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"What About Love" - 'Til Tuesday
from the album Welcome Home (1986)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #26 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 5

Today's Song of the Day comes from the Boston-based alternative rock band 'Til Tuesday, whose charismatic and striking lead singer Aimee Mann helped gain visual exposure on MTV and landed them a top-10 pop hit with the title track from their first album, "Voices Carry". A year later, the group released their sophomore effort, Welcome Home. Drifting away from new wave to a more darker rock sound, the first single from the set, "What About Love", drew upon Aimee's emotional delivery over echoing back-effects....

While "What About Love" climbed to #9 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart, their biggest hit on that format, the single stopped in the top-30 on the American pop chart in November of 1986. Probably it was just a little too "mainstream" to stand out from the competition during the wildly fluctuating styles of the mid-80s before the "modern rock" genre really got going.

'Til Tuesday would release one more album, with "(Believed You Were) Lucky" scraping the Hot 100 at #95 and peak at #30 in 1988. Mann would leave for a solo career that would see her grab Oscar and Grammy nominations for her work in the movie Magnolia.

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Here's the band live right when the album came out in 1986 in New York City..

and again a year later on MTV's Spring Break show...

Up tomorrow: A horror king revives a soul classic for a second trip to the top of the chart.