"For some reason, there are people who think my music is not real radio-ready," says Mann. Thus, the soundtrack really plays like a Mann solo album, rich in vocal and lyrical nuances that probe aspects of the psyche that aren't normally probed in a pop record. And I've gone out with that kind of character too." She's someone who is very defended against other people. Mann can relate to Anderson's characters, including Claudia, a cocaine addict and a pivotal figure in "Magnolia." "I've been that character, minus the cocaine. The same kind of characters he writes about are the same sort of characters I write about." But we were kind of talking about the same kinds of things. "And I'd write songs without thinking they'd be in a movie. "I'd give Paul rough mixes of songs," says Mann.
Working with Anderson was quite different.
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Mostly, there's pressure on directors to make a deal with the record company and use whatever acts the record company is trying to push in the movie and on the soundtrack." "I don't think a lot of directors do that anyway. "I've had songs here and there on soundtracks, but I've never had my songs utilized in such an integral way," Mann says of her "Magnolia" experience. (Three songs from "Magnolia" will be carried over to that disc.) When he likes something, he really, really likes it," says Mann, who has another solo album, "Bachelor Number 2," due out in February. She first met the director three years ago when he asked her husband, Michael Penn, to write songs for Anderson's first film, "Hard Eight." That inspired a friendship that's now a mutual admiration society. Mann endured record-label hassles that meant distribution woes for her solo discs, "Whatever" (1993) and "I'm With Stupid" (1996), but she's found a patron in Anderson. Mann's spotlight music in "Magnolia" (one song, "Wise Up," is sung by the entire cast, voicing different lyrics in a montage) is expected to jump-start her career, which has been in limbo for most of the '90s. "Oh, you mean the liner notes where he worships at the hem of my garment?" Mann says with a laugh from her home in Los Angeles. He writes: "All stories for the movie were written branching off of Claudia, so one could do the math and realize that all stories come from Aimee's brain, not mine… You can look at the movie as the perfect memento to remember the songs that Aimee has made." Even John Mayer (the guitarist playing the role of “Jerry Garcia” in Dead & Company, the latest version of the group) noted that the Grateful Dead experience has less to do with songs than it does with the brilliant moments that happen within them, as a result of the virtuosic interplay between the members of the band.In Anderson's liner notes, he confesses that he ripped off a verse from Mann's "Deathly" ("Now that I've met you, would you object to never seeing me again?") for the character Claudia, played by Laura Wilson. Why is that? Well, the Dead have a special history, and their trajectory as a band has never been quite “normal.” Not ones for recording exceptional albums (a fact that most Deadheads will admit to), their magic had less to do with the recordings themselves and more to do with the songcraft and the inimitable presence and energy they assumed as on stage.
You could spend your entire life asking Deadheads to give you their list, and chances are you’ll never hear the same exact one twice. There’s a nifty fun fact that there are so many different combinations for the 52 cards in a deck that, after shuffling, chances are that you’ve got a unique order that’s never existed in history before (seriously, it’s such a large number of possible orders that it’s hard to wrap your head around)-well, picking a list of 10 favorite Grateful Dead songs is sorta like that.
But when it comes to the Grateful Dead, it’s a totally different story.
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While not every Fleetwood Mac fan is going to know “Oh Daddy,” they all certainly know “Dreams” and “Landslide”-that kind of thing. With most bands, the way you navigate their catalog is pretty similar-there are the big hits, the beloved album tracks, the heartfelt ballads, and, of course, some fan-favorite deep cuts.
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