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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, 2012Aerosmith returning to the sound and fury of its '70s halcyon days is a welcome time warp.
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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 7, 2012Dimension delivers because of Joe Perry.
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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.
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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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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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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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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 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 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 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 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 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 6, 2012Aerosmith's best album in years, still sounds like a watery echo of what the band once was.
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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 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 all sounding terribly tired now.
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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 5, 2012[On Music] the band aggressively reclaims every last one of its trademarks through the decades.
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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.
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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