She has to be The Top female vocalist of all time , she's an Angel

Saw her some 10 years ago at the Paradiso in Amsterdam. After a great concert, she gave her flowers to the audience.

One of rocks leading ladies: That she is, and utterly timeless.

Saw her in Anchorage over 20 years ago. Awesome show.

great talent! the way she carried her self and she was pretty nice looking helped!

She is very lovely...

I am impressed that she sings with so many different artists.

I saw her once at Miami Airport, she is a classy woman, with fine gestures. 😍😍

Interesting wee film there...........Natalie Merchant has written some of the best songs ever, an absolute poet and has written stuff that reduces politics and what is happening to the utter truth and essentials - an absolute artist of the highest order x

She's adorable!

I will forever 💞💞💞 Natalie Merchant.

i've heard her being mentioned as "the female morrissey". as much as i love morrissey, that's really short changing her....natalie is the ONLY natalie merchant.

I WAS LUCKY TO MEET NATALIE AFTER A SHOW SHE WAS VERY SWEET BUT ALSO SHY I CAN TELL SHE WAS UNCOMFORTABLE WHEN FANS TOLD HER HOW GREAT SHE IS SO I WAS TALKING ABOUT LEANRD COHN THEN SHE STARTED TALKING ABOUT HIM AS WE WERE BOTH FANS THIS WAS WHEN SHE WAS ON THE OPHILLIA TOUR BEST SHOW EVER

Natalie Merchant, WOW what a woman, I'd love to meet her some day.

Funny thing about Natalie is that after she finishes playing her tin whistle, she initially thought of releasing her solo album in 1987! And she hadn't played that tin whistle since!

I love it , Thank you😊

2:25 So many teachers are SAINTS walking among us.

True star

Thanks for posting. I regret not having a mentor growing up. I think I lacked direction and encouragement that every kid longs for. This video makes me laugh. I always loved music more than anything but I never pictured myself on a stage. I hope that one day I can recall who got me into this...

She’s literally the most perfect woman ever

The Elvis Brothers and 10,000 Maniacs opened for REM at Elliot Music Hall in the late '80s. My friend got so excited he tried to crash the stage. We talked Security into letting him back in...the guy said "Put a seatbelt on him" I said " that was the problem ....NO dance floor"

3 Women of the 90s Music I can spend all day listening to: 1. Natalie Merchant 2. Tanya Donnelly 3. Hope Sandoval What are yours?

When 10,000 maniacs formed just for fun, little did they know they hit the jackpot when they chose 17 year old Natalie as the singer.

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She was also in a really cool electronic new wave/post punk band called Evening in Torpor. Little known fact!

Funny, I don't remember Natalie actually being in the Stage Band -- I think she might've just crashed the photo (I was one of the sax players). We could've used the help though, we were pretty crummy! Let's just say Rick Lundquist was no Marcella Sternisha!

Sweet

i hope you did contact her natalie she did a good job .....

1:43 so cute!!!!!!!!!!!

She has beautiful hair. Why has she always wanted to cut it??

When she struck out on her on is when it fell apart. One good album.

Teachers pets are the best

Yep. However she left a band that had rare talent behind her and after the edginess of the 90’s Lilith posse as said here it was never the same. Left a band which was exactly right for her.

I went to the same school as her. I'm surprised she had a female teacher in chorus. I asked mr B (Beau?) if he remembered her ( he had been there for years) he didn't and asked for her name again to recall her.

This is just a guess, but maybe the Maniacs aren't reuniting with Natalie Merchant because they are currently active with their current front woman, singer, the lovely Mary Ramsey. No disrespect, of course, to Natalie, whose music and artistry I adore, but I also have great appreciation for the Maniacs in their current form.

Those pictures are not me Connie. Cynthia Corcoran

She is one hell of a crazy mover

I was so in love with Natalie in the early 90s. It's a shame she left the group just when they were starting to get known. Her solo stuff was such crap, and 10KM could never do the same stuff with Mary Ramsey. I wonder how much great music they could've kept making had she stayed with them.

I bet their ex school classmates sure were surprised by her huge success at an indioe rock star.

She was a nerd and socially awkward. Probably felt anxiety and felt she didn’t fit in. So many young people do.

nobody really knows exactly WHY natalie and "the maniacs" refuse to reunite. i'm guessing A LOT of it had to do with their break out hit "these are days". fame changes everything, right? regardless, mary and oskar had their share of brilliance (singing wise). best not count them out. still, the maniacs would've gone the way of "the bauhaus" had it not been for natalie. with all do respect, i LOVE "the bauhaus", but natalie made the maniacs bigger than that. she made them timeless.

In hindsight she should have reunited with them after Ophelia.

Shy just the opposite

makes me miss my ex. Looks like Natalie's twin.

My favorite part is when she plays the skin flute

Rich snob