Aerosmith's "Get A Grip" (1993) : Track by Track!

<v Speaker 1>Hello everybody, and welcome back to the Shirly You Can't
<v Speaker 1>Be Serious Podcast. We are in the midst of our
<v Speaker 1>comparison of the album Get a Grip with the album
<v Speaker 1>No More Tears. Last episode, we talked about the rise
<v Speaker 1>and fall and ultimate comeback of Aerosmith through the seventies
<v Speaker 1>and eighties and nineties.
<v Speaker 2>Today we are diving in track by track into Aerosmiths
<v Speaker 2>Get a Grip album. All right, So, Get a Grip
<v Speaker 2>is released April twentieth of nineteen ninety three. There's a
<v Speaker 2>couple of things I want to talk about before we
<v Speaker 2>go through the lineup really quick.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, Okay.
<v Speaker 2>It ends up going at least seven times platinum. That's
<v Speaker 2>kind of the latest information I have. Sells over ten
<v Speaker 2>million copies, over half of that is outside of the
<v Speaker 2>United States, so it's an international smash.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, best selling album worldwide, the first album to reach
<v Speaker 1>number one.
<v Speaker 2>Some tidbits on this album, Okay. On June twenty seventh,
<v Speaker 2>nineteen ninety four, Aerosmith became the first major artist to
<v Speaker 2>release a song as an exclusive digital download. It was
<v Speaker 2>an unreleased track called head First, which was written for
<v Speaker 2>this album didn't make the final cut. But they released it.
<v Speaker 2>Around ten thousand users downloaded the song, even though at
<v Speaker 2>the time you had to use a modem, which means
<v Speaker 2>it took several hours to get it one. So one song,
<v Speaker 2>one song, one song not good enough to make this album.
<v Speaker 1>The album was named Album of the Year by Metal
<v Speaker 1>Edge magazine reader's choice. Uh huh.
<v Speaker 2>Seven songs from Get a Grip wound up charting at
<v Speaker 2>least one of Billboard's charts. Okay, so this is their
<v Speaker 2>one of their biggest selling albums, right, maybe their biggest
<v Speaker 2>selling album.
<v Speaker 1>Yep.
<v Speaker 2>They came to the record company with an album in
<v Speaker 2>September of nineteen ninety two, YEP, and said, here you go, fellas,
<v Speaker 2>here's our album, and they listened to it. The guy's
<v Speaker 2>name is John Kelviner.
<v Speaker 1>It's easy for you to say, I know.
<v Speaker 2>He is a gefen Ar executive. And he listened to
<v Speaker 2>it and he said, he said, this is not good.
<v Speaker 1>Don't sugarcoat it. Tell me how you really feel.
<v Speaker 2>He was the guy that like, you got to tell
<v Speaker 2>the band, and so he's like, look, guys, this there's
<v Speaker 2>no radio friendly hits on this. Okay. I've tried to
<v Speaker 2>kind of figure out what songs were on that September
<v Speaker 2>ninety two album. Yeah, I can't find the track listing.
<v Speaker 2>Here's what I do know. Living on the Edge was
<v Speaker 2>not on there, Crying wasn't on there, and Crazy wasn't
<v Speaker 2>on there.
<v Speaker 1>Those are kind of big ones.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, those are the heavy hitters from this album.
<v Speaker 1>I mean it's good to know because if those songs
<v Speaker 1>had been on there and somebody was saying no hits,
<v Speaker 1>then we like, you're fired.
<v Speaker 2>You're an idiot. Right, So anyway, I found that very interesting.
<v Speaker 2>Their first submission for this album was rejected. Go back
<v Speaker 2>to the drawing board.
<v Speaker 1>Wow, real quick.
<v Speaker 2>The album cover generated some controversy. Really, The album cover
<v Speaker 2>had a cow's udder.
<v Speaker 1>Wait wait, wait, wait wait, do you know why milking
<v Speaker 1>stools only have three legs? No, because the cow has
<v Speaker 1>the utterer.
<v Speaker 2>That's a good one, bad joke. So that the album
<v Speaker 2>covers a picture of a cow's utter, there's an Aerosmith
<v Speaker 2>brand on the cow, and then one of the nipples
<v Speaker 2>on the utter is pierced. So the ped of people
<v Speaker 2>went crazy, right, They're like, I mean they were upset, right,
<v Speaker 2>they're abusing this cow and they're like, uh, this was
<v Speaker 2>computer generated. And everybody calmed down, all right, So let's
<v Speaker 2>dive right in. Okay, So you start off with this,
<v Speaker 2>it's really an intro to Eat the Rich. We got kid, it's.
<v Speaker 3>Half past the Youth.
<v Speaker 4>They never read the changer, but the dates you will
<v Speaker 4>grand Slamma but no baby.
<v Speaker 2>But it starts off with this kind of rat right
<v Speaker 2>sling it.
<v Speaker 4>From the product gate got all asses.
<v Speaker 2>You've got the right key, baby, but the wrong key.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know what that's a reference to, and I'm
<v Speaker 1>not gonna floor it.
<v Speaker 2>They do have the riff from Walks this family, and
<v Speaker 2>I think it's their way of saying, get ready, we're
<v Speaker 2>freaking Aerosmith. Here's our album, huh, and we're bringing it.
<v Speaker 2>And it rolls right into Eat the Rich.
