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What's THIS For...!

album by Killing Joke
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Summary

What's THIS For...! is an album[1]. What's THIS For...! ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (633 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • What's THIS For...!'s instance of is recorded as album[3].
  • What's THIS For...!'s genre is post-punk[4].
  • What's THIS For...!'s genre is industrial rock[5].
  • What's THIS For...! was produced by Killing Joke[6].
  • What's THIS For...! was performed by Killing Joke[7].
  • What's THIS For...!'s record label is recorded as E.G. Records[8].
  • What's THIS For...!'s record label is recorded as Polydor[9].
  • What's THIS For...!'s place of publication is recorded as United Kingdom[10].
  • What's THIS For...! is part of Killing Joke's albums in chronological order[11].
  • What's THIS For...! was published on 1981[12].
  • What's THIS For...!'s coordinates of the point of view is recorded as {'lat': 52.63280528, 'lon': 1.291776184}[13].
  • What's THIS For...!'s duration is recorded as {'unit': 'second', 'amount': '+2524'}[14].
  • What's THIS For...!'s form of creative work is recorded as studio album[15].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Album[16]

  • First release date: 1981-06[17]

  • Genre(s): dance-rock, electronic, industrial rock, new wave, post-punk, punk rock, rock[18]

  • Community tags: 80s, alternative, alternative/indie rock, british, dance-rock, electronic, industrial rock, new wave, pop/rock, post-punk, punk rock, rock[19]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 7b2fafcb-82cd-3eb3-a030-172b2d7e4752[20]

Body

Authorship and Creation

What's THIS For...! was performed by Killing Joke[7]. What's THIS For...! was produced by Killing Joke[6].

Publication

What's THIS For...! was published on 1981[12]. What's THIS For...!'s place of publication is recorded as United Kingdom[10]. Genres include post-punk[4] and industrial rock[5]. What's THIS For...! is part of Killing Joke's albums in chronological order[11].

Why It Matters

What's THIS For...! ranks in the top 2% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (633 views/month).[2] What's THIS For...! has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] What's THIS For...! is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . musicbrainz.org. Retrieved . musicbrainz.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Musical Maps. Retrieved . musicalmaps.blogspot.com.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [19] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [20] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 3d ago · Lasius · 2026-10-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Allmusic album id → mw0000651165
    Duration → {'unit': 'Q11574', 'amount': '+2524'}
    Sitelink count → 9
    Wikipedia languages → ['en', 'fi', 'fr', 'gl', 'it', 'ko', 'pl', 'ru', 'uk']
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Duration: 2,524 second"
  2. 5w ago · ChloeDrowssap · 2026-09-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Producer → Killing Joke
    Performer → Killing Joke
    Record label → —
    Part of → —
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Genre: industrial rock"
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