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"Let the Music do the Talking" (Perry, from Done With Mirrors, 1985) "Bitches Brew" (Tyler/Crespo, Rock in a Hard Place) "Lightning Strikes" (Richard Supa, from Rock in a Hard Place, 1982) "Sight for Sore Eyes" (Tyler/Perry/Douglas/David Johansen, Draw the Line) "The Hand That Feeds (Tyler/Whitford/Hamilton/Kramer/Jack Douglas, Draw the Line
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"Draw the Line" (Tyler/Perry, from Draw the Line, 1977) "Lick and a Promise" (Perry/Tyler), Rocks "Back in the Saddle" (Tyler/Perry, from Rocks, 1976) "No More No More" (Tyler/Perry, Toys in the Attic "Sweet Emotion" (Tyler/Hamilton, from Toys in the Attic, 1975) "Seasons of Wither" (Tyler, Get Your Wings) "Same Old Song and Dance" (Tyler/Perry, from Get Your Wings, 1974) Maybe not every hired-gun songwriter wrecks the party after all. There was the odd contribution from outside the group, however, and at this time I'd like to thank the aforementioned Vallance for whatever he did to make "Magic Touch" so freakin' awesome. You'll see that the vast majority were written by the band members themselves, usually Perry and frontman Steven Tyler.
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But then you've got to sit through the supreme nauseation of "What Could Have Been Love" and "Can't Stop Lovin' You" and "We All Fall Down" and "Another Last Goodbye" and it's like: "Holy crap, how hurtin' can this get?!"īut instead of slagging the new disc for another nanosecond I've decided to take a more positive approach and put together my list of the 20 Greatest Aerosmith Songs of All Time. I'll admit that there are a couple of Perry-penned tracks-"Oh Yeah" and "Freedom Fighter"-that hint at the band's former ragged glory. No wonder it doesn't sound like the Aerosmith of old. The list of hired-gun, hit-seeking songwriters who contributed to Music From Another Dimension! includes Marti Frederiksen, Russ Irwin, Jim Vallance, Marco Moir, Jesse Kramer, Desmond Child, and Diane Warren. That they were reuniting with producer Jack Douglas-who'd worked on such killer discs as Get Yours Wings and Rocks-locking themselves in a room, and composing the music themselves.īut guess what? My old hero Joe gave me a bum steer. When I interviewed him a couple years ago Joe Perry led me to believe that the band would be getting back to its winning way of making albums '70s-style. The worst thing is that I was expecting something special this time around. It's clear to me that, in 2012, Aerosmith has lost the will to rock. And don't get me started on the first single, " Legendary Child". I was thinking about reviewing the new Aerosmith album, Music From Another Dimension!, then thought a bit more and realized, Why bother? Life's too short to spend thinkin' about stuff like that.Īerosmith used to be one of the truly great American hard-rock bands-the only one that could touch Blue Oyster Cult in the '70s-but now their specialty seems to be lame-ass power ballads.