Taking Sides: Cowboy Junkies vs 10,000 Maniacs vs Edie Brickell's New Bohemians

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for your EZ listening pleasure:
Taking Sides (or Classic/Dud and Search/Destroy) between The Cowboy Junkies, 10,000 Maniacs (and/or Nathalie Merchant's Solo Career) and Edie Brickell and her New Bohemians.
Yaaaay! or Yawn.

You may begin your laid back jangly strum attack now.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 13:29 (nineteen years ago) link

10,000 Maniacs. By a lot. Cowboys had too many covers, too few tru Classics like "Tuesday Morning" and "Anniversary Song". Edie's "Love Like We Do" was fantastic, I still love it, and though it was killed by overexposure, "What I Am" isn't the worst thing ever recorded. "Circle" was tripe tho.

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 13:36 (nineteen years ago) link

cowboy junkies are a bit shit, i have no further ccomment

― lukey (Lukey G), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 14:30 (nineteen years ago) link

You're a sick man, LC.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 15:41 (nineteen years ago) link

(Actually I did like the CJ version of "Blue Moon"(?).)

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link

You're a sick man, LC.
For the record, I'm a 10,000 Maniacs fan and think they are the best of the three; but I was curious if there was anyone on ILM who would vehemently disagree and come out very much in support of the challengers.
I'm especially curious if the Thorazine-addled version of "Sweet Jane" and the dimwitted "What I Am" is all those two bands have to offer? ...or is it they just have bad taste when it comes to picking their lead-off singles?

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 16:13 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah, 10,000 maniacs by a long shot. Hope Chest and Our Time In Eden played a big part in the soundtracks to family vacations when i was a kid.

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 16:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Cowboy Junkies. See, they've got this EZ listening rep. for a few unfortunate singles, but their first record was all sweltering, fucked up old blues covers, and their last two have each been about half full of massive guitar noise. See them live, and you'll see them do a 12 minute rendition of an old Robert Johnston about killing his wife, with a 6 minute distortion solo in the middle. The quiet stuff is gorgeous, too, not just 'Trinity Sessions' but the next one, 'Caution Horses' too. You can skip a lot of the 90's stuff, but I stake a claim that Cowboy Junkies are one of the most misrepresented bands around today.

search: 'Why This One', 'Notes Falling Slow', 'Hunted', 'Dragging Hooks', 'The Post', anything off "Whites Off Earth Now"..

― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 18:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Have people ONLY listened to the Cowboy Junkies' Trinity Sessions? Like Derrick said, they've turned into a distorto-Mazzy Star over the past couple of recent records. Open is better than anything released by any of the other bands.

Anyway, Cowboy Junkies by miles. Peter Asher made 10,000 Maniacs sound better than they really deserved.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 18:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Cowboy Junkies. Easily. Although it must be noted that "Anniversary Song" sounds so much like 10,000 Maniacs that it might as well have been them (I was convinced it was, in fact - for years!)

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 19:46 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm inclined to go with 10,000 Maniacs if only b/c of how much time I spent with In My Tribe. The local record store had a ton of cutouts and my whole social circle picked it up that year (87?), so it seemed to always be on nigh everywhere I went for a couple months. I'm gonna throw it on though sometime soon, cuz something's telling me these ears today may find it sucky...

― frankE (frankE), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 20:02 (nineteen years ago) link

three years pass...

10,000 Maniacs!

― Mark Rich@rdson, Sunday, 29 June 2008 05:05 (fifteen years ago) link

I know, I know, Edie Brickell's first album was pretty cool but

NATALIE MERCHANT WILL SORT YOU OUT

― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Sunday, 29 June 2008 05:16 (fifteen years ago) link

WISHING CHAIR

― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Sunday, 29 June 2008 05:16 (fifteen years ago) link

Some one point me to the thread where [nabisco] talks at length about 10,000 Maniacs.

― Mark Rich@rdson, Sunday, 29 June 2008 05:17 (fifteen years ago) link

Wait I found it:

LAY OFF NATALIE MERCHANT

― Mark Rich@rdson, Sunday, 29 June 2008 05:21 (fifteen years ago) link

check out her tits on that album sleeve

― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Sunday, 29 June 2008 05:30 (fifteen years ago) link

Wow, I totally expected EVERYONE on this thread - not just half of you -to be all "Cowboy Junkies by a mile, they don't even belong on this shitty list," but hey, shows what I know.

Natalie Merchant should be killed she is insufferable

― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Sunday, 29 June 2008 05:35 (fifteen years ago) link

Read that thread above.

― Mark Rich@rdson, Sunday, 29 June 2008 05:36 (fifteen years ago) link

Bought 10K Maniacs Unplugged in the dollar bin yesterday. Better than I remember it, and that is definitely the version of "Stockton Gala Days" to own. Too bad her cover of "Dallas" with David Byrne didn't make it on there.

So I have a soft spot for them and the Junkies, but I still have to vote for Edie Brickell, not so much for Rubberbands but for Ghost of a Dog, which was a severely underrated follow-up.

― deusner, Sunday, 29 June 2008 14:35 (fifteen years ago) link

Joan Jett

― Oilyrags, Sunday, 29 June 2008 15:38 (fifteen years ago) link

Hahahah

― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Sunday, 29 June 2008 16:55 (fifteen years ago) link

What's the best Cowboy Junkies album for the noise-dirge factor? Open?

― Sundar, Sunday, 29 June 2008 17:00 (fifteen years ago) link

on balance i like the junkies best, but i think i like in my tribe more than any single junkies album.

― tipsy mothra, Sunday, 29 June 2008 17:25 (fifteen years ago) link

For noise-dirge factor, I'd say Pale Sun, Crescent Moon, esp. the Dinosaur Jr cover.

― deusner, Sunday, 29 June 2008 18:25 (fifteen years ago) link

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