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This Is a Hospital

album by Chicago-based punk rock band The Ghost

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 31, 2025
Entity authorityQ7786012 ↗
Source-derived summary

This Is a Hospital is the debut album by Chicago-based punk rock band The Ghost. It was released on March 5, 2002 on Some Records to generally positive reviews.

Jason D. Taylor from Allmusic described the lyrics as "scathing in their intensity yet brutally honest" and is an album which "displays much potential". He compares their musical arrangements to post-hardcore band Thursday. Pitchfork Media's Rob Mitchum calls the album a blend of "straightforward indie rock with some jagged post-punk hues for a rhythmic, powerful, incisive guitar-and-bass attack", and the band "distinguish themselves with some impressive songwriting.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “This Is a Hospital” is album by Chicago-based punk rock band The Ghost. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Hospital, album and Chicago-based, not as a finished interpretation.

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—2002—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Hospital, album and Chicago-based is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “album by Chicago-based punk rock band The Ghost” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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 May 31, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7786012. The first chronological checks are 2002.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. 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.

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This entry incorporates text from “This Is a Hospital” 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.