Get Your Wings Music Cd

Aerosmith - Get Your Wings

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Get Your Wings      Artist : Aerosmith      List Price : $11.98 USD        Your Price : $10.99 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1993-09-07      Studio : Sony      Label : Sony      Avg. Customer Rating : (82 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Get Your Wings      Still their best, almost a quarter century later      Rating:      "Get Your Wings" was Aerosmith's second album, easily a step up from their debut, and, for my money, superior to the "Toys" or "Rocks" that came after. They weren't MTV fodder yet, they were still militantly "on medication," and the contrariness that ground them to a halt in the early eighties (just as it did, "that band they worked so hard to look like") hadn't even started to take hold yet. Prime stuff, folks: even the obligatory top-40 song here, "Train Kept A'Rolling," was superior to most anything else going down that vile year of 1974. And OK, I'll be selfish, all MY favorite Aerosmith songs are represented here, "Seasons Of Wither"..."Same Old Song And Dance"..."SOS "...especially "Lord Of The Thighs" and "Pandora's Box." Again, Aerosmith would achieve their "breakthru" the next two albums after this - and, yeah, too, they would even go on, that decade, to do that atrocious "Sgt Pepper" movie with the Bee Gees & Billy Preston. (But, hey, "gotta eat," and all that) For my money, Aerosmith peaked right here, pre-MTV, pre-Nat'l Inq'r fodder, pre-"divorces," pre - before they became a walking caricture of themselves, post "Permanant Vacation."     Customer Reviews for Get Your Wings Cd      Stands The Test of Time - At Least For Me      Rating:      I bought this album (vinyl) when it first came out, just before Toys In The Attic put them on the map, and long before they became a self parody. It has always been my favorite Aerosmith effort by far (though Rocks was close). I've long since passed through "Metal" as a musical preference, and yet, I still play Get Your Wings (digitally, of course) from time to time. There are very few hard rock "albums" from that time period that I can say that about. I'm not sure who would be looking at this now that might be considering buying it for the first time, but if you're out there, this would be the one I'd choose. Editorial Reviews for Get Your Wings Audio Cd      Amazon.com      While not quite as exemplary of the Boston quintet's '70s sound as Toys in the Attic or Rocks, Get Your Wings was impressive both in terms of its material and its measurable improvement over Aerosmith's debut. From the R&B inflected "Same Old Song and Dance" to the power-rock "Woman of the World" to the rollicking cover of "Train Kept a Rollin'," Wings showed the band solidifying their sound and really taking flight for the first time. --Genevieve Williams