Listen up.

Pick a band and a handful (around 3) of must-listen to songs by that band.

I'll start.

Black Star
- Respiration
- K.O.S. (Determination)
- Brown Skin Lady

Go.

Okie.

Grace Jones
- Slave to the Rhythm
- Pull Up to the Bumper
- La Vie en Rose

Okey Doke.

Dragonforce
-Valley of the Damned
-Prepare for War
-Black Winter Night

Radiohead
- No Suprises
- Idioteque
- 2 + 2 = 5

The Decemberists

• Here I Dreamt I was an Architect
• Los Angeles I'm Yours
• The Mariner's Revenge Song

This is a good idea, I APPROVE!

Brand New

Okay I Believe You, But My Tommy Gun Don't
Jaws Theme Swimming
Me vs Maradonna vs Elvis

Interpol

• Length of Love
  
• Leif Erikson
  
• Obstacle 1

Haha, I knew before I even clicked the link, that seeing your name as the last post, it would be about Interpol.

I also heartily approve of said band, though I'd personally substitute the latter two with Stella Was A Diver And She Was Always Down and Slow Hands.

well yea Stella should be on there too but like I only had room for three. fascists. Slow Hands is good but not as good as those.

Saul Williams

Tao of Now

Children of this night
Only same will star the sky
Only believers in death will die
And fathers must feather the wings of women
For the unfeathered masses dangle ridiculous
Carrying crosses to phalayx filled tombs
The future sails silence through blood rivered wombs
That ripple with riddles of cows and spoons and births
Moons and earths
Sun-centered at noon

And here I stand
Court jestering infinity
Fetal fisted for revolution
But open hands birth humility
Now what you the density of an egoless planet?
Must my spine be aligned to sprout wings?
I’m slouched into sling steps and kangoled with gang reps
But my orbit rainbows saturn rings
Mystical eliptical
Presto polaris
Karmic flamed future when saturns and aries
And not I’m a fish called father
With gills type dizzy
Blowing liquid lullabies through the spine of time
I’m certain of saturns rivers and all esle is fact
So baptise me in the stars
And wrap me in nighttime
Moon blue
Pupil my sight with orange balls of light
And echo my plight
Through the corridors of metaphor
What else are we living for if not to create
Fiction and rhyme?
My purpose is to make my soul
Rhyme with my mind
Mind over matter
Minds create matter
Minds create fiction
As a matter of fact
As if matter were fact
Matter is fact
So spirit much be fiction
Science fiction
Art fiction meta fiction

The tao of now
Is here amongst the living in the voice of children is the tao of now

All rivers run in the same direction
If you’re serving the father theres no sun w/o matter
Parent bodies discover water
Bodies and drown
Wade me in the water
’til atlantis is found
On the sea floors of self
I’m starfish and unbound
Heard the way of that mound is stone mountain
Underwater volcanoes erupt water fountains of youth
Test this carnal equation cancel out wind and truth
Swirl me beyond sometimes
Drench me water proof
Let eve drop forever rain
Sunsets on my roof
As I sit on the front porch of my sanity
Deciphering hambones to van gogh this vanity
Oiled egos
Canvased and framed
To be reborn unborn unburied unnamed
A reflection through a blood stained glass window
Or souls

Gone yellow round the edges
Carbonated dreams and blurred daily lives
But let family bring focus
Out of swamps blossom lotus
The muddy water blue daughter of infinity
Gravity we water bodied bhodisativas our serenity
As we rise with the tides toward divinity

Yes we rise with the tides towards divinity
The muddy water blue daughter of infinity
Gravity we water bodied bhodisativas our serenity
As we rise with the tides toward divinity....
Yes we rise with the tides towards divinity
Now we rise with the tides towards divinity
’cause we rise with the tides towards divinity

The tao of now
Is here amongst the living in the voice of children is the tao of now

