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Nov 1, 2012The effortlessly supple brand of bar-stool blues dances equally well with the soul-drenched hip-shaker ''Out Go the Lights'' and the punked-up juggernaut ''Street Jesus.'
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Nov 7, 2012Dimension delivers because of Joe Perry.
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Nov 6, 2012Aerosmith returning to the sound and fury of its '70s halcyon days is a welcome time warp.
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Nov 5, 2012[On Music] the band aggressively reclaims every last one of its trademarks through the decades.
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Kerrang!Dec 10, 2012When it good, Music From Another Dimension! captures Aerosmith in all their shiny, glittering glory.... However, at over an hour in length, the party begins to sag after a while. [3 Nov 2012, p.52]
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MojoNov 21, 2012While some of this uneven material has been reheated from past writing sessions, Aerosmith are genuinely fighting to reclaim their soul.
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Nov 9, 2012Overall, Dimension has some solid moments and no outright duds, but it works better as the basis for a playlist than as a start-to-finish album.
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Nov 7, 2012Music from Another Dimension! is no worse than Nine Lives. It may lack a single as immediate as "Fallin' in Love (Is Hard on the Knees)"--or the subsequent "Jaded" from 2001's Just Push Play--but it faithfully follows Aerosmith's '90s blueprint, getting nothing wrong but never quite feeling right.
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Nov 6, 2012The usual forehead-slapping decisions are here: goopy Eighties production, tired synth horns, a Diane Warren ballad.... The best thing about Music From Another Dimension! is the chance to hear Joe Perry and Brad Whitford play guitar.
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Nov 5, 2012The album's eight winning cuts would be more than enough for a really good hard-rock disc. Instead we get an album that pays for each of its gems with a nugget of fool's gold.
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Nov 5, 2012MFAD! finds them sounding like exactly what they are, namely an airbrushed, Massachusetts version of the Stones.
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Nov 6, 2012Aerosmith's best album in years, still sounds like a watery echo of what the band once was.
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Nov 7, 2012This then is an album that doesn't quite work, being as it is constantly in a state of conflict.
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Nov 6, 2012Music From Another Dimension delivers riffs, clichés, solos, yowls and a virtual banquet of the same one-dimensional tropes Aerosmith has been offering for years. Mixed in, however, are a few gems.
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Nov 5, 2012It's all sounding terribly tired now.
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Nov 5, 2012It sounds like Aerosmith, with plenty of hard-rocking blues swagger and lighters-aloft balladry, but most of the tunes are rubbish.
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Nov 5, 2012Too much of Music veers towards chewy chart balladry and away from the amusing blues rockers where American Idol judge Steven Tyler maneuvers his mic stand around with a scarf.
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Nov 1, 2012Music from Another Dimension! goes heavy on the insipid power ballads that characterised their commercial revival in the early 90s.
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Nov 5, 2012It's hardly ground-breaking, but when Tyler brays, Perry blooze-ifies on guitar, the cow-bells ring and the back-up singers wail, Aerosmith approximates a cartoony version of its glory days. But the album's second half nosedives.
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Nov 1, 2012With tracks like "LUV XXX," "Beautiful," and "Lover Alot," everyone's favorite dude-looks-like-a-grandma just can't let go of that screechy horndog rock.
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Nov 8, 2012Aside from all of the individual missteps that make up Music from Another Dimension, the single most striking flaw comes in production quality.
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Nov 7, 2012This is a bad album. The power ballads have some good elements. You might sing one of these songs at karaoke one day. You should not listen to this album in its entirety.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 19 out of 38
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Mixed: 5 out of 38
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Negative: 14 out of 38
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