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Get A Grip

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Have always been an Aerosmith fan,even on their lp's that didn't do all that well.I can honestly say that 'Get A Grip' is a darn good later day effort by them Boston bad boys.I've heard a few mention how this CD just MAY be the band's best record since their 'Rocks' lp.Now,that's saying something.'Get A Grip' is in my opinion anyway,a modern hard rock classic.Rips from beginning to end.Killer tracks include "Eat The Rich","Shut Up And Dance","Fever","Line-Up","Livin' On The Edge"(remember the video?),"Cryin'" and "Walk On Down"(which features guitarist Joe Perry on vocals).Sweet!No doubt.A must have for all fans.Highly recommended.

I've been a fan of Aerosmith for about four years now, and this is the fourth album by them that I've heard. Amazing or not, I like them all. The band is a legend already, and I believe that they'll be remembered as one of the greatest bands. The have their own unique sound, which you either like or not. I like it.
The album starts with Intro, a nice little piece of music. From thet we can smoothly move to Eat the Rich. The lyrics are fun, and this is a true Aerosmith rock song. After that comes the title song, Get A Grip. I have to warn you; someone burps loud at the very beginning of the song! Grip is another rock song, and Tyler's voice raises and raises in the "I get so excited" -part so that you'd think he'd explode any time. Fever comes after that; at first I didn't like the song, but then I got excited about it. Sounds to me a bit like Rolling Stones, and I also love Tyler's harmonica. Livin' On the Edge is probably the most famous song from this album, but it just doesn't chill me that much. Flesh is a bit like Fever, and once again we can hear the Demon Of Screaming at his best. This is a very energetic song. Walk On Down is Joe Perry saying "Hey I have a good song too, let's put it on the album!" I'm glad they listened to Joe as Walk On Down is easy-going but full of rock. Shut Up And Dance is one of my favorites, a rock song that makes you want to dance as they tell you to. And when you are tired after hard dancing, you can relax by listening to Cryin'. I like the song, but the live version on Little South Of Sanity is much better, it's a gem while this version sounds like a bad recording of a song that could have been better. The next song, Gotta Love It is my favourite. It rocks, has depth and power. It reminds me of Michael Jackson's Give In To Me (Dangerous, 1991), and if you like Give In... because of the song, not just because of Michael Jackson, you gotta love this song too (or other way round; if you like this you'll like Give In To Me). Crazy follows this song, another ballad which is pretty good. I'm just sad that they picked the ballads for singles, why not Flesh for example. But Aerosmith makes great ballads, so... you'll probably go crazy for this song. Line Up features Lenny Kravitz, but it's not the most interesting song in this album. Can't Stop Messin' became one of my favorites; at first I thought the beginning was too sudden, but now I can't get enough of it. Amazing, amazingly another famous slow ballad... good but don't listen to it too often so you won't get bored. Boogie Man comes silently from nowhere, stops by to float in your mind and after it has faded away it'll still float in your brain. Spooky.
I don't want to say anything stupid like "buy this cd" or "this is the best" or "vote for my review" but I don't actually know what to say. Boogie Man is still filling my mind.

Ok so this may not be the best Aerosmith album, but it's still pretty darn good. I can't say that I have any complaints with any of the songs on this CD. It is like Aerosmith put all their sounds from the past 20 years and put them in a blender, and came up with this nice mix. My personal favorite song is "Eat the Rich", a hilarious song about what is wrong with rich people. I also like "Livin on the Edge", "Walk on Down", "Shut up and Dance", "Cryin", "Gotta Love it" , and "Amazing". "Amazing", probably the biggest hit off of this album, is like a 90's version of the ballad "Dream On". Also, "Cryin" and "Crazy" sound a lot alike, but "Crazy" is slower. This was the first Aerosmith album I got, thanks mostly to MTV, and I think it's still great and it's great to listen to in the car. If you are an Aerosmith fan, buy this album.

1993, the music world as we knew was changed forever by a musical revolution that invaded from Seattle. Grunge was all over the place and the face of music was different than what AEROSMITH was used to. GET A GRIP was released at this point in time and its resulting success proved that no matter what the musical climate maybe, AEROSMITH will still continue to rock. While not as raw as their earlier efforts, this album is still full of balls to the walls rockin' songs that should be played loud. EAT THE RICH, GET A GRIP, FEVER, LIVIN ON THE EDGE are just rockin songs that show the band still has the drive and energy to just rock. CRYIN, AMAZING, and CRAZY slow the tempo down abit but the album does not lose its momentum. This album has went on to sell like 12 million copies or something like that and I dont think many people out of that number are disappointed. This is a solid slab of rock and I think any music fan will enjoy this.

Actually, 2 and-a-half stars...

