Youtube? I have not looked yet but will now. but yeah, Comibation is totally the keystone cut on this record for me ... maybe the best Aerosmith track EVER
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Saturday, 15 April 2006 07:48 (eighteen years ago) link
the double-tracked, vaguely-psychedelic vocals all across this thing are pure bliss
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Saturday, 15 April 2006 07:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Saturday, 15 April 2006 07:51 (eighteen years ago) link
Before the Dark Times.Before the Empire.Before "Get A Grip"
― kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 15 April 2006 07:54 (eighteen years ago) link
I think the "funk" that we all love in Aerosmith ("Last Child", "Get it Up", "Sight For Sore Eyes", etc.) totally would not be there with out him. and i listen to "Sick As A Dog", and I love the way Joey does that little roll just as the first chorus comes in..
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Saturday, 15 April 2006 08:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 15 April 2006 08:05 (eighteen years ago) link
-- John Darnielle (edito...), April 14th, 2002
i mean, soooooo otm
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Saturday, 15 April 2006 08:05 (eighteen years ago) link
that was the first appearance of "Chip Away the Stone", right? jeez, what a great tune that is, too.
I love the fact that these guys were such huge Yarbirds fans too. that says it all. From the "Think About It" cover ... to, well, I think there is some Yardbirds cover on that Pandoras box, right? i think so. soemthing like that. i don't have it but probably should get it..
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Saturday, 15 April 2006 08:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 15 April 2006 08:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Saturday, 15 April 2006 08:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 15 April 2006 08:16 (eighteen years ago) link
it featured Duff, before she got sick and starred in movies and/or TV Nation
― kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 15 April 2006 08:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Saturday, 15 April 2006 08:38 (eighteen years ago) link
Man, I yearn for the day when that entire show (from '73 or thereabouts) is released.
Can't believe you've never owned "Live Bootleg", Stormy! It's never gotten a lot of praise but it's my single favourite 'smith release. "Toys In The Attic" "Train Kept a'Rollin" and "Lord Of The Thighs", all in "blazing renditions", as they say.
― Myonga Von Bootylicious (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 15 April 2006 14:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Saturday, 15 April 2006 15:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― dr lulu (dr lulu), Saturday, 15 April 2006 15:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― js (honestengine), Saturday, 15 April 2006 16:54 (eighteen years ago) link
what the fuck is Tyler doing with his voice on "Nobody's Fault"? weird. he was kind of awesomely intelligent back in the day.
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 16 April 2006 05:55 (eighteen years ago) link
Furthermore,their last twenty years of pop schlock material penned by hacks like Desmond Child completely cancels out whatever musical good the US Stones did in the 70s.
― Uncle Tom (Uncle Tom), Sunday, 16 April 2006 06:22 (eighteen years ago) link
oh, c'mon you can find punk, funk, metal or whatever in anything if you look hard enough. chuck eddy's made a career out of this!
― latebloomer: Ambassador With Training In Righteousness (latebloomer), Sunday, 16 April 2006 06:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: Ambassador With Training In Righteousness (latebloomer), Sunday, 16 April 2006 06:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― dr lulu (dr lulu), Sunday, 16 April 2006 09:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Porcupine Kiss, Novacaine Lips (Bimble...), Sunday, 16 April 2006 19:14 (eighteen years ago) link
Funny thing, I don't feel this when I'm listening to Rocks or a Night in the Ruts super fuckin; loud. Yes, modern Aerosmith sux but nothing can diminish just how good they were for a good chunk of the '70s.
I've been on a big Peter Green-era Mac kick, and I realized that Aerosmith were really influenced by them.
― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Monday, 17 April 2006 00:09 (eighteen years ago) link
Yeah, Aerosmith really was a logical extension of the late-60s british blues boom, with some street funk thrown in to the mix.
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Monday, 17 April 2006 01:00 (eighteen years ago) link
And then I can just picture little Westerberg and Malkmus listening to this and going "oh yeah".
Sick As A Dog? C'mon. What is going on there?
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Friday, 19 May 2006 01:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Carlos Keith (Buck_Wilde), Friday, 19 May 2006 02:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 19 May 2006 04:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 19 May 2006 04:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 19 May 2006 04:41 (eighteen years ago) link
Name a funkier heavy guitar band than Aerosmith? Are you frigging kidding me?
How about P-Funk for starters. Cosmic Slop is 1,000,000 times heavier or funkier than the former bad boys from beantown ever were.