<v Speaker 1>So the music video on this one, the intro song
<v Speaker 1>is a part of the music video for Eat the Rich. Right,
<v Speaker 1>But you've got this awesome introduction where it builds. You
<v Speaker 1>know how I love the build. You've got the guitar riff,
<v Speaker 1>and then you've got the bass that comes in and
<v Speaker 1>joins it. Then you've got the drums and the rhythm
<v Speaker 1>guitar that come in and join them, and it build
<v Speaker 1>builds right up into that yell. This is the perfect
<v Speaker 1>Aerosmith intro.
<v Speaker 2>He does make that little animalistic I don't know what
<v Speaker 2>that is, but that little screech.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, it's the screaming demon.
<v Speaker 2>Steven Tyler can do a lot of vocal gymnastics. He's
<v Speaker 2>like Michael Jackson.
<v Speaker 3>He makes noises and they're interesting to listen to.
<v Speaker 2>This was their second single. This was released April seventeenth
<v Speaker 2>and ninety three. It only reached number thirty four, so
<v Speaker 2>it wasn't as big a hit as they wanted. It's
<v Speaker 2>a good concert song. They played it in almost all
<v Speaker 2>of their concerts that year, but they had to reevaluate
<v Speaker 2>how they're going to go through this album.
<v Speaker 1>The video is weird.
<v Speaker 2>There's like eyeballs and bones and.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, he's wearing animal horns and it's Here's.
<v Speaker 2>The thing I've never really understood about this song. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>it's like Aerosmith has taken stand against rich people.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>I know they were broke because drugs broke them, but
<v Speaker 2>they're pretty rich. I mean, let's be honest.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, there have been several bands that have songs with
<v Speaker 1>this name. There's a Motorhead song, but I think this
<v Speaker 1>is without question the most well known of the ether
<v Speaker 1>rich songs.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, have you ever heard the song Honey Hush by
<v Speaker 2>fog Hats the rip from that song pretty dag Gum
<v Speaker 2>similar to Eat the Rich.
<v Speaker 1>Right, Yeah, that's spot on, without question, spot on.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, Honey Hush. Go back to our Smoking de Banded
<v Speaker 2>episode where Kleta Snow says that this song was written
<v Speaker 2>by Joe Perry, Steven Tyler, and Jim Balance. Jim is
<v Speaker 2>the guy who wrote Ragdoll from Permanent Vacation.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah. This song is a part of Temco's Dead
<v Speaker 1>or Live four video game opening along with Amazing Interesting,
<v Speaker 1>and it was one of the loop songs on Revolution X,
<v Speaker 1>which is Aerosmith's game by Midway Games.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, so the next song is called get a Grip?
<v Speaker 1>Okay, and Jim Balance has worked with a ton of people,
<v Speaker 1>but was in a van uber jazz blues rock band
<v Speaker 1>called Sunshine with another band member named Bruce fairbearn.
<v Speaker 2>Oh nice. Bruce Fairbarn produced Get a Grip.
<v Speaker 1>Oh There you Go? But we he was in our
<v Speaker 1>previous music.
<v Speaker 2>Episodes job he did Wed and New Jersey.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, both of them.
<v Speaker 2>How about that There you Go?
<v Speaker 1>That is cool.
<v Speaker 2>The opening drum on this track to me, every time
<v Speaker 2>I hear it, I think it sounds like a Janet
<v Speaker 2>Jackson song. What have you done for me lately?
<v Speaker 1>Your Janet Jackson library in your head is much stronger
<v Speaker 1>than mine.
<v Speaker 2>I will say, Okay, well, there you go. This is
<v Speaker 2>a good song. I like it. The chorus is strong.
<v Speaker 2>I feel like it's a good concert song. It sounds
<v Speaker 2>a little bit like these songs I used to hear,
<v Speaker 2>like when I'd watched Tom and Jerry cartoons and stuff
<v Speaker 2>like Mama's Little Baby Love Short just has that. It
<v Speaker 2>does that sort of southern.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah and Damn.
<v Speaker 6>Things don't change. John Jock's Gone.
<v Speaker 2>It's a good one. I like it. I think this
<v Speaker 2>is like the second tier down. There's a group of
<v Speaker 2>great songs on this album. There's a group of pretty
<v Speaker 2>good songs on this album. I put this into pretty good.
<v Speaker 6>Kay.
<v Speaker 2>One more thing about Get a Grip. There's this massive
<v Speaker 2>burp that I always thought was at the end of
<v Speaker 2>Eat the Rich, Right, Yeah, it's technically the beginning of
<v Speaker 2>Get a Grip, all right. So that brings us to
<v Speaker 2>the third song on the album. It's called Fever.
<v Speaker 1>This is a rock and little song. Yeah, and I
<v Speaker 1>love the harmonica they use the harmonica periodically. I love
<v Speaker 1>the harmonica and their song. Steven Tyler is a fierce
<v Speaker 1>harmonic player.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, this song sounds a lot like young Lust to me,
<v Speaker 2>which is a song.
<v Speaker 1>Up a pump, right. This song is talking about how
<v Speaker 1>they've decided to give up drugs for sex basically, and
<v Speaker 1>the line is that buzz you be getting from the
<v Speaker 1>crack don't last. I'd rather be odd on the crack.
<v Speaker 2>Of her pass poetic, poetic.
