The closer Aerosmith gets to replicating the kind of thing it used to be really good at (as on the boogie-woogie-ing “Out Go the Lights”), the more depressing the results.
Most of the songs on “Music” (produced by Jack Douglas, responsible for many of the band’s earliest hits) strenuously recall one or the other. “Music” attempts to re-create Aerosmith’s twin eras of glory - the astonishing mid-’70s hard-rock run and latter Alicia Silverstone/Diane Warren years. “ Music From Another Dimension!” serves the same purpose as Van Halen’s “ A Different Kind of Truth.” It gives Aerosmith something to tour behind, something to prove it’s a respectable contemporary band, not a nostalgia act milking the oldies circuit. Aerosmith hasn’t released an album of original material since 2001’s “ Just Push Play,” its members having spent the intervening years feuding, falling off stages, going to rehab, feuding some more and judging “American Idol.”
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