a later date - some of it would be near the top of the list, for sure. Anyway, here's the list. Wow! Thats some list 2old2standup2fat2try I wouldn't know where to start to compile my top 100. It's always interesting to see what other fans best love Tull songs are. I'm just pleased we're all different in our choices of favourite tracks, some in your last 30 would be in my top 10
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2010 22:24:55 GMT
Ignoring the Brick & Play & trying not to repeat You can play them back in any order. 1) Wind Up 2) To Cry You A Song 3) Nothing Is Easy 4) A New Day Yesterday 5) One White Duck 6) Skating Away 7) Rainbow Blues 8) Glory Row 9) A Time For Everything 10) El Niño 11) Inside 12) For A Thousand Mothers 13) Cheap Day Return 14) Mother Goose 15) Wond'ring Aloud 16) Wond'ring Again 17) Just Trying To Be 18) Teacher 19) Up the Pool 20) Living in the Past 21) Minstrel in the Gallery 22) Cold Wind to Valhalla 23) Black Satin Dancer 24) Requiem 25) Baker Street Muse 26) Quizz Kid 27) Crazed Institution 28) Salamander 29) Cup Of Wonder 30) Fire At Midnight 31) Pibroch (Cap In Hand) 32) Cross-Eyed Mary 33) Said She Was A Dancer 34) The Waking Edge 35) Strange Avenues 36) Rock Island 37) Ears Of Tin 38) Rocks On The Road 39) Man Of Principle 40) Drive on the Young Side Of Life 41) Rare and Precious Chain 42) Beside Myself 43) This Free Will 44) Night in the Wilderness 45) A Gift Of Roses 46) The Dog-Eared Years 47) Beastie 48) Clasp 49) Broadsword 50) Seal Driver 51) Black Sunday 52) Working John, Working Joe 53) Crossfire 54) And Further On 55) Protect And Survive 56) The Pine Martens Jig 57) Something's On the Move 58) Old Ghosts 59) Dun Ringill 60) Flying Dutchman 61) Elegy 62) Dark Ages 63) Home 64) Warm Sporran 65) Moths 66) No Lullaby 67) Acres Wild 68) ...And Mouse Police Never Sleeps 69) One Brown Mouse 70) Heavy Horses 71) Weathercock 72) Silver River Turning 73) Piece Of Cake 74) Doctor to my Disease 75) Thinking Round Corners 76) Occasional Demons 77) Sparrow on the Schoolyard Wall 78) When Jesus Came to Play 79) Paradise Steakhouse 80) Rosa on the Factory Floor 81) A Song For Jeffrey 82) Look Into the Sun 83) We Used to Know 84) Reasons for Waiting 85) Back to the Family 86) With You There to Help Me 87) Alive and Well and Living In 88) Son 89) For Michael Collin, Jeffrey and Me 90) Play in Time 91) Up to Me 92) My God 93) Hymn 43 94) Slipstream 95) Locomotive Breath 96) Love Story 97) Singing All Day 98) A Christmas Song 99) Another Christmas Song 100) Life is A Long Song The rest are under wraps ;D
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Post by steelmonkey on Dec 7, 2010 21:42:44 GMT
Wild Guess: your favorite Beatles song EVER is: Rain
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2010 23:03:02 GMT
Wild Guess: your favorite Beatles song EVER is: Rain Genius! Right on!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2010 23:03:27 GMT
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by steelmonkey on Dec 7, 2010 23:18:29 GMT
I'm, coming to Toronto to fix your wagon*
*next time there's a military draft...why else would a californian come to Canada*
* oh yeah...I'm too old to fight...but too young to not rock n roll-or something like that
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Post by steelmonkey on Dec 9, 2010 16:04:33 GMT
V-e-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-y Interesting !
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Post by tullist on Dec 9, 2010 19:01:43 GMT
To me, and I realize me only, in the case of the Beatles it is impossible to name a favorite tune, they made so many perfect ones, not very good, not great, not beautiful, perfect. Well maybe great and beautiful. Amongst those I would include Yes It Is, Penny Lane, And Your Bird Can Sing, If I Needed Someone and This Boy all come to mind off the top of my head. And a veritable motherlode that would stream in as brilliant or above. I almost include She Loves You as the original seed but...no. I realize to a percentage of people under 50 the early stuff is lost on them, i understand that. And a smaller percentage still for over 50's, because of course not everybody loved the Beatles, though it sure seemed like it. I slipped into the moderately obsessed category and pretty much remain there.
