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Spoken word
Spoken word is a style of performance poetry that began in New York City and became popular among blacks in the early nineties. It evolved from the oral tradition of free-style hip hop artists and poets who would perform at local open mics. Unlike previous styles of poetry, spoken word is usually...
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Put My Dream on This Planet
Put My Dream on This Planet is the twenty-ninth album by Jandek, and his only new release of 2000 (note that there were numerous reissues of the oldest material). The first of three consecutive a capella albums, it is Corwood Industries #0767.
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- 2000
Music Martinis and Misanthropy
Music, Martinis and Misanthropy is a mellow, apocalyptic folk and spoken word album that combines acoustic and electronic instrumentation with brutal, Social Darwinist lyrics and poetry. It was created by pioneer noise artist Boyd Rice and an...
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The Life of the Last Prophet
The Life of the Last Prophet was the first album to be released by Cat Stevens after leaving the Western pop music business in 1978, changing his name to Yusuf Islam. After that time, he recorded only albums with Islamic themes, including recordings...
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- 1995
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Has Been
Has Been (2004) is William Shatner's second musical album after 1968's The Transformed Man.
The album was produced and arranged by Ben Folds and most of the songs are co-written by Folds and Shatner, with Folds creating arrangements for Shatner's...
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- Oct 5, 2004
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- 2,396.96 s (39.9493 min )
Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance
Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance is the debut album by the Australian band TISM. Originally released on vinyl as a double album, it was later re-issued as a single compact disc. The vinyl release has a different vocal mix on the track...
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- 1988
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- 4,188 s (69.8 min )
Machine Gun in the Clown's Hand
Machine Gun in the Clown's Hand is the eighth spoken word album by Jello Biafra. Topics covered in the album include the War on Terrorism, California's energy crisis, and voting problems in Florida. Biafra originally titled the album Osama McDonald ...
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- Oct 15, 2002
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- 11,467 s (191.12 min )
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Become the Media
Become the Media is the sixth spoken word album by Jello Biafra. Topics covered include the WTO Meeting of 1999, the 2000 presidential election, the Green Party, the International Monetary Fund and the H.O.P.E. conference.
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- Oct 17, 2000
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The Rose that Grew from Concrete
The Rose That Grew from Concrete is an album based on the poetry of Tupac Shakur, released in 2000. This album features a large cast of celebrities reading Shakur's poetry and writing, much in the spirit of a traditional spoken word album.
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- Oct 17, 2000
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Jammy Smears
Jammy Smears is a Studio album by Ivor Cutler, originally released in 1976. It was the last of the three albums he released on Virgin Records, and as with the previous two he is joined by Phyllis King, who reads six of her own poems and short...
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- 1976
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The Transformed Man
The Transformed Man is actor William Shatner's debut album. It was released in 1968, while Shatner was still starring in the original Star Trek series, and began his musical career. The concept of the album was to juxtapose famous pieces of poetry...
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- Oct 10, 1995
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- 2,246.56 s (37.4427 min )
Wurd Becomes Flesh
Wurd Becomes Flesh is a 4 track poetry EP by Otep that was available only during the Mouth of Madness Tour in 2005.
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- 2005
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Velvet Donkey
Velvet Donkey is an album by Ivor Cutler, originally released in 1975 on Virgin Records. Cutler is joined on the record by Fred Frith who plays viola on several tracks, and by Phyllis King who reads six of her own poems and short stories and is also...
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- 1975
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Live from the Battle in Seattle
Live from the Battle in Seattle is the only album released by anti-globalization punk band The No WTO Combo. Of the five tracks on the album, only two, "New Feudalism" and "Electronic Plantation", are originals. "Let's Lynch the Landlord" and "Full...
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- May 16, 2000
Deep Throat
Deep Throat is a CD boxed set released by the musical artist Henry Rollins on June 10, 1992. It is a compilation of Rollins' first four spoken–word releases.
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- Jun 10, 1992
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Get in the Van
Get in the Van is a memoir by singer, writer, and spoken word artist Henry Rollins first published in 1994 by, Rollins' own company, 2.13.61 Publications. The book is composed of journal entries that Rollins kept while he was lead singer of the band...
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- 1994
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Taupin
Taupin is lyricist Bernie Taupin's first solo album. It is a spoken word album of some of his poetry. Taupin was well known for writing the words to many Elton John songs, and he used many of the same people John used on his albums in order to...
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- 1971
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If Evolution Is Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Evolve
If Evolution Is Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Evolve is the fifth spoken-word album by Jello Biafra.
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- Oct 27, 1998
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- 11,759 s (195.98 min )
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Beyond the Valley of the Gift Police
Beyond the Valley of the Gift Police is the fourth spoken word album by Jello Biafra. The album included a cartoon tract insert by graphic novelist Daniel Clowes, Devil Doll?, which spoofed the Chick Publications tracts.
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- Sep 9, 1994
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- 9,732 s (162.2 min )
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I Blow Minds for a Living
I Blow Minds for a Living is the third spoken word album by Jello Biafra.
