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Ehkä olen setä, mutta nautin tästä. Hyvä monipuolinen kasaripaketti stadionmeiningillä, vetäviä biisejä.
Tämä osoittaa ajoittain lupausta. Herättää jopa toivoa, erityisesti avausbiisillä. Valitettavasti levy myös hyväksyy aikakautensa erityispiirteet tuotannon ja sovitusten kohdalla, mikä johtaa soundillisen paisuneisuuden lisäksi sävellyksellisiin kiusallisuuksiin. Saatan pyöräyttää Young Lustin tai Janie's Got a Gunin tulevaisuudessakin, mutta en täysin rennoin ottein saati varauksetta.
I like late 80's Aerosmith with the high commercial appeal gloss lacquered all over their music and image. They might be a bunch of lame ass geezers writing cheesy cornball songs, but they're fun. I can't deny that I have fun listening to them. And Joe Perry is absolute sex on wheels, so yeah... the thirst for Joe is also pumping up this score.
Who would have thought Aerosmith would make a good fun album in 1989??
A few songs saved this from the sludge, but still rough in places.
I’ve never been hugely into Aerosmith but this was a great time. The standard cock rock you’d expect but nothing too too cringe, and there was a lot more variety than I expected- Janey Got a Gun could almost be a Pearl Jam song
Two Trucks Having Sex Songs are fun, but knowing its 40 year old Steven Tyler singing them makes me like them less. Remembering playing these songs on guitar hero makes them 50% more enjoyable. Love In An Elevator has a great hook, every other part of the song is nowhere near as good. Would be better if it was a minute or 2 shorter. Janie's Got A Gun is a nice change of pace. Probably more enjoyable within the context of the album than it would if i listened to it on its own. Dulcimer Stomp has a really fun intro. Why cant the rest of the song be like it :( what a disappointment. Songs start to really blend together on the second half of the album. I can barely remember what they sound like after they end. Not terrible or anything, just unmemorable. Best Song: Janie's Got A Gun Worst Song: Don't Get Mad, Get Even
I gotta be honest. I fully expected to score this one pretty low when I hit play. Aerosmith is just so cheesy that I thought, "there's no way this is good." And it IS cheesy. It's very much an "I'm still cool" dad rock album. But it's also really fun. Sure, the lyrics are, by and large, vapid and unimaginative. But it's FUN. There are moments where brilliance shine through as well. There's some legitimately great musicianship here. It's just buried under a mountain of cheese. Anyway, it was good enough to scrape a 4-star rating but, in no world is this even close to a 5-star album.
Three jams and the rest sounds the same.
Boring, cliche, annoying. Such over-polished, empty shit. Who is this music for?? What the fuck is its purpose? Surely no-one involved in this project enjoyed making it. 1/5
Struggled through this over three weeks. Really annoying and pretty gross. The little bits at the start of the songs were always better than the song itself which just pissed me off. One and a half. Fave track: Janie's Got a Gun
Oh, I get it. It looks like the two trucks are fucking.
LP
Does what you would expect
AJ: lol 1989 sex songs Hahaha AJ! Cat: it’s not for me. Steven Tyler sounds amazing.
One of the all time great albums.
I have not really that much to say about this. It's just not my type of music. Some tracks do have interesting sections, mostly in the "Water Song" and "What It Takes". The lyrics don't help it either. Not something i would actively listen to. Maybe somewhere in the background, on low volume.
Going Down / Love In An Elevator is a classic!! Didn't think much of the rest of the album.
We get it, you're horny. No need to make an album so chock-full of sex lyrics that it makes people uncomfortable. Anyway, a few songs were okay, so it escapes the 1 star rating. Besides, even if the lyrics were laughably bad, the music was fine.
It's fun, and Janie's got a Gun is a banger, and while the quality is actually quite good - I'm not a big fan of Aerosmith in general. If one likes the band, or can tolerate the, this is a good one I think. But I cannot.
Not a big fan of Aerosmith. Even less of a fan of the whole glam rock scene/ genre. Sweet emotion is a choon tho.
Aerosmith e egentlig ganske god s
Eh. Kinda skeezy
A little too ‘80s for me, but still fun. 3/5
Can't believe I am writing a review for a *second* Aerosmith album. This would be fine for a 5000 albums list, not a 1001 one. The first couple of tracks, \"Young Lust\" and \"F.I.N.E\", show the band displaying a lot of impressive energy for a studio performance, I'll give them that. As a matter of fact, most of the other tracks could be given the same sort of compliment: Steven Tyler was in a particularly fine form as a vocalist, for instance, between the sex-crazed inflexions and the daunting two-part harmonies ge goes through. BUT c'mon, as good as Tyler was, and as nicely performed as this album is, this LP is downright *cheesy*. You know it, I know it, everyone knows it. I can hear some benevolent listeners telling me that this record was still better than the hair metal albums released around that time. Jeeze, I'm not even sure about that. I mean, \"The Other Side\" has all the bad things a hair metal band has, except for its overall \"sound\", *maybe* (those horns do sound a little fake, though, à la Van Halen's \"Jump\"). Most of the other cuts are closer to a rootsier hard rock, so they fare *slightly* better. But it's a version of hard rock that's so laden with clichés that it quickly becomes insufferable as well. Interestingly, Aerosmith goes for a mock-Steely Dan mode at the start of \"Janie's Got A Gun\" (without their trademark jazzy chords) Yet this direction doesn't help either. Nice crunchy guitar solo in this one, I guess, and a bridge section that's harmonically and vocally pretty tight. The rest is ridiculous, however. And by \"the rest\", I don't only mean the rest of the song, I mean mostly *everything* in the album. On that note, \"What It Takes\", the lengthy ballad concluding the proceedings, is particularly awful. All those cringey \"oo-oohs\" and \"a-aaaahs\", not to mention the stupid scats on it... The band has never been able to beat \"Dream On\" in this ballad mode anyway. I'd rather go back to that, if you asked me to quote an Aerosmith tune. There's no proper end to this review because there is no proper end to this cheesefest either. 1/5 for the purposes of this list , which means 6/10 for more general purposes (5 + 1), mostly because of the performative aspect of this thing. Next, please. Number of albums left to review: 550 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 217 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 105 Albums from the list I will certainly *not* include in mine (many others are more essential to me): 130 (including this one)
Good example of why popular music is popular. Didn't love it (Janie's got a gun is solid), but it was easy to get through the whole album. Other stuff in genres I don't like can feel excruciating at times. 3.5
No thanks
Moins aimé que Toys in the Attic, ça sonnait beaucoup plus comme le Aerosmith radio friendly que j'ai tant entendu, moins de personnalité, plus axé sur l'accessibilité. 6/10
fun and well produced. just not for me.
not my type but i understand the appeal
Pump doesn’t pump. +1 for “Janie’s Got a Gun”
Before even listening to the album and just seeing the album cover and which year it's from didn't get my hopes up. This is years after Aerosmiths peak and it's got no soul to it and I don't mean the genre. This feels like it's produced after a hard rock formula with the intention of making it as dirty as possible without being too explicit. I rather listen to the Bloodhound Gang if I want sexual innuendos. They're also a lot better than this.
There was a time when Aerosmith was famous for rock songs, not ballads.
The beginning of the end for good Aerosmith, but it’s not the end yet..
You can see why we needed grunge to come along at this time. I remember this album being huge off the back of the ‘Janie’s Got A Gun’ film clip which was everywhere at the time, and although i was probably the target demographic at the time (15-16 yo white adolescent) it really wasn’t my thing then and not really my thing now. That said, apart from the occasional Spinal Tap moment (that spoken intro to ‘Love in an Elevator’…cringe) and losing track of how many instruments they threw at this ( I think I started losing track or was going nuts when I started hearing didgeridoo and piano accordion…) I didn’t mind this album for what it was. As long as you don’t listen to the puerile lyrics too closely (did I really hear “Masturbating with a goose” on one track?) at least it is all over quickly, and they do have a bit of Led Zep power blues about them that makes this more enjoyable than some of the worse Hair Metal crimes of the 80’s, and in Aerosmith’s favour they did do quite a good turn in Wayne’s World 2….
Aerosmith are a band I feel I should like more than I do. Great well crafted songs (thanks mostly to Desmond child working with them), great musicianship - Joe Perry is an underrated guitarist. But I’m left a bit cold. I don’t know why. Sure Steven Tyler is annoying, but a great showman. So, this album was … less than the sum of its parts? In the pantheon of great rock bands, I have many I prefer. This is a better album than many of their others, but a must listen? Nope.
not my thing. Performance / stage / big concert music for the MTV generation, the stage performances keep you paying attention, a few fun bits but nostalgia aside, its not great. nothing to see here.
