Favourite albums by year.

[palingensia]

Basically just list your favourite albums by year. It's a nice, time consuming exercise that I personally enjoyed, so hopefully others do too. Generally speaking going from 1965 on is a good idea, unless you can go further back.

65: Nothing
66: Nothing
67: Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
68: Jethro Tull - This Was
69: King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
70: Jethro Tull - Benefit
71: King Crimson - Islands (eugh this was tough - up against Jethro Tull's Aqualung and Gentle Giant's Acquiring the Taste)
72: Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick (hard to choose again, since Gentle Giant's Octopus is soooooooooo good)
73: Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
74: Camel - Mirage
75: Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
76: The Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery & Imagination
77: Pink Floyd - Animals
78: The Alan Parsons Project - Pyramid
79: Pink Floyd - The Wall
80: The Alan Parsons Project - The Turn of a Friendly Card
81: King Crimson - Discipline
82: The Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky
83: Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
84: King Crimson - Three of a Perfect Pair
85: The Alan Parsons Project - Vulture Culture
86: Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
87: Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason
88: Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime
89: Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
90: Queensrÿche - Empire (another difficult one - Alice in Chains's Facelift and Temple of the Dog's s/t go here too)
91: Camel - Dust and Dreams
92: Alice in Chains - Dirt
93: Cynic - Focus (this vs Sleep's Holy Mountain is a ****ing toughie)
94: Live - Throwing Copper (eugh my god so ****ing hard to choose between this and Soundgarden's Superunknown, with NIN's The Downward Spiral sitting there too even)
95: OOMPH! - Defekt
96: OOMPH! - Wunschkind (eugh this vs Soundgarden's Down on the Upside vs Tool's Ænima so hard)
97: Radiohead - OK Computer
98: Nightwish - Oceanborn
99: Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
00: Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World
01: Tool - Lateralus (damn this vs Muse's Origin of Symmetry)
02: Porcupine Tree - In Absentia (this vs Megaherz's Herzwerk II)
03: Opeth - Damnation (oh my god this vs Muse's Absolution vs A Perfect Circle's Thirteenth Step vs Radiohead's Hail to the Thief vs Sleep's Dopesmoker is a ****ing hard decision)
04: Nightwish - Once (this vs Mastodon's Leviathan vs OOMPH!'s Wahrheit oder Pflicht is pretty damn tricky)
05: Meshuggah - Catch 33
06: Mastodon - Blood Mountain (this vs Tool's 10,000 Days vs Muse's Black Holes & Revelations my ****ing god D
07: Within Temptation - The Heart of Everything
08: Cynic - Traced in Air
09: Merkabah - Merkabah (not an album I know but it's ****ing amazing)
10: Eisbrecher - Eiszeit

 

[Zazie]

Really hard for me due to a limited cd collection compared to my tastes. Particularly due to my like for late 80's/90's music. It would be easier for me to do a top ten for each decade.
81 The Cure - Faith
85 Marrillion - Misplaced Childhood
86 The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
87 Dinosaur Jr. - You' Living All Over Me
89 Pixies - Doolittle
90 Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park
91 Superchunk - No Pocky for Kitty
92 Sonic Youth - Dirty
93 Jesus Jones - Perverse
95 Black Grape - It's Great When You're Straight. . . Yeah
98 Death - The Sound of Perseverence
99 Superchunk - Come Pick Me Up
00 Bella Morte - Where Shadows Lie
01 Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscapes
05 Dir En Grey - Withering to Death
07 Cruxshadows - Dreamcypher
08 Cynic - Traced in Air
10 Superchunk - Majesty Shredding

Also Props to Otaku Dono for the mentions of Camel and Gentle Giant. (I need to get some of their albums)

 

[Hammerheart]

This is going to take a while, but I will get round to it eventually.

I love this kind of thread, even though its for the most part pointless, I can't help but enjoy delving through my music library.

