15 - Just Push Play (2001) 14 - Music From Another Dimension (2012) 13 - Nine Lives (1997) 12 - Honkin' On Bobo (2004) 11 - Night In The Ruts (1979) 10 - Permanent Vacation (1987) 9 - Rock In A Hard Place (1982) 8 - Draw The Line (1977) 7 - Pump ⛽(1989) 6 - Done With Mirrors (1985) 5 - Get A Grip (1993) 4 - Aerosmith (s/t 1973) 3 - Rocks (1976) 2 - Get Your Wings (1974) 1 - Toys In The Attic (1975)
the first CD i ever bought was DRAW THE LINE in a "Collector's Choice" edition. I actually think it was Aerosmith first album to be released on CD, though years after it was recorded. I still have it, in a special "Collectors Choice" production that Columbia was producing. Good Choice for the favorite Aero Album! I love it!
if you read Tyler's autobiography he talks about his vocals on the first record. he regrets singing that way. I can't remember WHY he sang that way but he was going for something and realized later it sounded weird. it was not his natural voice.
Just a minor correction: Dream On wasn’t re-recorded. The single was just re-released around the time Toys In The Attic started to catch on. But you’re definitely right in saying that the song didn’t get much recognition upon its original release!
Exactly! Dream On was a minor hit at first, then when re-released it became a major hit. However, it was released again during the ROCKS era (1976). In fact, SWEET EMOTION was Aerosmith's breakout single, and they followed it in early 1975 with the re-release of Dream On. Then they released Walk This Way, and then You See Me Crying, neither initially achieved great success... and then the Album ROCKS came out in 1976. They re-released Walk This Way in November and it climbed up, peaking in early 1977 becoming a huge success. It's odd, but Toys In The Attic and ROCKS were charting high at the time time, and also the self titled AEROSMITH and GET YOUR WINGS. 1975, 1976 and 1977 were the golden years for Aerosmith. They reached zenith before DRAW THE LINE, the album, was released in late 1977, it going Platinum immediately, because of great expectations from the public.
Too few Aerosmith songs make it/made it to modern day radio. Picking up each album and listening to them all through in order was an interesting experience I would recommend. The first 3 albums have a lot to offer.
I Actually like Just Push Play, i like that It is exsperimental, listen to It more and u will find out that IT is a Consept album, and Rock in a hard plase is really heavy and It is desent album to.
Nice review! I've been following Aerosmith for decades. my opinions from least Favorite, to FAVORITE, and I respect those who disagree... 15) MUSIC FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION - grade D - should be called Music Without Testosterone, because it sounds like Steven is about to cry his heart out on every song, or being sensitive, feminine and kinky all at the same time. If that's what your looking for in an album, it might just be an A+ 14) HONKIN' ON BOBO' - grade C - their one original song 'The Grind' is pure sap, doesn't rock as well as the blues remakes, i can't stand the ear splitting guitars on 'Road Runner' opening the albums, makes me want to turn the volume down way low ... This does remind me of the Rolling Stones, but I'm not a huge Stone fan. I'm a huge Aerosmith fan. Just doesn't sound like Aerosmith to me! 13) NIGHT IN THE RUTS - grade B - (would have been great had J.Perry not left. Actually, Joe and Steven were the only members to write songs for this one. everyone else flunked song writing and they filled covers and earlier rejects like Reefer Headed Woman) 1/2 of a great album, the rest is poor filler... the great stuff: Remember, Cheese Cake, Chiquita, Three Mile Smile, Think About It, and No Surprise is good, but doesn't rock hard enough to be an opening track for the album 12) JUST PUSH PLAY - grade B - [this rocks, even if it's mostly love songs] I give it a pass whenever I'm in for balladry, check out Jaded, Sunshine, Beyond Beautiful, Light Inside and Avant Garden, the rest is corn syrup, or worse 11) GET A GRIP - grade B - [the ballads trio: Cryin' Crazy and Amazing aren't as good as Nine Lives ballad trio 'Ain't That a Bitch', 'Kiss Your Past Goodbye' and 'Full Circle'." 