Tylers regret is palpable and perfect on What Could Have Been Love. It’s a question he’s asked millions of times before, but on Dimension, he’d jump if someone so much as tweeted him the answer. ∼an angels fly on broken wings? he wonders on ∼loser.
He struggled to reinvent himself in some weird ways: even firing his manager, leaving his band. These last 10 years have been marred with new kinds of loss for Tyler, like his kids moving out and the collapse of his longest marriage. Tyler returned to his piano seat for guidance and gravitas. But behind the word dimension is the word reinvention’, and thats where this album gets impressive. For Aerosmith, not knowing wrong from right is basically a way of life. (Joe Perry actually walked out on that one - whoops). The conceit here may be a campy way of rehashing their precious creation myth, but this album is from the same folks who released the Night In The Ruts with the words Right in the Nuts on the back album flap. Even the music comes across as a caricature at times: Legendary Child is a cartoon of their greatest hits (Sweet Emotion, Walk This Way). Given that Aerosmith could barely walk onstage without Joe Perry throwing a mic stand at Steven Tyler for the last five years, its pretty astonishing that he was able to kiss Perrys sassafrass long enough to record fifteen new songs. The comic-strip cover art reinforces the caricatures of the human beings Aerosmith have been living up to lately. Want Rock In A Hard Place? Tell Me is an articulate rendition of Joanies Butterfly. Want Toys? Joe Perrys Street Jesus is plucked right from the attic.
Want Rocks? There’s the anxiety-volcano Lover Alot.
AEROSMITH MUSIC FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION ALBUM ART FULL
Music From Another Dimension is Aerosmiths first album in over a decade, and its full of ’70s hard rock riffs that reward every class of Aero-historian.
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