Aerosmith

Aerosmith – Pump (1989/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 47:43 minutes | 1,86 GB | Genre: Rock
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Aerosmith surprised everyone when their 1987 album, Permanent Vacation, was a success, coming as it did after several releases that had done nothing but verify the belief that the band had peaked a decade earlier. ‘Pump’ (1989) followed its radio-friendly predecessor and proved the Boston quintet’s comeback was no fluke. Hits like ‘Love in an Elevator’ and ‘Janie’s Got a Gun’ were ubiquitous on MTV and radio at the time, while the album in its entirety had enough substance to warrant repeated listens. ‘What it Takes’ closes the album and finds the band showing off their deft power-ballad abilities, while carefully straddling the line of cheese without ever succumbing to it. Aerosmith would sustain their commercial success with the subsequent Get a Grip, but it would not contain the same balance of artistic and populist intent that puts PUMP amongst their best records.

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Aerosmith – Pump (1989/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:43 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Geffen

Chart History/Awards
Reached #5 on the Billboard 200.
“What It Takes” reached #1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Charts.
“Janie’s Got A Gun” reached #2 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Charts.
“Janie’s Got A Gun” won the GRAMMY® for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.

Pump is Aerosmith’s tenth studio album and one of their bestselling albums in the United States. It is widely praised by both fans and critics and marked many firsts for the band including their first GRAMMY Award (“Janie’s Got A Gun”), their first #1 hit single on the Mainstream Rock charts (“Love In An Elevator”) and was one of the bestselling albums in 1990.

5 stars out of 5 “ Aerosmith stay clean and conquer the world¦Pregnant with hits: Love In An Elevator, Janie’s Got A Gun and The Other Side. –Q

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Aerosmith – Permanent Vacation (1987/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:46 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Rock
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Chart History/Awards
Reached #11 on the Billboard 200.
“Angel” reached #2 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Charts.
“Angel” reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100.
“Dude (Looks Like A Lady)” reached #4 on Billboard’s Hot 100.

Permanent Vacation, Aerosmith’s ninth studio album, represents a pivotal outing in their illustrious career. The group, one of America’s bestselling rock acts, has earned multiple GRAMMY wins and holds the record for most gold and multi-platinum albums by any American rock band. This seminal classic has been deemed by fans and critics as the band’s “comeback album” and includes the massive hits “Rag Doll,” “Dude (Looks Like A Lady)” and “Angel.” Permanent Vacation would become one of the band’s most successful works, selling over five million copies in the United States. The album also saw milestone success overseas, becoming the band’s first album to reach both Silver and Gold status in the United Kingdom.

4 stars out of 5 – “…Cleaned-up band make real ‘comeback’ album, thanks to Bon Jovi’s songwriters penning some hits and MTV introducing the band to Bon Jovi’s fans.” – Q

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Aerosmith – Nine Lives (1997/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:57 minutes | 1,40 GB | Genre: Pop/Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia

Nine Lives is the 12th studio album by American rock band Aerosmith, released March 18, 1997. The album was produced by Aerosmith and Kevin Shirley, and was the band’s first studio album released by Columbia Records since 1982’s Rock in a Hard Place. It peaked at #1 at the Billboard Charts. One of the album’s singles, “Pink”, won a Grammy for Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal.

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Aerosmith – Music From Another Dimension! (Expanded Edition) (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:20:45 minutes | 993 MB | Genre: Rock
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“How can we miss you when you won’t go away?” It’s a question that sounds as if it could be the title of an Aerosmith power ballad co-written by Diane Warren, but it’s a sentiment that also applies to the Boston quintet themselves. 2012’s Music from Another Dimension! may be their first album in eight years and their first record of original material in over a decade! but the band has never been far from the headlines during those missing years, and not just because Steven Tyler screeched his way into America’s homes as Simon Cowell’s replacement on American Idol. Joe Perry, the Keith Richards to Tyler’s Mick Jagger, never was happy about Tyler’s leap to the small screen but it was just one of many interpersonal squabbles that bled their way into the public. That schism can be heard on Music from Another Dimension!, particularly toward its conclusion when Perry muscles his way to the mike for a pair of bracing rockers reminiscent of the band at full flight, but more than anything, this big-budget blockbuster telegraphs that Aerosmith is indeed broadcasting from another dimension, a dimension where splashy kitchen-sink albums from rock bands could sell millions of copies on sheer momentum alone. Carrie Underwood may pop up for a duet on “Can’t Stop Loving You,” but that’s the only nod to the present on an album that’s living every day like it’s 1997. Both the rockers and ballads are big, big, big, dressed in countless overdubs, so much clatter that it can be hard to hear hooks initially. This bright blare conveniently camouflages the raggedness of Tyler’s voice as well, but Aerosmith truly show their age by the very nature of the album itself. Simply put, nobody makes albums like this any more. Nobody breaks the bank attempting to make a rock album that’s everything to everyone, and Aerosmith sound entirely oblivious to this state of affairs, carrying on like it was 1997. And, in a sense, as an overall piece of product, Music from Another Dimension! is no worse than Nine Lives. It may lack a single as immediate as “Fallin’ in Love (Is Hard on the Knees)” or the subsequent “Jaded” from 2001’s Just Push Play but it faithfully follows Aerosmith’s ’90s blueprint, getting nothing wrong but never quite feeling right.

