Post #100 - Pump

50 Definitive Classic Rock albums, 100 posts on the George Lite Zone, there's a symmetry there of sorts. The second entry on planet rocks definitive album list is an old favourite of mine, Pump by Aerosmith. There are some albums were every track is a dyed in the wool classic. Some bands make a plethora of them, while for some this musical summit comes along once in a lifetime. For Aerosmith the achiement was reached with Pump where each offering hits the bulls eye and then some.

Ripping into the groove with Young Lust, sneaking up on you with extreme sleaziness with F.I.N.E, going down with Love in An Elevator, slide guitar par excellence on Monkey on My Back before the sublime Jamies Got a Gun segues into the wonderful The Other Side. My Girl chugs along quite nicely before the digereedoo takes you into the anthemic Don't Get Mad Get Even. The Doorsesque opening Hoodo-Voodoo Medicine Man kicks in next, with the album finishing on a high with the excellent What It Takes.

Some would argue that the earlier Toys in the Attic deserves the title of most definitive Aerosmith album, or perhaps the equally impressive Rocks, but for sheer sustained quality, I defy anyone to find a better album of theirs than Pump. Come to think of it there aren't that many albums in the history of rock that match it. Bravo.