'til Tuesday — Coming Up Close
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One night in Iowa
He and I in a borrowed car
Went driving in the summer
Promises in every star
Out in the distance
I could hear some people laughing
I felt my heart beat back
A weekend's worth of sadness
There was a farmhouse
That had long since been deserted
We stopped and carved our hearts
Into the wooden surface
We thought just for an instant
We could see the future
We thought for once we knew
What really was important
Coming up close
Everything sounds like welcome home
Come home, and oh, by the way
Don't you know that I could make
A dream that's barely half-awake come true
I wanted to say
But anything I could have said
I felt somehow that you already knew
We got back in the car
And listened to a Dylan tape
We drove around the fields
Until it started getting late
And I went back to
My hotel room on the highway
And he just got back
In his car and drove away
Coming up close
Everything sounds like welcome home
Come home, and oh, by the way
Don't you know that I could make
A dream that's barely half-awake come true
I wanted to say
But anything I could have said
I felt somehow that you already knew
Coming up close
Everything sounds like welcome home
Come home
Coming up close
Everything sounds like welcome home
Come home, come on home
He and I in a borrowed car
Went driving in the summer
Promises in every star
Out in the distance
I could hear some people laughing
I felt my heart beat back
A weekend's worth of sadness
There was a farmhouse
That had long since been deserted
We stopped and carved our hearts
Into the wooden surface
We thought just for an instant
We could see the future
We thought for once we knew
What really was important
Coming up close
Everything sounds like welcome home
Come home, and oh, by the way
Don't you know that I could make
A dream that's barely half-awake come true
I wanted to say
But anything I could have said
I felt somehow that you already knew
We got back in the car
And listened to a Dylan tape
We drove around the fields
Until it started getting late
And I went back to
My hotel room on the highway
And he just got back
In his car and drove away
Coming up close
Everything sounds like welcome home
Come home, and oh, by the way
Don't you know that I could make
A dream that's barely half-awake come true
I wanted to say
But anything I could have said
I felt somehow that you already knew
Coming up close
Everything sounds like welcome home
Come home
Coming up close
Everything sounds like welcome home
Come home, come on home
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Berklee College of Music is all you need to know.
I love you Aimee!
A classic.
On_The_Beach wrote:
Hmmm, and do you also mistake Coltrane for Kenny G?
No, it does sound like Abba. Like their vocal arrangement, like their skipped beat
Hmmm, and do you also mistake Coltrane for Kenny G?
No, it does sound like Abba. Like their vocal arrangement, like their skipped beat
RedTopFireBelow wrote:
I hadn't heard it ever! I did recognize her voice. Wow!
I haven't heard this in years. Great choice RP... thanks!
I hadn't heard it ever! I did recognize her voice. Wow!
GeorgeMWoods wrote:
Hmmm, and do you also mistake Coltrane for Kenny G?
I thought it was Abba.
Hmmm, and do you also mistake Coltrane for Kenny G?
a lovely, happy, wistful melody. I could listen to a lot of such music, but in measured doses until I felt the need for the speed of whup ass rock and roll.
Never gets old.
"Coming up close
Everything sounds like welcome home"
Everything sounds like welcome home"
One of her best.
I haven't heard this in years. Great choice RP... thanks!
timmus wrote:
That's her name: Ady. Perhaps short for Adeline, or Adelaide. He simply wrote it in all caps, like he did the word "family."
>, my wife ADY started that fashion and my kids just did it
ADY = active dry yeast? audio devices of yesteryear? I can't even conjure up a guess what this means
ADY = active dry yeast? audio devices of yesteryear? I can't even conjure up a guess what this means
That's her name: Ady. Perhaps short for Adeline, or Adelaide. He simply wrote it in all caps, like he did the word "family."
awesome — why only on RP have I heard this?
This became a desert island track the first time I heard it. It does nothing but get better with age. And count me in as a solo Aimee Mann fan.
>, my wife ADY started that fashion and my kids just did it
ADY = active dry yeast? audio devices of yesteryear? I can't even conjure up a guess what this means
ADY = active dry yeast? audio devices of yesteryear? I can't even conjure up a guess what this means
Transcendent !!
