Totally agree. 60 in the house. I knew Aimee back in Boston. My band Capture the Flag playing lots of shows with Til Tuesday. These days I still play music. Signing a deal. Never give up.
I was young, then one day I wasn't. This song reminds me of how it used to be and how it tried to warn me of what was coming but the gift of ignorance protected me. When this song came out, everyone I loved was still alive and we all had time to burn. I'll miss Record Stores, Video Stores, Music Stores and all the like minded people that I'd meet that I took for granted.
I was going to try and make a comment but I do not comment much and you pretty much wrote what I was thinking. I actually miss them days and I also do not regret the gift of ignorance because it was enjoying life.
That was beautifully said. It reminds me of what a classmate (thanks Stephanie W.) said, when regretfully saying she couldn't come to an 8th grade 30-year reunion (yes, 8th grade): "It is nice to remember when we were pure potential and we didn’t know we were pure potential."
This song is timeless and terribly underrated. The song is beautiful. I bet if it was in a movie soundtrack and rereleased, it would fly up the charts!
How was the song NOT a hit in the 80's??? If I was stranded on an island and could bring 5 songs with me, 4 of them would be THIS song... Beautiful tune.
It was at least a minor hit in like 1985 or 86. It wasn't as big a hit as "Voices Carry" but I do remember loving it at the time and also now of course, 2023.
Today Aimee and her band would be superstars...they didn't become one because there was a lot of good music being made back then...if you didn't have a good promoter...you went under...that's exactly what happened with "TIL Tuesday" happened...unfortunately...
I cranked this song up at the beach this past summer. People young and old were standing around me listening to the song. They all loved it. I had to play it three times. Great music!!!
Once or twice a year I'll slowly walk down Newbury St toward the public garden late at night and listen to this album. Takes me back to a place and time and to people long gone and feelings lost forever and things left unsaid. It's hard to articulate that warm empty sadness that makes me smile through the tears.
I hear this song, and I am literally teleported across time and space to my youth, the late 1980s … my heart aches for that time, for lost innocence and innocence lost. I close my eyes, and for a moment, I can feel the breeze blowing gently as I stand outside my old alma mater high school, looking out across an area that was once an open field and has since been given over to an apartment complex... I can hear this on the radio, I can smell the bbq production plant down the road, I can see my old friends and I living in the moment as the end of the school year came and gave way to summer and a time we would look back on dearly even though, in the moment, we had no idea of just what a treasure we had ...
You just spoke for many of us.... This song definitely transports listeners to that place where we were smack dab in the middle of that love conflict. Who hasn' t had at least one of those relationships where you work so hard but it just never comes together. The frustration and the feeling of being close but just missing the mark. And god does it suck when it isn't mutual and one is left nursing a broken heart.
I never get tired of this song. It takes me back to when I worked in a Camelot Music store and a much simpler and fun time. I’m sorry kids but there are no bands or songs like this in 2021. Enjoy it here. Aimee is amazing.
I was so in love with Amee Mann back in that day I could barely stand it. So beautiful, smart, talented and hip. She was my dream girl. I'm 63 now and still dream of her. They don't make 'em like her anymore.
The mid-late 80s is regarded by many as a bad time for music, but this is the side of it that most people don’t remember. Most people remember the hair bands and fluffy dance pop. I choose to remember the intelligent artists, especially the women because they were the most exceptional. People like Aimee, Suzanne Vega, Tracy Chapman, Chrissie Hynde, Liz Fraser/Cocteau Twins, Johnette Napolitano/Concrete Blonde, Harriet Wheeler/The Sundays, Natalie Merchant/10,000 Maniacs, etc. So much talent and they all had something unique to offer. Truly an amazing period for music.
I went to see the Moody Blues at the Tanglewood theater in western Massachusetts in the early/mid 80's. I was totally thrilled to discover that 'Til Tuesday was the opening band! So glad I got to see them live. This is one of my favorite, all-time songs.
Aimee Mann was by far the most talented female vocalist in the 80s. Very naturally talented. Blows Madonna, Paula Abdul, and all the others out of the water...masterful range.
May I suggest that AM’s vocals are pretty great, but the *real* magic is with her genius of songwriter crafting and arrangement? I mean there are lots of good vocalists out there, but what she does is far more than singin’ a good song well. She’s likely the control freak between every harmony, harmonic, accent, dynamic, intro, bridge, verse, chorus, lyric etc-and the crafted songs are all teh better for it. Aimee Mann is a *pro* at what she does, as in “PROfessional” or better yet “PROfessor.” And I mean that in a good way. And then she’s not just a Brian Wilson, she gets out and performs them.
I saw Til Tuesday live in the summer of 1986 opening for The Moody Blues in upper Detroit...Aimee Mann blew me away then as I'd already heard "Voices Carry" and liked it. When she introduced her "new" song "Coming Up Close," I had to quiet down the people around me so that I could listen intently. Needless to say, I immediately went out the next day and bought their album "Welcome Home" and listened to "Coming Up Close" for weeks afterward. This is just one of those songs that touches you deeply and still resonates in me today at 63 years old...ahh, what a great memory and great concert!!
