Aimee Mann - Longshot

Crunchy guitars, Aimee Mann's unique vocals and her off the wall lyrics. What's there not to like about this indie rock number? "Longshot" is one of the few songs that singer Aimee Mann really rocks out on. More popularly known for "Save Me" and it's acoustic guitar folk sound, Aimee shows some of her punk band roots with "Longshot". Both "Longshot" and the album it came on "I'm with Stupid" received critical praise at the time of their release but the album was doomed to be bargain basement filler. What contributed to this was the copious amounts of the F-word in the lyrics of it's rather unique first single, "Longshot" and it never really did get the commercial radio air time it deserved when it was released in 1995. In desperation, Aimee's record label Geffen released a version with all the F-bombs carefully removed. They knew they were onto a hit but how to get onto the airwaves? Unfortunately it was too late and sadly, the success Aimee so rightly deserved never eventuated (but it did later when "Save me" became a big part of Paul Thomas Anderson's "Magnolia" sound track) and "Longshot" remains to this day a buried gem of nineties rock.