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Post by maddogfagin on Dec 9, 2010 20:53:20 GMT
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Post by steelmonkey on Dec 10, 2010 2:38:33 GMT
Nothing from the solo albums....that will have to be a different list...none of the out-takes from Passion Play era...they all count as Passion Play
1. A Passion Play 2. Thick as a Brick 3. Baker Street Muse 4. Budapest 5. Dark Ages 6. Black Sunday 7. Seal Driver 8. Aqualung 9. Velvet Green 10. Locomotive Breath 11. Acres Wild 12. With You There to Help Me 13. Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Day 14. Minstrel in the Gallery 15. Wind Up 16. Back Door Angels 17. Rover 18. Strange Avenues 19. War Child 20. The Whaler's Dues 21. Bend Like a Willow 22. European Legacy 23. My God 24. Orion 25. Heavy Horses 26. To Cry You a Song 27. Up The Pool 28. We Used to Know 29. Man of Principle 30. Summer Day Sands 31. Cross Eyed Mary 32. Rocks on the Road 33. Dot Com 34. Sweet Dream 35. Dun Ringhil 36. Under Wraps II 37. Wonderin' Aloud/Again 38. Rock Island 39. Jump Start 40. Gift of Roses 41. Songs from the Wood 42. Steel Monkey 43. Pussy Willow 44. Life's a Long Song 45. Reason for Waiting 46. Living in the Past 47. Old Ghosts 48. When Jesus Came to Play 49. Harry's Bar 50. Farm on the Freeway 51. Nothing to say 51. This Free Will 52. Pibroch 53. Mother Goose 54. At Last Forever 55. Dog Eared Years 56. Rare and Precious Chain 57. Requiem 58. Bungle in the Jungle 59. Big Dipper 60. Jack-a-Lynn 61. Mother Goose 62. Journeyman 63. One White Duck/0 to Power of 10=Nothing at All 64. Strip Cartoon 65. Said She Was a Dancer 66. Lick Your Fingers Clean/Two Fingers 67. Taxi Grab 68. Nothing is Easy 69. My Sunday Feeling 70. Big Riff and Mando 71. Heat 72. Nobody's Car 73. New Day Yesterday 74. Time For Everything 75. The Clasp 76. Apogee 77. The Third Hoorah 78. Valley 79. General Crossing 80. Look Into the Sun 81. Black Satin Dancer 82. Singing All Day 83. Quizz Kid 84. White Innocence 85. Teacher 86. Later That Same Evening 87. Beside Myself 88. Hot Mango Flush 89. Ladies 90. Cold Wind to Valhalla 91. Spiral 92. Crazed Institution 93. Flying Dutchman 94. No Step 95. Play in Time 96. Broadford Bazaar 97. Salamander 98. Part of the Machine 99. Rainbow Blues
and the whole point of this exercise: 100. Solitaire
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Post by tullist on Dec 10, 2010 5:16:37 GMT
O man Bernie, as u can imagine that is very interesting for me to see. Still so madly in love with the internet, just an unspeakable miracle. I am afraid I would need more time than I care to commit to make an accurate telling. I do know all of TAAB and SFTW would have a seat in the first quarter, and I'm sure I would insist on including Ian's "solo" work, some many would make the grade I am sure. Also at least half the Christmas album, plus many dual appearances of various live performances of Brick, A New Day Yesterday, Gift of Roses and Dog Ear Years easily merit inclusion, things that are remarkably seen to be throwaway tracks like Rosa (she circles round her freedom, and I circle round her heart, hot damn man) Coronach, Broadford Bazaar, Jack A Lynn twice, that original acoustic one is TOO choice, without a doubt both the Celtic Cradle and its morph into A Change of Horses, certainly Wondring Aloud and Again, room for at least one of the things like Boris Dancing too, the alternate Play would be a big player, probably most of Stand Up, about half of H Horses, nearly all of Stormwatch.
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Post by steelmonkey on Dec 10, 2010 16:00:27 GMT
Just for you, ray...cuz I'm too lazy to PM: top 5 GD: Dark Star, Other One, Terrapin, Black Throated Wind and Bird Song...top 3 solid, last two interchangable.
