Album Infinitum

The first artist up for Album Infinitum is one of my very favorites, Aimee Mann. Her debut solo album, Whatever, was released in 1993, a full five years after the last ‘Til Tuesday album, Everything Is Different Now, and there’s a great article that Stereogum put up for 25th anniversary of Whatever where Doug Bleggi talks to Aimee Mann about the whole story behind the reason for that gap, which comes down to, surprise, surprise, record label politics. Although the album is generally well-regarded--Elvis Costello named it one of his 500 essential albums, it’s in the book 1001 Albums to Hear Before You Die, Nick Hornby included the song “I’ve Had It” in his aptly titled Songbook, or 31 Songs for anyone in the UK--this is not my favorite Aimee Mann album. I think this is largely due to how dated the production sounds, which is a shame, because it’s predominantly produced by the great Jon Brion, whose work I love. Whatever does contain two of my favorite Aimee Mann songs, though, “Stupid Thing” and “4th of July.” Joining me for this discussion is my Hoot n Review co-host, writer, professor, and unabashed Wheel of Fortune enthusiast, Jenna Duncan (@jennaduncan2001). One of the main points of this podcast is to express not only a love of music, but a love for collecting music as well, and as such, I highly encourage listeners to go out and get copies of the albums discussed on this show. It shouldn’t be terribly hard to go out to your local record store and find a copy of Whatever, so go do it. I also encourage you to support the artists behind the music, so check out aimeemann.com and follow @aimeemann on Twitter. Questions/Comments/Suggestions: [email protected] Find us on Twitter and Instagram: @AlbumInfinitum Please, rate/review/subscribe/share If you like what we do, please consider supporting us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/hootnwaddle) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/album-infinitum/support

On this episode, the Aimee Mann discussion continues with her fantastic album, Bachelor No. 2, or the Last Remains of the Dodo, which is impossible to talk about without also discussing its relationship to Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia, and the major label consolidation going on in the recording industry. (There's an article that The New York Times ran about Mann's record label run-in which makes for very interesting reading(https://nyti.ms/2sC1kxR).) My guest is writer and What the Fork? co-host, Jason Keil. Jason is a regular contributor to The Phoenix New Times and PHOENIX Magazine, and you can follow him on Twitter @jasonekeil. Perhaps more importantly, though, he got to see Aimee Mann open for Squeeze back in 2008, something of which I am immensely jealous. As always, I want to stress the importance of supporting the artists that are featured on this series, whether that’s through buying their music and merch, attending one of their concerts, or even simply following them on social media. Visit http://aimeemann.com/, and follow @aimeemann on Twitter Questions/Comments/Suggestions: [email protected] Find us on Twitter and Instagram: @AlbumInfinitum Please, rate/review/subscribe/share If you like what we do, please consider supporting us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/hootnwaddle) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/album-infinitum/support

On tap this week, it's Fountains of Wayne's commercial breakthrough, Welcome Interstate Managers. It spawned the radio and video hit "Stacy's Mom," but there are so many gems on this one, and we get into all of it. Co-hosting this episode (and indeed the rest of the FoW episodes) is the fantastic Mr. Marc Oxborrow of The Haymarket Squares and The Blood Feud Family Singers. Be sure to check out both of Marc's bands on Bandcamp or at one of their upcoming shows, and follow them on social media: @marcxist @haymarketsquare, http://www.haymarketsquares.com/ https://bloodfeudfamilysingers.com/ As always, I want to stress the importance of supporting the artists that are featured on this series, whether that’s through buying their music and merch, attending one of their concerts, or even simply following them on social media. Fountains of Wayne is not currently active with regards to playing shows or recording music, but they do have a website where you can get FoW merch, and they're still tweeting at @fountainsofwayn. Chris Collingwood is also active on Twitter at @LookPark, which is his band post-FoW. Questions/Comments/Suggestions: [email protected] Find us on Twitter and Instagram: @AlbumInfinitum Please, rate/review/subscribe/share If you like what we do, please consider supporting us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/hootnwaddle) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/album-infinitum/support

Welcome to Album Infinitum, the music discussion podcast that explores an artist’s career one album at a time. I wanted to put this out there as an introduction to the show to sort of give people an idea of what they can expect, explain why I’m doing yet another podcast, and to I guess, state in a somewhat succinct fashion exactly what this is all about. Questions/Comments/Suggestions: [email protected] Find us on Twitter and Instagram: @AlbumInfinitum Please, rate/review/subscribe/share If you like what we do, please consider supporting us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/hootnwaddle) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/album-infinitum/support

On this episode of Album Infinitum, we conclude our discussion of the Galaxie 500 discography with their third and final album, 1990's This is Our Music. Sitting in the guest host chair for the entire run on Glaxie 500 is writer, actor, and Space 55 artistic director, Ashley Naftule.

For more Ashley: @Emperor_norton, Space 55; Galaxie 500: http://fierybreeze.com/ @WarehamDean (Dean Wareham Twitter), @dada_drummer (Damon Krukowski Twitter), @naomivision (Naomi Yang Instagram); oh, and check out Andy Aldridge's A Head Full of Wishes site devoted Galaxie 500 and all things related!

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