Wednesday, October 01, 2014

Rocktober Deep Cut A: "No More No More" by Aerosmith

1975's Toys in the Attic is perhaps Aerosmith's best album of the '70s, if not ever, featuring two of Aerosmith's most famous songs, "Sweet Emotion" and "Walk This Way," as well as the title track and the innuendo-laden cover of "Big Ten Inch Record," all of which you're going to hear on classic rock radio with some regularity (more so with respect to the first two songs, of course). Overshadowed by those four songs is track 7 off of the album, "No More No More," which, for some reason you rarely, if ever, hear on the radio.  I think that's a damn shame, but then again, I suppose you can't play every Aerosmith song regularly, or else your entire radio station would be devoted to Aerosmith.  "No More No More" is a great rock song lamenting life and temptation on the road as a rock star.  Joe Perry has a nice little solo near the end of the song, and Steven Tyler's vocals are perfectly strained, as they often are.  Maybe it's just me, but when I hear this song, I can hear a lot of hair band songs from ten years later, especially by bands who employed that kind of honky-tonk hair metal, like Cinderella and Great White.

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