Does anyone wanna anticipate the new Aimee Mann record with me? [June 2012]

I'm pumped. It feels like its been forever.

nope!

haha, sorry. i haven't listened to aimee mann in forever, when was her last one?

2008, so not really THAT long ago, but she did take some time off to write a boxing musical that was abandoned after she felt the plot was too similar to The Fighter.

Yeah, why not? 'Smilers' was a return to form, I think, after the relatively less good last couple of albums before that.

Didn't even know one was due... a bit of vague discussion on the AM website about whether its called 'Charmers' or 'Farmers' and some indication its sort of Cars/Abba inspired.

Mind you, the promise of a new Sebastien Tellier record doesn't seem to have inspired the usual excitement that event usually does here, either.

haven't heard a full-length of hers since Bachelor No. 1 but sure, i'm in

i'm dying to hear the new one. the last great one i think was Lost in Space, though.

i was just listening to "It's Not Safe" for the first time in years, man, that song is classic

yeah lost in space was the last one i really enjoyed. i like aimee though, i'd listen to her new one.

i also like michael penn! the best penn?
http://www.exposay.com/celebrity-photos/michael-penn-and-aimee-mann-2007-vanity-fair-oscar-party-PQ61hf.jpg

"michael penn? you've dead for weeks!"

Was just listening to Lost in Space this morning, didn't know there was a new one on the way.

The last one was the ... Christmas album?

Love Lost In Space.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7aTfyEfgA8

Yeah, why not? 'Smilers' was a return to form, I think, after the relatively less good last couple of albums before that.

Wow, I feel exactly the opposite - I thought The Forgotten Arm was terrific, Smilers not so much.

As much as I love her, Smilers was the first thing I really liked of hers since Bachelor No. 2. It still sounded like her -- but the Moog touches plus the songwriting made it stand out more than her last few.

And it has some great songs -- "31 Today" is mildly devastating. "Looking for Nothing" is awesome -- the bit where she breaks into falsetto in the last chorus is just so...her. And I dig "Ballantines," the closer. Nobody does throwaways like she does.

I thought The Forgotten Arm was terrific, Smilers not so much.

― jpattzlovevampz 2 hours ago (Phil D.), Saturday, March 24, 2012

OTM. The Forgotten Arm took a while to grow on me but it may be my favorite thing of hers now. Most of the tracks work on their own but as the story slowly sinks in the whole thing just gets better and better.

I still sing 'Ghost World' and 'Red Vines' to myself almost every day.

The albums after Bachelor never hooked me.

Love this:
Now you're running round the parking lot
Til every lightning bug is caught
Pinching some Pinholes in the lid of a jar
While we wait in the car
With cigarettes and red vines

Only listened once so far, which is nowhere near enough to offer an opinion yet, but the Jukebox covered the first single today, and only I liked it!

http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=5983

not feeling that site. but the video is really great. laura linney!

Tom Scharpling made the video for "Labrador". It's awesome and hilarious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA1cX-wgMdM

definitely helps to watch the Voices Carry video first, but yes, definitely