Toys In The Attic

back in the 70s, steven tyler fucked an underaged groupie, and proceeded to literally adopt her as his legal daughter so he could keep fucking this child. he can stuff his big ten inch up his own ass for all i care.

If it's 1975 and you want a rock album but you're too much of a fuckin' JOCK to listen to Physical Graffiti, Blood on the Tracks, Wish You Were Here, Born To Run, Horses, Young Americans, Fleetwood Mac, Another Green World, Mothership Connection, or Face the Music, this is the album for you and the boys as you cruise around town in a less interesting version of Dazed and Confused.

A record breaking album when it comes to blandness and lack of inspiration

Dad rock (Derogatory). Pretty boring, but fine. Would not put on again

Aerosmith, to me, is the very definition of a middle of the road band. They have some pretty memorable songs but just a lot that that is either bad or just pretty forgettable. Aside from Walk this Way and Sweet Emotion and maybe the title track Toys in the Attic, the rest of this just felt like filler. As a whole this album would probably be a 2.5 but I’ll round up for those two songs which are rightfully all timers

Aside from the music being bland my rating and review is based on Steve Tyler being a pedo c*nt. I listened to the full album, but its just forgettable generic rock. The music is whatever, but Steve Tyler can go choke on his big ten inch record. From Wikipedia "Tyler claimed their relationship was consensual and that he had immunity because he was her legal guardian at the time" speaking about a 16 year old girl he groomed, adopted and abused - what the actual fuck.

I can't figure out whether Aerosmith is a good band that I think sucks, or if they are just completely overrated. I'm honestly shocked by how well-reviewed this album is. It's so generic. The only "good" song on it is Sweet Emotion. Granted, all the guitar solos absolutely rip, but that's the only thing I can think of that this album has going for it.

After nearly getting off the ground with Get Your Wings, Aerosmith finally perfected their mix of Stonesy raunch and Zeppelin-esque riffing with their third album, Toys in the Attic. The success of the album derives from a combination of an increased sense of songwriting skills and purpose. Not only does Joe Perry turn out indelible riffs like "Walk This Way," "Toys in the Attic," and "Sweet Emotion," but Steven Tyler has fully embraced sleaziness as his artistic muse. Taking his cue from the old dirty blues "Big Ten Inch Record," Tyler writes with a gleeful impishness about sex throughout Toys in the Attic, whether it's the teenage heavy petting of "Walk This Way," the promiscuous "Sweet Emotion," or the double-entendres of "Uncle Salty" and "Adam's Apple." The rest of Aerosmith, led by Perry's dirty, exaggerated riffing, provide an appropriately greasy backing. Before Toys in the Attic, no other hard rock band sounded like this. Sure, Aerosmith cribbed heavily from the records of the Rolling Stones, New York Dolls, and Led Zeppelin, but they didn't have any of the menace of their influences, nor any of their mystique. Aerosmith was a gritty, street-wise hard rock band who played their blues as blooze and were in it for a good time; Toys in the Attic crystallizes that attitude.

A really enjoyable rock album with some great riffs and power vocals. The double entendres and obsession with school girls is a like wearisome, but overall a blast.

Actually did enjoy it. Fundamental Rock, good listen, though I don't think anything did stand out about it.

great album with 2 immortal classics, Sweet Emotion and Walk this way are undoubtedly the best and remarkable songs of the album, but other songs are really enjoyable as well. Solid 4

Just as no one would have heard of Afrika Bambaataa if it weren't for Kraftwerk, far fewer people (especially in the white suburbs) would have heard of run DMC if not for Walk this Way. So even though I never liked the song, I can appreciate its legacy. The title track is also good and a few others are listenable. between a 2 and a 3 for me.

The two songs that became famous - “sweet emotion” and “walk this way” - were the right ones. Especially “sweet emotion.” They’re legitimately great rock songs and sound totally different than everything else on the album. The rest of the album is kinda pedestrian guitar rock, with the exception of “big ten inch record,” which is just freaking awful and filled with bad sexual double entendres, to boot. “You See Me Crying” is foreshadowing of the absolute garbage that Aerosmith would put out in the 90’s.

Aerosmith sucks and Steven Tyler is a pedophile, enough said.

