Pump (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Pump
Type = Album
Artist = Aerosmith

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Released = September 12 1989
Recorded = February-June 1989
Genre = Hard rock, blues-rock
Length = 45:37
Label = Geffen
Producer = Bruce Fairbairn
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:u1ua6jah71l0 link]
*Review-Christgau|B+|album=4299
* Rolling Stone Rating|4|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/aerosmith/albums/album/300286/review/6212939/pump link]
Last album = "Permanent Vacation"
(1987)
This album = "Pump"
(1989)
Next album = "Get a Grip"
(1993)
Misc = Singles
Name = Pump
Type = studio
Single 1 = Love in an Elevator
Single 1 date = 1989
Single 2 = Janie's Got a Gun
Single 2 date = 1989
Single 3 = What It Takes
Single 3 date = 1990
Single 4 = The Other Side
Single 4 date = 1990
Single 5 = F.I.N.E.*
Single 5 date = 1989 (promo only)
Single 6 = Monkey on My Back
Single 6 date = 1990 (promo only)

"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. [ [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts/yearend_chart_display.jsp?f=The+Billboard+200&g=Year-end+Albums&year=1990 Billboard.com - Year End Charts - Year-end Albums - The Billboard 200 ] ]

"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. ["Pump, Inc. v. Collins Management", 746 F. Supp. 1159 (D. Mass. 1990)] 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".

Track listing

#"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.

Bonus track (Japanese version)

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"Ain't Enough" (Perry, Tyler) - 4:57

Personnel

*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

Production

*Producer: Bruce Fairbairn
*Engineers: Michael Fraser, Ken Lomas
*Mixing: Michael Fraser
*Mastering: Greg Fulginiti
*Mastering Supervisor: David Donnelly
*Art direction: Kim Champagne, Gabrielle Raumberger
*Logo design: Andy Engel
*Photography: Norman Seeff
*Tattoo art: Mark Ryden
*John Kalodner : John Kalodner

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Certifications

Awards

Grammy Awards

ee also

*"The Making of Pump"
*"Things That Go Pump in the Night"
*Pump Tour

References

External links

succession box
before = "Cosmic Thing" by The B-52's
title = Australian ARIA Albums Chart number-one album
years = February 11 - March 3 1990
after = "The 12th Man Again!"
by The 12th Man