Ouch, one of the worst opening songs I've heard, forced and desperate. Hooley dooley, its full on white boy cock rock, at which point dear reader (whoever you are) I should note I've never listened to an Aerosmith album. It veers between a bit of Led Zep riffing, to the full on overblown Bon Jovi BIG sound on the chorus. The Wiki notes are helpful as they clearly needed a hit and just went for it on the MTV production.. .whoah! No thanks.
The only Aerosmith album I’ve ever owned was their 4th album, Rocks (1976), via the Australian Record Club, which I never liked & have since disposed of. But I have collected some of their singles over the years, including the 2 killer tunes off this album - Love In An Elevator & Janie’s Got A Gun. The latter is particularly listenable. The rest of the album is inoffensive & I do enjoy the didge on Don’t Get Mad, Get Even. And nice to see that Holland-Dozier-Holland successfully sued them for ripping off Standing In The Shadows Of Love in the track The Other Side.
Over polished, derivative, boring. Work-shopped and honed within an inch of its life. Cliche ridden. I've seen this described as one of the high points of 80s hair metal. And that is damning with very faint praise. I never want to hear this corporate rock drivel again as long as I live.
Everything after going down in the elevator is blah
Really don't get why this album should be on this list. It's almost a parody of 80s rock without having any self awareness and it's just not very good. Aerosmith have some great stuff before and after, but this is a low point for the band and the genre in general...
Not my thing
*loud fart noises*
haha ridiculous
I like this one a little more than the other Aerosmith album but it’s nothing crazy to me
Yeah a very very horny album like what the hell? Never been the biggest Aerosmith fan anyway and this is not their best album by a long shot. Some okay songs on here but man the most generic dad rock you would here at a dive bar.
3.6 - I’ve always had a soft spot for “What It Takes”, a power pop country-inflected ballad of jilted love. Absolutely my favorite Aerosmith song. If I’m honest I generally prefer this rise-from-the-phoenix era of theirs. Steven Tyler sounds grittier and more direct and Joe Perry’s guitar is scintillating as ever. Some other solid hits on here though “Janie’s Got a Gun” hasn’t excited me since middle school.
Aerosmith.
Nous rompichâmes
sortir ca en big 1989....
Janeys got a gunnnnnnn
I just… “kissing your sassafrass”… that’s a real lyric.
Overblown, histrionic guff! A couple of the songs are catchy enough but I’ve never particularly liked Steven Tyler’s voice and these songs don’t really grab me. Not my cup of tea.
I thought this would be a favorite and an automatic 5. I’ve said this before about another album and it’s true here as well. The A&R people chose the right singles. I love the hits but don’t much care for the rest of the songs.
[Sidebar: I haven't listened to this album since it came out, but Friday morning, as I was walking my dog, the song "Janie's Got A Gun" floated into my head. I was trying to remember the lyrics. Totally random. Fire up the computer, and here it is as the album for the weekend. If there are no coincidences, what does this all mean?] When this came out, yeah, it was huge. And huger still because it marked the COMEBACK. "Dude Looks Like A Lady" was a massive MTV thing off the previous album, but then this hit and Aerosmith was like, a legitimate American icon again. No doubt, this album has a ton of energy. The guitar work is excellent — these guys can play. The bass tone is really big too. But goddamn is there just too much Steven Tyler. He's harmonizing with himself over everything. He's injecting himself into musical passages. He's just too prominent. And on top of that, he has completely turned from cheeky and kind of funny to just being gross. It's too much. This album does not hold up for me — I never loved it to begin with — and it's why I haven't listened to it since it was released. So, I don't place this high up in the Aerosmith canon. "Toys In The Attic" is a masterpiece. This is more of a schlocky pop-culture relic. Back to "Janie's Got A Gun," that does at least sound new. It was a departure for Aerosmith, it sounded different than other rock bands, that still stands out. Though vocally, again, Tyler is reaching for the stars and quadrupling his vocals and it didn't hold up with a critical listen. "Love In An Elevator" was the same. I remember being impressed with the vocals when that dropped, how sophisticated those harmonies were. Now I hear them as overdone studio trickery that they can't even attempt to sing live. We've got one more Aerosmith album on the list, "Rocks," which was released right after "Toys," and that's a worthy inclusion. I would have preferred "Done With Mirrors" over this if we had to include a third. That was their actual return to form after nearly killing themselves with drugs, and while it was mostly overlooked, it's a more worthy album than this. This is 2.5 but I'm rounding up for sme reason.
Much to my everlasting surprise, I've never hated Love in an Elevator. That's the best I can say about this crap. Screw Steven Tyler.
Very Aerosmith
Some classic rock here. Takes me back.
Can a band sue itself for copying it's own songs? The other side sounds exactly like janie's got a gun... Pretty decent album.
Pretty refreshing to hear some straight ahead rock and roll. Though not everything hits, the combo of love in an elevator, janie, other side and what it takes push this as a pretty solid, impressive release. Enjoyed.
Only listened once but it was good especially Love in an Elevator ! 3/4* ?
Meh. Disappointed and expected more. Give it a three.
Highlights: Young Lust, Going Down/Love In An Elevator, Water Song/Janie's Got A Gun
Dużo znanych piosenek, mimo że nie jestem specjalnym fanem to bardzo przyjemnie się słuchało.
Nope...Still hate Aerosmith
I remember when this came out. I was in college at the time. I have a friend who is a big Aerosmith fan. Me, not so much. I really like their stuff from the 70s, but that was about it. But this album has some of their strongest later material: Otherside (Dulcimer Stop is a great precursor to it), Love In An Elevator (love the harmonies at the end). Ending with probably one of my favorite late-Aerosmith songs: "What It Takes". Some of their later albums I was not as much a fan of, but this had a lot of the songs I did like of theirs of the 80s / 90s. One of the reviews I did see were people complaining about Tyler singing about sex all the time. Well, yeah. That's what Aerosmith was all about. Rock and roll, sex, and... drugs. Lots of all three, man. It was pretty excessive and some of the songs are that way too. You just have to roll your eyes and go with it.
Side one is pretty kick ass. Love in an Elevator is quintessential Aerosmith - sexual innuendo-filled lyrics with scorching guitars - and Janie's Got a Gun is surprisingly deep with just as good musical stylings. I didn't really know about FINE or Monkey on My Back but they definitely rock. Young Lust isn't bad either. Side two dips, and reminds me that Aerosmith is better as a greatest hits band than a full album band. But The Other Side and What it Takes are still very good tunes (Dulcimer Stomp is a cool lead-in to the former too), and combined with side one help make up for the so-so middle part of side two. If you don't like rock, this is a 3. But if you like rock, you can get behind this album.
growing up, my brother was the one into aerosmith, not me. methinks it had something to do with if he liked something, i felt like i shouldn’t. either that, or perhaps the fact that my musical palette wasn’t as expansive as it is in the present day. having said all of that, this album fuckin’ rawks. hard rock with strong southern rock vibes, which is one of the things i remembered from its predecessor, “permanent vacation”. in fact, an argument could be made that “what it takes” is a southern rock song. joe perry rocks the slide guitar on multiple songs. good mix of slower songs and uptempo songs. steven tyler is a badass. the whole band cooks. solid album with “my girl” being the only clunker in the bunch. highlights: “young lust”, “f.i.n.e.”, “dulcimer stomp/the other side”, “what it takes”.
This is one of the first albums I had. Got it at a garage sale maybe? Maybe from my sister. Had the cassette. I always skipped tracks 1, 4, and 6. This is definitely one of those situations (like so many we've already had) where you have to separate the art from the artist. But Aerosmith put out some hits. Let's get to it. -Young Lust- Yeah, it's okay. I can see why I skipped it. -FINE- Bopping little rock song. I love his grinding voice. -Going Down- Hit for a reason, good track. Juvenile humor driving lyrics with rocking musical accompaniment. -Monkey on my back- Yeah, I'd skip this one now. -Janie- This is what I'm talking about, feeling in the vocals. Even though a lot of them are essentially spoken, they're spoke with feeling. Erica: the same album with "Love in an Elevator" comes swinging at serial child abuse and murder. Heavy hitting. They're covering a lot of ground in this album. -Dulcimer Stomp- Yeah, I see why I skipped that before as well. Doesn't bother me, but it's nothing to write home about, but I had it separated from: -Take me to the Other Side- Which is great. -My Girl- This is one that should've had more play. I may think differently if I listened to the lyrics, I dunno. -Don't get mad get even- Meh. -Hoodoo- Meh -What it takes- Gold. This is the jam.
