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A Single Drop of Red

extended play by Anarchy Club

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ2819898 ↗
Source-derived summary

A Single Drop of Red is the first EP and second release overall by the hard rock/electronica duo Anarchy Club, released in December 2007.

The EP features the two already released tracks "Collide" (from Guitar Hero II in 2006), and "Blood Doll" (from Rock Band in 2007), three all new unreleased songs, and six new remixes to six of the songs from the band's debut LP, The Way and Its Power.

Track listing

All songs written by Keith Smith and Adam von Buhler, except "No You Don't" by Chapman & Chinn.

Editorial summary

“A Single Drop of Red” enters the record as extended play by Anarchy Club. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Single, Drop and extended can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007, 2006—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2007. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Single, Drop and extended.
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Why this record matters

“A Single Drop of Red” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Single, Drop and extended provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 27, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2819898. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2007 and 2006.

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This entry incorporates text from “A Single Drop of Red” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.