Music

it looks like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= Minus the fancy parenthesis

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Genesis, one of the most powerful songs I’ve ever heard.

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Anytime you stepped into the Madhouse on Madison Avenue and heard this song, you knew you were boned.

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Thank you LW for getting me back into GnR, lol I love this song to death

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Sound familiar??? 0.o

*(Sorry to all our members not from the U.S. if it doesn’t)

No? Oookkaay!

http://soundcloud.com/project-signet/nobody-here-for-you-build-1-4

Drat. Can’t imbed the soundcloud link. Oh, well. 🙄

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http://grooveshark.com/playlist/Epic/58807478

http://grooveshark.com/playlist/Best+Of+K+ON/50506283

http://grooveshark.com/playlist/Blur+Game+Licensed+Soundtrack+partial/29797224

http://grooveshark.com/playlist/SSX+s+Best+Of+Slope+Slicing/26903521

http://www.wimp.com/rollingguzheng/

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I figured I would share :Cheeks:

Speaking of Talking Heads, here is one of my personal favorites. I still havent found a song that so accurately captures the feeling of being in love, if only for a moment.

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Also here is a great song by David Byrne and Brian Eno. It’s a song about writing a song, but I think of it more as the soundtrack to life.

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And this guy since I just saw him in concert:

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…yeah it’s true, I’m starting to get sucked in to MLP…don’t knock it til ya try it!

http://grooveshark.com/s/Tristan/3cjo1f?src=5

suitably epic

actually most stuff on that album is epic soundtrack stuff.

http://grooveshark.com/s/Protectors+Of+The+Earth/395y4I?src=5

http://grooveshark.com/s/Clash+Of+Empires/3FkQqk?src=5

http://grooveshark.com/s/To+Glory/3TsJLi?src=5

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Oh, and insanely epic keys.

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I love all of the music for the Studio Ghibli films, but this one might just be the best! I hope the show does well enough in London to make it over here!

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We did it, not because it was easy, but because it was hard. I hope to see an event of equal magnitude in my lifetime.

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Best performance of that song, Hetfield’s voice in that concert is amazing.

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has to be the best song. EVER.

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Finally some Maiden, the guitars are just awesome in this song.

So since this thread is about music I will tell you all a cool story that happened to me this week. Basically to sum it up in one sentence, I went and saw my favorite band (Franz Ferdinand) perform live in concert for two days. The first day I was given a song dedication by name from the band and placed on the guest list for the second show because I had made them a fan video on YouTube and sent it to them on Twitter. They stopped the show and said:

“Before we start again, Is there a (my name) in the crowd? *crowd points to me* You made the video right? *I nod* This next song is for you! Thanks for the video!”

The second day I was handed a pair of drum sticks by the drummer. These were my first two concerts that I had paid for (other than free university concerts). It was the best two days of my life.

Here is a picture I took of them!

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I guess since this seems to be a popular music thread right now

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Unfortunately, due to his popularity stateside he’s been picked up by the same label that owns Beiber…now, I wish Psy the best and all, but dammit he’s too good to be associated with Beiber in any way, so they better not make him do collaborations with him!

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Finally got around to making this recording, Black Sabbath’s paranoid sung with original lyrics and played with a few little improvisations I’ve made.

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That was pretty sweet, L! Also, nice to see what you look like.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adx6Rdrf5RQ&feature=youtu.be

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMLevNlLQK0&feature=relmfu

Two more songs from my repertoire played back to back whilst i don my leathers and a tie i found and have taken to wear in the style of a certain character.

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And thanks for the videos.

And… MY TURN!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlN078PGOYE&t=1m22s

[sorry the audio’s lousy. Poor mic placement.]

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There’s just too much awesome in this song to be confined to just my head!