<v Speaker 1>This song, the guitar solo is done by Brad Whitford
<v Speaker 1>instead of joking, Okay, yes, but it's fast. I really
<v Speaker 1>like the rhythm that Joey Kramer and Tom Hamilton have
<v Speaker 1>going and Yeah, solid song. I did it.
<v Speaker 2>This song reached number five on the Mainstream rock charts.
<v Speaker 2>It's one of seven songs to chart on Billboard in
<v Speaker 2>some way or fashion.
<v Speaker 1>Do you know who has a cover of this song?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, this is I was leading up to this, go
<v Speaker 2>for it. Garth Brooks has a version of this song.
<v Speaker 2>He calls it the Fever He's got a Fever, and
<v Speaker 2>he changes the lyrics a little bit to be more countryfied. Right,
<v Speaker 2>it's the same song, right, Yeah, got a little twang
<v Speaker 2>to it, a little bit of country field, but it's
<v Speaker 2>it's good. Done with that one. Yeah, all right, let's
<v Speaker 2>move on to the really the first heavy hitter on
<v Speaker 2>this album. This song is called Living on the Edge.
<v Speaker 1>Is something wrong with Them? This is the most biblical song.
<v Speaker 2>I've heard as biblical.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, we're doing things in a different way, and God
<v Speaker 1>knows it ain't his.
<v Speaker 2>They all did what was right in their own eyes,
<v Speaker 2>and God knows it ain't his. Yes, nice, it's showing
<v Speaker 2>no surprise. This song is loosely based on the nineteen
<v Speaker 2>ninety two La Riots.
<v Speaker 1>Oh really Yeah, So if you can judge a wise
<v Speaker 1>man by the color of his skin, then you must
<v Speaker 1>be a better man than I.
<v Speaker 2>Sure you're a better man than I. This was their
<v Speaker 2>first single. It was released February twenty third, ninety three.
<v Speaker 2>This won the Grammy in ninety three for the Best
<v Speaker 2>Rock Performance by a Duo or a Group. Pretty impressive. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>let's talk about the video.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, The video is all kinds of weird, Yes, all
<v Speaker 1>kinds of weird. You got Steven Tyler Holtman's junk. Half
<v Speaker 1>of them is blacked out.
<v Speaker 2>He is naked and holding his package.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, thankfully.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, Instead of not holding it, that's right.
<v Speaker 1>And then suddenly he kicks his head back and somebody
<v Speaker 1>jumps out of the naked, dark side of his body.
<v Speaker 1>It's an interesting effect.
<v Speaker 2>Always, what the heck just happened? I always wonder how
<v Speaker 2>the meetings on these videos. Here's what we're gonna gonna
<v Speaker 2>start with Catholic girls who are rollerblading and hitting cars
<v Speaker 2>with hockey sticks. It's gonna be awesome. And we're gonna
<v Speaker 2>close it out with the kid from T two crashing
<v Speaker 2>his car after joy riding it. It's gonna be amazing.
<v Speaker 1>So you want me to be naked painted half black?
<v Speaker 1>Are you out of your mind? Wait a minute? Am
<v Speaker 1>I do? I have a zipper going down the middle
<v Speaker 1>of meat?
<v Speaker 4>Oh?
<v Speaker 1>A zipper? Okay, then we're cool. That's fine. It makes
<v Speaker 1>total sense to me now.
<v Speaker 2>Plus then he has those like weird like Alice Cooper
<v Speaker 2>like things he's got on his eyes, strange, and he's
<v Speaker 2>in it. They're like he and Joe Perry are playing
<v Speaker 2>with treadmills. I watched a Beavis and butt heead clip
<v Speaker 2>as they were commenting on this video, and Steven Tyler
<v Speaker 2>had those dreads and he goes, look, it looks like Vanillih.
<v Speaker 1>That's hilarious.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, here's an interesting tidbit about this song.
<v Speaker 1>Okay.
<v Speaker 2>Steven Tyler has said in his autobiography the four pounding
<v Speaker 2>drum beats in the middle song where it breaks down, Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>that was a drum that he stole from his high
<v Speaker 2>school after he got kicked out of school. Oh, and
<v Speaker 2>so he played the senior palm, took the drum home,
<v Speaker 2>kept him, didn't return it. So he still had that
<v Speaker 2>drum from like nineteen sixty nine or something. That drum
<v Speaker 2>belonged to his former high school. Wow, are we going
<v Speaker 2>to talk about the weird al song associated with this?
<v Speaker 2>It is my family's favorite weird Alse song.
<v Speaker 1>We can't overlook any opportunity to talk about weird El.
<v Speaker 1>So if there's a good weird Al Yankovic song that
<v Speaker 1>we need to hear, we need to play it.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, let's let's do it. There's something weird in the
<v Speaker 2>fridge today. I don't know what it is food I
<v Speaker 2>can't recognize. It's so good, really really funny. This is
<v Speaker 2>a video directed by Marty Kouner. Yes, but it does
<v Speaker 2>not have Alicia Silverstone.
<v Speaker 1>In it, right, So, Marty Kalner directed most of the videos,
<v Speaker 1>not all of them, most definitely right right on this album,
<v Speaker 1>and Marty Kalner is one of those extremely prolific video directors.
<v Speaker 1>He has also directed a lot of live concert shows,
<v Speaker 1>including live comedy concerts. But what you may not know
<v Speaker 1>is that he is the creator of the HBO series
<v Speaker 1>Hard Knocks.
