AEROSMITH — Permanent Vacation (review)

AEROSMITH — Permanent Vacation album cover Album · 1987 · Hard Rock Buy this album from MMA partners
4.5/5 ·
aglasshouse
"She's a long lost love at first bite."

I've never been someone who has particularly fancied the boys from Aerosmith. Granted their content has been relatively enjoyable during the 70's and 80's, and I really have no personal dislike towards them. The main reason for my disinterest is mostly based from them being a little bland in their musical variety as a whole. However because I collect music, I still buy anything of theirs when I see it. I picked up their '87 release Permanent Vacation for a few bucks and decided 'hell, I haven't heard them for awhile', and gave it a spin. What I head not only surprised me but also had me in a state of awe.

Permanent Vacation is doubtlessly one of the best albums from Aerosmith, and perhaps their best from the 1980's. This was the band's first venture into the colorful world of glam metal, which in retrospective is a genre which fit them rather well. While most bands failed after joining the glam craze, Aerosmith soared in both sales and quality. What I would call Permanent as a personal genre however? Fun rock. I mean, if you listen to the ever popular 'Dude (Looks Like a Lady)'and 'Girl Keeps Coming Apart' you not only get some great musicianship but also an air of enjoyment coming from the band. Tyler especially, conveying with his spectacularly crazy voice emits subtle vibes of pleasantness. My favorite however has to be 'St. John', with it's great bass work from Hamilton and Tyler's vocal cohesion with himself. Not only that, but we get a partly indecipherable religious message which I'm sure means something, but with Aerosmith's lyrics you never get past much more than sex and lust so it's hard to figure out anything other than that. Other tracks that I enjoy are 'Heart's Done Time', and 'I'm Down'.

Although Aerosmith may not being so well to this day, with releases that lower in quality every new album, it's still great to look back at these glam golden boys in their magnificent heyday.
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siLLy puPPy wrote:
more than 2 years ago
One of my favorite second wave of Aerosmith
voila_la_scorie wrote:
more than 2 years ago
Possibly their most varied album. Saw them live on this tour. Angel wasn't a single yet and they didn't play it.
Unitron wrote:
more than 2 years ago
I forgot how good an album this was, 'St. John' and 'Hangman Jury' are among my favorite blues rock songs.

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