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Recollection Volume 38 – Sun Wizard

July 12, 2014 11:00 am , Leave a Comment , Adam M. Anklewicz

Recollection is a project to review my record collection. I will listen to an album I own and review it. The album will be chosen randomly by computron. Today computron chooses…

Album: Sun Wizard
Artist: Sun Wizard
Released: 2010
Format(s) I own it on: CD

SunWizard-Comp2 In 2010, I went to Vancouver and had a great time. While I was there I went into a record store, talked to a clerk and asked him to suggest some awesome local Vancouver bands I might not have heard of. He set me up with a CD player and gave me a listen to a few records. Amongst them was this one. If I recall correctly, he was in the band.

It’s a five track EP in the vein of Wilco’s Summerteeth days. In other words, poptastic with a splash of alt-country. Sun Wizard’s instrumentation is in fine form and vocals are great.

I don’t quite understand the “Compact Disc” logo on the front, seeing as it was released in 2010, not 1988, but I do love the plaid shirt. Who doesn’t love plaid? My nationality might be shining through.

This is an EP I’d suggest to nearly anyone.

Highlights

“Day In Day Out” is one of those rock and roll songs you want to move to. Would have fit well in the 1990s alt country scene, or the 1970s.

The hand claps on “You Had The Answer!” I could see them opening for ’90s-era Sloan with this song.

Lowlights

A pretty solid EP, not going to put anything here.

30.625 (81%) |

7.375 (19%)

CD: 22.5 (59%) | Vinyl: 12.5 (33%) | Digital: 0 (0%) | 7″: 2 (5%) | Box: 1 (3%)

1960s: 4 (11%) | 1970s: 2 (5%) | 1980s: 1 (3%) | 1990s: 11 (29%) | 2000s: 17 (45%) | 2010s: 3 (8%)

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Posted in: Music , Tagged: Recollection, Sun Wizard

Recollection Volume 37 – From A Love To A Friend

July 9, 2014 11:00 am , Leave a Comment , Adam M. Anklewicz

Recollection is a project to review my record collection. I will listen to an album I own and review it. The album will be chosen randomly by computron. Today computron chooses…

Album: From A Love To A Friend
Artist: Paul McCartney
Released: 2001
Format(s) I own it on: CD

28a5e83 I believe I bought this CD single when I bought my copy of Driving Rain. I assume I never heard the single before purchasing it as I never recall liking this terrible, terrible song.

Fortunately, I own a CD with not one, but three versions of this song. So let’s listen again…

I think a lot of what makes me hate this song so much is that it seems to start out of nowhere. I think it might have to do with starting a song with the word “and.” It’s much how I feel about his more popular hit “My Love.” And yet as the song plays, I sing along. It does have a catchy chorus and melody, but that’s McCartney’s trademark.

It’s strange, I like the bass line and the melody, and McCartney’s vocals are somewhat weak, as if he’s in pain to sing it. It’s almost beautiful, but yet it doesn’t form into a cohesive song.

The other two tracks on the CD are remixes. The first places McCartney’s vocals in the forefront, keeps the instrumentation sparse. While the bass is preserved, the piano which drives the song is missing. I can’t say I’ve listened to this version of the song more than once, and I don’t see any reason to listen to it again.

The second remix begins with sparse piano. It kind of picks up my soul and gives me faith in the song. The vocals are buried and have too much reverb happening, but it seems David Kahne’s second remix is much better at finding the beauty in this song.

There’s something magical in this song that just isn’t shining in any of these recordings or mixes. It truly could be something spectacular, but falls flat. A man who lost his wife to cancer pleading “let me love again.”

Now I want to listen to Driving Rain, which is a good record.

