Aimee Mann

[Matt]

Ich liebe diese Frau und ihre Musik einfach und deswegen muss jetzt mal ein Topic her. Ich weiß das hier noch jmd. im Forum war der ihre musikalische Genialität auch zu würdigen weiß, und das nicht nur seit ihrem Magnolia Album.

Es gibt in den USA wohl keine Songschreiberin mit so schönen, sarkastischen, witzigen, bösen, ehrlichen und intelligenten Lyrics. Früher hatte sie glaube ich in einer anderen Band mitgespielt, dessen Namen mir jetzt entfallen ist. Aber seit ihrem 1993 Soloablum-Debüt "Whatever" überzeugt sie mich immer wieder. Ihre Songs haben dabei solch' einprägsame und wunderschöne Melodien, das sie an die früheren Werke der Beatles erinnern, dabei sagen ihre Songs weitaus mehr aus.

Ihre Discography:
Whatever (1993)
I'm With Stupid (1996)
Magnolia (1999)
Bachelor No. 2 (2000)
Lost in Space (2002)
I Am Sam (2002) - dort hat sie ein Lied zusammen mit Sean Penn beigetragen

Vielen Leuten ist Mann natürlich erst seit Magnolia bekannt. Dort hat sie ja auch wunderschöne Songs ala "Wise Up", "One", "You Do" und "Save Me" entwickelt. P.T. Anderson ging ja sogar soweit ihre Songs nicht nur als Hintergrundmusik über den seinen Film "Magnolia" zu legen, nein er integrierte sie als einen festen Bestandteil innerhalb der Handlung. Die Charaktere singen in einer Schlüsselszene die Lyrics von "Save Me".

Ihre älteren Alben sollte man allerdings auch nicht vergessen, und wenn man sie nicht kennt unbedingt nachholen(hören). Möchte jetzt, noch nicht, auf spezifische Songs der älteren Alben eingehen, da ich ersteinmal eure Meinung dazu hören möchte. Wer ist hier noch so ein großer Aimee Mann Fan. Welche Alben kennt ihr, welche liebt ihr, warum... usw

btw. mehr Infos zu dieser immer noch zu wenig bekannten und zu unterschätzten einzigartigen Künstlerin @ AIMEE MANN

[Anne]

Ich kann Matt nur beipflichen. Aimee ist eine der besten Singer/Songwriterinnen die es heutzutage gibt.
P.T.A. hat mit Magnolia eigentlich Aimee Manns Songs in Bilder gepackt. So ist der legendäre Satz: "Now that I've met you, would you object to never seeing eachother again?", den Claudia zu Jim bei ihrem Date sagt, die erste Zeile zu Aimee Manns "Deathly".

Allerdings irrst du dich, Matt, wenn du schreibst, daß sie in Magnolia "Save Me" singen. Sie singen nämlich "Wise Up".

Aber ansonsten hast du natürlich Recht, und Aimee verdient ein eigenes Topic hier.

[laertes]

ich liebe aimee manns musik, die ich durch magnolia kennengelernt habe. die ganze cd & insb das achte stück - wenn ich mich recht erinnere - hat mich eine zeitlang regelmäßig zum weinen gebracht (es war soz der soundtrack einer intensiven aber leider gescheiterten liebe. [my] memories are made of [sad] hits.)
übrigens danke an matt für die discography...

[KeyzerSoze]

Um ehrlich zu sein kenn ich Aimee Mann nur von einer Buffyfolge! Bei Magnolia hab ich sie damals eher "unbewusst" gehört. So weit ich mich noch erinnern kann hat mir der Soundtrack damals sehr gut gefallen.

[LadyViola]

Ich hab sie auch erst seit "Magnolia" zu schätzen gelernt. Das ist einer meiner All-Time-Favourite-Soundtracks, den man immer wieder gerne von vorne bis hinter hören mag. Vor allem haben ihre Songs etwas unaufdringliches, das einen aber trotzdem sehr berührt. Das gibt's selten.

[JoAnn]

Ich finde sie wundervollund wurde auch durch Magnolia auf sie aufmerksam.
Das Album Lost In Space finde ich auch sehr schön und intelligent, leider bin ich noch nicht dazu gekommen alle CDs von ihr zu kaufen/hören.
Ich besitze Whatever(die etwas anders ist, da es das erste Album ist) und den OST von Magnolia.

[Johnny B.]

Jep, Aimee Mann hören ist super, habe allerdings nur den Magnolia Souindtrack und Lost in space.

Wise up ist irgendwie "sehr beruhigend".

