Top 92 Music Albums of 1993
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- Chart updated: 12/04/2025 01:45
- (Created: 04/11/2012 18:27).
- Chart size: 92 albums.
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1993 – ELEKTRA
Produced By PAUL FOX
1. These Are The 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
MTV Unplugged is well known for two reasons. This live acoustic album contains the band’s biggest hit, a cover of the Bruce Springsteen – Patti Smith written “Because The Night”. And because it is the final 10,000 Maniacs album with lead singer Natalie Merchant, who left the band not long after it was recorded (and before it was released) because she didn’t want “art by committee any more”. As a show, it’s nice. The performance is good, but there almost no interaction with the audience. You can almost forget that it’s live. And there is, of course, what was always the best part of this band…that lovely voice of Merchant’s. There’s a reason why this band has gone 30 years without a hit. It’s because the best feature they had was Merchant. They replaced her, but they have never been able to replace what she brought to the band.
10,000 Maniacs made five studio albums with Merchant between 1983 and 1992. Outside of the somewhat long and strange Campfire Songs compilation from 2004, this is the best way to have their best songs in one place…albeit in a live setting. There are plenty of fine tracks here…”Hey Jack Kerouac”, “Don’t Talk”, “Like The Weather”. And the acoustic setting makes for a somewhat intimate feel. But while it’s good, it also falls short of great. Merchant already knew she was leaving, and so did the band. The only time anyone speaks is Merchant reading a pair of intros to songs from books. Merchant’s solo career started off well, but she’s been only slightly more successful than the band over the last two and a half decades. The band soldiers on almost invisibly, and there seems to be no reunion in sight. So…this appears to be it. [First added to this chart: 03/10/2023]
Produced By PAUL FOX
1. These Are The 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
MTV Unplugged is well known for two reasons. This live acoustic album contains the band’s biggest hit, a cover of the Bruce Springsteen – Patti Smith written “Because The Night”. And because it is the final 10,000 Maniacs album with lead singer Natalie Merchant, who left the band not long after it was recorded (and before it was released) because she didn’t want “art by committee any more”. As a show, it’s nice. The performance is good, but there almost no interaction with the audience. You can almost forget that it’s live. And there is, of course, what was always the best part of this band…that lovely voice of Merchant’s. There’s a reason why this band has gone 30 years without a hit. It’s because the best feature they had was Merchant. They replaced her, but they have never been able to replace what she brought to the band.
10,000 Maniacs made five studio albums with Merchant between 1983 and 1992. Outside of the somewhat long and strange Campfire Songs compilation from 2004, this is the best way to have their best songs in one place…albeit in a live setting. There are plenty of fine tracks here…”Hey Jack Kerouac”, “Don’t Talk”, “Like The Weather”. And the acoustic setting makes for a somewhat intimate feel. But while it’s good, it also falls short of great. Merchant already knew she was leaving, and so did the band. The only time anyone speaks is Merchant reading a pair of intros to songs from books. Merchant’s solo career started off well, but she’s been only slightly more successful than the band over the last two and a half decades. The band soldiers on almost invisibly, and there seems to be no reunion in sight. So…this appears to be it. [First added to this chart: 03/10/2023]
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Top 92 Music Albums of 1993 composition
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| Various Artists | 2 | 2% | |
| Paul McCartney | 2 | 2% | |
| Belly (US) | 2 | 2% | |
| Big Head Todd & The Monsters | 1 | 1% | |
| Stereolab | 1 | 1% | |
| Nanci Griffith | 1 | 1% | |
| Terence Trent D'Arby | 1 | 1% | |
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| Country | Albums | % | |
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65 | 71% | |
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11 | 12% | |
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6 | 7% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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1 | 1% | |
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1 | 1% | |
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From guigs13 01/06/2013 18:14 | #60401
Some really good albums!
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