Toys In The Attic - Aerosmith (CD 1993)

The band Aerosmith caught on slowly, and their third album, "Toys In The Attic," is a perfect example of their slow rise to success. The album was released early in 1975. That summer, the band scored their first Top 40 single with "Sweet Emotion." In the meantime, Aerosmith enjoyed modest chart success with "Toys In The Attic," which maintained consistent sales for over a year. During that year, they had their first Top 10 hit with "Dream On," a song from their first album, "Aerosmith." They also released their fourth LP, "Rocks," which yielded another Top 40 hit with "Last Child." The...

When I received an e-mail from Aerocat about an Aerosmith write-off, I decided I wanted in. This was one of the bands that rocked my world going back to Junior high school in the late 70s. They were one of the first bands to begin shaping my musical tastes away from bubble gum pop. I figured that I should write a review on the first Aerosmith album I purchased. I'm old enough to have owned this on vinyl, too. It was my early high school days (or is that daze?) when I chanced to purchase the legendary Toys In The Attic album. I was familiar with Walk This Way and Sweet Emotion but I was...

I already explained the Toys In The Attic/Rocks clich in my review of Rocks, right? So, you can go back and read that as kind of an introductory paragraph to my Toys review. Despite the clich s that surround it--namely, that it s their best album--Toys In The Attic remains a very strong record, probably their second-best during their drug-addled 70 s period. This is where they started to lean towards real rock music, rather than the blues-rock shuffle that was so evident in their self-titled debut album. It s a strong record, but not perfect. There s only nine songs on the whole album, making.

There are great records, and there are records that everybody knows so they automatically become great. Sometimes those are great, too, yet most of the time what people remember is not the album itself, rather it s the impact a record in question or a couple of songs from it have had on a particular generation or even a music genre. TOYS IN THE ATTIC sure is one such record. In 1975 Aerosmith hit it big. Took them two albums to get there, but when five Boston-rooted Rolling Stones wannabees finally improved on their purpose namely, more songs about sex, and closer to Rolling Stones more...