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Stereo Total (album)

album by Stereo Total

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 19, 2024
Entity authorityQ39073052 ↗
Source-derived summary

Stereo Total is a compilation album by the band of the same name, released in 1998 on Bobsled Records. It was the first album the band released in the United States, and features songs from their first two albums (Oh Ah! and Monokini). Upon its release, it received favorable reviews from Spin, the Washington City Paper, and the Village Voice, and the band went on a tour in support of the album in the following spring.

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The public source identifies “Stereo Total (album)” as album by Stereo Total. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Stereo, Total and album.

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—1998—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Stereo, Total and album providing the first useful test.
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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 May 19, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q39073052. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1998.

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This entry incorporates text from “Stereo Total (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.