10) NINE LIVES - grade B - [also better than G.A.G. due to the fantastic Falling In Love is Hard on the Knees, much better than 'Livin' On The Edge'] 9) PUMP - grade B+ - (their most over rated album, and also when they started trying to earn Grammy's by being politically correct) 8) ROCK IN A HARD PLACE - grade A - (their most underrated. This held the band together, even if Brad and Joe weren't there, it was fantastic, and it sounds very 80s.. it's fast, well developed tunes, and fantastic production without producer enhanced sound additions. please listen to it! great tracks: hard rockin' in great form: Lighting Strikes, Title Track, Bitches Brew, Bolivian Ragamuffin, plus to experimental sounding Prelude to Joanie, Joanie's Butterfly, plus the speed bash opener Jailbait... Jig Is Up is good too, and the only disappointment is Push Comes To Shove, which sounds drunk like Reefer Headed Woman on N.I.T.R., and one other: Cry Me A River, is a superb ballad remake, unlike the corn syrup ballads of their later albums. get this one for sure! ] 7) AEROSMITH - grade A - much discussed, so I will skip 6) GET YOUR WINGS - grade A - much discussed, so I will skip 5) DONE WITH MIRRORS - grade A - there most macho album, like a sirloin stake seasoned with salt and pepper, and that's it! zero choruses, zero horns, zero producer added sound effects.. just heavy bluesy guitars, drums and Steven Tyler belting it out in bravado. I think they used this formula for P.V., but some choruses and horns on the hit singles, plus the guitars on P.V. were out in orbit metal sounding ear candy. They did have a couple of top 40 rock radio singles: Let The Music Do The Talking (and their finest music video to date!) and also Shela. They abandoned the tour and support for the album early to focus on recording a followup, in the wake of their MTV hit with Run DMC covering Walk This Way. And less than two years later their ultimate masterpiece, and the 80s ultimate "metal" album would be released. I use the word "metal" loosely, as was done in the 80s to describe a plethora of bands, and I definitely don't mean to imply thrash. 4) ROCKS -grade A+ - , because every song does. The production is also perfectly balanced, without any instruments or even Steven standing out in front. That results in a very studio sound, which is why I rank it below Draw The Line, though the songs have more character and development on this album, ROCKS 3) DRAW THE LINE - grade A+ - because it rocks, though slower than the album named rocks, it's grittier, rawer and less rehearsed sounding, and nothing can beat 'Kings And Queens' 2) TOYS IN THE ATTIC - grade A+ - perfection in song writing, with a wide range of musical genres, from songs the rolling stones could have recorded, like Adams Apple, Uncle Salty and No More No More, to the heavy tracks like Sweet Emotion, Round and Round and Title Track, to the epic balladry to You See Me Cryin, to the pure Aerosmith innovation of Walk This Way, to the funny blues cover jig of Big Ten Inch Record. This is an epic recording, though I love listening to other grade A or better albums more, I gotta give them credit where credit is deserved.. Toys! 1) PERMANENT VACATION - grade A++ - (my favorite album period, I give them an extra plus) first it's got several hit singles, of which they are great, but even without them the album would be grade A+, that's because the rest of the album really rocks! It's got the definitive 80s metal sound, and executed better than by Aerosmith, a dark cosmic bravado of coolness haunts to the metalesque tracks of Hearts Done Time, Magic Touch, Simoriah and The Movie. The weakest song is actually pretty good, the 60s cover of the Beetles' I'm Down, which they amp up to 80s metal perfection, still great. And, there are other 60s style rock songs amped up to 80s metal energy: the title track, written in house by Brad and Steven, with the amazing predictive analysis of the bands future when Steven declares in the middle of the song "I've got this sister man she's really got a pinhead, she think she's kinky but can't get it straight" which perfectly describes their latest 2012 album M.F.A.D. which is soft, sensitive and kinky all the way though.. and to other lesser degrees you can hear the kinky sister of Aerosmith gaining control over the band, even during some of PUMP. back to Permanent Vacation: another 60s style track amped up to 80s metal bravado is 'Girl Keeps Coming Apart' written by Joe and Steven in house. Another layer of song writing evident in Permanent Vacation is the heavy blues, amped up into 80s metal eruption, and those tracks include the powerhouse rocker "Hangman Jury", and also, "St. John" which is actually the final song Steven Tyler wrote by himself, in 1987, sad because it's sound a powerful and cool tune. He should have kept at it!!