Penny For a Thought

Cancel the apocalypse
cartons of the milky way with pictures of a missing planet
last seen in pursuit of an American dream
this fool actually thinks he can drive his hummer on the moon
blasting DMX off the soundtrack of a South Park cartoon
niggas used to buy their families out of slavery
now we buy chains and links, smokes and drinks
they're paying me to record this, even more if you hear it
somebody tell me what you think I should do with the money
yes, friend tell me what you think I should do with the money
exactly how much is it gonna cost to free Mumia?
what's he gonna do with his freedom? talk on the radio?
radio programming is just that - a brainwashin' gleamed of purpose
to be honest, some freedom of speech makes me nervous
and you looking for another martyr in the form of a man
hair like a mane with an outstretched hand
in a roar of hearts, thoughts, reactionary defensiveness and counter
intelligence
what exactly is innocence?
smurf it, I do believe in the existence of police brutality
who do I make checks payable to?
a young child stares at a glowing screen transfixed by tales of violence
his teenage father tells him that that's life, not that Barney
a purple dinosaur that speaks of love, a black man that speaks of blood
which one is keeping it real, son?
who manufactured your steel, son?
hardcore, ancient elements at the earth's core
smurf it, I'mma keep speaking 'til my throats sore
an emcee told a crowd of hundreds to put their hands in the air
an armed robber stepped to a bank and told everyone to put their hands in
the air
a Christian minister gives his benediction while the congregation hold
their hands in the air
love the image of the happy Buddha with his hands in the air
hands up and feel confused, define tomorrow
your belief system ain't louder than my car system
nigga walked down my block with his rotwiler, a subwoofer on a leash
each one teach one
the DJ spins a new philosophy into a barren mind
I can't front on it
my head nods as if to clear the last image from an etch-a-sketch
something like Rakim said- I could quote any emcee, but why should I?
how would it benefit me? karmic repercussions
are your tales of reality worth their sonic laced discussions?
suddenly, the ground shivers and quakes
a newborn startles and wakes
her mother rushes to her bed side to hold her to her breast
milk of sustenance heals and nourishes
from the depths of creation life still flourishes
yet we focus on death and destruction, violence, corruption
my people, let pharaoh go
what have you bought into? how much will it cost to buy you out?
what have you bought into? how much will it cost to buy you out?
what have you bought into? how much will it cost to buy you out?

(spoken)
how much it gonna cost to buy you out of my mind?
penny for a thought, y'all niggas is half steppin' wastin' my time
please, nigga what? you talkin to me?
please baby, baby, baby can I borrow - can i borrow a nickle, a dime, and
that quarter
penny for a thought, penny for a thought
how much will it cost to buy you out of buyin' into a reality that
originally bought you?
dime a dozen, y'all niggas a dime a dozen
penny for a thought, nigga, c'mon, penny for a thought
think fast, think fast, c'mon, time is money

time is money, money is time
so i keep 7 o'clock in the bank and gain interest in the hour of God
I'm saving to buy my freedom, God, grant me wings, I'm too fly not to fly
I soared further past humans without wings so I soar
and fine tickling the feathers of my wings
flying hysterically, over land numerically
I am seven mountains higher than the valley of death

Seven mountains higher than the valley of death
Seven dimensions deeper than dimensions of breath
(x12, gradually mixed out)

we're performing an exorcism on all this keep it real-ism
violence, sensationalism
in the name of the hip hop that nurtured me, cultured me
we are ordering all evil entities to exit this body, leave this body
in the name of microphone fiends and a young boy's b-boy dreams
we draw you to leave this body, leave this body
all evil entities, all wannabe emcees
decoys, decoys, send in the true b-boys
the true b-boys be men, mothersmurfers
be men in the name of Scott La Rock
in the name of T-La Rock
mothersmurfers don't remember how to do the reeboks
walk, hop, I told you to leave this body
leave this body, leave this body
I told you to leave this body
leave this body, leave this body
mothersmurfers must think I'm crazy
, I think y'all mothersmurfers is crazy
I want my smurfin' MTV
penny for a thought, nigga, penny for a thought
what the smurf have you bought into?

Om Nia Merican

om nia merican born of beats and blood
the concert of the sun unplugged, i'm the
om nia merican born of beats and blood
the concert of the sun unplugged

o say can you - 20,000 negro leagues beneath
the sea foamed clouds laced with ink that stains
when rains. makes books of trees at once
upon a dawn's early light, pawn bishop knight
children of night, may queens take kings
hereafter, thereafter the trickling sands
demand that our decisions be timeless i'm the

om nia merican born of beats and blood
the concert of the sun unplugged, i'm the
om nia merican born of beats and blood
the concert of the sun unplugged, i'm the

offspring of spring reborn, pledged, and
sworn - the risen ash of a flag burned and
torn, i'm the blood of the womb, the risen
tide of the moon, the dark side that the
light cannot hide, i'm the pages of history
read between the lines, the shining truth
behind your symbols and signs, i'm the son
of a minister, love a teacher, my mother
taught me well so i rebel, i'm the bell retolled
yet a story untold, the hidden force behind
a rock that was rolled. i'm the om nia
merican born of beats and blood, the concert
of the sun, unplugged, i'm the om nia
merican born of beats and blood the concert
of the sun unplugged

lift every voice and sing
til earth and heaven ring

The Dresden Dolls

Girl Anachronism
Coin Operated Boy
Slide

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well yea Stella should be on there too but like I only had room for three. fascists. Slow Hands is good but not as good as those.