What can I say? I had fun learning how to record loops.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek6EnvNkGrA

Here, I threw together this rendition of “Dimensions of Love” in a couple hours:

https://soundcloud.com/project-signet/renai-no-jiku

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If you’re new to this sorta’ thing, you gotta’ check it out (you can search “platinum disco [practically anything] mashup” and you’ll find something).

p.s. ForWashuu (as per request): how bout dat dem der Night Fears? :AAANND:

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Heres my favorite song, from what is quite possibly my favorite band.

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[you might want to expand the window. ;]

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I love the band Red! *squee* One if not my favorite band ever.

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The kings of Dark/Doom Jazz have returned with quite possibly their most balanced work since Sunset Mission. Sultry, seductive – yet mysterious. The downtempo end to a night at the Jazz club, perhaps locking eyes with a mistress as the final cigarettes burn to ash and everyone leaves into the chilly air of the deep hour of the night.

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(Also, there is a good translation of the lyrics here: http://canis.dragons-wing.net/chara/miruku.txt )

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Been having fun with some Tenchi ideas based on some Morphine songs lately…

That brass…

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Lately I’ve been returning to the script and making some changes and I figure I could share a little bit of the sound that embodies the performance, by the artists whom I would want in on said production.

The Aether:

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A presence whose very existence floats between the quietest moments. Its spiritual energy forming the base from which all things depend. A percussive and bass-heavy manipulated guitar treatment serves as the musical half of the performance.

The Willow:

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A spirit trapped inside the body of a giant tree, lurching over from age and sorrow. It is the centerpiece of the forest where it lies yet there is an inescapable feeling of neglect on display. Those who hear her tales are blessed with the knowledge of several generations’ past but soon that voice shall be silent. An orchestral arrangement led by a Cello is the musical accompaniment for the Willow.

The Earth:

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The whole of the stage for this drama. The Earth’s contributions are essential for the backdrop, yet are only heard and never seen. Projected sounds of nature timed and mixed on the fly into and surrounding the audience is the entirety of his performance.

The Narrator:

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Our translator, our guide to the sounds we have tuned out of our daily lives. He speaks for which cannot. His voice will not steer us every moment, only serving as a movement between each respective act of the performance and the final thing heard in the finale. He could take any shape or form, blend in with each scene or act as an outside observer much the same as the viewer.

It’s kind of one of my own personal passion projects and I doubt the music will be of much interest to anyone but myself but I haven’t exactly talked about this to people before. I don’t know why but I figured I might as well start now.

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And, dear lord, I’d forgotten how pumped I get listening to this song. (The studio version, that is. Which is not on Youtube for some reason.)

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Edit: Okay… why isn’t the link showing as a video? I used the BBvideo button-thingy…

For Oderus o7, Thanks for the decades of unique music

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I could sleep for days to her voice.

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….No I’m not implying anything

She Loves Us I think is a pretty good selection to illustrate what it is like to live on the edge of madness as only Michael Gira knows how to do. Though, Chuck will be pleased to hear that St. Vincent does guest vocals on several tracks on the album as well~

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First up is a collaboration he did with German glitch musician Alva Noto.

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Ryuichi plays live piano while Alva cuts up, samples and provides percussive beats by manipulating the sound. They did 5 albums together but Insen is my favorite because of the dreamy sound. Some of the others used unsettling sounds or high pitched tones and I don’t care too much for those. The mingling of interspersed live samplings really makes this almost dance-able.

Next up is his last collaborative album with Austrian guitarist and texture artist Fennesz.

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Fennesz provides a fuzzy, lush backdrop through careful guitar treatment to Sakamoto’s slow, downtempo keystrokes. You can hear bits of the natural guitar sound try to pierce the cloudy sky, or on occasion hear it turn almost synth-like. Sakamoto’s composition is introspective and tinged with feelings of regret, nostalgia and on occasion a bit of hope.

For something a bit different, here’s a piece he did for David Sylvian’s album Dead Bees on a Cake.

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Instead of his usual Piano compositions, we see his interest in World Music come out. He used programmed instruments and guitar to give the track an exotic sound. He and Sylvian have collaborated on at least 5 albums together over the years with each one having a fairly distinct tone compared to the others.

