In My Tribe
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| Studio album by 10,000 Maniacs | ||||
| Released | 27 July 1987 | |||
| Recorded | March–April 1987, The Complex, Los Angeles | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock, folk rock, soft rock, rock | |||
| Length | 46:51 | |||
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Elektra (1987 US, Canada, Europe,Germany, UK, Australia) BMG Ariola Discos Ltda. (1987 Brazil) |
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| Producer | Peter Asher | |||
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| AllMusic |   |
| Robert Christgau | B- |
| Rolling Stone | (favorable) |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide |  |
In My Tribe is an album by the American alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs. It was their second major-label album and their first to achieve large-scale success. John Lombardo, Natalie Merchant's songwriting partner on previous albums, left the band in 1986. Merchant began collaborating with the other members of the band, most notably with Rob Buck.
In My Tribe was ranked No. 65 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1980s.
In 1989, the cover of Cat Stevens' "Peace Train" was removed from the U.S. CD version after comments made by Stevens (by now a Muslim convert and known as Yusuf Islam) that were perceived to be supportive of the fatwa on Salman Rushdie. The song remains on vinyl copies and CDs released outside the United States. The song was later included in a 2-CD compilation, Campfire Songs: The Popular, Obscure and Unknown Recordings, released on 24 January 2004, by Elektra/Asylum/Rhino Records.
The front cover of the CD edition is a black-and-white photograph of children with bows and arrows in an archery class, a theme used by vinyl and cassette editions with different covers.
Rolling Stone ranked the album number sixty-five out of "100 Best Albums of the Eighties" and then wrote, "It is a poetic, heartfelt message about social concerns such as alcoholism, child abuse and illiteracy."Allmusic reviewer Chris Woodstra rated it all five stars, saying, "the album proves powerful not for the ideas [...] but rather for the graceful execution and pure listenability [sic]."
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