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Six Million Ways to Live

album by Dub Pistols

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ7532810 ↗
Source-derived summary

Six Million Ways to Live is an album by Dub Pistols, released in 2005. It was originally released in 2001 as a promotional CD with a different track list. Its single, "Problem Is" featuring Terry Hall, charted at No. 66 on the UK Singles Chart in 2003.

Track listing

"Sound Clash" - 1:14

"World Gone Crazy" (featuring Horace Andy) - 04:42

"Problem Is" (featuring Terry Hall) - 3:47

"Six Million Ways to Live" - 5:05

"Riptides" - 4:41

"Soul Shaking" - 4:16

"Soldiers" (featuring Planet Asia) - 6:06

"Still Breathing" - 3:31

"Architect" - 3:31

"Official Chemical" - 3:17

"6AM" - 3:55

2001 promo track listing

"Soldiers" (featuring Planet Asia) - 6:01

"Big World" - 5:04

"Problem Is" (featuring Terry Hall) - 3:43

"Official Chemical" - 3:31

"3am" - 3:40

"Six Million Ways to Live" - 5:04

"Revolution" - 5:03

"Crazy" (a.k.a.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Six Million Ways to Live” as album by Dub Pistols. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Million, Ways and Live.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005, 2001, 2003—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Million, Ways and Live providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Six Million Ways to Live”, the useful work is to connect “album by Dub Pistols” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 21, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7532810. The first chronological checks are 2005, 2001 and 2003.

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This entry incorporates text from “Six Million Ways to Live” 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.