According to Chuck Eddy, of all the metallic albums recorded between the dawn of the Miocene era and AD 1990, this is the fourth best. I won't quibble. It coats Stones licks and Skynyrd boogie in squeezed zit-juice with such sexed-up fervour that it generates teenage kicks as high as Chuck Berry's or early Beatles'. Makes you feel like the fate of the world hangs on your puny 15 year old dreams. After putting his audience and himself through the ringer on tracks 1-8, Steve Tyler gathers us all up in a sweaty, stinking (probably quite horny) hug. We saw him crying? Uh-uh, he saw us bawling our pubescent eyes out.

The lightning-speed swamp rock riffing that the band does on the opener simply sounds great. There's more pop-blues to come, and it's good. Not quite Dutch angled, but with plenty of edge to keep the ear engaged. The attempt to sexualize their interpretation of the genre comes off a bit flat, but thankfully it's not the main thrust of the record. The second half loses a bit of the energy, but serves as a demonstration of musical breadth and ends with a bang. Very impressive for a sub-forty-minute album.

liked the album and it helped me get back into rock

Fuck yeah, this rocks. Hard rock, doesn't try to be anything other than what it is, album only 37min, this is a solid 4/5. The only other Aerosmith I've heard is their late 80s/early 90s stuff and Tyler sounds way better here.

Not bad for this type of straight-forward rock, though it's just really not my style. Probably wouldn't ever choose to listen to it either.

Impressively meh.

If u like hard rock - u like it

As a 90s kid growing up with 90s Aerosmith, I didn't take Aerosmith very seriously. In fact, I loathed Aerosmith. They're up there with Billy Joel as artists who I completely understand the success and reach they've had, but I really only appreciate on a cultural level rather than a musical one. So color me surprised when I put this album on to find some real tightly played hard rock. Maybe a little unsophisticated lyrically, but you can see yourself handing the Zeppelin crown over to them. And then Big Ten Inch Record played. No, I was right. These guys are corny. Then comes Sweet Emotion and you see why they got so big.

Tracks 1-3: ok, but why is this on the list? Tracks 4-6: oh, that’s why this is on the list. Tracks 7-8: this isn’t so bad Track 9: ah, there’s the Aerosmith I can’t stand.

Toys up your arse..

'Sweet Emotion' is solid and 'Round and Round' was surprisingly good. The rest of this was bordeline garbage. 'Big Ten Inch Record' is awful, and 'Walk This Way' was cool when I was 12 and knew perhaps 5 songs in existence.

'Adam's apple' a blatant rip of Beatles' 'Get back'. Steve Tyler a vile piece of excrement. To quote the late, great, Stan Lee "'nuff said'.

Terrible. Real cheesey. Two good songs maybe.

People are ragging on this album but it’s A) a lot of fun, B) has a few hits on it that are still played, C) one of the bigger influential albums of all time, and D) Walk This Way is one of the greatest hard rock songs of all time. If we’re going to judge musicians on their non-music actions then we might as well shut it all down. Grow the fuck up.

Over 40 years I've been listening to Aerosmith, and I am finding more meaning in their music still. I love it. One of the best albums of the era. Toys In The Attic is one of their best songs. So great tracks such as first song: "Toys in the Attic" - very good track to start your day! "No More No More" - one of the most high-energy rock songs ...EVER!!! The last song of the album "You See Me Crying" - its more calmly song... I dont know but I love it. Awesome album from an awesome band. Rock on!

Released 1975

I had this album when I was younger! Aerosmith was the first band I saw in concert and they were excellent. Steven Tyler is a vocal hero and Joe Perry is a phenomenal guitarist. "Sweet Emotion" alone is enough to give this album 4 stars, even though the rest of the tracks are a lower caliber than some of their other work.

Classic aerosmith, no complaints

Love this album, classic. And super cool the original version of walk this way is on it. Love both versions of that song.

The toddler in the back of the car said “I like this music” and I’m surprised to agree. (He also said “woo!”; I’ll withhold my opinion here.) The big willy song is the only turd, the rest keeps the finger away from the skip button - some great, interesting guitar work and structures here, and the singing pre-dates Tyler’s sink into parody. When I last checked, “Rocks” was the cognoscenti’s “good Aerosmith album”, but I think this is better.

4-, a classic, but weaker and less memorable than the other albums from that decades

This album starts off like a roller coaster electromagnetically launched out of the start house. The guitars on Toys In The Attic (song) are engaging right from the get go. Uncle Salty starts out a bit slow but then by the end I quite enjoyed it. The bluesy Big Ten Inch Record is a great cover, but I don’t think the lyrics are about an LP. Steven Tyler claims he said “cept on my big ten inch…” I definitely heard suck like everyone else. Walk This Way and Sweet Emotion are all-time classics while You See Me Crying is a nice ballad with piano and backing orchestra. Overall I really like 3 songs, like 3 songs, and enjoy, but am somewhat indifferent to, 3 songs.

