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Re: Lost in the ’80s: ‘Til Tuesday

km — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:00:31 -0000

You are absolutely correct! I wore out 2 Everything's Different Now Cd's when it came out. It's very difficult for me to get into much of her solo stuff. It's a shame she didn't stick with the band because they were maturing rather nicely. Who knows how great their next offering would have been??? Oh well...

Re: Lost in the ’80s: ‘Til Tuesday

xolondon — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:07:10 -0000

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.

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JohnHughes — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:37:13 -0000

Nope, especially Everything's Different Now.

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jefito — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:04:55 -0000

No, you most certainly are not.

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Derry — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:16:36 -0000

Am I the only person who thinks that the 'til Tuesday stuff was better than anything Aimee Mann has done solo??

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Old_Davy — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:00:29 -0000

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.

Re: Lost in the ’80s: ‘Til Tuesday

Beau — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:34:19 -0000

"Coming Up Close" is a gorgeous song.

But I think Aimee did better solo. Her Christmas shows are terrific.

Re: Lost in the ’80s: ‘Til Tuesday

1Py_Korry1 — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:57:46 -0000

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.

Re: Lost in the ’80s: ‘Til Tuesday

Darren — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:33:15 -0000

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.

Re: Lost in the ’80s: ‘Til Tuesday

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:03:27 -0000

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.

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kels — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:31:54 -0000

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.

Re: Lost in the ’80s: ‘Til Tuesday

Jack Feerick — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:15:49 -0000

Well, for one thing, post-TT she started singing in her natural register...

Re: Lost in the ’80s: ‘Til Tuesday

wendy — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:37:05 -0000

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.

Re: Lost in the ’80s: ‘Til Tuesday

Jack Feerick — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:20:55 -0000

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.

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Rebecca — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:10:44 -0000

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!

Re: Lost in the ’80s: ‘Til Tuesday

JonCummings — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:27:52 -0000

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.