How many songs just like this must exist? Songs that if not for luck go unnoticed yet are pure heaven on earth... This song is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever listened to. You can feel every drop of emotion that she put into it...
The same thought haunts me. This song was the better part of 20 years old before I heard it for the first time. Big White Cloud, Barrier Reef, Pale Blue Eyes, No One Said It Would Be Easy, too many others to list. Being a movie fan helps some.
This song is like a time machine for me. It brings me back to time when it seemed like life would never end. The beauty of her voice transcends you. It is a very emotional song for me. Life was much less complicated.
I am there with you, but a different perspective. For me it transports me back to when my ex and I tried but just couldn't work it out. Coming up close. But hey, 30 + years later we remain friends, enjoying our adult kids and bunch of Grandkids.
@@davidscottthayer8078 Good for you and your ex, Dave, and I am imagining you are an inspiration for your children and grandchildren, of acceptance, forgiveness, and love. God bless.
1983 - I had a small crush on this cute punk girl with spiky bleached hair a purple braid who worked at Newbury Comics. Saw her weekly when I went in to pick up comics or look for new XTC imports. Imagine my surprise to see her step out on stage at the Metro at the BCN R&R Rumble. The power of her voice was just stunning. I'd gone to see my friend's band (The Phantoms, from Allston) but wasn't the least bit surprised when 'Til Tuesday won that night. I've always had a fondness for Aimee...
I used to hang out at the Rat in Kenmore Square while I was in law school, around that same time. I was sitting by myself at the bar upstairs one quiet weeknight, having a Bud. I'm sure Mitch was at the door. She came and sat next to me, we talked for a few minutes. Soon a group of others came by, and she was off...
This song is just beyond beautiful. I remember 40 years ago, a friend and I carved our hearts in the wall of an old house. The house has been gone for many years...as well as that friend. Something sorta ironic about that. Kinda wish one...or the other was still around to mark our spot... Everything has a story.
This song played on the radio one night while I was driving in Hawaii. One of those magical nights. That beautiful voice and melody still stirs my soul 33 years later. Thank you Aimee!
I see a couple of great Aimee stories here - pls let me share mine. She used to live around the corner from me in the South End (where I'd see her smtimes getting coffee at Charlie's). It was sophmore year at NU and I'd jst moved off campus w/ 2 roommates. One of em came home with the guitarist one night (who ended up giving us tix to see them at the Orpheum jst weeks later). It was a great concert (her voice resonated in that hall). Saw her backstage and then ran into her few times around the neighborhood. She'd say Hi and was always real kind. This is probably my favorite Til Tuesday song. Maybe it's the infective melody, but more likely it's the heartfelt story that always seems to drive me home. Thx for the great memories Aimee...
I can totally see it, we should write the screenplay! Have you seen 500 Days of Summer? I probably would have never seen it but I did a tag along thing in support of a friend. Anyways, your comment made me think of it but I'm sure we can outdo it. Mostly kidding but I'm down if you are.
Yeah, reminds me of a time way back when. I just sit here with a stupid grin on my face and tears running down. I so miss her and there's no way to get he back.
Beautiful song with a perfectly pitched sense of loss, wisdom and things that end. Their finest moment but all three albums should be required listening for all who treasure good music.
makes me weep this song the sense of loss in our lives for me it was loving a guy who i never told and had the chance to tell him but never took the chance and regret not telling him, this song makes me think about such loss
I am 47 year old man.I have listened to more songs in one year,than most people do in a lifetime.I have helped produce high quality music in the industry,and have been a link to many,many performances.And i must say,this song is as special as they get.
Till Tuesday had minor airplay here in Australia in the 80s. It 'Coming up Close' was on an FM station one night and just blew me away. We had REO Speed wagon, Gary Newman, early Eurythmics and the like but Ammie and the band were musical brilliance personified. 'Lovers Day' was another of her power ballads. The audio range CD dynamics that are not compressed are the best for her voice . The Eighties & Nineties hold a unique place where pure talent came to the fore. I've seen a lot of unique musicians close up, Im sorry I missed her in her prime in the US. Guys & Gal's who did see them on stage I reckon you've drank from the silver cup already "America" with respect. Perfection will always rise from the Ashes, Love to the music . Cheers Johno, Brisbane, Australia.
Hands down one of the most mesmerizing songs I have ever heard. This caught hold of me 30 years ago and never let go. The longing in her voice. The story told. Simply exquisite
That feeling as your breath catches and your heart skips, rediscovering a beautiful song you haven't heard in years, Aimee's voice bringing buried memories flooding back 🧡
I'm in the UK and only just found this band, completely hooked. back in the 80's some UK stuff didn't do anything stateside and vice versa, how this wasn't massive here in the UK I have no idea.
Great songs transcend through years and genres...In my opinion, this is one. Hope more people are blessed to hear it, as I am, every time I hear a new artist or song.
This fills me with painful nostalgia, not just for that confused time in college, but because I remember how music used to matter. Sure there is always good and bad music from any time, but I feel like the eighties may have been the last gasp , compared to what we've become.
“That confused time in college…”. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized that there were SO MANY OF US…lost, confused and alone at that age. Why couldn’t we find each other?!
