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Aimee Mann: Queens Of The Summer Hotel

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On November 5, 2021, “SuperEgo” label released “Queens of the Summer Hotel”, the tenth Aimee Mann studio album. It was recorded in 2021, at “United Recording”, and was produced by Paul Bryan.

Personnel:

  • Aimee Mann – vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Jamie Edwards – piano
  • Anna Butterss – bass guitar
  • Jay Bellerose – percussion, trap kit
  • Aidan Lombard – trumpet
  • Phillip O’Connor – clarinet
  • Sara Andon – flute, alto flute, piccolo
  • Danielle Ondarza – horn
  • Maya Barrera – oboe
  • Paul Bryan – woodwind, strings, backing vocals
  • Daphne Chan – violin
  • Leah Katz – viola
  • Richard Dodd – cello
  • Paul Bryan – arrangements, conduction
  • Ryan Freeland – engineer, mixing
  • Jens Wortmann – cover collage
  • Scott Silva – cover photo
  • Ed Sherman – design
  • Karen Malluk – production coordination

Track listing:

All tracks by Aimee Mann.

  1. You Fall
  2. Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath
  3. Give Me Fifteen
  4. At the Frick Museum
  5. Home by Now
  6. Checks
  7. Little Chameleon
  8. You Don’t Have yje Room
  9. Suicide Is Murder
  10. You Could Have Been a Roosevelt
  11. Burn It Out
  12. In Mexico
  13. Check (reprise)
  14. You’re Lost
  15. I See You

Aimee Mann: @#%&*! Smilers

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On June 2, 2008, “Super Ego Records” label released “@#%&*! Smilers” (pronounced Fucking Smilers), the seventh Aimee Mann studio album. It was recorded in 2008, at “The Sound Factory” in Hollywood, and was produced by Paul Bryan.

Personnel:

  • Aimee Mann – lead vocals, acoustic guitar, bowed acoustic
  • Paul Bryan – bass, backing vocals, horn arrangements
  • Jamie Edwards – keyboards
  • Jebin Bruni – Moog 
  • Chris Bruce – guitar solo 
  • Jay Bellerose – drums
  • Willie Murillo – trumpet
  • Mark Visher – tenor and baritone saxophone
  • Jason Thor – trombone and bass trombone
  • Eric Gorfain, Daphne Chen, Amy Wickman, Alyssa Park, Terry Glenny, Marisa Kuney, Melisa Reiner – violins
  • Leah Katz, Caroline Buckman, David Sage – violas
  • Richard Dodd, Alan Matthews, John Krovaza – cellos
  • Buddy Judge – backing vocals
  • Kimon Kirk – backing vocals
  • Sean Hayes – duet vocals
  • Dave Eggers – whistling
  • Patrick Warren – string arrangements

Track listing:

All tracks by Aimee Mann, except where noted.

  1. Freeway
  2. Stranger into Starman
  3. Looking for Nothing
  4. Phoenix
  5. Borrowing Time
  6. It’s Over
  7. 31 Today
  8. The Great Beyond
  9. Medicine Wheel – Aimee Mann, Gretchen Seichrist
  10. Columbus Avenue
  11. Little Tornado
  12. True Believer – Aimee Mann, Grant Lee Phillips
  13. Ballantines

Aimee Man: Bachelor No. 2 or The Last Remains of the Dodo

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On May 2, 2000, “Super Ego” label released “Bachelor No. 2 or, the Last Remains of the Dodo”, the third Aimee Mann studio album. It was recorded in 1999, and was produced by Aimee Mann, Jon Brion, Mike Denneen, Buddy Judge and Brendan O’Brien.

Personnel:

  • Aimee Mann – lead and backing vocals, bass, acoustic, electric and Guitar Nashville guitar, tambourine, Bad Hi-Hat
  • Jon Brion – electric guitar, keyboards, drums, backing vocals
  • Michael Lockwood – 12 string acoustic and electric guitar, Cheesy keyboards, percussion, backing vocals
  • Michael Penn – slide, feedback and electric guitar, backing vocals
  • Clayton Scoble – electric guitar
  • Jennifer Trynin – electric guitar
  • Benmont Tench –Chamberlin, piano
  • Patrick Warren – keyboards, piano, Chamberlin, guitar, accordion, celeste
  • Brendan O’Brien – bass, slide guitar
  • Dan MacCarroll – drums
  • Ric Menck – drums
  • John Sands – drums
  • Michael Hausman – tambourine, drum programming
  • Buddy Judge – drum programming, Wurlitzer, drum loops 
  • Hank Linderman – drum programming
  • Mark Flannagan – trumpet
  • Michael Panes – violin
  • Juliana Hatfield – backing vocals
  • Grant Lee Phillips – backing vocals

Track listing:

All tracks by Aimee Mann, except where noted.

