POLLIN ON THE EDGE - AEROSMITH POST-PUMP SINGLES

"i don't wanna miss a thing"

Jeez, I've only heard half of them. Has anyone?

"I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "Angel"

still think it's half shit

lotta crappy ballads in this list ("I don't wanna miss a thing", I'll gladly never hear again).

Ultimately, I vote "EAt the Rich" because it had a rocking main riff, but a very pop-friendly chorus, and it's chantable as well. followed closely by Deuces are Wild

this is though from my least favorite era of Aerosmith too

Next up: Done With Mirrors!

yeah most of these were 'what' to me also, wikipedia was listing anything that charted anywhere - austria, album tracks doing well on the active rock chart - as a single. love 'eat the rich' and 'amazing' as much as any comeback aerosmith, voted 'eat the rich'.

might have to go with "Pink"

'pink' is whiney's fave single

is Eat the Rich a Motorhead cover...?

The worst thing about "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" was Mark Chesnutt had his even more beoring version on the radio at the same time. No matter what station the radio was on you couldn't avoid it.

cuz you didn't wanna miss a thing

things like that are why I don't listen to the radio

'eat the rich' isn't a motorhead cover alas (always wondered about that movie).

fucking titties in this video btw - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLRLhV9U0kQ

terrible!! might go w/ Pink though

kinda remember liking "amazing" but i don't really know how it goes anymore. was that the virtual reality video or something?

you know "Deuces Are Wild" chorus kinda has an old-skool Aerosmith thing going on, but still falls pretty flat overall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGbOL6nCdkY

christ stephen dorff, alicia silverstone, edward furlong, liv tyler, what london that is - these dudes had their finger on the pulse of the 90s

and it was a flatline.

yep. def titties in that "pink" video at 2:03

Livin' On The Edge, easy

that pink video, with its all white background, is kind of bizarre in the context of ilx

Pink is def my favorite of the Columbia years but yeesh what a wasteland

it is a window into the soul of ilx

jaded

Jaded kinda sounds like newer Dinosaur Jr.

"livin on the edge" and if u vote "don't wanna miss a thing" or "jaded" you are fucking retarded FYIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

four songs come renotely close to justifying post-comeback Aerosmith:

Janie's Got a Gun, Amazing, Angel, Deuces are Wild.

Voted Amazing.

I lie. Falling IN Love (Is So Hard On the Knees) is alright.

Oh man, when lizard-steven-tyler pops out of the black half of nude-steven-tyler-holding-his-junk...well, it's all been downhill from there.

you know "Deuces Are Wild" chorus kinda has an old-skool Aerosmith thing going on, but still falls pretty flat overall

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well, it's a Pump outtake that was chucked out as a compilation single 5 years later, so it is technically the oldest song here.

for me it's totally "Livin' On The Edge" -- big cheesy 6-minute 'social commentary' epic was enough of a novelty for them that it stands out from all the power ballads and cheeky innuendo. great guitar solo, too.

I mostly voted for Deuces Are Wild second cuz I couldn't think of another song I'd ever like to hear again from this list. some of them aren't bad songs, just ones I grew tired of fast, but really though Aerosmith's ballads would have been better if they didn't start throwing 5-6 on every album and spend more time perfecting like 1 or 2.

they're totally not anywhere near the best here but it'd be kind of interesting to do a poll of just the Alicia Silverstone trilogy, because i have no idea which of those songs are best or worst or most or least liked.

Aren't "Crazy" and "Cryin'" the same song?

these are all embarrassingly awful for a band whose first four albums are almost 100% fire

i always think of the SNL sketch where Adam Sandler as Steven Tyler was hawking an Aerosmith greatest hits package that was nothing but "Cryin'," "Crazy," "Amazing," "Crazy Cryin',' "Amazing Crazy," "Cryin' Crazy Amazing," etc.

Aren't "Crazy" and "Cryin'" the same song?

lol and we would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for that meddling lord sotosyn

haha get a grip IS the underrated aerosmith album i have loved!

I remember my mom got, um, upset when my sister, blasting the album, played the song with the line "I wanna get high/On the crack of your ass" (did I remember that line correctly?).

i'm with underrated aerosmith albums in that I love Get Your Wings, Toys in the Attic and Rocks, but I'll even throw in the less appreciated Night in the Ruts ("Chiquita", man!) Permanent Vacation was a fun pop/rock album too.

it's actually worse, Alfred.

It's "I'd rather be ODing on the crack of your ass"

never really liked the Aerosmith song but I still hated how Garth Brooks sanitized it and made it into a really huge suckfest.

that's a fabulous line!

I got Done With Mirrors a few months ago on vinyl and it holds up as the Underrated Aerosmith Album of everyone's dreams.

