Music: 4 stars; Economic Value: 3 stars; Compilation relevance: 1 star
1994, at the end of Aerosmith's tenure with Geffen Records, the label issued a "best of" from the band's Geffen era, called "Big Ones". It was an excellent overview of Aerosmith's commercial and critical comeback years. Fast forward to Fall, 2007, when Universal issued an Aerosmith volume in its ongoing "20th Century Masters" series.
"20th Century Masters: The Best of Aerosmith" (12 tracks; 60 min.) presents a chronological overview of the band's best and biggest hits from 1987 through 1994. "Permanent Vacation" gets 3 songs; monster-albums "Pump" and "Get a Grib" each gets 4 songs, and "Deuces Are Wild" (from the Beavis & Butthead Experience movie soundtrack) rounds out the collection. Terrific songs, good collection as such, BUT....
If it strikes you as well that this is a virtual copy of "Big Ones", you are correct. Indeed, ALL TWELVE songs from this collection are on "Big Ones", which had 3 additional tracks (2 new songs and "Eat the Rich"). Given that both those collections sell for an identical $9.97 on Amazon and elsewhere, why in the world would anyone buy this 'new' collection?
this si a awesome cd. i love this album the best songs on this album are all of them. Aerosmith rocks
When it has came to comebacks back in the 80's, there were very few that actually delivered within the promises. The big hypes in music came from Tina Turner and her 1984 comeback album Private Dancer, and her smash What's Love Got To Do With It, and some other other acts really had delivered to even greater heights. Aerosmith proved to really be that big surprise in music. While the 80's in the beginning showed to be more about their drug-enduced bouts with Steven Tyler and Joe Perry. But, with acts like Bon Jovi, Poison and others thriving in Hard Rock, Aerosmith made up for it, and returned to a whole new generation with their time on Geffen.
The 2007 20th Century Masters Millennium Collection: The Best Of Aerosmith, is a single disc reflection that shows their major success of Geffen during the 80's and early 90's. The collection includes 12 classic tracks including the smashes Dude (Looks Like A Lady), Crazy, the deep and haunting Janie's Got A Gun and Love In An Elevator. The songs could've been remastered a bit better than other collections, and doesn't include other hits from the bad boys of Boston like Walk This Way, which was sadly overshadowed from this album on their own, and especially as the comeback single collaboration with Run D.M.C., Livin' On The Edge, and I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing from Armageddon, or their standard smash Dream On.
All in all, 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best Of Aerosmith is a great buy for those on a budget shopping for hits albums, but it isn't as much of a definitive reflection like the other recent ones like O'Yeah Ultimate Aerosmith Hits from 2002. Nevertheless, it does a good job at reflecting through their comeback era, but could've had a bit more to dream on to.
Album Cover: B
Songs: B-
Price: C
Remastering: B-
Overall: C+
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