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Topic: List Percentages of your music collection by genre
Posted By: zwordser
Subject: List Percentages of your music collection by genre
Date Posted: December 28 2019 at 13:06
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Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: December 28 2019 at 13:19
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^ That's a lot of categorizing............... I'm guessing at mine: Progressive Rock = 40% Hard Rock/Metal = 30% R&B/Funk = 20% Jazz = 10% -------------   
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: December 28 2019 at 14:40
| I have no idea actually. I have a lot of classic rock, pop rock and alternative and some metal but I'm guessing prog makes up at least 40 percent for me with the rest being mostly from the above mentioned categories. |
Posted By: dougmcauliffe
Date Posted: December 28 2019 at 15:10
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hmmmmm hard to say for sure but Probably something like Prog: 70% Jazz/Fusion 20% Hard Rock 5% Folk 5% I know what I like and I like what I know  theres definitely a lot of other stuff mixed in there though.If its worth noting, im a classical Pianist but I don't listen to much classical, really enjoy playing it however.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: December 28 2019 at 15:26
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I know what I like in my wardrobe and I can tell you that out of my entire collection of 2,600 CD's, around 160 of them are prog, which works out at about 6%.
I'm happy to admit I have marginally more Disco, Soul & Motown than Prog-Rock.
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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: December 28 2019 at 15:33
Although I applaud your effort, I don't have the time to wade through my collection (between CDs, vinyl and downloads it runs into the thousands). So, eyeballing it, I suppose it would be something like:
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Posted By: zwordser
Date Posted: December 28 2019 at 15:53
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Psychedelic Paul wrote:Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: December 28 2019 at 16:18
You might like Gleb Kolyadin then.
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Posted By: Squonk19
Date Posted: December 28 2019 at 16:31
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Across vinyl, CDs, downloads etc. I estimate this split: 40% Prog 30% Classic Rock 20% Jazz 10% Classical ------------- “Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.” |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: December 28 2019 at 17:04
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Hmm...below are rough estimates: 66% prog 22% jazz 10% avant-garde 2% other ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Snicolette
Date Posted: December 28 2019 at 17:27
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Would love to figure this out....but....everything is packed right now. Maybe I'll make a note to come back once I've unpacked and I'll categorize whilst doing that. ------------- "Into every rain, a little life must fall." ~Tom Rapp |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: December 28 2019 at 17:37
That's mainly because Disco, Soul & Motown is much more readily available than Prog-Rock in my local record stores.
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Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: December 28 2019 at 17:56
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I would say roughly about 75% prog. This number used to be lower, but my purchases lean so heavily towards prog over the last decade that that number keeps rising. The only non-prog albums I can remember buying in the last couple of years were Grandaddy's Last Place , ELO's Alone in the Universe, and Billy Joel's Streetlife Serenade. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: HackettFan
Date Posted: December 28 2019 at 19:24
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About 98% Prog. I'm not entirely sure how many different albums I have in total, as some may be duplicated on record, tape and CD. The only thing I genuinely tried to count was the albums I have that were not Prog. I thought that would be relatively easy. I have not attempted to separate out JazzRock Fusion. Most Prog-Related I am counting as not Prog with the exception of the two Steve Vai albums I have. I listed that which I am not counting as Prog below: 1 best of Gordon Lightfoot album Lindisfarne the Peel Sessions 4 Shawn Phillips albums (though he is now Prog-Related at PA, I will count Prog-Related as not Prog) 3 Miles Davis albums (2 really, since Bitches Brew is Prog Rock) Genesis (ATTWT onward) 1 Brent Michael Davids sound track: Bright Circles The Pink Panther and Other Famous Spy Themes 1 Clannad album (Folk) 1 early Dweezil Zappa album Nat Lyon - New England Paradigm Shift (Alternative) Van Halen - 1984 Blue Oyster Cult - Secret Treaties Aerosmith - Rocks An album of glass harmonica music (Classical) Two albums of Japanese bamboo flute 2 Wolgemut albums (Medieval German) ------------- A curse upon the heads of those who seek their fortunes in a lie. The truth is always waiting when there's nothing left to try. - Colin Henson, Jade Warrior (Now) |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: December 28 2019 at 20:38
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Posted By: YESESIS
Date Posted: December 28 2019 at 21:18
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Mine is probably about.. 90% solo Phil Collins. 8% Prog 2% Classical or Classic Rock, or something. No, seriously idk. I have a ton of Wishbone Ash, a ton of Beatles. Every T Rex album, every Steely Dan album. All the classic Kiss albums. So I guess like mostly classic stuff. Oh a bunch of Queen albums I see.