I’ll be honest, this one threw me for a loop. I got this album when I was growing up and played it out. One of the first bands I ever got into and one of the first albums I bought with my own money was its predecessor Permanent Vacation. I think it might have actually been the first one I spent my own money on to be honest. I grew up an Aerosmith kid. But it’s on this list? Really? I see Permanent Vacation isn’t and that’s weird to me as PV was their big comeback. Not even sure if PV belongs here but certainly over Pump, right? But I listened to this again for the first time in a really long time and m still really into it. Love in an Elevator, Janie’s Got a Gun, What it Takes, The Other Side….those songs are truly great. F.I.N.E. has always been one of my favorite ‘Smith songs and Young Lust and My Girl are better than average, as is Hoodoo Medicine Man. Monkey on My Back and Don’t Get Mad Get Even are pretty filler material but not terrible. And that’s it. That was quick, enjoyable, nostalgic, and better than I remembered and I remembered it fondly. Can’t say it’s a classic, can’t say I’m not surprised it’s on here, but I can say that yeah, I’m happy it’s here.
mt bom ta loko
Nothing special
This album is fucking gross lol. When I picture Aerosmith in my head, sleaze is a word that comes to mind, and this album didn't really help to destroy that connection. I mean, one of the lines was something like "I hear you're so tight your lovin' squeaks", which is... eww... Some of the lyrics make it sound like the girls he's referring to are rather young, which makes sense if he was also a teenager or in his early twenties or something, but I think he was like 41 at the time that this came out, so eww again. There were some interesting parts, but then it would go into the usual rock sound, which I totally expected. It wasn't so bad that it deserves a 1, as a lot of it is too nothing to make me mad, but it got kind of close to a 1 at times. I guess my favourite song was What It Takes? I guess? I don't really care about anything on here.
I enjoyed this
Doesn’t stop for a moments breath.
Opens with a bracing whallop. “Love in an elevator” is great. Most of the rest didn’t touch me, and “Janie’a got a gun” annoyed me. Listening to it through tinny phone speakers probably didn’t flatter it, but not much had me want to go back with headphones. Actually, I’d also go back for the “voodoo on this town” song, as that sounded like it might be endearingly stupid.
Tedious pervert Steven Tyler's screeching is one of the worst sounds in music. These songs are worse than horrible, they are deathly dull. Fuck Aerosmith
Solid album by one of the greats.
Good. I own it.
solid comeback record. their 70's shit is better tho
Good album
Still solid
I'd give it a 3.5 if I could. I'm not a metal fan but I quite enjoyed this album. Love in an elevator the stand out track
No like.
I am sick as a dog today and don't want to listen to Steven Tyler sing about fucking broads. Don't Get Mad, Get Even showcases that the only lyrics this band is capable of making are cliches.
2 - this is just gross lyrics
Yeah it’s pretty good.It’s what I expect Aerosmith to sound like.I’ve never been super into their sound but I get why they’re popular.
history will look poorly upon aerosmith. they did nothing for rock
I really don't want to like Aerosmith, but they make some really catchy rock songs.
Classic radio-friendly rock with a number of hits. The strongest song here is easily Jeanie's Got A Gun, but Love In An Elevator, The Other Side and What It Takes are great as well. The rest of the album ist fine, but nothing special, albeit well written and produced. A fun album that deserves to be on this list. 3.5/5
LoL nope! Should have left these dudes in the 70's where they belong! Stupid Rick Rubin
Aerosmith is quite possibly the worst band on this list. I can't believe that I received a second Aerosmith album, and neither of which are their most well known album, which makes me think there is at least a third. Just incredible.
Very over sexed middle of the road outdated glam rock. Not a great album but a few catchy songs gets it 2 stars.
It was fine. The music is good but it pretty much all sounds the same. 6.5/10
Remarkable how far you can get with a little bam-thwock and a bunch of bad sex puns.
Good ol' 80's rock n roll
Whghh not really my vibe but it is energetic and the lead singer sounds hot
Listen to Aerosmith’s ‘“Pump” for a clear illustration of why grunge and 90s alt-rock had to happen. Just as Yes’s “Tales from Topographic Oceans” explains why prog-rock had to eventually give way to punk, “Pump” represents the worst excesses of 1980’s glam-metal. It’s hammy, crass, bloated, perverse… but my god, it’s a real guilty pleasure. Already elder statesmen of rock by this point, Aerosmith had reached their tenth album. Steven Tyler was 41 and kicked most of the drugs he’d spent the last couple of decades on. Not one for aging gracefully, his midlife crisis took the form of seeking oral sex in elevators, going on the prowl for daughters in “Young Lust”, and the skin-crawling lechery in F.I.N.E (“I’ve heard you’re so tight, your love squeaks”… not nice). It’s macho to the extreme, grotesque in its content and relentless in its delivery. The vehicle for this born-again horniness is a set of songs with fairly basic hard blues riffs and seismic drums, all gloss and 80’s sheen. …So what works? While I really expected to dislike it, I can’t deny there are some good hooks in these songs. It’s hard to love, but it’s pretty easy to like. Before I registered the pervy lyrics, “F.I.N.E” boasted an excellent strut. “Janie’s Got a Gun” veers into relatively unknown territory for the band, with a reasonably sensitive exploration into violence and abuse. And even though the music mainly stays in its lane, it’s also full of welcome adornments. The “woah-oh” backing vocals in “Love in an Elevator”… the synth strings in “Janie’s Got a Gun”… the horns in “The Other Side”… even the jarring interludes on dulcimer and fiddle… all give some variety I wasn’t expecting. The album closes with a sweet if predictable ballad, “What It Takes”. Big, bombastic, on-the-nose, but oh-so-singalongable: it’s a final exclamation mark on all my conflicted feelings on “Pump”. The destination may not be worth all that much, but we may as well enjoy the ride.
Not for me
Some odd tracks out of keeping
not my genre. certainly fine, even enjoyable, in large settings, with other people who are into it. but not for me.
1989, американский хард-рок. Десятый студийный альбом, период после воссоединения и реабилитации. Janie's Got A Gun.
This album is fine, but nothing fantastic IMO. Love in an Elevator is very catchy, but in a junk food, insubstantial sort of way; Janie's Got A Gun is great, but I can take or leave the rest. Except for "What it Takes", that song is atrocious.
I love how someone has gone through the reviews here and upvoted all the anti-hair metal sentiment he could find. "oh it's just so INAUTHENTIC I can't stand it!" ha ha ha. I rub my nipples at your frustration. This album rules. Big fucking dumb songs about cliche hair metal topics. Aerosmith might have been playing catch up at this point after a bunch of bands that were influenced by them, but to come around and make one of the best hair metal albums in their 40s? I'm guessing they were in their 40s by this point. And STILL carrying on like horny teenagers? Fuck yeah. The whole thing pretty much smokes from start to finish. This book needs more albums that actually deserve to be in it. Albums like Pump. 5/5.
Special band... Everyone participating in every song to make the sound full.
boooo
Not aged well.
Comparisons to Led Zeppelin are ludicrous, as if those lads would ever think – much less stoop – to rip off Bon Jovi (see backing vocals on "Love In an Elevator" and super cheesy drums on "Monkey Back" and cheesy synths on "Jamie," which sounds like they couldn't quite let go of the '80s). "Dulcimer Stomp" and "Don't Get Mad" have more wrong with them than can be fruitfully described here. This is more like the Stones in their worst late career, utterly forgettable phases. It's all there, the mediocre playing, the silly posturing, the pathetic reaching for relevance. And for good measure every song is too long, too. They were basically a hair metal band at this point, and not a particularly good one.
Yeah it was ok. Not sure I’ll listen again.
Oh my god it’s all just glam metal horny posting. I bet he regrets calling a song Young Lust at the moment. The “squeaks” line in F.I.N.E. needs Jesus. Love in an Elevator is somehow less subtle, but at least it takes a firm anti-DJ Khaled stance on the matter. Monkey on my Back, a non-horny song about kicking a drug habit, what I’m noticing is a pretty similar instrumental for each track and roughly the same singing from Tyler, I hope it mixes up soon as it feels samey. Praise be, right into Janie’s Got a Gun which does sound different and I dig it. Very catchy, less of a belter all the way through. Chiming back in at What It Takes, a decent ballad, to say everything between my last note and here has been indistinguishable. I have certainly learned I have no great love for Aerosmith.
I'm not a big fan of Aerosmith but this album was so well known it was a fun listen. So many huge songs from 1 album.
