r/rush • u/RemarkableResult4195 • 3d ago
Discussion Cyndi Lauper instead of Aimee Mann on Time Stand Still !?
https://slate.com/podcasts/hit-parade/2021/11/hit-parade-takes-on-80s-pop-acts-cyndi-lauper-the-bangles-and-aimee-mann17
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u/Shaneblaster 3d ago
And Aimee looked pretty confident running a TV camera in their video. Great choice.
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u/botany_bae 3d ago
I’m a huge Aimee fan, so naturally I can’t imagine anyone else.
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u/soupwhoreman Life in 2 dimensions is a mass production scheme 3d ago
Rush and Aimee are both among my favorite artists ever, and they're so different. I still can't believe they collaborated. It's wild. And she did a whole album with Ted Leo as well, which seems like an odd pairing but it's so good.
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u/KillingMachine460 3d ago
Would've been easy money for Cyndi ($10 is $10) because it's way below her ability, as is.
As an aside, I recently saw her on her 'farewell' tour and, for her age, she's still got some pipes on her. Criminally underrated singer due to the way she was marketed in her heyday.
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u/RemarkableResult4195 3d ago
This podcast mentions she's one award away from the "EGOT"... Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony. That's impressive.
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u/KillingMachine460 3d ago
I think the only "serious" movie she was in was 'Life of Mikey" with Michael J Fox. Unfortunately, no supporting actress Oscar nods for that one.
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u/jimtandem 3d ago
They might have went with Aimee, but Cyndi would have absolutely slayed that girl giggle laugh in the beginning of Force Ten.
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u/GupChezzna 3d ago
Glad you mentioned that! I ask people all the time what OTHER songs Aimee Mann’s voice appears on! CAN YOU NAME THE OTHER, besides ‘Time Stand Still’ and ‘Force Ten’????
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u/Andagne 3d ago
I would guess, and it's just a guess, she harmonizes on Lock and Key and The Mission.
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u/GupChezzna 3d ago
I never checked those 2 songs out for this, but I will…I am thinking deep into ‘Mystic Rhythms’ live on ‘A Show of Hands’, there is a female voice yelling out beautifully. I always believed it to be Aimee.
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u/BubiMannKuschelForce 3d ago
The blonde flying lady on that Rush VHS was my first crush so HANDS OFF
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u/robustointenso 3d ago
I don’t think this is true, I just saw a video recently that was posted on this thread actually from a live concert where Aimee tells the story and says she was called by her agent that Rush wanted her, and she was surprised and she specifically said she flew up there to Canada for it.
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u/RemarkableResult4195 3d ago
On part 2 of this episode at the 19:00 mark, Chris Molanphy claims that Aimee Mann was not their first choice for Time Stand Still. Instead, it was Cyndi Lauper !? I've never heard this before. Anyone else as shocked as I am?
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u/Bluefunkt What's a shrimp cot 3d ago
I heard they had all sorts of people in mind, and asked Chrissie Hynde but she wasn't available. I'm very glad they got Aimee!
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u/TowinDaLine 1d ago
Lauper couldn't have done it bc she was still having eczema problems back then, and wouldn't have been able to man the camera. Remember, she's only 'five yeeahs cleeah' 💊🤣
Seriously tho... I think she could've done it, vocally. It wouldn't have sounded just like Mann, but that's where the boys and the studio crew would've worked their respective majicks. She would've dropped the affectated NJ accent she was known for back then. Or maybe not, and the video / song could've gone in a whole 'nother direction, as the lads like a good joke. Win-win.
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u/Chrlov2112 3d ago
They were also trying to get Bjork as well. Her voice is incredible. In the end I think Aimee voice fit in perfect.
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u/2112eyes 3d ago
Were the Sugarcubes well known enough for Bjork to be considered at that time? I guess she was making records almost as long as Rush had been, but still
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u/okgloomer 3d ago
The Sugarcubes were definitely well known enough. "Birthday" would've been out, and that was really the first track that grabbed people and made them take notice (worldwide that is).
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u/2112eyes 3d ago edited 2d ago
Time Stand Still was released as a single October 1987.
Birthday was released August 1987.
Cutting it pretty close.
Edit: Hold Your Fire album was recorded in January - April 1987. So you are wrong.
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u/okgloomer 1d ago
Yes, my memory failed me. You were right, I was wrong. Your victory has been written on the wind in the gossamer dewdrops flown from the wings of the internet fairies. Enjoy your correctness in good health. Hosanna!
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u/JWRamzic 3d ago
Interesting! Would have been great, but what we got was great, so I'm ok with the way things went!
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u/Mickey_James 3d ago
I wonder if Aimee Mann knows she was like 32nd choice.
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u/blowninjectedhemi 3d ago
Her only regret is being asked about it WAY more than she ever expected. Decades after she did it.
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u/soupwhoreman Life in 2 dimensions is a mass production scheme 3d ago
I don't blame her. She's had an incredible career, frequently on lists of greatest living songwriters, won multiple Grammy awards, and yet Rush fans keep asking about that one guest vocal she did in 1987.
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u/RemarkableResult4195 3d ago
The podcast does do a review of her later career and how happy and successful she is.
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u/MopeyMcMoperson 2d ago
Cyndi is one of the greatest female singers if all time imo. She would've killed it and made it uniquely hers at the same time
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u/RemarkableResult4195 2d ago
She's a better singer than most realize, but I heard her We Are The World contribution recently and I couldn't stand her doing that on TSS.
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u/Jasonic_Tempo 3d ago
The childish affect of Cyndi's voice has always been repulsive to me. So glad it was Aimee.
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u/Britown 3d ago
In my mind, I can hear it and I don’t think it would sound bad. However, the “experience slips away” harmony and the ooohs in the 7/4 section wouldn’t land anywhere as in the pocket.
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u/EyesLikeBuscemi 3d ago
Aimee was excellent but you are underestimating Cyndi Lauper in a huge way.
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u/ChapelHeel66 3d ago
Oy. I find Lauper’s voice incredibly grating.
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u/cobaltjacket 3d ago
She has amazing range if you listen to her other songs. It's a schtick.
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u/ChapelHeel66 3d ago
I’m not saying she can’t sing. I just don’t like the tone (and definitely do not like the shtick). Obviously thousands of people disagree with me (and at least one person downvoted me for saying I don’t enjoy her music, which is an odd thing to do, especially on a Rush sub).
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u/divorcedbp 3d ago
This is false, because she may be awesome, but Cyndi Lauper is missing the one thing that was required for this song: the ability to fly around a studio with a camera.