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Post by Zen on Aug 12, 2014 6:25:15 GMT -5
In the last year almost every member of Aerosmith has commented that they have no record company and can do what they want and almost all of them have mentioned doing an EP themselves and only using a record company for distribution. I like that idea, between 4 and 6 songs that they all want without A&R telling them what to do.
One thing I don't like is that it seems to be split on how it is released, some say CD and limited release vinyl, others say iTunes only.
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Post by pillis on Aug 12, 2014 6:41:47 GMT -5
iTunes only will be sad.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2014 7:24:06 GMT -5
Well, we have plenty of time to wait and speculate. After tour Joe's off doing his thing, Steven's off doing his and Tom, Brad and Joey get cryogenically frozen and hung on their racks until Steven and Joe decide its time to do something Aerosmith again.
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Post by 4bits4licks76 on Aug 12, 2014 7:27:02 GMT -5
Harmonies and melodies have always been the core of all Aerosmith's songs... they're great because of that. Wrong. Bluesy hard rock was the core or foundation of the bands music back in the 70's. Sure, they incorporated harmonies and melodies, but they wrote songs from a hard rock band perspective as opposed to a pop rock love ballad band perspective. I am willing to bet Perry is still in the hard rock mode, regardless of what he may have said and look forward to seeing his next record. None of his records to date have ever been pop rock. Not great records perhaps, although I really liked the last one, but decent enough hard rock with some great riffs as well. No Surprise, Scare the Cat and Slingshot are far and away more striped down hard rock than anything Aerosmith has released in 20+ years. And don't forget Mercy from "Joe Perry" back in 2005?? What a great song.
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Post by petertherock on Aug 12, 2014 7:38:30 GMT -5
I love Joe Perry (the 2005 album) it's my favorite one of Joe's solo albums...I think Joe did all the instruments himself except the drums...or maybe he did drums too I forgot now. But it's a great album. I remember thinking when I first got this album if only Aerosmith had put out this album with Steven singing on these songs that would be a great Aerosmith album!
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Post by AeroCooper on Aug 12, 2014 8:10:55 GMT -5
I don't recall anyone mentioned iTunes specifically. They have only said they might release songs 'online'. I don't have an iTunes account and hope I never will, but I have no problem buying from Amazon or even 'borrowing' the songs from YouTube if they do decide to go iTunes only.
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Post by pillis on Aug 12, 2014 8:26:54 GMT -5
Harmonies and melodies have always been the core of all Aerosmith's songs... they're great because of that. Wrong. Bluesy hard rock was the core or foundation of the bands music back in the 70's. Sure, they incorporated harmonies and melodies, but they wrote songs from a hard rock band perspective as opposed to a pop rock love ballad band perspective. I am willing to bet Perry is still in the hard rock mode, regardless of what he may have said and look forward to seeing his next record. None of his records to date have ever been pop rock. Not great records perhaps, although I really liked the last one, but decent enough hard rock with some great riffs as well. No Surprise, Scare the Cat and Slingshot are far and away more striped down hard rock than anything Aerosmith has released in 20+ years. And don't forget Mercy from "Joe Perry" back in 2005?? What a great song. Yes this is true and I hope they'll go back to that formula but I also think that good melodies have always been important in their careers and that doesn't mean being a sell out pop band to me. A song can have a great melody even without being a ballad and even without being so catchy and easy at first listen. I meant that they always had great songs structers with powerful and effective hooks already back then. They weren't a pretentious band with an elitarian and complex sound, they just hit like a train. As long as they'll put out a good amount of rockers I don't have any problem with their ballads as they're usually (not always) beautiful and extremely well-done and well-written. I don't see ballads as a wek point but I do recognize that Aerosmith have become popular mainly for slow songs and that affected their production so if we had more rockers and mid tempos in the 70s now we have a good 1/3 of album made of ballads which kill the pace of an album. I felt this problem especially in Nine Lives and JPP (which was more peculiar so I like it better) but also in MFAD. To me this is the main problem, the unbalanced pace of their efforts not the quality of their songs per se which I think stayed quite high and original/fresh until now.