I thought it was Abba.
I love this!
zepher wrote:
Oh my. Reading this, while listening to this song, brought tears to my eyes. Sending hugs out to the universe to this man...
Classic 80s Tune. I like to save songs I hear to youtube playlists and sometimes will read the comments and there are some that make you realize how life is both magic and tragic. —->
(from YoutTube Clip)
"MY FAMILY used to play this song whenever i was back from a bussiness trip as a way to celebrate our unity, my wife ADY started that fashion and my kids just did it because they love to, just for the emotion, the joy of it...I purposefully avoided to listen it after they died, but it was like finding an old friend you haven´t seen in many years, it brought a smile on my face again, one smile that i almost forgot all this time... good memories, could be that ,finally, i started to heal from the inside out, with no nitemares and sleepless nights... could be... thank you for posting this !!!!!"
—-> you can see how music is therapy and it's amazing how certain songs can spark memories and emotions. Peace and Love to all who need healing from the inside out...
(from YoutTube Clip)
"MY FAMILY used to play this song whenever i was back from a bussiness trip as a way to celebrate our unity, my wife ADY started that fashion and my kids just did it because they love to, just for the emotion, the joy of it...I purposefully avoided to listen it after they died, but it was like finding an old friend you haven´t seen in many years, it brought a smile on my face again, one smile that i almost forgot all this time... good memories, could be that ,finally, i started to heal from the inside out, with no nitemares and sleepless nights... could be... thank you for posting this !!!!!"
—-> you can see how music is therapy and it's amazing how certain songs can spark memories and emotions. Peace and Love to all who need healing from the inside out...
Oh my. Reading this, while listening to this song, brought tears to my eyes. Sending hugs out to the universe to this man...
molson wrote:
Couldn't say it better myself.....speakers cranked up and singing along (gotta crank it to cover up my voice.....hahahahaha)
Gotta turn the volume all the way up for this one!
Couldn't say it better myself.....speakers cranked up and singing along (gotta crank it to cover up my voice.....hahahahaha)
Still awesome!
Gotta turn the volume all the way up for this one!
I love Aimee. Thanks RP for playing this old classic!
Sasha2001 wrote:
I'm with you, Sasha2001.
goosebumps... I don't understand how anyone can deny that this is an exquisite piece of music.
I'm with you, Sasha2001.Classic 80s Tune. I like to save songs I hear to youtube playlists and sometimes will read the comments and there are some that make you realize how life is both magic and tragic. —->
(from YoutTube Clip)
"MY FAMILY used to play this song whenever i was back from a bussiness trip as a way to celebrate our unity, my wife ADY started that fashion and my kids just did it because they love to, just for the emotion, the joy of it...I purposefully avoided to listen it after they died, but it was like finding an old friend you haven´t seen in many years, it brought a smile on my face again, one smile that i almost forgot all this time... good memories, could be that ,finally, i started to heal from the inside out, with no nitemares and sleepless nights... could be... thank you for posting this !!!!!"
—-> you can see how music is therapy and it's amazing how certain songs can spark memories and emotions. Peace and Love to all who need healing from the inside out...
(from YoutTube Clip)
"MY FAMILY used to play this song whenever i was back from a bussiness trip as a way to celebrate our unity, my wife ADY started that fashion and my kids just did it because they love to, just for the emotion, the joy of it...I purposefully avoided to listen it after they died, but it was like finding an old friend you haven´t seen in many years, it brought a smile on my face again, one smile that i almost forgot all this time... good memories, could be that ,finally, i started to heal from the inside out, with no nitemares and sleepless nights... could be... thank you for posting this !!!!!"
—-> you can see how music is therapy and it's amazing how certain songs can spark memories and emotions. Peace and Love to all who need healing from the inside out...
jagdriver wrote:
So you still lament the dissolution of a band 20 years later? I suspect your opinion is at variance with most others here, but that's fine. People move on, for better and/or worse. I can hear the similarities vocally, but her solo work stands well above most of the recordings I know of female singer/songwriters today.
