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Rock Animals

1993 studio album by Shonen Knife

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 5, 2023
Entity authorityQ17019231 ↗
Source-derived summary

Rock Animals is a studio album by Shonen Knife. It was released on September 8, 1993, in Japan. It peaked at number 59 on the Oricon Albums Chart, as well as number 39 on Billboard's Heatseekers Albums chart.

Track listing

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes.

Editorial summary

“Rock Animals” enters the record as 1993 studio album by Shonen Knife. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Rock, Animals and studio 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—1993—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1993. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Rock, Animals and studio.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Rock Animals” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Rock, Animals and studio 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 Oct 5, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q17019231. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1993.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. 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
Verify next

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 “Rock Animals”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Rock Animals primary sources, Rock Animals archive and Rock 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 “Rock Animals”?
  2. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Rock Animals” 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.