Toys In The Attic

When i was young and dumb I thought Aerosmith was the best rock and roll could be. Now I see how much this sucks.

3.5 I guess, the highlights are SUPER high, the filler is filler. I found the bass playing particularly impressive. Kudos to Tom Hamilton for some heavy lifting.

Aerosmith are a fascinating time capsule of a band. Definitely more than just a relic with a pretty hefty discography and several titanic releases, outside of those releases I tend to hear them discussed more in reference to how they affected their age rather than as one of the greats of said age. It's almost like they were pushed aside and their contributions kept. I didn't grow up with them, so that is how I have always interacted with them. I have always had a bit of a soft spot for them and a smattering of their songs from their first two albums, but Toys In The Attic wasn't an album I ever came and visited. I probably should have done sooner, given it's held up as one of their best albums, and I've seen more than a few putting it at the top. I don't think, from my perspective looking back at it, that Toys is anything hugely revolutionary, but I believe those that say otherwise. The title track and Walk This Way are big releases and two of the band's signature songs. I'm sweeter to the former personally though I know Walk This Way is typically held up as the track's gem. I like it, but it's not my favourite. Adam's Apple is a personal overlooked standout that I think highlights Tyler's lyrical ability. