Line #27 Music/GetAGrip


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''\
12	\
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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