After leafing through my record collection, I found my copy of
Get Your Wings, honestly I don't find Areosmith very good or original, but I did buy it thinking, "there must be a reason they are so damn popular." Now I can't say I hated this album, but I can't say I liked it either! The good thing about this album, it's got that classic 70's rock sound, good for any party, as background, or in my case filling the dishwasher and making lunches! Seriously who wouldn't like a record with a tune on it called
Lord of the Thighs (check the Breeders version -- way better!). But realistically,
Get Your Wings just isn't any good. Steven Tyler, on the cover, looks like someone's annoying, wanting to be sexy but isn't, aunt who has her nephews over hoping they bring their friends so she can ogle them -- not the image of a so called
Lord Of The Thighs! The one tune that I was looking forward to, and thought that I liked, an old blues number,
Train' Kept A Rollin' (stick to the Yardbirds version), was almost ok, but then got trashed by a finger tappin' over extended guitar solo that brought out my inner grandpa, "it's just goddamn noise, noise, noise!!!" So in the end
Get Your Wings is being taken out of the main collection, it was a nice try, even with the watered down Alice Cooper sound of,
S.O.S (Too Bad), but it just couldn't cut it. These are wings that I definitely don't wanna get -- ha ha! Ewwww!
