The Specials with The Specials

from the very end of 1979
where reggae meets postpunk
actually produced by Elvis Costello


my Never Until Now Really Heard Record # 19:7
by kinda chakra based evaluation from Root to Crown


most Survive-Struggling song : STUPID MARRIAGE

most Sexy Teasing song : MONKEY MAN [cover]

most Mighty Strongfelt song : GANGSTERS [the Single]

most Beautifully Lovable song : DOESN'T MAKE IT ALRIGHT

most Expressively Amusing song : DO THE DOG

most Introspective Dreamlike song : NITE CLUB - what am I doing here?!

most Whole Soulful song : (DAWNING OF A) NEW ERA


Below and/or Above everyone : TOO MUCH TOO YOUNG



Reminds me most of : 
Madness
Jam
Kinks
Traffic
Sly & Family Stone
Stranglers
Xtc



Whole Album

(6) compositions
(6) instrumentations
(6) singin' /playin' feelin'
(5) lyrics (incl titles)
(5) variation
(3) synchronization
(4) cover /concept
(7) historical importance

= 42

I now give 1-7 for each cathegory
where 3 is good and total possible 8 x 7 = 56 never exist(?)


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Pieces Recently (Re)discovered, Musical Body 19:2

while summer shines already
though whole April but
finally rains again



Crown chakra


HIGHLAND

with One More Time
by Nanne and Peter Grönvall
from Highland -92



Eye chakra

TIME TO GO

with Saga
from Silent Knight -80



Throat chakra

QUIET

with Ian Dury & The Blockheads
from Do it Yourself -79



Heart chakra

BLUE MOON (alone)

with Pat Boone
from Moody River -61

after repeating Elvis Sun Sessions



Solar Plexus chakra

GHOST TOWN

with The Specials
from single -81



Sex chakra

ANNA and/or X TELLING ME ABOUT THE LOSS OF SOMETHING DEAR, AT AGE 16

with Hello Saferide
from More Modern Short Stories of Hello Saferide -08



Root chakra

HALF A WORLD AWAY

with R.E.M.
from Out of Time -91






+ Special Spinning Darling Now 
cross every chakra or none :



BABY, NOW THAT I'VE FOUND YOU

with The Foundations -67
by Macaulay & Macleod

and may more from compilation Buttercups & Rainbows -01
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJPIVC_X4l0



also Above and/or Below everyone :

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY
by Queen -75

with just piano played by blind boy Avett
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOrqLME1CFY







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my Top 39 among Albums Released 1979

-79 seems to me a bit superficial, strange year in music history. Of course many splendid songs were made, in creative styles. But to find whole concepts fantastic enough (in my ears) became a quite sluggish, still unfulfilled process.

From Breakfast To Breakfast

including a favourite track from each

1. BREAKFAST IN AMERICA

Supertramp

Take The Long Way Home

2. DISCOVERY

Electric Light Orchestra

Confusion

3. ARMED FORCES

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

Green Shirt

4. REALITY EFFECT*

The Tourists

= Stewart & Lennox early band
where Peet Coombes was great composer

The Loneliest Man in The World

* in fact released -80
though "The Tourists" -79
probably would feel as good as this

5. THE FINE ART OF SURFACING

Boomtown Rats

(Tell Me Why) I Don't Like Mondays

6. LONDON CALLING

Clash

The Card Cheat

7. THE RAVEN

Stranglers

Duchess

8. THE AGE OF PLASTIC

Buggles

Elstree

[Released rather in January -80] 

9. pH7

Peter Hammill

Faculty X

10. MANIFESTO

Roxy Music

Dance Away

11. FEAR OF MUSIC

Talking Heads

Mind

12. THE WALL

Pink Floyd

Comfortably Numb

13. LABOUR OF LUST

Nick Lowe

Switchboard Susan

14. REPEAT WHEN NECESSARY

Dave Edmunds

Girls Talk

15. EVE

Alan Parsons' Project

Winding Me Up

16. A CURIOUS FEELING

Tony Banks

After The Lie

17. I CAN SEE YOUR HOUSE FROM HERE

Camel

Eye of The Storm

18. SPLIT VISION

Björn Skifs

Let Music Live

19. EVOLUTION

Journey

Too Late

20. REPRODUCTION

Human League

Empire State Human

21. KORGIS

Korgis

Dirty Postcards


22. TUSK
Fleetwood Mac

What Makes You Think You're The One?