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Aerosmith – Music From Another Dimension! (2012/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:08:04 minutes | 831 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia

“How can we miss you when you won’t go away?” It’s a question that sounds as if it could be the title of an Aerosmith power ballad co-written by Diane Warren, but it’s a sentiment that also applies to the Boston quintet themselves. 2012’s Music from Another Dimension! may be their first album in eight years — and their first record of original material in over a decade! — but the band has never been far from the headlines during those missing years, and not just because Steven Tyler screeched his way into America’s homes as Simon Cowell’s replacement on American Idol. Joe Perry, the Keith Richards to Tyler’s Mick Jagger, never was happy about Tyler’s leap to the small screen but it was just one of many interpersonal squabbles that bled their way into the public. That schism can be heard on Music from Another Dimension!, particularly toward its conclusion when Perry muscles his way to the mike for a pair of bracing rockers reminiscent of the band at full flight, but more than anything, this big-budget blockbuster telegraphs that Aerosmith is indeed broadcasting from another dimension, a dimension where splashy kitchen-sink albums from rock bands could sell millions of copies on sheer momentum alone. Carrie Underwood may pop up for a duet on “Can’t Stop Loving You,” but that’s the only nod to the present on an album that’s living every day like it’s 1997. Both the rockers and ballads are big, big, big, dressed in countless overdubs, so much clatter that it can be hard to hear hooks initially. This bright blare conveniently camouflages the raggedness of Tyler’s voice as well, but Aerosmith truly show their age by the very nature of the album itself. Simply put, nobody makes albums like this any more. Nobody breaks the bank attempting to make a rock album that’s everything to everyone, and Aerosmith sound entirely oblivious to this state of affairs, carrying on like it was 1997. And, in a sense, as an overall piece of product, Music from Another Dimension! is no worse than Nine Lives. It may lack a single as immediate as “Fallin’ in Love (Is Hard on the Knees)” — or the subsequent “Jaded” from 2001’s Just Push Play — but it faithfully follows Aerosmith’s ’90s blueprint, getting nothing wrong but never quite feeling right. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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Aerosmith – Live! Bootleg (1978/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:45 minutes | 1,70 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia

Since Aerosmith had become one of America’s premier rock & roll concert attractions by 1978, it was only natural that an in-concert collection was issued that year, the double album, Live Bootleg. Unlike other live albums at the time, it’s obvious that not a lot of overdubbing was involved to fix up the tracks, which results in a refreshingly authentic representation of Aerosmith at the group’s most drugged-out and rocking. All of the performances were taken from Tyler and company’s 1977-1978 U.S. tour (with the exception of a couple from 1973), while the album’s packaging and title were a joke on all the poor-sounding, unauthorized live recordings that were in circulation at the time.

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Aerosmith – Just Push Play (2001/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:50 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Rock
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Give Aerosmith credit for not only realizing something was wrong after Nine Lives relatively flat-lined, but deciding to do something about it. Ditching the outside producers who initially liberated but eventually straitjacketed them, Steve Tyler and Joe Perry seized control of the boards, working with the assistance of Mark Hudson and Marti Frederiksen. (Forever the Stones fanatics, Tyler and Perry dubbed this crew the Boneyard Boys, just like how Mick-n-Keef are the Glimmer Twins.) So, this isn’t really a full-fledged band affair and Hudson and Frederiksen’s fingerprints are all over the place, but that doesn’t matter since the end result is tighter, savvier, and better than anything since Pump. It’s still far from perfect, however, since it suffers from a dearth of memorable material, and the group members’ steadfast refusal to act their age results in a couple of embarrassing slips into stodginess (the “f*ckin’ A” chorus on the title track, a song improbably titled “Trip Hoppin’,” or the ludicrous “Avant Garden”). These mean that the record doesn’t come close to matching the twin comebacks of Permanent Vacation and Pump, but it’s a sleek, classicist hard rock record that sounds good — better than Aerosmith has sounded in nearly a decade, as a matter of fact, particularly when the group gets a hook as tuneful as that of “Jaded.” Aerosmith sounds good enough on Just Push Play that it almost makes you forgive the Heavy Metal refugee on the front cover, a sexy robot illustration that looks far more out of date than the music sounds. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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Aerosmith – Honkin’ On Bobo (2004/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:02 minutes | 976 MB | Genre: Rock
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With „Honkin’ On Bobo“, Aerosmith takes a break from radio-ready fare to record an album that pays tribute to the blues influences that have always been close at hand for the group. Further enhancing the sound of this project is the presence of storied pianist Johnnie Johnson (on two tracks) and Jack Douglas, the producer for many of Aerosmith’s classic 1970s albums.

