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Campfire Songs: the Popular, Obscure & Unknown Recordings
 
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Campfire Songs: the Popular, Obscure & Unknown Recordings
~ 10,000 Maniacs (Artist)
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Product details
  • Audio CD (23 Feb 2004)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Label: Rhino
  • ASIN: B0000CDLLJ
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 40,548 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1
1. Planned Obsolescence
2. My Mother The War
3. Tension
4. Scorpio Rising
5. Like The Weather
6. Don’t Talk
7. What’s The Matter Her
8. Hey Jack Kerouac
9. Verdi Cries
10. Trouble Me
See all 17 tracks on this disc
Disc: 2
1. Poppy Selling Man (Previously Unreleased)
2. Can’t Ignore The Train (Demo) (Previously Unreleased)
3. Peace Train
4. Wildwood Flower
5. Hello In There
6. To Sir With Love
7. Everyday Is Like Sunday
8. These Days
9. I Hope That I Don’t Fall In Love With You
10. Starman
See all 14 tracks on this disc

Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Although 80s campus faves 10,000 Maniacs remain an ongoing if depleted concern to this day, the double-CD retrospective Campfire Songs (disc one offers a "Best Of"-style resume to break in new recruits, the second disc lures the converted with rare outtakes, demos and sundry surplus recordings) rightly concludes with the departure of gorgeously matriarchal poetess Natalie Merchant for a solo career in 1994. Disc one's judicious selection begs little quarrel, focusing on the watershed folk-pop albums "In My Tribe" (where Merchant effloresced into a vocalist of considerable charm, addressing domestic social issues on "Don't Talk" and "What's The Matter Here?" with a tender and entirely plausible compunction) and the brooding adieu of "Our Time in Eden" but also allocates space to earlier, angular indie fare ( "My Mother the War", "Planned Obsolescence") dating from an era when 10,000 Maniacs enjoyed an almost sororal relationship with REM. Aside from the obvious pleasure of some hitherto unreleased Eden demos, the bonus disc is either respectable (a duet with Michael Stipe on a live version of Lulu's "To Sir with Love", the Nanci Griffith territory of "Let the Mystery Be") or ridiculous (a reggae version of Bowie's "Starman") but disc one serves as an indispensable reminder of 10,000 Maniacs' wistful literacy. --Kevin Maidment

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