Top Ten Ian solo songs:
1. Lost in Crowds 2. SLOB II 3. Sanctuary 4. Fly By Night 5. Tea With a Princess ( w/vocals-duh) 6. Panama Freighter 7. Black and White Television 8. SLOB I 9. Postcard Day 10. Calliandra Shade
PS PM to ray....a friend told me Postcard Day got treated as a single by one Chicago radio station that played it over and over when it was new....true?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2010 17:20:03 GMT
*MY top IA 1. Lost in Crowds 2. SLOB II 3. Sanctuary 4. Fly By Night 5. Walk Into Light 6. Looking For Eden 7. Black and White Television 8. SLOB I 9. Postcard Day 10. A Better Moon Ian Anderson - Walk Into Light or Divinities or Secret Language or Rupi's Dance www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=148097Fave tracks on Rupi's Dance Calliandra Shade (The Cappuccino Song) Lost In Crowds A Raft Of Penguins A Week Of Moments A Hand Of Thumbs Pigeon Flying Over Berlin Zoo Not Ralitsa Vassileva Birthday Card At Christmas (Bonus track from The Jethro Tull Christmas Album) IMO The only clunkers are on Rupi's Dance*I like all of the tracks on the rest of the solo albums.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2010 17:28:29 GMT
To me, and I realize me only, in the case of the Beatles it is impossible to name a favorite tune, they made so many perfect ones, not very good, not great, not beautiful, perfect. Well maybe great and beautiful. Amongst those I would include Yes It Is, Penny Lane, And Your Bird Can Sing, If I Needed Someone and This Boy all come to mind off the top of my head. And a veritable motherlode that would stream in as brilliant or above. I almost include She Loves You as the original seed but...no. I realize to a percentage of people under 50 the early stuff is lost on them, i understand that. And a smaller percentage still for over 50's, because of course not everybody loved the Beatles, though it sure seemed like it. I slipped into the moderately obsessed category and pretty much remain there. Good thoughts. In My Life is the favourite here for two of us.
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Post by tullist on Dec 10, 2010 18:17:13 GMT
Just for you, ray...cuz I'm too lazy to PM: top 5 GD: Dark Star, Other One, Terrapin, Black Throated Wind and Bird Song...top 3 solid, last two interchangable. Top Ten Ian solo songs: 1. Lost in Crowds 2. SLOB II 3. Sanctuary 4. Fly By Night 5. Tea With a Princess ( w/vocals-duh) 6. Panama Freighter 7. Black and White Television 8. SLOB I 9. Postcard Day 10. Calliandra Shade PS PM to ray....a friend told me Postcard Day got treated as a single by one Chicago radio station that played it over and over when it was new....true? That could only be xrt in credit to them on the air now since aug 72, and themselves born out of the original chicago underground station, gld, 68-72. While light years better than a classic rock station, for those of us with a long memory it has never been the same since 76 in terms of average breath of format, i won't even start on the commercials, i think thats called rendering under caesar in fairness. they are the only rock station that i might allow one song that at least initially disinterests me before changing the dial. such radio time as i spend is on ballgames, sports radio, the various politically based talk shows (i actually enjoy the banned from the uk guy michael savage, brooklynite long based in the bay area, i enjoy his digs at the bay area among other things)mostly right wing as u may know (but i try and listen with respect) with the exception of air america, (bobby kennedy jr on the weekends is quite good even though his voice is a pitiful representation of his grandma rose, pretty damn weird)public radio in particular, and a fair smattering of the old classical station fmt, on the air since the 50's, and a daytime jazz outlet, (though they do have a penchant for what i call republican jazz, u know joe so and so's big band with a decidedly milquetoast interpretation of swing, a shade embarrassing as a white man, not a patch on the late kjaz out in the bay or kre in berkeley. when i am at home it is not unusual for me to have kpfa, the berkeley public radio station as u doubtlessly know, streaming on the puter. Some hideously revealing stuff the other day about our, (the usa)support of these sham elections in haiti, and apparent factual evidence of less than one per cent of the aid to the earthquake victims actually getting to those needing it, again our hands heavily involved. gad its great to be an american and actually...it is. but to your question, yeah i do remember postcard day be played on xrt, they may well have been underwriting a coming ian solo performance, i do remember hearing it a time or two and basically thinking, geez man, why u playing that track, though i do like it, its just down the list. but in general i hear a tull track on xrt about once every ten years if that, it really seems like 25 years ago, probably when they have underwritten the show in 99 or 2002 i think they play a bit, and certainly nothing after 71. especially maddening because remembering them right back to the first night they were on the air, for about 3 years they were the darlings of that station, and that station would do a beautiful job of presenting them back when they had a featured artist of the day policy. tull was pretty big news on the underground station that predates xrt, i have heard them referred to as the darlings of the underground back then. have to admit i liked hearing their station rep be booed, as is evident on the cd of the show from 99 at the beautiful auditorium, when the xrt guy comes out, a nice guy as far as i know not at all like some of these sort of...twits that seemed to be evident on the rubbing elbows tour, anyway this xrt guy was solidly booed, and yeah, i kind of enjoyed that. clearly ever since the advent of elvis costello and the talking heads jethro tull is more or less a dirty word there, maybe not so much as elp or the moody blues, but you won't hear them