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I also think the Beach Boys stink , but I really must take my hat off to Robert's activism . It is truly commendable and will save many people from the horror of hearing them for the first time

I remember when this came out the big Brian Wilson’s back and how much it sucked and I’ve been listening to The Beach Boys since 1963 3:12

Get off the Beach Boys man. There's other music to criticize, the bit is beat

By the title alone and the fact that you have dissed the Beach Boys in previous videos, I assume this is going to be hillarious. Not a BB fan myself, but I've listened to this album on streaming and I gotta say, it's definately an "interesting" album.

Maybe "Man-child" was a character, like David Bowies "The Thin White Duke" or Ziggy Stardust. Brian Wilson's other "character" is "The Genius."

In all seriousness, I hear a lot of this album in early They Might Be Giants.

Would love to hear your take on MIU. Another one of my favorite BB’s albums. Hey Little Tomboy…

This is hilarious! I happen to really dig Love You…one of my favorite BB’s albums. I appreciate the humor regardless!!!

In case you didn't know on the blank Memorex 8-track there is a "bonus" cut. However there is 20 minutes of silence before the "bonus" track

You naughty man. 😂

Cat Mother's debut is an east coast answer to Mooby Grape's first.

I know you're only discussing albums, and Permanent Vacation definitely was the album that put the boys back on top, but I think it's worth mentioning that their re-entrance to the world of relevance and popularity began the year before Permanent Vaca was released: teaming up with Run-DMC to remake "Walk This Way" was a monster hit that introduced them to countless new fans and primed the pump (pun intended) for their triumphant return.

Pete Brown's "Art School Dance" LP is even better!

Pump is where I came in and as a 15 year old I also loved the call out to Alice Cooper's Trash a artist I also discovered in 89,i think that was the one year I seem to have found so many artists. For me Get a grip was last album I enjoyed although still tracks I liked afterwards.

They don't do well.

Eat your heart out. I have Honkin

My local radio overplays Aerosmith and ac/ dc. Can’t stand either now

Toys on 8 track was the only Aerosmith I had till probably the mid 80’s

I do have a red vinyl Pressing of Music From Another Dimension and I don't hate the album. It's a decent latter day Aerosmith album. Pump, Toys In The Attic and Rocks are my most favorite Aerosmith albums.

Yeah man, I had to see what you thought of some of these👍

Yeah, the wheels started coming off in 1985. Didn't care for anything by Aerosmith after 1985 except Honkin' On Bobo, which I happen to have on vinyl. Everything else was too schmaltzy, ballads and too commercial for me. My version of "The Road Starts Hear" was crap. Noisey and tons of surface marks due to being packaged too quickly. You've gotta let the vinyl go through a cooling down process before slapping them into the inner sleeve which bleeds onto the vinyl.

I just started collecting within the last four years so there’s a LOT I don’t have on vinyl that I’d like to😅

Really enjoyed these two videos you did about Aerosmith. I got into the band in England from a K-Tel compilation album in1980 which all had the usual protagonists (AC/DC, Whitesnake, Judas Priest etc) and this cool track, 'Sweet Emotion'. Aerosmith also had the red greatest hits album out at the time, which I bought. loved and set about finding every album I could get. 'Done With Mirrors' is, to me, the last true Aerosmith album before Desmond Child, Diane Warren, John Kolodner and Steven Tyler's love of celebrity ruined them. 'Just Push Play' needs to be deleted from history.

I was one of those who didn't buy the 'bootleg' because I thought it would be a bootleg.

'Pump' was my first awareness of Aerosmith, going backwards from that listening to other stuff was disappointing & uneven(Besides Toys) to my ADD impatient young listening self. I agree production and image crafting/exposure really crystalized their legacy. 90's was seemingly 'problematic' for the aging 70's bands finding themselves trying to still be, uh...hard? and still popular on the pop hit radio, & MTV peak exposure platform. Power-ballads & how to not be cringe-y challenge

Steve Hunter played the fantastic acoustic on Gabriel’s Solsbury Hill.

Thanks for another great video, Robert! Nostalgia + Night in the Ruts = Good Times!

My favourites are Break Like The Wind and Tonight Im Going To Rock You Tonight

It really is amazing, as you pointed out, that the band had such a huge and successful run in the late '80s/early '90s. They were dead in the water after "Rock In A Hard Place," that album was a colossal flop - straight to the cut-out bin. I considered (at the time) "Done With Mirrors" as their "comeback" album; that's how it was billed, so to speak, and I loved the rough, under-produced, "bad-ass" sound of it. "Permanent Vacation" was a strong, enjoyable multi-layered album with just the right amount of sheen to it, and it was great to see them regain their popularity. "Pump" seemed over-produced to me (and let's not overlook the outside songwriter help), but there were still plenty of hard rock guitar hooks there. With "Get A Grip," as you pointed out, they lost me. I wanted to like it, but it was just big-time rock star schlock to me, and not what I was into at that time. After that, it seemed every album was billed as "a return to their hard rockin' roots," but it was still schlock. However, that's what happens when you make rock 'n roll a "career." Cheers to Aerosmith for being one of the quintessential American rock 'n roll bands!