 

[QingLong]

This is going to take a while. [2] There are a lot of ties for me, so I think I will miss something...
For now I will do it till 1980:

65: The Beatles - Help!
66: The Beatles - Revolver
67: Cream - Disraeli Gears
68: The Beates - White Album/Cream - Wheels of Fire
69: Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
70: Black Sabbath - Paranoid
71: Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV/Deep Purple - Fireball/Black Sabbath - Master of Reality/Jethro Tull - Aqualung
72: Deep Purple - Machine Head
73: Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy/Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
74: Aerosmith - Get Your Wings/Queen - Queen II
75: Queen - A Night at the Opera/Led Zeppelin - Physical Graphiti
76: Blue Oyster Cult - Agents of Fortune/Aerosmith - Rocks/Ramones - Ramones
77: Queen - News of the World
78: Black Sabbath - Never Say Die!/Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses/Whitesnake - Snakebite
79: Jethro Tull - Stormwatch/Led Zeppelin - In Through the Out Door/Blue Oyster Cult - Mirrors
80: Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden/Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell

 

[Hammerheart]

All full lengths, no ep's, demo's, split's, singles, live albums or compliations.
Some I've put multiple releases, but its purely cause its so hard to chose between.


65: N/A
66: N/A
67: The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
68: Tim Hart and Maddy Prior - Folk Songs Of Olde England Vol. 1
69: King Crimson - In The Court of the Crimson King

70: Nic Jones - Ballads and Songs
71: Caravan - In The Land of Grey And Pink
72: Black Sabbath - Vol 4
73: Harry Boardman - A Lancashire Mon: Ballads, Songs and Recitations by Harry Boardman
74: Kraftwerk - Autobahn
75: Rick Wakeman - Myths & Legends Of King Arthur & The Knights Of The Round Table
76: Rainbow - Rising
77: Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene, The Houghton Weavers - Gone Are the Days, Elvis Costello - My Aim is True
78: Kraftwerk - The Man Machine
79: Pink Floyd - The Wall

80: Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
81: Iron Maiden - Killers
82: Witchfinder General - Death Penalty
83: Martin Simpson - Grinning in Your Face
84: Iron Maiden - Powerslave
85: The Houghton Weavers - Keep Folk Smiling
86: Tangerine Dream - Underwater Sunlight, Jean-Michel Jarre - Rendez-Vous, Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
87: Pentagram - Day Of Reckoning
88: Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
89: The Cure - Disitegration

90: Bathory - Hammerheart
91: Bathory - Twilight of the Gods
92: The Cure - Wish, Death In June - But, What Ends When the Symbols Shatter?
93: Electrocution - Inside the Unreal
94: Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss, Enslaved's - Vikingligr Veldi
95: Blind Guardian - Imagination From The Other Side
96: Burzum - Filosofem
97: Symphony X - The Devine Wings of Tragedy
98: Blind Guardian - Nightfall on Middle Earth
99: Dream Theater - Metropolis Part 2: Scenes From A Memory

00: Iron Maiden - Brave New World
01: Moonosorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta
02: Rhapsody - Power of the Dragonflame
03: Iron Maiden - Dance of Death
04: Dragonforce - Sonic Firestorm
05: Odroerir - Götterlieder, Fall Out Boy - From Under the Cork Tree
06: Drudkh - Blood in our Wells, Ray LaMontagne - Till The Sun Turns Black, Lupe Fiasco - Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor
07: Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde, Martin Simpson - Prodigal Son, Warning - Watching From a Distance
08: Opeth - Watershed, Forefather - Steadfast
09: Wodensthrone - Loss, Askival - Eternity, While Heaven Wept - Vast Oceans Lachrymose
10: Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here, Les Discrets - Septembre et Ses Dernières Pensées, Alcest - Écailles de lune

I have to say, that's a mighty fine list of albums there.

 

[Agonist]

Basically just list your favourite albums by year. It's a nice, time consuming exercise that I personally enjoyed, so hopefully others do too. Generally speaking going from 1965 on is a good idea, unless you can go further back.

Way to copy the thread from Smogon.

I'll probably edit in a list of albums

 

[THRILLHO]

1969: Space Oddity - David Bowie
1970: Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel
1971: Fragile - Yes
1972: The Rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars - David Bowie
1973: The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
1974: Sheer Heart Attack - Queen
1975: A Night at the Opera - Queen
1976: 2112 - Rush
1977: Animals - Pink Floyd
1978: Hemispheres - Rush
1979: The Wall - Pink Floyd
1980: Permanent Waves - Rush
1981: Moving Pictures - Rush
1982: Screaming For Vengeance - Judas Priest
1983: Piece of Mind - Iron Maiden
1984: Ride the Lightning - Metallica
1985: ---
1986: Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? - Megadeth
1987: Surfing With the Alien - Joe Satriani
1988: ...And Justice for All - Metallica
1989: When Dream and Day Unite - Dream Theater
1990: Frizzle Fry - Primus
1991: Sailing the Seas of Cheese - Primus
1992: Images & Words - Dream Theater
1993: Pork Soda - Primus
1994: Awake - Dream Theater
1995: The Sky Moves Sideways - Porcupine Tree
1996: Ænima - Tool / Signify - Porcupine Tree
1997: Urban Hymns - The Verve
1998: Colma - Buckethead
1999: Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From a Memory - Dream Theater / Stupid Dream - Porcupine Tree
2000: Lightbulb Sun - Porcupine Tree
2001: Lateralus - Tool
2002: A Rush of Blood to the Head - Coldplay / Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence - Dream Theater / Electric Tears - Buckethead / In Absentia - Porcupine Tree
2003: Train of Thought - Dream Theater / Absolution - Muse
2004: Population Override - Buckethead / The Sound of White - Missy Higgins
2005: X & Y - Coldplay / Octavarium - Dream Theater / Enter the Chicken - Buckethead
2006: Crime Slunk Scene - Buckethead / The Elephant Man's Alarm Clock - Buckethead / 10,000 Days - Tool
2007: Fear of a Blank Planet - Porcupine Tree
2008: Albino Slug - Buckethead
2009: Black Clouds & Silver Linings - Dream Theater
2010: Kind Regards - Buckethead / Shadows Between the Sky - Buckethead / Captain Eo's Voyage - Buckethead / Best Regards - Buckethead

whew what a good time filler that was

 

[Cain Nightroad]

Spoiler: Albums

1965: John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
1966: Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde
1967: The Doors - The Doors
1968: The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
1969: Townes Van Zandt - Our Mother The Mountain and Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II


1970: Van Morrison - Moondance
1971: The Who - Who's Next, Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East and Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
1972: Yes - Close To The Edge, Allman Brothers Band - Eat A Peach
1973: The Who - Quadrophenia
1974: Neil Young - On The Beach
1975: Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
1976: Steve Miller Band - Fly Like An Eagle
1977: Pink Floyd - Animals
1978: Townes Van Zandt - Flyin' Shoes
1979: The Clash - London Calling


1980: Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
1981: Echo & The Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here
1982: Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
1983: U2 - War
1984: Metallica - Ride The Lightning
1985: The Highwaymen - Highwayman
1986: The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead and Swans - Public Castration Is A Good Idea (Live)
1987: U2 - The Joshua Tree
1988: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Tender Prey
1989: Godflesh - Streetcleaner


1990: Bathory - Hammerheart and Megadeth - Rust In Peace
1991: Slint - Spiderland, Pearl Jam - Ten, Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger, Temple of the Dog (self-titled), Death - Human, Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
1992: Red House Painters - Down Colorful Hill and Kyuss - Blues For The Red Sun
1993: Cynic - Focus, Death - Individual Thought Patterns, Slowdive - Souvlaki, Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream, Red House Painters - Rollercoaster
1994: Nas - Illmatic, Kyuss - Welcome To Sky Valley, Johnny Cash - American Recordings, Dave Matthews Band - Under The Table And Dreaming
1995: Red House Painters - Ocean Beach, Death - Symbolic
1996: Neurosis - Through Silver And Blood, Cryptopsy - None So Vile, Red House Painters - Songs For A Blue Guitar, Dave Matthews Band - Crash
1997: Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A#(infinity), Joe Hisaishi - Princess Mononoke
1998: Death - The Sound of Perseverance, Gorguts - Obscura, The Coup - Steal This Album, Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets
1999: Neurosis - Times of Grace, Arvo Part - Alina


2000: Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
2001: Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You, Jay-Z - The Blueprint
2002: Johnny Cash - American IV, Porcupine Tree - In Absentia, Isis - Oceanic
2003: Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway
2004: Isis - Panopticon, Neurosis - Ghosts of the Great Highway
2005: Koh Ohtani - Shadow of the Colossus, Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
2006: J Dilla - Donuts
2007: Eddie Vedder - Into the Wild
2008: Deerhunter - Microcastle, Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness, Cynic - Traced in Air
2009: Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More


2010: Jamey Johnson - The Guitar Song, Alcest - Ecailles de Lune, Bob Dylan - The Witmark Demos
2011: (so far) Cage The Elephant - Thank You, Happy Birthday

Notes:
-My favorite decades in music were the 1970's and 1990's
-I had trouble picking just one album per year, especially when there were wonderful albums released in multiple genres
-This is a very loooooooong list
-The Who's Quadrophenia is the best album of all time

 

[Hammerheart]

I think I prefer your presentation Cain, I think I'll organise mine in a similar fashion

 

[Cain Nightroad]

I thought it was a lot easier to look at in that style, but it does make it look a lot longer. If the decades weren't separated, then it would look like more of a huge jumbled mess than it does now.

