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The Portable Galaxie 500

1998 compilation album by Galaxie 500

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ3522286 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Portable Galaxie 500 is a compilation album by the rock band Galaxie 500. It was released in 1998 on Rykodisc.

Track listing

All songs written by Galaxie 500 except as noted.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “The Portable Galaxie 500” as 1998 compilation album by Galaxie 500. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Portable, Galaxie and compilation.

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—1998—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1998-09-29. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Portable, Galaxie and compilation providing the first useful test.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3522286. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1998.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Portable Galaxie 500” 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.