Artist: AEROSMITH
Album: PUMP REMASTERED (CD)

Year: 1989/ 2001
Media type: CD

Pump is the tenth studio album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 1989. The album was remastered and reissued in 2001.

Pump was widely acclaimed by both fans and critics upon its release. The album incorporates the use of keyboards and a horn section on many of the singles ("Love in an Elevator", "The Other Side"), and contains straightforward rockers ("F.I.N.E.*", "Young Lust"), the ballad "What It Takes", songs about issues such as incest and murder ("Janie's Got a Gun") and drug & alcohol abuse ("Monkey on My Back"). As well as a variety of instrumental interludes such as "Hoodoo" and "Dulcimer Stomp."

The album has certified sales of seven million copies in the U.S. to date. It produced a variety of successes and "firsts" for the band including their first Grammy award ("Janie's Got a Gun"). "Love in an Elevator" became the first Aerosmith song to hit #1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. Additionally, it is the only Aerosmith album to date to have three Top 10 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and three #1 singles on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The album was the fourth bestselling album of the year 1990.

Pump was the second of three sequentially recorded Aerosmith albums to feature the fine teamwork of producer Bruce Fairbairn and engineers Mike Frazer and Ken Lomas at The Little Mountain Sound Studios.

Aerosmith found themselves in law school textbooks after a small rock band named Pump sued Aerosmith's management company for service mark infringement. Aerosmith won the case. [6] Aerosmith also found themselves in legal trouble when the songwriting team Holland-Dozier-Holland threatened to sue the band over the main melody in Aerosmith's song "The Other Side" which sounded similar to the melody in the song "Standing in the Shadows of Love". As part of the settlement, Aerosmith agreed to add "Holland-Dozier-Holland" in the songwriting credits for "The Other Side".

TRACKLIST:

"Young Lust" (Joe Perry, Steven Tyler, Jim Vallance) – 4:18
"F.I.N.E.*" (Perry, Tyler) – 4:09
"Going Down" – 0:17 / "Love in an Elevator" (Perry, Tyler) – 5:21
"Monkey on My Back" (Perry, Tyler) – 3:57
"Water Song" – 0:10 / "Janie's Got a Gun" (Tom Hamilton, Tyler) – 5:28
"Dulcimer Stomp" – 0:49 / "The Other Side" (Tyler, Vallance, Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland) – 4:07
"My Girl" (Perry, Tyler) – 3:10
"Don't Get Mad, Get Even" (Perry, Tyler) – 4:48
"Hoodoo" – 0:55 / "Voodoo Medicine Man" (Tyler, Brad Whitford) – 3:44
"What It Takes" (Desmond Child, Perry, Tyler) – 6:28
After the end of "What It Takes" there is a brief, untitled, instrumental hidden track.

LINE-UP:

Tom Hamilton - bass, backing vocals
Joey Kramer - drums
Joe Perry - guitar, backing vocals
Steven Tyler - lead vocals, harmonica, keyboard
Brad Whitford - guitar

Additional personnel:
Bob Dowd - background vocals
Catherine Epps - vocals
Bruce Fairbairn - background vocals, trumpet
Margarita Horns
Randy Raine-Reusch - glass harmonica, wind gong, and bullroarers on "Water Song", Appalachian dulcimer on "Dulcimer Stomp", didgeridoo on "Don't Get Mad, Get Even", Thai naw (mouth organ) on "Hoodoo"
John Webster - keyboard