29.625 (80%) |

7.375 (20%)

CD: 21.5 (58%) | Vinyl: 12.5 (34%) | Digital: 0 (0%) | 7″: 2 (5%) | Box: 1 (3%)

1960s: 4 (11%) | 1970s: 2 (5%) | 1980s: 1 (3%) | 1990s: 11 (30%) | 2000s: 17 (46%) | 2010s: 2 (3%)

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Posted in: Music , Tagged: Driving Rain, Paul McCartney, Recollection, The Beatles, Wings

Recollection Volume 36 – Love At The Bottom Of The Sea

July 6, 2014 11:00 am , Leave a Comment , Adam M. Anklewicz

Recollection is a project to review my record collection. I will listen to an album I own and review it. The album will be chosen randomly by computron. Today computron chooses…

Album: Love At The Bottom Of The Sea
Artist: The Magnetic Fields
Released: 2012
Format(s) I own it on: Vinyl

Latbots_large Someone once described modern Magnetic Fields as a parody of Stephin Merritt’s songwriting style. This might be accurate. However, this doesn’t sum up the records completely. Love At The Bottom Of The Sea has some really good songs on it, and though it might be a bit over the top compared to 69 Love Songs, they’re worth the price of admission.

Much like most of Merritt’s work, Love At The Bottom Of The Sea is filled with love songs. As usual they’re not the most traditional love songs. Songs of mariticide, frustrating love triangles, unfaithfulness, one’s inability to be tied down, being trapped in a swinger’s party, and many more topics.

The album is sung mostly by Shirley Simms, with Merritt and Claudia Gonson. I don’t know if it was done with purpose, but it seems Simms sings the best songs on the record. Simms has a natural country twang with shows through in “Goin’ Back to the Country.” She would have been a huge asset on the earlier album The Charm of the Highway Strip.

Highlights

Merritt begins the record with “God Wants Us To Wait,” a brief song about waiting until marriage. I assume it’s sung tongue-in-cheek, I take it that way, but you can really read whatever you wish to in it. Shirley Simms sings the song rather earnestly.

What rhymes with “drag?” Merritt answers that question with “Andrew In Drag” by using as many rhymes for drag as he can in one song. Bag, brag, fag, gag, jag, shag, stag, wag. It’s a fun song, but it’s also really sad. “Andrew In Drag” is about a man falling in love with his best friend in drag… sadly he only did it as a gag. He’ll never know love again, now that he’s met Andrew in drag.

“Quick” is probably my favourite song on the album. Another song sung by Simms, this time about giving someone one last chance before heading out the door. It’s one of Merritt’s best.

Lowlights

“I’ve Run Away to Join the Fairies” is terrible. Combined with the dreadful melody and the frequent bursts of electronic noise that jolts the listener out of the song. The song would be better suited to a Gothic Archies record.

Speaking of another Merritt band, The Gothic Archies, “All She Cares About Is Mariachi” feels more like it would fit into a third Merritt band, Future Bible Heroes. Sadly it’s a rather boring song.

28.625 (80%) |

7.375 (20%)

CD: 20.5 (57%) | Vinyl: 12.5 (35%) | Digital: 0 (0%) | 7″: 2 (6%) | Box: 1 (3%)

1960s: 4 (11%) | 1970s: 2 (6%) | 1980s: 1 (3%) | 1990s: 11 (31%) | 2000s: 16 (44%) | 2010s: 2 (3%)

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Posted in: Music , Tagged: Recollection, Stephin Merritt, The Magnetic Fields

Recollection Volume 35 – Work Cut Out

July 3, 2014 11:00 am , Leave a Comment , Adam M. Anklewicz

Recollection is a project to review my record collection. I will listen to an album I own and review it. The album will be chosen randomly by computron. Today computron chooses…

Album: Work Cut Out
Artist: Sloan
Released: 1998
Format(s) I own it on: CD

Chris Murphy’s “Work Cut Out” was released on a CD to come free with Chart Magazine. To celebrate the release of Sloan’s Navy Blues, Chart released four separate covers, each featuring a different member of Sloan.

The song itself is definitely the worst from the Navy Blues session. It never really made it beyond demo quality, but Sloan felt it was a good song to throw to Chart.

The song is repetitive, and a tad annoying, but it’s also really catchy. Murphy has a talent for writing catchy songs, and this was during his high point.

