On That Note - Wax and Wane

[cyclones500]

Aerosmith. Loved their first few albums. Since then....meh.

Aerosmith seems ripe for wax-waning. Mentally I divide the music "Before Run-DMC" and "After." Not that the style and sound radically changed from 70s period to mid-80s onward, it's more like the group vanished, then suddenly came back alive and got more huge (and hence, maybe more likely for oversaturation).

I never developed a love/hate for Aerosmith because I wasn't highly familiar with the early period prior to the 80s surge, beyond about a half-dozen songs.

 

[cyclones500]

I went through a teenage metal phase. Metallica, Megadeth, Iron Maiden...
Shredding guitar is still pretty cool, but not my favorite kind of music by far anymore. I can appreciate a few songs now and then, but that's it.

I, too, had a brief foray into speed-metalish music, although I was about 22 when it occurred. I bought "Among the Living" by Anthrax (which had come out that year) because I wasn't in-the-know about the genre and was curious. I liked it (still do, once in a while).

Short time later, I got "Kill 'Em All" to catch up on early Metallica. So those were in my regular rotation for a bit, then I got Anthrax's follow-up album, some solid tunes, but didn't come close to how I felt when I listened to "ATL." That was pretty much it for that phase.

 

[cyhiphopp]

Aerosmith seems ripe for wax-waning. Mentally I divide the music "Before Run-DMC" and "After." Not that the style and sound radically changed from 70s period to mid-80s onward, it's more like the group vanished, then suddenly came back alive and got more huge (and hence, maybe more likely for oversaturation).

I never developed a love/hate for Aerosmith because I wasn't highly familiar with the early period prior to the 80s surge, beyond about a half-dozen songs.

Aerosmith went really poppy and sappy with some of their late 80s and 90s releases. Like the Armageddon soundtrack. They are some of the bands most popular singles, but mostly because they appealed to a broader audience and could be played on soft rock channels. I don't fault the guys for making money and selling records, but it loses some of the soul for me.

 

[HFCS]

Aerosmith seems ripe for wax-waning. Mentally I divide the music "Before Run-DMC" and "After." Not that the style and sound radically changed from 70s period to mid-80s onward, it's more like the group vanished, then suddenly came back alive and got more huge (and hence, maybe more likely for oversaturation).

I never developed a love/hate for Aerosmith because I wasn't highly familiar with the early period prior to the 80s surge, beyond about a half-dozen songs.

There are individual Aerosmith tracks like Dream On or Back in the Saddle that blow my mind but I can't really listen to any albums like other legendary rock bands. Van Halen is the same way to me only even less songs I love and even harder to listen to an album. With Aerosmith there's also the post-Pump era where I actively hated their ballad songs that all sounded the same.

SNL even did a spoof of how their ballads were all the same song, one of the songs in the skit is Cryin Amazin Crazy. Pretty hard to find a clip of it online because of the rights issues.