Aimee Mann (natural September 8, 1960) is an American rock guitarist, bass player, singer, and songwriter.

Biography

Aimee Mann was natural inside Richmond, Virginia, and attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, but dropped out to sing by owning her foremost punk rock band, the Young Snakes; a band freed the EP Bark Along with the Young Snakes in 1982, and the compilation album was issued around 2004.

Inside 1983, seeking the go to to "sweetness and melody", she co-founded by owning Berklee schoolmate & fellow Michael Hausman the new wave band 'Til Tuesday, which achieved minor success in 1985 with its first album, Voices Carry. A title song is said to become inspired by Hausman & Mann's breakup; a streaming became an MTV staple, winning a MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist, though Mann's signature spiky hair would lead occasionally to forget about a class action. Mann performed by owning Rush on the song "Time Stand Still" (1987), singing backup vocals and appearing in the music cd. Using Mann swimming an progressively crucial role inside songwriting, 'Til Tuesday discharged 2 supplementary albums, Welcome Home and ''Everything's Different Now''. On the final album & tour, musician Jon Brion joined the band, which broke higher inside 1990 when Mann left to start her solo career.

About a period of the foremost album's release, Mann began the romanticistic relationship sustaining Jules Shear; they broke higher prior to a final 'Til Tuesday album, which contained a song "J For Jules". Office relationships from either a band would prove my point: Hausman late became Mann's manager, & Brion produced her 1st 2 solo albums.

Solo career

Around 1993 Mann released Whatever, her first solo album. Promotion suffered due to the collapse of her label, Imago. When single a microscopic hit, a album was critically praised, & paved the way for her next release, 1995's ''I'm with Stupid, through Geffen Records. Once more, reviews were caring, however sales were frail.

Mann got met musician Michael Penn in the 1980s & with corresponding songwriting styles and record-industry woes to part, it struck higher a friendly relationship when you took the recording of Stupid person, which blossomed into romance & their 1997 marriage. In this instance Brion produced her album Bachelor No. 2'', but Geffen saw no hit singles in the material and ordered her back to the studio. A album languished spell Mann & a label fought.

Meanwhile, iconoclastic film auteur Paul Thomas Anderson, for whom Penn and Brion experienced composed the soundtrack, became the close friend. Mann gained greater public recognition around 1999 — indeed, more than anything else since "Voices Carry" — once she contributed eight songs to the soundtrack of Anderson's Magnolia, including the Academy Award-nominated song, "Save Me". Anderson deliberately worked from either Mann's lyrics to produce a film's characters & situations. Due to this exposure, Mann became desired to contribute to soundtracks, the profits mass produced ironic per music industry's indifference.

Independence

Fed higher by having each uneffective promotion & artistic meddling by her record label, an personal experience documented within her song "Calling It Quits", she struck retired in her have & founded SuperEgo Records in 1999. Mann self-released Bachelor No. 2 in 2000 (see 2000 in music), having negotiated a contract release from Geffen, and though initially only sold at concerts and via her website, the album became successful, allowing her to secure retail distribution through SuperEgo. A album, which involved a bit of songs from either Magnolia & newly poop, was widely admired & Mann's "more indie than indie" success was carefully noted by more musicians.

Mann, Penn, Brion, Fiona Apple, & more musicians got by this instance developed a subculture in the Largo nightclub in L.A. Penn & Mann formed the construct known as Acoustic Vaudeville to recreate it in tour inside California & sooner or later on an irregular, on-going national tour. A Acoustic Vaudeville shows intermix music & could have-higher comedy; among a comedians joining the two for single shows were Janeane Garofalo, Patton Oswalt, and David Cross.

Mann continued her solo career by having Lost in Space (2002), a somewhat additional sombre album in the equivalent vein when Bachelor There are no. Deuce. Around 2004 her website freed a Wasted around Space Favorite Edition, which featured another disc containing hexad survive recordings, likewise ii B-sides & deuce antecedently unreleased songs. Within November of that year ''Live at St. Ann's Warehouse, a live album and DVD recorded at a series of July 2004 shows in Brooklyn, came out; the two discs were sold packaged together in either a CD jewel case or a DVD case.

Mann described her next album, The Forgotten Arm'' (2005) as a concept album set in the '70s about two lovers who meet at the Virginia state fair and are now on the run. A Joe Henry-produced album, which was recorded mostly live & has couple overdubs, was freed May 3, 2005. A album reflects Mann's interest within boxing in its illustrations when well as its title, from either a boxing move where 1 arm is utilized to hit the opponent, stimulating him to "forget" aboutthe more arm, which is so wont to deliver a coarse blow. A album received weaker reviews overall, sustaining critics impressed at a totality however unimpressed by having any single songs.

Mann's independence from either a industry led her to supplementary expressed political stances. She joined Artists Against Piracy, a class action formed to work against a illegal downloading and file sharing of copyrighted music from a Internet. Mann, Penn & Hausman took their case sustaining SuperEgo to observed a independent music collective United Musicians, which is based on a principle that each creative person should become respire to locate copyright ownership of the work he or even she has created, inside counterpoint to normal music industry contracts.

Discography

Solo
Whatever (1993) ''I'm with Stupid (1995) Magnolia (Original Soundtrack) (1999) Bachelor No. 2 (2000) Ultimate Collection (2000) Lost in Space (2002) Misplaced within Space Favorite Edition (2004) Live at St. Ann's Warehouse (live album/DVD) (2004) The Forgotten Arm'' (2005)

With 'Til Tuesday
Voices Carry (1985) Welcome Home (1986) ''Everything's Different Now (1988) Coming Up Close: A Retrospective (best-of compilation, 1996)

With The Young Snakes
Bark Along with the Young Snakes (EP, 1982) Aimee Mann & The Young Snakes (compilation, released 2004)

Acting
Mann played the role of a German nihilist in the movie The Big Lebowski (1998). Mann & her band come out when themselves in the 2002 Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' episode "Sleeper", performing the songs "This Is How It Goes" & "Pavlov's Bell" at The Bronze. She has 1 line in the episode: "Man, I hate playing vampire towns." She & her band too play themselves around the 2002 episode of The West Wing, performing a handle of James Taylor's "Shed a Little Light" at the Rock the Vote concert.