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Music from Another Dimension! (2012)

Where the lyrics of Music from Another Dimension! take you, and where it was really made.

The album was tracked in a Los Angeles studio network and mixed in several rooms, yet by the time it debuted it had sold fewer copies than the band's previous original album.

Key places

Swing House Studios recording rooms (2012)

Recording site Swing House Studios — Tracks 11 and 12 were recorded here, and several other tracks also list this studio among their recording locations. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Mad Dog Studios session (2012)

Recording site Mad Dog Studios — Track 7 was recorded at several studios, and Mad Dog Studios is one of them according to the credits. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Sunset Marquis vocal and guitar work (2012)

Recording site Sunset Marquis Hotel — According to the credits, Joe Perry's guitar parts on track 9 and vocals were engineered at this location. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Music from Another Dimension!: 15th studio album by the American rock band Aerosmith
• Released November 6, 2012 by Columbia Records
• First release since 2004's Honkin' on Bobo, and first to feature all-new material since 2001's Just Push Play
• The longest gap between the band's studio albums up to that point
• Last album under the band's recording contract with Columbia Records
• Produced by Jack Douglas, Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, and Marti Frederiksen (three tracks)
• Singles: "Legendary Child", "Lover Alot", "What Could Have Been Love", "Can't Stop Lovin' You"

Background

• Cocked, Locked, Ready to Rock Tour: world tour announced February 2010, 42 locations through September 2010
• Tension on tour between Tyler and Perry; Tyler took a judging role on American Idol without telling the band first
• Recording sessions with producer Brendan O'Brien in 2008 were halted by the band members' health problems
• Tyler said in January 2012 that all songs were written, and he finished the lyrics while judging American Idol
• Jack Douglas, who had produced the band's 1970s albums, was announced as producer on August 30, 2011

Recording

• Band met at the recording studio in July 2011 and posted regular video updates for fans through the summer
• Recording took place in Los Angeles, where American Idol is based
• Perry said the album was recorded with live, in-the-room excitement, like Honkin' on Bobo
• Tracks were recorded at several Los Angeles studios, including Swing House Studios, Mad Dog Studios and Sunset Marquis Hotel

Cover

• Cover designed by the band's road documentarian Casey Tebo, in a B-movie style
• Regular and deluxe editions have different covers

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · fr.wikipedia.org · www.discogs.com

Tracklist

Disc 1

Disc 2

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Formed in Boston in 1970 by Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Tom Hamilton, Joey Kramer, and Brad Whitford after the Jam Band and Chain Reaction merged.
• The name was suggested by Joey Kramer, who had seen the word "aerosmith" in his school notebooks.
• Their first gig was at Nipmuc Regional High School in Mendon, Massachusetts, on November 6, 1970.

Members

• Current lineup: Steven Tyler (lead vocals), Joe Perry and Brad Whitford (guitars), Tom Hamilton (bass), Joey Kramer (drums).
• Perry and Whitford left in 1979 and 1981 and returned in 1984; the original five were reunited from 1984 onward.
• Tyler and Perry are the main songwriting team, nicknamed the "Toxic Twins".

Career

• Debut album in 1973 and Toys in the Attic (1975) and Rocks (1976) established their blues-based hard rock sound.
• The 1986 Run-D.M.C. collaboration on "Walk This Way" revived their career, followed by Permanent Vacation (1987), Pump (1989), and Get a Grip (1993).
• "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" (1998) was their only Billboard Hot 100 number one.
• Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001; sold more than 150 million records worldwide.
• Retired from touring in 2024 after Tyler's vocal injury; released the EP One More Time with Yungblud in 2025.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Metacritic: mixed or average reviews, weighted average score of 54 out of 100 from 22 critic scores
• Many reviewers found the 15-track album sonically incohesive and lacking direction
• Debuted at number five on the Billboard 200, selling just 63,000 copies in its first week
• The first-week sales were a sharp contrast to the band's previous debuts

Records

• Billboard 200: number 5 debut, 63,000 copies in the first week in the United States
• Rock Albums and Hard Rock Albums: number 1 (Billboard)
• Canada: number 6, with Music Canada certifying Gold on November 22 after 40,000 copies sold
• Germany: number 7 (Billboard)
• Japan: number 1
• Switzerland: number 5
• Italy: number 7
• United Kingdom: number 14
• Finland: number 17
• Spain: number 18
• Ireland: number 32
• France: number 35
• Belgium: number 80
• Hungary: number 14; Poland: number 31
• iTunes Store: number 1 in sales in the first week
• Billboard Tastemaker chart: number 1 in the first week
• Worldwide charts: number 4 about a week and a half after release
• United States: more than 138,000 copies sold by December 12, 2012

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · pt.wikipedia.org · fr.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Tom Hamilton said the album name was suggested by Jack Douglas, and the band felt a strong connection to its early 1970s work with him
• The cover was a B-movie inspired design by road documentarian Casey Tebo
• The vinyl edition uses a cover similar to the deluxe edition, spread over two red vinyl albums
• The vinyl set includes a standard CD inside one of the sleeves
• Rolling Stone uploaded the full album to its media player on October 17, 2012, which led to a major leak
• Once the album leaked, fifteen songs from the regular edition circulated online before release

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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