Well, I suppose we can at least be glad that they are finally officially released. Ahhhh, but alas, these are not new songs, they are both tracks that have been floating around various bootlegs for some time. However, I did have hope in what was suppose to be two new songs.
(I count 12 of them!) Why another one? "Devil's Got a New Disguise - The Very Best of Aerosmith" is nothing more than a filler album intended to fulfill Aerosmith's contract with Sony Music/Columbia Records and to tide fans over until the band releases their 15th studio album, originally scheduled for completion in Spring 2007 (It's now 2009 and still nothing new!). I mean in the last few years we've had two live albums with these cuts on them, as well as several different compilation CDs. I was disappointed to find out that Columbia was putting out yet another compilation, "best of" CD. I buy everything and anything they put out, usually the day it's released. Personally, I prefer the CD format as I tend to listen to music more so than I watch it.Īerosmith - Devil's Got a New Disguise (Columbia) 2006Ħ. It's sort of a shame they just didn't release the entire show on DVD and CD. The DualDisc version contains live video takes of the album's "No More No More" and "Draw the Line," as well as bonus performances of early band staples "Dream On" and "Sweet Emotion." This additional video footage is excellent. However, being the Aero-nut I am, I knew I would eventually pick up some of the other versions as well. It didn't hurt that the Target disc with the bonus tracks was on sale for $9.99 either, as opposed to the $14.99 it was selling for elsewhere. I immediately rushed out and purchased the CD version from Target.
The bonus tracks are "Living On The Edge" and "What It Takes". There is the standard, 12-track CD version, the Dualdisc version which contains four songs on the DVD side not available on the CD version, an import version that contains a track not on the American release ("Toys In The Attic"), and the Target versions, where both the CD and Dualdisc sold at Target stores contain two bonus tracks supposedly only available from Target. The sound quality here is spotless, yet retains that raw live energy that Aerosmith are known for as well. Whether they are the only ones, I don't know for sure, but I did pick my copy up from Target. In the U.S., Target stores claimed to have this "exclusive" bonus material. Some copies of this album also include two live bonus tracks, "Livin' on the Edge" and "What it Takes". I suppose the band wanted to include a song that hasn't been on just about every other live CD they have released. I was somewhat disappointed that "I Don't Want to Miss A Thing" was chosen over the quientessential ballad "Dream On". There are also two songs from the underrated "Just Push Play". This song is probably the highlight of this CD as it is one of those longtime Aerosmith fan favorites, yet it was never officially released by the band and only existed in bootleg format in years past.
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There is a ton of old classics here like "No More No More", "Season of Wither", an extended version of "Draw the Line", "Big Ten Inch Record" and the Fleetwood Mac classic "Rattlesnake Shake". But what of the material here? Well, most of the material here is stuff you don't hear very often from Aerosmith. I much prefer listening to music, so this new live CD will get much more spins than the DVD did. Well, I have to be honest, as a bonified Aero-nut, I am overjoyed! To be honest, while I though "You Gotta Move" was a great DVD, I don't spend much time watching DVDs. Wow, another live album so close to the release of the live DVD, "You Gotta Move". Aerosmith - Rockin' the Joint (Columbia) 2005