xp yeah I just fired that one up and as soon as that tape-reverse cymbal sounded I was like "well...hold up, 'sweet emotion'...this track slays"
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 2 November 2012 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
there is something very evocative of The Monkees about the end of "Uncle Salty"
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Friday, 2 November 2012 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
Voted for 'No More No More' because I fucking love that intro.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Friday, 2 November 2012 19:16 (eleven years ago) link
I like how "Adam's Apple" sounds like it's about vampires if you aren't really paying attention
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Friday, 2 November 2012 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
fyi legit chills just went up my spine at the first 20 seconds of "Sweet Emotion"
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Friday, 2 November 2012 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
aerosmith at their best is about as good as rock music gets
― seasonal hugs (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 2 November 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
classic rock radio never ruined "sweet emotion" for me bc they always cut out the intro and the intro recreates the entire song for me without fail every time
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 2 November 2012 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
What a great fucking album!
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 2 November 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
I really love "Sweet Emotion," but there's something special about "No More No More" so I'm-a give it some love.
― Kent Burt, Saturday, 3 November 2012 03:53 (eleven years ago) link
The title track.It was for sooooo many years that I only knew it by the REM cover:)
― t**t, Saturday, 3 November 2012 09:02 (eleven years ago) link
Going for one of the two obcious ones here: "Sweet Emotion". That intro makes me very thirsty. For several things.
― Mule, Saturday, 3 November 2012 12:31 (eleven years ago) link
man that 70s dead-room drum sound on "You See Me Crying" is so good, and so's Tyler's vocal - and the break into the bridge is remarkably clever - as with that crypto-Monkees moment cited by DJP this sounds like...the Beatles? Solo McCartney? amazing track, it's not "Toys" or "Sweet Emotion" but it's really something
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 3 November 2012 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
oh man and that junkie falsetto at the end of it. fucking stellar
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 3 November 2012 14:40 (eleven years ago) link
the more I go back the harder it is to pick one. This & Rocks are just so fucking good.
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 3 November 2012 14:47 (eleven years ago) link
am i the only one who cant stand Sweet Emotion. thanks to classic rock radio i guess
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Saturday, 3 November 2012 15:24 (eleven years ago) link
The guitars on this sounded amazing on headphones last night.
The title track is much better than I remembered ... my overexposure to the R.E.M. cover must have worn off. "Big Ten Inch Record" is by far the weakest track, but the jump blues arrangement almost makes up for the lyrics.
What an album. It's not hard to imagine a little dismay in the Stones camp when this came out.
― Brad C., Saturday, 3 November 2012 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
Living in Norway, we don't really have classic rock radio. So radio never killed it for me. xxpost.
― Mule, Saturday, 3 November 2012 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
layering harmonies at the end of "uncle salty" are the best thing in the world right now
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 3 November 2012 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
massive the way perry's guitar will suddenly outweigh anything else in the mix, e.g. the solo in "walk this way," when both guitars combine at any point in "sweet emotion"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 3 November 2012 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
something about jack douglas-era aerosmith, whoever was mixing those records was able to create this murky, scary atmosphere inside of this otherwise really tight rock band
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 3 November 2012 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
anyway i voted for "no more no more" and i feel secure in that
ain't seen the daylight since we started this band
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 3 November 2012 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
'No More No More' narrowly over 'Sweet Emotion'.
― Gavin, Leeds, Saturday, 3 November 2012 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
walk this way over sweet emotion (radio/mtv be damned)
― making plans for nyquil (outdoor_miner), Monday, 5 November 2012 01:51 (eleven years ago) link
No More No More because of the guitar solo.
― Doctor Flange, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 14:09 (eleven years ago) link
Gotta vote Sweet Emotion, but yeah, lots of great stuff here. Great driving record.
― Room 227 (cryptosicko), Thursday, 8 November 2012 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Friday, 9 November 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
Title track for me.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 9 November 2012 00:06 (eleven years ago) link
yeah same here probably
― EZee4snappin (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 9 November 2012 05:09 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 10 November 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
Love this record, sans Big 10" Record... I voted the final track because of the orchestral arrangement. Pokes my heart.
― ma ck ro ma ck ro (mackro mackro), Saturday, 10 November 2012 05:31 (eleven years ago) link
Ah, great to see 'No More No More' poll so highly!
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Saturday, 10 November 2012 14:45 (eleven years ago) link
i still love you Uncle Salty
― don't trust the lil b in apartment 23 (fadanuf4erybody), Saturday, 10 November 2012 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
stunned to see Walk This Way in a tie for fourth...guess that's why they play the games
― henry s, Sunday, 11 November 2012 04:00 (eleven years ago) link
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, November 3, 2012 1:16 PM (2 years ago)
lol
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/toys-in-the-attic-19750731
What's really important to bands of this sort is initial impact — the production must explode, enveloping the listener with a rampaging barrage of sound. The ideal mix is hot and spacious, with each instrument well defined and immediately intimate. A mix, in fact, not at all unlike that of the band's previous LP, Get Your Wings. On Toys, Aerosmith is given a more compact, jumbled mix that gives more of a "group" feel but robs them of that explosive ambience. Hence it's much harder to get involved with the music at first exposure to it.
― j., Sunday, 31 May 2015 04:13 (eight years ago) link
listening to "Uncle Salty" and I think I know what Shania and Mutt were listening to while writing "Man I FEel LIke a Woman"
― Neanderthal, Friday, 19 August 2016 23:03 (seven years ago) link
the coolest song is "sweet emotion"
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 11 May 2018 01:29 (five years ago) link
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, November 3, 2012 11:22 AM (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
me otm
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 11 May 2018 01:30 (five years ago) link
every song on this album is better than the songs on other albums
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 02:12 (five years ago) link
I can agree with that.
― calstars, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 02:19 (five years ago) link
title track shoulda won this
― cancel culture club (Neanderthal), Sunday, 27 June 2021 15:05 (two years ago) link
the section in “sweet emotion” with the random backwards drums is so cool
― brimstead, Sunday, 27 June 2021 16:45 (two years ago) link
Yeah she ate it Lordy it was love at first BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITE
― calstars, Thursday, 21 October 2021 20:19 (two years ago) link
Love how the title track comes galloping out of the gate.
― henry s, Thursday, 21 October 2021 22:06 (two years ago) link