This album is really awesome. I enjoyed it today while driving from Ft Lauderdale on i-95 back home to Jensen Beach. I had already had 2 songs from this album in my Liked songs. I added Uncle Salty to that list today. The guitars are incredible. What a time that was to be alive! My mom graduated high school the year this album came out. 1975.

As a kid I grew up listening to current rock which now happens to be "classic rock" - and sometime in the early 90s like a lot of my generation I got tired of nearly all of it (turn on any of 7-8 local FM stations anywhere and it's (still) the same 50-60 songs) and just never played a lot of it for a long time. Combine that with a move to Boston and living there for many years ... with the extra amount of Aerosmith played there in the late 80s/90s I grew to have a "holygodihatethisbandpleaseneverletmehearthemagain" attitude about them. ..... But holy crap I had forgotten - this is a goddamn great rock and roll album. Greasy, nasty, tight yet at the same time loosely played, ballsy riffs with unexpected chords and melodic vocals - it really jumped beyond blues-based rock into something far more interesting with surprising variety: the aggression of the title track, the Alice Cooper-like creepiness of "Uncle Salty" and the gorgeous melodies of songs like "No More No More" and "You See Me Crying" ... and I haven't even had to mention the two eternally monstrous hits of "Walk This Way" and "Sweet Emotion" - turns out when you voluntarily listen to them, and especially in context of the album, it helps you realize how good they actually are. :) Only thing keeping this album from a 5 star rating for me is the weirdly out-of-place drudgery of "Round and Round" - it's as if Spinal Tap went back in time and copped the worst of Black Sabbath. 5 lost minutes in an otherwise kick-ass collection. So the key is to just not listen to something for 20+ years - if it's good, it'll come back to you. 9/10 4 big stars

Classic rock from the grandfathers of hair metal.

Day 22 of Albums You Must Hear.. Today’s offering is the third album from one of my favorite American Rock Bands, Aerosmith! Toys in the Attic, released in 1975, went on to become their most commercially successful albums in the U.S. selling 8 million copies. I have to credit my Dad for turning me on to Aerosmith. I would go through his collection of cassettes and study the artwork while he played their songs on the way to drop us kiddos off at elementary school. While being more Hard Rock than some other bands and not quite as heavy as others, Aerosmith kept a sweet balance of Rock and Blues, especially on Toys in the Attic. This record proved to not only be big for the Rock genre, it would years later become instrumental to the success of crossover rap music. More on that later. The title track, Toys in the Attic, showcases a much more cohesive gelling of the band, as they had spent much of their time touring in previous years. The constant live performances would sharpen their blade and it really shows on the title track. You knew that Aerosmith was bringing the heat. Sweet Emotions is tied with being my favorite song along with Walk This Way. In 1986 co-founder of Def Jam Recordings and producer, Rick Rubin, who had success popularizing hip-hop artists using hard rock samples and riffs, would convince a reluctant Run-D.M.C., to cover Walk This Way and the results would forever change the landscape of commercial Rap music. (It would also resurrect a floundering Aerosmith at the time.) Big Ten Inch was a superbly satisfying cover of Big Moose Jackson’s Blues song from 1952. The tongue in cheek lyrics paired with the blues and swing sound would be a nice highlight to the track listing. The final track also showcased Aerosmith’s willingness to slow it down a bit and let Tyler’s piano sit front and center. While most of my personal favorite albums and songs from Aerosmith would come in the late eighties and 90’s, Toys in the Attic is nearly flawless. Thanks Dad for introducing me to one of my all time favorite bands. This record is a definite must hear. Please share your thoughts, memories and opinions!!

surprisingly better than i thought itd be

3.5/5 in general an okay feeling album for me. it’s not amazing, it’s not bad, it’s just “there”. i enjoy a few songs a lot tho, uncle salty is really nice. i love aerosmith when the songs aren’t speedy or fast singing. so the chorus in uncle salty is really, really good. sweet emotion i love as well. fave song: sweet emotion

I mean, as 80s rock goes it's fine (Edit - it's fucking 1975??!?!)

This is a fairly unremarkable experience. American middle of the road rock.

Sweet Emotion is a GOAT but the rest of this is just OK.

