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Chewing Hides the Sound

1979 debut studio album by Snakefinger

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ3253207 ↗
Source-derived summary

Chewing Hides The Sound was Snakefinger's first full-length album, released by Ralph Records in 1979. The record is co-produced with The Residents, who also co-wrote many of the songs. The album has the distinction of featuring the first recorded cover version of Kraftwerk's song "The Model", it also features the cover of "Magic and Ecstasy" by Ennio Morricone from the soundtrack of Exorcist II: The Heretic.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Chewing Hides the Sound” as 1979 debut studio album by Snakefinger. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1979—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1979. The account is most persuasive where Chewing, Hides and Sound can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 1979 debut studio album by Snakefinger. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 18, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3253207. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1979.

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This entry incorporates text from “Chewing Hides the Sound” 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.