27.625 (79%) |

7.375 (21%)

CD: 20.5 (59%) | Vinyl: 11.5 (33%) | Digital: 0 (0%) | 7″: 2 (6%) | Box: 1 (9%)

1960s: 4 (11%) | 1970s: 2 (6%) | 1980s: 1 (3%) | 1990s: 11 (31%) | 2000s: 16 (46%) | 2010s: 1 (3%)

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Posted in: Music , Tagged: Recollection, Sloan

OS X Server Mavericks

July 2, 2014 9:52 pm , Leave a Comment , Adam M. Anklewicz

Today was supposed to be an easy day. I was telecommuting. I began my day at waking up at the usual time, instead of commuting to work, I went swimming. I got back home for 9 am and got to work. I was a maniac, getting everything I needed done. My to do list was completely checked off by 1:30. So what did I do? I started on tomorrow’s to do list. I had an appointment scheduled that I knew would get in the way of those tasks, so I thought I’d start them.

Task 1: Back up both Macintosh servers.

Task 2: Install OS X 10.9 Mavericks

Task 3: Download and install Server.app version 3, and follow prompts to migrate server settings.

It’s supposedly a pretty simple task, until you are faced with…

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Server.app is great for a central location to manage your OS X server, but when something goes wrong… like this… there’s no information. I hate you, Apple.

What am I going to do?

I will make a Mountain Lion install USB drive. Boot into that, and pull up Disk Utility.

The OS is sitting on a mirrored internal RAID. I will disconnect the RAID, wipe one of the drives, rename it “OSHD_Use” to differentiate it from its buddy “OSHD.”

From there I’ll use Time Machine to restore the Backup drive to OSHD_Use.

After that, install Mavericks (10.9) once again, and download Server.app 3, and try again.

And hoorah! It worked! Took me about five hours, but it worked.

Next to the South Campus, where after I started the Mavericks install, it just won’t come back up on Remote Desktop (ARD3). Sigh.

I went to the South Campus, and found that it had an error message of a failed install. I rebooted the server, and it took me to the generic 10.9 create an admin account screen. I went to get a Firewire 800 cable, booted in target disk mode, confirmed that the files were still stored there, confirmed the latest Time Machine Backup was there, rebooted and told it to recover from Time Machine. It’s now ten to 10pm, so I’m gonna go home and check on this in the morning.

Posted in: Information Technology

Recollection Volume 34 – Californication

June 30, 2014 11:00 am , Leave a Comment , Adam M. Anklewicz

Recollection is a project to review my record collection. I will listen to an album I own and review it. The album will be chosen randomly by computron. Today computron chooses…

Album: Californication
Artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers
Released: 1999
Format(s) I own it on: CD

RedHotChiliPeppersCalifornication I’m not a Red Hot Chili Peppers fan. I do remember when Californication came out, and a number of the songs were huge hits. I liked the title track and “Scar Tissue” but not enough to actually purchase the album. This album made its way into my collection, as it was sitting in my apartment building’s book exchange. I figured free was a good price for two decent songs. Beyond those two songs, this is the first time I’ve listened to the record.

Californication almost seems like a pop-parody of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ sound. If I were a fan of the band, I would probably be disappointed with this album’s sound, but as someone who knows their hits and ignores the rest, meh, it’s okay.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers sound is kind of painful. It’s all attack, at all times. They often forget the melody in favour of a pounding bass and drum, which is strange for songs so poppy.

It’s actually a hard album to sit through. All the good songs are on the first side, and most of them aren’t THAT good.

Highlights

I still have no idea what Anthony Kiedis sings in “Scar Tissue,” but I don’t think it matters. The melody is pretty, and it’s a catchy song to mumble along to. Oh, Google tells me it’s, “With the birds I’ll share this lonely view.” I guess that makes sense. *shrugs*

Lowlights

“Get On Top” is terrible. Absolutely terrible.

I think it I was a Red Hot Chili Peppers fan, I might enjoy “Around The World,” but no. It’s terrible.

“Emit Remmus” sounds like it could be a Mighty Boosh song.

