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Play Out of Tune

extended play

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 7, 2020
Entity authorityQ7203062
Source-derived summary

The Bambi Molesters Play Out Of Tune is the debut EP disc of Croatian rock band The Bambi Molesters. This early recordings differentiate from the band's later ones. The record has cheap production and it sounds more like 60's garage punk than surf rock. The disc contents only 2 instrumentals and 9 songs with vocals, including a cover-version of Pere Ubu song. It was recorded and released on cassette in 1995, while the Croatian War of Independence was still ongoing.

Track listing

Personnel

Dalibor Pavičić - Vocals, guitar

Dinko Tomljanović - Guitar

Lada Furlan - Bass

Hrvoje Zaborac - Drums

External links

[1] at Listen loudest!

Editorial summary

“Play Out of Tune” enters the record as extended play. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Play, Tune and extended 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—1995—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1995-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Play, Tune and extended.
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Why this record matters

“Play Out of Tune” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Play, Tune and extended 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 7, 2020. The linked authority identifier is Q7203062. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1995.

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This entry incorporates text from Play Out of Tune” 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.