I know my fave is Get A Grip but what's other ppls

badujunkie said:

I know my fave is Get A Grip but what's other ppls

Without a doubt PUMP, i wore that thing into the ground back then and whenever i put it on now its a straight ride, perfect album, one of the best rock albums ever!

Either Toys in the Attic, or Rocks.

Toys In The Attic without a doubt for me, See Me Crying is amazing

I gotta say a three way tie between Get Your Wings, Toys In The Attic and Rocks. Pump definitely gets my vote for later period Aerosmith.

Paris9748430 said:

Either Toys in the Attic, or Rocks.

I know that it is a compilation and not an album but if I had to pick one Aerosmith cd it might be Gems. It's probably more representative of their classic years than the 1980 Greatest Hits disc is.

"O Yeah" covers the most bases, even though there's only 10 vintage era songs, "Gems" fills in the gaps, and only "Mama Kin" is on both.I think it's a good one for people who go "who's the old guy on American Idol?" to check out.

"Toys In the Attic" and "Rocks" are the best, but I like "Get Your Wings" the most.

well i am just discoovering the band so thanks for the suggestions guys

Rocks

Pump

Toys in the Attic

Permanent Vacation

Get Your Wings

Done With Mirrors

Draw the Line

JoeTyler said:

Rocks

Pump

Toys in the Attic

Permanent Vacation

Get Your Wings

Done With Mirrors

Draw the Line

Aerosmith is my fav rock band Ya'll know Steven was hot back then

Pump is by far my favorite. I also quite like Toys in the Attic, Rocks and Permanent Vacation.

I don't get why everyone likes Pump so much. It sounds like a contrived attempt to reinvent themselves to fit in with the whole hair metal scene of the late 80s.

I don't own all their albums, but from the ones I've heard only Toys In The Attic and Rocks impressed me.

MattyJam said:

I don't get why everyone likes Pump so much. It sounds like a contrived attempt to reinvent themselves to fit in with the whole hair metal scene of the late 80s.

Perhaps, but it's the best hair metal album of all-time.

And "Janie's Got a Gun" is their best song, I think.

MattyJam said:

I don't get why everyone likes Pump so much. It sounds like a contrived attempt to reinvent themselves to fit in with the whole hair metal scene of the late 80s.

I don't own all their albums, but from the ones I've heard only Toys In The Attic and Rocks impressed me.

disagree. PUMP to me was the rawest sound they had since Toys in the Attic, i think that album gets lumped in with the 80's hair metal because it just happend to come out in 1989, but i would never even lump this album in with say.....Cinderella, Posion or even a Guns N Roses type record. "The making of pump" documentary shows how far seperated they were from bands like that.

lastdecember said:

MattyJam said:

I don't get why everyone likes Pump so much. It sounds like a contrived attempt to reinvent themselves to fit in with the whole hair metal scene of the late 80s.

I don't own all their albums, but from the ones I've heard only Toys In The Attic and Rocks impressed me.

disagree. PUMP to me was the rawest sound they had since Toys in the Attic, i think that album gets lumped in with the 80's hair metal because it just happend to come out in 1989, but i would never even lump this album in with say.....Cinderella, Posion or even a Guns N Roses type record. "The making of pump" documentary shows how far seperated they were from bands like that.

That's it. Aerosmith are the godfathers of hard-rock and they had more class & taste than the typical funny-but-cheesy late 80's hair band. Hell, I can still listen to Magic Touch, Rag Doll, Simoriah, Young Lust, FINE, The Other Side, etc. without feeling guilty. I think that Aerosmith, GN'R, Tesla, Mr.Big and Skid Row were, by far, the most respectable hard-rock acts of the 87-93 era...

Anyway, can we all agree that Nine Lives and specially Just Push Play are a bunch of poo???

MattyJam said:

I don't get why everyone likes Pump so much. It sounds like a contrived attempt to reinvent themselves to fit in with the whole hair metal scene of the late 80s.

I don't own all their albums, but from the ones I've heard only Toys In The Attic and Rocks impressed me.

Pump is NOT a hair pop metal album. Its straight up hard rock. I agree Aerosmith went in that direction with Get a Grip (all those power ballads!), however Pump is every bit of a rockin album as Rocks and Toys In The Attic. It's also aging VERY well.

JoeTyler said:

Anyway, can we all agree that Nine Lives and specially Just Push Play are a bunch of poo???

Nine Lives is ok but it's far too long. With some judicious editing it would have been much better.

