Trivia / 10,000 Maniacs

• Breakthrough Hit: "Like The Weather" and its parent album In My Tribe were the band's mainstream breakthrough.
• Breakup Breakout: Natalie Merchant had a successful solo career after leaving the band, while the rest of the band remained obscure, despite scoring a hit with a cover of Roxy Music's "More than This".
• Cut Song: In 1989, the band's cover of Cat Stevens' "Peace Train" was removed from later U.S. CD and cassette pressings of In My Tribe after Stevens, by then a Muslim convert under the name Yusuf Islam, made comments in interviews that many interpreted as supporting the fatwa against Salman Rushdie; Islam later claimed that the comments were meant to be jokes. The band's cover later resurfaced on the Campfire Songs compilation.
• The Pete Best: Founding guitarist John Lombardo, who left after The Wishing Chair. Lombardo would later rejoin the the band on from 1994 to 2002 and from 2015 onward, both times well after their peak in popularity.
• Sequel Gap: After Natalie Merchant's departure shortly after the release of Our Time in Eden in 1992, the band spent five years on hiatus before releasing a follow-up, that being Love Among the Ruins in 1997. Later, 2013's Music from the Motion Picture would be released nearly a decade and a half after the studio album directly before it, 1999's The Earth Pressed Flat.
• Sleeper Hit: In My Tribe only reached number 37 on the Billboard charts, yet made the band into stars. It took nearly two years to go platinum.
• Working Title: According to a 1992 Rolling Stone article, Our Time in Eden was originally put together under the title African Violet Society, hence the floral motifs throughout the packaging.

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