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Armed Forces

album by Elvis Costello
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Armed Forces

Summary

Armed Forces is an album[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (748 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Armed Forces's instance of is recorded as album[3].
  • Armed Forces's genre is pop rock[4].
  • Armed Forces was produced by Nick Lowe[5].
  • Among the performers on Armed Forces was Elvis Costello & the Attractions[6].
  • Armed Forces's record label is recorded as Radar Records[7].
  • Armed Forces is part of Elvis Costello's albums in chronological order[8].
  • Armed Forces is part of Elvis Costello & The Attractions' albums in chronological order[9].
  • Armed Forces's language of work or name is recorded as English[10].
  • Armed Forces was published on 1979[11].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Album[12]

  • First release date: 1979-01-05[13]

  • Genre(s): alternative rock, new wave, pop rock, post-punk, rock, rock and roll[14]

  • Community tags: 1979, alternative rock, alternative/indie rock, college rock, contemporary pop/rock, new wave, pop rock, pop/rock, post-punk, punk/new wave, rock, rock and roll[15]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 8172d1b5-ffb8-3da7-a74a-a27eb4a0d3ff[16]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Armed Forces was performed by Elvis Costello & the Attractions[6]. It was produced by Nick Lowe[5].

Publication

Armed Forces was released on 1979[11]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[10]. Its genre is pop rock[4]. Part of include Elvis Costello's albums in chronological order[8] and Elvis Costello & The Attractions' albums in chronological order[9].

Why It Matters

Armed Forces ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (748 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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