Artist: AEROSMITH
Album: JUST PUSH PLAY (CD)

Release date: 2001
EAN/UPS: 0602455099754
Media type: CD

Just Push Play is the thirteenth studio album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 2001. Helping Aerosmith in the studio were coproducers and song collaborators Marti Frederiksen and Mark Hudson.

Just Push Play features the same slick pop production that Aerosmith had been using in recent albums, though this time there was more of a vintage-era edge to most of the tracks.

The album's first single, "Jaded", became a major Top 10 hit in the U.S. and around the world. As a result, Just Push Play was certified platinum within a month of its release. Subsequent singles "Fly Away from Here", "Sunshine", and "Just Push Play", though garnering some airplay, failed to impact the Hot 100 much, although the latter two charted on the U.S. Mainstream Rock chart and the former charted on the Adult Top 40.

The eight-month long Just Push Play Tour, which ran from June 2001 to January 2002 was launched to support the album.

The album's cover features a gynoid resembling Marilyn Monroe and was designed by Hajime Sorayama. As a pun of the album name, Guitar Hero: Aerosmith uses the album's cover on the start screen and states over it "Just push any button to play". The cover is similar to American rock band Autograph's album That's the Stuff since they both have gynoids on the cover.

TRACKLIST:

"Beyond Beautiful" (Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Marti Frederiksen, Mark Hudson) – 4:45
"Just Push Play" (Tyler, Hudson, Steve Dudas) – 3:51
"Jaded" (Tyler, Frederiksen) – 3:34
"Fly Away from Here" (Frederiksen, Todd Chapman) – 5:01
"Trip Hoppin'" (Tyler, Perry, Frederiksen, Hudson) – 4:27
"Sunshine" (Tyler, Perry, Frederiksen) – 3:37
"Under My Skin" (Tyler, Perry, Frederiksen, Hudson) – 3:45
"Luv Lies" (Tyler, Perry, Frederiksen, Hudson) – 4:26
"Outta Your Head" (Tyler, Perry, Frederiksen) – 3:22
"Drop Dead Gorgeous" (Tyler, Perry, Hudson) – 3:42
"Light Inside" (Tyler, Perry, Frederiksen) – 3:34
"Avant Garden" (Tyler, Perry, Frederiksen, Hudson) – 4:52

Roughly 45 seconds after "Avant Garden" a hidden track entitled "Under My Skin Reprise" plays for about one minute.

LINE-UP:

Tom Hamilton - bass
Joey Kramer - drums
Joe Perry - guitar, vocals
Steven Tyler - lead vocals, harmonica, percussion, piano, squeezebox, additional guitar, drums
Brad Whitford - guitar

Additional personnel:
Paul Caruso - loop programming
Jim Cox - piano
Dan Higgins - clarinet, saxophone
Tony Perry - guitar, scratching, pedal steel, vocals, background vocals, hurdygurdy, slide guitar
Paul Santo - Hammond organ, Kurzweil synthesizer
Tower of Power - horn
Liv Tyler - whisper
Chelsea Tyler - Backing vocals (Under My Skin)