oh yeah, of course "That's Just What You Are" comes back around a lot
― Nhex, Monday, 21 April 2014 17:57 (ten years ago) link
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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine years ago) link
Nope, it was here in Chicago.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 8 May 2014 03:35 (nine years ago) link
Ha!
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 8 May 2014 10:05 (nine 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 (six 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
That was interesting, thanks
― The Great Atomic Power Ballad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 1 September 2018 10:19 (five years ago) link
been digging on Bachelor No. 2 a lot recently. what a great record.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Sunday, 28 April 2019 09:37 (four years ago) link
“Ghost world” is in my head all the time. The syncopation of “finals blew, I barely knew, my graduaaation speech”
― calstars, Sunday, 28 April 2019 11:32 (four years ago) link
There are so many great lines on it.
Such weirdly dated late '90s/early '00s musical tropes — specifically the way the guitars are strummed and drum beats played — in it too, but the songwriting stands up so well.
Always dug the Sgt Peppers trumpets on Calling It Quits also.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 14:03 (four years ago) link
Case in point the heavily filtered drumming playing an indie take on The Funky Drummer Beat behind the lines "12th of June, a gibbous moon, was this the longest day?" around 2 minutes into Ghost World.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 14:05 (four years ago) link
Brion gonna Brion
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 15:09 (four years ago) link
Hah. Though to be fair, the album credits five producers!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 15:19 (four years ago) link
love that mid '90s-early '00s, Brion sound, shamelessly
― Nhex, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 02:33 (four years ago) link