What's the Matter Here

"What's The Matter Here?" was the third single released from 10,000 Maniacs'
"What's the Matter Here?"
1987 album In My Tribe, following Peace Train and Like the Weather.[1] A live
version with lead vocalist Mary Ramsey was also included on their 2016 album Single by 10,000 Maniacs
Playing Favorites. from the album In My Tribe
B-side "Verdi Cries"
The song continued the band's slow integration into the mainstream of American
commercial radio; it was a number 9 hit on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart Released 1987
in 1988 and reached the Billboard Hot 100 as well (the second single by the band to Format 12" single
reach the latter chart, after "Like the Weather"). The song, as the rest of the album, Songwriter(s) Natalie Merchant,
was produced by Peter Asher (half of the duo Peter & Gordon, and producer of Robert Buck
Linda Ronstadt and James Taylor). The song was written by Natalie Merchant and
Producer(s) Peter Asher
Robert Buck.
10,000 Maniacs singles
In the song, singer Natalie Merchant narrates the role of a woman who notices that chronology
her neighbors are abusing their young son, and struggles to balance her desire to
Like the "What's the Trouble Me
speak up for the child with her feeling that she must not interfere in the family's
Weather Matter (1989)
affairs: "I'm tired of the excuses everybody uses/He's your kid, do as you see fit/But (1987) Here"
get this through that I don't approve of what you do to your own flesh and blood ... I (1987)
want to say, "What's the matter here?"/But I don't dare say
..."

Track listings and formats

12" Vinyl - Elektra EKR 71T (UK)
No. Title Length
1. "What's The Matter Here?" (LP Version)
2. "Verdi Cries" (LP Version)
3. "Like The Weather (Live)" (Live from the Einstein A-Go-Go, Jacksonville Beach, Florida,
December 13, 1987 )
4. "Gun Shy (Live)" (Live from the Einstein A-Go-Go, Jacksonville Beach, Florida,
December 13, 1987 )

References
1. The New Rolling Stone Album Guide(https://books.google.com/books?id=t9eocwUfoSoC&pg=P
A807&lpg=PA807&d
q=whats+the+matter+here+rolling+stone+10000+maniacs&source=bl&ots=BiQgvi6TX8&sig=qnFwkjM7uPrdd394Zo-
Egherdoo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2uPnUqyFKoOGogSj9IKgDA&ved=0CFMQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=whats%20the%20
matter%20here%20rolling%20stone%2010000%20maniacs&f=false) . 2004.

External links
Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

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