  1. How Am I Different – Jon Brion, Aimee Mann
  2. Nothing Is Good Enough
  3. Red Vines
  4. The Fall of the World’s Own Optimist – Elvis Costello, Aimee Mann
  5. Satellite
  6. Deathly
  7. Ghost World
  8. Calling It Quits
  9. Driving Sideways – Michael Lockwood, Aimee Mann
  10. Just Like Anyone
  11. Susan
  12. It Takes All Kinds – Jon Brion, Aimee Mann
  13. You Do

Jonathan Coulton: Solid State

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On April 28, 2017, “SuperEgo” label released “Solid State”, the ninth Jonathan Coulton studio album. It was recorded in 2017, and was produced by Christian Cassan.

Personnel:

  • Jonathan Coulton – vocals, guitar, ukulele, accordion, harmonica, banjo, mandolin, glockenspiel, analog synthesizers
  • Aimee Mann – vocals
  • Christian Cassan – engineer, mixing
  • Albert Monteys – illustration

Track listing:

  1. Wake Up
  2. All This Time
  3. Solid State
  4. Brave
  5. Square Things
  6. Picture of Cats
  7. Ordinary Man
  8. Robot Txt
  9. Don’t Feed the Trolls
  10. Your Tattoo
  11. Ball and Chain
  12. Sunshine
  13. Solid State (reprise)
  14. Pulled Down the Stars
  15. All to Myself (Pt 1)
  16. All to Myself (Pt 2)
  17. There You Are

 

Aimee Mann: Mental Illness

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On March 31, 2017, “SuperEgo” label released “Mental Illness”, the ninth Aimee Mann studio album. It was recorded in 2017, and was produced by Paul Bryan. On January 28, 2018, the album won “Grammy Award” for “Best Folk Album”.

Personnel:

  • Aimee Mann– lead vocals, bass, acoustic guitar, percussion
  • Jonathan Coulton– acoustic guitar, backing vocals
  • Jamie Edwards – piano, harmonium, acoustic guitar, 12 string guitar
  • Paul Bryan– bass, backing vocals
  • Jay Bellerose– drums, percussion
  • Eric Gorfain, Marisa Kyney, Amy Wickman, Gina Kronstadt, Terry Glenny, Radu Piepta, Susan Chatman – violin
  • Leah Katz Aaron Oltman, Rodney Wirtz – viola
  • Richard Dodd, John Krovoza, Peggy Baldwin – cello
  • Ted Leo– backing vocals

Track listing:

  1. Goose Snow Cone
  2. Stuck in the Past
  3. You Never Loved Me
  4. Rollercoasters
  5. Lies of Summer
  6. Patient Zero
  7. Good for Me
  8. Knock It Off
  9. Philly Sinks
  10. Simple Fix
  11. Poor Judge

Elvis Costello: All the Useless Beauty

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All this useless beauty

On May 14, 1996, “Warner Bros” label released “All This Useless Beauty”, the seventeenth Elvis Costello studio album. It was recorded 1990 – 1995, and was produced by Geoff Emerick and Elvis Costello. It was Costello’s final album with his backing band “The Attractions”.

Personnel:

  • Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus)  – vocals, guitars, bass, piano, other instruments
  • Steve Nieve– piano, keyboards, drum programming
  • Larry Knechtel– piano
  • Roy Babbington– double bass
  • Bruce Thomas– bass
  • Matt MacManus –Fender bass, drum loop
  • Danny Goffey – drums
  • Pete Thomas– drums, percussion, acoustic guitar
  • Ruth Causey –clarinet
  • Peter Whyman –bass clarinet
  • Brodsky Quartet– string quartet
  • Brian Eno– gadgets
  • The Fairfield Four– vocals
  • Ned Douglas – sample control

Track listing:

All tracks by Elvis Costello, except where noted.

  1. The Other End of the Telescope – Elvis Costello, Aimee Mann
  2. Little Atoms
  3. All This Useless Beauty
  4. Complicated Shadows
  5. Why Can’t a Man Stand Alone?
  6. Distorted Angel
  7. Shallow Grave – Matt MacManus, Paul McCartney
  8. Poor Fractured Atlas
  9. Starting to Come to Me
  10. You Bowed Down
  11. It’s Time
  12. I Want to Vanish