But, perhaps most familiar to people is this little ditty:

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Kick cancer’s ass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XTiJHcrmIU

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This song is a very special one for me because it was the first piece of music I heard when I had my “musical awakening.” For the first half of my life I really didn’t listen or care about music at all. I was aware of the groups and songs that were popular with my peers, of course, but I had no personal connection with music. All that changed one night at a church sponsored lock-in I attended in junior high. I borrowed my mom’s iPod to occupy my time after everybody had gone to sleep, and I randomly selected a playlist innocuously titled “80’s music.” I literally spent the next six hours in abject astonishment as song after song, album after album, poured into my head and completely changed my world. The bands and songs I listened to that night (Peter Gabriel, Talking Heads, U2, Jars of Clay, etc.) have stuck with me all these years, and radically altered the way I look at the world of music and art, but it all started with this one song, that one night…

In honor of the recent announcement

A really good band I’ve picked up on for the last month or two. Best listen I’ve had in a while.

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Now, a decade after their debut album comes their second full-length. More refined and focusing on the groovy aspects rather than the raw energy of the first album, it isn’t a retread but rather a maturation of the sound they introduced in 2004. Kinda tempted to pick up my bass again and try to teach myself the songs like I did for the debut way back in the day.

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Haida preferred to listen to instrumental music, chamber music, and vocal recordings. Music where the orchestral component was loud and prominent wasn’t to his liking. Tsukuru wasn’t very interested in classical music (or any other music, for that matter), but he did enjoy listening to it with Haida.

As they listened to one piano recording, Tsukuru realized that he’d heard the composition many times in the past. He didn’t know the title, however, or the composer. It was a quiet, sorrowful piece that began with a slow, memorable theme played out as single notes, then proceeded into a series of tranquil variations. Tsukuru looked up from the book he was reading and asked Haida what it was.

“Franz Liszt’s ‘Le mal du pays.’ It’s from his Years of Pilgrimage suite’ Year 1: Switzerland.'”

“‘Le mal du…’?”

“‘Le mal du pays.’ It’s French. Usually it’s translated as ‘homesickness,’ or ‘melancholy.’ If you put a finer point on it, it’s more like ‘a groundless sadness called forth in a person’s heart by a pastoral landscape.’ It’s a hard expression to translate accurately.”

“A girl I know used to play that piece a lot. A classmate of mine in high school.”

“I’ve always liked this piece. It’s not very well known, though,” Haida said. “Was your friend a good pianist?”

“Hard to say. I don’t know much about music. But every time I heard it I thought it was beautiful. How should I put it? It had a calm sadness, but wasn’t sentimental.”

“Then she must have played it well,” Haida said. “The piece seems simple technically, but it’s hard to get the expression right. Play it just as it’s written on the score, and it winds up pretty boring. But go the opposite route and interpret it too intensely, and it sounds cheap. Just the way you use the pedal makes all the difference, and can change the entire character of the piece.”

“Who’s the pianist here?”

“A Russian, Lazar Berman. When he plays Liszt it’s like he’s painting a delicately imagined landscape. Most people see Liszt’s piano music as more superficial, and technical. Of course, he has some tricky pieces, but if you listen very carefully to his music you discover a depth to it that you don’t notice at first. Most of the time it’s hidden behind all the embellishments. This is particularly true of the Years of Pilgrimage suites. There aren’t many living pianists who can play it accurately and with such beauty. Among more contemporary pianists, Berman gets it right, and with the older pianists I’d have to go with Claudio Arrau.”

Haida got quite talkative when it came to music. He went on, delineating the special characteristics of Berman’s performance of Liszt, but Tsukuru barely listened. Instead, a picture of Shiro performing the piece, a mental image, vivid and three-dimensional, welled up in his mind. As if those beautiful moments were steadily swimming back, through a waterway, against the legitimate pressure of time.

