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Obscure Alternatives

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Obscure Alternatives

Summary

Obscure Alternatives is an album[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (241 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Obscure Alternatives's instance of is recorded as album[3].
  • Obscure Alternatives's genre is new wave[4].
  • Obscure Alternatives's genre is post-punk[5].
  • Obscure Alternatives was performed by Japan[6].
  • Obscure Alternatives's record label is recorded as Hansa Records[7].
  • Obscure Alternatives is part of Japan's albums in chronological order[8].
  • Obscure Alternatives's language of work or name is recorded as English[9].
  • Obscure Alternatives was published on October 27, 1978[10].

Product Details

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  • Release type: Album[11]

  • First release date: 1978-08[12]

  • Genre(s): art rock, electronic, glam rock, new wave, post-punk, rock[13]

  • Community tags: art rock, electronic, glam rock, new wave, post-punk, rock[14]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 0d9a25d3-a4b3-3d6d-b78c-23b680543ce3[15]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Obscure Alternatives was performed by Japan[6].

Publication

Obscure Alternatives was published on October 27, 1978[10]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[9]. Genres include new wave[4] and post-punk[5]. It is part of Japan's albums in chronological order[8].

Why It Matters

Obscure Alternatives ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (241 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . discogs.com. discogs.com. Provenance: 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.

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

  1. [11] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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