I'm sorry this group dissolved. Solo Aimee just doesn't cut it.
So you still lament the dissolution of a band 20 years later? I suspect your opinion is at variance with most others here, but that's fine. People move on, for better and/or worse. I can hear the similarities vocally, but her solo work stands well above most of the recordings I know of female singer/songwriters today.
Commercial pop. Very Good Commercial Pop.
I'm sorry this group dissolved. Solo Aimee just doesn't cut it.
goosebumps... I don't understand how anyone can deny that this is an exquisite piece of music.
LOVE
Wow. Everybody either hates or loves this, remembering the days when it was played.
I have no memories, good or bad, associated with it: I completely missed it at the time
I really can't agree that this is horrible music, though.
It's not the kind of standardized, commercial product with no soul and no creative element at all that I would rank low; for example, I'm thinking of the vocal arrangements, which don't belong to any category of overplayed mass productions I know of.
While I'm not enraptured, I'm certainly not horrified by it and am giving this a solid 7 for an above average effort.
I have no memories, good or bad, associated with it: I completely missed it at the time
I really can't agree that this is horrible music, though.
It's not the kind of standardized, commercial product with no soul and no creative element at all that I would rank low; for example, I'm thinking of the vocal arrangements, which don't belong to any category of overplayed mass productions I know of.
While I'm not enraptured, I'm certainly not horrified by it and am giving this a solid 7 for an above average effort.
Proclivities wrote:
The hairstyles were pretty silly in the 1980's, but no more than it was in the 60's or 70's - or any time for that matter. For some reason, people prefer to forget how ridiculous many hairstyles were in the 1960s and '70s, and prefer to assert that it was not until the 1980s that an unprecedented travesty had occurred. It's not as if the present day is any better than the 80's either - and we're all twenty-five years older since this tune was released.
The 1960s
The 1970s
Love the afro on that guy in Boston. His name was Sib something...
Had no idea at the time, but when I was a pubescent and blasting that just-released first Boston album, those guys had recorded it a few months earlier in Tom Scholz's basement in the same little MA town. Dude.
The hairstyles were pretty silly in the 1980's, but no more than it was in the 60's or 70's - or any time for that matter. For some reason, people prefer to forget how ridiculous many hairstyles were in the 1960s and '70s, and prefer to assert that it was not until the 1980s that an unprecedented travesty had occurred. It's not as if the present day is any better than the 80's either - and we're all twenty-five years older since this tune was released.
The 1960s
The 1970s
Love the afro on that guy in Boston. His name was Sib something...
Had no idea at the time, but when I was a pubescent and blasting that just-released first Boston album, those guys had recorded it a few months earlier in Tom Scholz's basement in the same little MA town. Dude.
ckcotton wrote:
MTV plays music?
Hated all this when MTV played it over and over....
STILL HATE IT NOW
Terrible
STILL HATE IT NOW
Terrible
MTV plays music?
Had to share the comment I saw on the youtube clip --->
MY FAMILY used to play this song whenever i was back from a business trip as a way to celebrate our unity, my wife ADY started that fashion and my kids just did it because they love to, just for the emotion, the joy of it...I purposefully avoided to listen it after they died, but it was like finding an old friend you haven´t seen in many years, it brought a smile on my face again, one smile that i almost forgot all this time... good memories, could be that ,finally, i started to heal from the inside out, with no nightmares and sleepless nights... could be... thank you for posting this !!!!!
MY FAMILY used to play this song whenever i was back from a business trip as a way to celebrate our unity, my wife ADY started that fashion and my kids just did it because they love to, just for the emotion, the joy of it...I purposefully avoided to listen it after they died, but it was like finding an old friend you haven´t seen in many years, it brought a smile on my face again, one smile that i almost forgot all this time... good memories, could be that ,finally, i started to heal from the inside out, with no nightmares and sleepless nights... could be... thank you for posting this !!!!!
