Threads extolling '10000 Maniacs' are few and far between on DU.

[XNASA]

I think we all know the reason for that.

Don't we? :patriot:

[Magrittes Pipe]

1. Yes.

[matcom]

2. i blame Supertramp

:D

[HEyHEY]

3. Turning a killer Patti-smith tune into a sissy-feast?

[Hissyspit]

12. Um, really a killer SPRINGSTEEN tune.

Bruce gave it to Patti when she was in the studio next door. She added some lyrics.

[jmowreader]

4. Ten thousand maniacs?

Isn't that the description of the Free Republic subscriber list?

[WritingIsMyReligion]

5. ...

:rofl:

[Spirochete]

6. It was a dumb movie.

Both versions. :silly:

[WCGreen]

7. Piss Stain.....

She made Peace Train sound like Piss Stain....

[asthmaticeog]

8. She made LOTS of things sound like piss stain.

IMHO, of course.

[Lautremont]

9. When you pronounce "try" as "tchy,"

you've lost me.

And when you cover "Peace Train" and then apologize for it later because Cat Stevens converts to Islam. (Though it probably also had to do with Cat pronouncing a Catwa on Salman Rushdie.)

[Elidor]

10. Oh, the South is gonna rise again!

Terry Adams: What does it mean?
Tom White: It means this centennial is a centennial of blood vengeance! It means... It means we're here to be killed!

[tuvor]

11. They wrecked Roxy Music, but good.

Or was that just a Merchant solo cover?

I don't know. I guess I was too busy not listening to them.

[driver8]

13. Natalie Merchant was out of 10,000 Maniacs when they did this song.

She had absolutely nothing to do with it. Mary Ramsey was the singer.

I know a lot about the Maniacs because I went to college in Fredonia, NY during the early eighties. The Maniacs are from Jamestown, NY which is not too far from my college.

On a side note, Mary Ramsey played violin on the unplugged 10,000 Maniacs album (before she became the lead singer).

Mary Ramsey's father was an English professor at my college and I had him for a couple of classes.

[WCGreen]

14. I like that version...

Tori Amos did it as well....

[underpants]

15. Natalie Merchant is awesome

:patriot:

[patcox2]

16. She dances like a retard, it really creeps me out bad.

She could win the special olympics version of dancing with the stars.

Closes her eyes and puts her hands in the air like a fundie at a Creed concert, too.

Creepy.


Thats probably why.

[fudge stripe cookays]

17. Thank God for that.

There is nothing that will set my teeth on edge faster than her voice unless it's the assholes in Creed or Nickleback.

:puke: