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Although WELCOME HOME sounds a bit dated with its heavy synth sound and glossy production, many of Aimee's greatest songs may be found here. "Coming Up Close" remains to this day my favorite song of hers. "David Denies," "Will She Just Fall Down," "Lovers' Day" and "No One Is Watching You Now" are also terrific.

All in all, an excellent effort.

til tuesday's second album is lonely, sad, good.
For viewers who want to go to the next chapter of 'til tuesday after Voices Carry, welcome back, or should I say Welcome Home?

First up, the melancholy is still there, but it's more polished.
Gone are the dirge-like wails that characterized Voices Carry. Aimee Mann's voice is stronger here, but with just as much feeling.

The two singles, "What About Love" and "Coming Up Close" are good openers. "What About Love" seemed more accessible. "Coming Up Close" shows 'til tuesday's slight dip in the waters of country. I wonder if any female country musicians have covered this tune--lyrically and thematically, it has the right feel for a country ballad.

"David Denies" and "Lover's Day" are two examples. "Lover's Day" demonstrates how high a register Aimee Mann can go one moment and then drop down very low. It's also one of the stronger songs on the album.

"Sleeping And Waking" has an opening melody that would later be utilized in "Fifty Years After The Fair" from Aimee Mann's Whatever.

"Angels Never Call" is curiously the first 'til tuesday where it is a woman being sung about instead of a man. The verse "angels never help you/because angels always fall" might as well proceed from the saying "What goes up, must come down." So, Satan is not the only fallen angel. That figures.

Best for last: "No One Is Watching You Now" is a haunting sad song (all of them are), about the emptiness afterward and why the narrator is so, so sad. To illustrate: "Something has torn me apart/oh but what do I care/about watching my heart/I know that sadness bleeds through/and my sadness for me/is now sadness for you."

The songcraft is more polished here than on Voices Carry. The theme of loneliness competes for sadness on this. Look at the lyrics and see how many times "loneliness" or "sadness" pops up.

Aimee Mann Starting To Climb The Mountain
A few years ago, I became smitten with the music of Aimee Mann as a solo artist. From her very first album, "Whatever", she wrote brilliant, provocative songs with lovely melodies and harmonies coming from every angle. This surprised me at first, because the only other Aimee Mann related album that I had at that point was 'til Tuesday's debut album "Voices Carry" which I had bought for the title track alone, and which, in my opinion was one booooring album.

As it turned out, my curiosity about more Aimee Mann music outweighed my reticence about 'til Tuesday, and I bought this sophomore effort from the band. And while the quality of this album did not come close to that shown by Aimee Mann as a solo artist, it was a definite improvement over 'til Tuesday's debut.

My favorite songs on this album are the beautiful and poignant, "David Denies" and "Have Mercy" which show the thoughtful lyrics and pretty harmonies which would become a hallmark of Aimee Mann music, for this listener at least. I also like the song, "Will She Just Fall Down" - it's a pretty, bouncy song with nice lyrics.

Highlights aside, I have a couple of major problems with this album...To this reviewer, at least, the rest of the songs seem kind of nondescript and lightweight. There is also a problem with the overall sound of the album...I'm usually not one to criticize the production of an album because to me, when all is said and done, it's the songs/music which make the album. However, the sound of this album is extremely muddy - I don't know if it's a lot of reverb or whatever...But this album lacks the clarity of anything that Aimee Mann would put out subsequently (including the lovely final 'til Tuesday album, "Everything's Different Now").

In sum, this album has three really nice songs and a bunch of nondescript songs which, due to whatever production technique was used, are all kind of muddy sounding. I wouldn't say that this is a bad album, but I wouldn't say it's a particularly good one either - but it does point Aimee Mann in the right direction as it was better than the first 'til Tuesday record...RECOMMENDED FOR THE AIMEE MANN COMPLETIST ONLY...2.5 stars which I'll round up to 3.