Production is very busy, like the musical interludes. Lyrics good Music feels samey
Interesting album with a few hits
For transparency's sake, I'll admit that I'm heavily biased against Aerosmith. I listened to a lot of classic rock up until I was in my mid-twenties, and I listened to Aerosmith quite a bit (I think I still have their double disc greatest hits). But as time has gone on, I've really soured on them. I personally think they're the most overrated classic rock band of all time, and their catalog only has a couple of songs I still enjoy. Worst of all, it seems like Steven Tyler might be a dirtbag. I groaned when I was given this album today, and this started off as my first hate-listen of this list. However, much to my surprise, I really enjoyed this album. "F.I.N.E." was really catchy, and after that, I stopped my hate-listen. I don't like Steven Tyler's vocals at all, but musically, I really liked what the band did here. There's something about their drumming that I really liked on this album. I loved the little instrumental interludes leading into the songs, which is something that was left off of these songs when I've heard them previously. Even when I liked listening to Aerosmith, I hated "Janie's Got a Gun," but I even though I still don't like it, I think it's lyrically the band's best song. "What it Takes" is another standout to me on this album. I'm not sure what to make of the overt sexual tones of some of the songs on here. I can't tell if Aerosmith is pulling a Spinal Tap, and embracing the stereotype of the groupie-banging rockstar with a bit of a wink, or if they really think they're God's gift to their throngs of female fans. These recent allegations against Steven Tyler make me lean towards the latter, which makes me feel like these songs are kinda gross, even if they're a bit tongue in cheek. Overall though, I enjoyed this album, and I can see why it brought Aerosmith back into the spotlight.
Enjoyed this more than I thought I would 7/10 Fave: Love in an elevator
Aerosmith is one of those bands that's always Livin' on the Edge of greatness and terribleness for me. On any given day, I'll either love or hate Steven Tyler's mewling. Today was a good day for it, but I could easily see rating this a 2 any other time. Also, Pump is notably an album where the enduring singles are some of the worst tracks. Love in an Elevator is fine I suppose, but Janie's Got a Gun is just bad.
Hoodoo/Voodoo Medicine Man was a new standout. This is more like a 3.5.
It was okay. Nothing really stood out.
For the people who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they like.
It seems a bit silly that I’d never listened to this album in full before today. My favourite Aerosmith song (Love In An Elevator) is on this album, so you’d have thought I’d have looked it up before today. But nope. Songs I already knew: Love In An Elevator, Janey’s Got A Gun Favourites: Love In An Elevator, Don’t Get Mad Get Even I’m gonna be honest, I’ve had an awful couple of days where I’m lacking any motivation to do much of anything at all, including listening to albums. However, I’m glad I did decide to pop my headphones on and listen to this. Aerosmith can sometimes be quite mood-lifting, as there is a bounciness to their music. There were no bad songs to be found here. Some songs were certainly better than others, but I enjoyed this album a lot and frankly helped me feel a little bit more alive.
Acceptable. Enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would and was surprised at how many songs on it I knew.
Totally fine album. Nothing really to note
kapping music
Nice listened to it twice!
Good Fun Disposable
Wow, Aerosmith kinda suck? It's particularly jarring since I just listened to Back in Black -- an absolutely classic hard rock album. By comparison, Pump seemed so trite and boring.
This is like a Dr. Suess book but about sex. "I'd fuck on a boat, I'd fuck with a goat, I'd fuck in the rain, in the dark and on a train" Steven Tyler is a TRUE 'MURICAN FUCK MACHINE just like the trucks on the cover! In conclusion, this album is a bit lacking in the diversity department. Maybe one more song about sex would have fixed that.
Janie’s Got a Gun is enough to give this album 3/5 at the very least. Very technically sound. Tyler’s vocals are solid. not extraordinary imo but undeniably good.
Sounds a bit dated to me. Very 80s. Of course, I only really know Aerosmith from their mid-career stuff. The hits hold up but not an album I’d need to listen to from start to finish. 3/5 70/100
hard rock wooooooo yeahhhhhhh
One of the first CDs I owned was the Armageddon soundtrack my parents got me for Christmas. I hadn’t even seen the movie. The album was mostly Aerosmith or Aerosmith adjacent bands. Honestly didn’t expect this album to come up but it makes sense. This has all their second wave big hits. I will say though listening to this album in the head of January winter makes no sense. This is made for June driving.
eh
Has a bit of past hard rock sprinkled on to it, while having that pop-rock energy that most old bands had back in the 90s. Wasn't the best Aerosmith record, but was a good record to sculpt a red panda to.
I find this uncomfortable listening now, with or without the allegations against Steve Tyler. Great tunes. Sleazy lyrics.
A lot of fun in a small package, several songs could be looped endlessly, while a few are just there. 4/5
What an awesome album. Aerosmith tend to be hit or miss for me, but pretty much all of these songs were hits. I couldn't get enough of it. Favorite track: F.I.N.E.
Oh ho shit. Friends, this was 14/15 year old Craig's jam back in 1989. Craig saved up his pennies and bought this tape and wore it out. I'm pretty excited to have an excuse to give this a listen again. And it holds up! If you can buy into this being 100% dumb sex rock, you are ready to go. Only a handful of generic songs on this one - most of them have melody that at least gets into your ear. Whereas earlier Aeorsmith was pretty thin, with even the hits - Walk This Way and Mama Kin - getting way better treatment by Run DMC and Guns N Roses, this feels like a full-throated bar band having a good time.
Feels symptomatic of an indulgent age that songs on this album get intro'd with, variously, dulcimers, "exotic" percussion and a didgeridoo - and then are never heard of again. It's back to meat 'n' potatoes rock, sometimes accentuated with brass. It's fine! The highlights - 'Young Lust', 'Love in an Elevator', 'The Other Side' - are top tier. But there's a fair bit of filler here, and perhaps my ears are faulty but 'Janie's Got a Gun' has never charmed me. Why does plodder 'What It Takes' have such a high play count on Spotify?
This seems like the album where Aerosmith got it together and joined Def Lepard and Bon Jovi’s pop-influenced parade, which promptly marched them all the way to the bank. I don’t think they ever looked back. And really, Steven Tyler’s voice was made for this side of the rock coin. The lyrics are almost comically sex-obsessed. But he seems so shameless and the melodies are strong enough that I almost don’t even notice when he sings things like shoving a tongue between two cheeks. Almost. The hits were catchy and still are. I wish the lyrics were different, but then it wouldn’t be Aerosmith. And Alex, “What it Takes” was a big hit over here if memory serves. There was a period of years where every video they made was an event. They knew what they were doing on that front better than most, and it doesn’t surprise me that any of their singles from that era has a high play count on Spotify. Even though “Dream On” is still their best song by a mileosmith.
Can I just give this a 4 and not listen to it? I get it, this is a great album. This is the album that was played to death by everyone at the time. This is the album that made me never want to hear Aerosmith again. And then first roommate I ever had, guess their favorite band. I can't do this. I'm serious. I know it's a good album, I just done with it. Ok, so I played it and just skipped the cringe tracks and like I said I'd give it a 4. I still love The Other Side and got a really pleasant surprise with Hoodoo/Voodoo Medicine Man. I never caught that one before, probably my favorite song on the album at the moment. I couldn't go 5 because Aerosmith is such a caricature of a rock band to me, but this album is really solid nonetheless.
Not quite my type of music but enjoyable. Sounds very American which is no bad thing
2 stars for the music, 1 extra for the lively discussion.
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how embarrassing
I have never been an Aerosmith fan. Their songs are earworms to me. It is cool to know where so many of their big hits came from--this album--and hear all the deeper cuts. This album isn't going to make it into my rotation, but it was an almost historical listen.
Aerosmith's "Pump" was HUGE back in the day, fueled by constant MTV airplay and sexy models (including the band members' kids, eww) in all of their ubiquitous videos. Sadly, "Janie's Got A Gun" became prophetic and remains prescient. Thirty-three years later, this album sounds sexist and bombastic.
Very cool
Rock de Aerosmith. Ningún megahit.
band should have died with the 70s
i quit early on this one. didn't like it at all
My second Aerosmith album. Honestly, how many more are there? It gets the traditional 2 stars with a nod to Love in an Elevator as a fine and ridiculous song.
Their best post-reunion album, but still too slick.
Objectively speaking this is classic rock music and if I was in a bar having a beer it would be reasonably enjoyable to hear a few tracks from this album. At home, the music is a bit nondescript to my ears.
Bought it back in the day. Cringe a bit listening to it now
Bollox
Ticks all the boxes for classic American rock, and does it very well. Ok in small doses but the whole thing is a bit much for me, it's just not my thing
I was in there mid for this cheesy uplifting slice. All me tomorrow and I'll hate it, but today I enjoyed.
