Aimee Mann, S+D

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

I am scared literally any time a thread with a proper name of someone I like in it pops to life.

I saw somewhere yesterday that she was going to be 60 and I went through my now-normal routine of "how can that be/oh wait I'm old." Aimee has always been 10 years older than me, that just didn't used to sound so old.

Seriously. The last time I saw her perform more or less the same thing occurred to me. I'm definitely at the stage where I'm the age of or older than people I once thought of as old. And they're still old, except now I'm old, too!

Coincidentally, also the release day of Rush's "Hold Your Fire"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMSFqXGZ5TQ

now that i've met you
would you object to
never seeing each other again

Why hasn’t her cover of Avalanche been released yet?

It's out today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASjn1Z83g9c

Happy birthday!.

I'll be the first to admit I take her for granted, but she's great. Reading the comments on your (other) thread I've got to admit I never considered the/a Bryan Ferry comparison. She's certainly got the right cool and sense of craft, but there's always a heartbreak/ache lurking beneath the surface of her songs that someone like Ferry is too stylized or affected to allow.

Speaking of taking for granted, I used to think she was one of several like-minded Beatles etc. indebted singer-songwriters, but now that I think about it more it's probably my fault for not keeping up with her peers. Though as far as I know they've all retired or moved on to other things, at least as likely as them continuing on certain cult-y paths that I've missed. Jason Falkner, Joe Pernice, um ... Marshall Crenshaw? I'd love to hear her do a duo record with Neil Finn (who had a headstart in the biz but is just two years older than Mann).

Inspired by Alfred I've been re-listening to all her stuff, and it makes me feel conflicted, because it's all so good and ... all kind of sounds interchangeable. But not always in a bad way, just in tempo and feel and melody and instrumentation. But that's not bad, because the songs are all good!

always kinda thought that aimee mann would have been (more) amazing if she had been in a good band
(a better band than Til Tuesday)
in the mode of REM or i dunno, Wilco

Maybe if she’d joined Rush

boom

Goal was wide open.