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| | MTV Unplugged | | | Music Artist : | | 10,000 Maniacs | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Elektra / Wea | | Release Date : | | 1993-10-26 | | Store Price : | | $7.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $6.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. These Are Days
2. Eat for Two
3. Candy Everybody Wants
4. I'm Not the Man
5. Don't Talk
6. Hey Jack Kerouac
7. What's the Matter Here?
8. Gold Rush Brides
9. Like the Weather
10. Trouble Me
11. Jezebel
12. Because the Night
13. Stockton Gala Days
14. Noah's Dove
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Spectacular
Submitted on: 2009-10-24 |
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| Natalie's voice is amazing, and the musicianship is very sharp on this album. Noah's Dove is a favorite track, but the album is strong throughout. This ranks with Live Bullet among the best live recordings I have. |
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The Best Of The Best
Submitted on: 2009-08-03 |
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| I will not waste your time here, the music is great, Natalie is great. You will NOT a better concert than this so buy it while you can. There is NO DVD yet available of this concert so get while you can! |
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Great concert video...when will they produce a DVD of this thing???
Submitted on: 2009-06-01 |
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| Having to suffer through VHS is something I thought was over, but I have searched high and low for this performance on DVD, and they have not produced one to date. Come on MTV, put this thing out!! Anyway, the quality was good, for an older VHS tape, the sound quality was good enough, again, for an older VHS tape. It is only as good as the player, and mine stinks. Arrived ontime from vendor. |
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10,000 Maniacs
Submitted on: 2009-03-10 |
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| Great deal that arrived in no time at all. I couldn't be happier with the quality or service. |
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Energetic, while serious, from beginning to end
Submitted on: 2009-01-18 |
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MTV Unplugged was pretty much 10,000 Maniacs' last hurrah, and they made every second count. Even when the host introduces Natalie and the Maniacs, you could feel the excitement seeping through the CD (or tape) and that feeling lingers throughout.
I admit that I'm a casual Maniacs (and Merchant) fan, but I did know enough about them to grasp that their music was never for the soft-hearted or casual, just flipping-through-the-dial listener. They had a way of putting across some serious messages with a sound that appealed to a wide range of listeners. The sad thing is the Maniacs never really did get a decent amount of airplay on corporate American radio, but, nonetheless, they had, and continue to have, their dedicated (and casually dedicated) base.
As someone else pointed out a few years ago, "Because the Night" got very heavy radio airplay in the early-90's and the cover was the pop audience's introduction to the Maniacs and, specifically, the vocal genius of Merchant. Merchant's cover actually managed to surpass the original by The Patti Smith Group almost 20 years earlier (or, if you want to disagree with that, the cover was definitely on a par with the original).
In any case, I enjoyed the MTV Unplugged series as an opportunity to see if pop stars could really sing - sans the recording studio tricks. To me, a person can sing if their voice is *at least* 98% loud and clear when the only instruments for accompaniment are a piano and/or a regular guitar. Listening to this volume of Unplugged is an absolute treasure because Merchant's voice is so clear and passionate. There is no mistaken this woman is a fine singer in every sense of the word.
Too bad today's "American Idol" rejects and wanna-bes (who are nothing more than glorified Karaoke singers force-fed down the general public's throats) can't do the Unplugged thing. "Ironic" how MTV did less and less "Unplugged" sessions as time went on as record companies were foisting their creations on the world. Lots of these so-called "singers" today couldn't carry the proverbial tune in a bucket, yet they still manage to sell millions of records (when can we see Miley Cyrus or the "legendary" Britney Spears do an Unplugged session? Hell, I'd like to see if Madonna has what it takes!)
When I think of the aforementioned and all the CDs they've been able to sell largely with the help of the record company p.r. department (minus Madonna), it kind of makes you steamed that 10,000 Maniacs as a group and Natalie Merchant as a solo artist just weren't given the chance they should have been given to appeal to any even bigger audience, but at least we have gems such as this to harken back to. - Donna Di Giacomo |
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