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'til tuesday ~ Voices Carry 1985 New Wave XTension
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Hmmm.....yesterday's upload of 1981's "Harden My Heart" had a great response.... so to follow it up is this timely tune from 1985.

'til tuesday's video for "Voices Carry" made a huge impression on me. To me the song was about spousal abuse and that was made apparent in the video that ends with Aimee Mann's restrained performance of cracking up in a crowd of people.

I had been asked to remix this one and it was very labour intensive, and then it just snapped into place this evening.

Aimee Mann was born September 8, 1960 near Richmond, Virginia. Her parents divorced with custody going the father, but the mother snatched Aimee with her new boyfriend and fled the country to Europe. The father hired a private investigator who retrieved Aimee in England and returned her to her father in the US. Relations were initally strained due to their lack of personal knowledge of each other.

At the age of 12 Aimee decided she wanted to play the bass guitar, but her family disagreed and delayed her plans. She grew up in Virginia and successfully attended high school. During that time, she became enthralled of the punk and new wave music scenes and was newly inspired to learn bass.

She then joined Young Snakes as a bassist and left them to join Ministry, an influential industrial metal rock band. It wasn't until 1983 that 'til tuesday was a band she created in Boston with Aimee on bass, Robert Holmes (guitar), Joey Pesce (keyboards), and Michael Hausman (drums).

They had local success with the single "Love In A Vacuum" which won Boston's WBCN Rock & Roll Rumble in 1983. That song was re-recorded for the "Voices Carry" album, but "Voices Carry" was the breakout hit. She confirms it was inspired by an argument between Aimee and her boyfriend Hausman who were in the process of breaking up.

The song had been written from the female point of view to another female, but the label decided it was too controversial and the gender was changed to male. It became their biggest hit ever peaking at #8 in the US. I wonder what the video would have been like if it had remained true to her original lyrics.
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