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Polish pressed music cassette. Mag Magic cassette with gold text

Poland is probably the country that had the most record labels in the world that only released cassettes. But even though there were lots of labels the market was still small as they only printed these for their own market inside of Poland. And a label in one town maybe lacked the distribution for another town and so on. A Warzaw or Krakow label might print more copies of a tape then labels from a smaller town. So even if there are thousands of releases you will notice how rare some are if you start to try to list the catalog number of one particular label. Some cassettes just rarely shows up. Most Polish cassette labels disappeared in May of 1994 when Polish Parliament passed on a new copyright law. Mag Magic was a label that managed to release way over a thousand tapes so they were very active up to 1994. Mag Magic were one of the better labels as most of their releases had excellent sound.

1993’s Get A Grip was a balanced and well executed album that was kind of the end of what I call their second era (1985-1993). Their raw, powerful playing stays intact but the pop side of things get’s adjusted a bit to give us some fresh, commercial, video, and radio friendly tracks. Their ability to slowly change some of the sound, and to evolve, without tarnishing their image as old school rockers from the 70’s, is really quite amazing. The album has more than the normal track listing we are used to from them, and instead of featuring 13 rockers and ballads more or less gives us fun rock tunes, some serious, deep melodic treasures, as well as of course, a fun/funny track or even just lyric here and there. Eat the Rich, Get A Grip and Fever embrace the youth of today with the signature fast rolling guitars and beats from frontman Steven Tyler and guitarist Joe Perry. Living On The Edge, Crying and Amazing are not plugged into any specific category, but each song, though not as in depth as their 70’s hits of the same ballast, still are strong in songwriting and cohesive in melody. With Get A Grip, Aerosmith made sure to leave their stamp on the 90’s much the same way they did on the 70’s and 80’s…with great rock and roll songs that a fan may never tire of listening to.

Track list:
1. Intro
2. Eat The Rich
3. Get A Grip
4. Fever
5. Gotta Love It
6. Line Up
7. Amazing
8. Livin On The Edge
9. Walk On Down
10. Shut Up And Dance
11. Crying
12. Crazy
13. Cant Stop Messin