{"id":3326,"date":"1987-08-01T00:00:42","date_gmt":"1987-08-01T00:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=3326"},"modified":"2013-06-01T13:14:42","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T13:14:42","slug":"album-review-aerosmith-permanent-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-aerosmith-permanent-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"AEROSMITH – Permanent Vacation (1987) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

AEROSMITH
Permanent Vacation<\/strong><\/span>
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\nGeffen (1987)<\/span>
Rating: 9.9\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Here it is. The big one. The second greatest band ever to exist are back with possibly THE album of 1987. Believe me, this is shit hot stuff. While poutin\u2019 pretenders Guns N\u2019 Roses and Faster Pussycat can only try to emulate the dirty, wasted days of Tyler and co., the real wreckin\u2019 McCoy bound in with the Aerosmith sound to be copied by the next generation and, perhaps, beyond. A rave? Course it is. Aerosmith always had the ability to make something like this, but were always too stoned or recovering from falling off stage to do it.<\/p>\n

Produced by Bruce Fairbairn, the man responsible for the knob duty on Bon Jovi\u2019s last album (and I bet he wishes Prism could\u2019ve achieved mega-platinum success), Aerosmith delve deep into their roots to rip off their own influences (60s beat music, the big band sound, The Beatles and, of course, The Rolling Stones) to bring together a very diverse but still very \u2018Aerosmith\u2019 feeling selection of songs. There\u2019s massive amounts of widespread appeal on Permanent Vacation<\/em>, but this ain\u2019t no fuckin\u2019 disco record.<\/p>\n

There are your typical Aerosmith rockers, such as \u2018Heart\u2019s Done Time\u2019 and \u2018Simoriah\u2019, there\u2019s a massive sounding heavy metal tune called \u2018Magic Touch\u2019, a weird instrumental entitled \u2018The Movie\u2019 and even a superb cover of The Beatles\u2019 \u2018I\u2019m Down\u2019 (Cheap Trick should\u2019ve covered this), but the others are certainly different. The title track is kinda Aerosmith meets Ace Frehley with good time, fun lyrics. \u2018Girl Keeps Coming Apart\u2019 is a massive combination of sixties beat with a dab of \u2018Big Band\u2019 sound, especially where Joey Kramer\u2019s drums are concerned that is shit hot. While \u2018Rag Doll\u2019 is kinda Van Halen\u2019s \u2018Big Bad Bill\u2019 mixed with Aerosmith\u2019s own \u2018Big Ten Inch Record\u2019, and \u2018Dude (Looks Like a Lady)\u2019 is just, well, weird and not only in the lyrical content.<\/p>\n

But my two favourites are the big ballad in \u2018Angel\u2019, which could well be that self same band circa Sinful<\/em> era if you got rid of Tyler\u2019s vocals and inserted Dimino\u2019s, and \u2018Hangman Jury\u2019 which takes you into Dukes Of Hazzard<\/em> country; a mean tale of justice in the backwoods down south. And I haven\u2019t even mentioned the anti-TV evangelist ditty \u2018St. John\u2019. As I said, a shit hot album and one I\u2019m gonna play the hell out of.<\/p>\n

Dave Reynolds<\/strong><\/p>\n

Review taken from Metal Forces, Issue 25 (1987)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AEROSMITHPermanent Vacation Geffen (1987)Rating: 9.9\/10 Here it is. The big one. The second greatest band ever to exist are back with possibly THE album of 1987. Believe me, this is shit hot stuff. While poutin\u2019 pretenders Guns N\u2019 Roses and Faster Pussycat can only try to emulate the dirty, wasted days of Tyler and co., […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aerosmith","category-album-ep-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3326"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11931,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326\/revisions\/11931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}