10,000 Maniacs Vinyl Records
10,000 Maniacs had a name steeped in kitschy irony, a quality wholly absent from their gentle, empathetic music. Emerging from the post-punk underground of the early 1980s, 10,000 Maniacs operated on a parallel path to their compatriots R.E.M., sharing a similar fondness for '60s folk-rock and possessing a political consciousness that surfaced both in their music and their activism.