In hindsight, seems somewhat inappropriate that Love in an Elevator was played at school discos - this was probably my first exposure to Aerosmith. What I hadn't realised was how long they'd been around before this (and that they're still around now!) The nostalgia around this album (and more so for Get a Grip) was MTV, they (well their record company) knew how to play the game, sexy videos, get people talking, great marketing, etc. Does this album hold up? I'm not so sure, all feels a bit dated now.
Pretty good album! I always expect Aerosmith to be good and this was no exception. Kinda crazy this came out in 1989 it seems way older. The 4 track run from love in an elevator to the other side is awesome. Janies got a gun is one of their best. What it takes is a fantastic closer. 6/10
Pretty good! Janie's Got A Gun is my fav track.
Just comically horny and not very good.
i guess aerosmith never misses. expect in choosing a decent man as their lead singer. kudos.
I'm on board with almost everything this band did through teaming with Run DMC. You know, back when the blow was good! Anything they tried to force on the world after that borders on abysmal. Worse than awful.
There are some bands you get the sense are in it to make the music they love and all the other stuff - fame and fortune - is a secondary consideration. They'd do what they do for 50 or 5000 people. Then there's bands for whom it appears to be the other way round. Nirvana were just around the corner, and judging by this couldn't get there quick enough. Adequate.
Very good
Screw it, this was fun.
Alright but nothing particularly special for me here.
God, this is fucking awful. Why is it on the list? Aerosmith must be the most overrated band of all time. Nothing original about them, didn't break any new ground, wrote a few decent songs over the course of 50 years and the rest is a bunch of crap. There's a song on this album called Dulcimer Stomp? What do they think they are, Led Zeppelin? The best thing about this album is the one minute hidden track at the very end that they didn't even write or perform. And don't get me started on Steven Tyler's stupid face. The only good thing he did was to produce Liv Tyler, and he didn't even own up to that. 1 star.
This tape was on constant play as a kid. Age 9 rocking to The Other Side, Janie's Got a Gun and What It Takes. No idea the subject matter, just loved it. I remember the album art had a pierced cow's utter. Sadly, this album does not hold up, still nostalgic, but lost the magic.
One of my least enjoyed music styles. I wish I liked it but This album did nothing but confirm that. Best song: Going Down/ Love in an Elevator Favorite lyric: ....Masturbatin' with a noose. Now someone's kickin out the chair. And the squeeze box in the ballad.... wut ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Some good songs, I've listened to enough Aerosmith.
Ugh what a sloggggg. Love in an elevator is the only track I recognised and that was kind of fun. If you have no connection to these kind of songs they're just a big embarrassing cringe heap really. Such a one-track sound with no variety.
Eugh its just a bit cringe isn't it. I can't say I enjoyed this at all - just a bit much. But I get that its a bit of a laugh, its not meant to be serious serious music.. .right?
I guess it's not baaaad but it's just feels a bit embarrassing. It's funny that Aerosmith are often considered a big heavy rock epic band but today it comes across quite cringey
Who wants to make love in an elevator? Quite a few people apparently. Fun furious mullet banging
Heavy, precise, and often loud in its approach. Several songs segued into the next, which was a nice touch. I could've done without several of the interludes that start songs, but overall, a solid effort. Favorite track: Love in an Elevator
This album has tons of energy right from the first second of the first track. Lots of known hits, including "What it Takes", "Love in an Elevator", and "Janie's Got a Gun". "Young Lust" and "F.I.N.E." were nice surprises; love Aerosmith. 9/10.
thought Guitar Hero: Aerosmith was a fairly comprehensive catalog… boy was I wrong
Took me back to kid hood!
Aerosmith? More like Aero whiff. Not my favorite. Seeing a trend where a lot of these albums have like one big song on it that outshine the rest of the album, which is not necessarily what I think of when I think of the best albums of all time. I guess 1001 is a lot of albums so I guess some of them are just carried by a song or two.
That’s some hair for sure! Actually surprised by some of the variance on this though. Good album, just not my genre. Remember that Aerosmith ride at Disney world? Lol I liked that ride
This is a top 1001 album of all time? Wow. Toys in the Attic, maybe, but this, nope. Without Run DMC and MTV, we may never have had to listen to this. Janie's Got a Gun gets it to two stars, even though it was played relentlessly on MTV and elsewhere, it's not bad.
They said hootchie cootchie too many times on that one song. There were a couple more interesting songs here that saved the album for me…2.6 still though.
Classic album, classic cover. Right up there with my other favorite Aerosmith album, "Get a Grip." "Love in an Elevator," "Janie's Got a Gun," "The Other Side," and "What It Takes" are all greatest hits material—which is why they're all on "Big Ones."
A juggernaut of an album with some of my all-time favorites.
My second Aerosmith album. Again, they don't do a lot for me aside from a few hits. I definitely liked this one more than 'Rocks' but not something I would put on again or listen to as a whole. I think I might like their 80s/90s comeback more than their original 70s run but haven't listened enough to know that for sure and a song like 'Sweet Emotion' is still better than any of these songs. Standout Tracks: Young Lust, Water Song/Janie's Got a Gun, Hoodoo/Voodoo Medicine Man
Never been a big Aerosmith fan. Their music always annoyed me along with their personalities that seemed obnoxious. Maybe it’s decline of the popularity of rock music, but I’ve softened to these guys and I enjoyed this album so far (3 songs to go, so hope it doesn’t let down suddenly).
They put on a good party.
What's worse than a bunch of vapid young dudes playing sleazy, overproduced glam metal in the late 80s? A bunch of vapid old dudes playing sleazy, overproduced glam metal in the late 80s.
Some Aerosmith is alright, but this kinda is a dud for me. Sleazy without a lot a redeeming musical qualities for me. Just reminds me of walking into a dive bar in some little town.
I like most Aerosmith singles, probably with the exception of the ones on this album. It wasn’t what I was expecting from Aerosmith. Like it was great rock with some interesting stuff throw in but it just wasn’t for me
-"Young Lust" is homonymous with "Young Lust" by Pink Floyd. Also is is a super catchy, upbeat song to kick off the album -Intro to "F.I.N.E." almost sounds like heavy metal -I appreciate the dumb pun of "Going Down/Love In An Elevator -"My Girl" is another high-intensity track -The intro to "Don't Get Mad, Get Even" is a great thumping rhythm -Low voice jam at the end of "Hoodoo/Voodoo Medicine Man" is very cool -A lot of songs with slashes in the titles -Great album with solid, catchy tracks, only two songs I didn't like super enjoy ("Water Song/Jamie's Got A Gun" and "What It Takes"). Probably a lower 5 but it is certainly way stronger than lots of 4's so I will give it the 5 stars
Aerosmith was never my band and still isn’t after listening to Pump.
I enjoyed this one more than expected. In general, I'm not much of a fan of what I'd call pop metal. But Aerosmith are just on top of their game on this album. They know exactly what they're doing and do it really well! Also some heavier bits on here than expected. Unfortunately, there are a few stinkers on here as well such as Water Song/Janie's Got A Gun. But still a very nice album on the whole.
Hard Rock Cafe
Good stuff
Enough of what you'd expect from Aerosmith but not Toys in the Attic.
I really didn't wanna listen to Steven Tyler's voice so most this album's getting is a 2.
Un bon album de hard rock avec de bin classique 4
It ain’t bad, kinda corny but it’s Aerosmith so what do you expect
This could be the truest Aerosmith sound. It’s good, but it’s not my Aerosmith.
Classic rock sound, i always loved "Janie's Got a Gun" but it's the least Aerosmith song on the album
Dude - finally! I was just saying that we needed some Aerosmith on this list! So I came late to the Aerosmith party - back in the late 80s when this album came out, Aerosmith was "hood" music - you know, the kids with the jean jackets full of patches with long hair who frequented the school's smoking section during lunch. Basically Eddie from Stranger Things. The rest of us "preppy" kids (maybe??) were all about the C&C, some Cathy Dennis (I think this is the second time I've referenced her in a review), or whatever the latest Michael W. Smith "Saddam Hussein" remix was (remember those? Super patriotic Gulf War remixes that filled local radio? There was even a Bette Midler "From a Distance" version)...I knew some of their stuff, of course, but would never have considered myself a fan. But here's the thing - other than some weird sexist themes that were par for the course for music from this time - this stuff doesn't age! It's its own genre. Unlike most genres, where it's relatively easy to pin down a time frame (REM could ONLY be late 80s/early 90s; Boston could ONLY be mid-late 70s; Cathy Dennis (again!) could only be 1990/1991), but not Aerosmith. No siree. Early 80s? Late 80's? I don't want to miss a thing? Just Aerosmith. I loved this whole album - some tunes more than others, of course - but it's all 100% pure Aerosmith. Makes me want to go to Hollywood Studios and get launched into some Rockin' Rollercoaster awesomeness...
