Aimee Mann Ultimate Collection

This collection covers Aimee Mann’s career from 1985 and her ’Til Tuesday” years until her second solo album ”I’m With Stupid” from 1995. Moreover a good handful of fine singles/rarities are included.Overall this is really a great collection of songs, showing the range of Mann, both as a singer and an intelligent songwriter.The two earliest tracks are from Mann’s time as a member of the pop-act ’Til Tuesday. They’re are rather typical 1980’s pop, nut onlike a lot of what Kim Wilde recorded in those years – solid but not much more.4 songs are taken from her first solo-album ”Whatever” from 1993. Among those the atypical ”Jacob Marley’s Chain” is a clear favorite – actually this was the song that first convinced me that he was an artist worth digging into. Also ”Stupid Thing” and ”I Should’ve Known” are fine – the first a heartfelt ballad and the second one of the heaviest songs on the compilation – a bit of Pretenders style.The six songs from her second album ”I’m With Stupid” are generally really great. From the immediately catchy singles ”That’s Just What You Are” and ”You Could Make a Killing” over the Sheryl Crow like ballad ”Amateur” til more rocking songs like ”Long Shot” and ”Choice of the Matter”.Among the singles you notice a great and faithful version of Badfinger’s classic ”Baby Blue” ( don’t hesitate to dig into this great band either). The cover song ”Sign of Love” is one of the more commercial tracks – but really great pop. ”Driving with one Hand on the Wheel” is an unpretentious song, which also reminds me of early Sheryl Crow. A songwriting collaboration with Elvis Costello produced the country flavoured ”The Other End” – also a win for the collection. ”Take it Back” and ”Jimmy Hoffa Jokes” are just nice additions to any Aimee Mann song collection.Finally the ”Magnolia” soundtrack song is worth noting – a very evocative song, which was also included on her highly praised 3rd solo album ”Bachelor No. 2”

When I was in my early twenties, I ‘discovered’ this wonderful artist Aimee Mann through the song ‘Long Shot’. I’d recorded the song from the radio onto a blank cassette (remember those things?!) and used to rewind and play this song over and over and over again. Just loved the energetic vibe of the song and the guitar riff. Have been recently reminded about Aimee Mann so revisiting some wonderful music in her back catalogue through this album including Long Shot plus one of her more recent albums called ‘Mental Illness’. Aimee Mann is a musical genius🙂

As described

new singer to me love this cd.

One of my favourite female artists. Great compilation.

Lovely voice

A brilliant culmination of Aimee Manns work to date. This album brings together alot of her best songs from previous albums, such as You could make a killing and amateur. However it does, unfortunately have the feel of a 'greatest hits' album and not an album which flows easily from song to song. A couple of my favourite songs, such as You Do, and Save Me (both on the Magnolia soundtrack) are not present on this album, aswell as some of her more recent songs (from Bachelor No.2) such as Red Vines and Calling it quits. It is however, interesting to see the progression of her work, and if you an Aimee Mann fan, I would definately recommend this album. If this is your first taste of Aimee Mann, I would recommend that you start with another album, such as the Magnolia soundtrack, or Bachelor No.2.Nevertheless, this is a throughly enjoyable album, and I can't wait until the next!