5cd Original Album Series

2013 five CD box set containing a quintet of albums packaged in cardboard mini LP sleeves and housed in a slipcase. Alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs first formed in 1981 gigging and recording independently then later signed up to Elektra. This selection contains 5 of the bands albums in Chronological order during their Elektra years beginning in 1985 with The Wishing Chair. The band's third album, In My Tribe, was their first to achieve large scale success eventually being certified x2 Platinum in the US. The follow up Blind Man's Zoo, charted in the top 20 on both sides of the Atlantic, while their MTV Unplugged album spawned the bands most successful single, a cover of Patti Smith's 'Because the Night'