Aerosmith's Greatest Hits
	Previously released material
	Released on November 1980
	US CHART POSITION #53 . . . 10x PLATINUM RECORD
	Find it at GEMM
FC 36865 cover [high resolution scan]

C ONGRATULATIONS! You’ve found the SECRET MAGIC SQUARE! Only there is no secret magic square. I thought of having one, actually, with a hidden message like “Ahmet Ertegun is the antichrist” (which I hid too well the first time), but I don’t have that kind of time anymore. So this is just my way of killing time, in the absence of any record to review. You see, I bought this album in a box of records, only to find the first record of Live Bootleg in this sleeve instead of Aerosmith’s Greatest Hits. The box didn’t contain Live Bootleg, in case you’re wondering, thus deepening the mystery. What’s more of a mystery is how an album that didn’t even crack the US Top 40 could go on to sell over 10 million copies. I guess it just grew on people over time like Steven Tyler’s sunken cheekbones. Without benefit of having heard the elpee, I’ll tell you that I would have replaced “Same Old Song And Dance” with “Lord of the Thighs” and one of the later tracks [“Kings And Queens” or “Remember (Sucking in the Sand)”] with any version of “Chip Away The Stone.” It’s amazing that I can have an opinion about an album I haven’t even heard. And by amazing I mean really, really sad. It’s just that I had the scan and the release info, and I didn’t want the page to look too empty. So you’ve really unearthed secret, magic squat. Congratulations.

TRACK LISTING

1. DREAM ON
2. SAME OLD SONG AND DANCE
3. SWEET EMOTION
4. WALK THIS WAY
5. LAST CHILD
6. BACK IN THE SADDLE
7. DRAW THE LINE
8. KINGS AND QUEENS
9. COME TOGETHER
10. REMEMBER (WALKING IN THE SAND)
    
    CD reissue bonus tracks
    
11. MAMA KIN
12. LIGHTNING STRIKES
13. CHIP AWAY THE STONE
14. SWEET EMOTION
15. ONE WAY STREET
16. BIG TEN INCH RECORD
17. SEASONS OF WITHER

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