Man, I was dreading listening to this. Janie's Got a Gun has to be one of the alltime worst songs in my head, it was just so ubiquitous, it was everywhere, I mean, completely inescapable. Plus, I thought that Armageddon song was on here. And Janie's Got a Gun was not the only big hit from this album, this album dominated MTV and local radio. This was peak Hair Metal era, and Aerosmith was dominating. But here's the thing, Aerosmith is not typical hair metal. This was an OG late seventies hard rock band, seamlessly inserting themselves into the pop landscape while somehow pretty much being true to themselves. At least at this point! Because they would even get Bigger after this. It's fascinating to me, because when I found out Whitesnake was formed by the guy from Deep Purple, and Damn Yankees was some supergroup formed from ted nugent and dudes from styx and night ranger (!), I was shocked. Those guys, that was the prototypical Hair Metal sound - loud rockin' power chords + droning groaning annoying power ballads. So, What It Takes is about as close as it gets to a power ballad here - this album is pretty much Aerosmith picking up from and improving upon Permanent Vacation's pop success of Rag Doll, Dude Looks Like a Lady, and the god-awful power ballad Angel (to be fair, I find all power ballads to be god-awful) with the sound that made them unique among the rock landscape at the time. By unique, one could argue, actually good. But I couldn't appreciate that back then, because I was so blindly determined to hate the band that relentlessly imposed Janie Janie Janie on me. And let's not forget how much MTV loved these expensive videos, and would continue to. Love in an Elevator, What It Takes, Other Side, I mean, this album was just saturating America! And yet, these guys threw horns onto metal riffs, accordions into country-infused rock ballads, and were still slapping funky blues licks over top of snappy rock beats across all their music. It was definitely a cut above Poison, Warrant, and White Lion. And so, listening to the OTHER SONGS on this album, it's all good. It's just good f'ing rock music man, and I'm sorry I hated it back then, but you gotta understand, sometimes some of us need music that is a little "deeper" than Love in an Elevator. But generally, the world doesn't. The world needs songs about sex, and I now understand that that is a-ok.
Man, I don't like Steven Tyler's voice. It really is annoying to listen to. And the rest of the music is alright. Guess I don't really like Aerosmith. Favorite song: Don't get mad, get even Worst song: Young lust
Finally got round to it, was good, not too spectacular though.
Classic Rock and roll alright
What an absolute bummer. My second Aerosmith album after the pleasantly surprising “Toys in the Attic”, but this one more or less confirmed to my original impression of the band as a loutish cartoon rock group. Almost all of the pop sensibility from their earlier albums is reduced to the most banal rock and roll cliches which are seldom memorable, and frequently annoying. Steven Tyler’s singular vocal talents are undermined by his seeming inability to pick out a catchy melody on this record. Only on the admittedly poignant single “Janie’s Got a Gun” does he contribute something consequential to the album. Truth be told, I really rate that song’s mature handling of an extremely fraught issue, the kind of topic which most glam rock/hair metal groups were incapable of confronting at this point in time. It’s nearly a saving grace for Pump, the one point when everything works across the whole group. There’s almost a duality in Aerosmith’s approach evidenced on this record: on the one hand, it’s clear these weathered rockers are capable of writing a tune and even incorporating some bluegrass flourishes in their style; yet they revert back to synthetic, nondescript 80s fm rock all too frequently. The latter may have sold more records for them, but it does not a memorable album make. The rest of these songs are mailed
Really? In 1989, when I was 17, I though this was juvenile and poorly considered. Good to know that I am consistent with a few things. Entertainment value rooted to time and place, no doubt ('Love in an Elevator', and its "x-rated" video, were considered a bit risqué back then. (Does anyone use the word risqué any more? Does the concept still exist? We go from prudery to full-on porn with no intermediate steps these days. Or maybe I'm being a silly old fuddie duddie). Musical value was close to zilch. And trust me, they knew this. (Check out the album cover. No one with any aspirations towards taste and aesthetics would want to be associated with that eyesore. I mean, the trucks are so ugly!) Anyways. If you know why this album found its way here, please do not @ me. I am the better for not needing to know such things.
4/5. A pretty enjoyable album with amazing vocals from Steven Tyler. Some of the songs are cliche but the transitions between songs really makes this album stand out.
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Pretty cool, has that 80s Aerosmith sound but deviates into new and interesting areas to keep it fresh for the whole album. Nicely constructed!
I think this was preferable to the previous Aerosmith albums
idk how to explain this, but this album sounds like it smells of gasoline and stale sweat.
Excellent, exciting music. Must listen again.
So, fun fact, the first band that I ever really got into. This was during their Get a Grip era when they were suddenly all over the place again. After getting my money's worth out of Get a Grip, I decided to get Pump. Unfortunately for Aerosmith, I also got Dookie by Green Day and Nevermind by Nirvana. That last album would change my life in many ways, but the long and short of it is that I never really got into this album because it just seemed uninteresting next to the more modern rock I was being exposed to. I find this album's inclusion on this list to be a bit strange, since I don't remember it as being particularly groundbreaking, either in terms of Aerosmith's development as a band or in terms of the larger patterns present in the world of popular music. Hearing Steven Tyler sing about Young Lust at 41 years old is not particularly the experience that I was looking for this morning either. This album is not without its charms. The hits off of this record hold up decently well for white boy blues rock. Still, this album feels like a bunch of rockers that are getting to be over the hill pretending like they're still in their 20s. Also, Janie's Got a Gun would be a lot more powerful song if the rest of Aerosmith's catalogue wasn't creeping around young women. I really struggle to finish any of these songs because Aerosmith always feels like they're trying to filibuster their own albums. Little did we know at the time that we would have to listen to 25 more goddman years of this stuff. It's good that Nevermind came along 3 years after this album and put all of this nonsense to death 3/5
Garbanzos.
This is REALLY not might kind of groove. 'Janie's Got a Gun' was nice and 'Hoodoo/ Voodoo Medicine Man' cranked the energy up a bit which was much needed. Hate the fiddle at the end of 'What It Takes'. Interesting that this album should appear the day after NASA redirected the trajectory course of an asteroid by crashing into it - just a shame that 'I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing' is not on the record.
I’ll never be the big Aerosmith fan. They’ve got a handful of bangers, but other than that I just don’t care that much for one of Boston’s horniest and most cocaine sounding bands - quite an achievement by the way. For some reason I didn’t dislike this as much as I would’ve thought going into it. I don’t love it, but I most certainly don’t hate it. “Young Lust” was a surprisingly strong opener almost sounding like the Toys in the Attic-era. “Janie’s Got a Gun” and “The Other Side” are highlights as well, the first being one of the band’s absolute greatest songs. While most of the record still falls victim to many of the Aerosmith cliches I don’t enjoy, I wasn’t nearly as annoyed as expected. I actually rather enjoyed most of their antics. Well done, Aerosmith. I won’t give you a listen for the next many months. But quite well done, nevertheless.
F.I.N.E. is a fun dadrock track, funny Hypersexual Fun riffs but not to interesting
3.5
i am going to listen to all of it because those are the rules but one song in and i hate it
You put on the album and it's got a kinda cool, sleazy energy to it. Surprisingly good, considering you never liked Aerosmith. The second song come on and it starts to feel repetitive, yeah, okay you get it. By the third song you try to leave but whatever door you take, whatever corner you round, you end up back in the Hard Rock Café Merchandise corner. You had just wanted an Irish Coffee. Janie's Got A Gun goes for a different energy, but that doesn't help. The Other Side puts you right back where it started and you figure you never went to strip clubs for the musical experience.
Opening track ("Young Lust") feels kinda dated and boring. Also repetitive. Also not really into "Love In An Elevator." Still really love "Janie's Got A Gun," though. And "Dulcimer Stomp" is kind of cool.
hahaha this is not a "you-must-listen" album unless the number went from 1001 to 1000001, steven tyler is the anthony kiedis of singing about fucking
I like some Aerosmith but I’m not the hugest fan.
3.5/5. Aerosmith are good to listen to when you just want a dumb fun time. I have fond memories of Young Lust from that Flaming Moe episode of the Simpsons.
Some decent songs on here, but I just don't get the love for Aerosmith
Young lust- Lyrics iffy in parts but Catchy👍 Fine- next level of horniness Love in an elevator - heard of this song, but didn't actually know how it went. V catchy👍 Monkey on my back- bit of self reflection about excessive drug use. Janie's got a gun- poignant song about sexual abuse and the resulting consequences👍 The other side - quite generic but also hella catchy👍 My girl- meh Don't get mad get even- chorus is very blah Voodoo Medicine man- drums standout but bit melodramatic and taking itself too seriously. What it takes - this sounds like it could be on the soundtrack on a cheesy film. Also I kinda hate the random callback to fine.
