Songoftheday 10/28/18 - There's somethin' wrong with the world today I don't know what it is, something's wrong with our eyes...

Aerosmith - "Livin' On The Edge"
from the album Get A Grip (1993)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #18 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 11

Today's song of the day comes from the veteran blues-rock band from Boston, Aerosmith, who were coming off of the most successful album of their career, Pump, which had scored them four big top-40 pop hits with "Love In An Elevator", "Janie's Got A Gun", "What It Takes", and "The Other Side", the last one in the summer of 1990. After a year-long tour, the band took a break to rest, releasing one of the early big "Box-sets", Pandora's Box, that landed a couple new tracks on the rock radio chart - a remake of the Beatles' "Helter Skelter" made it to #21 there. The group re-emerged in the spring of 1993 with their next album Get A Grip. Lead single "Livin' On The Edge", released in February, was another head-banging song with a message, and a video featuring a young Ed Furlong that maybe went a little crazy in how teen life in the decade really was...

"Livin' On The Edge" became Aerosmith's first top-40 pop hit from Get A Grip in June of 1993. The song spent an amazing nine weeks at #1 on Billboard magazine's Mainstream Rock radio format chart, their biggest hit there and the longest-lasting #1 that year. Internationally, the single peaked at #4 in Norway and #10 in Canada, and also hit the top-40 in New Zealand (#11), Spain (#12), the UK (#19), Australia and Switzerland (#21), and Sweden (#29). The track would win the band a Grammy Award for Best Rock Duo/Group Performance, their second in the category.

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Here's the band rolling out the song at the MTV Music Video Awards in 1993..