zevy2009
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| posted on 10-18-2009 at 11:14 PM |
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coming up close
I just saw Aimee's release on youtube
of the song "coming up close" with
'til Tuesday by sony in 86.
Aimee performance is
so good..understating.. I'll remember that song forever!
Glad to see she's still recording.
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Johnothon
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Registered 5-9-2005 Location Glasgow Member Is Offline Mood: Knacked.
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| posted on 10-19-2009 at 12:14 PM |
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Definitely an early Aimee classic. It's great that she's finally brought it out of retirement in concert after it spent years in the
wilderness of Aimee's old old old songs.
"How about we break with tradition?"
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Mr Harris
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| posted on 10-22-2009 at 02:39 AM |
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"Coming up close" is definitely a buried treasure, not just in Aimee's discography but as far as pop music goes. What a classic.
"For when things are really great, it just means everything's in its place".
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thetange
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| posted on 10-23-2009 at 12:33 AM |
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Coming Up Close is the song that got me into Aimee so many years ago. It's really hard to pick favorites with her songs....she's so
consistently strong as a writer, but Coming Up Close captures "that feeling" (no sense trying to describe it....the song does it
perfectly).
Welcome Home was such a warm and inviting album. It's still one of my all time favorites.
I'm not at all stuck in that period of her/their output....I've been along for the ride ever since, but I'd sure love to hear her
play some of those til tuesday songs from WH and EDN. Heck, I'd love to hear them get together again and record/perform. IMO, Robert Holmes
was a great compliment to Aimee musically.
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clyde44
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| posted on 10-24-2009 at 03:51 PM |
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Aimee did Coming Up Close & Voices Carry (which was mellow & beautiful) this summer when I saw a couple of east coast shows.
So good.
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Mr Harris
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| posted on 11-2-2009 at 03:32 AM |
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I'm with you on this, thetange. WH is definitely in my personal top 10 favourite albums from the 80s. That this album went widely unnoticed is
hard to understand. Well - in a way it IS easy to understand, that album was so ahead of its time. It was a songwriter-oriented album, and in 1986 the
market was anything but songwriter-oriented. I'm not putting down the 80s, most of my favourite music comes from that decade, but let's
face it : in the mid-80s, fluffy pop songs dominated the airwaves, not introspective songs. And in the 80s, without radio support an album went
nowhere.
I've often wondered if that album might have done better, had it been released a year later. In 1987, Suzanne Vega spearheaded the whole
folk-pop revival that marked the second half of the 80s, and brought back an interest for songwriter-oriented music. Who knows, maybe things could
have worked out.
I keep thinking that "Coming up close" is a classic still waiting for its day in the sun. Someone could cover it and it might become a
huge classic. It's not a country song as such, but there's a little twang to it and I can easily picture a few country artists who could
cover it and send it to the top, where it belongs. Someone needs to work this song in Nashville and see what happens !
"For when things are really great, it just means everything's in its place".
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Barnstorm
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Registered 6-6-2009 Location An Obamanation of what used to be the USA Member Is Offline Mood: Coming Up Close
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| posted on 12-2-2009 at 06:21 PM |
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Like others here, that music video was what got me hooked on Aimee so many years ago. I had heard her music since "Voices Carry", but
watching her in that video....man, I was smitten! Coming Up Close is still one of my top 10 Aimee Mann songs. Over twenty years ago, my ex-wife sent
me the lyrics to it, along with divorce papers when I was frist deployed to Germany as young Lt. in the USAF. I think I listen to that song almost
every day...I think I need a life.
"Molon LABe"
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bmorr7
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| posted on 7-2-2010 at 10:12 PM |
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Beautiful song. Love the reference to the Dylan tape. Really highlights the moments each of us remember where everything just felt so right.
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