“Just Push Play”
April 24, 2001
Aerosmith keeps on playing. Just push play and you will find that even after 28 years of recording music, Aerosmith still has what it takes to make hit records.
Recent inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Aerosmith debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with their recently released album “Just Push Play.” This is the 13th album for Aerosmith and the first to be produced by singer Steven Tyler and guitarist Joe Perry, half of a production team called the Boneyard Boys. The album was created in what Tyler calls the “delivery room” in Perry’s Boneyard Studio.
“We basically sat in this room and didn’t leave until we’d write something,” said Tyler, according to Rolling Stone magazine. The album has a new and genuine quality about it, and is rawer and edgier than any of their earlier albums.
The similarity between “Just Push Play” and other Aerosmith albums is that most of the songs are reminiscent of the Back in the Saddle tour in 1985 when Aerosmith was making a comeback with the album “Done With Mirrors.”
The first single, “Jaded,” has all of the elements of a major hit, the song gets in your head and it won’t let go.
“Under my Skin” and “Just Push Play” are the highlights of the album if you prefer a more heavy sound, but other songs like “Jaded” and “Fly Away Home” are marketable in the radio industry and flow together better. “Just Push Play” is just another example that Aerosmith is going to be around for a long time to come.