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Track List
01) Heart's Done Time
02) Magic Touch
03) Rag Doll
04) Simoriah
05) Dude (Looks Like a Lady) 
06) St. John
07) Hangman Jury
08) Girl Keeps Coming Apart
09) Angel
10) Permanent Vacation
11) I'm Down
12) The Movie
01) Heart's Done Time
02) Magic Touch
03) Rag Doll
04) Simoriah
05) Dude (Looks Like a Lady)
06) St. John
07) Hangman Jury
08) Girl Keeps Coming Apart
09) Angel
10) Permanent Vacation
11) I'm Down
12) The Movie
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4:37
4:26
3:21
4:26
4:09
5:31
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5:09
4:54
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3:59
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First Released
1987
Hard Rock
Philosophical
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Permanent Vacation is the ninth studio album by American rock band Aerosmith, released in August 1987 by Geffen Records.
The album marks a turning point in the band's career. It is their first album to employ professional songwriters, instead of featuring material solely composed by members of the band. It was also the first Aerosmith album to be promoted by heavy music video airplay on MTV. Though Done with Mirrors was intended to mark Aerosmith's comeback, Permanent Vacation is often considered their true comeback album, as it was the band's first truly popular album since their reunion. "Rag Doll," "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" and "Angel" all became major hit singles (all three songs charted in the Top 20) and helped Permanent Vacation become the band's most successful album in a decade.
The album features their cover of "I'm Down", a piano-driven Beatles song that appeared as a b-side to their single "Help" in 1965. This was Aerosmith's second commercially-released Beatles cover, after "Come Together".
In limited production, the original album cover for Permanent Vacation did not feature the yellow Aerosmith wings logo. Instead, the album jacket only featured the black background covered in the red "Permanent Vacation" hula girl print. The yellow Aerosmith wings logo was actually on the outside of the plastic case rather than the inner album liner.
Permanent Vacation has sold over five million copies in the U.S.
In the UK, it was the first Aerosmith album to attain both Silver (60,000 units sold) and Gold (100,000 units sold) certification by the British Phonographic Industry, achieving these in July 1989 and March 1990 respectively.
User Album Review
Although Aerosmith was slagged for nearly two decades as sloppy Stones seconds, the band was finally given hip vindication last year by Run-D.M.C. And what the critics don’t know, the little boys understand — Aerosmith is probably the most influential hard-rock band of the Seventies. Joe Perry’s sting and stance and Steven Tyler’s scarfs and squawk have provided role models and bad attitudes for Bon Jovi, Cinderella, Ratt, Mötley Crüe and every band being signed out of L.A. today.
But the princes of arena garage rock have no sooner returned from the dead to demonstrate the right way to wear a shmatte than they’ve made one of the dumbest moves of a checkered career. They’ve tried to make a hit record. And they’ve not only included uncharacteristic odes to fidelity, an inner-sleeve plea to save the whales and another Beatles remake (their last hit single was a cover of “Come Together” in 1978). In a desperate attempt to clean up their act for Eighties radio, they’ve recruited Desmond Child, Jim Vallance and Holly Knight — last year’s hitmakers.
It’s not the first time Aerosmith has employed brass, strings or outside help. But the band has never worked with people so determined to turn it into Bon Jovi, Heart or Starship. The good news is that it can’t be done. Bon Jovi-Lover-boy producer Bruce Fairbairn sticks ’em with Jon Boy backgrounds, and Desmond Child sics ’em with “Angel” (so sappy it could make Ann Wilson choke), but the raw, dirty edges of the Aerosmith of old slash through the power schmaltz. And even though none of the heavier songs (“Dude,” “Heart’s Done Time,” “Girl Keeps Coming Apart”) packs the hooks of Aerosmith’s finest moments, the band has never sounded better or more charged. “The Movie,” a Led Zep-ish instrumental that lets the guitar duo of Perry and Brad Whitford run wild over drummer Joey Kramer and bassist Tom Hamilton’s Rock of Gibraltar bottom, is one of Vacation‘s most appealing, offbeat tracks. And Steven Tyler has never sung more fluently or blown harp with more authority than he does on “Hangman Jury,” an antidrug message that doesn’t need its squeaking-rocker sound effect for back-porch blues authenticity. Now that the members of Aerosmith are tougher than leather, it’s a shame they can’t find collaborators who will kick them back in the saddle.