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- Jun 12, 1991
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- 5,543 s (92.38 min )
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High Priest of Harmful Matter − Tales from the Trial
High Priest of Harmful Matter: Tales From the Trial is the second spoken word album by Jello Biafra. Biafra summarizes the recent history of censorship in America, focusing on crusades to ban subjects such as evolution from school textbooks. He...
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- 1989
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No More Cocoons
No More Cocoons is the first spoken word album by Jello Biafra.
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- 1987
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- 6,596 s (109.9 min )
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Talk Is Cheap Vol I
Talk Is Cheap: Volume 1 is the 11th live spoken word album from Henry Rollins, released January 23, 2003 on 2.13.61 Records. The following night, Talk Is Cheap: Volume 2 was recorded at the same theater.
The four-volume Talk Is Cheap series of...
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- 2003
Talk Is Cheap Vol III
Talk Is Cheap: Volume 3 is the 13th live spoken word album by Henry Rollins, released on January 13, 2004 on 2.13.61 Records. This show was recorded at the Enmore Theater in Sydney, Australia on April 23, 2003, exactly two years after Talk Is Cheap:...
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- 2004
Talk Is Cheap Vol IV
Talk Is Cheap: Volume 4 is the 14th live spoken word album by Henry Rollins, released December, 2004 on 2.13.61 Records. It was recorded on April 16, 2004 at San José State University in San José, CA. Clocking in at nearly 160 minutes, it is his...
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- 2004
The Boxed Life
The Boxed Life is a double spoken word release by former Black Flag singer Henry Rollins also featuring Canadian journalist and radio show host Ian Bussières, also known as "The Oddball". It was originally released on cassette tape in 1993 on Imago...
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- 1993
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The Courtauld Talks
The Courtauld Talks is the eighth album by English post-punk group Killing Joke. This album was different from the group's other releases since it is essentially a spoken word album. On 19 September 1987 Jaz Coleman had delivered a lecture at London...
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- 1989
Dandruff
Dandruff is an album by Ivor Cutler, originally released in 1974. It was the first of three LPs that Cutler released through Virgin Records in the mid-1970s; Cutler had signed to the label after an appearance on Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom, which...
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- 1974
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Life in a Scotch Sitting Room, Vol. 2
Life in a Scotch Sitting Room, Vol. 2 is an album by Ivor Cutler, originally released in 1978. It was recorded live in Cutler's native Glasgow, and tells stories from his childhood growing up in a middle-class family around the time of the Great...
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- 1978
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- 3,194.893 s (53.24822 min )
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Privilege
Privilege is an album by Ivor Cutler, originally released in 1983 on Rough Trade Records. It was produced by David Toop and Steve Beresford, both of whom are better known for their work in ambient music, and unlike Cutler's 1970s recordings it sees...
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- 1983
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Bernard Braden Reads Stephen Leacock
Bernard Braden Reads Stephen Leacock is a spoken word record, performed by Bernard Braden, and was recorded in front of a live audience at the Oxford Union Society. John Drainie was another performer noted for his similar one-man show as Canadian...
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- 1969
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My Daughter the Broad
My Daughter the Broad is the third album released by The Frogs. It is a compilation of improvised homemade recordings that were mostly recorded in the late 1980's. Many of these songs continue themes from It's Only Right And Natural such as...
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- 1996
Some Product: Carri on Sex Pistols
Some Product: Carri on Sex Pistols is an interview album featuring members of the Sex Pistols' The interviews are mostly presented in a collage style.
The artwork was done by artist Jamie Reid and peaked at #6 in the UK album charts.
The title melds...
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Nights Behind the Tree Line
Nights Behind The Tree Line is an audio book by Henry Rollins.
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- Apr 6, 2004
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Eric the Pilot
Eric the Pilot is the eighth live spoken word album from Henry Rollins, released May 5, 1999 on 2.13.61 Records. The entire CD is one, hour-long story about Henry trying to get to a show in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This story, along with the second disc of...
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- 1999
Poetry For The Beat Generation
Poetry for the Beat Generation (Hanover LP #5000) is the debut album of American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac. Kerouac is accompanied by Steve Allen on the piano. All songs were written by Kerouac. The album is included in the CD-box-set The Jack...
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- 1959
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Blues And Haikus
Blues And Haikus (Hanover LP #5006) is Jack Kerouac's second album and was released in 1959. On this album Kerouac's poetry readings are accompanied by jazz saxophonists Al Cohn and Zoot Sims.
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- 1959
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Poems, Speeches, Thoughts and Doodles
Poems, Speeches, Thoughts and Doodles is a 1997 spoken word compilation album by Roy Harper.
The album features 34 of Harper's poems, and songs and was originally only available via mail order or at Harper concerts. Now out of print, is quite hard...
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- 1997
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As Serious As A Heart-Attack
As Serious As A Heart-Attack is an album by Melvin Van Peebles. The album's cover can be briefly glimpsed on the bathroom door in the 1973 film version of Van Peebles' musical Don't Play Us Cheap.
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- 1971
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Raven Songs 101
Raven Songs 101 is a spoken-word album by Kevin Max and Adrian Belew. It features Max reading several poems from his book The Detritus of Dorian Gray. Belew provides the music and sound effects.
