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Aimee Mann - Lost in Space Audio CD

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Aimee Mann Band: Aimee Mann
Title: Lost in Space
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Release Date: 2002-08-27
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Humpty Dumpty 2: High On Sunday 51 3: Lost In Space 4: This Is How It Goes 5: Guys Like Me 6: Pavlov's Bell 7: Real Bad News 8: Invisible Ink 9: Today's The Day 10: The Moth 11: It's Not

One of my All Time Fave CDs
. This is one of those rare discs for me that I can listen to start to finish, no matter how many times I have heard it, and just love it.


TIMELESS
This is my first Aimee Mann album and I'm blown away. Great Lyrics, Great Compositions, Great Performance, Great Packaging. .


The Best of Aimee
It's not a cd you listen to when you are in a good mood. This in my opinion, is the best of Aimee Mann cds. It's kind of depressing but it is also very good. If you brought one of her earlier cds and were disappointed you should get this one. It will revive your love for Aimee. .


bachelor number what??
i don't like how some of the songs were performed on "bachelor no. "lost in space" is almost a perfect album. 2" compared to her superior versions on the magnolia soundtrack, or live. on "lost in space," aimee mann MAKES IT LOOK EASY as a songwriter. she deftly chronicles a crumbling relationship with wonderful lyrics and catchy acoustic hooks, as her backing electric band adds drama.

"humpty dumpty" is a perfect pop-rock song about her ending relationship and how "all the perfect drugs and superheroes" couldn't put her back together again. if an emo band performed this, it would be incredibly annoying, but mann comes across as sincere and understated. absolutely brilliant. like i said, she makes it look easy!!!!

the next 4 songs are great. "pavlov's bell" brings upbeat rock energy to the album. "real bad news" is a grower of a song. at first i thought it was slightly boring, but now it's one of my favorites. it's followed by "invisible ink," another amazing song! though i don't think the opening line makes sense, the rest is so beautiful. mann brilliantly uses ouija boards ("I feel like a ghost who's trying to move your hands over some Ouija board, in the hopes I can spell out my name") and magic tricks ("what some take for magic at first glance, is just sleight of hand, depending on what you believe") as a metaphor for her relationship. "today's the day" is perhaps the climax of the album. she desperately pleads "isn't it good enough for you? isn't it enough to prove today's the day?" (to leave her for good). "and baby isn't this your chance, to make a break with circumstance?"

"the moth" is a catchy acoustic song using moths being drawn to the flame as a metaphor for love. it's really good. but perhaps the best song on the whole album is "it's not," a heartbreaking short acoustic song that sums up all the heartbreak of the album. ("So baby kiss me like a drug, like a respirator. And let me fall into the dream of the astronaut, where I get lost in space floating on forever - and you could call the rest just an afterthought"). wow.

aimee mann has kind of a monotone delivery that makes me disinterested when the song isn't catchy, but there's none of that on "lost in space. " she never sings too hard (take note, jessica simpson and christina aguilera) yet she never fails to boldly and plainly tell her story in a touching, emotional way. her voice is perfect and her band totally nails every instrument, including keyboards which i usually don't like. very few females can pull off a rock song in a good way, but this band does. . they add punch and interesting flourishes to the songs without trying too hard to rock (like the people on that lame rock star reality show).

i definitely disagree with those who say this album sucks. . i don't like all or maybe even most of aimee mann's stuff, but she really nailed it on the head with this one. i can't stop listening. it's simply brilliant, and i know what i'm talking about. .


Gets better with every listen
It not only holds up to repeated listenings, it just gets better, which is really extraordinary. I've been listening to this album in fairly heavy rotation for over a year. The quality of the singing, the melancholy songwriting, the lushness of the sound . . . it's just a brilliant album all-around.


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