'Songs From The Big Chair'

One day the world will understand what a brilliant band Tears for Fears was and what a mammoth three-song tour de force "Shout," "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" and "Head Over Heels" was in the history of recorded sound. Few could have a better triumvirate quite like that.

The one guy looks like Jon Cryer.

'Pump'

Got to give Aerosmith some credit: They kept their bit going for a long time and didn't stray too far from what sold records. Lug-headed, horny riff-rock that was largely about sex even if it was sex between a father and daughter. 

It's not good. It's not appealing even in a sexual way because Aerosmith lived in a world completely unlike our own, where casual sex simply based on who you were (as opposed to how nice you were, how you looked, etc.) was probably pretty common. 

When they weren't singing about complete sluts they wrote anthem-worthy warblers appealing to the disenfranchised teenage girl. Written, we can assume, just to get in their pants. 

About Pump, guitarist Joe Perry said, "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."

Wrong, Joe. You are more bound to rules than any rock band in history. And the fact that you did it so stinkin' well is what makes you rich and able to hump girls in elevators.