It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry

Recording by Yo La Tengo.

Recording identifiers

ISRC
USMTD2000180
Release date of the album this recording appears on
2020-10-09
CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)
0xe237d28d24c3fef0a20775921ac0d44e2f2b16c0a2d063e1db213656aa49fcef
Copyright registration time
2026-06-27T00:27:24+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp
2026-07-02T03:55:08Z
Bitcoin block
956304
Canonical record hash
sha256:7b7a232f495ea89b712bf91d0ec94769ebbfff5b3fa33d05973dc6217289fc4c

What this proof establishes

This recording was released in 2020, before generative AI. ProofProfile's catalogue derives from the pre-2022 AcousticBrainz and MusicBrainz source corpus, and ISRC is the stable recording-level bridge from that source corpus to the authoritative cc-db-prod track record.

CopyrightChains and Bitcoin OpenTimestamps make the exact committed record independently verifiable today. The cryptographic proof does not by itself establish authorship or ownership of the underlying recording.

Read the complete pre-generative-AI provenance and verification method.