AEROSMITH — Get A Grip (review)

AEROSMITH — Get A Grip album cover Album · 1993 · Hard Rock Buy this album from MMA partners
3.5/5 ·
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Enter the 90's. Aerosmith's still on a roll after their numerous smash hits from the 1970's and 80's, but are slowly starting to exhaust their creative processes. This is where their first hit of the decade comes, Get A Grip, in 1993. During this time glam metal was practically dying out with the new explosion of grunge performing a hostile takeover of the music industry. Regardless, Aerosmith held onto their strings and cranked out their last glam album to this day...

...and what we get it moderately good. The album starts with the hard rocking 'Eat The Rich', which is very reminiscent of the good old days that people remember from albums like Permanent Vacation and Rock and a Hard Place. A problem that becomes evidently obvious very quickly is that Aerosmith has depleted much of their variation. Many of the songs utilize the same chord structure and general composition, sometimes differentiating from slow to fast depending on the song. This factor doesn't make it much worse, but it does dampen the listening experience if you're going through the whole 14 set tracklist. Nevertheless several tracks make it through the creative barrier, such as the very arena-rock inspired 'Livin' On The Edge', with it's thundering sound and seemingly suspenseful nature, 'Shut Up and Dance', with it's frenzied dance-style groove, among others.

Away from my run on sentences- this album is a perfectly average release. Sure, it's not what you would exactly expect from these guys if you're experiencing it as the first album from the 90's with the 80's in mind, but as a look at the band as a whole, Get A Grip could easily fit among the others as a pretty good rocker.
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