1 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/get_a_grip_aerosmith.jpg]] |
2 | [[caption-width-right:300:''Got to get a grip\ |
3 | Skin and bones, it ain't such a pity ''\ |
4 | [[labelnote:Disclaimer]][[NoAnimalsWereHarmed No cows were harmed in the making of this album cover]].[[/labelnote]]]] |
5 | ->''Tell me what you think about your situation''\ |
6 | ''Complication, aggravation''\ |
7 | ''Is getting to you''\ |
8 | ''If Chicken Little tells you that the sky is falling''\ |
9 | ''Even if it was, would you still come crawling back again?''\ |
10 | ''I bet you would, my friend''\ |
11 | ''Again and again and again and again''\ |
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13 | ''Something right with the world today''\ |
14 | ''And everybody knows it's wrong''\ |
15 | ''But we can tell 'em no or we could let it go''\ |
16 | ''But I would rather be a-hanging on'' |
17 | -->--"Livin' on the Edge" |
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19 | '''''Get a Grip''''' is the eleventh studio album by the rock band Music/{{Aerosmith}}. It was released through Creator/GeffenRecords on April 20, 1993. |
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21 | After a break following ''Pump'', the band returned to the studio in 1992 to record a follow-up. Record executives initially bemoaned a lack of radio-friendly tracks, so they recorded a few more songs later in the year, reaching out to some collaborators for some more songs. |
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23 | Several of the songs, including the title track "Get a Grip" and "Amazing", deal with the band's past of drug abuse, and coming to a crossroads on dealing with addiction. They also produced several love ballads with their own twist of dysfunctional relationships, such as "Cryin'" and "Crazy". |
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25 | The album was released to generally positive reviews. Robert Christgau of ''The Village Voice'' hailed it as their best album since ''Rocks''. Mark Coleman of ''Magazine/RollingStone'', however, chided what he felt as a generally somber and unadventurous feeling to the album; he felt "Livin' on the Edge" sounded too much like Music/BonJovi, and that the outside influence generally dragged the album down. |
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27 | But ''Get a Grip'' was the first Aerosmith album to hit #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart, and would ultimately go seven-times platinum in the United States. At a total of 20 million copies worldwide, it is Aerosmith's best-selling studio album. It also hit #2 in the UK. Two songs ("Cryin'", "Livin' on the Edge") hit #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. Its highest work on the Billboard Hot 100 was #12 for "Cryin'", as its pop chart performance was dragged down somewhat by the ongoing {{grunge}} movement. |
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29 | The album spawned several music videos, some of which were popular on Creator/{{MTV}}: "Livin' on the Edge", "Cryin'", "Amazing", and "Crazy". The latter three of those became famous for starring budding actress Creator/AliciaSilverstone. "Crazy" also starred Steven Tyler's daughter, Creator/LivTyler, who would also become an actress in her own right. |
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32 | !!Tracklist: |
33 | [[AC:Side One]] |
34 | # "Intro" (0:24) |
35 | # "Eat the Rich" (4:11) |
36 | # "Get a Grip" (3:59) |
37 | # "Fever" (4:15) |
38 | # "Livin' on the Edge" (6:07) |
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40 | [[AC:Side Two]] |
41 | # "Flesh" (5:57) |
42 | # "Walk On Down" (3:39) |
43 | # "Shut Up and Dance" (4:56) |
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45 | [[AC:Side Three]] |
46 | # "Cryin'" (5:09) |
47 | # "Gotta Love It" (5:58) |
48 | # "Crazy" (5:14) |
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50 | [[AC:Side Four]] |
51 | # "Line Up" (4:03) |
52 | # "Amazing" (5:57) |
53 | # "Boogie Man" (2:17) |
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56 | !!Principal members |
57 | * Steven Tyler – lead vocals, keyboards, mandolin, harmonica, additional percussion |
58 | * Joe Perry – guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Walk on Down" |
59 | * Brad Whitford – guitar, lead guitar on “Fever”, “Gotta Love It”, and “Flesh” |
60 | * Tom Hamilton – bass guitar, bass solo on “Gotta Love It” |
61 | * Joey Kramer – drums |
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64 | !!That one last trope's a permanent vacation: |
65 | * BigRockEnding: "Amazing" averts this by ending this way, only to go to a BigBand-style epilogue that samples the 1945 big band song "Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well" by Lucky Millinder. The whole album averts it with the final track, a quiet, eerie instrumental called "Boogie Man." |
66 | * CallBack: "Amazing" does an AlbumTitleDrop to their 1987 CareerResurrection in the line "That one last shot's a permanent vacation." |
67 | ** The intro track includes the line "You got the right key, baby, but the wrong keyhole" -- paraphrasing a line from the song "F.I.N.E." on the band's 1989 album ''Pump'' -- and ends with the guitar riff from "Walk This Way." |
68 | * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The music video for "Amazing" is LOADED with this. The best part is when the guy knocks over his water bottle on his keyboard during his first VR sex attempt; especially the way the water pumps out of the straw. |
69 | * DreamWithinADream: The music video for "Amazing" shows a guy living a VR fantasy with Creator/AliciaSilverstone. The ending reveals ''that'' to be part of Silverstone's own fantasy. |
70 | * EpicRocking: "Livin' on the Edge" is just over six minutes, and three other songs fall within three seconds short ("Amazing", "Flesh", and "Gotta Love It"). |
71 | * FakeKillScare: "Cryin'" ends with Alicia Silverstone jumping back off a bridge, only to show that she's on a wire connected to a belly button ring she got earlier in the video. |
72 | * LastNoteHilarity: "Eat the Rich", true to the title, ends with a belch. Which Steven can do on stage impromptu! |
73 | * LoveHurts: Both "Cryin'" and "Crazy" allude to this. |
74 | * OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope: Some of the more dangerous activities in the VR scene come with ContentWarnings. The Surgeon General's Warning appears during the SmokingHotSex allusion. |
75 | * NoAnimalsWereHarmed: PETA complained about the album cover, which features a cow with a pierced udder. The band later stated the piercing was photoshopped in. |
76 | * ProductPlacement: Creator/{{Apple}} products are all over the music video for "Amazing". |
77 | * SmokingHotSex: Done at the end of the sex part of the VR fantasy in the music video of "Amazing". |
78 | * TitleTrack: "Get a Grip" |
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