23. THE BELLS

Lou Reed

City Lights [around Chaplin]

24. DREAM POLICE

Cheap Trick

Way of The World

25. VOULEZ-VOUS

ABBA

Angel Eyes

26. LOVEDRIVE

Scorpions

Always Somewhere

27. HONEST LULLABY

Joan Baez

Let Your Love Flow

28. SPECTRAL MORNINGS

Steve Hackett

The Virgin and The Gypsy

29. STORMWATCH
Jethro Tull

Home

30. DRUMS & WIRES

Xtc

Helicopter

31. GET THE KNACK

The Knack

Lucinda

32. ONE STEP BEYOND

Madness

Bed and Breakfast Man

33. LOOK SHARP!

Joe Jackson

Sunday Papers

34. E LA LUNA BUSSO'

Loredana Bertè

Folle Citta'

35. OCEANS OF FANTASY

Boney M

Bahama Mama

36. ANGEL STATION

Manfred Mann's Earth Band

Belle of The Earth

37. NUMBER ONE IN HEAVEN

Sparks

My Other Voice

38. BACK TO THE EGG

Paul McCartney with Wings

So Glad to See You

39. FATE FOR BREAKFAST

Art Garfunkel

Beyond The Tears

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19 interesting Hubots or Humans

If it would be possible to step into this sci-fi tv-series

called Humans ["Äkta Människor"]

as myself

concerning the original swedish version

which roles would I most willingly interact with??

= a combination of sympathy for + interest in discovering who they are...

regarding episodes 1-9 of First Season from 2012

[here I actually spoil which persons are real humans 

and which persons are created robots = hubots]

1. LENNART by Sten Elfström

the oldest man (whose hubot wasn't possible to update anymore)

2. INGER by Pia Halvorsen

the mother and lawyer

3. ANITA //MIMI by Lisette Pagler

the hubot living in house of the main family

4. ROGER by Leif Andrée

the man who seems to lose everything in this world of hubots

5. APOLONIA(?) by Sara Linderholm

the human potential girlfriend of Tobias

6. SOLVEIG by Agneta Ahlin

the laughing old lady flirting with Lennart

7. GORDON by André Sjöberg

one hubot in the wild group, wanting to become christian

8. BEATRICE by Marie Robertson

the hubot police detective, bonding with Roger

9. SILAS by Peter Viitanen

the illegal collector and fixer of broken hubots

10. JONAS by Måns Nathanaelson

the businessman and seller of hubots

11. SOFIA by Aline Palmstierna

the most expressive daughter

12. LEO by Andreas Wilson

the wild hubot and/or human, searching for Mimi

13. DAVID EISCHER by Thomas W Gabrielsson

the inventor or transformer of hubots

14. FLASH by Josephine Alhanko

the most girlish in wild hubot group

15. MALTE by Jimmy Lindström

the most extreme antagonist to a hubot-filled society

16. HANS by Johan Paulsen

the pragmatic father who brought Anita as a machine to the family

17. THERESE by Camilla Larsson

former wife of Roger, living with her hubot Rick

18. VERA by Anki Larsson

Lennart's new hubot housewife and strict health keeper

19. NISKA by Eva Röse

the smartest wild hubot leader

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Pieces Recently listened to, Musical Body 19:1

(Re)discoveries mostly within field of progressive, softer rock
while snow falls, melts away and falls again