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Aerosmith – Greatest Hits (1980/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:10 minutes | 925 MB | Genre: Rock
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Recorded: 1972 at Intermedia Studios, Boston, Massachusetts; 1973–1977 and 1979 at Record Plant Studios, New York City, New York; February–March 1976 and August 1978 at the Wherehouse, Waltham, Massachusetts; June–October 1977 at the Cenacle, Armonk, New York; 1979 at Media Sound, New York City, New York

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Aerosmith – Get Your Wings (1974/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:13 minutes | 856 MB | Genre: Rock
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Get Your Wings is the second studio album by Aerosmith and was originally released on March 1, 1974. It was recorded between December 17, 1973 and January 14, 1974 at Record Plant Studios in New York City. Produced by Ray Colcord and Jack Douglas, the album peaked at #74 on the 1974 Billbaord 200 chart and would eventually go on to be certified Platinum three times over by the RIAA. Hit singles from the album were “Same Old Song and Dance”, “Train Kept A-Rollin”, and “S.O.S. (Too Bad)”.

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Aerosmith – Get A Grip (1993/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:02:17 minutes | 2,63 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Geffen

The eleventh studio album by Aerosmith. ‘Get A Grip’ became Aerosmith’s best-selling studio album worldwide, achieving sales of over 20 million copies, and is tied with ‘Pump’ for their second best-selling album in the United States, selling over 7 million copies as of 1995. This also made it their third consecutive album with US sales of at least five million. ‘Get A Grip’ won the band two Grammy Awards for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.

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Aerosmith – Get A Grip (1993/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:17 minutes | 1,46 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Geffen

Chart History/Awards
Reached #1 on the Billboard 200.
“Cryin'” reached #1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Charts.
“Amazing” reached #1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Charts.
“Livin’ On The Edge” reached #1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Charts.
“Livin’ On The Edge” won the GRAMMY® for Best Rock Performance By a Duo or Group with Vocals.
“Crazy” won the GRAMMY® for Best Rock Performance By a Duo or Group With Vocals.
Named “Album of the Year” by Metal Edge.

Get A Grip is Aerosmith’s 1993 masterpiece. The album won two GRAMMY Awards for the hit songs: “Livin’ On The Edge” and “Crazy.” It features guest appearances by Don Henley and Lenny Kravitz. Get A Grip is one of the band’s bestselling works with sales exceeding over twenty million copies. The memorable classic was named “Album of the Year” by Metal Edge and includes standouts “Amazing,” “Fever,” “Eat The Rich,” “Livin’ On The Edge,” “Crazy” and “Cryin’”.

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Aerosmith – Gems (1988/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:51 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia

During Aerosmith’s first tour of duty at Columbia Records, the group established a reputation as America’s premiere hard rock band. The group has influenced bands ranging from Guns N’ Roses to R.E. M., who covered “Toys in the Attic.” „Gems“ can be looked at as the follow-up to GREATEST HITS, the band’s prior compilation. Unlike GREATEST HITS, which focused on chart hits and radio-familiar tracks, this collection leans more toward the band’s harder-rocking material.

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Aerosmith – Draw The Line (1977/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:21 minutes | 815 MB | Genre: Rock
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Draw the Line is Aerosmith’s fifth album and was originally released on December 1, 1977. It was recorded in 1977 at The Cenacle (an abandoned convent) and The Record Plant. Produced by Aerosmith and Jack Douglas, it is considered to be one of the great Heavy Metal albums. Draw the Line featured the singles “Draw the Line”, “Kings and Queens”, and “Get It Up”. It peaked at #11 on the Billboard 200 chart in 1978 and was certified double platinum by the RIAA in 1996.

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