dating myself here, but stumbled upon this and was brought back in time.
https://youtu.be/1ALBnosXFMo
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dating myself here, but stumbled upon this and was brought back in time.
https://youtu.be/1ALBnosXFMo
Not me.
Always liked this song better
https://youtu.be/wwnXsdCbUYI?si=gSLBj5BZYYAzxmeY
My buddy had a huge crush on Natalie Merchant for some reason.
He ended up fucking a girl that sorta looked like her and she dumped him so he smashed the tape…haha.
I really liked her. Saw them multiple times back then. Thought she was a truly excellent songwriter in addition to having a world class voice.
Kind of a weird band in that she was clearly the star who wrote everything, was attractive, and had that voice. Her band looked like some dudes from the bowling alley, yet they must have contributed something, even if it was just reining her in a bit. I found each of her successive solo albums worse than the last.
I mean she was always a liberal girl, but she’s been living up in tine country in the Hudson valley for decades now, and I just caught her in Cleveland on 5/13(had to check phone videos for date), and while her voice was still perfect and I enjoyed it, it like if felt like I was out of place at some feminist gathering.
Sang like 2 songs from her early solo career that I was familiar with, and then song after song about women’s issues. Very weird in that she was as talented vocally as ever, but I only found it enjoyable in a nostalgic sense. She used to write really good songs. Now she writes songs about feminist fairies. I kid you not. She was explaining her process in writing the song and I was like wtf is this?
My girlfriend is young enough where she missed that whole era of 10000 maniacs, doubt she would have liked it anyway being a country girl and it catered to a particular brand of college student of that era. She came away saying wow she can really sing, but kind of shocked I liked her so much at one time. I guess you had to be there .
This era of Natalie was something. I remember seeing her and Stipe do this Prine song and feeling bad for him trying to sing with her with that voice. I recall having a conversation about her I think with bottomset like 15 years ago iirc. I think he liked 10000 maniacs also, or I’m confusing who it was.
https://youtu.be/csAp1KeueUU?si=k0sPquBeKJoQZjXx
2000 Maniacs was better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFVUE95tDoo
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cool. you are spot on here with your evaluation. well said. my younger wife doesn't understand either. her voice is truly remarkable and that is enough. the last album i paid for was tigerlilly if that tells you anything. i am enjoying finding these old concerts on yt, they really bring me back to that time in my life. i used to fall asleep to our time in eden for years. god what a voice...
Brief moment in time I liked Natalie Merchant's solo career. Carnival was a good song. Then I listened to Kind and Generous on the radio. Thought it was uplifting. Finally saw her video on Kind and Generous a couple years later, and it became clear she was a left wing nut and never listened to her again.
If you were in college in the mid-80s, and not socially inept, you listened to: Crowded House; 10,000 Maniacs; REM; Los Lobos; and The Smiths. Merchant’s vocals on In My Tribe are fantastic.
gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyy
explain.Quote:
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no it was just explained to you
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thanks for the clarity, gare.
now get back into your lane -- the arby's thread.
baby we have multiple lanes dont get defensive cuz your gay
embrace it dont run from it you like coffee shop radio sirius channel 16 is ok you are a homosexual thats like the least worst thing about you
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says the gaydar from the guy with the rabbit avatar.
it's ok to acknowledge you weren't one of the cool kids.
hint - we already know.
daaaaaaaang dont do me like that brother
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why am I not surprised your taste in music sucks ass
dig her dance moves at 3:23
https://youtu.be/eY8y_7B3Gxs
Here is a few tella. Clinton inauguration even with a Dennis Miller intro.
https://youtu.be/uou3SpzKVYw?si=24oJNxQmGzD1JR7u
Always loved when she did this song in concert. She’d get flooded with roses. See she’s been doing it occasionally this year. Super disappointed she didn’t at show I was at.
https://youtu.be/ZL7pMFTJecE?si=htFwxp3E3-S7_cKI
Never liked them. I am straight. Also, she seemed like a lazy hippy from Woodstock who wouldn’t shave her legs who would insist you take her last name.
Lamer than lame. Sorry Tella but not my cup of tea then or now.
Sorry, was already in my 30s when they started up. Here's some post-Maniacs Merchant. The singer they have today, Mary Ramsey, is pretty talented and also plays the violin.
https://youtu.be/bkbuKrcCg6I
"More Than This " cover by the Maniacs with Ramsey.
https://youtu.be/XMR_VP5XlCM
I always thought these Gringos greatly exaggerated how many band members they had.