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Hey, I said around 3. It's not an absolute, just a guideline. :p

[q=Necronopticus]This is a good idea, I APPROVE![/q]
It's a great way to get introduced to a bunch of new music. *downloads* :D

J. Ralph
- One Million Miles Away
- 31 Seconds
- The Desert Suit Conspiracy
- Fire It Up
- Untitled 17

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The Dresden Dolls

Girl Anachronism
Coin Operated Boy
Slide

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HOW CAN YOU NOT INCLUDE THE JEEP SONG?

Be sure to download some Grace Jones' music. ;)

Björk

- Cocoon
- Pagan Poetry
- New World
- Hyperballad

Animal Collective

• April and the Phantom
• Who Could Win a Rabbit?
• Chocolate Girl

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Originally Posted by Rye

The Dresden Dolls

Girl Anachronism
Coin Operated Boy
Slide

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HOW CAN YOU NOT INCLUDE THE JEEP SONG?

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I thought I only had three. Jeep Song is included along with Gravity, if I can post more than 3. Gravity and The Jeep Song rock very much. And the intro of Good Day. Hell, the whole album is great.

Bleed the Dream

Black Skys
I Should Have Known
Who's Killing Who

Tracy Chapman

- Fast Car
- Talking 'Bout a Revolution
- Give Me One Reason
- If Not Now...

Hell Is For Heroes

Five Kids Go
I Can Climb Mountains
Sick/Happy

Models For The Programme
They Will Call Us Savages
Burning Lafayette

...What? They have two albums, they both sound totally different, almost like two different bands, thus there must be differentiation.

DJ Shadow
- Organ Donor
- Six Days
- Midnight in a Perfect World

Hidden In Plain View

Ashes Ashes
Bleed for You
A Minor Detail

Evanescence (Oh boy, I'll have fun with this)

Hello
Give Unto Me
Exodus
Solitude
Field of Innocence
Anywhere

All very rare/sorta unknown Evanescence except for Hello. All but Hello are on EPs and stuff. Their debut album is good, but it doesn't hold a candle to their older stuff. :)

The Beta Band
- Assessment
- Dry the Rain
- Pure For

SCOOTER

vs marc Arcadipane and Dick Rules: Maria (I like it LOUD!)
Jigga Jigga
Nessaja

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Be sure to download some Grace Jones' music. ;)

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You were first. ;)

Zip, I can't wait till I get to the Saul Williams. I loved his bit on Release.

edit: Duh, contribute more. :p

Tomoyasu Hotei
- Battle Without Honor or Humanity
- Fetish
- Metropolis

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Zip, I can't wait till I get to the Saul Williams. I loved his bit on Release.

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I wouldn't get just those songs though. Go for the album, Amethyst Rock Star:
lalala
penny for a thought
robeson
tao of now
fearless
untimely meditations
om nia merican
1987
coded language
our father
wine

It's all kinda hard to find... oh-well.

Tori Amos

Cornflake Girl
Precious Things
Blood Roses
Mr. Zebra (To Venus and Back version)

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Tori Amos

Cornflake Girl
Precious Things
Blood Roses
Mr. Zebra (To Venus and Back version)

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Cornflake Girl and Precious Things rock. Me and a Gun is the best Tori song though, I think.

Let me make the right Tori list.

Tori Amos

- A Sorta Fairytale
- Cornflake Girl
- Me and a Gun
- Snow Cherries from France
- Playboy Mommy

She's just got too many good songs... I also like She's Your Cocaine, Happy Phantom, Crucify, Heart of Gold, and Concertina

UNKLE
- Lonely Soul
- Celestial Annihilation
- Rabbit in your Headlights

The Verve Pipe
The Freshmen
Villians
Hero
Colorful

I'm just gonna get all the punk/emo/screamo/indie/grunge out of my system now:

Amber Pacific

Poetically Pathetic
Save Me From Me
For What It's Worth

Rufio

We Exist
Science Fiction
Save The World

Spoon

Me and the Bean
Nefarious
Dismember
Paper Tiger

Mudhoney

Halloween
Need

Millencolin

No Cigar
Trendy Winds
Boring Planet

Spunks

I Love Wok & Roll
Guitar Heartbreaker

Burning Brides

Blood On The Highway
Artic Snow
Plastic Empire

Tapping the Vein

Crushing
The Ledge
Cornflake Girl (cover)
The Damage

I'm on SoulSeek if you need any of these. Username = Zipster.

