Artist:'til tuesday
Song:Voices Carry
Album:Voices Carry
The 1985 top ten hit Voices Carry was the only big hit for 'til tuesday. The video was in heavy rotation on MTV. Though 'til tuesday is perceived as a one hit wonder, some of their other songs charted so technically they are not a one hit wonder. The band split up after three albums. The band is from Boston. While studying at Berklee, Aimee Mann was in a couple of bands. She formed 'til tuesday in 1983 with then boyfriend Michael Hausman on drums, Joey Pesce on keyboards and Robert Holmes on guitar. They won a local battle of the bands competition and Epic Records signed them. Mike Thorne produced the 1985 album Voices Carry. He had previously produced Soft Cell's Tainted Love. Voices Carry was the lead single and it reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100. They seemed to come out of nowhere. Aimee had split up with Hausman so a lot of the album songs are about that. Voices Carry predates that and Aimee actually was singing to a woman. Epic had Aimee change the lyrics so she was singing to her abusive boyfriend played in the video by Cully Holland. Aimee has further confused the issue by claiming she wrote the song from a man's point of view. Regardless, the song was a huge hit fueled by the video. The album was certified Gold but 'til tuesday was unable to follow it up. The 1986 album Welcome Home was produced by Bryan Ferry's producer Rhett Davies. So it was more pop than new wave. The single What About Love was a top 30 hit. But that album and the 1988 album Everything's Different Now did not do as well as Voices Carry. The band split up after that. Voices Carry is available as a budget CD. Aimee Mann has gone on to a significant solo career. Hausman manages her. She is married to singer songwriter Michael Penn (Sean Penn's brother). Here's the video of Voices Carry by 'til tuesday.
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