Til Tuesday was an American new wave band formed in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The band, consisting of Aimee Mann (lead vocals, bass), Robert Holmes (guitar), Joey Pesce (keyboards), and Michael Hausman (drums), was active from 1982 to 1989. 'Til Tuesday disbanded in 1990 when Mann left to begin a solo career.
History
'Til Tuesday first gained fame six months after its formation when it won Boston's WBCN Rock & Roll Rumble in 1983. Their original composition "Love in a Vacuum" (credited to all members of the group) received a fair amount of airplay on the station, and the group was eventually signed to Epic Records.
"Love in a Vacuum" was re-recorded for the Epic debut album, 1985's Voices Carry; however, the title track became their breakthrough song.
The band became an early MTV staple with the "Voices Carry" video, which depicts a domineering boyfriend trying to convert Mann to his upper-class lifestyle; she finally lashes out at him during a concert, standing up from her seat in the audience and removing her cap to reveal her signature spiky, rat-tailed hair. The group won that year's MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist.
By the 1986 follow-up Welcome Home, Mann was beginning to write more of the songs herself and the band was moving away from the slick new wave sound of their debut. This breakup somewhat informed the band's final album, 1988's Everything's Different Now, She said later that her musical interests had changed, and that she was more interested in "acoustic guitar music" than the new wave pop of 'Til Tuesday. Hausman, her former boyfriend, became her manager. In 2025, Mann said: "To be honest, I was the weakest link. My vocals were super high and kind of weird and sort of punky ... I'm surprised we ever got a record deal. But it's an era where we were right in the wave of a certain sound at a certain time, and I think we did that really well for a while."
On May 17, 2025, 'Til Tuesday reunited to perform at the Cruel World Festival in Pasadena. It was their first show in 33 years, and the first with the original lineup of Mann, Holmes, Pesce and Hausman in 35 years. They performed songs from all three of their albums, plus a cover of the 1984 single "Drive" by the Cars. Mann said she enjoyed the challenge of preparing for the performance, and had to relearn how to sing the songs, as her voice and style had changed.
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- Released: 1985
- Label: Epic
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- RIAA: Gold
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! scope="row" |Welcome Home
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- Released: 1986
- Label: Epic
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- RIAA: Gold
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! scope="row" |"Voices Carry"
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! scope="row" |"Looking Over My Shoulder"
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! scope="row" |"Love in a Vacuum"
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! scope="row" |"What About Love"
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| rowspan="2" |Welcome Home
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! scope="row" |"Coming Up Close"
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! scope="row" |"(Believed You Were) Lucky"
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| rowspan="3" |Everything's Different Now
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! scope="row" |"Rip in Heaven"
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! scope="row" |"Everything's Different Now"
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