OMG, what a time, a time it was. 80s & 90s, so much drivel passes for music today, too much attitude, too many lost guys & girls , too much Fake Book, too many iPhones, too much easy debt , I rest my case. 🤨
Amiee is so much more than Till Tuesday, She is one of the very best solo women singers there is. She has a beautiful flowing voice, Like honey and peace..
Aimee IS 'Til Tuesday. She's ok as a country music artist but she was absolutely brilliant as the heart of TT. That music is timeless like no other and always will be. ;)
Bill6375 Yup. She seems so unhappy, or pissed or bitter, when I've heard her interviewed. Music industry might have done 'er over. Wish she'd unplug and let the shit flow! She was in town last year with Ted Leo, but I couldn't catch it.
moz Did you grow up in the 1980s? They were one of the most famous bands from the 1980s in the NY, NJ. Connecticut Tri- State area, and Pennsylvania. ??
I agree .. Aimee was sush a prolific writer and much more animated she was heavy into the punk thing them. I think she had some sort of melt down. Totally different persona now
...I just found this song, a forgotten treasure from one of the most under-rated bands of the 80's...."Til Tuesday...I haven't heard this song in 30 years, and it's crazy how from the few notes, all the memories kept coming back to me in waves!!...I soooo miss quality music like this, and hauntingly beautiful voices like Miss Mann!!...I especially sooooooo miss the 80's!!...(sigh!)...and, thanks so much for sharing!!...lol...
This was the video that made me go out and buy this album many moons ago. This reminds me of my girl friend Sandy one night we discussed Dylan and listened to his album "Infidels" which she gave to me for my birthday. She accidently spilled perfume on the inner sleeve of the album as we both laughed. The scent of the perfume is all but gone now, but every once in a while the memory of those long ago days takes me back. Fun factoid Aimee sings on Rush's song "Time Stands Still."
Thanks for letting me be a teenager in the 80s, what a EPIC TIME, now here we are in 2024 and I don't recognize the world I grew up in! Oh I forgot the Drako kazarian mafia is trying to talk over,
This song, with its beautiful, haunting melody, and enigmatic story-line, helped me get through one of the toughest times in my life. I can't believe Aimee Mann is 60 now.
It amazes me how I can miss a Beautiful song like this when it came out and I worked in a record store 30 years ago and I am just now learning about this song. Good thing I turned on TOTALLY 80's this past Sunday. LOVE this song.
Very hard for me to think of a song more beautifully written, so exquisitely sung, and so emotionally powerful. We have all been, and continue to be, incredibly blessed by this masterpiece.
Bingo, Kyle, I challenge anyone to listen to that album and not have their jaw drop. This song is masterpiece, and she is such a wonderful talent who never got her just acclaim IMHO
Amiee Mann has a voice like "Liquid Gold" and she flows so Beautifully! And what a musical composition by Til Tuesday and its fantastic group on instrumentation !
I’ve never seen this video before. I’ve heard the song and always thought it was haunting. To see it like this brings a whole new appreciation to it. I could feel her singing and it really pulls at my emotions. This is a rare moment where it all just comes together. A true gift to us all. Really incredible song and performance.
Absolutely no words to describe how much I have loved this song since I first heard it back in the 80's....still do more than ever. Simply one of the best rock songs ever written and performed. So beautiful, just like AImee Mann.
I was dating a somewhat older woman the year this song came out. I really cared about her, and thought the relationship could go further, but, in the end, she felt I was too young. The song really mirrors our last time together. Instead of us "driving around the field hor hours", we talked as we drove 9 hours (one way) to the Louisiana state line. We just couldn't find common ground in it anymore so we turned around and drove back, neither one of us talked on the way back. This album hit so many buttons in my life during the 80's.
The 80's. Once that decade's perfection was achieved, of course there was no other direction to go but down. I have genuine sorrow to anyone who didn't get to live in the 80's.
The only ones who will be able to enjoy this music will be the children of those of us who taste and live this era. In those years I was 15 years old. Something great had that time and not only in music, in movies etc.... Beautiful theme that brings a sea of nostalgia ....
This is Music that feeds your soul makes you both happy and sad at the same time like fine wine when it ages the notes are pronounced and highly sorted
Love Aimee! Worked right down the street, from her, at lasalle music The 80's , were the best! Beautiful person, beautiful voice! Thank you , for sharing, your beautiful voice!!!!!!!!!!
One of the most beautiful songs ever created.
Brilliant song in every aspect! I put this on my top 100!
100%
Luscious, melodic, flowing, sweet, and melancholy. I thought it was good when I was 22. I think it's great now that I'm 62. Thank you, Aimee.
Totally agree. Mark of a great song, gets better with age!
Oh so beautifully said. Thank you. Aimee has been a huge inspiration since my teen years. I was at this show!🙏
Totally agree. 60 in the house. I knew Aimee back in Boston. My band Capture the Flag playing lots of shows with Til Tuesday. These days I still play music. Signing a deal. Never give up.
Damn. How did you age 40 years in 37 years and 2 months? 😃 Great song. 👍
She was an “old soul” - mature beyond her (and our) years 😊
Terribly underrated song. How did I miss this back then?