Not the biggest Aerosmith fan, but there are some good moments. Standout songs are Going Down/Love in an Elevator and Young Lust.
Not a fan
Mediocre
Nah. Nope.
Todo un discazo de rock desde el inicio hasta el final. Con temas muy reconocidos y con gran pegada
ooo baby. this is an aerosmith record...and i'm just not that into aerosmith.
2.5/5
Solid, but like the older stuff better
It has success in their time, maybe too cliche now.
"Pump" is the 10th studio album from Aerosmith which included (in the US) four top-40 hits. Aerosmith wanted a more raw sound than their previous album "Permanent Vacation" and also, producer Bruce Fairbaim wanted to get in as many hooks as possible on the songs. I think they accomplished both. A critic called this "the high-water mark of the glam metal era." Is that like being the world's tallest....oh forget it. Glam metal was a huge musical genre in the late 80's and this is probably one of the better ones. I liked how they kind of sound like "Rocks"-era Aerosmith combined with some of the glam metal choruses and hooks. They brought in experimental instrumentalist Randy Raine-Reusch which adds a unique sound to some of their bigger songs. Most of these songs have sexual themes. No surprises there. Although, there are a few deeper lyrical songs about abuse, guns, the environment and drug abuse. The album starts out rockin' with "Young Lust" and "F.I.N.E" and reminiscent of early to mid-70's Aerosmith. Great Joe Perry guitar. Lyrics about lust, sex, etc. "Going Down/Love in an Elevator" kicked off the successful string of singles. Funky start. Horns. Great production. The glam metal chorus. "Water Song/Janie's Got a Gun" ends side one. One of the cooler things about this song is the musical intro by Randy Raine-Reusch using a glass harmonica. A deeper song about abuse, molestation and even gun control. The video was pretty deep if I remember correctly. Side two begins with another hit "Dulcimer/The Other Side." Another Randy Raine-Reusch intro with the dulcimer. Horns and big start. Nice chorus. Aerosmith had to include Holland-Dozier-Holland in the writing credits for the similarities to "Standing in the Shadows of Love." The albums ends with "What It Takes," a ballad of sorts I would say. Sometimes Stephen Tyler's voice can irritate me but he actually shines in this song. Pretty good lyrics too..breaking up with someone and realizing the relationship meant nothing to them. I admit to not being the biggest Aerosmith, or even glam metal fan. And, this is the first time listening to this, probably since half these songs were played pretty much throughout 1989. However, this is a really good album accomplishing probably everything they wanted to do. It did not sound dated and has an old school Aerosmith harder edge taking it over the top for me.
Listening to this album after listening to and reviewing several other rock albums through this site has given me new appreciation for Aerosmith. I never really noticed how polished their sound is; it feels like every riff and backup vocal is done with purposeful precision. I also find the amount of layered vocals and almost rock opera-like key changes pleasantly surprising for the type of rock band Aerosmith is. Sure, a couple tracks aren't as great as the rest, but overall, this is a beautiful collection.
Quintessential Aerosmith. Never been a huge Aerosmith fan, but this is a damn fine metal album from a F.I.N.E. bunch of musicians.
wowww
Good rock n roll. Lyrics are a bit simply, but overall entertaining album
Really not a fan of Aerosmith's take on blues/R&B inspired hard rock. They are very talented and write good songs, good energy, and give good performances. I just don't vibe with them for the most part. I do think their unique style would grow on me though.
Two trucks having sex. Okej album, mislim koliko sam čuo da je to njihov sober album? Ne znam, svejedno il ti paše taj glas/glazba ili ne. Men je osrednje, iako sam već sad polako počeo manje mrzit njih, ali opet - tipa ne može ovo biti bolje od prethodnog albuma (King Crimsona - In the Court...), tako da. Međutim oni koji slušaju imalo ovaj bend, mislim da im je sigurna trojka, a možda i četvorka. Najbolja stvar? Water Song/Janie's Got a Gun. Općenito što manje ljubavnih, srceparajućih pjesama to bolje, a ovdje nema baš toliko koliko sam osjetio.
My ex wife once had her stool sample analysed and the odour was described as "offensive". This album reminded me of that, and I would almost have rather spent the 47 minutes smelling her turd than listening to this one.
Not really an Aerosmith fan
It’s really misogynistic so it’s hard to hear it for anything beyond that. The musicians are obviously good and the folksy moments are fun, but the lyrics are so trite and problematic that it’s a 2 for me
i can never listen to stuff like this without thinking about woodstock ‘99 and the whole “rock for white dudes only” movement. yes it’s technically good, but man you can really see why grunge was needed right after this.
funny but medium
The album cuts are almost as good as the hits.
Have listened to this a ton! I like this album a lot actually but only cause I have a nostalgia bias. This album is guilty of a lot of things that many classic rock albums are, including excessive yeahs, transphobic undertones, and guitars that are too loud, the tones, playing and overall band chemistry is amazing! The producer of this knew what they were doing for sure!
I feel objectified listening to F.I.N.E. It's the 2nd song on the album and I feel a big yikes. Demotivated from listening to the rest of the album. Getting a laugh that Google classifies this song as "Genres: Children's Music" Janie's Got a A Gun/Water Song reminds me of Katie Pruitt - Grace Has A Gun. I like Katie's version much more. I listened to the whole album and I feel meh about it. Sounds classic, I guess.
Not the absolute cheese-fest I expected it to be. Tyler is a genuinely good vocalist, and paired with some fun melodic ideas in the vox and instrumentation the band manages to make most tracks shine with a bit of tongue-in-cheek joy. Not too much soppy balladry or radio filler - the only thing dragging this LP down is that most tracks are a minute or two too long.
Good album, catchy songs, amazing riffs, drumming and vocals.
solid rock album, very surprised about the low stream count on spotify. its an alround great album only lacking a real sing along hit
The only song on here that I would relisten to is Janey Got a Gun
Terrible! Worst album yet, Love in an Elevator top 10 worst songs of all time?!?!
Some of these lyrics are so embarrassing
Aerosmith 😊
very enjoyable rock, even liked the slower songs
What a drab, tedious affair.
Good classic rock sound, many of the songs were a little same-y though. Janeys got a gun stood out though, that one's a classic. Would listen to again for a tailgate or a drive
It's just too try-hard bad boy rock. First three tracks all seem to be about hot girls and so on. Just a bit boring to be honest. Not a fan of Steve Tyler's vocals. Overall it's fine as a relic of its time but it's incredibly dated.
18th July 2022 Listened while working from home. Went for a walk in the evening round the village and put some books away. Enjoyed the second half of this more than the first, felt less shallow and more groovy.
Enjoyable but standard areosmith
Awful 80s rock bilge. Girls, drink, drugs etc etc. *yawn* Not even good musically either. Without Tyler’s vocal style it could be any one of hundreds of bands.
doesn’t hit the heights of childhood nostalgia or the rock and rollercoaster but still has a fun, screamy quality mixed in with some less expected sounds
Was a moderate Aerosmith fan in the 90's. I appreciate their style but it is not something I typically gravitate to. That being said, this album does contain some classics. Enjoyed it but was ready to move on.
Was gonna give it a 3 but the lyrics brought it down. Cringe ass lyrics. “Livin it up while I’m going down”? Bro stfu. “Masturbatin with a noose”? Kys
everything is about sex???? wheres the math? wheres the physics? Take me home mom, I'm scared.
I'm sure that this appeals a great deal to many people, but I honestly find the majority of it quite tiring. The lyrics have really not stood up well. Even at the time "Love in an elevator" appealed most to the puerile sniggering teenager. It just seems so silly.
It’s just shit isn’t it. Just bill and Ted in real life.
El mejor de Aerosmith, bastante energético.
Longevity is seemingly rare, but Aerosmith will not let you see that. Aerosmith has remained one of the most consistent rock bands in what is now two different centuries, a feat shared by only a handful of their contemporaries. Getting their start in the 70s, staying relevant in the late 80s when rock was being bullied by electronic pop and chic consumerism, to hitting the charts yet again in the late 90s, Aerosmith may not be the best rock band ever but they certainly have been the most present. 1989's "Pump" is not an exceptional album until the fact that it was 1989 sets in as a reality. This turn of the decade saw a lot of significant changes in music, where society was beginning to swear off synth-pop and bands like Aerosmith laid some groundwork to kick off some of the 90s prominent bands (Alice In Chains, e.g.). The album rocks well as any Aerosmith album will. Steven Tyler's wailing vocals are as strong as ever, and the music will have you humming or tapping your feet as a good rock album should.