Bumping your own lame thread? Tyde was right. This forum is dead.
(Multi account theorist)
Word around Atlanta in the 80's was they were an item (before Stipe realized he was gay).Quote:
Originally Posted by BCR
Natalie Merchant, REM are god-tier 80s music that wasn't hair metal.
She is a unique talent, but so institutionalized by her television we will never get any more good songs from her.
Check out Beloved Wife, San Andreas Fault and that song amount about River Phoenix to see how elevated she was as a singer song writer.
They were an item at one time.Quote:
Originally Posted by SidewinderWord around Atlanta in the 80's was they were an item (before Stipe realized he was gay).Quote:
Originally Posted by BCR
Natalie Merchant, REM are god-tier 80s music that wasn't hair metal.
She is a unique talent, but so institutionalized by her television we will never get any more good songs from her.
Check out Beloved Wife, San Andreas Fault and that song amount about River Phoenix to see how elevated she was as a singer song writer.
I'm familiar with those songs. Kind of the end of her songwriting career imo.
I dug stuff from like a decade earlier.
Songs like The Big Parade. I used to do tours of DC when I was young and always thought of how many people there were asking themselves the bolded lyric below.
Detroit to D.C. night train, Capitol, parts East.
Lone young man takes a seat.
And by the rhythm of the rails, reading all his mother's mail from a city boy in a jungle town postmarked Saigon.
He'll go live his mother's dream, join the slowest parade he'll ever see.
Her weight of sorrows carried long and carried far.
"Take these, Tommy, to The Wall."
Metro line to the Mall site with a tour of Japanese.
He's wandering and lost until a vet in worn fatigues takes him down to where they belong.
Near a soldier, an ex-Marine with a tattooed dagger and eagle trembling, he bites his lip beside a widow breaking down.
She takes her Purple Heart, makes a fist, strikes The Wall.
All come to live a dream, to join the slowest parade they'll ever see.
Their weight of sorrows carried long and carried far, taken to The Wall.
It's 40 paces to the year that he was slain.
His hand's slipping down The Wall for it's slick with rain.
How would life have ever been the same if this wall had carved in it one less name?
But for Christ's sake, he's been dead over 20 years.
He leaves the letters asking, "Who caused my mother's tears, was it Washington or the Viet Cong?"
Slow deliberate steps are involved.
He takes them away from the black granite wall toward the other monuments so white and clean.
O, Potomac, what you've seen.
Abraham had his war too, but an honest war.
Or so it's taught in school.
there was a lot of magic when they got together. great stuff. keep watching for their 2nd song on this video.
https://youtu.be/uou3SpzKVYw
more like 10,000 GAYniacs Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand AAA BAZZZING
Great tune. They are kind of the god-tier easy listening Adele-like act of the 80's.Quote:
Originally Posted by BCRThey were an item at one time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sidewinder
I'm familiar with those songs. Kind of the end of her songwriting career imo.
I dug stuff from like a decade earlier.
Songs like The Big Parade. I used to do tours of DC when I was young and always thought of how many people there were asking themselves the bolded lyric below.
Detroit to D.C. night train, Capitol, parts East.
Lone young man takes a seat.
And by the rhythm of the rails, reading all his mother's mail from a city boy in a jungle town postmarked Saigon.
He'll go live his mother's dream, join the slowest parade he'll ever see.
Her weight of sorrows carried long and carried far.
"Take these, Tommy, to The Wall."
Metro line to the Mall site with a tour of Japanese.
He's wandering and lost until a vet in worn fatigues takes him down to where they belong.
Near a soldier, an ex-Marine with a tattooed dagger and eagle trembling, he bites his lip beside a widow breaking down.
She takes her Purple Heart, makes a fist, strikes The Wall.
All come to live a dream, to join the slowest parade they'll ever see.
Their weight of sorrows carried long and carried far, taken to The Wall.
It's 40 paces to the year that he was slain.
His hand's slipping down The Wall for it's slick with rain.
How would life have ever been the same if this wall had carved in it one less name?
But for Christ's sake, he's been dead over 20 years.
He leaves the letters asking, "Who caused my mother's tears, was it Washington or the Viet Cong?"
Slow deliberate steps are involved.
He takes them away from the black granite wall toward the other monuments so white and clean.
O, Potomac, what you've seen.
Abraham had his war too, but an honest war.
Or so it's taught in school.