 

[Hammerheart]

Aye, its certainly easier to 'digest' the way you did it.

I don't know about anyone else, but I may be trying a few new albums in the days to come as a result of this.

 

[THRILLHO]

Aye, its certainly easier to 'digest' the way you did it.

I don't know about anyone else, but I may be trying a few new albums in the days to come as a result of this.

I just gave In The Court of the Crimson King a listen, good ****

 

[hobby]

66: Cream - Disraeli Gears/The Beatles - Revolver
67: Cream - Wheels of Fire

Just a nitpick Qing, but those Cream albums are in the wrong years, Disraeli Gears is 67 and Wheels Of Fire is 68.

65: Begin Here - The Zombies
66: Takes Off - Jefferson Airplane
67: Disraeli Gears - Cream (that said, this year was insanely good for music, with Surrealistic Pillow by Jefferson Airplane and The Doors s/t being here as well)
68: Crown Of Creation - Jefferson Airplane
69: Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin

70: Paranoid - Black Sabbath
71: IV - Led Zeppelin
72: Thick As A Brick - Jethro Tull
73: Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd
74: Bridge Of Sighs - Robin Trower
75: Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
76: Tales Of Mystery And Imagination - The Alan Parsons Project
77: I Robot - The Alan Parsons Project (although Animals by Pink Floyd is equally as good)
78: Pyramid - The Alan Parsons Project
79: Breakfast In America - Supertramp

[The 80s are a bit barren in my playlist, so diversity sort of dies off]
80: The Turn Of A Friendly Card - The Alan Parsons Project
81: -
82: Eye In The Sky - The Alan Parsons Project
83: -
84: Ammonia Avenue - The Alan Parsons Project
85: Other Worlds - Screaming Trees
86: Clairvoyance - Screaming Trees
87: Medieval Kills! - Medieval
88: Invisible Lantern - Screaming Trees
89: Bleach - Nirvana

90: The Winding Sheet - Mark Lanegan
91: Nevermind - Nirvana
92: Sweet Oblivion - Screaming Trees (although Blues For The Red Sun by Kyuss is a very close second)
93: Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins (In Utero by Nirvana is equally as good)
94: Sky Valley - Kyuss
95: Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters
96: Pinkerton - Weezer
97: Polythene - Feeder
98: The Shape Of Punk To Come - Refused
99: Showbiz - Muse

00: Rated R - Queens Of The Stone Age
01: Ego - OOMPH!
02: Songs For The Deaf - Queens Of The Stone Age
03: Ocean Avenue - Yellowcard
04: Peace Love Death Metal - Eagles Of Death Metal
05: Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness - Coheed & Cambria
06: Billy Talent II - Billy Talent
07: One Day Son, This Will All Be Yours - Fightstar
08: Saturnalia - The Gutter Twins
09: Lungs - Florence + The Machine
10: Down The Way - Angus & Julia Stone

 

[TehGr81]

This could take a while...

'70: Paranoid - Black Sabbath

'80: British Steel - Judas Priest
'81: Mob Rules - Black Sabbath
'83: Kill 'Em All - Metallica
'84: Ride the Lightning - Metallica
'86: Master of Puppets - Metallica
'87: Appetite for Destruction - Guns N' Roses
'88: ...And Justice for All - Metallica

'91: The Black Album - Metallica
'92: Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
'96: Load - Metallica
'97: ReLoad - Metallica
'99: Felons and Revolutionaries - Dope

'00: The Sickness - Disturbed
'01: Sinner - Drowning Pool
'02: Believe - Disturbed
'03: St. Anger - Metallica
'05: American Apathy - Dope
'08: Death Magnetic - Metallica

'10: Asylum - Disturbed

 

[QingLong]

65: The Beatles - Help!
66: The Beatles - Revolver
67: Cream - Disraeli Gears
68: The Beatles - White Album/Cream - Wheels of Fire
69: Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
70: Black Sabbath - Paranoid

