TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Aerosmith
Aerosmith
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.0824
Aerosmith Album Rankings
1
Ask any rock fan, afficionado, or musician, and they will tell you that it's not only your chops in a studio that make you.
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2
Few albums have been so appropriately named as Aerosmith's 1976 classicRocks.
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3
By all rights, Aerosmith was dead in 1983.
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4
After nearly getting off the ground withGet Your Wings, Aerosmith finally perfected their mix ofStonesyraunch andZeppelin-esqueriffing with their third album,Toys in the Attic.
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5
Ah, nothing spells a band's comeback success like their old label's re-issuing of their material, does it? Just a year after Aerosmith cemented the fact they were back to stay withPermanent Vacation,
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6
Did Steven Tyler and crew know when Aerosmith brought out their debut album in 1973 that they would go on to become one of the most beloved and influential rock bands of their time?I don't know about
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7
Due to the commercial underachievement of Aerosmith's 1973 self-titled debut, the young band was nearly dropped by its record label.
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8
Once again, it is the year of the dinosaur.No, no, I'm not referring to the "Jurassic Park" sequel hitting the theatres - I refer to Aerosmith, the band that refuses to die.
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9
WherePermanent Vacationseemed a little overwhelmed by its pop concessions,Pumprevels in them without ever losing sight of Aerosmith's dirty hard rock core.
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10
An expert balance of vintage Aerosmith and more contemporary stylings.
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11
If the success that Aerosmith found with their albumPumptaught them anything, it was one dangerous lesson: the ballad can be a powerful, albeit overused, tool.
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12
Today's lesson is a case in overhype, and how it can hurt something wonderful.
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13
A portentous racket that rumble and roils like lethargic lava unsure if it can be bothered to devour the next pitiful shack in its path, vocals yearning away in the background...
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14
There hasn't been this entertaining or hard-rocking an Aerosmith album since who-knows-when.
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15
Greatest-hits compilations can sometimes be a wonderful thing for an artist.
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16
Trying to review a live album of Aerosmith's such asClassics Live!, the 1986 release from their then-former label, is a double-edged sword.
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18
Aerosmith'sGreatest Hitsremains one of the most popular and enduring best-of collections by any rock band, selling nearly ten million copies in the U.S. alone since its release.
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19
Renting out an abandoned convent on the outskirts of New York City to record the follow-up to the hellaciousRocksmay not have been the best idea, but 1977'sDraw the Linestill managed to be another dow
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20
By the timeNight In The Rutscame out in late 1979, Aerosmith -- at least as the fans knew them, anyway -- was no more.
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21
As the title of this album makes clear, Aerosmith is caught between a rock and a hard place.
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23
In recent years, it appears that record companies have done everything and anything possible to ensure longstanding artists or those on the wane continue to sell their back catalogues.
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31
Aerosmith, say the oh-so-blustery liner notes accompanying Pandora's Box , a new three-CD retrospective of the group's hard-rock heyday on Columbia Records, were not only the most popular band of the
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44
For the serious Aerosmith fan looking to obtain all of the band's classic releases for Columbia, 1994's Box of Fire is a quintessential purchase.
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53
Aerosmith 's first live album, Live! Bootleg , was one of the sloppiest, drug-addled recordings in the history of sloppy, drug-addled live albums.
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