Only Closer manages to get something through, but only up to the banal chorus that ruins the whole mood. Unfortunately, the ballads on Music from Another Dimension! are too many and too uninspired. Aerosmith are responsible for one of the most beautiful ballads in rock music, Dream On, but also for atrocities like I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing. The latter sounds exactly like what it is – a lost song from Get a Grip (1993). So, we have reached the weak points of the album, and in my opinion these are the 6 ballads (!) and the first single, Legendary Child. Further on, Beautiful has cute reminiscences from the 80s rap (a tribute to the famous cooperation with Run DMC?), Street Jesus sounds like Sweet Emotion, Lover Alot is perhaps the heaviest Aerosmith song (with how Tom Hamilton’s bass sounds), and Freedom Fighter (also sung by Joe Perry, with a little help from Johnny Depp) is a completely different song, but such a catchy chorus! While Luv XXX and Something (sung by Joe Perry with Steven Tyler on the drums) are two examples of the Beatles influence (psychedelic period), Oh Yeah and Out Go the Lights are pure rock’n’soul, with backing vocals, long jams and the whole set. The original combination of hard rock, blues, soul with a bit of psychedelic rock and many Stones and Beatles influences is found in great amounts on Music from Another Dimension! rock’n’roll! From the first listen many songs reminded me why I have loved Aerosmith for so many years. Most of the album is unexpectedly energetic, fresh, simple, varied, and. Nevertheless, many of the songs on Music from Another Dimension! seem to come indeed from a parallel dimension that gave us, a long time ago, Permanent Vacation (1987), Pump (1989) or even the classic pair Toys in the Attic (1975) – Rocks (1976).
I wasn’t expecting anything good from Aerosmith, given that in the last 20 years their music has gone into acute commercialism and their image was excessively tabloidic.
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However, none of them was as pleasant a surprise as Aerosmith’s 15 th full studio album! Each of these records was a pleasant surprise given the generally mediocre products released in the past years. It seems that fear of the Apocalypse made the big bands find inspiration and really get down to it. Another Last GoodbyeĢ012 has been a very rich year in quality rock albums.
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