CACK ROCK

Hang on, didn't I already have this one? Oh, no, that was another Aerosmith album. Didn't like that one. Didn't like this one.

Ehhh, never really got the appeal.

Not particularly cohesive as a record for me. Some big tunes but otherwise a slog.

Couldn’t do it.

The three songs I already knew are enjoyable, the rest are generic and cheeks. 2.5

Situated in the genre of 'music boomers can have sex to' with ZZ Top, Led Zeppelin and Kiss, there's Aerosmith. As someone only really familiar with their 90's - 00s revival pumping out truly heinous ballads, video games, and rollercoasters, this album is OK. Walk this Way is a lot less annoying it the context of the album.

Eh. Wouldn't listen again - mostly filler, kinda samey?

Like 2 decent songs the rest is filler. Not necessarily crap just not that engaging.

Textbook “classic rock” right here. Nothing really stood out to me honestly.

I liked it when he was singing about his toys. I didn’t like it when he was singing about his 10-inch whatever….or really anything else. This was not good.

Very generic 70s rock. Sweet Emotion is fantastic but the final track on the album was one of the worst things my ears have ever experienced.

So the music is mostly instantly forgettable and only sometimes irritating. That would mean 2 or 3 stars however with Steven Tyler being a garbage human that means 1 star and that's because I can't give it 0.

To be fair the album is very well produced and sounds great. Too bad the material is a bit, em, bland. And worse still, the things I've read about the singer are despicable, sinking this straight to the bottom of the ocean, never to be seen again.

Which is worse? The dreadful generic music, or the gaslighting nonce that sang it? Don't care, both are terrible. Liked the cover of Run DMC's 'Walk This Way' though 😉

guy thinks we should listen to THREE Aerosmith albums? get real buddy.

shite.

Worse even than I expected. REM have (what I assumed to be) a dismal B-side cover of "Toys In The Attic" that turns out to be at least on par with the original. Can't polish a turd, it seems. The rest is dull and borderline offensive, featuring the awful screech of that degenerate Carly Simon look-alike supported by pedestrian backing, with songwriting so poor all you need to hear is 30 seconds of each "song". As another reviewer points out, so much better was on offer fresh in 1975, even at the Lynyrd Skynyrd/Bob Seger level let alone Zep/Dylan/Neil Young - why the fuck did people buy this in such quantities?!

Round and Round sounds like they're trying to be Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath, though less successfully. This album is so hokey at parts during its first half that "Walk This Way" is actually worse in context. "Sweet Emotion" is still cool and I think I liked the closing track.

Definitely wins the “worst song so far” award for ten inch record. I even thought the title track was kind of cute but that song just took a big shit on the rest of the bad album. Hatred

boring, monotonous, flaccid cock rock. every time boomers try to tell me something is the hardest most badass epic rock music ever made i put it on and it sounds like my dishwasher.

I can’t separate the music from the artist for this one, especially when Perry is singing about schoolgirls while he is literally sexually abusing a teen in real life

This album is probably a 3.5 for me but because Steven Tyler is a creep I will give him the 1 he deserves

100%

Classic Aerosmith, straight up rock and roll. Lots of dumb sexual innuendo, totally on-brand. Several of their big hits on this one. Plenty of cool guitar playing, as you'd expect.

My Uncle in Law ; )

This was the first album I had (CD), probably because it was a favorite of my parents. And in this way, I listened to it so much I can’t really separate my nostalgia.

This was so good. I'd heard it before a few times and knew it was a good album, but every track was just so varied and great-sounding. The classic hits (Walk This Way and Sweet Emotion) were obviously great -- and I know them well, but the other tracks were almost as good and I really loved listening to them. In fact, I loved it so much I listened to it 3 times all the way through and almost went for a 4th. Five stars, easily.

Walk this way is a banger, sweet emotion also fire. Legendary album for a legendary group. What else is there to say? 9.1/10

So many great Aerosmith songs throughout their career, but this is the one true classic, 5-star Aerosmith album!

Love it. Own it.

p340. 1975. 5 stars. Before they became washed up drug addled parodies, Aerosmith were genuine contenders. This is excellent - great riffs, great guitar work, great voice and some great songs. To what heights could they have aspired if they hadn't snorted away all that talent.

A pure classic. 10/10

Ursprünglicher guter Rock!

Awesome

Goated album. Didn’t realize how many of Aerosmiths greatest hits came from this.

Sweet album. Sweet classics like Sweet Emotion. Many repeatable songs.

