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Mind Pollution (The First Installment)

1991 compilation album; various artists

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 6, 2020
Entity authorityQ104850367 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mind Pollution (The First Installment) is a various artists compilation album released in 1991 by Words of Warning. The album's sequel Mind Pollution 2 was released in 1993 by the same label and contains a majority of the tracks from this collection.

Track listing

Personnel

Adapted from the Mind Pollution (The First Installment) liner notes.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Mind Pollution (The First Installment)” as 1991 compilation album; various artists. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1991, 1993—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1991. The account is most persuasive where Mind, Pollution and First can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 1991 compilation album; various artists. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 Dec 6, 2020. The linked authority identifier is Q104850367. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1991 and 1993.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. 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 “Mind Pollution (The First Installment)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Mind Pollution (The First Installment) primary sources, Mind Pollution (The First Installment) archive and Mind 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 “Mind Pollution (The First Installment)”?
  2. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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This entry incorporates text from “Mind Pollution (The First Installment)” 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.