I think the same, I just discovered it today and I've played it more than 20 times.
I was young, then one day I wasn't. This song reminds me of how it used to be and how it tried to warn me of what was coming but the gift of ignorance protected me. When this song came out, everyone I loved was still alive and we all had time to burn. I'll miss Record Stores, Video Stores, Music Stores and all the like minded people that I'd meet that I took for granted.
Your writing is a song in the making, touching for all generations
I was going to try and make a comment but I do not comment much and you pretty much wrote what I was thinking. I actually miss them days and I also do not regret the gift of ignorance because it was enjoying life.
Indeed, my thoughts exactly.
That was beautifully said. It reminds me of what a classmate (thanks Stephanie W.) said, when regretfully saying she couldn't come to an 8th grade 30-year reunion (yes, 8th grade): "It is nice to remember when we were pure potential and we didn’t know we were pure potential."
The best of times!
This song is timeless and terribly underrated. The song is beautiful.
I bet if it was in a movie soundtrack and rereleased, it would fly up the charts!
Best sing ever
No doubt, a beautiful, timeless song...
could easily have been on any movie from the 80's
No doubt aboutv that.
I love this post ...and I love you tooo..for writing it!
How was the song NOT a hit in the 80's??? If I was stranded on an island and could bring 5 songs with me, 4 of them would be THIS song... Beautiful tune.
Never understood why this didn't chart higher. I bought the album and played it around friends. They were still in the Van Halen mode though.
It was at least a minor hit in like 1985 or 86. It wasn't as big a hit as "Voices Carry" but I do remember loving it at the time and also now of course, 2023.
It was released in 1986 and peaked at 59 on the Billboard Hot 100 and 37 in the American charts. Google
@@amogasidi This song is in my top 10 songs I could listen to and never grow tired of it. Just a fantastic song.
Same and my 5th one would be Voices Carry.
One of music history's most underrated bands...❤.. absolute masterpieces
Today Aimee and her band would be superstars...they didn't become one because there was a lot of good music being made back then...if you didn't have a good promoter...you went under...that's exactly what happened with "TIL Tuesday" happened...unfortunately...
I cranked this song up at the beach this past summer. People young and old were standing around me listening to the song. They all loved it. I had to play it three times.
Great music!!!
Way Cool
Once or twice a year I'll slowly walk down Newbury St toward the public garden late at night and listen to this album. Takes me back to a place and time and to people long gone and feelings lost forever and things left unsaid. It's hard to articulate that warm empty sadness that makes me smile through the tears.
Til Tuesday was part of the glory days of MTV. Around this timeframe they were simulcasting the audio portion on an FM frequency. Long live the 80's.
When she goes up the octave on “Anything you could have said…”-just phenomenal. This song holds up remarkably well.
Goosebumps is the word!!🤘🤘
And the lyrics!
It's a remarkable (I stole your word) vocal performance. This is one of the few songs that virtually guarantees I will cry upon hearing it.
@@johnthorne4093 I can relate... The 80s had such fantastic music. Anything you liked, someone, somewhere, was doing it and doing it well...
"I felt my heart beat back a weekend's worth of sadness..." Priceless.
i went back to my hotel room on the highway, and he just got in his car and drove away... :( so heartbreaking, but so connecting to a time and place.
Amiee Mann. Love ❤️ to you.
Indeed; it speaks to our stubborn (but wonderful, life-enhancing) need to rise above our disappointments and sorrows.
Hauntingly beautiful. I can listen to this song on a loop.
It's 2024, the 1980's seems like it was yesterday sometime, I've always loved this woman's voice, it's incredible❤🎶
I hear this song, and I am literally teleported across time and space to my youth, the late 1980s … my heart aches for that time, for lost innocence and innocence lost. I close my eyes, and for a moment, I can feel the breeze blowing gently as I stand outside my old alma mater high school, looking out across an area that was once an open field and has since been given over to an apartment complex... I can hear this on the radio, I can smell the bbq production plant down the road, I can see my old friends and I living in the moment as the end of the school year came and gave way to summer and a time we would look back on dearly even though, in the moment, we had no idea of just what a treasure we had ...
The best of times ❤
You just spoke for many of us.... This song definitely transports listeners to that place where we were smack dab in the middle of that love conflict. Who hasn' t had at least one of those relationships where you work so hard but it just never comes together. The frustration and the feeling of being close but just missing the mark. And god does it suck when it isn't mutual and one is left nursing a broken heart.
very nice steve
@@kevinhawkey11 Yeah, story of my life.
Smell the bbq production plant wtf are you talking about
I never get tired of this song. It takes me back to when I worked in a Camelot Music store and a much simpler and fun time. I’m sorry kids but there are no bands or songs like this in 2021. Enjoy it here. Aimee is amazing.
It's a beautiful song, but if you know where to look, there are still song like this being made.
Wow Camelot Music just brought me back in time! LOL. This is one of those songs that just touches the soul. The guitar is haunting.
I come back to this all the time. It’s incredible.
@@jeaniesmith5320 Amen!!!
@@mjoet731Name me one song.
