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Admonishing the Bishops

extended play by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ4683828 ↗
Source-derived summary

Admonishing the Bishops is an EP by the band Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, released as a CD and 10" vinyl record on October 26, 1993, through Matador Records. The EP's title refers to Alan and Rick Bishop of the Sun City Girls with whom the Thinking Fellers had toured with the previous year.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Admonishing the Bishops” is extended play by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Admonishing, Bishops and extended, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1993—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1993-01-01. For this dossier, Admonishing, Bishops and extended is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “extended play by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4683828. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1993.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Admonishing the Bishops”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Admonishing the Bishops primary sources, Admonishing the Bishops archive and Admonishing research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Admonishing the Bishops”?
  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Admonishing the Bishops” 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.