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Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: December 28 2019 at 22:47
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I have put all my albums & singles to discogs. so if you are interested, you can calculate there (I am too lazy to think about what´s prog and what´s something else). https://www.discogs.com/user/morjo/collection" rel="nofollow - https://www.discogs.com/user/morjo/collection
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Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: December 29 2019 at 06:59
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Prog 24% Other rock 15% Metal 6% Jazz/fusion 25% Classical 15% Blues 5% World 3% New age 3% Funk/soul/r&b 2% Other2% |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: December 29 2019 at 09:55
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Posted By: YESESIS
Date Posted: December 29 2019 at 13:04
Glad someone appreciates my humor lol.
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Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: December 30 2019 at 02:05
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: December 30 2019 at 03:29
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No idea and not about to start counting, but I'd say that Rock (in the larger sense), folk (in its rockier form) and jazz (in the larger sense) amount to 95%... The rest being Chanson Française (Brel Lavilliers, Nougaro, etc... >> generally anthologies) or classical
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Posted By: Mirakaze
Date Posted: December 30 2019 at 04:17
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Out of 377 discs: 33% Prog/avant-garde rock 14% other rock/metal 23% Jazz 17% Classical 5% Pop 3% Electronica 5% other
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Posted By: AlanB
Date Posted: December 30 2019 at 06:00
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Out of 114 albums, mostly CDs but a few downloads too 43% Prog 37% Rock 8% Singer/Songwriter 8% Classical 4% Pop
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: December 30 2019 at 08:49
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It looks like I have the lowest percentage of prog on PA with around 6.5% of the total, although that still works out at about 180 prog albums, if I include all of my prog compilations too.
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Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: December 30 2019 at 09:33
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60% prog 10% jazz 15% fusion 15% rock/pop |
Posted By: zwordser
Date Posted: December 30 2019 at 12:34
Pretty good, that's about the number of prog albums I had when I joined this site. ------------- Z |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: December 30 2019 at 13:35
I buy most of my CD albums from charity shops, car boot sales & pound stores, but not surprisingly, I don't find many classic prog albums at those kind of bargain basement prices.
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: December 30 2019 at 13:48
This thread was really just a ruse to flush out those members not qualified to post on prog. Unfortunately as your percentage of prog is below the required 50% minimum you must immediately leave the site until you have purchased the 1200 albums needed to bring up your average. Thank you for your cooperation. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: December 30 2019 at 14:26
Though I think we can allow double points for each album in the RIO/Avant-Prog sub-genre. ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: December 30 2019 at 14:34
| no ideer anymore. I have very little vinyl left, a lot of CDs, and a lot of MP3's, but no central repository for everything, just itunes which is where my favorites are clustered. I also listen to a ton of prog on spotify which I pay for |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: December 30 2019 at 14:38
As far as I'm aware, I don't have any albums in the RIO/Avant-Prog sub-genre, so that rules me out for double points.
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Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: December 30 2019 at 14:55
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70% Prog 10% Rock/Metal 10% Guided By Voices/Robert Pollard
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Posted By: YESESIS
Date Posted: December 30 2019 at 23:41
Oh yeah, you seem to be an open minded kind of music lover like me. And yes I love both T Rex and obviously The Beatles. As far as T Rex, their(his) most popular albums are certainly Electric Warrior and The Slider. And, for me, those 2 plus Tanx make up their 'Big 3' of truly great albums. A Beard of Stars and the self-titled album are very good as well. Really the only album of theirs that I don't like is Bolan's Zip Gun. Imo their most 'can't miss' album is The Slider. Hope that helps.
