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Track List
01) No Surprize
02) Chiquita
03) Remember (Walking in the Sand)
04) Cheese Cake
05) Three Mile Smile
06) Reefer Head Woman
07) Bone to Bone (Coney Island White Fish Boy)
08) Think About It
09) Mia
01) No Surprize
02) Chiquita
03) Remember (Walking in the Sand)
04) Cheese Cake
05) Three Mile Smile
06) Reefer Head Woman
07) Bone to Bone (Coney Island White Fish Boy)
08) Think About It
09) Mia
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4:05
4:16
3:42
4:02
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3:35
4:13
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First Released
1979
Hard Rock
Philosophical
Rock/Pop
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Night in the Ruts is the sixth album by American rock band Aerosmith.
Joe Perry left the band midway through the recording of the album. The album was initially produced at the Bands Warehouse/Rehearsal space by Jack Douglas who had produced Aerosmith's previous four albums, but later, Columbia Records brought in Gary Lyons to replace Douglas as the producer.
About halfway through the recording of the album, due to mounting debt and the need for the band to generate an income, the record label and management set Aerosmith out on another tour without extra time to finish the album, which pushed the album to being released later in the year. Joe Perry left the band mid-way through the tour, after a violent feud involving the band members and their wives, and as drug abuse intensified within the band. Prior to his departure, Perry had completed guitar parts for "No Surprize", "Chiquita", "Cheese Cake", "Three Mile Smile" and "Bone to Bone (Coney Island White Fish Boy)". The guitar parts for the remaining songs were recorded by Brad Whitford, Richie Supa, Neil Thompson, and Jimmy Crespo (who later became Perry's official replacement from 1979 to 1984).
Despite some critical acclaim and early success, the album quickly fell down the charts. The album has since achieved platinum status. Promo videos for "No Surprize" and "Chiquita" were filmed (featuring Perry's replacement Jimmy Crespo); however, these videos received little television airplay. "Chiquita" is available on the band's Video Scrapbook VHS and laserdisc release.
The title is an intentional spoonerism of the phrase "right in the nuts", which was subsequently the title of the tour, and was shown on the back artwork for the album.
User Album Review
The first song on Aerosmith’s seventh album is called “No Surprize,” and that about sums up Night in the Ruts. After some tentative attempts to expand its basic jock-rock sound with mandolins, banjos and an occasional female backup vocal on its last studio record, Draw the Line, Aerosmith returns to what it does best: playing America’s crass, punkier version of the Rolling Stones, with singer Steven Tyler an arrogantly combative Mick Jagger to guitarist Joe Perry’s coolly aloof Keith Richards.
But the fact that the finest moments on Night in the Ruts sound like inspired outtakes from Rocks and Toys in the Attic suggests that Aerosmith may be stuck in a hard-rock rut of its own. “Cheese Cake,” “Bone to Bone (Coney Island White Fish Boy)” and “No Surprize” are typical chain-saw rockers, Tyler howling like a wolf in heat while guitars ricochet around him. “Think about It,” an obscure Yardbirds B side, is also rendered with a reverential bluster that doesn’t cut the original, yet at least credits roots where credit is due.
So far, so-so, but the deviations from this norm are disastrous, if not in concept then in execution. Aerosmith’s attempt to redo the old Shangri-Las weeper, “Remember (Walking in the Sand),” is a regrettable example of stylistic indecision, sitting uncomfortably between the band’s hard-rock attack and the song’s original pseudo-Spectorian grandeur, with no small blame due Gary Lyons for his rather bland production. The one ballad here, Tyler’s “Mia,” is cloned from Aerosmith’s 1975 hit, “Dream On,” but all possible tension between the group’s electricity and the acoustic guitar and piano is negated by a surprisingly lifeless performance that’s as unsettling as it is unnecessary.
With Joe Perry now forming his own band, this isn’t the time for Aerosmith to be lying down on the job. It’s hardly a secret that when the spirit moves them and their amps are turned up to ten, these guys can deliver a paralyzing kick — as they imply in the graffiti on the back cover—right in the nuts. Night in the Ruts could have used it.
SOURCE: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/night-in-the-ruts-188980/
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Night in the Ruts is the sixth album by American rock band Aerosmith.
Joe Perry left the band midway through the recording of the album. The album was initially produced at the Bands Warehouse/Rehearsal space by Jack Douglas who had produced Aerosmith's previous four albums, but later, Columbia Records brought in Gary Lyons to replace Douglas as the producer.
About halfway through the recording of the album, due to mounting debt and the need for the band to generate an income, the record label and management set Aerosmith out on another tour without extra time to finish the album, which pushed the album to being released later in the year. Joe Perry left the band mid-way through the tour, after a violent feud involving the band members and their wives, and as drug abuse intensified within the band. Prior to his departure, Perry had completed guitar parts for "No Surprize", "Chiquita", "Cheese Cake", "Three Mile Smile" and "Bone to Bone (Coney Island White Fish Boy)". The guitar parts for the remaining songs were recorded by Brad Whitford, Richie Supa, Neil Thompson, and Jimmy Crespo (who later became Perry's official replacement from 1979 to 1984).
Despite some critical acclaim and early success, the album quickly fell down the charts. The album has since achieved platinum status. Promo videos for "No Surprize" and "Chiquita" were filmed (featuring Perry's replacement Jimmy Crespo); however, these videos received little television airplay. "Chiquita" is available on the band's Video Scrapbook VHS and laserdisc release.
The title is an intentional spoonerism of the phrase "right in the nuts", which was subsequently the title of the tour, and was shown on the back artwork for the album.
User Album Review
The first song on Aerosmith’s seventh album is called “No Surprize,” and that about sums up Night in the Ruts. After some tentative attempts to expand its basic jock-rock sound with mandolins, banjos and an occasional female backup vocal on its last studio record, Draw the Line, Aerosmith returns to what it does best: playing America’s crass, punkier version of the Rolling Stones, with singer Steven Tyler an arrogantly combative Mick Jagger to guitarist Joe Perry’s coolly aloof Keith Richards.
But the fact that the finest moments on Night in the Ruts sound like inspired outtakes from Rocks and Toys in the Attic suggests that Aerosmith may be stuck in a hard-rock rut of its own. “Cheese Cake,” “Bone to Bone (Coney Island White Fish Boy)” and “No Surprize” are typical chain-saw rockers, Tyler howling like a wolf in heat while guitars ricochet around him. “Think about It,” an obscure Yardbirds B side, is also rendered with a reverential bluster that doesn’t cut the original, yet at least credits roots where credit is due.
So far, so-so, but the deviations from this norm are disastrous, if not in concept then in execution. Aerosmith’s attempt to redo the old Shangri-Las weeper, “Remember (Walking in the Sand),” is a regrettable example of stylistic indecision, sitting uncomfortably between the band’s hard-rock attack and the song’s original pseudo-Spectorian grandeur, with no small blame due Gary Lyons for his rather bland production. The one ballad here, Tyler’s “Mia,” is cloned from Aerosmith’s 1975 hit, “Dream On,” but all possible tension between the group’s electricity and the acoustic guitar and piano is negated by a surprisingly lifeless performance that’s as unsettling as it is unnecessary.
With Joe Perry now forming his own band, this isn’t the time for Aerosmith to be lying down on the job. It’s hardly a secret that when the spirit moves them and their amps are turned up to ten, these guys can deliver a paralyzing kick — as they imply in the graffiti on the back cover—right in the nuts. Night in the Ruts could have used it.
SOURCE: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/night-in-the-ruts-188980/
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