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Cop

1984 album by Swans
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Cop

Summary

Cop is an album[1]. Cop ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (378 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Cop's instance of is recorded as album[3].
  • Cop's genre is noise rock[4].
  • Cop was produced by Michael Gira[5].
  • Among the performers on Cop was Swans[6].
  • Cop's place of publication is recorded as United States[7].
  • Cop is part of Swans' albums in chronological order[8].
  • Cop was distributed by compact disc[9].
  • Cop was released on 1984[10].
  • Cop's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Cop'}[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: 1984[13]

  • Genre(s): no wave, noise rock, sludge metal[14]

  • Community tags: no wave, noise rock, sludge metal[15]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 131701d8-f9b9-3930-b1b8-26ff9b7f0bc2[16]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Among the performers on Cop was Swans[6]. Cop was produced by Michael Gira[5].

Publication

Cop was released on 1984[10]. Cop's place of publication is recorded as United States[7]. Cop's genre is noise rock[4]. Cop is part of Swans' albums in chronological order[8]. Cop was distributed by compact disc[9].

Why It Matters

Cop ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (378 views/month).[2] Cop has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17]

Related Entities

compact disc United States

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] ↑ . 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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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Cop. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/cop-q1129929
MLA “Cop.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/cop-q1129929.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_cop-q1129929_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Cop}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/cop-q1129929}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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