No band has had a greater impact on my musical taste than Aerosmith. The first time I ever remember actively listening to music and enjoying it was when my dad got into Aerosmith and made me a mixed CD full of his favorite songs from them and other Soft Rock acts like Bryan Adams Don…
I’ve diversified the music I’ve listened to since running through Aerosmith’s discography, but my playlist this week is dominated by Alvvays, who delivered what has become one of my favorite albums of all time in 2014. Three of the LP’s nine songs are featured in Burnes’ Turns this week, and they are accompanied by a…
**** Truth be told, I had pretty low expectations going into Music From Another Dimension. It was probably the least successful Aerosmith album ever peaking at the No. 5 position on the Billboard chart upon release, and it got lukewarm-at-best reviews from critics. Not to mention, it was released over a full decade removed from…
**** When Aerosmith announced that they would be releasing an album of Blues covers, most probably thought they’d just run out of ideas. In truth, it was their best idea in 15 years. Honkin on Bobo delivers 11 Blues standbys (and one Aerosmith original) in a modern image that the majority of these songs’ originators…
***1/2 Just Push Play is the perfect follow-up to Nine Lives in that it offers a unique direction with occasional greatness, but more often than not results in passable but uninspired songs that bring nothing new or exciting to the table. Even so, I’ve always pulled for Just Push Play over Nine Lives for some reason.…
Aerosmith has dominated my life over the course of the last week, but they aren’t the only artist I’ve been listening to. This week’s playlist highlights my two favorite Aerosmith songs ever written, but also a protest anthem for the ages, a Folk crooner I’d never heard before, and one of the most famous songs…
***1/2 For some reason, Nine Lives just seems cooler than Get a Grip. A part of it may be because it doesn’t have a freakin pierced cow udder on the case, but I think it has more to do with the effort that Aerosmith was putting in to make their album sound different. Utilizing strange…
***1/2 There’s nothing really wrong with Get a Grip. It marked the peak of Aerosmith’s commercial success, spawning four hit singles, tons of regular MTV rotation for their many music videos, and millions of copies sold. For mainstream Rock radio, Get a Grip was the best album Aerosmith ever. But for the rest of us,…
****1/2 It took over a decade, but in 1989, Aerosmith finally came out with an album that can be considered on the same level as their best work from the mid-’70s. Like on Permanent Vacation, Aerosmith enlisted the help of songwriters Desmond Child and Jim Vallance, but the difference here is these outside collaborators only…
**** It seemed like everything was over for Aerosmith until they got the call from producer Rick Rubin, who was working with a young rap group called Run-DMC that were interested in collaborating with Aerosmith and re-cutting their classic record “Walk This Way.” Seizing the opportunity to become relevant again, Aerosmith jumped at it and…
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