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The Incredible Shrinking Dickies

album by The Dickies

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ7741766 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Incredible Shrinking Dickies is the debut studio album by the California punk band The Dickies. It peaked at #18 on the UK album charts. The album includes the group's cover of Black Sabbath's "Paranoid", which reached No. 45 in the UK charts in July 1979. It was pressed on four different colors of vinyl (blue, yellow, orange, black).

The album was produced by John Hewlett, who in the late 1960s was a member of the UK garagepunk quartet John's Children.

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The public source identifies “The Incredible Shrinking Dickies” as album by The Dickies. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Incredible, Shrinking and Dickies.

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—1979—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1979. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Incredible, Shrinking and Dickies providing the first useful test.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7741766. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1979.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Incredible Shrinking Dickies” 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.