Great ranking, dude. Love it. I grew up with Aerosmith. So... Done with mirrors, Pump, Toys, Permanent and Nine Lives are my favorite. Night in the rute as well. Got to listen Rocks, Draw the line and Get your wings again. Thank you! Check out my RUclips channel. 🤟🏻🤠🪕
Here is my list: 15. Rock in a Hard Place (1982) 14. Done with Mirrors (1985) 13. Draw the Line (1977) 12. Night in the Ruts (1979) 11. Aerosmith (1973) 10. Rocks (1976) 9. Get Your Wings (1974) 8. Toys in the Attic (1975) 7. Permanent Vacation (1987) 6. Pump (1989) 5. Get a Grip (1993) 4. Honkin' on Bobo (2004) 3. Nine Lives (1997) 2. Music from Another Dimension! (2012) 1. Just Push Play (2001)
Top five greatest rock bands
1. Led Zeppelin
2. Van Halen
3. The Rolling Stones
4. The Doors
5. Aerosmith
That's a pretty accurate list in my opinion, I like your thoughts, you seem very educated and overall it's a nice video, keep it up:)
15 - Just Push Play (2001)
14 - Music From Another Dimension (2012)
13 - Nine Lives (1997)
12 - Honkin' On Bobo (2004)
11 - Night In The Ruts (1979)
10 - Permanent Vacation (1987)
9 - Rock In A Hard Place (1982)
8 - Draw The Line (1977)
7 - Pump ⛽(1989)
6 - Done With Mirrors (1985)
5 - Get A Grip (1993)
4 - Aerosmith (s/t 1973)
3 - Rocks (1976)
2 - Get Your Wings (1974)
1 - Toys In The Attic (1975)
Draw the Line is my favorite Aerosmith album. Very underrated and even has Joe Perry sing 1 song on here.
the first CD i ever bought was DRAW THE LINE in a "Collector's Choice" edition. I actually think it was Aerosmith first album to be released on CD, though years after it was recorded. I still have it, in a special "Collectors Choice" production that Columbia was producing. Good Choice for the favorite Aero Album! I love it!
Love that album. Its the one I play the most these days.
My top 5 are:
1. Toys in the Attic
2. Get your wings
3. Draw the line
4. Rocks
5. Aerosmith
if you read Tyler's autobiography he talks about his vocals on the first record. he regrets singing that way. I can't remember WHY he sang that way but he was going for something and realized later it sounded weird. it was not his natural voice.
night in the ruts is so underrated, could be my favorite next to toys in the attic
The first 4 albums are definitely their best. Great rankings!
Just a minor correction: Dream On wasn’t re-recorded. The single was just re-released around the time Toys In The Attic started to catch on. But you’re definitely right in saying that the song didn’t get much recognition upon its original release!
Exactly! Dream On was a minor hit at first, then when re-released it became a major hit. However, it was released again during the ROCKS era (1976). In fact, SWEET EMOTION was Aerosmith's breakout single, and they followed it in early 1975 with the re-release of Dream On. Then they released Walk This Way, and then You See Me Crying, neither initially achieved great success... and then the Album ROCKS came out in 1976. They re-released Walk This Way in November and it climbed up, peaking in early 1977 becoming a huge success. It's odd, but Toys In The Attic and ROCKS were charting high at the time time, and also the self titled AEROSMITH and GET YOUR WINGS. 1975, 1976 and 1977 were the golden years for Aerosmith. They reached zenith before DRAW THE LINE, the album, was released in late 1977, it going Platinum immediately, because of great expectations from the public.
