#Natalie Merchant

[clover-blossom]

"I want you to remember me that way"

-Natalie Merchant (Frozen Charlotte)

[teathattast]

You've been so kind and generous

I don't know how you keep on giving

For your kindness, I'm in debt to you

For your selflessness, my admiration

For everything you've done, you know I'm bound

I'm bound to thank you for it

[thekylemeredith]

Tonight, I'll be hanging with my birthday twin, who just starred in #BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice, the great #MonicaBellucci!

Natalie Merchant will also drop in, I'll dig into the archive for an interview with DJ Shadow, & we'll Meet The #Flintstones for TV In The Radio

6p ET on 91.9 WFPK

[rolloroberson]

Natalie Merchant

[slackville-records]

Natalie Merchant - Giving Up Everything

"Giving Up Everything"

Giving up everything,

my hungry ghost of hopefulness.

Giving up everything,

not haunted by wanting this.

Giving up everything,

the fortune I was saving.

Giving up everything,

I mercy-killed my craving.

Giving up everything,

I’ve opened up my eyes for this.

Giving up everything,

see the whole magnificent emptiness.

Gave what I want for how it is,

for the stone inside and the bitterness,

for the sweetness at the core of it.

Giving up everything,

the master plan, the scheming.

Giving up everything,

my cursed search for meaning.

Giving up everything,

the compass and the map I was reading.

The hinterlands I’m leaving,

I’m finally leaving behind.

Giving up everything,

the big to-do, the hullabaloo,

the tug-of-war for some twisted truth.

For the everlasting ache of it,

no longer slave, not chained to it,

no gate, no guard, no keeper,

no guru, master, teacher.

See the slow-receding faces

dissolve to black, no traces.

[qrfit]

Be grateful. Be present. Eat pie. 🥧🍴

[doyourememberrocknrollradio]

10,000 Maniacs - These Are Days

[hello--jaime]

rules: put your music library on shuffle, then list the first five songs that come up in a poll to let people vote for their favorite!

tagged by @sirenascelestiales. thank you for tagging me ❤️ and i tag anyone who sees this and wants to do it!

[davidhudson]

Happy 60th, Natalie Merchant.

[musicwithoutborders]

Natalie Merchant, My Skin I Ophelia, 1998

[quitecontraryy]

Natalie Merchant photographed by Rick McGinnis, Toronto, 1998.

[ometochtli2rabbit]

13.0.12.3.13

ox[3] BEN/AAJ - waklajun [16] K'ANKIN

galactic tone: action/ rhythm

sun sign: REED| armadillo/red/east

bless or repair your house - MAYA

yei[3] - ACATL [reed]

Chalchihuitlicue | Tezcatlipoca

huactli [falcon]

lord of the night: Tlazolteotl

trecena [3]: Patectl

x: mahtlactli [10] - hueitozoztli - NAHUA

As this is the last day on the gregorian calendar, here are some songs that mention YEAR:

Steely Dan: Reelin' in the Years

Pet Shop Boys: This Must Be the Place I Waited Years to Leave

Florence + The Machine: 100 Years

Al Stewart: The Year of the Cat

Tegan and Sara: Are You Ten Years Ago

Chris Isaak: Last Month of the Year

Midnight Oil: Forgotten Years

Ella Fitzgerald: What are You Doing New Year's Eve?

Bee Gees: In The Summer of His Years

Natalie Merchant: 7 Years

Phil Collins: Can't Turn Back the Years

Golden Earring: Orwell's Year

Rosanne Cash: Seven Year Ache

The Who: Two Thousand Years

Billy Joel: Two Thousand Years

Patti Smith: My Blakean Year

Eddie Rabbitt: The Best Year of My Life

The Chicks: Favorite Year

Green Day: 2000 Light Years Away

Nancy Wilson: Ten Years of Tears

Tears for Fears: Year of the Knife

Kylie Minogue: Light Years

Pearl Jam: Light Years

Erasure: All Through the Years

Elvis Presley: Hundred Years from Now

Elvis Costello: This Year's Girl

Dolly Parton: Sixteen Years & Rockin' Years

Mike and the Mechanics: The Living Years

ABBA: Happy New Year

Kenny Rogers: Through the Years

Tori Amos: Silent All These Years & Pretty Good Year

Elton John: Sixty Years On

Nina Simone: This Year's Kisses

U2: New Year's Day

Iron Maiden: Wasted Years

Eagles: Funky New Year

Paul Simon: Still Crazy After All These Years

Bob Marley ft Peter Tosh: 400 Years

The Rolling Stones: 100 Years Ago

Fleetwood Mac: A Woman of A Thousand Years

Waylon Jennings: Let's Turn Back the Years

Led Zeppelin: Ten Years Gone

George Harrison: All Those Years Ago

David Bowie: Golden Years & Five Years

Prince: 1000 Light Years From Here

[teathattast]

Got her tangled in his arms

She's a lusting, trusting fool

"No man born can rule me

That I've sworn

But stranger if you do

I'll belong to you"

[reelaroundthedavekan]

Union Song

Which Side Are You On? - Natalie Merchant

Come all you good workers Good news to you I'll tell Of how the good old union Has come in here to dwell

Which side are you on boys? Which side are you on?

My daddy was a miner He's now in the air and sun He'll be with you fellow workers Until the battle's won

Which side are you on boys? Which side are you on?

They say in Harlan County There are no neutrals there You'll either be a union man Or a thug for J. H. Claire

Which side are you on boys? Which side are you on?

Oh workers can you stand it? Oh tell me how you can Will you be a lousy scab Or will you be a man?

Which side are you on boys? Which side are you on?

Don't scab for the bosses Don't listen to their lies Poor folks ain't got a chance Unless they organise

Which side are you on boys? Which side are you on? Which side are you on boys? Which side are you on? Which side? Which side are you on boys? Which side are you on? Which side are you on boys? Which side? Which side? Which side are you on boys? Which side are you on? Which side are you on boys? Which side? Which side? Which side are you on boys? Which side are you on? Which side are you on boys? Which side? Which side? Which side are you on boys? Which side are you on? Which side are you on boys? Which side Are you on?

[rolloroberson]

Natalie Merchant

[krispyweiss]

Album Review: 10,000 Maniacs - MTV Unplugged (Expanded Edition)

Though she kind of screwed her bandmates, Natalie Merchant gave 10,000 Maniacs the best consolation prize they’ve could’ve hoped for.

What turned out to be Merchant’s final gig found the Maniacs - augmented with strings, woodwinds, extra singers, guitars, banjo, mandolin and keys - playing “MTV Unplugged” on April 21, 1993. And though their singer was gone by the time it was released, the recording gave the group its most-successful album, a huge hit in the Bruce Springsteen-cum-Patti Smith cover “Because the Night” and what are to many the definitive versions of such originals as “These are Days,” “Candy Everybody Wants,” “Like the Weather” and others.

Twenty-one years down the line, MTV Unplugged (Expanded Edition) revisits the the LP and tacks on three Merchant-David Byrne duets left off the original release.

And while they don’t entirely fit with Unplugged’s sonic motif, the searching agnosticism of Iris DeMent’s “Let the Mystery Be,” Jimmie Dale Gilmore’s country-rock shuffle “Dallas” and Dolly Patron’s “Jolene,” on which Byrne mostly lays out after singing co-leads on the preceding tracks, come at the right time.

And with that, 10,000 Maniacs’ masterpiece is slightly more masterful.

Grade card: MTV Unplugged (Expanded Edition) - A

11/20/24