Aimee Mann - Live at St. Ann's Warehouse (Bonus CD)
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Actor: Aimee MannBrand: RED Distribution
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 89 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-11-02
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Superego Records
Movie Reviews of Aimee Mann - Live at St. Ann's Warehouse (Bonus CD)
Movie Review: Watch this for three weeks at least
Summary: 5 Stars
This package is up to date. DVD is the current technology for great pictures and some extraordinary sound choices. On my computer, I don't fool around with the Audio Set-Up menu; I just click play concert and hear it through my tiny polk-audio speakers. I might not be hearing the bass guitar, but this package also has a CD disc with 13 songs that play for 58 minutes, so I might have an opportunity to put the CD in a good stereo system sometime and find out what the music is supposed to sound like. Aimee Mann is the star of this show, and her voice is what I usually listen for, even when she plays bass guitar.
The best music might be "Way Back When," the song selected for the "Behind the Scenes Footage" showing the group on a tour bus or by the Brooklyn Bridge. The words and tune by Aimee Mann sound familiar from the end of her "Whatever" CD in 1993, with a great line "They'll shoot you down like you was Al Capone." The words took 42 lines in the original CD liner notes, so it took a long time to remember where I heard all this before. Al Capone went to prison for tax evasion as I remember it, so I think shooting him down is greatly exaggerated, but with all the mob shows and untouchables on television, it must be easy to imagine him getting whacked. "Whatever" 's version of that song had Randy Brion on trombone and Jon Brion on nine instruments and vocals, too much going on, compared to the rollicking piano part that sustains this version for three minutes of unrelated video shots, and makes it sound more lively than five people trying to play together on stage, though this might have two pianos playing at the end. Scott Joplin probably could have played it by himself, but that was a hundred years ago.
As the band says in the interview feature on the DVD, the set list is great for all Aimee Mann's concerts. I like the choice of "The Moth" and "Calling It Quits" to start the show because the insecurity about what is going to happen during the show is burned by the theme "The moth don't care if the flame is real cause moth and flame got a sweetheart deal." Most people who go to a concert expect to be there for the whole show, unless they want to leave before the parking lot fills up with drunk drivers. Letting people know that Aimee already has a better idea for closing the show than "Calling It Quits" takes some of the pressure off early. "Sugarcoated" is a great selection because I am still trying to figure out the words. The CD notes for "I'm with Stupid" in 1995 had words listed individually in alphabetical order, so I found "write wrong wrote" when I was looking to see if the words were "Whoever has it sugarcoated when they wrote it I would've believed it too." I needed to find lyrics on the internet to know that the second verse has "Until the pencil stops." The song "Long Shot" is also one I hardly know because the words were in alphabetical order. Some of the lines are so familiar, but if I don't hear the whole song often enough, I can't place them. The greatest thing about modern technology is that it makes things so much easier for people who are trying to learn songs; in fact, what point could there be in trying to learn anything else? People who have no interest in learning songs by Aimee Mann are at a terrible disadvantage when it comes to evaluating this DVD because why ? What are they doing here ?
She does not say as much during the concert, except for something funny about boxing, as during the interviews, which are staged in some quiet location but allow viewers to see the band in outfits that are more informal than what they wear onstage during the concert. During the concert, "Wise Up" was called a song from the "Magnolia" soundtrack, but it was originally in the "Jerry Maguire" movie, and the ability of so many of the characters in "Magnolia" to sing along at a critical point in the movie depended on the wisdom of the song's line "So just give up" as a solution to a host of crazy problems. Aimee Mann jokes about not having millions of fans in her interview, but there could be many people who would like to select only one song when they play a DVD, and the first page of song choices has the songs they ought to hear before they make the jump to the second half of the list. "Magnolia" is a huge psychic implosion, which the song "Save Me" summarizes quite well after you watch the video on that DVD many times. "Stupid Thing" forms a perfect transition to everything else because the concept is so versatile.
The song "Guys Like Me" is played during the Slideshow on the DVD extra features, and the words are in the "Lost in Space" CD for those who haven't figured out why Aimee is singing "put your money on the bona fide heavyweight and take it off guys like me."
"Deathly" is a great song for the end of the concert and the end of the CD because its first line "Now that I've met you . . ." is sure to remind people of that line in the movie "Magnolia" and the "No don't pick on me" message that applies to lives going totally bonkers. " 'Cause I'm a goner and you haven't even begun." "Just don't work your stuff . . ." It is a song like fatal truths are true.
Summary of Aimee Mann - Live at St. Ann's Warehouse (Bonus CD)
This first ever Aimee Mann DVD is a 2 DISC SET, including a one hour and twenty minute, nine camera live concert DVD, shot in Hi-Def and recorded in Brooklyn NY June ?04, PLUS a bonus 13 track LIVE CD featuring all of Aimee?s hits and live versions of 2 new songs from her upcoming studio album.SPECIAL FEATURES
? 2 never before released NEW songs from Aimee?s upcoming album
? Interviews with Aimee and the band
? Never before seen backstage footage
? Photo gallery with NEW live photos
? 5.1 Surround Sound and Stereo audio
? 16:9 Widescreen Letterbox
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