aimee mann - live (jools holland) - i should've known

[PrisonerTom]

The acoustic version (vinyl ep) is awesome

[whisky110]

@SircosmoBonsor... Yeah that was Stephen Duffy on the Strat, Jools Holland mentioned his name in the intro. If I can ever find my VHS cassette of this show I'll post a fuller version. Think I rushed out and bought a copy of 'Whatever' the day after this aired.

[SirCosmoBonsor]

@whisky110

Thanks dude, appreciate it. Thought I was going nuts and imagining it!

[SirCosmoBonsor]

What's the name of the guy who takes the solos on the '62 Strat? Is that Stephen Duffy?

[iagobroxado]

@SirCosmoBonsor That guys is actually Clayton Scoble (now in the band Francine). Just google him. Stephen Duffy is the bass player here.

[SirCosmoBonsor]

@iagobroxado

Thanks for the name, that does ring a bell. But sorry, you're at least partly wrong - that's Keith Wilkinson from Squeeze and also Jools' Big Band on bass.

[iagobroxado]

@SirCosmoBonsor hehe, true, to be honest, I've never heard about Squeeze til' yesterday night. The previous comment probably influenced me, but he does look a hell lot like Stephen after he gone bald. :) cheers!

[tzsilznarf]

This song makes me hate my ex-wife even more.

[oceanborn1962]

@tzsilznarf Ditto!!

[losttango]

@oceanborn1962: No, Stephen Duffy is the other guy with a strat, on the far right.

[oceanborn1962]

@tzsilznarf Yeah me too. She beat me to death with this song -when she was the one playing away!

[andrewlewis963]

i think ive got rid of that ghost

[JoeDeMaio917]

brilliant !!

[whisky110]

I remember seeing this go out at the time (1993 ?) and thought it was amazing. Have been a big fan of Aimee ever since, even though I never heard of Til Tuesday and first heard her singing backing vox on a Rush record 5 or 6 years before this. Seem to recall the 'backing band' here consisting of a couple of members of Squeeze and Stephen 'Tin Tin' Duffy on one of the guitars, think it was all chucked together quite quickly for the show. Ah...memories... I was about 22 at the time...

[oceanborn1962]

This song was used by my ex-wife to beat me - when it was her that was having the affair!! I absolutely hated it with a passion. I don't know why I looked it up now - but to my amazement - I love it. Go figure!

[MYxLOVExOFxBEER]

She looks so good here; long time musical interest has now turned sexual.

[MichaelThomasMarion]

This song captures perfectly my feelings towards my ex-wife and her hypocrite act.

I should've known indeed!

[Glennfaw]

Great song let down by a mediocre performance by the band.

[sonictimbo]

The Jools Holland band suck the big one - Jools is the worst of all, followed closely by that lumpy drummer

[Zullokelly]

This song is awesome. But this band kind of sucks.. they're all in different time.

[templetonrocks]

i'm so glad that the '90s are over. note the long jean shorts rolled up. bleck. not her best work, but i sure do love her voice. kind of an awkward dancer too.

[lordmjh]

Todd Rundgren and David Bowie have also done this.I'd like to see her do a new album that features hard rock style like this tune.Maybe do a cover of an obscure tune unrelated to the album but one she loves personally

[malimble]

Late Beatles meets Elliot Smith. Great track. :)

[BrianOMalleyMusic]

is that jules on piano?

[SirCosmoBonsor]

Yes

[bryans42]

this is a great song. look at the musicians, can you tell me which bands they are from, cmon fellow musicians, impress me! "the tickets"

[SirCosmoBonsor]

Wellll, since you ask:

 - Jools Holland, Keith Wilkinson and Gilson Lavis from Squeeze - Stephen Duffy from...Stephen Duffy/The Lilac Time - Some guy named Clayton

[xtrict]

And Buddy Holly on guitar !

[lipinbc]

What a classic ... takes me back

[fabrasham]

great songwriting !

[lookingfortalent2007]

is it ME, or DO her song writing skills SUCK?

[HER VOICE IS FABULOUS]

[hibernica007]

Yep. It's just you.

[lookingfortalent2007]

THIS song is HORRIBLE

[hibernica007]

Still just you.

