AEROSMITH – Permanent Vacation [Japan Limited Edition remastered SHM-CD] OOP

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One of you asked for the best sounding-reissue AEROSMITH albums, especially from the first era. Let’s start backwards, with this Japan Limited Edition mini-LP replica, Numbered, remastered release of “Permanent Vacation”, pressed on high quality SHM-CD.

Aerosmith made one of the most impressive career comebacks in rock history with the Aug. 18, 1987, release of “Permanent Vacation”, their ninth studio effort, plenty of terrific songs.
For a band who had ruled as perhaps America’s biggest rock band of the ’70s, the following decade opened with Aerosmith in very bad shape. Substance abuse problems and in-fighting had crippled the group’s record and ticket-selling powers.

Things got so bad that both of the group’s founding guitarists – Joe Perry and Brad Whitford – were gone by the time 1982’s Rock in a Hard Place was released. The duo rejoined Hamilton, drummer Joey Kramer and singer Steven Tyler for 1985’s (highly underrated) Done With Mirrors, but the album failed to re-connect the band with their fans – and Aerosmith’s various addictions were still interfering with their lives.

The group got an unexpected second chance at regaining their place in the spotlight when Tyler and Perry’s collaboration with rap group Run D.M.C. on a re-recording of Aerosmith’s classic hit “Walk This Way” became a smash hit. The band decided it was finally time to stare down their problems once and for all, with all five members successfully cleaning up over the next year.
Aerosmith also decided to employ outside songwriters while crafting the songs for “Permanent Vacation”, including noted hit-makers Desmond Child and Jim Vallance.

The band straddles the line between commerce and art very well on “Permanent Vacation”. True, there are highly polished melodic rock / pop hooks on tracks like “Dude (Looks Like a Lady)” and the power ballad “Angel” that could make devotees of the band’s first era a bit uncomfortable, but both songs quickly earned their way into most fans’ hearts.
It’s also hard to deny that the horn section does anything but add to Tyler’s undiminished swagger and wit on the thumping “Rag Doll,” or that the back porch harmonica-heavy blues of “Hangman Jury” or the slow-burning “St. John” wouldn’t have fit pretty well into the band’s ’70s set lists.

“Permanent Vacation” kicks off on a familiar note with an appropriately loose pair of riff-rockers in “Heart’s Done Time” and “Magic Touch,” and ends with the moody, churning instrumental “The Movie,” as if to illustrate that Aerosmith is still very much in touch with their old selves.
The group also reveals their love of the Beatles in two places: with a rip-roaring cover of the Fab Four’s “I’m Down” and in the opening riff of the textured rocker “Simoriah.”

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The combination of new and old obviously worked. “Permanent Vacation” sold over five millions copies, spawned four hit singles, and re-established the group to their rightful place as one of music’s biggest concert attractions. Two years later, Aerosmith solidified their comeback with the even better (and bigger-selling) Pump, and have remained among the most popular bands in the world ever since.
This Japanese remastered reissue on Blu-Spec CD2 adds a lot of depth to this rocking album.
Highly Recommended

 

Universal Music JapanUICY-94442 【LTD SHM-CD】
「 CARDBOARD  SLEEVE  REISSUE  SERIES 」

01 – Heart’s Done Time
02 – Magic Touch
03 – Rag Doll
04 – Simoriah
05 – Dude [Looks Like A Lady]
06 – St. John
07 – Hangman Jury
08 – Girl Keeps Coming Apart
09 – Angel
10 – Permanent Vacation
11 – I’m Down
12 – The Movie

Steven Tyler – vocals, piano, harmonica, organ
Joe Perry – guitar, backing vocals, pedal steel
Brad Whitford – guitar
Tom Hamilton – bass guitar
Joey Kramer – drums
additional musicians:
Drew Arnott – mellotron on “Angel” and “The Movie”
Tom Keenlyside, Ian Putz, Bob Rogers – horns
Bruce Fairbairn – trumpet, cello, background vocals
Mike Fraser – plunger mute
Morgan Rael – steel drums
Jim Vallance – organ on “Rag Doll” and “Simoriah”
Christine Arnott – Backing vocals on “The Movie”

 

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