Format: CD Condition: New Year of Release: 1997 Cat. No.: 67995 Label: Sony/Columbia
Aerosmith's 1991 three-CD box set Pandora's Box has just about everything you could possibly want: hits, demos, rarities, live material, key album tracks, and a booklet packed with classic photos, a bio, and the bandmembers' remembrances of all the tracks.
Since the set was released by Columbia, none of their material from the mid-'80s through the early-'90s is featured (Done With Mirrors, Permanent Vacation, and Pump).
But the '70s was when this legendary band was at their most raw and rocking best, and Pandora's Box is a superb overview of the group's work from their first self-titled album up until 1982's Rock in a Hard Place.
Also included is solo material from Joe Perry and Brad Whitford, as well as an early track from Steven Tyler when he fronted a band called Chain Reaction in the '60s. The hits will attract the casual admirer ("Dream On," "Walk This Way," "Sweet Emotion," etc.), while the more obscure selections will surely please the longtime fan ("Rattlesnake Shake," "On the Road Again," a great demo of "Movin' Out," live versions of "Write Me a Letter," "I Wanna Know Why," etc.).
Aerosmith was always an album-oriented band, and such selections as "No Surprize," "Three Mile Smile," "Lick and a Promise," "No More No More," and "Seasons of Wither" often outshine the hits. By touching all the bases, Pandora's Box is an excellent package.
~ Greg Prato, All Music Guide
TRACK LISTING:
CD 1:
1. When I Needed You 2. Make It 3. Movin' Out [Alternate Version] 4. One Way Street 5. On the Road Again [Rehearsal Pre-Production Jam] 6. Mama Kin 7. Same Old Song and Dance 8. Train Kept a Rollin' 9. Seasons of Wither 10. Write Me a Letter [Live] 11. Dream On 12. Pandora's Box 13. Rattlesnake Shake [Live Radio Broadcast] 14. Walkin' the Dog [Live Radio Broadcast] 15. Lord of the Thighs [Live]
CD 2:
1. Toys in the Attic 2. Round and Round 3. Krawhitham [Instrumental] 4. You See Me Crying 5. Sweet Emotion 6. No More No More 7. Walk This Way 8. I Wanna Know Why [Live] 9. Big Ten Inch Record [Live] 10. Rats in the Cellar 11. Last Child [Remix] 12. All Your Love 13. Soul Saver [Rehearsal] 14. Nobody's Fault 15. Lick and a Promise 16. Adam's Apple [Live] 17. Draw the Line [Remix] 18. Critical Mass
CD 3:
1. Kings and Queens [Live] 2. Milk Cow Blues 3. I Live in Connecticut [Rehearsal] 4. Three Mile Smile 5. Let It Slide 6. Cheese Cake 7. Bone to Bone (Coney Island White Fish Boy) 8. No Surprize 9. Come Together 10. Downtown Charlie 11. Sharpshooter 12. Shit House Shuffle [Rehearsal] 13. South Station Blues 14. Riff and Roll 15. Jailbait 16. Major Barbara [Alternate Version] 17. Chip Away the Stone [Alternate Version] 18. Helter Skelter 19. Back in the Saddle