Raven Songs was re-released as a digital download on...
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- Oct 20, 2004
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Radio Now Live
Radio Now Live is a 2001 live comedy album by The Firesign Theatre. It was the only record the group made under a contract with Butterfly Records.
Disk One
This album is a recording of a live show performed in Portland, Oregon, April 25, 1999 at the...
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- 2001
Anythynge You Want To
Anythynge You Want To is a 2001 comedy album by The Firesign Theatre. It takes the form of a play, under the conceit of being a lost work of Shakespeare, using language, plot structure, and characters which parody Shakespeare's original works. It...
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- 2001
Zip Style Method
Zip Style Method is the sixth album by John Cooper Clarke, originally released in 1982.
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- 1982
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Où est la maison de fromage?
Où est la maison de fromage is the debut album by John Cooper Clarke, originally released in 1978. It comprises a mix of live performances, demos and rehearsals. The name means "where is the house of cheese?" in French.
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- 1978
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On The Road With Ellison Volume 1
First released in 1983 as an extremely limited edition vinyl album, On The Road With Ellison Volume 1 was reissued on CD in 2001 by Deep Shag Records. The CD features liner notes written by Harlan specifically for the release. From the mailing of a...
On The Road With Ellison Volume 2
Released in 2004 by Deep Shag Records, On The Road With Ellison Volume 2 is a collection of humorous and thought provoking moments from the vaults of Harlan Ellison. The CD features a new essay written by Harlan for this release. When Harlan Ellison...
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- 2004
The Last Poets
The Last Poets is a 1970 (see 1970 in music) spoken word album by The Last Poets.
The song "Wake Up, Niggers" is featured on the Performance soundtrack album, also released in 1970.
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- 1970
The Ugly One with the Jewels
The Ugly One with the Jewels (full title: The Ugly One with the Jewels and Other Stories: A Reading from Stories From the Nerve Bible) is the title of a primarily spoken-word album released by Laurie Anderson on Warner Bros. Records in 1995, the...
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- Mar 1995
Dead City Radio
Dead City Radio is a musical album by Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs, which was released by Island Records in 1990. It was dedicated to Keith Haring.
The CD is a collection of readings by Burroughs set to a broad range of musical...
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- Aug 31, 1990
Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies: A Variety of Whimsical Verse
Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies: A Variety of Whimsical Verse is the fourth full-length album by indie pop band Of Montreal, released in 2001 by Kindercore Records. Considered one of their most ambitious works, the record is more of a full band...
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- Apr 23, 2001
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- 4,197.08 s (69.9513 min )
Family Man
Family Man is an album released by the American hardcore punk band Black Flag in 1984. It is unique in that one side features spoken-word tracks by vocalist Henry Rollins and the other side mainly features instrumental tracks. "Armageddon Man" is...
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- Sep 1984
This Is Madness
This Is Madness is an album released by The Last Poets in 1971.
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- 1971
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Disguise in Love
Disguise in Love is the second album by John Cooper Clarke, originally released in 1978. Most of the tracks are spoken over musical accompaniment provided by Clarke's band The Invisible Girls, except "Psycle Sluts 1&2" and "Salome Maloney" — both...
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- 1978
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Walking Back to Happiness
Walking Back to Happiness is the third album by John Cooper Clarke, originally released on 10" clear vinyl in 1979, though it has long been out of print. All tracks were recorded live. The final track, "Gimmix", was also recorded in studio and was a...
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- 1979
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Snap, Crackle & Bop
Snap, Crackle & Bop is the fourth album by John Cooper Clarke, originally released in 1980. As with Disguise in Love, the album was backed by The Invisible Girls and produced by Martin Hannett.
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- 1980
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Worthless Recluse
Worthless Recluse is the thirty-first Jandek album and the second of two new albums released in (2001). Released as Corwood #0769, it is the third spoken word album and the last to date.
Similar to the cover for the previous album, but pulled back....
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- 2001
This Narrow Road
This Narrow Road is the thirtieth album by Jandek, and the first of two new discs (there were several reissues) released in 2001. It is also the second of three (so far) spoken word releases and is Corwood #0768.
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- 2001
Coke Machine Glow
Coke Machine Glow was the first solo album released by Gordon Downie, the singer for The Tragically Hip. It was released in 2001.
Early copies of the album were released as a joint package with a book by Downie, also titled Coke Machine Glow. The...
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- 2001
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- 3,828.227 s (63.80378 min )
Lazyboy TV
Lazyboy TV is the 2004 album by pop music/spoken word project Lazyboy (known as Lazy B in the UK). The album contains trivia, philosophical advice, stand-up comedy and social commentary on American society spoken over contemporary hip hop-esque...
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- Aug 30, 2004
Hot Dogma
Hot Dogma, released in 1990, is the second full-length album by anonymous Australian band TISM. It was their major record debut on Phonogram Records. The title comes from a joining of the two phrases Hot Dog, a snack, and Dogma, a specific religious...
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- 1990
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- 4,243.293 s (70.72155 min )