Pretty well done! I look forward to seeing more of these videos. Of course, you know you should do one on Maiden 😁 🤘 Keep rockin'!
get a grip was there best albumb ever
Too few Aerosmith songs make it/made it to modern day radio. Picking up each album and listening to them all through in order was an interesting experience I would recommend. The first 3 albums have a lot to offer.
I Actually like Just Push Play, i like that It is exsperimental, listen to It more and u will find out that IT is a Consept album, and Rock in a hard plase is really heavy and It is desent album to.
Nice review! I've been following Aerosmith for decades. my opinions from least Favorite, to FAVORITE, and I respect those who disagree...
15) MUSIC FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION - grade D - should be called Music Without Testosterone, because it sounds like Steven is about to cry his heart out on every song, or being sensitive, feminine and kinky all at the same time. If that's what your looking for in an album, it might just be an A+
14) HONKIN' ON BOBO' - grade C - their one original song 'The Grind' is pure sap, doesn't rock as well as the blues remakes, i can't stand the ear splitting guitars on 'Road Runner' opening the albums, makes me want to turn the volume down way low ... This does remind me of the Rolling Stones, but I'm not a huge Stone fan. I'm a huge Aerosmith fan. Just doesn't sound like Aerosmith to me!
13) NIGHT IN THE RUTS - grade B - (would have been great had J.Perry not left. Actually, Joe and Steven were the only members to write songs for this one. everyone else flunked song writing and they filled covers and earlier rejects like Reefer Headed Woman) 1/2 of a great album, the rest is poor filler... the great stuff: Remember, Cheese Cake, Chiquita, Three Mile Smile, Think About It, and No Surprise is good, but doesn't rock hard enough to be an opening track for the album
12) JUST PUSH PLAY - grade B - [this rocks, even if it's mostly love songs] I give it a pass whenever I'm in for balladry, check out Jaded, Sunshine, Beyond Beautiful, Light Inside and Avant Garden, the rest is corn syrup, or worse
11) GET A GRIP - grade B - [the ballads trio: Cryin' Crazy and Amazing aren't as good as Nine Lives ballad trio 'Ain't That a Bitch', 'Kiss Your Past Goodbye' and 'Full Circle'."
10) NINE LIVES - grade B - [also better than G.A.G. due to the fantastic Falling In Love is Hard on the Knees, much better than 'Livin' On The Edge']
9) PUMP - grade B+ - (their most over rated album, and also when they started trying to earn Grammy's by being politically correct)
8) ROCK IN A HARD PLACE - grade A - (their most underrated. This held the band together, even if Brad and Joe weren't there, it was fantastic, and it sounds very 80s.. it's fast, well developed tunes, and fantastic production without producer enhanced sound additions. please listen to it! great tracks: hard rockin' in great form: Lighting Strikes, Title Track, Bitches Brew, Bolivian Ragamuffin, plus to experimental sounding Prelude to Joanie, Joanie's Butterfly, plus the speed bash opener Jailbait... Jig Is Up is good too, and the only disappointment is Push Comes To Shove, which sounds drunk like Reefer Headed Woman on N.I.T.R., and one other: Cry Me A River, is a superb ballad remake, unlike the corn syrup ballads of their later albums. get this one for sure! ]
7) AEROSMITH - grade A - much discussed, so I will skip
6) GET YOUR WINGS - grade A - much discussed, so I will skip
5) DONE WITH MIRRORS - grade A - there most macho album, like a sirloin stake seasoned with salt and pepper, and that's it! zero choruses, zero horns, zero producer added sound effects.. just heavy bluesy guitars, drums and Steven Tyler belting it out in bravado. I think they used this formula for P.V., but some choruses and horns on the hit singles, plus the guitars on P.V. were out in orbit metal sounding ear candy. They did have a couple of top 40 rock radio singles: Let The Music Do The Talking (and their finest music video to date!) and also Shela. They abandoned the tour and support for the album early to focus on recording a followup, in the wake of their MTV hit with Run DMC covering Walk This Way. And less than two years later their ultimate masterpiece, and the 80s ultimate "metal" album would be released. I use the word "metal" loosely, as was done in the 80s to describe a plethora of bands, and I definitely don't mean to imply thrash.
