Audio CD review:
Aerosmith - Classics Live!

Aerosmith - Classics Live!

Band: Aerosmith Title: Classics Live! Rating: Release Date: 07 September, 1993 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Train Kept A Rollin' 2: Kings And Queens 3: Sweet Emotions 4: Dream On 5: Mama Kin 6: Three Mile Smile/Reefer Head Woman 7: Lord Of The Thighs 8: Major Barbra

Customer Reviews good,but not great 1 train kept a rollin=woo!!!great!!! 2 kings and qweens=pretty kool 3 sweet emotion=one of the best aerosmith songs ever 4 dream on=best flippin song ever written!!!!!!! 5 mama kin=great! 6 3mile/reefer head=sweeeet. read the title. . . . 7 lord thighs=ok,not great 8 major barbra=sucks. no good. pooy. CLASSICS LIVE "Sweet Emotion" is superbly performed, perhaps not any more so than any of their other versions (from Toys In The Attic or Live Bootleg or a half dozen other albums. This CD features Aerosmith at their most slick-sounding and consistently rhythmic; the opening "Train Kept A Rollin'" is their most moving version of this song (it's also featured on Get Your Wings and Live Bootleg among others) and the next song "Kings and Queens" - along with #4 "Dream On" - is melodic and melancholly. . . ) but, as said before, it's the most slick sounding version in their career back catalogue. The "side 2" (as is on the cassette version - which was the 1st type I bought. . . ) isn't quite as good, and if you've listened to this CD a few times already, you might find tracks 5-8 pretty boring actually. But it's good kickin' noise to have in the background if you can't stand the oh so terrible silence (whatever!). . . ; in my opinion "Major Barbara" falls short of the expectations prompted from the lyrics. . . unless you have a photographic memory, you might go back to that song thinking it's gonna be a tragic-weepytype song, but you'll be disappointed (if you have any taste, that is. . . ). I agree with one or more reviewer(s), that CL#2 is quite better. . . I'll review that another time. Memories of early concert fan. It was the first year I drove a car and put in my first car stereo with a cassette deck. Well the first time I bought classics live was on cassette in 1979. I first saw Aerosmith at Day on the Green in the summer of 1978. I remember how Steven Tyler and Joe Perry seemed to dominate the stage and reach out to the Audience. The closing was Dream On and I don't think Steven Tyler was all together in his mind, I think the reefer smoke from the audience had gone to his head. I really enjoyed the other bands who opened the show, but by the time Aerosmith got through their first set, fans were ready to go home after being in the sun all day. . You can see a complete list of all Aerosmith discography, or go back to the Aerosmith tabs