Crown chakra

DON'T LET IT SHOW

by Alan Parsons' Project
sung by Dave Townshend
from I, Robot -77



Eye chakra

HALF ASLEEP, HALF AWAKE

by Henry Cow
from Unrest -74



Throat chakra

GENERALE

by Premiata Forneria Marconi
from Per un Amico -72



Heart chakra

CLOSER TO BELIEVING

by Emerson, Lake & Palmer
from Works vol. 1, side two by Greg Lake -77



Solar Plexus chakra

TROPICAL FISH : SELENE

by Gong
from Camembert Electrique -71



Sex chakra

Fifty-nine ANGELS AT MY GATE

by Manfred Mann's Earth Band
from Angel Station -79



Root chakra

BORTGLÖMDA GÅRDAR

by All Traps On Earth [former Änglagård]
from A Drop of Light -18






+ Special Spinning Darling Now 
cross every chakra or none :


(You've been) WINDING ME UP (too long)

by Alan Parsons' Project
sung by Chris Rainbow
from Eve -79





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I Can See Your House From Here by Camel

in their 1979 shape, still shining fine
though taking too many steps from progressive
into pop, sadly enough without Bardens on keyboards


Rediscovered Record # 19:1
by kinda chakra based evaluation


most Whole Soulful song : WHO WE ARE

most Introspective Dreamlike song : EYE OF THE STORM *

most Expressively Amusing song : REMOTE ROMANCE

most Beautifully Lovable song : HYMN TO HER (or end of Who We Are)

most Mighty Strongfelt song : WAIT

most Sexy Teasing song : NEON MAGIC

most Survive-Struggling song : SURVIVAL (more of an intro)


Above and/or Below everyone : ICE

while single material "Your Love is Stranger Than Mine" there's no big space for in my appreciation


* like a perfect signature melody for some television series!?!



Reminds me most of : 
Genesis
Manfred Mann's Earth Band
10cc
Alan Parsons' Project
Toto
Electric Light Orchestra
Saga



Whole Album

(4) compositions
(7) instrumentations
(6) singin' /playin' feelin'
(4) lyrics (incl titles)
(5) variation
(3) synchronization
(6) cover /concept
(4) historical importance

= 39

I now give 1-7 for each cathegory
where 3 is good and total possible 8 x 7 = 56 never exist(?)


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My Travels Through Progressive Rock... ....49 Golden Milestones

from recent discoveries

or already known pieces deeper listened to

presented backwards

to my first attempts

= a process being seriously active since around 2007

even if my very first impressions was shaped 1997

...while still many bands I hardly know at all

49
APPENA UN PO
Premiata Forneria Marconi
from Per Un Amico -72

48

FRIENDSHIP

Rikard Sjöblom's Gungfly

from Friendship -18

47

ALL TRAPS ON EARTH

All Traps on Earth [former Änglagård]

from A Drop of Light -18

46

NIMROD - THE PROCESSION - THE WHITE RIDER

Camel

from Mirage -74

45

THE REMEMBERING (HIGH THE MEMORY)

Yes

from Tales From Topographic Oceans -73

44

SUPPER'S READY

Genesis

from Foxtrot -72

(also from Genesis Revisited by Hackett -12)

43

FOXLIGHT

Wobbler

from From Silence To Somewhere -17

42

OMMADAWN PART II (incl On Horseback)

Mike Oldfield

from Ommadawn -75

41

THICK AS A BRICK, PART I

Jethro Tull

from Thick As a Brick -72

40

MAN-ERG

Van Der Graaf Generator

from Pawn Hearts -71
Deeper study...

39

KARN EVIL 9

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

from Brain Salad Surgery -73

38

THE CAMERA EYE

Rush

from Moving Pictures -81

37

MISERERE ALLA STORIA

Banco del Mutuo Socorso

from Darwin! -72

36

HIS LAST VOYAGE

Gentle Giant

from Free Hand -75

35
SOME OTHER TIME
Alan Parsons' Project
from I, Robot -77

34

MA HRA

Blue Effect
from Nova Synteza -71

33

MERLIN THE MAGICIAN

Rick Wakeman

from ...King Arthur and The Knights of The Round Table -75

32

THE WATCHMAKER

Steven Wilson

from The Raven that Refused to Sing -13

31

BURNING ROPE

Genesis

from And Then There Were Three -78

30

GARDEN PARTY

Marillion

from Script For a Jester's Tear -83

29

INDOOR GAMES

King Crimson

from Lizard -69

28

EMPEROR IN HIS WAR ROOM

Van Der Graaf Generator

from H To He Who Am The Only One -70

Rediscovered

(or bonus version from Hammill's In Camera -74)