Amiee Mann has quite a hairdoo on the cover, furshur. And I thought the .70s were the most fashion challenged decade of the 20th.
treatment_bound wrote:
Don't hate your comment, just hate the fact that there was a time when MTV could get behind a song (whether you liked it or not), and you could turn on the channel at random times during the day and see the video.
Look, I realize middle-aged guys aren't the real target market for MTV, but this is the stuff I would see if I turned on that channel looking to see and hear new music in 2014:
5:30 AMGirl Code — Experimenting, Playing Sports, Dads30 min
6:00 AMGirl Code — Pregnancy Scares, Mean Girls, Sleepovers, Online Dating30 min
6:30 AMGirl Code — Rebounding, Cooking, Meeting the Parents, Bridesmaids30 min
7:00 AMTrue Life1 hr
8:00 AMTrue Life1 hr
9:00 AMTrue Life1 hr
10:00 AMTrue Life1 hr 4 min
11:04 AMRidiculousness — Sterling and Chanel VI33 min
11:37 AMRidiculousness32 min
12:09 PMRidiculousness — TJ Lavin32 min
They need to change the name of the channel because it's no longer music television. There is better music programming elsewhere, time to move on.
Don't hate your comment, just hate the fact that there was a time when MTV could get behind a song (whether you liked it or not), and you could turn on the channel at random times during the day and see the video.
Look, I realize middle-aged guys aren't the real target market for MTV, but this is the stuff I would see if I turned on that channel looking to see and hear new music in 2014:
5:30 AMGirl Code — Experimenting, Playing Sports, Dads30 min
6:00 AMGirl Code — Pregnancy Scares, Mean Girls, Sleepovers, Online Dating30 min
6:30 AMGirl Code — Rebounding, Cooking, Meeting the Parents, Bridesmaids30 min
7:00 AMTrue Life1 hr
8:00 AMTrue Life1 hr
9:00 AMTrue Life1 hr
10:00 AMTrue Life1 hr 4 min
11:04 AMRidiculousness — Sterling and Chanel VI33 min
11:37 AMRidiculousness32 min
12:09 PMRidiculousness — TJ Lavin32 min
They need to change the name of the channel because it's no longer music television. There is better music programming elsewhere, time to move on.
ckcotton wrote:
Hated all this when MTV played it over and over....
STILL HATE IT NOW
Terrible
STILL HATE IT NOW
Terrible
Don't hate your comment, just hate the fact that there was a time when MTV could get behind a song (whether you liked it or not), and you could turn on the channel at random times during the day and see the video.
Look, I realize middle-aged guys aren't the real target market for MTV, but this is the stuff I would see if I turned on that channel looking to see and hear new music in 2014:
5:30 AMGirl Code — Experimenting, Playing Sports, Dads30 min
6:00 AMGirl Code — Pregnancy Scares, Mean Girls, Sleepovers, Online Dating30 min
6:30 AMGirl Code — Rebounding, Cooking, Meeting the Parents, Bridesmaids30 min
7:00 AMTrue Life1 hr
8:00 AMTrue Life1 hr
9:00 AMTrue Life1 hr
10:00 AMTrue Life1 hr 4 min
11:04 AMRidiculousness — Sterling and Chanel VI33 min
11:37 AMRidiculousness32 min
12:09 PMRidiculousness — TJ Lavin32 min
Bill just played this after "Radical Face - Welcome Home", which is, of course, the name of the album this song is on (as well as part of the chorus). This is why we listen to Radio Paradise, for sly linkages like that in the sets. :)
Great song, takes me back to high school.
Great song, takes me back to high school.
amazing album in and intoxicating song, thanks Bill!
Had an affair with Aimee after a show with 'til Tuesday at Grover's in beverly, mass. and then hung out with her at Newbury Comics..
in my dreams..
in my dreams..
ckcotton wrote:
Nah, that chorus hits the middle of your "tender zone"!
Hated all this when MTV played it over and over....
STILL HATE IT NOW
Terrible
STILL HATE IT NOW
Terrible
Nah, that chorus hits the middle of your "tender zone"!
What a perfect way to start my morning!
MojoJojo wrote:
That adds up to 10! I agree!
