And that end harmony? WOW! Today’s bands couldn’t do that no matter how hard they tried.

Fuck, the memories that come back every time I hear this one always make me smile. Kramer were locked in a pocket few can ever hope to achieve.

Joe Perry absolutely burned on guitar, as did his counterpart Brad Whitford, and bassist Tom Hamilton and Mr. This track showed just how incredible a band they used to be. And as my poor friend Russell can attest, I made him listen to this in his father’s station wagon over and over and over again! Even though he was driving all over Long Island I’m pretty sure he was ready to jump out the window after a while. If I had to pick one song to define fall 1989, THIS would be it. “F.I.N.E.” has the perfect amount of sass to get the ladies up and shaking their goods, while Tyler’s tongue-in-cheek delivery is perfect for the time.īut the real treat comes in first single “Love In An Elevator”, a song that still gets a ton of airplay on rock radio today, and with good reason. The late Bruce Fairbairn struck oil production-wise in all of ten seconds. Steven Tyler never sounded better than he did here, and drummer Joey Kramer is in complete fucking control of this one from start to finish. The rapid-fire boom of this number still resonates with me to this day, and I am instantly 16 again in my room at 113 Berkeley Place rockin’ out before Mom ( aka the DRC) came home. I ‘ll never forget biking to Record Collection, picking this one up, and popping it in the CD player…and then falling off the bed and running to lower the bass booster because the goddamn room was shaking as soon as “Young Lust” kicked in!! This song should be among the top album openers of all time for the way it flips you flips you for real (right, Fenster?) My first thought after falling off the bed was, “Fuck!! My Maxell XL-II 90 bass-laden tape I’m making of this is gonna be fucked!!” before I picked myself up and realized what a ride I was in for. Oh…did I not mention? Welcome to Classic Albums. But a litany of ridiculous albums and singles has followed since then, plus they fired shots across the bow for no reason at my beloved KISS in 2012, PLUS their only #1 hit is a song they DIDN’T WRITE!! But I digress. Now don’t get me wrong, I didn’t always dislike AEROSMITH. That was the day they released Pump, which took the formula of 1987’s Permanent Vacation and improved on it by making it ballsier and more bombastic. And for me that time was September 12, 1989.

Anybody remember a time when AEROSMITH wasn’t some hack band churning out ballad after ballad in a desperate attempt to hold on to their careers as rock stars? I do.

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