i'm pretty sure. hows that for long winded, and i ain't done yet. oddly i have less difficulty naming maybe a favorite ten dead tunes, although given their improvisational nature even my least favorites like maybe day job, some of vince or brents or donna's tunes, or even casey jones can have wonderful readings. but there is a pecking order and mine do like dis. I could write it in deadhead shorthand but u might be the only one that understands it, in fact i will do both. 1. other one (that it for the other one) 2, playin (playing in the band) 3. d (drums) 4. star (dark star) 5. cat (china cat sunflower) 6. truckin 7. birdsong 8. eyes (eyes of the world) rider (i know you rider) 9. scarlet (scarlet begonias) 10. dew (morning dew) jam (just jams in general, tend to be from the earlier years, most notably heaven jam and spanish jam) now if i were to reduce that to actual songs the list would be completely different, because they did write wonderful songs, but nearly all of those are listed in large part because of instrumental extrapolations, i kind of shudder to think what "non believers" make of the sole version of truckin they know for instance. also going to include a link and the small essay i posted on facebook the other day from my sole experience at a grateful dead new years show, an annual event dating back to the late sixties i think, though i believe the first one was actually in boston, always in the bay area after that. i like it because of the description by ken kesey of bill graham coming in as he always did on that years new years float, two of the older friends of the band. graham even had a skull and lightning bolt on his front lawn and is the mind behind the semi famous description of the band as "they're not the best at what they do, they're the only ones that do what they do. From Kesey in description of the float, "it makes Blake look like Charlie Schultz," "Its the USS Merrimac", "Its an enormous Perry Como". Now it may sound like drunken ranting, cuz it is, might be dosed too, but i find it enjoyable, father guido sarducci notwithstanding All the play by play action of a Grateful Dead New Year described by one of the bands oldest friends and earliest supporters, legendary American author, Olympic level wrestler, flashpoint of the Merry Pranksters and the Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, Ken Kesey. Also my sole experience at a Grateful Dead New Years show of the many many many times I saw them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtvf2erbL-U
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Post by steelmonkey on Dec 12, 2010 0:19:23 GMT
Okay...here's the next 100...obviously top loaded with songs that should have been in the first 100 but got skipped, forgotten, overlooked and then remembered later...but what the hell...it's not scientific, it's Tull-er-iffic:
101. Motoreyes 102. Out of the Noise 103. For Michael Collins, Jeffrey and Me 104. Witches Promise 105. Pied Piper 106. Back to the Family 107. AWOL 108. SeaLion 109. Song for Jeffrey 110. Working John, Working Joe 111. Crossfire 112. Black Mambo 114. Moths 115. Cup of Wonder 116. Heavy Water 117. from a Deadbeat to an Old Greaser 118. Saturation 119. Fallen on hard Times 120. Jeffrey Goes to Leicester Square 121. Queen and Country 123. Someday the Sun Won't Shine for You 124. Rhythm in Gold 125. Glory Row 126. Cheap Day Return 127. Papparazzi 128. Weathercock 129. Fires at Midnight 130. Lights Out 131. King Henry's Madrigal ( first instrumental) 132. Mountain Men 133. Hardliner 134. The Chequered Flag 135. Protect and Survive 136. Occaisional Demons 137. Rosa on the Factory Floor 138. Beastie 139. Jack in the Green 140. Fat Man 141.
oh $h1t...work to do before i go home...to be continued and corrected for duplicate from top 100...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2010 16:12:02 GMT
104. Witches Promise 132. Mountain Men Great list. Agree for the most part. The two above I don't really care for. Money speaks. - Can you forgive me?
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Post by steelmonkey on Dec 14, 2010 16:27:32 GMT
One of the pleasures of the online Tull board in the diversity and coolness of having friends from all over the world...but as i just learned that an attactive colleague here at work is sleeping with another colleague...A CANADIAN...well,....that't the end of a lovely online friendship between me and my brother from T. O.....when i heard of this travesty I could only say 'EH'!"
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2010 22:43:01 GMT
One of the pleasures of the online Tull board in the diversity and coolness of having friends from all over the world...but as i just learned that an attactive colleague here at work is sleeping with another colleague...A CANADIAN...well,....that't the end of a lovely online friendship between me and my brother from T. O.....when i heard of this travesty I could only say 'EH'!" Let's try this...There must have been a door there in the wall. For when I came in. Crazy. Over the rainbow, he is crazy. The evidence before the court is incontrovertible. There's no need for the jury to retire. In all my years of judging I have never heard before, Of someone more deserving of the full penalty of the law. Since, my friend, you have revealed your deepest fear, I sentence you to be exposed before your peers. Tear down the wall!
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Post by simpthepimp on Dec 18, 2010 21:34:34 GMT
top 5
Reasons for waiting Dun ringhill Black sunday the Whalers dues A time for everything
Thats´s for tonight...
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Post by 2old2standup2fat2try on Jan 11, 2011 21:15:38 GMT
Nonrabbit: Ah, but if you include the US version then there's one as high as 7)!
Oops, I almost forgot about this. Thanks for taking a look, guys!
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Post by burningrabbit on Jan 20, 2011 18:08:40 GMT
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