纵横西洋乐坛超过30年的重量级摇滚乐团Aerosmith 史密斯飞船,1970年成军於美国,1973年发行首张同名专辑以来,他们创新的音乐风格,不但征服了各世代的歌迷,更获得无数奖项的肯定,全球销售量累积超过1亿张!
70年代崭露头角的Aerosmith,80年代初,团员曾因为理念不合一度分道扬鑣,直到1984年才又重组。90年代的Aerosmith,持续发挥他们的摇滚魅力,不断刷新销售及排行纪录,93年的专辑【Get A Grip】,更衝破7百万张销售大关!
98年Aerosmith为电影『世界末日』献唱主题曲『I don’t want to miss a thing』,随著电影的热卖,这首抒情摇滚单曲,不但蝉连全美单曲榜4週冠军,也将他们的音乐事业推向另一个颠峰!
2001年,Aerosmith光荣入主美国「摇滚名人殿堂」。之后陆续发行的专辑,也都拥有叫好叫座的成绩,2004年发行回归音乐本色的蓝调摇滚专辑「Honkin’ on Bobo」,更登上全美蓝调专辑排行榜冠军宝座!
2006年10月,Aerosmith推出「恶魔面具 热血新歌+ 精选」,再次展现他们屹立乐坛历久弥新的摇滚实力!
Devil's Got a New Disguise: The Very Best of Aerosmith (known in the UK as The Very Best of Aerosmith) is a compilation album by American hard rock band Aerosmith released on October 17, 2006. It has sold more than 265,048 copies to date in the U.S. as of May 2008.
The album was intended to fulfill Aerosmith's contract with Sony Music/Columbia Records until a release of a new studio album, the first since 2001's Just Push Play but ultimately did not surface. However the long-awaited new album, "Music From Another Dimension", was finally released in November 2012.
Aerosmith had hoped to spend much of 2006 recording material for a new album, but the band had been hit with a number of setbacks during the year, including lead singer Steven Tyler requiring throat surgery in March 2006, bassist Tom Hamilton recovering from treatment for throat cancer, and conflict with their record company. Thus, as the band had been robbed of adequate time to create a quality album, they opted to release a best-of compilation instead.
The album features 18 Aerosmith hits in their single-remix versions, spanning their entire career, as well as two new songs: the title track, "Devil's Got a New Disguise", and "Sedona Sunrise." "Devil's Got a New Disguise" was culled from outtakes from the Pump sessions, during which it was called "Susie Q" and had unfinished lyrics; later, during 1992's Get a Grip sessions, its title changed to "Devil's Got a New Disguise", it was co-written by Diane Warren and for the 2006 version few lines of the lyrics were changed. "Sedona Sunrise" was also culled from the Pump sessions co-written by Jim Vallance (The Other Side, Young Lust, etc.). "Devil's Got A New Disguise" is a straightforward rocker, while "Sedona Sunrise" is a very laidback, somewhat romantic blues-rock tune.
The European edition of the album was released on 30 October 2006 and it features 5 tracks different from the American version. These tracks are: "Amazing", "Angel", "Falling In Love (Is Hard on the Knees)", "Pink", and "The Other Side". The tracks that were on the American edition of the album but are not on the European edition of the album are: "Back in the Saddle", "Last Child", "Mama Kin", "Rag Doll" and "What It Takes".
In North America, the album debuted at number 33 on the Billboard 200, with 23,000 units sold,[4] and had sold 75,000 copies by December 6, 2006.