I’ve herd of the band and I mean… eh… The album opens with young lust a solid well performed heavy rock song just the lyrics aren’t great. F.I.N.E. Is well… fine or allllright it doesn’t do anything offensive the sound is great even but nothing stand out or notable. Going down= useless interlude Love in an elevator has some great instrumentation and a catchy chorus but lacks that special factor that most rock songs like this would have. Monkey on my back is a slower rocker not a favourite but at least they are trying something different at the start of the song then it goes into generic garbage but it’s still digestible. Water song= useless interlude number 2 But hey Janie’s got a gun is at least a decent all be it formulaic slow jam that I actually appreciate unlike the rest of the album! Dulcimer stomp= useless interlude number 3 The other side is a very big sounding yet surprisingly uninteresting track with little sonic verity from its peers. I don’t get what makes this so boring but it just is the short rocker my girl is no exemption. Don’t get mad, get even actually starts off awesomely it’s a fairly rubbish slow cowboy like sounding song with an explosive chorus but at least it’s not the same song over and again. Hoodoo= useless interlude number 4 but at least this one sounds cool. Voodoo medicine man is actually decent to be fair most of it’s generic as heck but the lyrics are okay and the chorus is pretty cool. The album ends on what it takes a good slow piano lead song still nowhere near the best song ever but certainly is for the album! This is just a band that already wasn’t great in their 10th studio album essentially writing 7 songs that were exactly the same and 3 that were generic but cool. Most of the bands verity actually comes from all of those useless interludes and they suck. But there’s worse in the world.
Gross
Why??? This is absolutely awful.
Just another late 80’s MTV rock album.
It's what i expected. Nothing to write home about, but nothing objectionable.
Maybe it was because I was 9 or 10 when this album was getting MASSIVE airplay and especially on MTV, but this one, and their follow-up Get A Grip were in heavy rotation in my house when they came out. Neither album is terrific, not by any means, but sometimes it's nice to sit down and just enjoy an album that's not trying to be the next big thing, just trying to rock the way the band knew how to. Though, to be honest, I would put Get a Grip on before this one if I was going to listen to just one.
Much more the Aerosmith sound I grew up with, with the cleaner production and continuation of their 'Carry On' level innuendos. Not a complaint when Love in an Elevator is so good. The tightly compressed 80s production does have the sad effect of making everything sound the same though - so the lack of variation between songs really grates after a while. It's fun, but insubstantive fun. Like Elvis Costello, I feel like Aerosmith pop up more than the quality of their albums justify here, but a best of Aerosmith is essential, just individual albums probably require a devotion to them that makes no sense to me.
Aerosmith is one of those bands that I feel like most people, when pressed, will admit that they don't mind them. It's fun, somewhat generic rock and roll that feels like it could've come out from any point after Led Zepplin took the stage. I went into this fully expecting to give it a middle-of-the-road score, but came away realizing I knew (and enjoyed) more songs on it, from the whooping "Love in an Elevator" to the weird ... keyboards? ... of "Janie's Got a Gun". Even recorded, Steven Tyler is an electric performer. Favorite tracks: "Love in an Elevator", "What It Takes", "The Other Side"
Never been particularly interested in Aerosmith, and, well, I'm still not. Always liked "Janie's Got a Gun", to be sure, and I can understand why they became popular again at that time, but it's not exactly for me.
I think I have to give this 4 just because some of these tracks are classic. I don't know that I will listen to it again, but I respect it.
5/22/2022 - ALBUM #115 Today's Album: "Pump" by Aerosmith - This album is another great set of tracks from Aerosmith with a lot of new sonic ideas and interesting experimentation. If you want to hear my opinion for most Aerosmith songs, you can read my last review where I had a bit of a revelation and realized I enjoyed their music way more than I thought I would just hearing the hits. However, I think this album is interesting more for how it differs from the last project. Both are fantastic albums with many similarities like the amazing songwriting, insane guitar solos, interesting mixing choices, and really masterful choices in terms of the album's flow. This song centers on a common theme of young love, lust, and breakup and there are a lot of really cool moments where other song titles pop up in the lyrics in interesting ways and adds to the cohesion of the message. The guitar solos feel noticeably better than they were on Rocks, sometimes bordering on sounding like Led Zeppelin 1 (in a good way), and I really enjoy some of the departures they took from their usual style. The beginning of Dulcimer Stomp and the end of What It Takes are really cool musical interludes that sound like old Scottish folk tunes and they both took me so off guard given the usual style of Aerosmith. I also like the track Hoodoo/Voodoo Medicine Man because it sounds like a fusion of Zeppelin and Hendrix and really comes out as this loud and energetic psyche-rock tribute. There are some incredible highs on this record and for me, no song really falls under a 7 due to just how great Tyler's lyricism and songwriting is and just how many sounds the band goes for on each and every track. Harmonica is a welcome addition for sure on this album and the whole project just makes me want to hear what else the band has put together. Yes, a lot of that generic hair rock sound is present, but it is really spaced out well throughout the project and I never found myself getting fatigued. Overall, this is a great way to follow up Aerosmith's Rocks and has gotten me more and more excited to listen to more of their work. Check this one out if you liked Rocks or if you just enjoy some kick-ass hard rock. Highlights: Young Lust, Going Down/Love In An Elevator, Water Song/Janie's Got A Gun, Dulcimer Stomp/The Other Side, Hoodoo/Voodoo Medicine Man, What It Takes Score: 8/10 They did it again goddammit
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A really good album, full of classic 90s Aerosmith songs in including Love in an Elevator, Janie's Got a Gun, The Other Side, and What it Takes. 4/5
Genre: Hard Rock 2/5 This is an album that is ONLY in the book because of the artist's name recognition, and nothing more. Aerosmith has, of course, written plenty of classic songs, but none of them exist on Pump, the 1980s last ditch attempt to keep hard rock going. Instead of sounding like a big rock production, it all blends into one stale fart, utilizing the same mechanical and tinny production that makes most 80s music unbearable. The single, Janie's Got a Gun, is fine, literally nothing more than that. Steven Tyler's performance on this is classic Steven Tyler, loud and more loud, and Joe Perry stumbles through his riffs and solo sections as effectively as he ever did. But the rest is absolute drivel. Monkey on My Back, My Girl, the last 2 minutes of What It Takes, and Voodoo Medicine Man are all moments of my life I wish I could relive differently, and those are just the ones I'm mentioning here. Bland, uninteresting, and totally non-essential. Skip it.
I kind of expected to hate this, so I put it off. I didn't initially hate it, kind of irrepressible, big daft late 80s rock. To little me, this and the Run DMC track was what Aerosmith were, I had no idea of the 70s stuff until I heard REM cover Toys in the Attic and realised oh, they've been around since then? And Sweet Emotion is a banger. But this is Pump. Love in an Elevator has aged badly, as has most of this really, it's very dated. Side A really isn't very good. The Other Side though, is still very good, as it goes. That and My Girl I would still listen to. As the album goes on, it does get more interesting, it has to be said. The guy wasn't wrong in referencing Led Zep in Voodoo Medicine Man, wowsers. I waivered from 1 star all the way up to 3 whole stars. It should think itself lucky though. Actually, no, thinking back to that side A, it's getting 2.
Enjoyed more than I thought I would. Some fun songs, good guitars.
This is the first Aerosmith album I remember and one of the first albums I bought with my own money. You would think that at the very least I would have liked this for nostalgia reasons.
I have heard Pump many times, but I probably haven't listened to the album since 1992. This album was my primary introduction to Aerosmith, as they were re-establishing their career. I know better now. There is an engaging energy to the music on this album, but the lyrics are bringing me down. 40-year-old men singing about "Young Lust" - Steven Tyler has a genuine way for creeping me out. "Janie's Got a Gun" is perhaps the perfect example of the conflict in Aerosmith's music - all of the sounds (instruments and vocals) are well-crafted and performed. The music feels like Aerosmith has created a sound that unique from this band. BUT the topic and lyrics aren't what I want rattling around in my head. There are much creepier tracks on this album, that are less enticing musically. Ick!
I think this confirms that I don't need any more Aerosmith in my life. After the first listen Janie's Got A Gun was stuck in my head and it's a pretty great track. The rest is mediocre, Love In An Elevator was funny when I a teen.
I love the music on this album, it's what I consider classic rock but the lyrics, not so much. Holy cow could they not vary the subject? Anyway, I think I walked around most of the day singing Janie's got a gun and love in an elevator. It's amazing how I can't remember a phone number or why I came into a room but I can remember the lyrics to these two songs even though I haven't heard them in forever.