[JoAnn]

Ich finde Wise Up vorallem sehr trauirg...

[pHew]

Mein Esel meint: Noch ein bisschen Gras, und dann hat er Aimee Mann aus dem Teich gefischt.

[Matt]

Ich habe es leider noch nicht gehört, aber habe von ihrem neuen Album auch erst heute erfahren!!!


Aimee Mann - The Forgotten Arm

Mehr dazu hier von CNN:
A solid punch to the gut
Aimee Mann's fascination with boxing threads through art


NEW YORK (AP) -- Here's an image hard to get out of your head: wiry singer-songwriter Aimee Mann, chronicler of the emotionally fragile, whaling the tar out of somebody in a boxing ring. You're as likely to find her in boxing gloves than with a guitar these days. An exercise routine has turned into a passion, and Mann will even go a couple of rounds with her bass player to keep in shape while on tour. Imagine what happens if he flubbed a note onstage the night before. During a recent interview in a Soho lounge, Mann talked animatedly about picking up the fine points of the sport, and how she applies it to her job. "It's really difficult," she said. "That's what I like about it. There's always something new to learn, something new to work on." Mann, 44, named her new album "The Forgotten Arm," which came out Tuesday, after an obscure boxing term for a surprise punch. It's a loosely constructed concept disc about -- you guessed it -- a boxer, and a woman who ran away with him in the 1970s.
With Green Day and Neil Young releasing their own concept albums in the past year or so, do we sniff a trend? "It's a direct reaction to the marketplace becoming more and more and more about one song," she said. "The single is more singlelike than ever and more disposable than ever. There are certain artists who are really getting sick of that."
Mann, who releases discs on her own label, said she also has the freedom to try different things without executives second-guessing her. Mann's biggest success came with the songs she wrote and performed for the movie "Magnolia," which also gave her experience with a new kind of songwriting. Instead of writing songs specifically for a movie scene, she began writing to a movie playing in her head. A band at the fair She wrote two songs while thinking about a loosely constructed story of a boxer who fights at the Virginia State Fair in the early 1970s. He met a local girl eager to escape her hometown and they fell in love. Finding she liked the process, Mann kept going, and rewrote other songs she'd been working on to fit the story. "It's not like a real plot-laden story," she said. "They run off together and he has a drug problem that goes out of control. They split up, then it's just what happens in their heads. But it was sort of nice to think about the same people from song to song." Though hardly autobiographical (Mann's happily married to fellow musician Michael Penn, not a drug-addicted boxer) she did grow up in Virginia and spent a lot of time at the state fair. Her meticulously constructed pop songs work even out of context with the story, since it's the sort of emotional terrain she's used to navigating. "She Really Wants You" can resonate with anyone overwhelmed by a love they felt they didn't deserve; "I Can't Help You Anymore" with any person disgusted by a doomed relationship.
Working with producer Joe Henry, Mann also made her most up-tempo rock record ever. "I wanted it to sound like a band you'd hear playing at the Virginia State Fair," she said, an image that comes to life when you hear a drummer pounding on a cowbell. The musical approach is a relief to fans who felt successful songs like "Wise Up" sent her in a dour direction, favoring morose material. "People say that and I go along with it," she said. "If that's how it comes across to you, that's how it comes across. That's not my experience of it. For me as a songwriter, I have a whole picture. I often hear things in a lyric that I personally think are kind of funny -- they're ironic, wry or sarcastic -- but I don't necessarily think people are going to know that I mean it in that way." Relaxing in the face of blows Mann, first known to MTV viewers in the mid-'80s as the "Voices Carry" singer with the wild hair in 'Til Tuesday, spent the 1990s as most critics' favorite example of music business dysfunction. She said her decision to release discs on her own SuperEgo Records label has worked "beyond my wildest dreams." "I was so fed up with the other way, I didn't really care what happened," she said. "Whatever happened, I would go with it. The Internet really, really helped us." It didn't hurt that "Magnolia," as she put it, "exploded my audience." "I got the impression that people took me more seriously, people in Hollywood," she said. "It brought me a lot of work." One of her models for "The Forgotten Arm," a friend who boxes and is a recovering drug addict, introduced her to the boxing world. He set her up with a lesson and helped her find a trainer. Besides finding a band member who can be a sparring partner, Mann said there are other ways where her hobby and professional life have intersected. "One of the biggest skills you need to learn is to relax in the ring," she said. "You can get so exhausted because you're so tense. But it's hard not to be tense when somebody is trying to punch you in the face. "I find I can apply that discipline when I'm onstage, just learning how to relax."
Aimee Mann - CNN Entertainment