― Uncle Tom (Uncle Tom), Friday, 19 May 2006 05:13 (eighteen years ago) link
Also, Hamilton's bass playing is underrated. His work is exceptional on this record (as well as on "Toys in the Attic")
― kwhitehead (stephen schmidt), Friday, 19 May 2006 14:33 (eighteen years ago) link
The banjo's on 'Last Child' but mixed way low in the 'home sweet home' bits, it sounds a little like a voice. And it's played with a slide, just to confuse things a little more.
― dr lulu (dr lulu), Friday, 19 May 2006 14:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 19 May 2006 14:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Friday, 19 May 2006 18:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 19 May 2006 19:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― kwhitehead (stephen schmidt), Friday, 19 May 2006 19:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Friday, 19 May 2006 19:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 00:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Johnny Hotcox, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 00:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― m coleman, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 10:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― am0n, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dimension 5ive, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Steve Shasta, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― am0n, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dimension 5ive, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link
those little guitar accents in "last child"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
and "rats in the cellar"! all those screaming guitar noises just barely escaping the mix
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
Drugs - I knew you'd like it.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
note how the drums mutate into a walking fleet of giants at the end of "combination"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
this is the best album ever
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
otm
― brimstead, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
A reminder: This album more than makes up for 30 years of shit Aerosmith.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 18:10 (ten years ago) link
favorite ilx thread title
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 18:19 (ten years ago) link
I spent most of December listening to "Lick and a Promise."
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 18:20 (ten years ago) link
i'd have said "favorite ilx thread" but the other rocks thread has a lot of incredible posts
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 18:27 (ten years ago) link
yes, this album is some kind of formal breakthrough.
it's a very strange mix of the textures being so shambolic that it feels like it is going to break down into musical chaos at any minute, and yet all the parts are held in what repeated listenings reveal to be a very precise balance. it's kind of perfect example of a certain paradox of hard rock and metal, which is that many of the greatest and most paradigmatic examples of a music whose ethos is all about chaos, haggardness, a kind of studied macho indifference, can in fact be the result of considerable expertise, care, and attention to detail.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 20:23 (eight years ago) link
^^^^^^^^ hell yeah
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 20:32 (eight years ago) link
love this album. combination is my jam
― dynamicinterface, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 13:37 (eight years ago) link
ragin'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hplDR4TPGTM
― scott seward, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 15:05 (eight years ago) link
Sick as a dog, um, cat got your tongueSick as a dog, you'll be sorrySick as a dog, 'cause you really ain't so young
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 15:08 (eight years ago) link
that houston show is just peak awesomeness. those guitars....man oh man. everyone sounds great. punk-dub echo on the vocals sound so cool. epic funky lord of the thighs.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 15:17 (eight years ago) link
amateurist otm
― brimstead, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 18:48 (eight years ago) link
the guitar solos on "nobody's fault"... hell "nobody's fault" on its own is just ridiculous. and "sick as a dog" is punk as fuck, imo
― brimstead, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 18:50 (eight years ago) link
i think i said this in the other rocks thread but imo you can hear r.e.m. being born in "sick as a dog"
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 18:53 (eight years ago) link
R.E.M. actually covered 'Toys In The Attic'!
Yeah, this album rules and this band were totally on fire in the '70s... that they didn't end up really getting much commercial success here in the UK until their best years were long behind them will always have me scratching my head.
― Turrican, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 19:10 (eight years ago) link
I think I'm gonna play this album really loudly when I get home today
― sleeve, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 19:16 (eight years ago) link
that houston show made my morning. i was almost late for work. so cool. i never really listen to aerosmith anymore. they are kinda just a part of my dna thanks to years of exposure. my brother worshipped them.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 19:37 (eight years ago) link
my brother went to this show. it was the rock event of his summer.
http://theconcertdatabase.com/sites/theconcertdatabase.com/files/1978-08-06.jpg
― scott seward, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 19:39 (eight years ago) link
Not cheap!
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 19:50 (eight years ago) link
Seriously, I don't see a date on that poster, but that's mid '80s pricing, not '70s pricing. (Woulda been a hell of a show, though.)
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 20:06 (eight years ago) link
1978
― new noise, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 20:18 (eight years ago) link
yeah, '78. my dad took him. but would my dad take me to see maiden and priest in new haven in 1982? noooooooooo.....
― scott seward, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 20:31 (eight years ago) link
Just lost an evening to that '77 show upthread.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 5 November 2015 08:09 (eight years ago) link
like what IS that thing at the end of "Back in the Saddle"? Apparently a 27-string bass, could just as well be a tuba or an exploding meth lab.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 28 May 2020 23:55 (four years ago) link