The Yamaha grand piano in the living room of her house. Reflecting Shiro’s conscientiousness, it was always perfectly tuned. The lustrous exterior without a single smudge or fingerprint to mar its luster. The afternoon light filtering in through the window. Shadows cast in the garden by the cypress trees. The lace curtain wavering in the breeze. Teacups on the table. Her black hair, neatly tied back, her expression intent as she gazed at the score. Her ten long, lovely fingers on the keyboard. Her legs, as the precisely depressed the pedals, possessed a hidden strength that seemed unimaginable in other situations. Her calves were like glazed porclean, white and smooth. Whenever she was asked to play something, this piece was the one she most often chose. “Le mal du pays.” The groundless sadness called forth in a person’s heart by a pastoral landscape. Homesickness. Melancholy.

As he lightly shut his eyes and gave himself up to the music, Tsukuru felt is chest tighten with a disconsolate, stifling feeling, as if, before he realized it, he’d swallowed a hard lump of cloud. The piece ended and went on the the next track, but he said nothing, simply allowing those scenes to wash over him. Haida shot him an occasional glance.

“If you don’t mind, I’d like to leave this record here. I can’t listen to it in my dorm room anyway,” Haida said as he slipped the LP back into its jacket.

Even know this three-disc boxed set was still in Tsukuru’s apartment. Nestled right next to Barry Manilow and the Pet Shop Boys.

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Hitting at the very end of the album (or second to last, with the hidden track that comes after it), a Song for the Deaf brings the fictional car-ride the listener goes on to a close. Only, just as the wheels peak at the top of the crest on a hill in the desert, one begins to realize that what’s on the other side wasn’t just more sand and open road. Rather, a pit to the underworld itself has cracked the surface of the earth and a small push from an unseen force sends us careening downward into it.

While the album never shied away from religious imagery, Song for the Deaf was like a slap to the face when you hit it. The way the guitars sounded just so off, the screaming of bassist Nick Oliveri barking in the background in pained cries, it all painted the sky with such a hellish aura. It was as though the road trip we went on wasn’t to go back home, but to go to hell itself.

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In the 70s, Rózmann had begun to process a performance piece utilizing musique concrète and electroacoustic improvisation to represent forces of good and evil. Much to his displeasure at the time, he had difficulty having the more optimistic side of the “good” come through – he noticed that elements used for the evil side tended to decay whatever positive effects the good would bring. He began to use that to his advantage and the finished piece is an almost hallucinatory trip through the darkest corners of existence. Each piece sits freely, muscles tensely coiling, awaiting its turn to strike out.

Screams, howls, warbling metal pieces, chiming bells and other sounds both natural and alien to our ears comprise the battle. It is a deeply unsettling, at times outright disturbing, artistic rendition of a war that’s been fought since the beginning of time and shall continue to rage on long after humanity has perished.

Headphones are very much recommended to take in the finest details, though be warned that there are quite a few sharp increases in volume.

Opeth is easily one of my favorite groups in existence. They can go from doing growls and pure out gothic death metal sounds to mellow jazz infused melodies. In this song, well, in this album, they took a route I really enjoyed. A very retro feel of 70’s progressive rock. The ambience throughout the album is just phenomenal. Steven Wilson from Porcupine Tree also helped put this album together with the group and you can hear a LOT of influence from his assistance.

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Having actually gotten to see this song live minus the choir, I can, in fact, confirm that living through it is similar to witnessing a satanic birthing ritual. The buildup of the organ, droning wall of guitars and fallen angelic voices decrying the heaven which forgot them all leads to Attila Csihar’s inhumanly robotic exclamation of “Megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért”, the longest hungarian word, speaking on one’s inability to be desecrated. Desecration by what, exactly? We don’t know. All I can imagine is being at the center of a podium with a hooded figure standing above me, waving a bony, clawed hand mere inches from my body. Each toll of the bell a punctuation on the final moments of my life.

