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Rating: What I am about to review is one of the albums by the Boston band that has been quite criticized. Released in 1978, after two works like "Rocks" and "Draw the Line", the former is considered by many to be the group's best album, while the latter is a good work but pales in comparison to the first. Everything seemed to be going as usual, with the usual excesses in drugs, alcohol, and sex, the manifesto of rock'n'roll, in short. But something wasn't right, as guitarist Joe Perry, tired of singer Steven Tyler's excesses, had a very heated argument with him, and in the end, he decided to abandon everything (he would later form The Joe Perry Project) and left the band during the recording of the album.
Tyler & co. were then forced to look for a new guitarist, and the choice fell on Jimmy Crespo, who undoubtedly had talent but little live experience, and here began the darkest period for Aerosmith. In fact, the following year, the other guitarist, rhythm guitarist Brad Whitford, also left and was replaced by Rick Dufay, but that's another story. Despite all this, the LP was not a flop, as it reached the fourteenth place on the American charts. It wasn't even a bad work because all the tracks are really good, and indeed, the sound would be further hardened.
Critics probably stopped at the appearance, that is, at seeing, or rather listening to the album, imagining not having the real Aerosmith in front of them, since many of the guitar parts were completed by Crespo. But if, like me, you stumble upon this work by chance, unaware of who these Aerosmith are, you will find this album truly fine and notice that while listening to a song like "Mia" or "No Surprize", you will experience really beautiful emotions.
We dedicate this part of the review to the description of the songs. It starts with the aforementioned "No Surprize", a truly driving rhythm, and in my opinion, we have one of the best songs by Aerosmith in front of us. With "Chiquita", there is a return to blues, guitar riffs mixed with those of sax and Tyler's voice is very incisive. Now comes the first cover, a track by Morton: "Remember", a slow piece that, however, doesn't capture me and leaves me quite indifferent. The following "Cheese Cake" is another great rock track, in "Three Mile Smile" we find fairly rock blues riffs for a simple song. "Refer Head Woman" has the structure of the previous one, but Tyler goes much lower; it's another. "Bone to Bone", on the other hand, is the most technical on the album, with elaborate guitar lines and normal singing. The penultimate is another cover, "Think About it", a song I think is by The Yardbirds, but I could be wrong, with a fast rhythm and a memorable chorus. Now it's time for the masterpiece, "Mia", Tyler is in great shape, and his voice is very delicate, with very sweet high notes and slow solos that gave me chills.
To conclude, I can confirm what I initially stated, it is a great album, in perfect Aerosmith style, with the fall and also the "resurrection" following shortly after.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 No Surprize (04:25)
Nineteen seventy-one
We all heard the starter gun
New York is such a pity
But at Max's Kansas City we won
We all shot the shit in the bar
With Johnny O'Toole and his scar
And then old Clive Davis said
He's surely gonna make us a star
I'm gonna make you a star
Just the way you are
But with all his style
I could see in his eyes
That we is goin' on trial
And it was no surprise
The boys kept kickin' ass
As usual time would tell
But some bitch in the choir
Threw water on the fires of hell
She loved to shove and tell
Lord, she loved to tell
But with all our style
You could see in our eyes
That we is still on trial
And it was no surprise
No surprise
No surprise
No surprise
Midnight lady
Situation fetal
Vaccinate yo ass with yo phonograph needle
I say lookit here
A friend of mine
Scratch like you need calomine
Flamingo boots, soles a creakin'
Still in love and puerto rican too
Ridin' on the wheels of hell
Smokin' in our axle grease
The backstage is rockin'
And we're copping from the local polica
That's right, the local police
Or the juctice of peace
But with all our style
You could see in our eyes
That we is still on trial
Baby, it's no surprise
No surprise
No surprise
No surprise
Rock n' roll, junkie whore
Got my foot inside the door
Knock knock, knock knock, knock
Nobody's keepin' score
Bad time go away
Come again some other day
Topaz and sazzafraz
Will keep the blues away
Candy store, rock n' roll