4) ROCKS -grade A+ - , because every song does. The production is also perfectly balanced, without any instruments or even Steven standing out in front. That results in a very studio sound, which is why I rank it below Draw The Line, though the songs have more character and development on this album, ROCKS
3) DRAW THE LINE - grade A+ - because it rocks, though slower than the album named rocks, it's grittier, rawer and less rehearsed sounding, and nothing can beat 'Kings And Queens'
2) TOYS IN THE ATTIC - grade A+ - perfection in song writing, with a wide range of musical genres, from songs the rolling stones could have recorded, like Adams Apple, Uncle Salty and No More No More, to the heavy tracks like Sweet Emotion, Round and Round and Title Track, to the epic balladry to You See Me Cryin, to the pure Aerosmith innovation of Walk This Way, to the funny blues cover jig of Big Ten Inch Record. This is an epic recording, though I love listening to other grade A or better albums more, I gotta give them credit where credit is deserved.. Toys!
1) PERMANENT VACATION - grade A++ - (my favorite album period, I give them an extra plus) first it's got several hit singles, of which they are great, but even without them the album would be grade A+, that's because the rest of the album really rocks! It's got the definitive 80s metal sound, and executed better than by Aerosmith, a dark cosmic bravado of coolness haunts to the metalesque tracks of Hearts Done Time, Magic Touch, Simoriah and The Movie. The weakest song is actually pretty good, the 60s cover of the Beetles' I'm Down, which they amp up to 80s metal perfection, still great. And, there are other 60s style rock songs amped up to 80s metal energy: the title track, written in house by Brad and Steven, with the amazing predictive analysis of the bands future when Steven declares in the middle of the song "I've got this sister man she's really got a pinhead, she think she's kinky but can't get it straight" which perfectly describes their latest 2012 album M.F.A.D. which is soft, sensitive and kinky all the way though.. and to other lesser degrees you can hear the kinky sister of Aerosmith gaining control over the band, even during some of PUMP. back to Permanent Vacation: another 60s style track amped up to 80s metal bravado is 'Girl Keeps Coming Apart' written by Joe and Steven in house. Another layer of song writing evident in Permanent Vacation is the heavy blues, amped up into 80s metal eruption, and those tracks include the powerhouse rocker "Hangman Jury", and also, "St. John" which is actually the final song Steven Tyler wrote by himself, in 1987, sad because it's sound a powerful and cool tune. He should have kept at it!!
Great ranking, dude. Love it. I grew up with Aerosmith. So... Done with mirrors, Pump, Toys, Permanent and Nine Lives are my favorite. Night in the rute as well. Got to listen Rocks, Draw the line and Get your wings again. Thank you! Check out my RUclips channel. 🤟🏻🤠🪕
Rocks?
Here is my list:
15. Rock in a Hard Place (1982)
14. Done with Mirrors (1985)
13. Draw the Line (1977)
12. Night in the Ruts (1979)
11. Aerosmith (1973)
10. Rocks (1976)
9. Get Your Wings (1974)
8. Toys in the Attic (1975)
7. Permanent Vacation (1987)
6. Pump (1989)
5. Get a Grip (1993)
4. Honkin' on Bobo (2004)
3. Nine Lives (1997)
2. Music from Another Dimension! (2012)
1. Just Push Play (2001)