Best Aerosmith Album?

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For me its Rocks. I rate that their best album.

"Rats in the Cellar", "Lick and a Promise", "Last Child" and "Back in the Saddle".

Toys In The Attic would be second although many rate this best.

From their 80's stuff Pump was the best of those i reckon but nothing on either of the top two records.

What do you think?
 

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Good timing with this thread. I'm currently going through a massive Aerosmith phase! Have been a fan for ages, but i'm rediscovering what an awesome band these guys were (well, still are i suppose...)

Permanent Vacation was the album that really got me into Aerosmith. For a kid just discovering rock music, it was one of those landmark albums for me and i always listen to it now with fond memories. Some killer tunes on that record and the production was massive for that time.

But i'd also have to give the nod to Rocks. Just a gritty, blues rock album with Aerosmith at a ridiculously awesome peak just before the booz and the drugs really kicked in and blew the band's first era to bits. To follow up such a killer album as Toys in the Attice (Sweet Emotion is still my all time fav Aerosmith tune) a year later with an equally kick arse album was monumental.
 

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I don't recall them ever coming to Australia, have they been here.

Anyone know of any plans for them to come down here.
 

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Early era songs such as Mama Kin and Dream On are classic Aerosmith. Dream On is my favourite song, it is fantastic LIVE. An old mate of mine went to see them in 78 and Stevens scream before going into the chorus for the last time could have shattered mirrors miles away. About their later stuff, its not as good as the 70's but its still good. I love any attempt by the band to revert to hard rock or their blues roots such as Honking On The Bobo. They have done some great covers over the years.
 

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materamagic said:
For me its Rocks. I rate that their best album.

"Rats in the Cellar", "Lick and a Promise", "Last Child" and "Back in the Saddle".

Toys In The Attic would be second although many rate this best.

From their 80's stuff Pump was the best of those i reckon but nothing on either of the top two records.

What do you think?
Agreed. Rocks and Toys in the Attic clearly their best albums.
 

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Rocks rocks. It's the best. Riff and roll at its finest.
Toys In the Attic next on the list.
I also love Get Your Wings, while the first album gave us Dream On, my all time fave, and Mama Kin, so it too rates.
I can even handle Draw The Line, which a lot of people don't like.
Basically got everything Aerosmith have released and a heap of rarities and stuff.
Saw them live in Perth in 1989, was off the wall. Shame they played every song off Pump, which was a good album, but not that good!
Draw The Line is the best live song I have ever seen.
The recently released You Gotta Move DVD is awesome, well worth getting.
Still got a couple of the old Aerosmith baseball shirts, as worn in Wayne's World in the cupboard.
One day I shall fly to America and see them, cos they ain't coming back here.
 

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Why aren't they coming back here? Yeah I got that DVD too. I think Steve is a little underrated as a musician when it comes to creating songs and his love for music. Watching the DVD where they are in the studio people who think he is nothing more than an aging screamer who hasn't bought new stage clothes since 1978 will be suprised. Off course I knew that all along.
 

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That "You Gotta Move" DVD is being flogged off at most JBs for around 12.99, a pretty good get.

I think of Aerosmith as having two phases, almost a third if you count the soppy Bon Jovi-type ballads of the last 8 years or so. First phase is 1973-80 with fairly raw, blues-inspired rock. Second phase is the bigger production of "Permanent Vacation" onwards, where the sound went to a new level and the albums were more conistent, without lacking the hit songs. (In betwen is just pus).

Phase 1 favourite - Toys in the Attic/Live Bootleg
Phase 2 favourite - Pump
 

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yeah for one of the early 90's albums they choose 3 big ballads as singles "Amazing" "Crazy" and "Crying". I thought, I enjoyed some of their ballads namely "what it takes" which was the best for many years in their catalogue, but I feared that the hard rocking, tight and raw sound would never comeback. It sort of has. Although they may have sold out according to some, they did it with success and you cant fault that. I loved Honking On The Bobo and I think another rocking bluesy album would be fantastic
 

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