Honestly, pretty much any of Sunn O)))’s output could work here. But I feel that Big Church represents them at their most experimental, as well as their most digestible. If you’re feeling particularly frisky, peruse their fine output for some chilling dark ambient and black metal drones.

And finally:

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David Tibet and Current 93 are very well known for their interest in the occult, unsettling poetry dominating most of the lyrical content in their body of work. The Starres are Marching Sadly Home is the third part of “The inmost light” trilogy, which used a series of repeated words, phrases and sounds as part of the central theme. The trilogy began on a lush but tense note, and ended in the middle of the woods surrounded by the folds of reality tearing apart with the swaying of the breeze with Starres.

While less strictly musical, it is an exemplary track that I always bring up when referring to the power of audio above all else when creating an unsettling atmosphere. Everything from the way Tibet chants to the echoing of a vinyl record looping constantly through an open window at the edge of the forest. The way the forest breathes with a low-key chorus and the wood of trees unseen creak from pressure and decay. A the very end, a motherly voice assures us everything will be okay with a gentle lullaby. But there’s no love to her voice. It’s almost taunting the listener in a way, reassuring them of their hopelessness in the situation.

Happy Halloween, everybody.

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Stephen O’ Malley has emerged from the depths of the underworld with multi-instrumentalist mastermind of composition Oren Ambarchi and Japan’s free-jazz minimalist warlock Keiji Haino in a new 4 song sequel to 2012’s self-titled “Nazoranai”. A brutal assault on the senses, O’Malley trades his usual axes for a bass guitar, Ambarchi helms a stampeding frenzy behind the drumkit, while Haino-san provides gurgling synths, spastic improvised guitar riffs and vocals not unlike a Banshee trapped in the void. This first track, You Should Look Closely / Those Shattered Spells / Never Attaining Embodiment as Prayer / They Are Born Here Again illustrates the sheer power behind their performances and highlights why each of these players are considered top men in their respective fields.

Noisy, ritualistic, bleak. Fantastically challenging listen.

Thoughts?

https://soundcloud.com/project-signet/signetmuse-sing-for-absolution-11

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https://soundcloud.com/project-signet/lonely-island-demo

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the original

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After the first two albums, the band has released two albums of covers. The first was a live album with entirely covers of songs by Queen. The second was just released this past January, entitled “The Cover Up”. The cover art for this album is awesome, and the music is damn good. The album features covers of songs by Phil Collins, Stix, Queen, Iron Maiden, Roy Orbison, and others. Here are a few of them.

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I still await Act III. Don’t fail me, Protomen. gendo1

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David Klavins is a German piano maker who specializes in large-scale instruments. His Modell 370 holds the record for largest piano currently built. He’s aiming to break this record, and Nils is dedicating all profits from this album towards the 120,000 Euro required to construct this new machine. Say hello to the Klavins M450:

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Nils performs every piece on this album, -Solo-, on the “prototype” M370. His understanding of space between keystrokes and allowing the room to be filled with a single sound to powerful effect really shines on such a monster of an instrument. It won’t be an experience for everyone, but this marriage of musicianship and craftsmanship makes for a beautiful pairing that shouldn’t be missed by any fan of modern classical stylings.

Kung Fury Soundtrack playlist on youtube

Barbarianna is my favorite

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I happen to unearth one while doing some recovery work.

Korean

Because I’m A Girl by KISS

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Decade old, the quality had suffered quite a bit but it has complete lyrics unlike above.

english

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Hey, kind of a theme here, eh? 90s gems coming back for one last hurrah and whatnot.

Tenchismile

Am listening to this atm but I’m into various genres and artists. A few of my favourite artists are Fleetwood Mac, Lady Gaga, Skrillex (Dubstep in general), Evanescence, My Chemical Romance, Fallout Boy, Sleeping With Sirens, Paramore, Twenty One Pilots, and quite a few others.