10,000 Maniacs – Amsterdam, The Netherlands (05/16/85)

10,000 Maniacs
Amsterdam, Holland
Melkweg
1985-05-16

Source: audience recording > ? > cassette received in trade > recorded to hard drive >
CoolEdit (track separation) > burned to CD > tracks extracted using iTunes > Trader’s
Little Helper > you

Sound quality: A / A-

Tracks:

Disc 1:

1. Pat Benatar intro. music (PA) / silence
2. Grey Victory
3. Katrina’s Fair
4. Scorpio Rising
5. Planned Obsolescence
6. Wildwood Flower (The Carter Family cover)
7. Among the Americans
8. Just As the Tide Was a’Flowing
9. Can’t Ignore the Train
10. Back o’ the Moon
11. National Education Week
12. Pit Viper
13. Daktari
14. My Mother the War
15. crowd noise
16. Lilydale
17. Arbor Day
18. Maddox Table
19. Tension

This is an excellent audience recording, featuring a solid (though unremarkable) mix of
songs from “Human Conflict No. 5”, “Secrets of the I-Ching”, and the as-yet-unreleased
“The Wishing Chair”. The audience is quiet and very little applause or chatter intrudes
upon the music.

10,000 Maniacs’ “The Wishing Chair” L.P. will celebrate its 30th anniversary this year
(original release date – September 23, 1985). Since it seems apparent that the Maniacs
are not being given the remaster / bonus tracks / box set treatment that they so richly
deserve, I’ve decided to upload all of my 70+ live and rare 10,000 Maniacs recordings
during the coming weeks. Although many of these recordings will be re-seeds of previous
Dime torrents, a substantial number have never appeared on the Dime (and many others
haven’t been shared since the Dime’s previous incarnation as “easytree.org” circa 2005).

Enjoy!