"Get A Grip" was Aerosmith's follow-up to their multi-platinum "Pump," and the band's first album of the 90's. Coming up with a worthy successor to a stellar collection like "Pump" would prove difficult for any band, even veterans like Aerosmith. There were pre-release rumors that Geffen was unhappy with early versions of "Get A Grip." True or not, the final version of the album is neither a disaster nor a masterpiece. An assortment of outside talent was recruited to contribute to the album. Yet despite (or perhaps, because of) the input of co-writers like Lenny Kravitz, Jim Vallance, Desmond Child, Tommy Shaw, and Jack Blades, "Get A Grip" never rises much above mid-line Aerosmith.

At 13 songs and over an hour long, there's more filler than killer on "Get A Grip." The filler isn't awful - but there's a sense of "been there, done that" pervading much of the record. With over three years between "Pump" and "Get A Grip," things could have sounded a bit fresher.

In retrospect, the album served as a bellwether for Aerosmith's future musical direction. The Boston Bad Boys served up a fairly balanced mix of hard-rock boogie-woogie and power-ballad nirvana. Songs like "Fever," "Livin' On The Edge" and the furious "Eat The Rich" demonstrated that Aerosmith could still rock in a hard place. But - as was the case for many rockers at the time - the CD's ballads are what made the greatest impact on the charts.

The best of the ballads, the mid-tempo "Cryin,'" is animated by a driving horn section. By comparison, "Amazing" and "Crazy" are better seen (in their accompanying videos - featuring Alicia Silverstone and Liv Tyler) than heard.

All in all, there's enough on "Get A Grip" to keep fans of "Pump" or "Permanent Vacation" happy. Likewise, if you believe that the last great thing Aerosmith did was "Toys In The Attic," "Get A Grip" will only reinforce your opinion.

This is not Aerosmith's best album. This is not Aerosmith's worst album either however. And when your worst album can have hit singles, an album that's in the middle can't be that bad.

Featured on this album is Livin' On The Edge, one of the best songs Tyler/Perry ever wrote. The biggest fault of this album is that the quality of songs seem way lower than Livin' On The Edge. If most of the songs were of the same quality, this would've been an amazing album, but as it stands only Cryin' comes close.

This album has the feel of a late-80s rock performance, which may account for some disgruntlement among those who regarded the early 90s as an era for grunge and industrial music and nothing else. I can't say I enjoyed everything on the disk - that almost never happens anyway - but it's more than enough for me to give it five stars for the energetic rock and ballads mixed herein.

I love this CD! Every song is wonderful, you can dance to every one. It's rock and I usually don't like rock but this is one big exception! This is a CD that no matter where you are you just bust-out singing with every song! And maybe even get up and dance to it! My faves are "Cryin'" and "Crazy."

Perhaps a better title for Get A Grip could have been "Ill Conceived Power Ballads and Other B-Sides" due to Grip's lackluster content. Actually, it would be unfair to criticise the album for its slower songs. Aerosmith has a long tradition of releasing outstanding power ballads and Grip delivers three more.

The problem with Get A Grip is that it fails to deliver a line up of solid rockers. Roughly half the album (for example: "Flesh", "Fever", "Walk on Down", "Shut Up and Dance", "Gotta Love It", and "Line Up") is mildly enjoyable, though mostly forgetable. Songs such as "Eat the Rich" and "Get a Grip" are decent rock songs, but neither is strong enough to match the intensity and catchiness of Grip's power ballads. Though "Living On the Edge" holds its own as one of the album's best, it's unfortunately overshadowed by the rest of the cd's mediocrity. The result is an awkward and unbalanced Aerosmith album where slower songs dominate the faster, more aggressive rockers.

Overall, Get A Grip has enough highlights to keep it from being a bad album, but not enough of them to make it a great cd.

`Get a Grip' inspires a tremendous amount of emotion for long time Aerosmith fans and unfortunately much of it is in the negative. The album was among the best selling records the band would ever produce and proved without a bit of doubt that they were hit makers par excellence. The LP also proved that Aerosmith's late 80's renaissance had nothing to do with the hair metal craze of that era and that the band was above all that as their popularity only increased during the supposed grunge era which destroyed the children of Aerosmith but not the demon father himself. That `Get a Grip' contains some of the sappiest, pappiest music that the fellas would ever make was the bone of contention of the many who bought the LP in the spring of '93 after four long years. Almost twenty years later, some of the video hits are still a chore to listen to but taken as a whole, `Get a Grip' shows the old masters at the top of their form. Again working with Bruce Fairbairn and many of the hit makers (Desmond Child, Taylor Rhodes) who had worked with the band on the previous two records, Aerosmith at its core (Steven Tyler and Joe Perry) still had the basic songwriting chops that would tower over most of their contemporaries. Favorites would include the title track, "Shut Up and Dance", "Fever", "Flesh" and the feverish workout of "Eat the Rich". I have grown to appreciate "Amazing" more after I read about the song's genesis in the band's autobio `Walk This Way' and it really is a great song. "Livin' on the Edge" was a decent lead single but it tends to get a little repetitive towards the end. As far as the other big hits, the less said about them the better. `Get a Grip' can be appreciated years after rock radio and MTV basically turned Aerosmith's core fan base against them as sell outs but the fans will always come back and this record does give them enough. Something for everyone?