I was so in love with Amee Mann back in that day I could barely stand it. So beautiful, smart, talented and hip. She was my dream girl. I'm 63 now and still dream of her. They don't make 'em like her anymore.
You leave Her alone, She's Mine LOL
You'll be able to get a robot version soon. I would totally rather take a time travel Delorian.
The mid-late 80s is regarded by many as a bad time for music, but this is the side of it that most people don’t remember. Most people remember the hair bands and fluffy dance pop. I choose to remember the intelligent artists, especially the women because they were the most exceptional. People like Aimee, Suzanne Vega, Tracy Chapman, Chrissie Hynde, Liz Fraser/Cocteau Twins, Johnette Napolitano/Concrete Blonde, Harriet Wheeler/The Sundays, Natalie Merchant/10,000 Maniacs, etc. So much talent and they all had something unique to offer. Truly an amazing period for music.
Not me. The 80's were the best, and I grew up in the 60's and 70's. I LOVED 80's music. All the same acts you mentioned.
This song is just beautiful! Wonderful voice!! Highly underrated and underappreciated band!!!
I went to see the Moody Blues at the Tanglewood theater in western Massachusetts in the early/mid 80's. I was totally thrilled to discover that 'Til Tuesday was the opening band! So glad I got to see them live. This is one of my favorite, all-time songs.
Aimee Mann is just beyond beautiful. Her vocals, her guitar mastery, she has the entire package going on.
Saw her live once. She has a great sense of humor, too.
Great songwriter, guitar mastery? Settle down
"Guitar mastery"? 😅😹
Always loved her vocals, gorgeous woman as well..
She comes across a bit nerdy now (and I love her for that). But, gosh, has she been a hottie!
Aimee Mann was by far the most talented female vocalist in the 80s. Very naturally talented. Blows Madonna, Paula Abdul, and all the others out of the water...masterful range.
Kate. Bush.
Andy. Bell.
Just kidding
Sarah McLachlan
Are we counting Madonna and Paula Abdul as "vocalists" now? That's a low bar. 😹😹😹😹
May I suggest that AM’s vocals are pretty great, but the *real* magic is with her genius of songwriter crafting and arrangement? I mean there are lots of good vocalists out there, but what she does is far more than singin’ a good song well. She’s likely the control freak between every harmony, harmonic, accent, dynamic, intro, bridge, verse, chorus, lyric etc-and the crafted songs are all teh better for it. Aimee Mann is a *pro* at what she does, as in “PROfessional” or better yet “PROfessor.” And I mean that in a good way. And then she’s not just a Brian Wilson, she gets out and performs them.
I saw Til Tuesday live in the summer of 1986 opening for The Moody Blues in upper Detroit...Aimee Mann blew me away then as I'd already heard "Voices Carry" and liked it. When she introduced her "new" song "Coming Up Close," I had to quiet down the people around me so that I could listen intently. Needless to say, I immediately went out the next day and bought their album "Welcome Home" and listened to "Coming Up Close" for weeks afterward. This is just one of those songs that touches you deeply and still resonates in me today at 63 years old...ahh, what a great memory and great concert!!
Why on earth wasn’t this a hit?
because not everyone knows what actually good music is
She was and still is a brilliant singer songwriter
The better their records got, the fewer they sold. What the hell is wrong with people?
Ya you got that tight on ygr money. The Sundays. Heres. Ehere the syory ENDS. Ehats the kooler kool song she sings. Oh o oh. Voices carry
@@frednoble1833 yessssssss!!
so so true
The world got dumber by the second.....oh I would say in the 2000s and worse when they got the jab for corna
@@frednoble1833 because she looks normal and the public seeks abnormalities…
"I can make a dream that is barely half awake come true" .... I love her lyrics and powerful voice.
Beautiful line...
@@Jreb1865 dont ya know
Her voice gives me chills. This song is mesmerizing.
I love her voice in the past 20 years even more. She became more of herself.
Isn't it beautiful.....
Oh, by the way....
One of those songs where you literally feel every word tearing into your heart......💔
How many songs just like this must exist? Songs that if not for luck go unnoticed yet are pure heaven on earth... This song is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever listened to. You can feel every drop of emotion that she put into it...
Well said. This is a cult fav.
The same thought haunts me. This song was the better part of 20 years old before I heard it for the first time. Big White Cloud, Barrier Reef, Pale Blue Eyes, No One Said It Would Be Easy, too many others to list. Being a movie fan helps some.
I totally agree.
I just discovered it a few months ago and I can't stop listening to it.
I recommend two beautiful til tuesday song
1.why must i
2.the other end of the telescope
This song is like a time machine for me. It brings me back to time when it seemed like life would never end. The beauty of her voice transcends you. It is a very emotional song for me. Life was much less complicated.
Feeling ya. Johno 😂👍
I am there with you, but a different perspective. For me it transports me back to when my ex and I tried but just couldn't work it out. Coming up close. But hey, 30 + years later we remain friends, enjoying our adult kids and bunch of Grandkids.
@@davidscottthayer8078 Good for you and your ex, Dave, and I am imagining you are an inspiration for your children and grandchildren, of acceptance, forgiveness, and love. God bless.