Song = 8
Marie Antoinette hair = 2
Marie Antoinette hair = 2
That adds up to 10! I agree!
jhorton wrote:
I agree. Great song.
This song brings back so many memories..........
I agree. Great song.
Hated all this when MTV played it over and over....
STILL HATE IT NOW
Terrible
STILL HATE IT NOW
Terrible
BijouBijou wrote:
Sentences longer than one word too challenging for you?
Great song.
This. Song. Sucks. So. Hard.
Sentences longer than one word too challenging for you?
Great song.
This. Song. Sucks. So. Hard.
Sounds so fresh, it's hard to believe it's Aimee Mann so long ago.
Nearly perfect in every way. A beautiful 10. I love this song.
This song brings back so many memories..........
Businessgypsy wrote:
I'm still in Oregon and still feel this song just as much! It's right up there in my book
Cynaera wrote:
That being said, the Portland I fell in love with is much less kind (at the hands of those demanding their particular flavor of social responsibility, ironically), more trashed, more hipster polysci and cynical these days. On the other hand, the beer, wine, food and music just keep getting better. I'm going to try to be the change I want to see while there. Drop me a line if you're in the neighborhood, I have extra concert tix.
I have to wonder why we aren't back in Oregon, since we have such good memories of the place... And this song just makes me miss it more.
My son still lives there, and I still have a walk-in-closet sized crash pad in PDX. I was 1/3 of the way on June 28th, but turned back to Florida to see how my old dog fares. He wasn't doing so well in Louisiana. I'll be there by July 18th-October 3rd one way or the other.That being said, the Portland I fell in love with is much less kind (at the hands of those demanding their particular flavor of social responsibility, ironically), more trashed, more hipster polysci and cynical these days. On the other hand, the beer, wine, food and music just keep getting better. I'm going to try to be the change I want to see while there. Drop me a line if you're in the neighborhood, I have extra concert tix.
I'm still in Oregon and still feel this song just as much! It's right up there in my book
Cynaera wrote:
That being said, the Portland I fell in love with is much less kind (at the hands of those demanding their particular flavor of social responsibility, ironically), more trashed, more hipster polysci and cynical these days. On the other hand, the beer, wine, food and music just keep getting better. I'm going to try to be the change I want to see while there. Drop me a line if you're in the neighborhood, I have extra concert tix.
I have to wonder why we aren't back in Oregon, since we have such good memories of the place... And this song just makes me miss it more.
My son still lives there, and I still have a walk-in-closet sized crash pad in PDX. I was 1/3 of the way on June 28th, but turned back to Florida to see how my old dog fares. He wasn't doing so well in Louisiana. I'll be there by July 18th-October 3rd one way or the other.That being said, the Portland I fell in love with is much less kind (at the hands of those demanding their particular flavor of social responsibility, ironically), more trashed, more hipster polysci and cynical these days. On the other hand, the beer, wine, food and music just keep getting better. I'm going to try to be the change I want to see while there. Drop me a line if you're in the neighborhood, I have extra concert tix.
DeeCee1109 wrote:
The hairstyles were pretty silly in the 1980's, but no more than it was in the 60's or 70's - or any time for that matter. For some reason, people prefer to forget how ridiculous many hairstyles were in the 1960s and '70s, and prefer to assert that it was not until the 1980s that an unprecedented travesty had occurred. It's not as if the present day is any better than the 80's either - and we're all twenty-five years older since this tune was released.
The 1960s
The 1970s
To hair is human, to forgive divine. Yes, the hair was dreadful, but so was most of the '80s. We survived and still get to enjoy the art.
The hairstyles were pretty silly in the 1980's, but no more than it was in the 60's or 70's - or any time for that matter. For some reason, people prefer to forget how ridiculous many hairstyles were in the 1960s and '70s, and prefer to assert that it was not until the 1980s that an unprecedented travesty had occurred. It's not as if the present day is any better than the 80's either - and we're all twenty-five years older since this tune was released.
The 1960s
The 1970s
Businessgypsy wrote:
I have to wonder why we aren't back in Oregon, since we have such good memories of the place... And this song just makes me miss it more.