I think more people have come around on that one in recent years....

best classic Aerosmith song="Nobody's Fault" or "Train Kept a Rollin" btw

God the "Crazy" video is so ridiculously horrible - two girls ditch high school, get in their convertible, it's a sunny day in 1994 and what do they listen to & know all the words to? Old men playing harmless blues power ballads. Suuuuuure they do. Dream on gramps

"jaded" is fucking awesome

I'm still sad Garth Brooks didn't leave that line in, hearing him sing that would have been golden xpost

Fever also has other terrible lyrics like:

"They threw me outta jail, I tell ya it ain't fair/I tried to kiss the judge from the electric chair"

"My first time ever lover
We fell asleep out on the lawn
And when I woke up I was all alone
Makin' love to the Crack of Dawn
So yo, I beg yo pardon sir
The gangster of love rides again"

You know, this is how I'd rank'em.

No "Crazy" ? Or is it covered under "Cryin'" ?

there were four goons here who liked that Warren Armaggedon ballad?

come the fuck on.

when put up against "ODing on the crack of her ass" it's a failure

Would definitely check out anything released by Warren Armageddon

boo no votes for Deuces

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This is my all-time favorite ILX username.

oh wow

This has never been one of my favorite bands, or even one of my least favorite bands. They were always just a band that filled up space on the radio. However, some months back I was in the car when the radio was playing a concert, and the band sounded pretty rockin'. I had no idea who it was, so waited a little until I got a lyric or two I could look up later. And the song was "Eat the Rich," which at least on the night of the recording was pretty tight.

I looked up a live version just now, though, and it sounded like a cross between Primus and Skid Row.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAKOGsFL8JU

Wish I had that link to the SNL sketch where Sandler makes fun of their '90s hits and how they all sounded interchangeable.

Saturday Night Live: Aerosmith's Greatest Hits, 1990-1994 (Adam Sandler, Jay Mohr) So hilariously stupid, I'm rolling. pic.twitter.com/v3nKwLsPzN

— Artie (@ArtieFox) August 23, 2017

elliott kalan likes to mention that those three songs are exactly the same too

Its absolutely insane to me that this band had this totally unexpected comeback on a rap song that started like right before Steven Tyler entered his FORTIES and then still lasted like FIFTEEN YEARS of solid, unstoppable, huge Top 10 pop and MTV hits that continued unabated through hair metal, grunge, post-grunge and nu-metal, and then they were basically just wiped off the face of the earth because they released an album of blues covers called 'Honkin on Bobo'

in fairness to Bobo, their decline was more gradual than that. nothing from Nine Lives, not even "Pink," was as big as the CrazyAmazingCryin' run, and "Jaded" was the only hit at all off Just Push Play (though a big one!). i feel like it's more like after Get a Grip they settled back down to a mid-tier album-rock band with occasional big singles and one absolutely massive soundtrack smash in "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing." surely, the vast majority of people who dug that and "Jaded" never even knew they released Honkin' on Bobo.

but i guess your point is still valid, in that if they'd instead cranked out another set of shiny pop-rock tunes in 2005 instead of releasing nothing for the next decade, they might have been able to continue treading the waters of relevancy. but also maybe not! it was truly strange that they were still having hits in their fifties, and almost inevitable that that would die off. not to mention that the sound they'd arrived at was really not where rock radio was by the early 00s.

Tbf, a lot of that comeback was driven by hired gun hitmakers. Had Aerosmith shelled out for better off the rack Max Martin cuts or whatever they might have had more later hits.

They also haven't been releasing shit because they all hate each other, I assume. Apparently they kept getting injured, too.

The tour was plagued with several health problems, however. Guitarist Brad Whitford had to sit out the first seven dates of the tour in order to recover from head surgery, after injuring his head getting out of his car. On June 28, 2009, at the band's seventh show of the tour at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut, lead singer Steven Tyler injured his leg, which required seven shows to be postponed. As soon as the band resumed the tour on July 15, Whitford returned to the fold. However, Tom Hamilton had to depart the tour in order to recover from non-invasive surgery. On August 5, 2009, Tyler was rushed to the hospital after falling from the stage at a concert in Sturgis, South Dakota. Tyler was airlifted to Rapid City Regional Hospital, where he received treatment for head and neck injuries and a broken shoulder. In the wake of Tyler's injuries, the band was forced to postpone five shows in Western Canada. On August 14, 2009, Aerosmith announced that they had decided to cancel the rest of their US tour dates with ZZ Top, due to Tyler's injuries.

On December 22, People magazine reported that Tyler had entered a rehabilitation facility to manage his addiction to painkillers, brought on by injuries to his knees, legs, and feet, that resulted from years of performing.

Their show in Asunción, Paraguay was postponed a day, after lead singer Steven Tyler sustained facial injuries after falling in his hotel room shower, due to a bout of food poisoning that dehydrated him and caused him to faint.

