I also would pick B#2 -- and Whatever -- ahead of LiS. Maybe even The Forgotten Arm! Something about LiS just makes it a little less memorable for me.
I've seen her a couple times, and at one show she took requests. Someone asked for "Jacob Marley's Chain" from Whatever, and she had to go over the chords with the band before she could remember how to play it.
― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Monday, 21 April 2014 17:01 (ten years ago) link
lost in space benefits from jon brion's wizardry and magic fuzztones and features some really stunning highlights but imo the forgotten arm is stronger top-to-bottom
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 21 April 2014 17:13 (ten years ago) link
No Jon Brion on "Lost in Space," iirc. Or any of the post "Magnolia" stuff. (Maybe Brion was too in charge during "I'm With Stupid"?)
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 21 April 2014 17:40 (ten years ago) link
guitar tones on bachelor no. 2 and lost in space are all time, warm resonant lasers
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 21 April 2014 17:42 (ten years ago) link
cried to "it's not" at work today, woo
yeah, I'm With Stupid has ton of Brion-isms, wacky circus typewriter effects and so on"it's not" is all-time
― Nhex, Monday, 21 April 2014 17:47 (ten years ago) link
― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Monday, April 21, 2014 1:01 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Does she have some kind of disowny thing happening with her first two records? When I saw her about 5 years ago, the whole show was requests, pieces of paper thrown up on stage. A few times she looked at the paper and curtly said, "Nope, don't do that one anymore," and the oldest song she played was from Magnolia.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 21 April 2014 17:47 (ten years ago) link
no, she still plays a good amount of stuff from the first two, like "4th of July", "Choice in the Matter", and "You Could Make a Killing" are standards in the set list... I've seen her perform some odd stuff out too like "Fifty Years After the Fair", "Frankenstein", "Ray" in the last few yearsthere are a few I don't think we'll ever see again, though, like "Put Me On Top"
― Nhex, Monday, 21 April 2014 17:57 (ten years ago) link
oh yeah, of course "That's Just What You Are" comes back around a lot
if any album has been mysteriously ignored it's The Forgotten Arm - I never actually heard this one, so I tend to notice only "Dear John" still gets played from that one
― Nhex, Monday, 21 April 2014 18:00 (ten years ago) link
Huh, interesting...I guess it's possible the requests she refused were 'Til Tuesday songs.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 21 April 2014 18:08 (ten years ago) link
No Jon Brion on "Lost in Space," iirc. Or any of the post "Magnolia" stuff. (Maybe Brion was too in charge during "I'm With Stupid"?) --Josh in Chicago
Doh. That's right. Not sure why I connect this with the end of the JB run but I stand by my contention that the guitar tones on this record are magic :)
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 21 April 2014 18:48 (ten years ago) link
I've heard her do "Voices Carry," for sure. A lovely version.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 21 April 2014 18:51 (ten years ago) link
She did it on the Acoustic Alchemy tour, but Michael Penn sang it.
― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Monday, 21 April 2014 19:03 (ten years ago) link
At least at the show I went to.
she played it on the bachelor #2 tour, which was the last time I saw her.
― akm, Monday, 21 April 2014 19:38 (ten years ago) link
I once saw her, and this one person was yelling for "Superball." Mann couldn't believe it, but I like that song, too.
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 21 April 2014 23:19 (ten years ago) link
I remember "Coming Up Close" being requested three of the four times I've seen her (1999, 2000, 1996, possibly only wasn't in 2008 cause she was only doing a mini-performance previewing Smilers tracks) but never being played. But I've seen her do "Voices Carry" more than once, and honour a request for "(The Other End of the) Telescope."
― Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 00:54 (ten years ago) link
(oh, and when she performed "Voices Carry" in 2000, Michael Penn did the jerk boyfriend's lines from the VC video)
― Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 00:56 (ten years ago) link
The Both have been doing "Voices Carry" fairly regularly. Also see the "Labrador" video above if you haven't already...
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 08:26 (ten years ago) link
Flame and moth got a sweetheart deal.