SOURCE: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/permanent-vacation-251200/
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Permanent Vacation is the ninth studio album by American rock band Aerosmith, released in August 1987 by Geffen Records.
The album marks a turning point in the band's career. It is their first album to employ professional songwriters, instead of featuring material solely composed by members of the band. It was also the first Aerosmith album to be promoted by heavy music video airplay on MTV. Though Done with Mirrors was intended to mark Aerosmith's comeback, Permanent Vacation is often considered their true comeback album, as it was the band's first truly popular album since their reunion. "Rag Doll," "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" and "Angel" all became major hit singles (all three songs charted in the Top 20) and helped Permanent Vacation become the band's most successful album in a decade.
The album features their cover of "I'm Down", a piano-driven Beatles song that appeared as a b-side to their single "Help" in 1965. This was Aerosmith's second commercially-released Beatles cover, after "Come Together".
In limited production, the original album cover for Permanent Vacation did not feature the yellow Aerosmith wings logo. Instead, the album jacket only featured the black background covered in the red "Permanent Vacation" hula girl print. The yellow Aerosmith wings logo was actually on the outside of the plastic case rather than the inner album liner.
Permanent Vacation has sold over five million copies in the U.S.
In the UK, it was the first Aerosmith album to attain both Silver (60,000 units sold) and Gold (100,000 units sold) certification by the British Phonographic Industry, achieving these in July 1989 and March 1990 respectively.
User Album Review
Although Aerosmith was slagged for nearly two decades as sloppy Stones seconds, the band was finally given hip vindication last year by Run-D.M.C. And what the critics don’t know, the little boys understand — Aerosmith is probably the most influential hard-rock band of the Seventies. Joe Perry’s sting and stance and Steven Tyler’s scarfs and squawk have provided role models and bad attitudes for Bon Jovi, Cinderella, Ratt, Mötley Crüe and every band being signed out of L.A. today.
But the princes of arena garage rock have no sooner returned from the dead to demonstrate the right way to wear a shmatte than they’ve made one of the dumbest moves of a checkered career. They’ve tried to make a hit record. And they’ve not only included uncharacteristic odes to fidelity, an inner-sleeve plea to save the whales and another Beatles remake (their last hit single was a cover of “Come Together” in 1978). In a desperate attempt to clean up their act for Eighties radio, they’ve recruited Desmond Child, Jim Vallance and Holly Knight — last year’s hitmakers.
It’s not the first time Aerosmith has employed brass, strings or outside help. But the band has never worked with people so determined to turn it into Bon Jovi, Heart or Starship. The good news is that it can’t be done. Bon Jovi-Lover-boy producer Bruce Fairbairn sticks ’em with Jon Boy backgrounds, and Desmond Child sics ’em with “Angel” (so sappy it could make Ann Wilson choke), but the raw, dirty edges of the Aerosmith of old slash through the power schmaltz. And even though none of the heavier songs (“Dude,” “Heart’s Done Time,” “Girl Keeps Coming Apart”) packs the hooks of Aerosmith’s finest moments, the band has never sounded better or more charged. “The Movie,” a Led Zep-ish instrumental that lets the guitar duo of Perry and Brad Whitford run wild over drummer Joey Kramer and bassist Tom Hamilton’s Rock of Gibraltar bottom, is one of Vacation‘s most appealing, offbeat tracks. And Steven Tyler has never sung more fluently or blown harp with more authority than he does on “Hangman Jury,” an antidrug message that doesn’t need its squeaking-rocker sound effect for back-porch blues authenticity. Now that the members of Aerosmith are tougher than leather, it’s a shame they can’t find collaborators who will kick them back in the saddle.
SOURCE: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/permanent-vacation-251200/
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