Perfectly Said
Could be the world’s most underrated artist of our time
I second this 🎯
1983 - I had a small crush on this cute punk girl with spiky bleached hair a purple braid who worked at Newbury Comics. Saw her weekly when I went in to pick up comics or look for new XTC imports. Imagine my surprise to see her step out on stage at the Metro at the BCN R&R Rumble. The power of her voice was just stunning. I'd gone to see my friend's band (The Phantoms, from Allston) but wasn't the least bit surprised when 'Til Tuesday won that night. I've always had a fondness for Aimee...
Dear God...sorry to disturb you but...cool story!
my brother richard knew her too he lived nearby and would go in there before it was tower rec.
That’s awesome :)
I used to hang out at the Rat in Kenmore Square while I was in law school, around that same time. I was sitting by myself at the bar upstairs one quiet weeknight, having a Bud. I'm sure Mitch was at the door. She came and sat next to me, we talked for a few minutes. Soon a group of others came by, and she was off...
I believe your story 100%... Pete from Springfield, Massachusetts. I luv her too!
This song is just beyond beautiful. I remember 40 years ago, a friend and I carved our hearts in the wall of an old house. The house has been gone for many years...as well as that friend. Something sorta ironic about that. Kinda wish one...or the other was still around to mark our spot... Everything has a story.
This song played on the radio one night while I was driving in Hawaii. One of those magical nights. That beautiful voice and melody still stirs my soul 33 years later. Thank you Aimee!
Nice!
😊
Hawaii is beautiful; awe-inspiring... I have visited Oahu, Maui, and Kauai.
I see a couple of great Aimee stories here - pls let me share mine.
She used to live around the corner from me in the South End (where I'd see her smtimes getting coffee at Charlie's). It was sophmore year at NU and I'd jst moved off campus w/ 2 roommates. One of em came home with the guitarist one night (who ended up giving us tix to see them at the Orpheum jst weeks later). It was a great concert (her voice resonated in that hall). Saw her backstage and then ran into her few times around the neighborhood. She'd say Hi and was always real kind. This is probably my favorite Til Tuesday song. Maybe it's the infective melody, but more likely it's the heartfelt story that always seems to drive me home. Thx for the great memories Aimee...
Soooo cool for you.......Aimee has an awesome voice love her!!
This song reminds me of the summer of '87, the beach and sunsets. God, what a great time to be alive.
This isn't just a song. It's a movie, in your mind...
I can totally see it, we should write the screenplay! Have you seen 500 Days of Summer? I probably would have never seen it but I did a tag along thing in support of a friend. Anyways, your comment made me think of it but I'm sure we can outdo it. Mostly kidding but I'm down if you are.
Cherie VanRyan Paul Thomas Anderson wrote the screenplay for Magnolia based on Aimee Mann's songwriting
This kind of writing is rare. What a beautiful song!
Cherie VanRyan Couldn't agree more.
Yes!
one of the most beautiful songs ever written
No doubt.
I agree it is a beauty
Actual music with real instruments Aimees voice with some harmony she really delivers
Yeah, reminds me of a time way back when. I just sit here with a stupid grin on my face and tears running down. I so miss her and there's no way to get he back.
spudmonkey RIGHT???
Beautiful song with a perfectly pitched sense of loss, wisdom and things that end. Their finest moment but all three albums should be required listening for all who treasure good music.
makes me weep this song the sense of loss in our lives for me it was loving a guy who i never told and had the chance to tell him but never took the chance and regret not telling him, this song makes me think about such loss
The "Lost Generation" never found itself. Its heirs still wander.
well said paul
Amen!
Nah, their first album isn't very good
Tears in my eyes before the vocals even begin. What a song!
Omg I am drowning in nostalgia. I was 16 when this song came out 😢❤ The tears of happiness are flowing
For me listening to beautiful songs like this it's almost heartbreaking to realize where I'm at now and what I'm living in now.
I am 47 year old man.I have listened to more songs in one year,than most people do in a lifetime.I have helped produce high quality music in the industry,and have been a link to many,many performances.And i must say,this song is as special as they get.
I’m 49 and have loved Her stuff since 6th grade.
I am 50 and liked the song then. voices carry i thought was incredible. I still do, but for some reason this song really hits me now.
There has been no "high quality music" produced in the past 20 years...
@@Jreb1865get the plugs out of your ears!
Underated but very critically acclaimed.. People don't realize how important she was to other artists.. Great voice and wicked talented!!
The same kind of wicked talent as Adele Dazeem?
the guitar playing on this is sublime.
I have always thought that this was their best album, and this is one of their best songs. So many feels every time I hear it.
Till Tuesday had minor airplay here in Australia in the 80s. It 'Coming up Close' was on an FM station one night and just blew me away. We had REO Speed wagon, Gary Newman, early Eurythmics and the like but Ammie and the band were musical brilliance personified. 'Lovers Day' was another of her power ballads. The audio range CD dynamics that are not compressed are the best for her voice . The Eighties & Nineties hold a unique place where pure talent came to the fore. I've seen a lot of unique musicians close up, Im sorry I missed her in her prime in the US. Guys & Gal's who did see them on stage I reckon you've drank from the silver cup already "America" with respect. Perfection will always rise from the Ashes,
Love to the music . Cheers Johno, Brisbane, Australia.
