Just Push Play
Give Aerosmith credit for not only realizing something was wrong after Nine Lives relatively flat-lined, but deciding to do something about it. Ditching the outside producers who initially liberated but eventually straitjacketed them, Steve Tyler and Joe Perry seized control of the boards, working with the assistance of Mark Hudson and Marti Frederiksen (Forever the Stones fanatics, Tyler and Perry dubbed this crew the Boneyard Boys, just like how Mick n-Keef are the Glimmer Twins.) So, this isn't really a full-fledged band affair and Hudson and Frederiksen s fingerprints are all over the place, but that doesn't matter since the end result is tighter, savvier, and better than anything since Pump It's still far from perfect, however, since it suffers from a surfeit of memorable material, and the group members' steadfast refusal to act their age results in a couple of embarrassing slips into stodginess (the "f*ckin' A" chorus on the title track, a song improbably titled "Trip Hoppin'," or the ludicrous "Avant Garden" . These mean that the record doesn't come close to matching the twin comebacks of Permanent Vacation and Pump but it's a sleek, classicist hard rock record that sounds good -- better than Aerosmith has sounded in nearly a decade, as a matter of fact, particularly when the group gets a hook as tuneful as that of "Jaded." Aerosmith sounds good enough on Just Push Play that it almost makes you forgive the Heavy Metal refugee on the front cover, a sexy robot illustration that looks far more out of date than the music sounds. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
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Just Push Play
- UPC:
- 074646208823
- Label:
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Columbia
- Released:
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3/6/2001
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0
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1
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Music
| | Title | Time |
Preview
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| 1 | Beyond Beautiful | 7:25 |
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| 2 | Just Push Play | 5:51 |
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| 3 | Jaded | 3:34 |
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| 4 | Fly Away From Here | 8:21 |
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| 5 | Trip Hoppin' | 7:07 |
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| 6 | Sunshine | 3:37 |
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| 7 | Under My Skin | 3:45 |
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| 8 | Luv Lies | 4:26 |
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| 9 | Outta Your Head | 3:22 |
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| 10 | Drop Dead Gorgeous | 3:42 |
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| 11 | Light Inside | 3:34 |
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| 12 | Avant Garden | 4:52 |
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| 13 | Under My Skin (Reprise) | 1:40 |
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Credits »
Aerosmith - Main Performer
David Campbell - String Arrangements
Paul Caruso - Engineer
Paul Caruso - Loop Programming
Richard Chycki - Engineer
Richard Chycki - Recording
Jim Cox - Horn Arrangements
Jim Cox - String Arrangements
Marti Frederiksen - Producer
Marti Frederiksen - Engineer
Marti Frederiksen - Recording
Scott Gordon - Engineer
Jesse Henderson - Engineer
Mark Hudson - Producer
George Marino - Mastering
Mike Shipley - Mixing
Allen Sides - Engineer
Steven Tyler - Producer
Fran Flannery - Assistant Engineer
Brian Carrigan - Engineer
Kevin Reagan - Art Direction
Kevin Reagan - Design
Jim Survis - Instrument Technician
Jeff Burns - Mixing
Melissa Rogers - Make-Up
Liv Tyler - Whisper
Stephen Saper - Author
Tony Perry - Producer
Keith Garde - Coordination
Keith Garde - Special Projects Coordinator
Hudson - Producer
Paul Santo - Engineer
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