71: Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV/Deep Purple - Fireball/Black Sabbath - Master of Reality[/B]/Jethro Tull - Aqualung
72: Deep Purple - Machine Head
73: Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy/Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
74: Aerosmith - Get Your Wings/Queen - Queen II
75: Queen - A Night at the Opera/Led Zeppelin - Physical Graphiti
76: Blue Oyster Cult - Agents of Fortune/Aerosmith - Rocks/Ramones - Ramones
77: Queen - News of the World
78: Black Sabbath - Never Say Die!/Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses/Whitesnake - Snakebite
79: Jethro Tull - Stormwatch/Led Zeppelin - In Through the Out Door/Blue Oyster Cult - Mirrors
80: Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden/Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell/Def Leppard - On Through the Night

81: Iron Maiden - Killers
82: Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
83: Def Leppard - Pyromania
84: Iron Maiden - Powerslave
85: Overkill - Feel the Fire
86: Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time/Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?/Metallica - Master of Puppets
87: Helloween - Keeper of the 7 Keys I/Testament - The Legacy/Whitesnake - Whitesnake/Overkill - Taking Over
88: Blind Guardian - Battalions of Fear/Helloween - Keeper of the 7 Keys II/Testament - The New Order
89: Blind Guardian - Follow the Blind/Testament - Practice What You Preach/Overkill - The Years of Decay/Whitesnake - Slip of the Tongue
90: Megadeth - Rust in Peace/Testament - Souls of Black

 

[marstrott]

1. Adam Lambert - For Your Entertainment
2. Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster
3. Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You
4. Rob Thomas - Cradlesong
5. Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown

 

[THRILLHO]

1. Adam Lambert - For Your Entertainment
2. Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster
3. Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You
4. Rob Thomas - Cradlesong
5. Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown

excellent list bro

 

[Nando's_Budew]

I enjoyed
Teenage Dream
Speak Now
Fame Monster
Loud.

 

[Glaucous]

01: AOI: Bionix - De La Soul
02: The Electric Circus - Common
03: The Neptunes Present...Clones - Various
04: The College Dropout - Kanye West
05: Tha Carter II - Lil' Wayne
06: Kingdom Come - Jay-Z
07: Graduation - Kanye West
08: 808 and Heartbreak - Kanye West
09: Man On The Moon: The End Of The Day - KiD CuDi
10: Thank Me Later - Drake

Just off the top.

 

[MrMojoRisin]

63:The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan
64: Nothing
65: Rubber Soul - The Beatles
66: Revolver - The Beatles

Ah love the psychedelic era.
67: Oh ho what a great year, hard to choose haha. I'll have to go with... The Velvet Underground and Nico - The Velvet Underground
68: Axis: Bold as Love - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
69: Willy and the Poor Boys - Creedence Clearwater Revival
70: Fun House - The Stooges
71: Master of Reality - Black Sabbath
72: Transformer - Lou Reed
73: The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd, Raw Power - The Stooges. Sorry honestly can't decide which one's better.
74: Red - King Crimson
75: Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd, Horses - Patti Smith. Can't decide!
Here begins the punk rock/post-punk/art rock era I absolutely love.
76: The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
77: Marquee Moon - Television
78: Easter - Patti Smith
79: London Calling - The Clash, Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division
80: Remain in Light - Talking Heads, Closer - Joy Division
81: Moving Pictures - Rush
82: The Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden
83: Kill 'Em All - Metallica

Indie era, much love
84: Let it Be - The Replacements
85: Psychocandy - The Jesus and Mary Chain
86: The Queen is Dead - The Smiths
87: Sister - Sonic Youth
88: Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth
89: Doolittle - Pixies
90: Rust in Peace - Megadeth
91: Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Red Hot Chili Peppers
92: Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
93: Siamese Dream - The Smashing Pumpkins
94: Welcome to Sky Valley - Kyuss
95: Electric Wizard - Electric Wizard
96: Billy Breathes - Phish
97: OK Computer - Radiohead
98: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel. Love this so much <3
99: Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers
00: Is This it - The Strokes

Eh starts getting downhill from here. Not much to choose from.
01: The Unraveling - Rise Against
02: Murray Street - Sonic Youth
03: Revolutions Per Minute - Rise Against
04: Funeral - Arcade Fire
05: None
06: Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - Arctic Monkeys
07: None
08: Cage the Elephant - Cage the Elephant
09: None
10: None
11. None
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