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Fake Can Be Just as Good

album by Blonde Redhead

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ3738503 ↗
Source-derived summary

Fake Can Be Just as Good is the third studio album by American alternative rock band Blonde Redhead. It was released on March 11, 1997 by Touch and Go Records.

Track listing

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.

Editorial summary

“Fake Can Be Just as Good” enters the record as album by Blonde Redhead. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Fake, Just and Good 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—1997—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1997. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Fake, Just and Good.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Fake Can Be Just as Good” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Fake, Just and Good provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Jun 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3738503. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1997.

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 “Fake Can Be Just as Good”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Fake Can Be Just as Good primary sources, Fake Can Be Just as Good archive and Fake 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 “Fake Can Be Just as Good”?
  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Fake Can Be Just as Good” 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.