Aimee Mann, S+D

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 :)

I've heard her do "Voices Carry," for sure. A lovely version.

She did it on the Acoustic Alchemy tour, but Michael Penn sang it.

At least at the show I went to.

she played it on the bachelor #2 tour, which was the last time I saw her.

I once saw her, and this one person was yelling for "Superball." Mann couldn't believe it, but I like that song, too.

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."

(oh, and when she performed "Voices Carry" in 2000, Michael Penn did the jerk boyfriend's lines from the VC video)

The Both have been doing "Voices Carry" fairly regularly. Also see the "Labrador" video above if you haven't already...

Flame and moth got a sweetheart deal.

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.

_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?

Nope, it was here in Chicago.

Ha!

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

is it from a forthcoming album? I don't know. all kinds of people put out songs in that campaign

it is not on the new album

which is called mental illness and which is out in march

an actual song from the album can be heard here

http://mentalillness.aimeemann.com/

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSUF_umjo0E

JoCo's on it, something good came out of that oddly-conceived cruise!

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

good song

New album streaming on NPR

just casually getting crushed by "you never loved me"

.... album of the year?

lmao i'm obviously overstating it but this album is really strong and also devastating

So far I'm finding it a bit too same-y whenever I listen to it straight through, but the highs are definitely high.

yeah, I bounced off this hard, which is my reaction to almost everything Aimee Mann's recorded

I like this v much, after not really responding to the previous records

always loved her songs on the magnolia soundtrack. save me, wise up, momentum, her cover of one is the loneliest number...

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 performances
http://www.wfuv.org/content/aimee-mann-2017

Solid, but a little too midtempo subdued for me, especially coming from someone for whom "midtempo subdued" is generally the default. Like the piano.

I would have also liked more variety, but I'm finding parts of it are really sticking with me, "Stuck in the Past" especially.

i like it quite a bit, my favorite of hers since lost in space.

I've been on the wagon for the most part since / Bachelor / but yeah, this one kind of hits the spot

https://www.facebook.com/TheSimpsons/videos/10154011704358697/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLg0J3HCGmM

the npr tiny desk concert was great, the background vocals are all over the place:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgYT7zB3w5M

Aimee interviewed about literary influences:

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/all-the-poets-musicians-on-writing-aimee-mann/

That was interesting, thanks

been digging on Bachelor No. 2 a lot recently. what a great record.

“Ghost world” is in my head all the time. The syncopation of “finals blew, I barely knew, my graduaaation speech”

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.

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.

Brion gonna Brion

Hah. Though to be fair, the album credits five producers!

love that mid '90s-early '00s, Brion sound, shamelessly

Me too! I like Froom, but Brion comes off like Froom with perhaps fewer gewgaws. (I also love Jon Brion the performer, and also songwriter, which he does not seem to do that often anymore.)

Now you’re running round the parking lot til every lightning bug is caught. Punching some pin holes in the lid of a jar while we wait in the car.

happy 60th