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NATO (album)

1994 studio album by Laibach

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 21, 2024
Entity authorityQ1940923 ↗
Source-derived summary

NATO, released on 10 October 1994, is a studio album by Slovenian industrial group Laibach, named after the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It is a selection of cover versions with the theme of war.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “NATO (album)” is 1994 studio album by Laibach. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through NATO, album and studio, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1994—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1994-10-10. For this dossier, NATO, album and studio is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “1994 studio album by Laibach” 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 Jul 21, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q1940923. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1994.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. 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 “NATO (album)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow NATO (album) primary sources, NATO (album) archive and NATO 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 “NATO (album)”?
  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 “NATO (album)” 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.