<v Speaker 6>Wow.
<v Speaker 2>That is amazing, the football show. Yes, great song, ten
<v Speaker 2>pole song for the alcome.
<v Speaker 1>All right, one of my favorites. If you had the
<v Speaker 1>LP at this point, the needle lifts off, comes back
<v Speaker 1>and we flipped the album over. If you happen to
<v Speaker 1>have a vinyl version of get a Grip, hit us up, Twitter, Facebook, whatever,
<v Speaker 1>let us know.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, So that brings us to the next song on
<v Speaker 2>the album.
<v Speaker 6>It's called Flesh.
<v Speaker 1>This is one the Desmond Child helped them write.
<v Speaker 2>So this has a weird intro to it. So then
<v Speaker 2>intro is like one part Sesame Street, one part Electric Company,
<v Speaker 2>one part seventies point.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it seems like you're trying to do some kind
<v Speaker 1>of Pink Floyd thing there, and I think it's a swing.
<v Speaker 6>In a minute.
<v Speaker 1>I like the song all right, after that intro is over,
<v Speaker 1>But the intro is makes it less appeeling to me.
<v Speaker 2>It has kind of a rhythmic, choppy feel to it,
<v Speaker 2>and it almost feels like take a chance on me
<v Speaker 2>by Abbo. I don't know why I'm tying to tell them.
<v Speaker 1>Actually, now that you say it, I can kind I
<v Speaker 1>can kind of see where you're going with that.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, it's got a couple of suggestive lyrics. Shall we
<v Speaker 2>say a cauldron begs for one more boom?
<v Speaker 1>That's fantastic.
<v Speaker 2>I think the high pitch, the high pitched flash when
<v Speaker 2>he's really leaning on that, it sounds a lot like
<v Speaker 2>back in the Saddle again when he's like, yeah, anyway,
<v Speaker 2>all right.
<v Speaker 1>Next song on the album walk on Down. So is
<v Speaker 1>this a leftover from the Joe Perry Project? Probably yeah,
<v Speaker 1>this one is.
<v Speaker 5>Uh.
<v Speaker 1>I feel like Joe is like, hey, I want to
<v Speaker 1>put a song on here, and know like, okay, we
<v Speaker 1>got his part in the middle of side to We'll
<v Speaker 1>let you put this in.
<v Speaker 5>The one.
<v Speaker 2>You got Joe Perry on lead vocals. Yeah, that's not
<v Speaker 2>why I listen to us, but no, listen to me.
<v Speaker 2>It is an okay song, but I'm probably scared of it.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, this one's to take clare for me.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Joe sounds as he does in real life. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I'm sorry, Joe.
<v Speaker 1>Sorry, Joe, can't do it. You got a great guitar
<v Speaker 1>hand yep, just not a good vocal.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, if you had the cassette tape, this is where
<v Speaker 2>you push stop, kick it out, flip it over.
<v Speaker 1>Eighth song in line is the song shut Up and Dance. Okay.
<v Speaker 2>This song was released as a single in January of
<v Speaker 2>ninety four in the UK only. Oh, that's probably why
<v Speaker 2>you didn't hear it as much, right, But this was
<v Speaker 2>the song that was played at the end of Wayne's
<v Speaker 2>World two when Wayne and Garth were gathering. You know,
<v Speaker 2>they were making Wayne stock and they're not worthy. They
<v Speaker 2>were trying to get the band, you know, And so
<v Speaker 2>this is the song that Aerosmith shows up the end,
<v Speaker 2>saves the day and plays shut Up and Dance.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Every time I hear it, I think of Garth doing
<v Speaker 2>his goofy dance.
<v Speaker 1>Some of the lyrics of this song sex is like
<v Speaker 1>a gun. You aim, you shoot, you run.
<v Speaker 2>More sex poetic. This song was actually co written by
<v Speaker 2>Tommy Shaw of Styx and Jack Blades of Night Ranger. Right,
<v Speaker 2>those two guys were both in Damn Yankees.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, and Jack Blades was also a part of another
<v Speaker 1>album that we've talked about. I Feel Good.
<v Speaker 2>Both Tommy Shaw and Jack Blades were was.
<v Speaker 1>Tommy Shaw on Doctor Kogoto. Yeah, ohh there you go.
<v Speaker 2>Yep, it's a good song. Yeah, it's fun, It's okay,
<v Speaker 2>it's Wayne's world.
<v Speaker 1>It's not my favorite, it's not a hit.
<v Speaker 5>No.
<v Speaker 1>Fortunately, the next song's coming up.
<v Speaker 2>We're getting into it now.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, they're saving the best for last.
<v Speaker 2>That brings us to the next song, Crying.
<v Speaker 1>There was a time. Okay.
<v Speaker 2>So this song was released June twentieth of ninety three's
<v Speaker 2>the third single peaked at number twelve on the Hot
<v Speaker 2>one hundred. This song was all over the radio that
<v Speaker 2>whole summer.
<v Speaker 1>This song was written, of course by Stephen Tyler and
<v Speaker 1>Joe Perry, but also co written by Taylor Rhodes, who
<v Speaker 1>has been involved with several other big hits of Aerosmiths.