26.625 (78%) |

7.375 (22%)

CD: 19.5 (57%) | Vinyl: 11.5 (34%) | Digital: 0 (0%) | 7″: 2 (6%) | Box: 1 (9%)

1960s: 4 (12%) | 1970s: 2 (6%) | 1980s: 1 (3%) | 1990s: 10 (29%) | 2000s: 16 (47%) | 2010s: 1 (3%)

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Posted in: Music , Tagged: Recollection, Red Hot Chili Peppers

Recollection Volume 33 – Real Love

June 27, 2014 11:00 am , Leave a Comment , Adam M. Anklewicz

Recollection is a project to review my record collection. I will listen to an album I own and review it. The album will be chosen randomly by computron. Today computron chooses…

Album: Real Love
Artist: The Beatles
Released: 1996
Format(s) I own it on: CD

Real-love1 This four song CD single was released in 1996 along-side The Beatles’ collection of bootlegs and rarities. The Anthology project was huge. My family watched the documentary as it aired on ABC, I bought the VHS box set and watched it over and over and over again. I bought all three double-disc Anthology CD sets. When I was in Vancouver, I saw a record store selling both the CD single for Free As A Bird and Real Love.

Those two songs were recorded from demos made by John Lennon. These unfinished songs were handed to the surviving Beatles by Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono. After Lennon’s murder on December 8, 1980, there was no hope The Beatles could ever reunite. There’s absolutely no way The Beatles could exist without John Lennon. The Beatles were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr and without one of them, it wouldn’t be The Beatles.

This was the next best thing. A home recording of John Lennon’s which surviving The Beatles could clean up and overdub onto. The final result was… okay. It’s a good song. It’s not brilliant, but it’s a good song. Is it as good as the output that made the band legendary, probably not, but it’s enjoyable.

The three B-sides on the record are a live rendition of “Baby’s In Black” which is often overwhelmed by the screaming of teenage girls, a remix of “Yellow Submarine,” and a basic track of “Here, There and Everywhere.”

“Baby’s In Black” was recorded at Hollywood Bowl in 1965, but that song wasn’t included on the American released Live At The Hollywood Bowl. Lennon introduces the song in a very John Lennon fashion.

The remix of “Yellow Submarine” puts the sound effects more prominent. It’s not anything you’d want to listen to when you have the proper release of the song.

“Here, There And Everywhere” is a stripped down recording. Paul McCartney’s guiding vocals really illustrate how sweet his voice is. There’s a few bum notes on the recording, but you can really see what makes McCartney one of the great songwriters and singers. Near the end of the song, the Beatle harmonies come in and prove just how good those Beatles really were.

25.625 (78%) |

7.375 (22%)

CD: 18.5 (56%) | Vinyl: 11.5 (35%) | Digital: 0 (0%) | 7″: 2 (6%) | Box: 1 (3%)

1960s: 4 (12%) | 1970s: 2 (6%) | 1980s: 1 (3%) | 1990s: 9 (27%) | 2000s: 16 (48%) | 2010s: 1 (3%)

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Posted in: Music , Tagged: George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Recollection, Ringo Starr, The Beatles

Recollection Volume 32 – The Life Pursuit

June 24, 2014 11:00 am , Leave a Comment , Adam M. Anklewicz

Recollection is a project to review my record collection. I will listen to an album I own and review it. The album will be chosen randomly by computron. Today computron chooses…

Album: The Life Pursuit
Artist: Belle & Sebastian
Released: 2006
Format(s) I own it on: CD

Thelifepursuitcover Belle & Sebastian’s 2006 album The Life Pursuit was well into their career. It was over a decade since Stuart Murdoch had put the band together and masterminded Tigermilk, and album that can be best described at “perfect.”

By this point, the band had a pretty loyal following, they were sure who they were, and found a way to incorporate the other members in leading roles. Violinist Sarah Martin and guitarist Stevie Jackson take their turn with songwriting. The three of them harmonize together to create a lush sound.

The Life Pursuit can best be described as pop. “Sugary sweet” would be pretty apt. Though Murdoch isn’t the only songwriter in the band at this point, he is the band leader for a reason. His songs are the standouts.

The three singles, “Funny Little Frog,” “The Blues Are Still Blue,” and “White Collar Boy” are pop mastery. These songs have such catchy melodies that would dare any ass not to move to the rhythm.