Corporation jelly roll
Play the singles, it ain't me
It's programmed with insanity
You ascap, if bmi
Could ever make a mountain fly
If japanese can boil teas
The where the fuck's my royalties
02 Chiquita (04:26)
Ooooh on the beach in Cartegena
She salty baby with the name
Oh chiquita
No no chiquita
She takes me walkin' in de sunshine
She she'll be lovin' 'til de moon shine
Love chiquita
Oh love chiquita
She got the poppy eyed desire
Tease 'til the boys put out your fire
Love chiquita
Oh love chiquita... ou ou ou ooouuu
Oh no no now don't you wake me up I'm dreamin'
No no no if you shake me I'll be screamin'
Love chiquita
Oh love chiquita... ou ou ou ou ooooou
04 Cheese Cake (04:14)
I met a babe in a backseat drive-in
Back in the saddle she'd sit
Pulled on the reins just to keep me risin'
She loved to chomp at the bit
Daddy do it ooh just do it
Daddy do it please let me see
Do it please just do it daddy
Do it do it drivin' me crazy
She always walks with her eyes
Down on her bootlace
She lives to give it away
She don't believe in the right time or the wrong place
She's always liable to say
Daddy do it ooh just do it
Daddy do it please let me see
Do it please just do it daddy
Do it do it drivin' me crazy
Cheesecake looser than her sister
Cheesecake uum... her sugar gets me high
She knows I can't resist her
Cheesecake
Got my fingers in her pie
Cheesecake
Cheesecake sneakin' out the back door
Cheesecake rollin' down the lawn
Everybody kissed her cheesecake
Oh at the crack of dawn cheesecake
Daddy do it ooh just do it
Daddy do it please let me see
Daddy do it please just do it daddy
Do it do it do it drivin' me crazy
Cheesecake looser than her sister
Cheesecake uum... her sugar gets me high
She knows I can't resist her
Cheesecake
Got my fingers in her pie
Cheesecake
Cheesecake (8x)
05 Three Mile Smile (03:42)
Take a walk in the warm New England sun
Ain't no time to look for clues
You get the point from Uncle Sam's loaded gun
Who be the hand that light the fuse
Take a look, take a look at my old billy goat
He used to raise all kinds of hell
He took a dose of radiation dope
Back in the barn is where he fell, like hell
Ah Lucy, chromosome
Lucy, superdome
What makes you think you patronizin' my old friends
After you ride in my car, car
What you do when your oil's mexican?
OPEC boys you went too far, too far
Ah Lucy, superdome
Lucy, chromosome
Ah Lucy, papadum
Lucy, sing the song
Ahhh, dig it up
Ahhh, live it up
Ahhh, dig it up
Ahhh, live it up
Look out
07 Bone to Bone (Coney Island White Fish Boy) (02:59)
Flatbush boy cruisin' sheepshead bay
His boardwalk mama just a sniff away
Underground DMT ridin' thunder train
The coney island whitefish boy is on the run again
Ooh, runnin' with the pack
Ooh, and never lookin' back
Ooh, and knows just where he's been
That coney island whitefish boy's been there and back again
Sixteen years with his boardwalk queen
And at steeplechase she used to wet his dreams
She combs her hair, that flaming jewel, streaked with clorox bleach
Coney gettin' down and dirty, snortin' up the beach
She'd be screamin' coney
She'd be dreamin' coney
Go get 'em coney
Coney
Bone to bone screamin' coney
She'd be screamin' coney
Get back in town
Get back, get down
Get back, get down
Get back in town
Coney
She'd be screamin' coney
Best believin' coney
She stood up and walked away
08 Think About It (03:35)
When will the clouds all blow it away?
When will the good people have their say?
Now I hope you're still around to see the day
Take a while, think about it
Take a while, think about it
Take a while, think about it
Who can tell what is up or down?
A-who can be the king or be the clown?
Then climb your tree, take a look around
Take a while, think about it
Take a while, think about it
Take a while, think about it
Circles of life, infinite plane
That which is now will be again
Who can decide who is insane?
Take a while, think about it
Take a while, think about it
Take a while, think about it
09 Mia (04:14)
Hush-a-bye my baby soft and new
ooh her loveliness, gypsy dance in the rain
Hush-a-bye my baby what you do
ooh, the baby cries, the wind she's a-callin' your name
Mia
Where you came from you ain't alone
Live and loved from the old jaw bone
Ahh don't you cry, you're home sweet home
Rock-a-bye sweet lady gypsy blue
Ooh, the nightingale's singin her song in the rain
Hush-a-bye sweet lady soft and new
Ooh don't you cry, the wind she's a-screamin' your name
Mia
Come too soon that sunny day
You give your heart away
No divorcee, no repouise
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