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Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: December 31 2019 at 02:19
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: December 31 2019 at 04:36
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difficult to say. my guess is about this: 35% classical music 5% jazz music 5% ethnic music 50% rock music 5% miscellaneous to further split up the 50% of rock music: 5% heavy rock (including heavy prog; for us heavy is foremost heavy, prog or not) 5% jazz-rock/fusion 5% symphonic prog 5% RIO/avant (I include Zeuhl in this because there simply are not that many Zeuhl albums to constitute a significant percentage in a collection of about 10000 CDs) 20% psychedelic/space rock (this includes Krautrock. and "Krautrock" does for me NOT mean German prog; many bands listed as Krautrock in the archives fall into some of the other categories) 5% eclectic prog 5% "normal" rock (bands that don't fall into any of these categories) but this is a very rough estimation; I may be quite wrong about some of the numbers. no special listing of RPI or French prog; I don't differentiate by country, with the exception of Krautrock as a genre, which is not due to country but due to style. oh, and about 90% of our rock music is 60s or 70s rock music. those were definitely the most creative decades for rock music
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Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: December 31 2019 at 05:33
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No idea, but something like: 80% prog 40% metal 5% pop  |
Posted By: YESESIS
Date Posted: December 31 2019 at 23:56
I don't really put anyone ahead of Marc Bolan, except maybe Lennon and McCartney, and Zappa.. but that's pretty much it. And agree with you, I consider Revolver the Beatles best album. With Abbey Road right there (obviously a massively great and classic album. And I consider the Let It Be album very underrated in their catalogue, I like it a lot. From the early Beatlemania albums, I like A Hard Day's Night, it's a really good album. I'm such a Beatlemaniac, the only album I don't like from them (or consider weaker than the rest) is Beatles For Sale.. the first like 5 songs are good but after that it's a lot of filler. But the Beatles are the best, there isn't any doubt in my mind. I used to listen to them a lot and still do from time to time.
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Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: January 01 2020 at 03:50
Yeah, you´re right Let It Be is underrated. Of course it has some quite mediocre songs, but the great ones are really great! I used to like only their after Help!-albums, but in the nineties I just decided to buy also their early albums. And I have to say I like them all, maybe With the Beatles is my favorite, although really like also Hard days and Help! And even their first album there are some my big Beatles favorites (title song, There´s a Place). I agree you about Beatles For Sale, but there are also some really great songs (Eight Days a Week, Words Of Love, Every Little Thing that Yes made great version). Am I right you´re not big the Who or Stones-fan? I don´t think myself Beatlemaniac, although it has been in my life almost my whole life, but I have a good friend who really is! Also I think there might ever become prog in the mainstream (or maybe not at all) without Beatles.
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Posted By: YESESIS
Date Posted: January 01 2020 at 13:11
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^ They certainly had a big influence no question. They did a lot of very experimental stuff and took a lot of risks especially in the later part of their career. As far as the Stones and the Who, I obviously respect them they're Giants who had tons of great stuff, but they're just not special(to me) like the Fabs. I'm sorry. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: January 01 2020 at 13:27
| I really like the Glam Rock of T. Rex, but to be honest, I wasn't a big fan of Marc Bolan's earlier Psych-Folk incarnation, Tyrannosaurus Rex. |
Posted By: YESESIS
Date Posted: January 01 2020 at 13:38
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I think Unicorn and A Beard of Stars are good. I'm not wild about the first 2 albums but they're certainly not bad. |
Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: January 01 2020 at 23:30
And about Beatles later years, they really took a big risk when wanting develop their music, it wasn´t sure at all they´re going to succeess with that material, even EMI was very scary about Sgt it would fail.
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Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: January 02 2020 at 16:26
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In my Vortexbox most albums come with a genre classification, which was mostly given by the artist, the record company, or whoever put it in the files. There are loads and loads of genres and many of these are something of a joke, so the following list is maybe a fun exercise but not to be taken too seriously. I built some "clusters" of these genres that make at least a bit of sense (original genres include "Terror" "synthpop/folk", "World Metal", "Warp Records", and all kinds of spellings and permutations of words in things such as Electronic/Progressive) and looked at how many albums are in these - that's easier at least than classifying every single album manually, but the resulting list is quite weird and may not give an appropriate impression. In fact I believe about half of my stuff may be prog as in "listed on PA", but apart from the prog category these labels put them all over the place including "(classic) rock", "alternative", "ambient", "folk" and even "pop" (some Cardiacs!), apart from the more obvious ones. The "rock" category may have more prog than non-prog. Also note that almost a third is "smaller genres or unclassified" some of which is in fact also prog. OK here we are: Rock & Classic Rock 13.5% Prog, Psychedelic, Canterbury, Kraut etc.(genres of which *all* albums are listed on PA) 10.6% Electronic 8% Alternative & Indie Rock 6.7% Jazz 6.6% Classical 6.5% Avantgarde & Experimental including experimental 20th/21st century composers 4.8% Pop 4% Folk, Folk Rock & World 2.8% Ambient, Meditative & New Age 2.3% New Wave, Synth Pop & Post Punk 1.7% Industrial & Noise 1.2% Art Rock 1% Post Rock & Instrumental 1% Jazz Rock & Fusion 0.9% Hip Hop 0.5% Smaller genres, unclassified or unclassifiable 28.8% 100% are 2039 albums; all my CDs are on the VB, and I organised or produced files of maybe 40% of the stuff I have on vinyl, tape etc., so some things are missing from this list, maybe another 1000.