27
FOREVER MORNING
Tony Banks
from A Curious Feeling -79

26
VELVET VOYAGE

Klaus Schulze

from Mirage -77

25

LA PRINCESSE PERDUE

Camel

from The Snow Goose -75

24

WINTER WINE

Caravan

from In The Land of Grey and Pink -71

23

PEEL THE PAINT

Gentle Giant

from Three Friends -73

22

THE LIE (BERNINI'S SAINT THERESA)

Peter Hammill

from The Silent Corner & The Empty Stage -74

21

UNFINISHED SWEET

Alice Cooper

from Billion Dollar Babies -73

20

ALAN'S PSYCHEDELIC BREAKFAST

Pink Floyd

from Atom Heart Mother -70

19

IN THE WAKE OF POSEIDON (incl Libra's Theme)

King Crimson

from In The Wake of Poseidon -70

18

AWAKEN

Yes

from Going For The One -77

17

SONG OF SEVEN

Jon Anderson

from Song of Seven -80

16

MY ROOM (WAITING FOR WONDERLAND)

Van Der Graaf Generator

from Still Life -76

15

SHADOW OF THE HIEROPHANT

Steve Hackett

from Voyage of The Acolyte -75

14

FOOL'S OVERTURE

Supertramp

from Even In The Quitest Moments -77

13

MAD MAN MOON

Genesis

[by Tony Banks]

from A Trick of The Tail -76

12

LIFE

Cat Stevens

from Izitso -77

11

FEEL THE BENEFIT

10cc

from Deceptive Bends -77

10

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY

Queen

from A Night at The Opera -75

9

APRIL

Deep Purple

from Deep Purple -69

8

TAKE A PEBBLE

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

from Emerson, Lake & Palmer -70

7

LITTLE LAMB DRAGONFLY

McCartney's Wings

from Red Rose Speedway -73

6

FROM THE SUN TO THE WORLD (BOOGIE no.1)

Electric Light Orchestra

from ELO 2 -73

5

FIRTH OF FIFTH

Genesis

from Selling England by The Pound -73

4

JULY MORNING

Uriah Heep

from Look at Yourself -71

3

MIGHTY QUINN (LIVE VERSION)

Manfred Mann's Earth Band

from Watch -78

2

THE LOW SPARK OF HIGH HEELED BOYS

Traffic

from The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys -71

1

WILD EYED BOY FROM FREECLOUD

David Bowie

from Space Oddity -69


0
(OPEN THE DOOR) TO THE FAIRYTALE

Di Leva
from Naked Number One -93

some pieces in the end are rather questionable (as always)

whether they really belong to progressive rock or something else??

though the upper majority are represented in forums as progarchives

however my definition is dynamic, kind of rhapsodic, longer pieces

in which rock guitar stuff use to be balanced

by orchestral or organ-based parts

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Pieces Recently listened to, Old Stars Reflected Gold

as my Eighth Musical Body of 2018

while last fresh autumn leaves dies
and another old space is born

7 (or 9) songs, some discoveries
and some still growing deeper




Crown chakra

STARSHIP TROOPER : a) LIFE SEEKER b) DISILLUSION c) WÜRM

by Yes
[Anderson, Howe, Squire]
from The Yes Album -71




Eye chakra

PROVIDENCE
[rather than those night mares]

by King Crimson
[Cross, Fripp, Wetton, Bruford]
from RED -74




Throat chakra

JUDY DO

by Thompson Twins
from Quick Step & Side Kick -83




Heart chakra

ITALIAN SONG

by Jon Anderson & Vangelis
via The Best of Jon & Vangelis -84




Solar Plexus chakra

(Tell Me Why) I DON'T LIKE MONDAYS

by The Boomtown Rats
from The Fine Art of Surfacing -79

more brilliantly overwhelming than ever
as I realise it also got bits of sci-fi potential




