A Beginner's Guide To: Aimee Mann

[jivafox]

Life just kind of empties out
Less a deluge than a drought
Less a giant mushroom cloud
Than an unexploded shell
Inside a cell
Of the Lennox Hotel

I don't think anyone has quite summed up LIFE in SIX LINES like QUEEN AIMEE does here.

 

[jivafox]

Spirits and specters that live in the Sulphur streams
Find their redemption in charcoal dreams

Can you just burn it out?
So thoroughly
You'll never see
A trace of yourself in the coal
Can you just burn it out?
Of your soul

 

[Cerro de Casa]

I've got love and anger
They come as a pair
You can take your chances
But buyer beware
And I won't
Make you feel bad
When I show you
This big ball of sad isn't
Worth even filling with air

 

[jivafox]

Calling on Mary is voluntary
Unless you're alone like me
If there's a star above, then it can look like love
When they light up the Christmas tree

And to all the lost souls down below
Merry Christmas, merry Christmas
What's one more drifter in the snow?
Merry Christmas, merry Christmas

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[BoysForSeles]

From a fair while ago but as it’s almost December:

 

[BoysForSeles]

‘One More Drifter In The Snow’ is getting issued on vinyl this month. Postage is nearly the same price as the album, price including UK delivery totals £32 but I am tempted although I’ve absolutely no need.

Aimee Mann - One More Drifter in The Snow Vinyl

One More Drifter in The Snow Vinyl

www.musicglue.com

 

[Suedehead]

Ordered!

 

[BoysForSeles]

My vinyl arrived, it’s different to my cd in that Calling On Mary is now track 9 instead of closing the album and White Christmas is the closer.

 

[jivafox]

Retooling the tracklisting to end it on a note of HOPE?! How dare she.

 

[Suedehead]

Truly the best NPR tiny desk concert ever

Shaking and crying in the corner with my glass of red

 

[BoysForSeles]

I mean, lyrically, I’ve never felt so seen.

 

[BoysForSeles]

Retooling the tracklisting to end it on a note of HOPE?! How dare she.

Oh, I never replied to this. I asked her about this and she said it was the result of a series of catastrophic errors so fear not, there was no optimism involved.

 

[BoysForSeles]

“You might think that things will change.
But take my word.
They won’t.”

 

[jivafox]

Oh I could get specific,
But nobody needs a catalogue
With details of love I can’t sell anymore…

 

[Suedehead]

All the perfect drugs and superheroes
Couldn't be enough
To bring me up to zero

 

[VoR]

A voice that still carries: Aimee Mann’s greatest songs – ranked!

Thirty years on from the release of her acclaimed album I’m With Stupid, we count down the sucker-punching best tracks by the US singer-songwriter

www.theguardian.com

 

[Suedehead]

A voice that still carries: Aimee Mann’s greatest songs – ranked!

Thirty years on from the release of her acclaimed album I’m With Stupid, we count down the sucker-punching best tracks by the US singer-songwriter

www.theguardian.com

That’s a really good list actually although criminally low on Lost in Space selections …

 

[BoysForSeles]

It’s impossible to make a bad list for Aimee Mann but that’s acceptable, though not what I’d have chosen on the whole. They should have commissioned one of us for this piece but I’m glad to see the recognition.

I need an album,book or/and tour from her ASAP please.