Til Tuesday - Voices Carry
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Free Music Review: 'Til Tuesday Stops Time With Voices Carry
Hit: 5 Stars
I not only wore out my first cassette of "Voices Carry," I damn near burned a hole in my CD from listening to it so much! This album is a rare find for an 80's pop collection that literally stands in a class all its own. A masterpiece all the way and a nostalgic journey for a kid that grew up in the 80s.Free Music Review: solid album
Hit: 5 Stars
This album doesn't have a weak song on it and if you like the hit title track you'll like everything on it. The songs are pop, yet each is slightly dark -- not too many other groups like this have been around (at least not too many non-synth-based groups). Reminiscent of The Police...Free Music Review: Great album
Hit: 5 Stars
When I bought this album was only for "Voices carry", I really like the song. When I heard all the songs I was surprised, they were very good, and the voice of Aimee is wonderful. Buy this album, you'll enjoy it.Free Music Review: Gothic pop from 80's still rules
Hit: 4 Stars
Aimee Mann's journey begins here, with the first 'til tuesday album. Voices Carry, whose title track with her shrill vocals and Robert Holmes' rhythm guitar netted the quartet their only Top Ten hit on the Billboard charts. The combination of Mann and Holmes set the stage for what might be called gothic pop.There's a consistent dolorous sound throughout the album. In fact anyone hears any of the three singles, "Love In A Vacuum", "Looking Over My Shoulder", and the title track, can trace this to their earliest material. Voices Carry is the most mournful of 'til tuesday's three albums. All eleven songs deal with the breakup in various stages. In fact, it is possible to string along the songs into a heartwrenching concept album.
"Winning The War" shows the relationship at its most bitter and vicious as demonstrated by the opening lines: "You fight just for the sake of it/You know what hurts the most/You might have once been faking it/but now it cuts too close" And here's the chorus, "Winning the war/and losing every battle/You close the door/on happy ever after". The song goes on along the lines that the two should have quit while they were ahead instead of dragging this thing out to this stage.
"Don't Watch Me Bleed" is probably the ne plus ultra of despair I've heard in any of their songs. This is the point where it's finally over between the two. It's final quits, as evidenced by the chorus: "So don't just kiss me goodbye/that's not what I need/Don't just kiss me goodbye/Don't watch me bleed".
People who have gone through a breakup or divorce may find this either cathartic or too tough to take, depending on one's fragility.
All in all, a wonderful start from Aimee and company. 'til next tuesday then!
Free Music Review: The prosaically titled 'CD sound quality?'
Hit: 4 Stars
Not so much a review as a caveat; I bought 'Voices Carry' back in '84, on the strength of the single, 'Voices Carry', and because - finding it in a bargain bin for 99p - I had little to lose. It turned out to be a singularly good investment, and I bought the following albums, 'What About Love?' and 'Everything's Different Now' on CD, then waited, vainly I was beginning to think, for 'Voices' to be released in CD format.Finally, half a year or so ago, following Aimee Mann's cameo appearance on 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer', I happened across a site dedicated to Aimee, where all the old albums and tracks were being discussed. It prompted me to do another search for 'Voices' on CD, and this time I was successful! I also found an article by Mike Thorne, the producer of 'Voices', in which he suggests that some pressings of the record were of inferior quality ('screechy, low in level, completely lacking the power of the original'...An 'investigation' 'revealed' that the album had been 'recut at the pressing plant' by 'the night shift' in response to the 'unexpectedly high demand'). Better had get the CD, I thought, just in case the copy I bought was one of the poor ones.
Well here's the rub. Having played the CD I find, IMO, that the tape I made of the album for listening to in the the car nearly twenty years ago sounds BETTER. No mean feat, that. On the title track in particular, the vocals just don't seem to stand out as they do on the taped recording. My greatest fear is that I have a CD version of the 'recut' record. Maybe it's actually a whole new farrago. Just be aware that if this record doesn't jump out at you, it's still worth checking out the other albums, especially 'Everything's...' [would be a '5' if the quality was up to scratch, and other buyers might get lucky...]