The POLLing Chair: 10,000 Maniacs Studio Albums

You were pretty eloquent about HC once.

natalie merchant had a secret huge rack

uhrrm...okay then.

anyway, thread revive to say that the John and Mary album from '91 fits really nicely between The Wishing Chair and In My Tribe.

All these albums are good, but In My Tribe is best overall IMO.

Where does Jesus fit in

xp Don’t know why I said that—it’s totally Eden!

(I think I’ve gone on about it in another thread, but Eden sounds astonishingly good to me now… I realize that I actually under-appreciated it back in the day, and I liked it plenty then! Their early stuff still sounds great too. If anything, it’s Tribe and Zoo that maybe haven’t aged so well.)

from a natalie merchant thread-

Listening to Hope Chest I keep thinking that if Rob Buck were in some sort of critically-credible band he'd be considered one of the great guitar players of the 80s.

― nabiscothingy, Sunday, August 7, 2005 1:06 PM

i don't need the extra snark, but this post from the other day is on to something.

anagram has some quality posts ITT. Anyway, it’s all about Wishing Chair and Eden for me (how many other bands’ first* and final** albums are also their best?)

* not counting Secrets of the I Ching
** in their “classic lineup”

Btw, I recently learned that the surviving Maniacs have essentially merged with Sixpence None the Richer(!):

https://www.post-journal.com/news/top-stories/2023/09/10000-maniacs-add-new-singer-guitarist-to-perform-at-jcc/