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March 16, 2005

Aimee Mann Raises "Arm"

Singer-songwriter to release long-awaited concept album in May
September 10, 2004

Mann Enters "Jailhouse"

Singer-songwriter to release concept record in March
August 26, 2004

Aimee Mann Comes Alive

Singer-songwriter to release live CD/DVD
July 23, 2003

Aimee Mann Ready to Rock

Singer-songwriter plans fifth album

Recordings and Reviews

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On her best albums, Aimee Mann has earned a rep as the Raymond Carver of pop: author of precisely observed tales in which broken characters arrive at quiet epiphanies. So after 2005's mixed bag, The Forgotten Arm, a concept album about a Vietnam vet who takes his girlfriend on a cross-country road...

2008 RS: 3.5of 5 Stars

The Forgotten Arm

2005

Lost In Space

2002

Bachelor No. 2

2000

Magnolia Music from the Motion Picture

1999

Whatever

1993

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Biography

Intelligent, tuneful, and loaded with attitude, many of Aimee Mann's songs should be instant pop classics. The only problem is that most of them haven't been very popular. Mann's understandable frustration at this and other hardships has come out increasingly in her music over the years, to the point where it's often tough to tell whether the guys she's venomously kissing off in song are ex-lovers...

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