Aerosmith

Great Music Videos: Aerosmith- Cryin

Alicia Silverstone in the video for Aerosmith's 'Cryin'. | Alicia  silverstone aerosmith, Alicia silverstone, Aerosmith

The days of MTV back in the late 80’s and 90’s were great. You could watch music videos all day long. Even the specialty shows like, Headbangers Ball and 120 Minutes were awesome. During the peak of MTV, bands would release pretty spectacular videos. One of the best from that era was Aerosmith’s “Cryin.” The video was a huge mainstay on MTV for a long time. It was also the first of 3 videos Aerosmith made that featured Alicia Silverstone (pre Clueless). The “Cryin” video also features Stephen Dorff and Josh Holloway. It’s a great video and it was justified as so when it was the most requested video of 1993 on MTV also it won Video Of The Year at the 1994 VMA’s. I miss videos like this.


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Songs In Film: Aerosmith- Sweet Emotion in Dazed and Confused

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I’ve come to the conclusion that Aerosmith are part of what I call “Greatest Hits Bands.” Meaning that they’ve got some really great songs but, their albums as a whole just aren’t “that” good. Since I started this new feature, I’ve got a huge list of great times a song was used in a film and Aerosmith’s “Sweet Emotion” during the opening credits of the very awesome Dazed and Confused is perfect.

 

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Worst Cover Songs: Papa Roach (Aerosmith)- Sweet Emotion

Recently while watching Dazed & Confused for the umpteenth hundreth time, and I had a flashback to the early 2000’s when MTV did one of their “Icon” shows dedicated to Aerosmith. During that broadcast one of the worst renditions of a great song was performed by Papa Roach. Their version of “Sweet Emotion” will forever be put next to Celine Dion’s  version of ACDC’s “You Shook Me All Night Long.”

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