Three? Now it's a movement!
Cynaera wrote:
Cynaera wrote:
I bet I was there, too. LOVE KINK.FM - I bought several of their "Lights Out" CDs. Did you know that Mike Rich (who was a radio personality at KINK for years) wrote the screenplay for "Finding Forrester"? He used to give updates on the filming process and he could barely keep the excitement and pride out of his voice. It was very amusing radio then.
This song was also used in an airline commercial a long time ago - can't remember which airline, but I always loved the song...
This song was also used in an airline commercial a long time ago - can't remember which airline, but I always loved the song...
I have to wonder why we aren't back in Oregon, since we have such good memories of the place... And this song just makes me miss it more.
I liked Aime on Buffy: "I hate playing Vampire Towns"
The name of the band and music style are very similar to The Sundays. :)
Three? Now it's a movement!
Cynaera wrote:
Cynaera wrote:
I bet I was there, too. LOVE KINK.FM - I bought several of their "Lights Out" CDs. Did you know that Mike Rich (who was a radio personality at KINK for years) wrote the screenplay for "Finding Forrester"? He used to give updates on the filming process and he could barely keep the excitement and pride out of his voice. It was very amusing radio then.
This song was also used in an airline commercial a long time ago - can't remember which airline, but I always loved the song...
This song was also used in an airline commercial a long time ago - can't remember which airline, but I always loved the song...
Businessgypsy wrote:
I bet I was there, too. LOVE KINK.FM - I bought several of their "Lights Out" CDs. Did you know that Mike Rich (who was a radio personality at KINK for years) wrote the screenplay for "Finding Forrester"? He used to give updates on the filming process and he could barely keep the excitement and pride out of his voice. It was very amusing radio then.
This song was also used in an airline commercial a long time ago - can't remember which airline, but I always loved the song...
...and you heard it on KINK-FM's Lights Out program. You and I were in the same town, at the same time, in the same context, listening to the same song - and we arrived at the same conclusion.
I bet I was there, too. LOVE KINK.FM - I bought several of their "Lights Out" CDs. Did you know that Mike Rich (who was a radio personality at KINK for years) wrote the screenplay for "Finding Forrester"? He used to give updates on the filming process and he could barely keep the excitement and pride out of his voice. It was very amusing radio then.
This song was also used in an airline commercial a long time ago - can't remember which airline, but I always loved the song...
Its because of songs like this that I love RP.....I loved 'til Tuesday back in the day but this is a tune you'd NEVER here on the radio
To hair is human, to forgive divine. Yes, the hair was dreadful, but so was most of the '80s. We survived and still get to enjoy the art.
This is the first time I've heard this. The only 'til Tuesday song I know is "Voices Carry." I recognized Aimee's voice right away. I love everything I've ever heard from her.
Four votes in the positive from the Busey clan.
Another great song by Amiee.
84MacGuy wrote:
I first heard this song in 1991. It was the first song I ever heard by Aimee Mann. I loved it from the first listen and have never stopped feeling she is one of the great song writers and singers of our time.
...and you heard it on KINK-FM's Lights Out program. You and I were in the same town, at the same time, in the same context, listening to the same song - and we arrived at the same conclusion. Song = 8
Marie Antoinette hair = 2
Marie Antoinette hair = 2
everything about this song is perfect.sublime.
sublime.I even like, maybe 'especially' like, the parts where she's straining to sing lower than her voice will really go. Then she goes back into her normal register and nails it. Nice.
craigh wrote:
Fair enough, but look what Aimee has been doing lately, esp. vis-a-vis Mr. Ritchie's activity. No contest.
And I am a huge fan of the Commodores. Lionel Ritchie, less so.
One of my all-time favourite singers. she captured me at the tender age of 14. Of course I also liked Lionel Ritchie then, so...
Fair enough, but look what Aimee has been doing lately, esp. vis-a-vis Mr. Ritchie's activity. No contest.
And I am a huge fan of the Commodores. Lionel Ritchie, less so.
