Aimee Mann - Other Appearances

Other Appearances

In 1986, Mann provided backing vocals to Inside, the debut album of Matthew Sweet. In 1987, Mann provided backing vocals to the song "Time Stand Still", on the Rush album, Hold Your Fire, and also appeared in the song's music video. In 1995, she recorded One on the album "For the Love of Harry: Everybody Sings Nilsson," and in 1996 Baby Blue on the Badfinger tribute album "Come and Get It." In 1997, Mann recorded "Nobody Does It Better" on the album Shaken and Stirred: The David Arnold James Bond Project. In 1998, Mann appeared in the film The Big Lebowski as a German nihilist who sacrificed her green nail polished little right toe.

In 2002, Mann and her band appeared as themselves in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, performing her songs "This Is How It Goes" and "Pavlov's Bell" at The Bronze. She has one line in the episode: "Man, I hate playing vampire towns"; the latter song also appears on the Buffy soundtrack album, Radio Sunnydale. Also that year, she and her band appeared on The West Wing, where they performed a cover of James Taylor's "Shed a Little Light" at a Rock the Vote concert.

In 2004, Mann contributed vocals to the song "That's Me Trying" from William Shatner's album Has Been (co-written and produced by Ben Folds). In 2005, Mann joined Artists Against Piracy, a group formed to act against the illegal downloading and file sharing of copyrighted music from the Internet. Mann, Penn and Hausman took their experience with SuperEgo to found the independent music collective United Musicians, which is based on the principle that every artist should be able to retain copyright ownership of the work he or she has created, in contrast to normal music industry contracts.

In 2006, Mann appeared on an episode of the television series Love Monkey. In 2007, Mann contributed two original songs, "The Great Beyond" and "At the Edge of the World", for the soundtrack to Arctic Tale.

In 2008, Mann appeared in the Comedy Central series Lewis Black's Root of All Evil in a comedic interview conducted by comedian Paul F. Tompkins. In 2011, Mann appeared (as a cleaning woman version of herself) on the Independent Film Channel series Portlandia.

In 2012, Mann contributed vocals on the song "Two Horses" for the film Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie. That same year, she contributed lyrics and vocals on the song "No More Amsterdam" for the Steve Vai album, The Story Of Light. Her song, "Wise Up" was used for an organ donor campaign in Ontario. She contributed vocals to the song "Bigger Than Love" on Ben Gibbard's album Former Lives.