N*Sync

• Pop
• Gone
• Bye Bye

Deftones
Rx Queen
My Own Summer (Shove It)
Digital Bath


:D

Neutral Milk Hotel

• In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
• Holland, 1945
• Song Against Sex

Foo Figthers
- Learn to Fly
- All My Life
- Best of You

Silverchair
My Favorite Thing
Across the Night
Tuna in the Brine
Emotion Sickness


:D

System of a Down
Chop Suey
Sugar
Violent Pornography

I'm going to add some geeky music yay!

The Barenaked Ladies
-- What a Good Boy
-- The Flag
-- The King of Bedside Manor
-- Just a Toy

Bwahaha. I'll go with unknown stuff.

John Denver
Come and Let Me Look in Your Eyes
Singing Skies and Dancing Waters
Heart to Heart
Rhymes and Reasons
Shanghai Breezes

EISREGEN
- Das kleine Leben
- Farbenfinsternis Kap. 2: Angst wird Fleisch
- Krebskolonie

The Pixies
-Allison
-Dig For Fire
-Debaser
-Tame

Chiasm
Isolated
Fight
Chiasm 5.0

Michael Jackson - Man In the Mirror
Michael Jackson - History
Michael Jackson - They Don't Really Care About Us
Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal

Joni Mitchell - River
Joni Mitchell - Blue

Janis Joplin - Coo Coo
Janis Joplin - White Rabbit

Turbonegro
- Turbonegro Must Be Destroyed
- smurf The World
- The Age Of Pamparius

13th Floor Elevators
- She Lives in a Time of Her Own
- Thru The Rhythm.
- Roller Coaster

Acid Mothers Temple / Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso Ufo
- Loved and Confused
- La Novia
- Bon Voyage Au LSD

Banco del mutuo soccorso
- Dopo Niente E'piu'lo S
- R.I.P. (Requiescant in pace)
- Canto nomade per un prigionero politico

Black Keys
- Set You Free
- The Breaks
- She Said, She Said

The Clash
- Brand New Cadillac
- Clampdown
- Revolution Rock
(I've only got one of theyr albums at the moment :))

Frank Zappa
- Broken Hearts Are For Assholes
- Muffin Man
- Willie The Pimp
- Questi Cazzi Di Piccione

Gåte
- Sjå attende
- Skrømt
- Snåle mi jente

Kaizers Orchestra
- Død manns tango
- Kontroll På Kontinentet
- Bak et halleluja

Liquid Tension Experiment
- Paradigm Shift
- Acid Rain
- Another Dimension

Mr. Bungle
- Egg
- Quote Unquote
- The Girls of Porn

New York Dolls
- Trash
- Personality Crisis
- Pills

Os Mutantes
- Rita Lee
- El Justiciero
- Top Top

I might have over-done it.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Art Star
Man
No No No

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I'm on SoulSeek if you need any of these. Username = Zipster.

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Ohh, so you're the guy who I'm downloading that By Divine Right album from. Haha. Thanks a lot, by the way. I was looking for that album for quite a while.

Anyways, great thread idea. Here's mine.

Architecture in Helsinki.
-Tiny Paintings.
-Do The Whirlwind.
-Printemp 2008.

I've been obsessed the past week with this band. :P

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Evanescence (Oh boy, I'll have fun with this)

Hello
Give Unto Me
Exodus
Solitude
Field of Innocence
Anywhere

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Yay for Ev.

My Evanescence List
Tourniquet
Breathe No More
Lies
Bleed

Aaand to add a new band to the list...

Rasputina
The Mayor
The New Zero
Gingerbread Coffin

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Mr. Bungle
- Egg
- Quote Unquote
- The Girls of Porn

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May I also add:

- Retrovertigo
- Sweet Charity
- Carry Stress In The Jaw

:D

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My Evanescence List
Tourniquet
Breathe No More
Lies
Bleed

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Hooray! A rare person who actually doesn't hate Evanescence on this forum.