<v Speaker 2>Carrie Underwood actually talks about how Crying was one of
<v Speaker 2>the songs that she really enjoyed, sort of credits is
<v Speaker 2>one of her professional touchdowns.
<v Speaker 5>Nice.
<v Speaker 1>So are we ready to talk about the video?
<v Speaker 2>Let's talk about the video.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, this is the video that has the very important
<v Speaker 1>star Stephen dorf.
<v Speaker 5>Door.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, of course, oh my gosh.
<v Speaker 2>He actually he's been in some movies. I mean he
<v Speaker 2>did yeah Blade and some other stuff.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, yeah, No, I'm just kidding. Of course he's
<v Speaker 1>he's he's got a great bit in this. He plays
<v Speaker 1>the cheating, disinterested boyfriend very well. Yes, But who were
<v Speaker 1>really wanting to talk about this point is miss Alicia Silverstone.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, young actress named Alicia Silverstone, who had been in
<v Speaker 2>the movie The Crush, Yeah, which I hadn't seen.
<v Speaker 1>Oh I had, and I can say this. I can
<v Speaker 1>say this now. Alicia Silverstone is exactly one year and
<v Speaker 1>one day younger than I am. She was sixteen turning seventeen.
<v Speaker 1>She's young actress and to say that these videos are
<v Speaker 1>sexy is an understatement.
<v Speaker 2>They attribute this video to the sudden uptick in pier.
<v Speaker 1>I had to ask my wife because she because she
<v Speaker 1>had when we met, she had a belly button ring.
<v Speaker 1>It's like, what did you get that? And she's like,
<v Speaker 1>I was a I guess it was a junior senior
<v Speaker 1>in high school. And I was like, oh so right
<v Speaker 1>around nineteen.
<v Speaker 2>Ninety three, uh huh, how about that?
<v Speaker 1>And I said, was this video part of it? And
<v Speaker 1>she's like no, I said, Okay.
<v Speaker 6>It may not.
<v Speaker 2>She may not realize subliminally, maybe it had become a fad.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Yeah, she kicks her legs. How exciting it seems
<v Speaker 1>to get a belly button ring. But my gosh, you
<v Speaker 1>sent me a video of her interviewing with John Stewart
<v Speaker 1>on an MTV show. Yes that he's making comments that
<v Speaker 1>I'm just like listen, bro I got a seventeen year
<v Speaker 1>LA's eighteen now, but I've got a little girl at
<v Speaker 1>that age, and i would punch your freaking lights out
<v Speaker 1>if you're talking to my girl like that, he said.
<v Speaker 2>When she said that, he goes all of a sudden,
<v Speaker 2>I feel like Joey buttafuco if you understood the Joey
<v Speaker 2>buttafuco reference, And you're the right place because we are
<v Speaker 2>listening to eighties and ninety stuff right now. This won
<v Speaker 2>the MTV Music Award for Video of the Year. It
<v Speaker 2>was Your Choice Award and Best Group Video.
<v Speaker 1>So this was a part of a trilogy of videos
<v Speaker 1>with Alicia Silverstone in them, and in this particular one,
<v Speaker 1>she can't win like She's has boy trouble after boy
<v Speaker 1>Trouble after boy trouble. She's just when you think she
<v Speaker 1>might be like getting the eye of some nice looking
<v Speaker 1>kid and the diner he steals her backpack.
<v Speaker 2>You know that is right. That's Josh Holloway. That's Sawyer
<v Speaker 2>from Lost.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yes, okay, Oh my gosh, wow, that's crazy. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>so Steve Dorf, Josh.
<v Speaker 2>Halloway, Alicia's Silverstone.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, so good. Setup.
<v Speaker 2>The song is fantastic, The video is fantastic.
<v Speaker 1>Fantastic ending where she's on the bridge and you think
<v Speaker 1>she's jumping to her death on this.
<v Speaker 2>Let's talk about that for a second.
<v Speaker 5>Go ahead.
<v Speaker 1>When she jumps, there's no rope.
<v Speaker 2>There's no bungee cord.
<v Speaker 1>There's no bungee cord.
<v Speaker 2>And when she leaps and you know, shuts down the
<v Speaker 2>highway for two hours and doesn't get a name trouble.
<v Speaker 2>That rope would have cut her.
<v Speaker 1>In half or at least broken her spine.
<v Speaker 2>And when she flips around and gives the double bird.
<v Speaker 1>So I saw this video for the first time on
<v Speaker 1>YouTube in preparation for this podcast. I'd seen the video before.
<v Speaker 1>I'd seen the video many, many, many times, watching it
<v Speaker 1>on YouTube as opposed to watching it on MTV right,
<v Speaker 1>right right, and so it was the first time that
<v Speaker 1>I ever actually saw her finger not pixelated out and
<v Speaker 1>blared out.
<v Speaker 2>It's quite the fu to Stephendorf to jump off and
<v Speaker 2>give double birds on a bungee jumper. Ye, great song,
<v Speaker 2>great video. Tent pull song on the album. Before we
<v Speaker 2>move on from this one, I want to throw something
<v Speaker 2>at you. I read an article this week, and you're
<v Speaker 2>the musician. Between you and I, it was suggested that
<v Speaker 2>Crazy and Crying started out as the same song. They
<v Speaker 2>have the same bones musically, their progression is the same,
<v Speaker 2>but they took them to separate song. Doctor and one
<v Speaker 2>produced Crazy and one produced Crying, but it all came
<v Speaker 2>from the same route. What do you think you buy?
