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''Pump'' is the tenth studio album by American rock band Aerosmith, released on September 12, 1989. The album was remastered and reissued in 2001. ''Pump'' 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 and alcohol abuse ("Monkey on My Back"),〔(Rolling Stone review )〕 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, and is tied with its successor ''Get a Grip'' as Aerosmith's second best-selling studio album in the U.S. (''Toys in the Attic'' leads with eight million). 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.〔(Billboard.com - Year End Charts - Year-end Albums - The Billboard 200 )〕 In the UK, it was the second Aerosmith album to be certified Silver (60,000 units sold) by the British Phonographic Industry, achieving this in September 1989. ''Pump'' was the second of three sequentially recorded Aerosmith albums to feature producer Bruce Fairbairn and engineers Mike Fraser and Ken Lomas at The Little Mountain Sound Studios. A video documentary on the recording, ''The Making of Pump'', was released in 1994. ==Production== In December 1988, Aerosmith got together at Rik Tinory Productions in Cohasset, Massachusetts to rehearse and compose new songs, as the bandmembers thought the isolated nature of the studio would help their creativity. Over 19 songs were written, split between an "A-list" with songs considered possible hits, such as "Love in an Elevator" and "What It Takes", and the "B list" having songs yet to be developed such as "Voodoo Medicine Man". Producer Bruce Fairbairn focused on getting as many hooks on the songs as possible. In January 1989, the band went to Vancouver to again record at Fairbairn's Little Mountain Sound, where the producer had helmed Bon Jovi's ''Slippery When Wet'' and ''New Jersey''. "I don't even listen to Bon Jovi," Steven Tyler protested, "so we didn't say, 'Oh, shit, they had a great album,' and go up there."〔''Rolling Stone'' 1989 retrospective, precise date unknown〕 The intention with the album was exploring a rawness that had been glossed over for a commercial sound in ''Permanent Vacation''.〔(Aerosmith: The Ultimate Illustrated History of the Boston Bad Boys )〕 Joe Perry declared that "When we went to do this album, we knew what we wanted, we wanted to strip off a little fat we felt on our last one. We didn't say 'We need a drug song or a child abuse song,' but when they fit, we used them. That's Aerosmith: we aren't bound by any rules." This escape from the rules lead to the instrumental interludes between the songs. The interludes were done with the collaboration of musician Randy Raine-Reusch, who was brought to the studio after Perry and Tyler visited his house to search for unusual instruments to employ.〔http://www.asza.com/r3aero.shtml〕 Many of the lyrics employ sexual themes, which Tyler attributed to having "making up for the lost time" he spent using drugs instead of having sex in the 1970s.〔 On a 1989 MTV special entitled "Aerosmith Sunday," Brad Whitford explained the album title with "Now that we're off drugs, we're all pumped up."〔 Steven Tyler regretted not putting lyrics in the album booklet, something that happened because Geffen was afraid the Parents Music Resource Center would protest over lyrical content with many sex and drugs references.〔(Spin Magazine )〕 To remedy this omission, the lyrics were included in the tour programme. The album cover features a black and white photo of a smaller International K Series truck on top of a larger International KB Series truck, with the letters F.I.N.E (an acronym for "Fucked Up, Insecure, Neurotic, and Emotional", as stated in the album's liner notes) in place of the chrome International markings on the side of both hoods. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pump (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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