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Released
  
27 July 1987

In My Tribe (1987)
  
Blind Man's Zoo (1989)

Release date
  
7 July 1987

Label
  
Elektra Records

Length
  
46:51

Artist
  
10,000 Maniacs

Producer
  
Peter Asher

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Recorded
  
March–April 1987, The Complex, Los Angeles

Genres
  
Rock music, Alternative rock, Folk rock, Soft rock

Similar
  
10 - 000 Maniacs albums, Rock music albums

10 000 maniacs what s the matter here


In My Tribe is an album by the American alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs. It was their second major-label album and their first to achieve large-scale success. John Lombardo, Natalie Merchant's songwriting partner on previous albums, left the band in 1986. Merchant began collaborating with the other members of the band, most notably with Rob Buck.

Contents

In My Tribe was ranked No. 65 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1980s.

In 1989, the cover of Cat Stevens' "Peace Train" was removed from the U.S. CD version after comments made by Stevens (by now a Muslim convert and known as Yusuf Islam) that were perceived to be supportive of the fatwa on Salman Rushdie. The song remains on vinyl copies and CDs released outside the United States. The song was later included in a 2-CD compilation, Campfire Songs: The Popular, Obscure and Unknown Recordings, released on 24 January 2004, by Elektra/Asylum/Rhino Records.

Lyrics for cherry tree by 10 000 maniacs


Artwork

The front cover of the CD edition is a black-and-white photograph of children with bows and arrows in an archery class, a theme used by vinyl and cassette editions with different covers.

Reception

Rolling Stone ranked the album number sixty-five out of "100 Best Albums of the Eighties" and then wrote, "It is a poetic, heartfelt message about social concerns such as alcoholism, child abuse and illiteracy." Allmusic reviewer Chris Woodstra rated it all five stars, saying, "the album proves powerful not for the ideas [...] but rather for the graceful execution and pure listenability [sic]."

Track listing

All songs written by Natalie Merchant, except where noted.

  1. "What's the Matter Here?" (Robert Buck, Natalie Merchant) – 4:51
  2. "Hey Jack Kerouac" (Buck, Merchant) – 3:26
  3. "Like the Weather" – 3:56
  4. "Cherry Tree" (Buck, Merchant) – 3:13
  5. "The Painted Desert" (Jerome Augustyniak, Merchant) – 3:39
  6. "Don't Talk" (Dennis Drew, Merchant) – 5:04
  7. "Peace Train" (Cat Stevens) – 3:26
  8. "Gun Shy" – 4:11
  9. "My Sister Rose" (Augustyniak, Merchant) – 3:12
  10. "A Campfire Song" – 3:15
  11. "City of Angels" (Buck, Merchant) – 4:17
  12. "Verdi Cries" – 4:27

Personnel

10,000 Maniacs
  • Natalie Merchant – vocals
  • Robert Buck – guitars, mandolin, pedal steel guitar
  • Steve Gustafson – bass guitar
  • Jerome Augustyniak – drums, percussion
  • Dennis Drew – keyboards
    • Additional musicians
  • Michael Stipe – vocals on 10
  • Don Grolnick – piano
  • David Campbell – string arrangements on 12
  • Dennis Karmazyn – cello on 12
  • Bob Magnusson – acoustic bass guitar on 12
  • Novi Novog – viola on 12
    • Other Personnel
  • Sharon Rice – engineer (additional)
  • Duane Seykora, Shep Lonsdale – engineer (assistant)
  • Doug Sax, Mike Reese – mastered
  • Frank Wolf, George Massenburg – mixed
  • Peter Asher – producer
  • Edd Kolakowski – producer (assistant)
  • George Massenburg – recorded

    • Charts

    Album
  • In My Tribe stayed on the charts for 77 weeks.
    • Singles

    Songs

    1What`s The Matter Here (LP Version)4:51
    2Hey Jack Kerouac3:26
    3Like The Weather3:57

    References

    In My Tribe Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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