[drummonster1212]

If you think that this song is horrible, you're gonna be looking for talent for quite a while

[lookingfortalent2007]

this SONG is horrible, her VOICE is fine, hence Rush's "time stand still " or til' tuesday's " voices carry "

[malimble]

If you were looking for talent back in 2007, you must be feeling pretty demoralised by now! Actually, that's just a joke. :) Each to their own. Personally, this track will always do it for me but I don't ever expect it to do the same for anyone else... I personally can't stand Rush, which probably explains why I prefer this. :)

[mrruppie]

While I love Aimee Mann's music and songwriting... she should have followed this path. If she had, she would have been regarded as a major influence on so many future songwriters. This song (the original) is one of the best of the 1990s easily. This is a great performance by a band in which most of the musicians are not used to playing with her (from what I can tell). She really is awesomely underrated!

[paulythebastard]

What a terrific song. I think the guitar solo, while not difficult, is just one of the best I've ever heard.

[SirCosmoBonsor]

Agreed. It's practically the reason I bought a sunburst strat.

[cbgreely]

Best thing about this song is that they sing "dot, dot, dot"

"I should have known ..."

[JimHewittWhite]

This song is an embarrassment of riches. I could listen to the bass on the bridge all day alone.

Gorgeous.

[Salescaster]

Great song, great pairing of music and lyrics. That's Keith Wilkerson on bass, Gilson Lavis on drums and not Jool's but his brother on keyboard - all members of Squeeze at some point... .

[Salescaster]

My error, of course that Jools...

[tonebenderx]

Love Aimee. Great song, and the band nails it - especially those harmonies on the chorus. Awesome.

[voxsupreme]

My absolute favourite Aimee Mann song, and maybe her only "rocker"? A little slow ... but still, this song made me aware of AM existence. It played in the background as the credits of some old High School film rolled by and made me searching half crazy for its titel and artist. Found it eventually - phew! The guitarist repeats his beautiful solo note for note live - boring to some, amazingly impressive to me.

[drummonster1212]

The movie that has this song in the credits is called "Whatever". I did the same thing as you and tried very hard to find who did this song. At first, I thought that it was Chrissie Hynde or the Pretenders. I've been a big Aimee Mann fan since her days in 'til tuesday. Her solo records keep getting better and better. Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia writer/director) was actually listening to her demos as he was writing the script to Magnolia.

[KENVAIL]

yeah she does sound like chrissie hynde i can hear that.

[pandorasun6]

yea, them guitars are everywhere, drummer looks serious, like he is leading and giving aimee/or the guitarists queue's (his name??). aimmee in her f**d up '80's get up feels right at home with her matured "bachelor # 2 " release. I fell asleep to that c.d. every night until I wore it down (1999/2000). love me some aimee. keep it down now...voices carrrryyyyyy

[andrewlewis963]

she wrote as well

[trinitygekko]

this song is awesome.. why not have three guitars? they are all playing different things ! its a hell of a mesh.. and pretty nice live =)

[solwolfpunk]

I'm so accostumed to seeing Aimee play bass. It's weird to see her play guitar

[alsner73]

Stephen Duffy is the other guitarist (far right). Great song found for the first time tonight. As a guitarist the answer is YES, if you watch at the beginning they are not playing the same thing at all and same applies throughout most of the song.

[obiwan521]

Do they really need three guitars? I thinketh noteth. They are all playing the bloody same thing. (except for the wah wah solo)

[ruderocker]

Wahoooooo! Rock on girl.

[petraxox]

Of course, I actually meant KEITH Wilkinson...

[petraxox]

Great Video, and the performance that first got me interested in Aimee. What's interesting, with hindsight, is seeing Kevin Wilkinson and Gilson Lavis of Squeeze (and Jools himself, of course) as well as Dave Gregory of XTC. Don't know who the other guitarist is, though.  Anyone?

[uygiugy]

I don't think that's Dave Gregory at all. The guy in yellow taking the solos is Stephen "Duffy" Duffy and the other dude's name is Clayton something-or-other.

[alsner73]

Stephen Duffy is in the blue shirt playing the Telecaster