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The World We Live In (album)

album by Voice Farm

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ7776081 ↗
Source-derived summary

The World We Live In is the 1982 debut album from the San Francisco-based, new wave group Voice Farm, released on Optional Music. It includes "Beatnik", which AllMusic called catchy, and the album-closing Over and Over, which "masterfully blends a lyrical theme of obsession with relentless, ominous bass tones". Also included is a synthesizer driven cover of The Jaynetts' 1963 hit "Sally Go 'Round the Roses".

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“The World We Live In (album)” enters the record as album by Voice Farm. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what World, Live and album can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1982, 1963—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1982. Its strongest next move is a source search built around World, Live and album.
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Why this record matters

“The World We Live In (album)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, World, Live and album provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 Jan 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7776081. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1982 and 1963.

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This entry incorporates text from “The World We Live In (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.