When I was in high school and just starting to play some guitar, “walk this way” was one of the first guitar riffs I learned. I then proceeded to download the entire album and listen to it on the school bus ride back and forth. I’m going to give this an album a 5 because it was so important for a pretty memorable time of my life. Has some banging tracks too that have really stood the test of time, despite people writing it off as “classic boomer rock”

aerosmith's third album is really fun. the title and album art immediately sets the mood here, a toy chest bursting with colorful and crazy trinkets and toys, plastic action-figure versions of steven tyler and the crew crawling out and giving the kiddies a good show. this album helped solidify the group's status as great rock musicians. a nice healthy blend of rock and blues to cleanse the mind and soul, tyler's voice characteristically scratchy, perry's riffs near-perfect... really what's not to like? i had an awesome time listening to this, and i'm sure you will too.

Awesome

Classic Aerosmith, classic rock and roll.

Finally a 5. I was going to go 4 because the follow up, Rocks, is better, but it's only a 1-5 scale after all. Seen them live 3 times, and oddly enough that includes one of the best and one of the worst concerts I've attended.

its 70s to 90s rock, nuff said

"Toys in the Attic" is the third studio by American rock band Aerosmith. Hard rock and blues rock are the Wiki-listed genres. Oh, yeah. The band had become much better players from their year-long tour supporting their previous album and brought in more sophisticated writing which they did while recording the album. The producer was Jack Douglass and bandmembers included Steven Tyler (lead vocals, keyboards, harmonica, percussion), Joe Perry (guitars, backing vocals, percussion), Bob Whitford (guitars), Tom Hamilton (bass, rhythm guitar) and Joey Kramer (drums, percussion). The album actually had mixed reviews upon its release which have become more favorable over time. It is Aerosmith's most commercially successful album and reached #11 in the US. The band kickstarts the album with the rocker "Toys in the Attic." Dual guitar riffs, rolling bass. Aggressive vocals repeating the title. An edge to the guitar sound and searing solos. About going crazy in a ripping song. "Walking This Way" was inspired by a "Young Frankenstein" scene where Marty Feldman, "Igor," tells Gene Wilder to follow him and "walk this way" and he does, limp and all. I remember that scene. A drum roll with the snare leads to that famous guitar riff. Tyler comes in essentially rapping. The song has a groove. A classic chorus and a few guitar solos. A classic rock song about a boy losing his virginity. Speaking of classic rock songs, side two opens with "Sweet Emotion." Bassist Tom Hamilton came up with the bass riff, which begins the song, in high school. The chorus of sweet emotion are the first vocals. A hard edge guitar riff. It's a jealously song about Tyler's acrimonious relationship with his-then wife, Elyssa, who's stealing his best friend. An outstanding deeper cut is "No More No More." A melodic guitar intro and the band kicks in along with a piano. A no more no more chorus. Perry with some fantastic guitar work including a two-minute solo which ends the song. Everything works in this song about life on the road. The album ends with "You See Me Crying," a piano ballad which foreshadows their later 80's musical tilt. A symphony too. There's a bluesy, "Stonesy" tone and swagger which pervade this album and that's a very good thing. The band is confident and tight. Perry and Whitfield's guitars are top-notched. Two classic rock songs, a couple of great lesser-played songs and no fillers. The mix is great with every instrument clearly heard. Tyler has the perfect voice for this music. This is a great album!!! This album and their next album "Rocks" are must hears for any rock fan.

Quintessential Aerosmith. Nothing more needs to be added.

Classic in every sense of the word. The songs sound as fresh today as when they were originally released.

I mean, for real this is another legendary band. Walk this Way, Sweet Emotion. Rock legends. Classic Songs that are always in any good list.

Great album!

Favourite tracks - Toys In The Attic, Walk This Way, Sweet Emotion

Truly classic Aerosmith.

Loved this.

This is the 152nd album I’m rating. I’ve always liked Aerosmith but I’ve really only heard their hits. Adding to my Playlist - Toys in the Attic, Uncle Salty, Adam’s Apple, Walk this Way, Big Ten Inch Record, Sweet Emotion, No more no more, Round and Round, and You see me Crying. Not Adding to my Playlist - Nothing. Walk this Way - This song feels very nostalgic and I’m not sure why because nobody around me really liked Aerosmith. All in all I liked 9/9 songs. Just some nice classic rock for July 4th.

A rock and roll classic, now half a century old! If you haven't known at least half of these songs for most of your life, you haven't been listening to rock!

Great album!

Great 1970-1980 band.