While I love this record, it is not without its faults. Jackson’s songwriting ability seems to slip, and the album goes on a bit too long, fizzling out at the end.

Highlights… this is gonna be long.

“Funny Little Frog” is undoubtably the best song on this record. Murdoch sings about the how wonderful unrequited love can be. There’s no expectation that can be let down, as Murdoch describes a perfect relationship with someone he’s never even met.

A love story between two convicts from different backgrounds, “White Collar Boy” is an insanely well craft pop song. The call and answer structure to the song has been done many times before, but they do this well.

“The Blues Are Still Blues” is just damn good. Singalong, trust me, it’s worth it. Even if you can’t sing, like me, singalong. You’ll have a good time. This is probably the best song ever written about laundry.

How can you not love “Sukie In The Graveyard?” Once again, Murdoch is singing about an outsider. The entire band comes together almost perfectly. With Mick Cooke’s trumpet playing and orchestration, Murdoch’s vocals, Bobby Kildea’s fabulous bass line, and Richard Colburn’s great drumming… but what is with that horrible guitar solo from Stevie Jackson?

“Dress Up In You” is the tale of a woman who feels alienated by her friend who was more successful than her. They had expected the make it big together, but instead the protagonist sings about her jealousy, disappointment, and anger. Murdoch takes lead vocals on this song, rather than passing them to Sarah Martin. Martin, who does provide backing vocals often doubles Murdoch’s vocals. Her very high voice fills out the soundscape nicely.

Did you ever want to hear three-part harmonies singing “the ref are giving us fuck all?” Then you’re in luck, as “Another Sunny Day” delivers. This song is a perfect highlight of Stuart Murdoch’s beautiful, but slightly strange vocals, complimenting it is a catchy riff played masterfully by Jackson. We do have to address the elephant in the room. “Eskimo” is not an appropriate term for the Inuit. Also, that you “heard the [Inuit] remove obstructions with tones” is an oddly strange stereotype. From what I understand, Inuit generally remove the implied snow obstructions with shovels. They probably buy the shovels from Canadian Tire.

Lowlights

Stevie. No. Please no. What were you thinking? “To Be Myself Completely” is horrible, and perhaps the worst Stevie Jackson song.

“For The Price Of A Cup Of Tea,” however, is not horrible. It’s a decent song. It’s just middling and put at the point in the album where it should have ended already. “Act of the Apostle II” should have been the end of the record.

“Mornington Crescent” is about a disused tube station in London. Apparently Murdoch like to fantasize about what’s outside of that station. London’s version of “Bessarian,” I guess. It’s actually a really pretty song, but it’s so slow, and doesn’t move at all, while I enjoy the song, within the first minute I’ll often be so tired of the song that I’ll just move on to another album.

24.625 (77%) |

7.375 (23%)

CD: 17.5 (55%) | Vinyl: 11.5 (36%) | Digital: 0 (0%) | 7″: 2 (6%) | Box: 1 (3%)

1960s: 4 (13%) | 1970s: 2 (6%) | 1980s: 1 (3%) | 1990s: 8 (25%) | 2000s: 16 (50%) | 2010s: 1 (3%)

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Posted in: Music , Tagged: Belle & Sebastian, Recollection, Stuart Murdoch

Recollection Volume 31 – Hold it Together

June 21, 2014 11:00 am , Leave a Comment , Adam M. Anklewicz

Recollection is a project to review my record collection. I will listen to an album I own and review it. The album will be chosen randomly by computron. Today computron chooses…

Album: Hold It Together
Artist: $100
Released: 2007
Format(s) I own it on: CD

Once upon a time, my friend Daniel and I went to see Rick White performing in a church in downtown Toronto. His opening act was a duo known as $100¹ I sat in awe as Simone Schmidt sang beautiful songs to this church crowd. Ian Russell provided backing vocals and and guitar. Apparently by that time they had a pedal steel player, but he was unable to perform at that show. White would later get them signed to Blue Fog Records and produce their first record. In the meantime they had CD-Rs for sale called Hold It Together.

