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Following the chart success of the Maniacs' fourth album, IN MY TRIBE, BLIND MAN'S ZOO seems curiously subdued. Setting the mood from the outset, Eat For Two is a decidedly downbeat narrative about unplanned pregnancy. On the surface, You Happy Puppet is a mid-tempo adult-contemporary rock song. But, when accompanied by vocalist Natalie Merchant's expressive vocals and lyrics, it turns into a brusque indictment of middle-class complacency. Headstrong, one of the album's standout tracks, refers to such earlier, guitar-heavy rockers as My Mother the War.
Robert Buck's elegant guitar work is given free reign on Dust Bowl, a poignant story of poverty and the album' s other superlative track. Hateful Hate sets harsh, echoing drums against the righteous indignation of Merchant's anti-manifest destiny lyric. BLIND MAN'S ZOO might not be the album that one would have expected from a popular folk-influenced band, but it makes great strides in giving the band a depth and credibility that few of their peers possess.n
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The song Peace Train is no longer on this release.
Natalie Merchant is one of those writers with an uncanny ability to portray the minutiae of life with pinpoint accuracy and detached humour. The songs on In My Tribe cover the difficulty of getting up in the morning ('Like The Weather'), her sister's wedding ('My Sister Rose') and childhood holidays ('Verdi Cries'), as well as relationships, drinking, corporal punishment and soldiering. Merchant writes free-flowing prose songs and performs them impeccably, ably assisted by the other Maniacs and the production of Peter Asher. All slightly off-the-wall, but none the worse for that.
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Rolling Stone - Ranked # 65 in Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Albums Of The 80s survey (November 1989).n
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