Voices Carry - 'Til Tuesday Cover

Hochapeafarm said:

Oooo, I have been hoping you'd do this one!!! This was AWESOME!!!!!

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coolkayaker1 said:

I saw Aimee Mann and Til Tuesday way back in the 80's, live in Boston twice--once at The Rathskeller in Kenmore Sq with my pal Andy (who wound up being a urologist, of all things!) and some other college cronies that treated the city like rubbish, but we still hung out with them like the lunkheads we were, and once at Jumpin' Jack Flash in the Fens with my gal Cathy F., who lived down the street (there were about twenty people at Flash bc it was a weeknight, and I had no idea that Til Tuesday was anything at all; all I could think about was Cathy F. bc she was hot and all) and it was when their first single, Love In A Vacuum, just came out. WBCN was playing it like it was going out of style, I tell you.

One night at the Rat, I got Aimee's autograph on a cocktail napkin, which I still have to this day; it's over there in that chest of drawers stuck between the pages of some old book. It was 2AM, last call, and it was at the long bar at The Rat on the main floor (I know what you're thinking, but not the one down by the basement stage) where Aimee and the band were having post-gig drinks. I was already blotto and was way up in that loft thingy over the bar with a few pals (the losers) who dared me to go down and talk to her. I was juiced up with beer muscles and did it. She was sweet as corn syrup, she really was, and she wrote something long on that napkin; not just my name and her name--I need to pull it out and read it again because it meant something to me at the time. It was that good.

Anyhow, Vacuum was a minor hit when I got her John Hancock, but within three months of that, the second single, Voices Carry exploded on MTV, and the rest, as they say is history. I doubt if she'd have given a drunken louse like me the time of day after that, I really doubt it because she was an MTV darling by then and Boston was in her "rear view", if you get my drift. She started dating Jules Shear, and that lasted a lot longer than Cathy F. (not to be confused with Cathy R. or Cathy D.) and I did.

A vid reminder of Vacuum.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6eeURFNmxI

Okay, back to E's lovely rendition. It tickled the cobwebs of my mind, and that means it's good and that I'd "brother hug" you if you were here right this millisecond.

Okay, I'm off to bed now. BYe bye.

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d-mace said:

Did you use a flanger? Whatever you did it sounds awesome. Great rendition. Thx for sharing.

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erivel said:

Thanks, yeah I added some effect to the track on GarageBand.

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RichM said:

A lot of people remember Til Tuesday just as Aimee Mann's old band, but they were a pretty impressive musical unit in their own right. I saw them a few times in the 80's after their MTV heyday was already past, but nobody told them-- they really rocked. As part of their encore, they would take requests from the audience-- ANY request, meaning they were constantly being asked to play random songs they had never played before. Somehow, they always managed to pull it off, playing whatever random song the audience yelled out as if they'd been rehearsing it all day. Maybe it was a gimmick, but it was a great gimmick.

I love Aimee Mann as a solo artist, but what I wouldn't give for another one of those Til Tuesday shows... they were serious fun.

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RichM said:

A lot of people remember Til Tuesday just as Aimee Mann's old band, but they were a pretty impressive musical unit in their own right. I saw them a few times in the 80's after their MTV heyday was already past, but nobody told them-- they really rocked. As part of their encore, they would take requests from the audience-- ANY request, meaning they were constantly being asked to play random songs they had never played before. Somehow, they always managed to pull it off, playing whatever random song the audience yelled out as if they'd been rehearsing it all day. Maybe it was a gimmick, but it was a great gimmick.

I love Aimee Mann as a solo artist, but what I wouldn't give for another one of those Til Tuesday shows... they were serious fun.

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coolkayaker1 said:

That's a cool story, Rich. I'm impressed that they could do that about playing audience shout outs. It's great that you saw them live. Sounds like you are a "child of the 80's", too, like Eric and I. It was a great decade--even with the down drag of Whitesnake and Poison.

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erivel said:

But David Coverdale had such fantastic teeth...

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uke4ia said:

Very nice, Eric.

Before Til Tuesday had the hit with "Voices Carry", Aimee Mann used to work at the original Newbury Comics location on Newbury St., at the T-shirt counter. I still have an XTC "Drums and Wires" shirt I bought from her. The only time I ever saw Til Tuesday was around the time the band was breaking up, they played on Boston Common with O Positive and a couple other bands I've forgotten. Recently, I've listened to a bunch of Marc Maron's "WTF" podcasts, and the most interesting one I've heard was his interview with Aimee.

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uke4ia said:

Very nice, Eric.

Before Til Tuesday had the hit with "Voices Carry", Aimee Mann used to work at the original Newbury Comics location on Newbury St., at the T-shirt counter. I still have an XTC "Drums and Wires" shirt I bought from her. The only time I ever saw Til Tuesday was around the time the band was breaking up, they played on Boston Common with O Positive and a couple other bands I've forgotten. Recently, I've listened to a bunch of Marc Maron's "WTF" podcasts, and the most interesting one I've heard was his interview with Aimee.

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coolkayaker1 said:

Jim: I remember o-positive -- wasn't their album toyboattoyboattoyboat. I was looking for it on CD or iTunes to buy/burn, no luck. It must be out of print. Ugh!

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