DISQUS

Popdose: Lost in the ’80s - ’til tuesday

  • JonCummings · 1 year ago
    I wound up buying two of the four copies of "Everything's Different Now" that sold in 1989--one on cassette, one on CD. It is one of my favorite albums of the '80s, and I think it was Aimee's finest moment generally--the perfect balance of the pop instincts that drove Til Tuesday and the introspection that characterizes her solo work. However, as far as I'm concerned her single greatest song is "Coming Up Close," from the "Welcome Home" album.
  • Rebecca · 1 year ago
    Jon, if you didn't sell your CD copy, then I bought the third of four used from Mystery Train in Boston almost ten years ago. A great album but definitely not one to be embraced by the mainstream. And "Coming Up Close" is such a good song!
  • Jack Feerick · 1 year ago
    Terrific band. Not every song is a gem, but every single one has *something* to love—be it a quotable line, a killer bridge, a tasty solo...

    Rob't Holmes = seriously underrated. Always had great tone, and played inventive riffs without being overtly flashy. Never really found another vehicle, though—last I heard, he was playing in a wedding band...

    It's almost funny that Epic tried so hard to market the band based on Aimee's sex appeal—because, let's face it, "sexy" is not really Aimee's thing, not in any obviously-salable way, anyhow. But, you know, they were working with what they had: "brainy-nerdy-indie girl" did not yet exist as a marketing category. Aimee helped invent that, and she doesn't get enough credit for that.
  • wendy · 1 year ago
    I don't know, I am a huge Aimee Mann fan, but the til Tuesday stuff sounds SO dated to me. I think there is a timelessness to her post-band material.
  • Jack Feerick · 1 year ago
    Well, for one thing, post-TT she started singing in her natural register...
  • Old_Davy · 1 year ago
    I could not agree more with you, Wendy. I think the Til Tuesday material is wonderful, but the sound of the band is too 80's techno-craft for my tastes. I'd love to hear Aimee re-record some of that material using the same techniques she uses today. And that fourth copy of "Everything's Different Now" that sold in 1989? I bought it.
  • kels · 1 year ago
    Oooooh, no matter what the haters, or the indie hipster purists who solely adore Aimee's solo work say, every single song til tuesday dropped was absolutely amazing. I saw em live in Tampa (one of my few ticketed front row centers) and every member of the band was on fire. I still have the guitar pick she gave me. Welcome Home was one of the first CDs I bought that was "DDD" and today, it is still a sonic stunner. A reunion CD from them, while probably impossible, would be very welcome indeed.
  • J · 1 year ago
    My favorite Til Tuesday album was Everythings Different Now...I think of that as the soundtrack for a couple of years there when we played it all of the time.

    We saw Aimee in concert in 2000, and because her songs are so low key and somewhat depressing, I was shocked to see her up there, smiling and having fun! That is, until she came out on stage (it was Dec 12, 2000) and told us the Supreme Court had given the election to George Bush. What a buzz kill THAT was.
  • Darren · 1 year ago
    Looking Over My Shoulder is a real gem, as is at least half of that first album. "Welcome Home" was a real gem - there is no more perfect "rainy day" album on earth, in my most humble opinion - and, of course, it went all but completely unnoticed.
  • 1Py_Korry1 · 1 year ago
    I Love a good deal of Aimee's solo work, and really love Welcome Home and Everything's Different Now, but the first 'Til Tuesday album was hit and miss for me. It's too bad the band fell to pieces after their third album because even though the line up was getting smaller and smaller with each album, the songs were getting better and better.
  • Beau · 1 year ago
    "Coming Up Close" is a gorgeous song.

    But I think Aimee did better solo. Her Christmas shows are terrific.
  • Derry · 1 year ago
    Am I the only person who thinks that the 'til Tuesday stuff was better than anything Aimee Mann has done solo??
  • jefito · 1 year ago
    No, you most certainly are not.
  • JohnHughes · 1 year ago
    Nope, especially Everything's Different Now.
  • xolondon · 1 year ago
    The third TT album is pretty much perfect, but I have never been too into her solo work bar some perfect songs like Wise Up. There is something about her vocals that, to my ears, has changed and she just sounds whinier Sacrilege I know.