<v Speaker 1>That? Certainly similar, not identical, but certainly similar chord progressions. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>both in the key of A and listening to them,
<v Speaker 1>I can easily as I'm listening to Crying, I can
<v Speaker 1>sing the lyrics to Crazy and vice versa.
<v Speaker 2>All right, next song on the album is a song
<v Speaker 2>called Gotta Love It.
<v Speaker 6>Skipper.
<v Speaker 1>Apparently you don't gotta love it Skipper. Yes, that's exactly
<v Speaker 1>how I feel, Round and round and round, and that's
<v Speaker 1>exactly how I feel okay. Why you got three songs
<v Speaker 1>on the If you're listening to the LP, you got
<v Speaker 1>three songs on the side, and they're all over five
<v Speaker 1>minutes long, and the one you make the longest one
<v Speaker 1>is gotta Love It.
<v Speaker 2>No, this song's terrible. Yes, this is the worst song
<v Speaker 2>on the album. This song, to me, sounds like, remember
<v Speaker 2>we've seen those videos when Millie Vanilli is playing on
<v Speaker 2>concert in concert and they hit that skip and it's girl.
<v Speaker 2>You know it's girl. You know it's girl.
<v Speaker 1>You know it's obnoxious.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, round and round and round.
<v Speaker 1>No, it's terrible.
<v Speaker 2>It's a skipper.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. I honestly don't have anything to say about this
<v Speaker 1>song other than see you later, all right?
<v Speaker 2>Moving on, moving on to a song called crazy.
<v Speaker 4>Me a Baby.
<v Speaker 6>You know when you.
<v Speaker 4>Drive me up a wall, you make good ball the mast,
<v Speaker 4>it checks you pull. It seems like we're making up
<v Speaker 4>all and we're making know. It always seems you got
<v Speaker 4>something on your mind other than me. Girl, you got
<v Speaker 4>to change your crazy ways? Can you get it?
<v Speaker 1>Say it? I was crying. Oh, wait a minute, that's
<v Speaker 1>not right.
<v Speaker 5>Wait a minute.
<v Speaker 2>Okay. This song was released May third, ninety four. It's
<v Speaker 2>the seventh single and is my favorite song on the album.
<v Speaker 2>It's the best song to me on the album.
<v Speaker 1>It's a great song, no question about it. This one.
<v Speaker 1>You know you mentioned about it being taken it in
<v Speaker 1>different ways. This one was co written by Desmond Child.
<v Speaker 1>So Crying was co written by Taylor Rhodes. Crazy was
<v Speaker 1>co written by Desmond Child.
<v Speaker 2>See there you go. And then you come up with
<v Speaker 2>this slow, louzy, romantic love song. Towards the end you
<v Speaker 2>have that sweeping orchestra.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. I love this, love it to. It's interesting. I mean,
<v Speaker 1>at the point that this song came out, they had
<v Speaker 1>already had the video for Crying. Yes, they had already
<v Speaker 1>had the video for Amazing, which was the other Alicia
<v Speaker 1>Silverstone of the three. Yes, and so this was the
<v Speaker 1>third one.
<v Speaker 5>Right.
<v Speaker 1>They seem to capture the sliminess of men oh so
<v Speaker 1>well in this video. Yes, and there's another big factor
<v Speaker 1>in this video, Live Tyler, Live, Freaking Tyler.
<v Speaker 2>Stephen Tyler's daughter shows up. She's sixteen.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, she's beautiful, by the way, guys, just I'm going
<v Speaker 1>to say that again. She's sixteen. It's interesting she had
<v Speaker 1>done I guess she had done some modeling before.
<v Speaker 2>This has she'd been in a panteine commercial.
<v Speaker 1>It wasn't her dad that said, hey, come and be
<v Speaker 1>in this video. It was Marty Kawman that said, Hey,
<v Speaker 1>I'd like to use your daughter in this video. I
<v Speaker 1>think she's beautiful, and I have this idea for these
<v Speaker 1>two girls you've run off together.
<v Speaker 2>They're going to win an amateur stripping contest. How do
<v Speaker 2>you feel about that?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah? So how is Stephen Tyler? Do you do? You say,
<v Speaker 1>what used sexuality as a way to generate income? I
<v Speaker 1>can't do that.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, to be against my morals.
<v Speaker 1>If in nineteen ninety four you were eighteen like I was,
<v Speaker 1>you remember the black leather pants and the guy sitting
<v Speaker 1>outside of the gas station gawking, gawking at her kind
<v Speaker 1>of shaking her booty. I can remember, like I saw
<v Speaker 1>the video before I knew that she was Steven Tyler's daughter,
<v Speaker 1>when she did her lip syncing while she was on
<v Speaker 1>stage and she's and she's doing the hair and she's
<v Speaker 1>doing the spitting, and I'm like, dang, she really looks
<v Speaker 1>like him. And I was like, Yeah. When I found out,
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, of course, of course.
<v Speaker 2>It's it's undeniable. Yeah, that is not Todd Rundgren's daughter,
<v Speaker 2>without a doubt, Steven Tyler's daughter.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. This of course then opened the door for her
<v Speaker 1>to an incredible acting career. I was watching Empire Records
<v Speaker 1>just last week. She did that, she did that thing
<v Speaker 1>you do. And then of course she's the main woman Elf.