Dear Aimee- Why is it you don't write gems like this anymore? Why is it that most of your current material is drony, slow and formulaic? I miss old Aimee!!
Dear Aimee,
This is just awesome. I love how an excellent song gets backed by absolutely tight instruments and vocals.
This is just awesome. I love how an excellent song gets backed by absolutely tight instruments and vocals.
nagsheadlocal wrote:
Yeah, I'll admit it - I'm a sucker for layers stacked on layers and voices coming out on top. Wonderful.
I remember hearing this song as an airline advertisement(?!) Still, Aimee Mann has more than paid her dues. She was in the same venues as Jennifer Trynin Everything I'm Cracked Up To Be and made her voice heard. I just love everything she's done - with and without Til Tuesday.
I first heard this song in 1991. It was the first song I ever heard by Aimee Mann. I loved it from the first listen and have never stopped feeling she is one of the great song writers and singers of our time.
One of my all-time favourite singers. she captured me at the tender age of 14. Of course I also liked Lionel Ritchie then, so...
DaveInVA wrote:
Saw Aimee hanging around VCU in the late '70's, and that's the way I remember her looking!
I love this old Aimee Mann. It's hard to tell its the same person compared to her newer stuff though I like that also.
Saw Aimee hanging around VCU in the late '70's, and that's the way I remember her looking!
Soaring!
Wow, caught by surprise. This really does evoke time and place.
Portland, Oregon. Just moved, lost a parent, divorced, fired and in a custody battle all at once. This was a theme for the rebuilding effort, and it really helped.
Portland, Oregon. Just moved, lost a parent, divorced, fired and in a custody battle all at once. This was a theme for the rebuilding effort, and it really helped.
thanks - been =ages= since I heard this song, and it is as wonderful as I remembered...
aaaaaaaaaahhhhhh aimeeee
I love this old Aimee Mann. It's hard to tell its the same person compared to her newer stuff though I like that also.
I like her hair. It's really big.
Very nice, and a good follow up to Frou Frou! Thanks BillG!
I always think of ABBA....no offense...I like this song and I likt 'til Tuesday but I ALWAYS think this is ABBA (for just part of it tho).
Aimee moves me. Especially in this song.
mandolin wrote:
I used to feel that way but Aimee crept up on me, so to speak.
...am i one of the only people who enjoy 'til tuesday much more than aimee mann's solo work?..
I used to feel that way but Aimee crept up on me, so to speak.
Yeah, I'll admit it - I'm a sucker for layers stacked on layers and voices coming out on top. Wonderful.
Always loved this tune. The instrumentation is really, really nice
...am i one of the only people who enjoy 'til tuesday much more than aimee mann's solo work?..
Love the song, love her voice, it does have just a hint of Abba.
I used to see thes guys's at Jack's in Cambridge Ma. back when I still had hair. They were good...the Dark and The Neighborhoods were better...but Mission of Burma ruled! I bet we'll never hear them on RP.
songbirdfemme wrote:
Maybe so, but it's one of the better songs of the 80's, IMHO.
un-mistakably 80's
Maybe so, but it's one of the better songs of the 80's, IMHO.
Like this so much more than their "hit"
One fine song.
This is horrible...Terrible lyrics too. 
un-mistakably 80's
Sitting here in the cube, I was listening and thinking, Wow this chick has an amazing voice, why does it sound so familiar.
Aimee Mann. Love it. never heard this song til now. getting the album tonight.
wow.
Aimee Mann. Love it. never heard this song til now. getting the album tonight.
wow.
It's amazing how many people who have never heard this amazing song consider Til Tuesday a one hit wonder.
But but.... the chorus sounds like Abba. Can you hear the drums Fernando?
ivanh wrote:
That's a sweet story. Thank you for sharing it.
I really love this song, too. It's been the template for one too many relationships for me though.
This song was partly responsible for taking me from a comfortable life at Pebble beach to a ...fulfilling life at Binghamton NY and now Raleigh NC. The love of my life had visited CA on vacation and I followed her back to the tundra, got married and have 4 kids. Thanks to old Wild Bill (and Aimee Mann of course) for taking me back.
