Secrets of the I Ching
| Secrets of the I Ching | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1983 | |||
| Recorded | March, July 1983 | |||
| Studio | Mr. Paradise Studios, State University of New York, Fredonia, New York | |||
| Label | Mark Records | |||
| Producer | Albert Garzon, 10,000 Maniacs | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |
| Robert Christgau | B− |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | |
| Rolling Stone | |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | |
Secrets of the I Ching is the first album by American alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs (following their 1982 EP, Human Conflict Number Five), released in 1983 by Mark Records. While the album also contained the band's own Christian Burial Music imprint, the label itself was fictitious.
Re-recorded versions of the songs "Tension" (as "Tension Makes a Tangle"), "Grey Victory", "Daktari" and "My Mother the War" would later appear on the band's 1985 album The Wishing Chair. The song "Tension" is itself a re-recording of a song that initially appeared on the band's Human Conflict Number Five EP.
All the tracks on the LP appear in remixed, remastered and resequenced form on the 10,000 Maniacs compilation CD Hope Chest: The Fredonia Recordings 1982-1983 (1990).