Merchant's Treasure: Natalie Merchant's Mixtape (Vol. 2)

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It's time for the second part (of four) which scaninng Natlie Merchant's Discography. After publishing the First Volume , I thought it would be more productive to focous on her less known songs. So here it is...

The opener is Verdi Cries (Youtube, Lyrics) which is taken from In My Tribe (1987) which represents her 10,000 Maniacs era in this mixtape. I diccovered this one lately and it keeps playing in my headphones rapidly. you can also find Gun Shy  (Youtube, Lyrics) preformed live in her Live in Concert (1999) taken from the same album above.

Farom her latest album so far, Leave Your Sleep (2CD) (2010), I've chosen If No One Marries Me  (Youtube, Lyrics) which reveals the fear of staying alone. I find it ponceptually close to one of her favourite songs of mine, Ophelia  (Youtube, Lyrics), taken of an album with the same name, Ophelia (Jewel) (1998). A dark Gloomy song about a lonely girl called Ophelia. On the duets part in this mixtape, there're 2 songs: When They Ring Those Golden Bells  (Youtube, Lyrics), which is the final song in Ophelia (Jewel) (1998), where she sings with Karen Peris of  The Innocence Mission and it sounds great, a slow country song with acoustic gituars. Another Duet on this mixtape is Photograph  (Lyrics) with Micheal Stipe of REM. It seems is was taken from REM's monoumental Out of Time (1991).


Wonderwall  (Lyrics) is a cover version preformed live at Chicago. Merchant's tribute to one of UK popular Rock bands of the 90's couldn't have been better. Another cover version for Johnny Cash's, Come Take A Trip In My Airship (Lyrics) is kind of childish, with a singing girl in the background, but maybe that's the magic of this song.
Wonder  (Youtube, Lyrics) and Jealousy  (Youtube, Lyrics) are rhytmic, Blousy ones that is very similiar to other songs. They're both taken from her debut album,  Tigerlily (1995), while The Worst Thing  (Youtube, Lyrics) and Put The Law On You  (Youtube, Lyrics) are taken from her third album Motherland (2001).

Enjoy this mixtape (All the songs in this link) , Stay tuned next week for the third part....