Hands down one of the most mesmerizing songs I have ever heard. This caught hold of me 30 years ago and never let go. The longing in her voice. The story told. Simply exquisite
Without question, one of the best songs ever written.
Totally agree. Amazing song. Amazing songwriter. But they’re not playing this live. I came here looking for a live version
That feeling as your breath catches and your heart skips, rediscovering a beautiful song you haven't heard in years, Aimee's voice bringing buried memories flooding back 🧡
This was me this morning! Woke up with this song running through my head!
Welcome Home. Boston in the 1980s. A real time and place. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.
I've lost count of how many times I've played this recently. It's on high rotation in my head and it just keeps getting better.
Close your eyes and listen. You will be taken back to a memorable place in time.
35 some years in the future she still looks beautiful
This makes me feel something that I can't explain.
Nostalgia, maybe?
Makes me feel the pain and regret of someone special now long gone, of a life that has passed me by.
go with it glowgirl :)
@@dannunya959 What a sweet thing to say. I really need that and I thank you:-}]
Unrequited love. Remorse. Sadness yet hope...I so love this song and all that it reminds me of.
This song makes me cry. It's so sad and beautiful. I love her and I love her voice. You can feel and see it. One of the best songs ever.💗😭
Me too. 😭
I sure do miss the 70’s & 80’s. Sometimes, I wish I could find a time machine and go back in time. Life was much easier. Is this your favorite song?
I'm in the UK and only just found this band, completely hooked. back in the 80's some UK stuff didn't do anything stateside and vice versa, how this wasn't massive here in the UK I have no idea.
They weren't that big here either except for their hit song Voices Carry. I thought this song was the Indigo Girls when I first heard it.
Look up the Boston band "Tribe" , alt rock, amazing female vocal harmonies... never quite broke out
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The genius of these lyrics has made me cry for decades.
What a beautiful song!! I rediscovered it today on an old "mix-tape" from the late 80s. Now I hear it in an endless loop and I can't geht enough. ❤️
Great songs transcend through years and genres...In my opinion, this is one. Hope more people are blessed to hear it, as I am, every time I hear a new artist or song.
Just wonder why this voice got overlooked seems insane
This fills me with painful nostalgia, not just for that confused time in college, but because I remember how music used to matter. Sure there is always good and bad music from any time, but I feel like the eighties may have been the last gasp , compared to what we've become.
“That confused time in college…”. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized that there were SO MANY OF US…lost, confused and alone at that age. Why couldn’t we find each other?!
@@johns3106 Amen!
@@Leeh1945 so true...drifting boats in the fog we were.
@@jmacmanus4445 I feel like I still am. lol Lord help us all.
OMG, what a time, a time it was. 80s & 90s, so much drivel passes for music today, too much attitude, too many lost guys & girls , too much Fake Book, too many iPhones, too much easy debt , I rest my case. 🤨
Amiee is so much more than Till Tuesday, She is one of the very best solo women singers there is.
She has a beautiful flowing voice, Like honey and peace..
Aimee IS 'Til Tuesday. She's ok as a country music artist but she was absolutely brilliant as the heart of TT. That music is timeless like no other and always will be. ;)
I love her, too........been a fan for 30 years.
Such a great what happened made enough money or something came along and changed everything Like maybe Cldie Lauper or Nervana I can't remember
William Hollifield Drinking and typing, William?
Bill6375 Yup. She seems so unhappy, or pissed or bitter, when I've heard her interviewed. Music industry might have done 'er over. Wish she'd unplug and let the shit flow! She was in town last year with Ted Leo, but I couldn't catch it.
one of the greatest travesties that TT were never recognised as a great band, this is just a wonderful song
moz shhhhhh. Keep quiet. Or else the rest of the world will like it and then ruin it by putting it in a commercial for Ford trucks.
My song
moz Did you grow up in the 1980s? They were one of the most famous bands from the 1980s in the NY, NJ. Connecticut Tri- State area, and Pennsylvania. ??
As you stated, regional appeal only. Moz is correct.
Doesn't change the fact that this was a great band.
I agree .. Aimee was sush a prolific writer and much more animated she was heavy into the punk thing them. I think she had some sort of melt down. Totally different persona now
"There was a farmhouse that had long been deserted. We stopped and carved our hearts into the wooden surface." Love those lines.
Omg I have fallen so much in love with this sound, I wish artists could do anything close to this these days
What's sad is that virtually no radio stations played this song I heard this outside of an urban area on stations way out in small towns
Anybody listening in 2024?
Yes!❤
Absolutely!!
One of my favorite songs!
hell yes!
Shiit yes,always!!!never stoped
Brakes my heart every time I see her sing this song. I will always love her 😢
Best song of the 80s. This sing has followed me living in 6 states.
...I just found this song, a forgotten treasure from one of the most under-rated bands of the 80's...."Til Tuesday...I haven't heard this song in 30 years, and it's crazy how from the few notes, all the memories kept coming back to me in waves!!...I soooo miss quality music like this, and hauntingly beautiful voices like Miss Mann!!...I especially sooooooo miss the 80's!!...(sigh!)...and, thanks so much for sharing!!...lol...