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Post by pillis on Aug 12, 2014 8:33:26 GMT -5
I don't recall anyone mentioned iTunes specifically. They have only said they might release songs 'online'. I don't have an iTunes account and hope I never will, but I have no problem buying from Amazon or even 'borrowing' the songs from YouTube if they do decide to go iTunes only. Well iTunes is the standard digital store, like it or not...I hate Apple because I think they're a psycho community but it is what it is. For online they clearly meant a digital distribuition on iTunes/AmazonMP3 and other streaming portals such as Spotify and Deezer...then of course there are other stores but iTunes is the main one.
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Post by bartman2001 on Aug 12, 2014 14:46:38 GMT -5
All 5 guys just need to walk into the studio and they can take it from there. Just like they did it in the 70s. They all came into the studio with ideas and riffs too. There's a difference between coming into the studio prepared and digging thru years of old ideas and unused songs. I'm for the former and against the latter.
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Post by adamsapple on Aug 12, 2014 16:53:25 GMT -5
All 5 guys just need to walk into the studio and they can take it from there. Just like they did it in the 70s. Yes! If they could come to conclusion that MFAD was a failure, which I think they have. 5 guys into the studio with limited production and limited outside writers. Give me 9 great tracks and call it a day. They've done it before plus it would be a good cleansing of the last album. What do they have to lose?
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Post by nipmuchigh on Aug 12, 2014 18:41:17 GMT -5
Well, we have plenty of time to wait and speculate. After tour Joe's off doing his thing, Steven's off doing his and Tom, Brad and Joey get cryogenically frozen and hung on their racks until Steven and Joe decide its time to do something Aerosmith again. First of all, that quote is hilarious. Well done. That made me actually laugh out loud (I despise the lol nonsense) At this point I would always prefer they do an actual physical album but those days might be gone. Stop with the individual bullshit and get everybody in the studio!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2014 19:16:02 GMT -5
Everything I buy is on iTunes now. I know how to use my disc drive (is it even called that!) to upload and I like the CD package and it is a month before I bring my iPod in from the car to download it. I have no clue why I don't buy CD's but if I don't I would think everyone younger than me wouldn't bother.
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Post by pillis on Aug 13, 2014 4:57:01 GMT -5
Everything I buy is on iTunes now. I know how to use my disc drive (is it even called that!) to upload and I like the CD package and it is a month before I bring my iPod in from the car to download it. I have no clue why I don't buy CD's but if I don't I would think everyone younger than me wouldn't bother. CDs sales have definitely decreased a lot but if you put out an album it's stupid doing it just digitally as digital albums sales are even lower than physical ones. On the contrary, digital singles are doing great and that's why there's no more the culture of the b-sides and exclusive content on such singles. I consider CDs to be a piece of merchandise for die hards who want to collect everything and for casual fans as well who might listen to the single on the radio then see the CD at walmart or whichever other shop and buy it. But hey, there's an economic crisis all over the world and people are reluctant in spending their money on music they can get for free via torrent or "illegal" download. If they put down a good marketing strategy, a pre-order service buying the single with massive sharing options (especially on twitter and instagram) they can easily achieve at least a #2 album on the billboard 200 and a #1 on the rock chart. Or they could just release an album just digitally by surprise ala Beyoncè and David Bowie which in my opinion was a brilliant thing but I don't think that Aerosmith has the popularity to create such hype so I would follow a more straditional scheme.
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Post by CheshireCat on Aug 13, 2014 9:03:07 GMT -5
Everything I buy is on iTunes now. I know how to use my disc drive (is it even called that!) to upload and I like the CD package and it is a month before I bring my iPod in from the car to download it. I have no clue why I don't buy CD's but if I don't I would think everyone younger than me wouldn't bother. I have recently began buying CDs again. I am an Amazon Music digital buyer for the most part, but the quality is just so poor (ITunes as well). For anyone who has not listened to CD in a while, try it out. At the very least, I noticed a pretty big difference.
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Post by pillis on Aug 13, 2014 9:07:13 GMT -5
That's why I refuse to pay for crappy mp3 or similar compressed files! Sometimes I buy some digital singles from artists that I love just to support them and hopefully bring them in the charts but I usually buy CDs as well!
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