The five song EP Hold It Together lived up to the potential of that first live show. Schmidt is a storyteller. Her songs might be personal, but there’s always a layer of distance between the singer and the song. Her songs could be perfect. They weren’t always perfect, but when it happened, it really happened. Hold It Together is the weakest of the band’s output, but it really shows the potential of what they would become.

Highlights

I never cum, but it don’t matter
I could be any other girl
My head planted on that pillow
My eyes fixed up above
Is this what they meant when they sang “Careless Love”

“Careless Love” would make it onto their first album. It’s a song about a woman in an unhappy relationship. It’s the tale of a woman leaving. She needs to find the happiness that the man she was sleeping with cannot provide. It’s an amazing song, one of my all time favourites. I don’t say that liberally.

Not quite as perfect, but still a brilliant song is “Nine Hundred Miles.” It’s a train song that shows off Russell’s guitar playing, guitar playing which seemed to get buried as the band grew.

Lowlights

I don’t think it’s really a lowlight, but I feel I need to address this. “San Andreas Fault” is “Sin City” by The Flying Burrito Brothers. I think it’s intentional, but it’s a bit weird.

“Marbridar” is the only song other than “Careless Love” that made its way to the bands full length debut. I never understood why. It’s probably my least favourite song on the EP.

23.75 (76%) |

7.25 (24%)

CD: 16.5 (53%) | Vinyl: 11.5 (37%) | Digital: 0 (0%) | 7″: 2 (6%) | Box: 1 (3%)

1960s: 4 (13%) | 1970s: 2 (6%) | 1980s: 1 (3%) | 1990s: 8 (26%) | 2000s: 15 (48%) | 2010s: 1 (3%)

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Pronounced “One hundred dollars.” [↩]

Posted in: Music , Tagged: $100, Recollection, Simone Schmidt

Recollection Volume 30 – When I Was Young

June 18, 2014 11:00 am , Leave a Comment , Adam M. Anklewicz

Recollection is a project to review my record collection. I will listen to an album I own and review it. The album will be chosen randomly by computron. Today computron chooses…

Album: When I Was Young
Artist: Eddie Fisher
Released: 1965
Format(s) I own it on: Vinyl

According to Wikipedia¹, Eddie Fisher’s When I Was Young is a re-recording of his previous hits. Some people might think that Darth Vader is Princess Leia’s father, but I’m pretty sure Eddie Fisher was.

His songs suit the big band sound. While the album was released in 1965, it was obvious right away that he didn’t fit into that decade. His songs are traditional and his voice soars, he fits more in the 1940s and 1950s. Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry should have been the final nail in his coffin.

Looking at his discography, it seems that might have actually happened. The sappy sounds he produced were quickly ignored in favour of the fervour raising rock and roll he could not compete with.

The record is not really my style, but it’s not bad. I could see putting this on for a party more than anything else. Fisher’s voice is strong, the man knows how to sing. Much better than Princess Leia’s other father.

Highlights

“Oh, My Papa” is a classic that I know from my childhood. I don’t know if it’s Fisher’s performance of the song that I so recall, but it’s a classic. I do think I know it more in the original German version “O mein Papa.”

“Wish You Were Here” starts off the second side, and while the intro is painful, it gets into this Sinatra-esque groove that is beautiful. The strings are atrocious, but we can ignore that.

Much like “Wish You Were Here,” if you ignore the intro and outro to “I’m Yours,” it’s a pretty good song.

Lowlights

I’m trying not to laugh at “Dungaree Doll,” but it’s kind of hard not to. I want to dance to this.

Gonna make a chain of paperclips
And chain us together while I kiss your lips
Dungaree doll, dungaree doll

“Lady of Spain.” No. Just, no.

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CD: 15.5 (52%) | Vinyl: 11.5 (38%) | Digital: 0 (0%) | 7″: 2 (7%) | Box: 1 (3%)

1960s: 4 (13%) | 1970s: 2 (7%) | 1980s: 1 (3%) | 1990s: 8 (26%) | 2000s: 14 (46%) | 2010s: 1 (3%)

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The source of all human knowledge [↩]

Posted in: Music , Tagged: Eddie Fisher, Recollection

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