<v Speaker 1>I can't remember what her name is, but the Rings.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, she's in Lord of the Rings.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>This was the video that Amy Heckerling was watching while
<v Speaker 2>working out thinking about who she was going to hire
<v Speaker 2>for her next movie, Clueless, Literally on the treadmill thinking
<v Speaker 2>who in the world am I gonna get to play
<v Speaker 2>cher Horowitz in Clueless. Oh, I'll just get that girl
<v Speaker 2>right there, the Aerosmith girl, Alicias Soursta.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Amy Heckerling had brought us a decade before, had
<v Speaker 1>brought us Fast Times at Ridgemont High. And if you
<v Speaker 1>want to see the difference between high school in the
<v Speaker 1>eighties and high school in the nineties, watch Fast Times.
<v Speaker 1>Bridgemont High followed right up with Clueless, and you'll see
<v Speaker 1>what a difference it was.
<v Speaker 2>She did Wayne's World Name between us two. Oh, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>so fantastic song. This song won the Grammy for Best
<v Speaker 2>Rock Performance in nineteen years fold out.
<v Speaker 1>Great song, fantastic hate to end it. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>The video was ranked number twenty three in VAH one's
<v Speaker 2>Top one hundred music videos of all It's.
<v Speaker 1>The most memorable of the trilogy, totally.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. The next song is called Lineup.
<v Speaker 1>So this one's got almost a big band beginning to it,
<v Speaker 1>like it's the theit trumpets and the porns coming in
<v Speaker 1>that blast. It's very got a funk to it. Yes,
<v Speaker 1>and it was written by Steven Tyler, Joe Perry and
<v Speaker 1>and Lenny Kravitz.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, listen, this song makes me smile every time I
<v Speaker 2>hear it. Not because I love the song and not
<v Speaker 2>because it's there's Been's greatest song, but clearly the song
<v Speaker 2>I associate with a Spenter of PIC Detective. Okay, this
<v Speaker 2>is yes, absolutely so we've covered Garth Brooks Spura of course,
<v Speaker 2>Alicia Soldstone plays backgirl.
<v Speaker 1>Eventually bank right, and Wayne Tweld, thank you very much.
<v Speaker 2>This is the song. The music montage where Aceventura is
<v Speaker 2>trying to locate the missing jewel in the AFC Championship
<v Speaker 2>rings and he's popping guys on the button with a
<v Speaker 2>towel in the shower and he's.
<v Speaker 1>Tackling guys on the track this is, and he's looking
<v Speaker 1>at guys at the urinal.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, and he tries to crash into that guy and
<v Speaker 2>he gets the finger and he gets out the binoculars
<v Speaker 2>to look at his middle finger. That scene is hilarious.
<v Speaker 2>But this song is what is played during that musical
<v Speaker 2>montage and a spur Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>And it's perfect perfect fit for those for that. You're right.
<v Speaker 1>It's not the greatest song on the album, but it
<v Speaker 1>has edged itself into our memory from being a part
<v Speaker 1>of that movie.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, Lenny Kravitz sings backup vocals on this, by the way,
<v Speaker 2>right all right. The next song on the album, the
<v Speaker 2>final real song, is a song called a Maze.
<v Speaker 1>So just Stephen Tyl not Joe Perry on this one
<v Speaker 1>as writer, but he did co write with somebody named
<v Speaker 1>Richard Supa, who also is a big collaborator with Richie
<v Speaker 1>sapor Nice.
<v Speaker 2>So this song is about climbing back after a dick show.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, and you're right, this was.
<v Speaker 2>Written with that guy named Richie Supa, so listen to this.
<v Speaker 2>Richie Supa wrote some other Arismith songs with him back
<v Speaker 2>in the seventies, like Chip away at the Stone, right,
<v Speaker 2>So it's a prominent guy. So he got caught with
<v Speaker 2>a bunch of cocaine, went to jail for three years.
<v Speaker 2>During that time, Aerosmith gets sober. Okay, when he gets
<v Speaker 2>out of jail, he shows up at an Aerosmith concert,
<v Speaker 2>goes backstage, Hey, Steven, how you doing. Good to see
<v Speaker 2>you man, I'm out of jail. He's like, hey, check
<v Speaker 2>it out, I got an eight ball of coke. And
<v Speaker 2>Steven says, get this guy out of here and gets
<v Speaker 2>security and they throw his butt out, And keep in mind,
<v Speaker 2>this is a guy who helped him write hit songs
<v Speaker 2>that they just performed. And as they're dragging him off,
<v Speaker 2>he's like, come back when you've been sober for one year,
<v Speaker 2>tosses his butt out. Okay, So he cleans his act up,
<v Speaker 2>comes back to him summer of ninety one, shows him
<v Speaker 2>his aa you know, coins and stuff like that, I've
<v Speaker 2>been sober, and basically writes this thing. Isn't it amazing
<v Speaker 2>what you can do when your life is cleaned up.
<v Speaker 2>They get together and they write this song.
<v Speaker 1>What a fantastic sword?
<v Speaker 5>Is that great?