― Choogle Plus (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 April 2014 15:31 (ten years ago) link
Saw these two last night, great show. They performed the whole album plus Mann's "Voices Carry," "Save Me" and "Goodbye, Caroline," and Leo's "Bottled In Cork," a new song called "Lonsdale Avenue," and one I didn't recognize. Lots of great banter, including Mann outing Leo as a Tolkein nerd (he apparently "led some chapter discussions" of The Hobbit on TheOneRing.net), and Leo's absolutely perfect impersonation of Paul Stanley from the banter tapes.
― Diddley Hollyberry (Phil D.), Wednesday, 7 May 2014 15:40 (ten years ago) link
_I once saw her, and this one person was yelling for "Superball." Mann couldn't believe it, but I like that song, too._Was that in DC?
Was that in DC?
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 8 May 2014 00:02 (ten years ago) link
Nope, it was here in Chicago.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 8 May 2014 03:35 (ten years ago) link
Ha!
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 8 May 2014 10:05 (ten years ago) link
We appear to have slept on this wonderful new song from her forthcoming album, written from Trump's point of view. It's been out since October:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qROQ0XYP4Ck
― heaven parker (anagram), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 21:01 (seven years ago) link
is it from a forthcoming album? I don't know. all kinds of people put out songs in that campaign
― akm, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 23:48 (seven years ago) link
it is not on the new album
which is called mental illness and which is out in march
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 00:08 (seven years ago) link
an actual song from the album can be heard here
http://mentalillness.aimeemann.com/
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 01:37 (seven years ago) link
There are few artists in the world that I love more than Aimee Mann, but I found that Trump song super clunky and obvious.
The one from the new album sounds much more promising.
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 01:48 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSUF_umjo0E
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 28 February 2017 21:46 (seven years ago) link
JoCo's on it, something good came out of that oddly-conceived cruise!
― Nhex, Wednesday, 1 March 2017 00:08 (seven years ago) link
I don't know why it never occurred to me before that James Urbaniak was born to play a character in an Aimee Mann song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en8HZ6X20Og
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Thursday, 9 March 2017 16:34 (seven years ago) link
good song
― Nhex, Friday, 10 March 2017 06:37 (seven years ago) link
New album streaming on NPR
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Thursday, 23 March 2017 13:13 (seven years ago) link
just casually getting crushed by "you never loved me"
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 March 2017 14:43 (seven years ago) link
.... album of the year?
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 March 2017 14:47 (seven years ago) link
lmao i'm obviously overstating it but this album is really strong and also devastating
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 March 2017 14:48 (seven years ago) link
So far I'm finding it a bit too same-y whenever I listen to it straight through, but the highs are definitely high.
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Monday, 3 April 2017 02:25 (seven years ago) link
yeah, I bounced off this hard, which is my reaction to almost everything Aimee Mann's recorded
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, 3 April 2017 02:45 (seven years ago) link
I like this v much, after not really responding to the previous records
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 3 April 2017 02:57 (seven years ago) link
always loved her songs on the magnolia soundtrack. save me, wise up, momentum, her cover of one is the loneliest number...
― flappy bird, Monday, 3 April 2017 03:38 (seven years ago) link
solid album, a few stand-outs ("Goose Snow Cone" and "Patient Zero") and other mostly pretty good tracks, kind of what i expect from her albums at this point. feel much of it growing on me over time
some live radio performanceshttp://www.wfuv.org/content/aimee-mann-2017
― Nhex, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 23:49 (seven years ago) link
Solid, but a little too midtempo subdued for me, especially coming from someone for whom "midtempo subdued" is generally the default. Like the piano.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 23:55 (seven years ago) link
I would have also liked more variety, but I'm finding parts of it are really sticking with me, "Stuck in the Past" especially.
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 01:01 (seven years ago) link
i like it quite a bit, my favorite of hers since lost in space.
― akm, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 04:19 (seven years ago) link
I've been on the wagon for the most part since / Bachelor / but yeah, this one kind of hits the spot
― calstars, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 11:57 (seven years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/TheSimpsons/videos/10154011704358697/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLg0J3HCGmM
― Nhex, Friday, 28 April 2017 05:22 (seven years ago) link
the npr tiny desk concert was great, the background vocals are all over the place:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgYT7zB3w5M
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 13:10 (six years ago) link
Aimee interviewed about literary influences:
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/all-the-poets-musicians-on-writing-aimee-mann/
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Saturday, 1 September 2018 03:22 (five years ago) link