This was the video that made me go out and buy this album many moons ago. This reminds me of my girl friend Sandy one night we discussed Dylan and listened to his album "Infidels" which she gave to me for my birthday. She accidently spilled perfume on the inner sleeve of the album as we both laughed. The scent of the perfume is all but gone now, but every once in a while the memory of those long ago days takes me back.
Fun factoid Aimee sings on Rush's song "Time Stands Still."
Can't believe how much I love this song. All these many years later and I'm still listening to it and visualizing the story.
A Masterpiece. One of my all time top 10 songs
Richard Zeeb Me too. Easily.
My favorite one. To
Exactly!
Thanks for letting me be a teenager in the 80s, what a EPIC TIME, now here we are in 2024 and I don't recognize the world I grew up in! Oh I forgot the Drako kazarian mafia is trying to talk over,
This song, with its beautiful, haunting melody, and enigmatic story-line, helped me get through one of the toughest times in my life. I can't believe Aimee Mann is 60 now.
I’m glad she helped you.
We all are 60 now...Time stand still...
Every sound that comes from this beautiful woman gives me chills.
Such an underrated group.
What was their rating?
It amazes me how I can miss a Beautiful song like this when it came out and I worked in a record store 30 years ago and I am just now learning about this song. Good thing I turned on TOTALLY 80's this past Sunday. LOVE this song.
Very hard for me to think of a song more beautifully written, so exquisitely sung, and so emotionally powerful. We have all been, and continue to be, incredibly blessed by this masterpiece.
A Masterpiece. One of my all time top 10 songs
This came from one hell of an album
Bingo, Kyle, I challenge anyone to listen to that album and not have their jaw drop.
This song is masterpiece, and she is such a wonderful talent who never got her just acclaim IMHO
How much fame is enough?
Totally agree with you!
"Don't you know that I can make a dream that's barely half awake come true" pure brilliance
It is.
The chorus just washes over you. I had forgotten this tune, so glad I rediscovered it.
Amiee Mann has a voice like "Liquid Gold" and she flows so Beautifully! And what a musical composition by Til Tuesday and its fantastic group on instrumentation !
the guitar in this song never fails to give me chills even after 30 years
I’ve never seen this video before. I’ve heard the song and always thought it was haunting. To see it like this brings a whole new appreciation to it. I could feel her singing and it really pulls at my emotions. This is a rare moment where it all just comes together. A true gift to us all. Really incredible song and performance.
She’s such a ridiculously great songwriter.
Dazzling haunted radiance lilting and sublime, unforgettably evocative and yet somehow vastly underrated and severely underappreciated.
Grew up on Boston's North Shore and first saw this group in 1989, age 13. Aimee Mann doesn't leave your mind fast.
For my money, Aimee man has the most haunting and beautiful voice I've ever heard in my life.
I completely agree.
Aimee Mann and Til Tuesday ROCKED and this song is TIMELESS!
Wow, just tripped back to my 80's youth. What a gorgeous and talented singer, the entire band was excellent. Thanks for the memories.
*They also work as session musicians at present*
Absolutely no words to describe how much I have loved this song since I first heard it back in the 80's....still do more than ever. Simply one of the best rock songs ever written and performed. So beautiful, just like AImee Mann.
47 years old and I just found out who sang these beautiful songs of my youth. I'm glad it's not too late. Aimee Mann is incredible.
She’s honestly one of the most beautiful faces in music
I was dating a somewhat older woman the year this song came out. I really cared about her, and thought the relationship could go further, but, in the end, she felt I was too young.
The song really mirrors our last time together. Instead of us "driving around the field hor hours", we talked as we drove 9 hours (one way) to the Louisiana state line.
We just couldn't find common ground in it anymore so we turned around and drove back, neither one of us talked on the way back.
This album hit so many buttons in my life during the 80's.
WoW
what a fantastic post.
thanks for takin the time
😢
A little piece of perfection. Makes you believe in the power of music.
The 80's. Once that decade's perfection was achieved, of course there was no other direction to go but down. I have genuine sorrow to anyone who didn't get to live in the 80's.
The only ones who will be able to enjoy this music will be the children of those of us who taste and live this era.
In those years I was 15 years old. Something great had that time and not only in music, in movies etc....
Beautiful theme that brings a sea of nostalgia ....
She sings a movie. I friggin love this song.
What a song… what an album! Great days.
for you richard 05/31/62- 7/06/93......my brother, gone too soon;..... LOVED HER MUSIC and this song!!
GOD BLESS RICHARD!!! M.O'B
This is Music that feeds your soul makes you both happy and sad at the same time like fine wine when it ages the notes are pronounced and highly sorted
Exactly
Love Aimee! Worked right down the street, from her, at lasalle music The 80's , were the best! Beautiful person, beautiful voice! Thank you , for sharing, your beautiful voice!!!!!!!!!!
I remember this song playing as i flew into Logan Airport coming home on leave from West Berlin.........great feeling to be back in Massachusetts!!