<v Speaker 1>That is a fantastic That's the best story of the
<v Speaker 1>whole album. That is awesome, pretty cool, right, very good.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, And when you listen to the lyrics, like I
<v Speaker 2>had never really listened to the lyrics before. It's talking
<v Speaker 2>about at the beginning, it says, I left let the
<v Speaker 2>right ones out and the wrong ones in. There you
<v Speaker 2>had an angel of mercy to lead me through all
<v Speaker 2>my sin, he said. He stole that line. Richie Soupa
<v Speaker 2>stole that line from an alcohol and drug anonymous meeting
<v Speaker 2>where a girl stood up and said, I'll let the
<v Speaker 2>right ones out and the wrong ones in. Nice.
<v Speaker 1>Wow, that's great. Okay. So Don Henley is singing backup
<v Speaker 1>vocals on this is that cool? Yes? So this is
<v Speaker 1>the third in the trilogy, and this one it had
<v Speaker 1>been a long time since I'd seen it, but I
<v Speaker 1>was really impressed because this is the one that involves
<v Speaker 1>all the virtual reality. I'm like, this is early mid
<v Speaker 1>nineties and this kid's got a VR set on. Is
<v Speaker 1>that the kid from Dayston Confused?
<v Speaker 2>It is the kid.
<v Speaker 1>It is Jason London from Dayston Confused. Yes, And if
<v Speaker 1>anybody can't remember it, it's the one where he's during
<v Speaker 1>the VR session he spills his coke on the keyboard,
<v Speaker 1>right at the makeout session, and.
<v Speaker 2>It's very sexually yes, very yes, very very sexual.
<v Speaker 1>We have the m Night shymal on ending on this
<v Speaker 1>one because it turns out, you know, we think that
<v Speaker 1>he's been he's been watching a VR of some MTV model,
<v Speaker 1>but it turns out she's the one that's been v
<v Speaker 1>ring him watching her.
<v Speaker 2>Where it's crazy. It's it's amazing.
<v Speaker 1>I'm crying.
<v Speaker 2>Oh, it's a great song. It's it's the weakest of
<v Speaker 2>the three ballads.
<v Speaker 5>In my opinion.
<v Speaker 1>Oh, I love this song. I don't know if it's close.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, they're they're I mean, it's all they're They're great. Really,
<v Speaker 2>they're really great.
<v Speaker 1>They also in this one that they've got high speed
<v Speaker 1>motorcycles and they've got sky diving with like snowboards. Is
<v Speaker 1>that right.
<v Speaker 2>It sounds like a James Bonder. Yeah, it's a good one.
<v Speaker 1>This is also one that was in the video game
<v Speaker 1>Better Alive for okay.
<v Speaker 2>Uh. It does make mention. One of the lyrics on
<v Speaker 2>this song. It says, one last shot a permanent vacation,
<v Speaker 2>a little tie back to an earlier Aerosmith album. It's
<v Speaker 2>a great song.
<v Speaker 1>I love it all right.
<v Speaker 2>Finally we come to Boogeyman, which is a instrumental.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I will tell you this. I'll tell you this,
<v Speaker 1>the songs that we hear on these albums when I
<v Speaker 1>didn't own the album, that our new experiences for me
<v Speaker 1>sometimes are not so good. Right, Like the beginning songs
<v Speaker 1>of this, particularly some of the beginning songs in this
<v Speaker 1>particular album, I was just like, this is not really
<v Speaker 1>for me. It's all full Aerosmith, It's very Erosmith sounding.
<v Speaker 1>It's just doesn't have that but the appeal to me.
<v Speaker 1>But occasionally there will be songs that I'm not super
<v Speaker 1>familiar with that will totally hook me and become a
<v Speaker 1>part of my rotation. Right, Like I knew Kickstart my Heart.
<v Speaker 1>It's now a part of my workout playlist. I probably
<v Speaker 1>had heard Foolin', but it is now a part of
<v Speaker 1>my road trip playlist. Full and off of Piramine, off
<v Speaker 1>of Piramina, Yes, def Leppard and Motley Crue there. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>for this one. This is the song for me that
<v Speaker 1>I was just like, Wow, this is different.
<v Speaker 2>I like this, this is this is the one I'm
<v Speaker 2>digging this, This is the song.
<v Speaker 1>This is the song I really really like. The Joe
<v Speaker 1>Perry instrumental guitar groove and song. I'll listen to it again.
<v Speaker 1>It'll become a part of a playlist.
<v Speaker 2>This song is like a cracker with no salt on it.
<v Speaker 2>There's just nothing there for me. It's just an instrumental.
<v Speaker 2>But here's the crazy thing about this. So I looked
<v Speaker 2>at the tour set list for the Get a Grip tour. Right, yeah, okay,
<v Speaker 2>Crazy is not on there. They didn't play Crazy in concert,
<v Speaker 2>but they did play Boogeyman.
<v Speaker 1>That's crazy. Isn't that weird? And that's amazing.
<v Speaker 2>Anyway, that brings us to the end of Get a Grip.
<v Speaker 2>Come Back next week, and we're going to take a
<v Speaker 2>deep dive into Ozzy Osbourne's come back out of No
<v Speaker 2>More Tears.
<v Speaker 1>There might be some shampoo in that. Can't wait.
<v Speaker 2>We had shampoo the panteen in this one. There will
<v Speaker 2>be shampoo in the next.
<v Speaker 4>So from almost and now I'll smith the tonge of
<v Speaker 4>you out there, wherever you are, remember the lay at
<v Speaker 4>the end of the tunnel. Maybe you good night.