Just Push Play...hmmm...I've listened to that album a lot but other than "Jaded" none of the songs really stand out so, yeah, it's kind of poo-ish.

lastdecember said:

MattyJam said:

I don't get why everyone likes Pump so much. It sounds like a contrived attempt to reinvent themselves to fit in with the whole hair metal scene of the late 80s.

I don't own all their albums, but from the ones I've heard only Toys In The Attic and Rocks impressed me.

disagree. PUMP to me was the rawest sound they had since Toys in the Attic, i think that album gets lumped in with the 80's hair metal because it just happend to come out in 1989, but i would never even lump this album in with say.....Cinderella, Posion or even a Guns N Roses type record. "The making of pump" documentary shows how far seperated they were from bands like that.

OK, I admit, if you judge them based on their early image (like this album cover):

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then, yeah, they seem like a typical '80s hair band but if you listen to Long Cold Winter and, especially, Heartbreak Station, it's obvious that they had a lot more going for them than most hair bands. Is Pump a "better" album than Heartbreak Station? That's a matter of opinion but I think that both albums share many of the same sensibilities, they are both basic hard rock albums.

I think that one area that Pump really has an edge over other Aerosmith albums circa 1987-present is that there are not a ton of co-writers on board. Pop songs are fine but that's not really what I want from an Aerosmith album and it seems like the more outside writers an album has the more diluted it is.

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Poplife88 said:

MattyJam said:

I don't get why everyone likes Pump so much. It sounds like a contrived attempt to reinvent themselves to fit in with the whole hair metal scene of the late 80s.

I don't own all their albums, but from the ones I've heard only Toys In The Attic and Rocks impressed me.

Pump is NOT a hair pop metal album. Its straight up hard rock. I agree Aerosmith went in that direction with Get a Grip (all those power ballads!), however Pump is every bit of a rockin album as Rocks and Toys In The Attic. It's also aging VERY well.

Pump's production is timeless. It still sounds very fresh, it could have been produced anytime between 1988-2011...

and I don't think that the Get a Grip ballads are power-ballads. Angel was a power ballad, yes, but Crazy was basically a country-rock number, Amazing a Queen-/Elton John-like ballad and Cryin' was hard enough. Hole In My Soul was much more bland and commercial...

JoeTyler said:

lastdecember said:

disagree. PUMP to me was the rawest sound they had since Toys in the Attic, i think that album gets lumped in with the 80's hair metal because it just happend to come out in 1989, but i would never even lump this album in with say.....Cinderella, Posion or even a Guns N Roses type record. "The making of pump" documentary shows how far seperated they were from bands like that.

That's it. Aerosmith are the godfathers of hard-rock and they had more class & taste than the typical funny-but-cheesy late 80's hair band. Hell, I can still listen to Magic Touch, Rag Doll, Simoriah, Young Lust, FINE, The Other Side, etc. without feeling guilty. I think that Aerosmith, GN'R, Tesla, Mr.Big and Skid Row were, by far, the most respectable hard-rock acts of the 87-93 era...

Swap out Mr. Big and put in Mötley Crüe, and I'm right on board with that list!

Moonbeam said:

JoeTyler said:

That's it. Aerosmith are the godfathers of hard-rock and they had more class & taste than the typical funny-but-cheesy late 80's hair band. Hell, I can still listen to Magic Touch, Rag Doll, Simoriah, Young Lust, FINE, The Other Side, etc. without feeling guilty. I think that Aerosmith, GN'R, Tesla, Mr.Big and Skid Row were, by far, the most respectable hard-rock acts of the 87-93 era...

Swap out Mr. Big and put in Mötley Crüe, and I'm right on board with that list!

meh, I used to enjoy Motley's album a lot back in the day (when I was 14 lol), but now I don't think I could listen to songs like She Goes Down, Red Hot, Raise Your Hands to Rock or You're All I Need ...

JoeTyler said:

Moonbeam said:

Swap out Mr. Big and put in Mötley Crüe, and I'm right on board with that list!

meh, I used to enjoy Motley's album a lot back in the day (when I was 14 lol), but now I don't think I could listen to songs like She Goes Down, Red Hot, Raise Your Hands to Rock or You're All I Need ...

Eh, lyrically they are pretty awful (especially "Time For Change," what was Nikki thinking?!? an uplifting "message" song from Motley Crue? no thanks!) but musically the songs hold up. Just pretend that there are no words and you may end up enjoying the songs again.

