A Little South of Sanity

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A Little South of Sanity
Aerosmith - A Little South Of Sanity.JPG
Live album by
Aerosmith
ReleasedOctober 20, 1998
Recorded1993–1994 (Get a Grip Tour)
1997–1998 (Nine Lives Tour)
Genre
Length115:17
Label Geffen
Producer Jack Douglas
Aerosmith live chronology
Classics Live I and II
(1987)		A Little South of Sanity
(1998)		 Rockin' the Joint
(2005)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Entertainment Weekly B [2]
NME (4/10) [3]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]

A Little South of Sanity is a live album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released on October 20, 1998, by Geffen Records. The two-disc album features recordings taken while the band was on the Nine Lives Tour, which began in 1997 and was still ongoing at the time of the live album release, and the Get a Grip Tour, which the band was on tour with from 1993 to 1994.

Contents

This release was the only Aerosmith album to receive the Parental Advisory sticker, primarily due to lead singer Steven Tyler shouting profanities in between songs and modifying some song lyrics to racier ones, although some other song lyrics had profanity in their original studio versions as well.

Production

Shortly after the band reunited in 1984, they signed a contract to generate six albums for Geffen. Three of these, the studio releases Done With Mirrors , Permanent Vacation , and Pump , were finished before Aerosmith agreed to a contract with Columbia Records in 1991. The contract was not due to take effect until after Aerosmith's obligations to Geffen were fulfilled, but after the 1993 album Get a Grip was released, the band did not record another studio album for the label. Instead, a compilation of their hits from the Geffen era, titled Big Ones , was put together and plans for a live album were conceived as Aerosmith went to Columbia.

Artwork

Filmmaker Patrick Connolly claims that he inspired, and is depicted on, the album cover. [5] As a teenager, Connolly was the gas station attendant for Aerosmith drummer Joey Kramer when Kramer's Ferrari caught fire while refueling. [6] At the time of the incident and for a time after, Joey Kramer was convinced that the fire was Patrick Connolly's fault. [7] Connolly maintains that the album's cover, released in October 1998, features an image of a gas attendant who bears a resemblance to a teenage Connolly. He is convinced that the album cover artwork was intended to mockingly blame him for the July 15, 1998 incident. [8] The fire was later found to be caused by a defective fuel line in the vehicle's gas tank.

Live sources

There are no official listings to support where or when each performance was culled from; the CD booklet only mentions they were recorded during the Get a Grip and Nine Lives world tours. However, the recordings of "Love in an Elevator", "Same Old Song and Dance", and "Sweet Emotion" each have Tyler calling out to the live crowd, revealing where they were recorded. The first song has him mentioning the crowd in State College, Pennsylvania, the second a crowd in West Palm Beach, Florida, and the third a crowd in Seattle, Washington.

Track listing

Disc 1
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Eat the Rich" (San Jose, Costa Rica, 10 November 1994) Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Jim Vallance 5:14
2."Love in an Elevator" (University Park, PA, January 19, 1998)Tyler, Perry5:56
3."Falling in Love (Is Hard on the Knees)" (West Palm Beach, FL, October 5, 1997)Tyler, Perry, Glen Ballard 3:20
4."Same Old Song and Dance" (West Palm Beach, FL, October 5, 1997)Tyler, Perry5:58
5."Hole in My Soul" (West Palm Beach, FL, October 5, 1997)Tyler, Perry, Desmond Child 5:40
6."Monkey on My Back" (West Palm Beach, FL, October 5, 1997)Tyler, Perry4:08
7."Livin' on the Edge"Tyler, Perry, Mark Hudson 5:24
8."Cryin'"Tyler, Perry, Taylor Rhodes 5:11
9."Rag Doll"Tyler, Perry, Vallance, Holly Knight 4:14
10."Angel" (Tokyo, Japan, March 8, 1998)Tyler, Desmond Child5:35
11."Janie's Got a Gun"Tyler, Tom Hamilton 5:07
12."Amazing" (Castle Donington, UK, June 4, 1994)Tyler, Richard Supa 5:23
Disc 2
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Back in the Saddle" (West Palm Beach, FL, October 5. 1997)Tyler, Perry6:11
2."Last Child" (Yokohama, Japan, March 12, 1998)Tyler, Brad Whitford 5:05
3."The Other Side" (Las Vegas, NV, December 7. 1997)Tyler, Vallance, Eddie Holland, Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier 4:40
4."Walk on Down"Perry3:41
5."Dream On"Tyler4:51
6."Crazy"Tyler, Perry, Child5:45
7."Mama Kin" (Boston, MA, January 16, 1998)Tyler4:12
8."Walk This Way" (Albany, NY, January 13, 1998)Tyler, Perry4:08
9."Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" (Albany, NY, January 13, 1998)Tyler, Perry, Child4:22
10."What It Takes"Tyler, Perry, Child5:15
11."Sweet Emotion" (Seattle, WA, October 22, 1997)Tyler, Hamilton5:57

Personnel

Additional musicians

Production

Charts

Weekly chart performance for A Little South of Sanity
Chart (1998)Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [9] 37
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [10] 34
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [11] 10
Canadian Albums (Billboard) [12] 6
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [13] 34
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [14] 24
French Albums (SNEP) [15] 39
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [16] 21
Italian Albums (FIMI) [17] 8
Japanese Albums (Oricon) [18] 3
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [19] 47
Scottish Albums (OCC) [20] 45
Spanish Albums (AFYVE) [21] 43
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [22] 24
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [23] 16
UK Albums (OCC) [24] 36
UK Rock & Metal Albums (OCC) [25] 1
US Billboard 200 [26] 12

Certifications

Certifications and sales for A Little South of Sanity
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [27] Platinum100,000^
Japan (RIAJ) [28] Platinum200,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [29] Gold100,000‡
United States (RIAA) [30] Platinum1,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

RegionDateFormatTracksLabelCatalog #BarcodeEditionSeriesNotes
USAOct 20, 1998CD x 223Geffen/UniversalGEFD2-25221720642522127Explicit Version— [31]
USAOct 20, 1998Cassette x 223Geffen/UniversalGEFC2-25221720642522141Explicit Version— [32]
USAOct 20, 1998CD x 223Geffen/UniversalGEFD2-25308720642530825Clean Version— [33]
USAOct 20, 1998Cassette x 223Geffen/UniversalGEFC2-25308720642530849Clean Version— [34]
USANov 24, 1998CD x 223Geffen/UniversalGEFD2-25314720642531426Special Collector's Edition—embroidered cloth digipak [35]

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