On July 10, 2016, Perry collapsed onstage at a concert he was performing with the Hollywood Vampires on Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York. It is believed he suffered cardiac arrest.

In April 2019, drummer Joey Kramer suffered minor injuries to his shoulder following an unspecified accident, and was forced to stand down from several concerts of the band's Las Vegas residency. His drum technician John Douglas substituted for him.

In November the same year, Kramer told several news sites that he was not allowed to rejoin the band despite his recovery, to which the band responded that his playing was "not up to Aerosmith standards"

And so on. Plus they hate each other.

mine

misread as

Their show in Asunción, Paraguay was postponed a day, after lead singer Steven Tyler sustained facial injuries after falling in his hotel room shower, due to a bout of food poisoning that dehydrated him and caused him to fart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BaVSjFWZbY

I've no doubt Tyler has been performing with a ton of pain for decades. He's pretty analogous to Prince in terms of being an acrobatic, very physical performer, really even moreso than Prince. Though Prince did it in high heels which is terrible for your body so it maybe evens out

also I don't think it's "they get injured" it's like...these guys are in their 70s

Aerosmith are one of the four 70s US bands whose history is explored in the recent book They Just Seem a Little Weird. My main takeaway about them/Tyler was that he has an unfortunate predilection for having screaming fits after shows, which cause him to blow out his voice and have to cancel subsequent concerts. Also he and Kiss hate each other.

I saw Aerosmith in the 90s, when he was sober and far from young, and he was pretty spry and acting like a jackrabbit on stage. that was like 1997 - do that for 4-5 decades, and yeah, you're going to be pretty beat up!

“I remember when we went out with Kiss in ’76 or something,” Tyler told The Cowhead Show on WHPT Tampa. “One of our roadies got into a knife fight with their guys, so I hated them ever since.”

And Kiss hate him because he disrespects their music and says they got by on spectacle.

Everybody likes Rick Nielsen though (except Bun E. Carlos)!

Aerosmith, Kiss, Cheap Trick, who's the fourth band?

Starz

Oh interesting, I guess I don't think of them being that big of a band but I don't really know tbh

I have one Starz record, fun stuff

it was truly strange that they were still having hits in their fifties, and almost inevitable that that would die off. not to mention that the sound they'd arrived at was really not where rock radio was by the early 00s.

Pop hits, yes. But Mainstream Rock Radio was still very supportive of legacy Classic Rock artists up until the end of the '90s, which is when the Nu Metal paradigm shift really took hold, and any early boomer-era performer not named Ozzy had a hard time landing spins for new tracks.

Starz are in the book as an example of a band that didn't really make it for a variety of reasons. I listened to their debut and found it sounded like Kiss minus hooks, which doesn't leave much to enjoy.

Huh. Starz sound more like the Raspberries to me. maybe bc of Michael Lee Smith’s voice. I dont find much to compare them directly to Kiss? Kiss were rarely if ever that melodic :)

i will check out that book though
sounds like my actual wheelhouse

don’t google Steven Tyler toes

is this like a 'oh YOU DON'T WANNA check out TUBGIRL" kinda statement?

'oh YOU DON'T WANNA check out TUBGIRL"

^^Underrated Aerosmith Lyric

I tried to kiss the judge from the electricka chair

PINK 3

3 people voting with glen ballard holding a gun to their head

I always thought it was funny that the "Pink"/"Taste of India" CD single came with a 'remix' of the former that in reality was the original Ballard-produced take.

Rhyming India with "into ya" is proto-Rick Ross

Initially, the band called the album "Vindaloo"

lmao the video for "Amazing" just came on, what a time capsule

The SNL sketch always gave me a good laugh, but it kind of creeps me out now knowing Sandler threw a tantrum over a valid suggestion moments before.

The time to give a suggestion for any kind of live performance is generally not moments before taking the stage

xpost Idk telling Sandler to change his glasses 30 seconds before the sketch starts seems to deserve a Shut the Fuck Up

Particularly when the suggestion isn't "hey, try these on" as opposed to "hey go back into the costume closet and find something better"

I've definitely lost my cool when someone tried to give me any kind of new instruction when I've been about to go onstage because it breaks my focus and I might miss a cue.

Different if someone is trying to tell me my fly is open or tie is crooked but otherwise yo be quiet

Mohr also mentioned it was a skit Sandler wrote and asked Mohr to appear in, so it’s a bit like a guest peeing in your sink.

xp Got it, I have no experience with stage performances so I can see why Sandler lost it.

Does Jay Mohr talk about Norm's shitty Flea impression while Jay was giving his all as Kiedis

https://www.reddit.com/r/NormMacdonald/comments/u3r9ub/that_time_norm_portrayed_flea_on_snl/