JoeTyler said:

Poplife88 said:

Pump is NOT a hair pop metal album. Its straight up hard rock. I agree Aerosmith went in that direction with Get a Grip (all those power ballads!), however Pump is every bit of a rockin album as Rocks and Toys In The Attic. It's also aging VERY well.

Pump's production is timeless. It still sounds very fresh, it could have been produced anytime between 1988-2011...

and I don't think that the Get a Grip ballads are power-ballads. Angel was a power ballad, yes, but Crazy was basically a country-rock number, Amazing a Queen-/Elton John-like ballad and Cryin' was hard enough. Hole In My Soul was much more bland and commercial...

exactly, it still sounds fresh when i put it on, and, it rocks harder than anything out there in years from anyone. And for this album to basically become their second biggest selling ever, at a time when they were just nearing 40? i mean that could not happen today, a band that had been out for almost 20 years hitting there 40's scoring top 10's and selling 7 million, not gonna happen again

JoeTyler said:

Moonbeam said:

Swap out Mr. Big and put in Mötley Crüe, and I'm right on board with that list!

meh, I used to enjoy Motley's album a lot back in the day (when I was 14 lol), but now I don't think I could listen to songs like She Goes Down, Red Hot, Raise Your Hands to Rock or You're All I Need ...

Dr. Feelgood is pretty excellent through and through! There are moments of total excess like "Time to Change" as has been mentioned, but that's part of the greatness.

rialb said:

JoeTyler said:

meh, I used to enjoy Motley's album a lot back in the day (when I was 14 lol), but now I don't think I could listen to songs like She Goes Down, Red Hot, Raise Your Hands to Rock or You're All I Need ...

Eh, lyrically they are pretty awful (especially "Time For Change," what was Nikki thinking?!? an uplifting "message" song from Motley Crue? no thanks!) but musically the songs hold up. Just pretend that there are no words and you may end up enjoying the songs again.

I own the double-Cd compilation "Red, White & Crue" , great set for the gym or for the beach, but I don't need their studio albums anymore

Moonbeam said:

JoeTyler said:

meh, I used to enjoy Motley's album a lot back in the day (when I was 14 lol), but now I don't think I could listen to songs like She Goes Down, Red Hot, Raise Your Hands to Rock or You're All I Need ...

Dr. Feelgood is pretty excellent through and through! There are moments of total excess like "Time to Change" as has been mentioned, but that's part of the greatness.

for me, their most solid album is Shout At the Devil, and even that album has two or three songs of pure filler (God Bless the Children of the Beast , the cover of Helter Skelter and Danger). I prefer the Crue when they made badass & dark songs like Bastard, Looks That Kill or Knock'em Dead. Theatre of Pain and Girls, Girls, Girls were basically 2 singles + 8 fillers , even the band admitted that lol

The only songs of Dr.Feelgood that I still truly dig are the title-track, Kickstart My Heart (their best song for my taste), Same Old Situation and ...that's all lol. The production is awesome, though, the drums are so hard that they could make your ears bleed!

Too Fast For Love is probably my fav Motley Crue album but I don't like/need that sound anymore, Motley did rock for teenagers & sluts lol (like Ratt, Twisted Sister, Dokken, etc) while bands like Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Van Halen or GN'R made timeless hard-rock for everybody, in my opinion...

JoeTyler said:

lastdecember said:

disagree. PUMP to me was the rawest sound they had since Toys in the Attic, i think that album gets lumped in with the 80's hair metal because it just happend to come out in 1989, but i would never even lump this album in with say.....Cinderella, Posion or even a Guns N Roses type record. "The making of pump" documentary shows how far seperated they were from bands like that.

That's it. Aerosmith are the godfathers of hard-rock and they had more class & taste than the typical funny-but-cheesy late 80's hair band. Hell, I can still listen to Magic Touch, Rag Doll, Simoriah, Young Lust, FINE, The Other Side, etc. without feeling guilty. I think that Aerosmith, GN'R, Tesla, Mr.Big and Skid Row were, by far, the most respectable hard-rock acts of the 87-93 era...

I agree with rialb on favorite Aerosmith albums: Get Your Wings, Toys In The Attic, Rocks and Pump. For me Get A Grip there are some great songs in it but not as good as Pump.

Now Mr. Big: Love this band, don't know how many times I've listened to Mr. Big and Lean Into It. Can't wait to listen to their new album now the original line-up is back.

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