That's a sweet story. Thank you for sharing it.
I really love this song, too. It's been the template for one too many relationships for me though.
I've thought that this and Dan Fogelberg's Same Old Lang Syne have the same longing vibe related to what could have been.
This one is just perfect though:
This one is just perfect though:
One night in Iowa, he and I in a borrowed car
Went driving in the summer, promises in every star
Out in the distance I could hear some people laughing
I felt my heart beat back a weekends worth of sadness
Went driving in the summer, promises in every star
Out in the distance I could hear some people laughing
I felt my heart beat back a weekends worth of sadness
There was a farmhouse that had long since been deserted
We stopped and carved our hearts into the wooden surface
We thought just for an instant we could see the future
We thought for once we knew what really was important
Coming up close
Everything sounds like welcome home
Come home and oh, by the way
Dont you know that I could make
A dream thats barely half-awake come true
I wanted to say -
But anything I could have said
I felt somehow that you already knew
We got back in the car and listened to a dylan tape
We drove around the fields until it started getting late
And I went back to my hotel room on the highway
And he just got back in his car and drove away
Coming up close
Everything sounds like welcome home
Come home and oh, by the way
Dont you know that I could make
A dream thats barely half-awake come true
I wanted to say - but anything I could have said
I felt somehow that you already knew
Coming up close
Everything sounds like welcome home
Come home
omg I love this.
This is the song that thrilled me onto Aimee !
Soaring, gorgeous, angelic harmonies.
Transcendent.
The sweet ache: "Don't you know that I can make a dream that's half awake come true...?"
This is the song that thrilled me onto Aimee !
Soaring, gorgeous, angelic harmonies.
Transcendent.
The sweet ache: "Don't you know that I can make a dream that's half awake come true...?"
Very nice sweet song this one, like it a lot.
This song was partly responsible for taking me from a comfortable life at Pebble beach to a ...fulfilling life at Binghamton NY and now Raleigh NC. The love of my life had visited CA on vacation and I followed her back to the tundra, got married and have 4 kids. Thanks to old Wild Bill (and Aimee Mann of course) for taking me back.
dsmcd01 wrote:
Always find myself turning the volume up when this song comes on.
Swaying and smiling. Thanks, RP!
Swaying and smiling. Thanks, RP!
Always find myself turning the volume up when this song comes on.
Swaying and smiling. Thanks, RP!
Swaying and smiling. Thanks, RP!
The FIRST MAGIC: omg. The moment I heard this song and saw the video in the 80's I was entranced, in love. What a goddess she was. Gorgeous soulful harmonies, the song paints a picture, takes you into a story. Soaring, aching melodic magic.
And oh, by the way - EVERY song on the album is nearly as gorgeous and perfectly put together.
And oh, by the way - EVERY song on the album is nearly as gorgeous and perfectly put together.
Beautiful.
I think Bill has been cheating.
I've noticed a switch from Tori Amos to Aimee Mann
Bill...something your not telling us. Come clean now.
That was beautiful. I guess I had written off tT after the incessant playing of that damn "hush, hush voices carry" thing that I have found so grating for so many years. I could never understand what people saw / heard in that song. To each their own and all of that, but geez. More of thing song, less (none) of that. 
jbatwork wrote:
RP makes my day at work so much better.
you can say that again :-)
jbatwork wrote:
RP makes my day at work so much better.
you can sat that again :-)
Beautiful, seductive.
and then I was thinking...wow, this sounds like Til Tuesday...then I was thinking Goodnight to the quiet old lady who was whispering Hush, Hush...you'd have had to been here earlier...
nigelr wrote:
My Lord, this RP is so fine!
RP makes my day at work so much better.
Not really fond of this tune but you have to appreciate the breadth of the RP library, dontcha?
I wonder if Bill is wearing Paisley denim jeans with tassled leather jacket and teased or crimped hair
Dude ... Retro or what!!
Where is my Datsun B210 and My MEI tape deck when I need it
Haven't heard this song in years! 
This is why I love Radio Paradise.
This is why I love Radio Paradise.