Sex chakra

UNDER LIME
"...if you never get caught..."

by Elvis Costello & The Imposters
from Look Now -18

where Costello's singing style
suddenly reminds me much of Bowie's!?!
= never compared them before




Root chakra

(What am I doing Wrong?) I DON'T KNOW

by Paul McCartney
from Egypt Station -18








Below and/or Above All


TO CATCH THE MOON

by Stefan Andersson
from Emperor's Day -92
 +

(Talking to the) MAN IN THE MOON

by Titiyo
from Titiyo -90

better songs than I believed
when finally heard them again, never since then




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Continuing of Tomiro's Novaettir Book

Friday 44:th of October 2048

Do you have too much to do, Tomiro?!?! Almost 1/4 of official time is spent expecting how much time you really spend. Seems you never get finished.... Parallell to your work as cave cleaner in our biggest bicycle labyrinth, you control small clouds before they develope chaotic air behaviour. Tonight you succeded relax enough to read two pages in Metro 2033, the sci-fi-novel you found forgotten under "floor corner 8" in our human appartment you lend. The Moscow-based story was created fourty years ago, long before we dissolved Sweden. Exciting whether you will experience it as nostalgia or still futuristic?!?!




Saturday 45:th of October 2048

Finally we've got an upgrade version of your reality to November [named no.00]. It's tailor-made for non-humans, especially easy to use for your 8-fingered sort of people. Nonetheless you seem to be rather satisfied being stuck in October?! These dirty oil-colours, streaming down & upside every kind of street, you find completely cosy?! Like you have no need for Sankta Tomas to come closer.... Or do you fear that our system would lock your senses inside eternal confusion? Tomiro, you must be conscious without us! Well, we won't install no.00 - until you show more clean curiousity or some deeper shame.






Sunday 71:st of Novaettir 2048

Tonight you felt a new signal behind your heavier heartbeats. Afraid some pieces of darkness gonna rain down from space?! Tomiro, why not light up that strange owl on chimney top, becoming your guardian angel?! Rather you crawl deeper inside this mushroomish sofa, under a castle of blankets. Believe you've already written down your recent dreams?! It's we who makes your total recall. While you're snoozing... inbetween movie scenes left from electrified badger brains. Finally we start what humanity would've called November. Immediately we put you faraway through Novaettir, so you've got more time to reflect - at least back upon.







= more stories made of 100 Words per episode

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Into The Gap with Thompson Twins

Strangely enough I've never really discovered T.T. until now

Well, what a spiritually joyful band they seem to be
without loosing some robotic coolness
like a balance act between the superficial and deep

or at least a tremedously creative record Into The Gap is!!

Don't know if anything can ooze more of 80's than this??
even if more dance pop than my ordinary taste -
had I heard it contemporarily in -84, I would've loved it


as my Autumn Album # 18:6
by kinda chakra based evaluation


most Whole Soulful song : YOU TAKE ME UP

most Introspective Dreamlike song : SISTER OF MERCY

most Expressively Amusing song : DAY AFTER DAY

most Beautifully Lovable song : HOLD ME NOW

most Mighty Strongfelt song : DOCTOR DOCTOR

most Sexy Teasing song : INTO THE GAP

most Survive-Struggling song : STORM ON THE SEA


Above and/or Below everyone : NO PEACE FOR THE WICKED
with a very tricky intro... leading to something quite else



Thompson Twins Reminds me most of : 
Duran Duran
Talking Heads
a-ha
Alphaville
Ultravox
Yazoo
a bit Alan Parsons' Project
Baltimora
Herrey's Brothers
and especially early Tomas Di Leva




Whole Album

(6) compositions
(7) instrumentations
(6) singin' /playin' feelin'
(3) lyrics (incl titles)
(7) variation
(5) synchronization
(4) cover /concept
(6) historical importance

= 44

I now give 1-7 for each cathegory
where 3 is good and total possible 8 x 7 = 56 never exist(?)


