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Big Time

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Big Time

Summary

Big Time is an album[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (254 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Big Time's instance of is recorded as album[3].
  • Big Time's genre is experimental rock[4].
  • Big Time was produced by Tom Waits[5].
  • Among the performers on Big Time was Tom Waits[6].
  • Big Time's record label is recorded as Island Records[7].
  • Big Time is part of Tom Waits' albums in chronological order[8].
  • Big Time's language of work or name is recorded as English[9].
  • Big Time was distributed by music streaming[10].
  • Big Time was published on September 1988[11].
  • Big Time's duration is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11574', 'amount': '+3855'}[12].
  • Big Time's form of creative work is recorded as live album[13].

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[14]

  • Secondary type(s): Live[15]

  • First release date: 1988-09[16]

  • Genre(s): blues rock, experimental, experimental rock, lo-fi, rock[17]

  • Community tags: avantgarde, blues rock, experimental, experimental rock, lo-fi, rock[18]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 49532907-57ee-3256-9940-bcb7ebb17def[19]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Among the performers on Big Time was Tom Waits[6]. It was produced by Tom Waits[5].

Publication

Big Time was released on September 1988[11]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[9]. Its genre is experimental rock[4]. It is part of Tom Waits' albums in chronological order[8]. It was distributed by music streaming[10].

Why It Matters

Big Time ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (254 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20]

Related Entities

Island Records Tom Waits

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . AllMusic. allmusic.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [18] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [19] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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