Word: manns
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Francine's debut album Forty on a Fall Day is sadly just another indie album, falling into the typical pattern of pop-melody followed by loud verse-chorus-verse. But at least it's a good indie album. Guitarist/lead singer Clayton Scoble, once an Aimee Mann backup, fills the sarcastic but softly melodic lead singer role quite pleasantly. In "Jet to Norway," one of the album's best tracks, Scoble manages to induce head-bopping, with a silly tune complemented by Albert Gualtieri's peppy guitar chords and Sean Connelly's nearly silent bass...
...Dartmouth regained the lead shortly thereafter on an eight yard TD pass from QB Brian Mann to wideout Matt DeLellis, which capped an 11 play, 65 yard drive...
...singing epiphany. This is usually a scene where all the lead characters, or at least a large number of them, get together and sing in an otherwise non-singing movie. In "Magnolia," the characters suddenly forget they're in a drama and start singing along to the Aimee Mann soundtrack. In "Beautiful Girls," Timothy Hutton leads his pals in a rendition of "Sweet Caroline." And in "My Best Friend's Wedding" - and this scene is a classic of the genre - Rupert Everett spurs a roomful of folks to sing "I Say a Little Prayer." In the forthcoming "Remember the Titans...
...Aimee Mann/"Bachelor No. 2, or the Last Remains of the Dodo" The long-suffering (and not shy about sharing it) victim of major-label machinations and countless slights, real or imagined, at the hands the male species had to keep her public waiting for the follow-up to 1995's "I'm With Stupid," but talent will out -- especially with friends like director Paul Thomas Anderson, who crafted "Magnolia" around her songs, instead of the other way around. Comprising about half that film's soundtrack, "Bachelor" is as good as it gets for fans of richly melodic misanthropy; these...
...Abbey Road," side 2 (it's one long rock 'n' roll symphony in several movements) 2. Bridge Over Troubled Water - Paul Simon 3. Someone to Watch Over Me - Gershwin 4. Watching the Detectives - Elvis Costello 5. The Weight - The Band 6. Fourth of July - Aimee Mann 7. Ohio - CSNY 8. So Lonely - The Police 9. Brian Wilson - Barenaked Ladies 10. Ruby Tuesday - Rolling Stones...