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nothing but a beggar / without your love, a dog without a bone'. You can imagine all those lighters being waved as this one's sung!

Permanent Vacation is the next song after Angel and brings the pace back up splendidly and reintroduces a lighter feel. It's a feel-good song and the same statement applies to this whole album.

I've focused on the four best known tracks from this album. However, there are some other hidden gems. Heart's done time' introduces the album with the sound of whale song. Hangman jury is great. Magic touch is fantastic as well. The one slight let down is that the album finishes with its two weakest tracks. The Beatles were a great band but I'm not sure that I'm down' is one of their better tracks. And The movie' is an instrumental, which isn't really what Aerosmith are about for me, at least.

However, this is definitely one of Aerosmith's greatest albums. It's perhaps not quite as good as Rocks' or Pump' but any fan of guitar-based rock n'roll should have this album in their collection. I'm just so glad that they managed to garb this opportunity to get back into the limelight, as even in the 21st century, Aerosmith are one of the very best bands on the planet.

Track Listing:
1. Heart's done time
2. Magic touch
3. Rag doll
4. Simoriah
5. Dude (looks like a lady)
6. St. John
7. Hangman Jury
8. Girl keeps coming apart
9. Angel
10. Permanent vacation
11. I'm down
12. The movie

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