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Lloyd Cole discography

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ6662340 ↗
Source-derived summary

This article includes the albums and singles released by both Lloyd Cole as a solo artist and the recordings of his band Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, and with his next band Lloyd Cole and the Negatives.

Lloyd Cole and the Commotions discography

Studio albums

Compilation albums

Live albums

Singles

Solo discography

Studio albums

Compilation albums

Live albums

Singles

Other charting songs

"Tell Your Sister" – number 6 on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks in 1992.

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The public source identifies “Lloyd Cole discography” as wikimedia artist discography. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Lloyd, Cole and discography.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Lloyd, Cole and discography providing the first useful test.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6662340. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1992.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lloyd Cole discography” 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.