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  1. Jeremiah
    July 16, 2014 @ 10:02 pm

    I don’t mind Spaced that much. It’s got some neat things going on. Seasons of Wither is definitely the best song with it’s eerie intro.

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    • Josh F
      January 29, 2020 @ 9:56 pm

      I felt Spaced was a very interesting, I can see if you might not like it- underwhelming seems like a poor choice. I would use underwhelming to describes songs like Pandora’s Box or even woman of the world.
      Lot more on Rocks , Draw the line, and Night in the Ruts that I feel were very underwhelming but I guess it held more of a personal memory for me. Seemed a good song to blow off steam to as I got into the entire album freshman year in college. Some lyrics echoed how I felt while cramming for final exams.

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  2. John
    September 19, 2014 @ 6:06 pm

    @Jeremiah … I agree with you..”Spaced”, imho is as fine as any of the other tunes on this offering by Aerosmith, with the exception of “Seasons of Wither”, which is the crown jewel.

    “Spaced” has the eerie intro and some interesting chord sequences…, a fun to to listen to, and play.

    I’ve often wondered if any other guitarists played on this album, besides Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner (Train Kept A Rollin’) ? or if they played on any of the other tunes? Wagner said in his book that he never made a big deal out of playing on “Train”, as he was hired to do a session and recognized the fact that it would be in bad taste to run around telling the world that it was Hunter and himself playing song and that it wasn’t Whitford and Perry. I respect the man for that. RIP Dick Wagner.

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    • Josh F
      January 29, 2020 @ 10:02 pm

      Totally agree about Spaced and Seasons of Whither (which was my favorite as well); any idea why they needed other guitarist to play on Train?

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  3. barry
    December 20, 2017 @ 1:17 am

    Honestly, it was a boring album, the fire was gone. It sounded dead, turns out the musicionship was top notch, but the rawness was gone. My least favorite of the first 5 Aerosmith albums.

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    • Brian
      July 9, 2019 @ 2:53 pm

      not a chance, barry – this is a very fine work by Aerosmith, one of the top three albums they ever did, along with “Toys” and “Rocks”

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      • Mark
        August 30, 2019 @ 4:18 pm

        I agree with you Brian. The garage band I was drummer in during the late 1970’s enjoyed playing covers of both “SOS TOO BAD” and “Train…” at our best-received gigs.

        The crowds loved them and responded with instant energy – so did we as wanna be rockers.

        The Rocks, Toys, and Get your Wings LPs seemed to define what we liked best about Aerosmith.

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        • Paul
          March 13, 2021 @ 6:21 am

          I probably lean closer to Barry than Brian. There’s moments, but I find this album a bit disjointed, and less coherent than the debut, and even a bit of a chore to listen to in places, but the upside of that is that they were extending their range beyond the pure blues of the first, in fact the whole US stadium rock sound was developing and maturing around them and Toys the following year demonstrated where they were going, putting Wings into perspective.

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  4. Josh F
    January 29, 2020 @ 10:15 pm

    I felt Spaced was a very interesting, I can see if you might not like it- underwhelming seems like a poor choice. I would use underwhelming to describes songs like Pandora’s Box or even woman of the world.
    Lot more on Rocks , Draw the line, and Night in the Ruts that I feel were very underwhelming but I guess it held more of a personal memory for me. Seemed a good song to blow off steam to as I got into the entire album freshman year in college. Some lyrics echoed how I felt while cramming for final exams.

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