Lies is very good. I like Lies (Remix) better though. :D

The Rasmus
In My life
In the Shadows
Guilty
If you ever
Everyday
Smash
Bullet

Cradle of filth
Nymphetamine
Filthy little secret
Nemessis

My Chemical Romance
Thankyou for the Venom
Im not OK (I promise)
Vampires will never hurt you
Give em' hell kid

The Used
Box of sharp objects
Take it away
All that Ive got
The taste of Ink
Im a Fake

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UNKLE
- Lonely Soul
- Celestial Annihilation
- Rabbit in your Headlights

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Who's the singer on Lonely Soul, Hsu? Sounds really familiar...

Arcade Fire
- Power Out
- Rebellion
- Crown of Love

Blackalicious
- First in Flight
- Day One
- Make You Feel That Way
- Release

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Brand New

Okay I Believe You, But My Tommy Gun Don't
Jaws Theme Swimming
Me vs Maradonna vs Elvis

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Excellent band.

Anyway,

Hip Hop

Atmosphere
Godlovesugly
One Of A Kind
Bleed Slow

Jedi Mind Tricks
Death March
On The Eve Of War
Animal Rap

Sage Francis
Crack Pipes
The Cure
Slow Down Gandhi

Immortal Technique
Creation & Destruction
The Point Of No Return
The Cause Of Death

Notorious BIG
Warning
Unbelievable
The What

Outerspace
Raw Deal
Angels Of Death
Divine Evil

7L & Esoteric
Word Association
Speak Now
Loud & Clear

Sole
Respect Part 3
Dear Elpee
Selling Live Water


Rock & It's Many Many siblings

A Static Lullaby
Love To Hate, Hate To Love
Withered
The Shooting Star That Destroyed Us All

Alexisonfire
Accidents
.44 Calibre Love Letter
Waterwings

Atreyu
Tulips Are Better
Lip Gloss & Black
At Least I Know I'm A Sinner

The Beautiful Mistake
Stabbing Backwards
For A Friend
My Reminder

Biffy Clyro
27
Convex, Concave
Christopher's River

Bleeding Through
Love Lost In A Hale Of Gunfire
On Wings Of Lead
This Is Love, This Is Murderous

Boysetsfire
Rookie
My Life In The Knife Trade
Bathory's Sainthood

Dead Poetic
A Green Desire
August Winterman
New Medicines

Deftones
7 Words
My Own Summer
Minerva

Finch
What It Is To Burn - The whole album, seriously

Hopesfall
Decoys Like Curves
Dead In Magazines
Icarus

Kasabian
Club Foot
U-Boat
LSF

The Kinison
Oh Boy That Girl Can Move
Every Genius Has Their Hang-Ups
Farm & The Girls

That's Up To K if anyone cares I'll do the rest later.

:D

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UNKLE
- Lonely Soul
- Celestial Annihilation
- Rabbit in your Headlights

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Who's the singer on Lonely Soul, Hsu? Sounds really familiar...

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Richard Ashcroft, from The Verve.

Don't double post, Cuchu. *beats* --foa
^
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Alexisonfire
Accidents
.44 Calibre Love Letter
Waterwings

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Alexisonfire. [img]http://home.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/heart.gif[/img]

this is a great thread actually

squarepusher

- tetra sync
- journey to reeham (7 am mix)
- squarepusher theme

Muse
- Apocalypse Please
- Time is Running Out
- Blackout

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Muse
- Apocalypse Please
- Time is Running Out
- Blackout

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newborn!!

FF6 & CC have really good OSTs.

...

I like all the songs. :mad:

Nine Inch Nails

With Teeth

1. Know What You Are
2. Right Where You Belong
3. Beside You In Time

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Nine Inch Nails

With Teeth

1. Know What You Are
2. Right Where You Belong
3. Beside You In Time

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Saw them live at Coachella too, as well as Futureheads. Great times. :D
I also approve of Muse and over half of Cuchu's hip-hop recs (Atmosphere, Sage, Jedi Mind Tricks, Immortal Technique). :)

Coldplay
- Shiver
- Spies
- Yellow
- Politik
- A Rush of Blood to the Head

I'm partial to Parachutes.

I'll do a Radiohead one, I guess.
- My Iron Lung
- Paranoid Android
- National Anthem
- Wolf at the Door

Kinda similar songs from across their lifetime, I suppose. Shows some cohesiveness.

J.S. Bach

Tocatta and Fugue in D minor.
Sleepers Awake.
Saint Johns Passion


(SPOILER)...Bet nobody saw that one coming. :rolleyes2