''I'm with Stupid'' is the second studio album by the American singer-songwriter

Aimee Mann Aimee Elizabeth Mann (born September 8, 1960) is an American singer-songwriter. Over the course of four decades, she has released more than a dozen albums as a solo artist and with other musicians. She is noted for her sardonic and literate lyr ...

, released in 1995.

Commercial performance

As of February 2001, the album has sold 123,000 copies in United States.

Track listing

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Long Shot In photography, filmmaking and video production, a wide shot (sometimes referred to as a full shot or long shot) is a shot that typically shows the entire object or human figure and is usually intended to place it in some relation to its surrou ...

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Choice in the Matter "Choice in the Matter" is a song by American singer-songwriter Aimee Mann, which was released in 1996 as the second single from her second studio album '' I'm with Stupid''. The song was written by Mann and Jon Brion, and produced by Brion. "Choi ...

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Jon Brion Jon Brion is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and composer. He performed with the Excerpts, the Bats, 'Til Tuesday and the Grays before becoming an established producer and film score composer. Brion has ...

, Mann) – 3:13 #"Sugarcoated" (Butler, Mann) – 3:39 #"You Could Make a Killing" – 3:21 #"Superball" – 3:05 #"Amateur" (Brion, Mann) – 4:51 #"All Over Now" – 3:37 #"Par for the Course" – 6:01 #"You're with Stupid Now" – 3:27 #" That's Just What You Are" (Brion, Mann) – 4:22 #"Frankenstein" (Brion, Mann) – 4:25 #"Ray" – 4:47 #"It's Not Safe" – 5:02 :: ilence – 0:52::untitled hidden track – 1:20

Personnel

– vocals (1-13), bass (1,3,4,5,8,10,12), guitar (1,2,5,8,13), backing vocals (2,3,10), acoustic guitar (4,9,10,12), electric guitar (4,7,10), handclaps (5), drums (8), keyboards (8), percussion (8,9) *

– guitar (1,6,13), percussion (1,2,7,13), backing vocals (1,2,3,7,9,13), drums (3,4,11,12), keyboards (3,6,11,13), lead guitar (4), bass harmonica (5), handclaps (5), bass (6,7,11,13), acoustic guitar (7,11), electric guitar (7,9), acoustic bass (9), cello (9), distorted nylon guitar (11), tack piano (12), harmonium (12) *

Bernard Butler Bernard Joseph Butler (born 1 May 1970) is an English musician, songwriter and record producer. He is best known as the first guitarist with Suede, until his departure in 1994. He has been hailed by some critics as the greatest guitarist of his ...

– guitar (3), keyboards (3), electric guitar (7) * Mike Denneen – keyboards (5,10) *

Chris Difford Christopher Henry Difford (born 4 November 1954) is an English singer, musician, songwriter and record producer. He is a founding member and songwriter of the rock group Squeeze. Musical career Born in Greenwich, London, Difford has written ly ...

– backing vocals (2,10,11) * Brad Hallan – bass (2) *

Juliana Hatfield Juliana Hatfield (born July 27, 1967) is an American musician and singer-songwriter from the Boston area, formerly of the indie rock bands Blake Babies, Some Girls (band), Some Girls, and The Lemonheads. She also fronted her own band, The Julia ...

– backing vocals (4,6) *

Neil Innes Neil James Innes (; 9 December 1944 – 29 December 2019) was an English writer, comedian and musician. He first came to prominence in the pioneering comedy rock group Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and later became a frequent collaborator with the Mon ...

– backing vocals (13) * Stacy Jones – drums (1,7) * Michael Lockwood – guitar (1) * Jon Lupfer – handclaps (5) *

Michael Penn Michael Daniel Penn (born August 1, 1958) is an American musician, singer and composer. He is noted for the 1989 single " No Myth", a top 20 hit in the US and successful in several other countries. Early life Penn was born in the Greenwich Vi ...

– guitar (13) * John Sands – drums (1,2,5,13), guitar (2) * Clayton Scoble – backing vocals (1,12,13), electric guitar (10), guitar (13) *

Glenn Tilbrook Glenn Martin Tilbrook (born 31 August 1957) is the lead singer and guitarist of the English band Squeeze, a band formed in the mid-1970s who broke through in the new wave era at the decade's end. He generally wrote the music for Squeeze's son ...

– backing vocals (2,10,11,13), electric guitar (10) * Martyn Watson – drum loop stuff (10) ;Technical * Joseph Jack Puig – mixing * Mike Denneen – mixing * Rob Jaczko – mixing * Jonathan Wyner – mastering

Guests

and

from the band Squeeze appear as background vocalists and musicians on "That's Just What You Are", "Frankenstein", and "It's Not Safe", and they allowed Mann to use a riff from their song "

Up the Junction ''Up the Junction'' is a 1963 collection of short stories by Nell Dunn that depicts contemporary life in the industrial slums of Battersea and Clapham Junction. The book uses colloquial speech, and its portrayal of petty thieving, sexual encoun ...

" on "Long Shot".

provides backing vocals on "You Could Make a Killing" and "Amateur."

, from The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band,

Monty Python Monty Python (also collectively known as the Pythons) were a British comedy troupe who created the sketch comedy television show '' Monty Python's Flying Circus'', which first aired on the BBC in 1969. Forty-five episodes were made over four ...

and

The Rutles The Rutles () were a rock band that performed visual and aural pastiches and parodies of the Beatles. This originally fictional band, created by Eric Idle and Neil Innes for a sketch in Idle's mid-1970s BBC television comedy series ''Rutland We ...

, provides backing vocals on "It's Not Safe".

Uses in media

Prior to the album's release, "That's Just What You Are" appeared on the soundtrack of

Fox Network The Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly known simply as Fox and stylized in all caps as FOX, is an American commercial broadcast television network owned by Fox Corporation and headquartered in New York City, with master control operations an ...

television series ''

Melrose Place ''Melrose Place'' is an American prime time television soap opera that aired on Fox from July 8, 1992, to May 24, 1999, for seven seasons. The show follows the lives of a group of young adults living in an apartment complex on Melrose Place, in ...

'' in 1994, while "Amateur" appeared on the ''

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'' soundtrack in 1998 and NBC television series '' Ed'' in 2004. "You Could Make a Killing" appeared on ''The Curve'' soundtrack in 1998 and the ''

Cruel Intentions ''Cruel Intentions'' is a 1999 American teen romantic drama film written and directed by Roger Kumble and starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon, and Selma Blair. The film is a modern retelling of Pierre Choderlos de ...

'' soundtrack in 1999.

Charts

Weekly charts

Singles

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:I'm With Stupid (Album) Aimee Mann albums 1995 albums Albums produced by Jon Brion Geffen Records albums