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Posted By: zwordser
Date Posted: January 02 2020 at 19:12
Nice list Lewian, and looks like you put a lot of work into it, but really?: 28% unclassified/unclassifiable ??  ------------- Z |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: January 03 2020 at 04:31
Haha, this is of course because I didn't put that much work into it... I didn't go through all weird and exotic genres to see where to properly classify these things but rather I collected them in unclassified/unclassifiable. I think about 15% don't have a genre entry (or it's "unclassified" or something like this), the rest is genres of which I have 10 or fewer albums (this includes metal if anyone noticed... and punk and R&B and funk etc., as far as these are not classified elsewhere, which of course happened all over the place) or of which the names just don't give a hint where they belong. By the way the number of "albums" by myself and personal friends of mine, most of which are not genre tagged, may reach some 2 or 3% and beats therefore some of the lower listed genres easily.
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: January 03 2020 at 05:31
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we don't categorize at all, we just sort alphabetically by interpret or in case where appropriate by composer. so for example the Bach family (Johann Sebastian and his many sons, cousins, uncles etc.) rest peacefully between Ayers, Kevin and Back Door ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: January 03 2020 at 06:45
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Hi, Heck if I know ... I just listen to music, and it does not tell me what/where it belongs to ... thus some serious variety is in order! I might even play Turandot right after the Edgar Broughton Band, just to goof you guys up ... and we're not talking the guitar guy either! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: January 03 2020 at 11:05
I guess the sheep may safely graze as they rest peacefully between Kevin Ayers and J.S, Bach in your music collection then.
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Posted By: zwordser
Date Posted: January 03 2020 at 11:12
If they're "weird and exotic", sounds like a lot of them could easily be classified as Progressive in one way or another: lots of RIO/Avant, perhaps? ------------- Z |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: January 03 2020 at 11:37
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I just ran across this thread. I would have to guess a rough estimate as I haven't added that category to my spreadsheet. Perhaps 75% officially categorized as prog around here. Maybe the other 25% not. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: January 03 2020 at 11:49
"Weird and exotic" doesn't necessarily refer to the music, rather to the genre naming... you have no idea... Let's take a random look and I find genres such as "Data" (which includes an album of leading Alternative Rock band Foals and a German middle age/metal outfit, don't ask why), "Home Listening", an incomprehensible collection of Chinese letters and whatnot. Some RIO/Avant stuff is in Avantgarde/Experimental (together with some very academic stuff that nobody would connect to any genre that has the word "rock" in it... believe me, I have stuff that is far too weird and exotic to appear on PA) and some unclassified, but there it's together with the likes of Bauhaus, Ecuador Incas, Giorgio Moroder, Johannes Brahms etc. The "unclassified" category is just a holy mess. Remember that this is not about what the "true" genre is but rather about what whoever had the job to classify it by whatever criteria did, or refused to do.
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Posted By: Spacegod87
Date Posted: January 03 2020 at 22:46
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Good god, I wouldn't even try to attempt this. I have Prog, blues, metal, doom metal, classic rock, Country, pop, medieval folk, Gregorian chants, classical, jazz fusion, grunge, etc. the list goes on. But I will admit, it's mostly prog related.
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Posted By: wiz_d_kidd
Date Posted: March 16 2023 at 11:21
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If I eliminate the non-prog artists from my collection (which amounts to about 15% of my total collection) and only consider the prog artists that are found here in PA, this is the breakdown of genres in my collection. I'm counting only artists, not total albums by those artists. I do have some artists in the genres shown as 0%, but I didn't want to split hairs by showing fractions of a percent. I'd always suspected I was heavy into psychedelic/space...
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