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Aimee Mann - Whatever Audio CD

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Aimee Mann Band: Aimee Mann
Title: Whatever
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Release Date: 1993-05-11
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: I Should've Known 2: Fifty Years After the Fair 3: 4th of July 4: Could've Been Anyone 5: Put Me on Top 6: Stupid Thing 7: Say Anything 8: Jacob Marley's Chain 9: Mr. Harris 10: I Could Hurt You Now 11: I Know There's a Word 12: I've Had It 13: Way Back When

AIMEE, PLEASE MARRY ME
i am a depressed person and see n feel a lot of her pain and anguish about just life. this album came out at a particularly strange part of my life. after seeing her in interviews and in concert, why any guy would mistreat this beautiful woman (inside and out) is beyond me. may her future be happier than her past. amen.


one of her best
I love this artist, and every album of hers is worth buying!. This solo debut by Aimee is one of her best albums by far; the song "I should've known" is a great introduction, and "4th of July", "Stupid thing", "Say anything", "I've had it", "Mr Harris" and "Could've been anyone" are among the best songs she has ever written.


Excellent start for Aimee Mann listening.
It includes a great range of styles that help show off her creative talent, taste, wit, and beautiful voice. This was the first thing I knew of Aimee Mann, and I loved it right out of the box.


Put Her On Top
You can see her through the songs and through her voice - direct, clear, honest and punchy - and that brings me real pleasure. What do I like about Aimee? Her songs are real, unique and authentic. Not to mention that Mann has a wonderful feeling for the melodic line and a unique way of writing lyrics. When I listen to her music I see an interesting, independent, sparky, intelligent, irrepressible woman - in other words, attractive and sexy. Perhaps i am getting old.


Sometime After (til) Tuesday
(And was essentially a solo album with a little help from her friends. Aimee Mann seemed to slowly push the new wave origins of Til Tuesday deeper into arty and moody beauties, with the gorgeousness of Welcome Home recalling Roxy Music's Avalon and then the devastating personal Everything's Different Now chronicling her breakup with Jules Shear with the alacrity of Elvis Costello or Squeeze. )

As seemed to become standard with Aimee's career, six years of legal problems with Epic over Til Tuesday stalled this album from coming out on Imago till 1993, who then filed for bankruptcy and tied Aimee down until Geffen undid the legal knots and re-released it. That is a good thing, because this is the heaviest rocking that Aimee ever did. As her albums increasingly became musically more complex and introspective, the electricity seeped out from her recordings even as the quality remained impeccable. So you can delight in the wild guitar leads in "I Should Have Known" but hear the sad loss of a friendship via the colors that become more dominant in her career on "4th of July:"

"But now here I am and the world's gotten colder,
and she has the river down which I sold her. "

There are also plenty of lyrics that chart Aimee's literary proclivities. After all, how many singers reference Dickens for a song ("Jacob Marley's Chain)? The initial single, "Stupid Thing," was a Beatlesque concoction that derived its downcast shimmer from "Abbey Road. " The production throughout this CD is elaborate, with longtime cohort Jon Brion ornately dressing everything here. While Mann did drift towards a more personal style and sound (around the time of Bachelor No. 2), her first round of solo recording is still an album I pull out for pleasures from time to time, and stands up with albums of the period from Crowded House, Elvis Costello and 10,000 Maniacs.


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