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Returning to Costello's masterpiece Imperial Bedroom

Dynamic as hell and heaven, really bitter and really happy, emotionally a bit more complex than the six albums before... still these actual "classical" arrangements makes some pieces the most "pop" Elvis ever has done.

Recorded in October -81. Released in July -82. Discovered by me first -05, deeper -13, now again -18. During -81 the boy I was was rather occupied by discovering Beatles. Only saw Costello on idol cards modern then.

Fantastic work! Produced by Geoff Emerick, who lend a hand to Beatles' post-Pepper records. Cover picture is playing with Picasso's "three musicians", which may represent the band members = The Attractions.


as my Autumn Album # 18:5
by kinda chakra based evaluation


most Whole Soulful song : HUMAN HANDS
["whenever I put my foot in my mouth and you begin to doubt..."]


most Introspective Dreamlike song : BEYOND BELIEF
["through a two-way looking glass you see your Alice"]


most Expressively Amusing song : AND IN EVERY HOME
["sliding down the banisters in your Sunday suit"]


most Beautifully Lovable song : A LONG HONEY MOON
["there's no money back guarantee on future happiness"]


most Mighty Strongfelt song : THE LOVED ONES
["we break wise guys just like matches"]


most Sexy Teasing song : LITTLE SAVAGE
["you do something very special to Mr. Average"]


most Survive-Struggling song : SHABBY DOLL
["in this dress... in distress"]




Above and Below everyone : TOWN CRYER
["just a little boy lost in a big man's shirt"]
also the fast bonus version becomes greatest contrast


Even More Above and Even More Below everyone  : MAN OUT OF TIME
["the high heels he used to be has been ground down"]
still a bit tired on this since I heard it endless times the last time





Whole Album

(7) compositions
(7) instrumentations
(5) singin' /playin' feelin'
(6) lyrics (incl titles)
(5) variation
(2) synchronization
(5) cover /concept
(7) historical importance

= 44

I now give 1-7 for each cathegory
where 3 is good and total possible 8 x 7 = 56 never exist(?)




Harder to grasp for me is why he/they have put almost every slower, melancholic or harsh tune on the A-side - and almost every faster, bouncy or spiritual song on the B-side!! Surely I experience some moods differently than other listeners, but anyhow potential reasons :

Maybe it gives a strange kind of (un)balance? Or he/they prefered a clearly divided album? Or just created them in that order? Or intended to lead from despair up to joy in a longer process? Or to reward the audience who survived the first side?





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Beginning of Tomiro's Never Ending October Book

stories built by 100 words for each diary page



Saturday 31:st of October 2048

Hello, Tomiro! Today you played with some other vaettir. You went out in the swedish streets, where almost no humans live anymore. Many houses miss their doors and windows, so your friends believe they can visit anyone's appartment. Summer has suddenly come back, making it too hot to stay inside your cave. Here those angelic seagulls move air and dust around. You've been told to jump from shadow to shadow, but some little longer sun glimpses won't hurt?? Tomiro, the older vaettir knows more than you think!! However they haven't grasped yet how many humans really died in last tornado.




Sunday 32:nd of October 2048

Good evening, Tomiro! Today you discovered more traces of this Earth's growing ending ...or what you believe to be destructive. Mushrooms have begin intertwining themselves with books and even smartphones left after dead cities. Monstruous flies pretend to be weak, then eat up swollen spiders too lazy to crawl away. Close to a castle you saw Big Ants' Parade collecting human gold for their church. You don't know whether that's a perverted or progressive sign. Today was less hot than yesterday - so we hope you vaettir people will catch classical autumn inbetween?! Though tonight Sweden dives fast, facing ice again.




Monday 33:rd of October 2048

This frosty morning you saw some kind of nuclear robot?!? It just stood there, outside the never closed food store, and stared at you!?! Tomiro, we think you felt that creature was of russian heritage - and had something clearly mystical to do with the disappearance of humans, in parallell to these ordinary tornados. So you didn't dare fixing some breakfast... but strolled around from museum to museum of every half-empty kind, which during human times were closed on mondays... until early evening when your vaettir companions made a party of today's collected treasures. Tonight the summer warmth has come back.







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