Get a Grip [Geffen, 1993]There are no rules. Obscene megabucks, boring rehab, song doctors, turning 40, minuscule interest in doing something new--nothing stands between the world's greatest hard rock band and their best album since Rocks. The drugs long gone, they show a strong professional commitment to rebellion and an undiminished relish for the fleshpots. If the song doctors prescribed "I'd rather be O.D.in' on the/Crack of her ass," not to mention "It's like gettin' head from a guillotine," they were worth every point. And though at first you may miss the killer cut, the "My Fist Your Face" or "Janie's Got a Gun," in fact the midtempo, classic-rock, love-as-pain "Cryin'" should prove irresistible to anyone who doesn't equate good art with doing something new. A-
>>129254979Fuck this album, there was a SNL skit mocking all of Aeroshit's identical ballads with some variation of "Crazy" or "Amazing" in the title.
Aerosmith sucks ass, bro.
He's the only music critic worth reading
>>129254979look just because you think "Eat The Rich" has an acceptable political message doesn't make this an A minus album, dude
>>129254992I saw that way back when and lold so hard my sides hurt https://www.tiktok.com/@thealmanac77/video/7325848568575642886?lang=en
>>129254979I don't get ChristgauWhat is his general taste?
>>129254992The rest of the band hated those fucking ballads too, Steven Tyler should have made a solo album for them instead.
my dad is a big aerosmith fan and Im pretty sure he thiks this album is ass
The industry shilling Aerosmith to Gen X and pretending they were some of the kids was almost as bad as them later shilling RHCP to Millenials.
>>129254992fpbpAerosmith's ballads suck ass>>129257449he's a nerd and a cuck>>129255127and what's that worth
>>129257449https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_gl.php?g=A%2B
>>129257449he was bullied by manly guys in school because he's a nerd, so he hates both "nerdy" music like prog to distante himself from his past self and he also hates "macho" music he thinks his bullies would have liked like heavier metal. he likes what he thinks makes him "cool" to listen to but can't be seen as masculine in a "toxic" way
>>129254979OK Boomer
>>152298162he likes songs like Black Flag's "Rise Above" that he can imagine as "Revenge of the Nerds."
>>129262014holy projection
>>129260033dream on is pretty tough though
>>129257449critics talk about music because they can't make music.
>>129262062anon you only need to read like 5 of his reviews to know I'm right
>>129262171Show example or false
>>129263859not him, but his master of puppets review reeks of effete nerd syndrome
>>129262014False he likes different types of music including music his "bullies" listened
>>129263995You're taking it at face value? No surprise considering this place is full of autists
>>129262064but that wasn't their lame Geffen era commercial ballad slop
>>129262064no cap, that song is garbage
>>129264441Doesn't surprise me
Look how effortlessly he makes metalheads seethe decades down the line and remind me why I'm supposed to hate this guy again
>>129262130>>129260033>and what's that worthHe's more interesting to read than most music is interesting to listen to
bump
>>129264441how are you supposed to take It?
>>129269240if you think anything in this thread constituted "seething" you might be an alien
>>129269261that ain't shit