Remember when Steven came out on stage dressed in camo with Linda Hamilton, because he was afraid she was gonna kick his ass? It was on one of MTV Music Award shows. 92 maybe? Was after Terminator 2 came out.

We remember the good old days with a more positive admiration than the bad new days.

Hhmm. After 1985, I can count the number of songs they did that I liked on one hand. "Jaded"" was a fun tune.

I'm so old I bought the 1st album on 8track .Didn't know who they were but they looked cool and for 5 bucks what the heck. Have every album and I agree with you on everyone. My favorites are still Get Your Wings, Toys and Rocks.Love every song on them. I even agree with you on Crying and Just Push Play.I also think Honkin On Bobo was only good thing since Get a Grip.

I'm personally a strong proponent for Music From Another Dimension, but I admittedly have nostalgia goggles for it. I was born in the mid 90s and found the band through their Guitar Hero game in the late 00s. So I was in high school when MFAD came out. It was the only brand new studio album of theirs I got to ride the release hype train for, so I'll forever love it for that. From seeing behind the scenes snippets on RUclips to reading articles online about it to finally hearing Legendary Child played live on American Idol! It was such a fun time for me to be an Aerosmith fan, and I'm so thankful I got to be there for it! Steven's country solo album was the next closest album release like that for me. But when it came out, I kind of just hoped it was the stopgap between MFAD and the next Aerosmith album. But as time continued to pass, I realized there likely never would be another Aerosmith album. 😪

I've got Just Push Play, Honkin' On Bobo, and Music From Another Dimension on vinyl! But I sure ain't trading Bobo for your JPP CD! 😂

Was Van Halen not up there with Aerosmith in being a 70s band that had hits through the 80s and into the 90 as? VH in the 90s had Right Now, Top Of The World, Poundcake, and Can't Stop Lovin' You, for example.

Just remember in the late 80s and early 90s, Aerosmith seems to be MTVs poster child of a throwback rock band to keep the older audience interested. While YO MTV raps and Headbangers Ball for the younger folk.

Everytime Dude Look Like A Lady plays on the radio my dad turns the station.

Are those antique malls located near or on neighborhoods with people with high incomes? Maybe they are betting that these people would be ignorant of real values of records and pay thos e prices because they either don't consider $30 for a F condition Sesame Street record to be too much or they can't be bothered with looking up the album on Discogs, or they truly think they found something valuable there, or they want to gift it to some grandson, or this is a record they used to listen to when they were children - which they can get much cheaper on Discogs. There are no Holy Grails in those places.

Still really like "Done With Mirrors" - thanks for talking about it!!

Ah ! That,s it ! Cher ! I always thought they were just constipated !

20.00$ 9:15

In 1987, I was 9 years old and through my early teen years, I loved the great Aerosmith songs and albums on Geffen Records. I still have the “Permanent Vacation”, “Pump”, “Get A Grip” and “The Big Ones” albums on CD.

Nine Lives is the first Aerosmith album that came out after I became a fan, so it has a special place in my heart. I had become aware of them through the Get A Grip videos, but didn't become a huge fan until discovering Dream On and their 70s stuff sometime around 1996 or so. So I played Nine Lives over and over when it came out. Played the CD-Rom game Robert mentioned in the video a lot. Just Push Play on the other hand is one of the most disappointing albums I have ever bought. I hate that album. The title track especially can go straight to hell.

no kidding, i too would haveta go by my nearest shady subway to cop some "stuff" if forced to listen the entirety of push play. Good review. they had a good run live.

I really enjoyed the Aerosmith 1971 (The Road Starts Here) recording too. I think I paid $15 for from Amazon and got it when it came out. I noticed it was not released on Capitol Records though. I thought that was kind of strange since all of the other earlier Columbia label recordings were released by Capitol Right at the same time. I'm not sure why it was released by UMe though? But I definitely enjoyed it. My first copy had a problem at the end of both sides where it started clicking real bad. My second I exchanged it copy sounded a lot better but had a little bit of clicking at the end of one side. But it was pretty minor and I kept it. I've been listening to bootlegs for decades so music that is not considered to be great by somebody listening to just studio recordings is oftentimes really great sounding to me. I like to hear different versions of songs, live concerts, etc and I got used to some less than stellar recordings through the years I guess. But this Aerosmith recording from October of '71 sounded really good especially considering it was from Joe Perry's newly purchased tape recorder. It kind of starts off sounding like they're all in a room with some friends probably partying and practicing at the same time. I definitely enjoy cranking that one up and it still has the sound like a really great bootleg haha. Brian in Fort Worth 🎶

I always coated my lps with varnish-the cover and the vinyl-to protect them .

You seem to have forgotten Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers as another rock band with hits from 70s-90s

Dude, it's okay to eat Subway. Sometimes...

This is such a nice video I’m going back to the first part to rewatch. I feel a distinct higher level of love in this one? Am I projecting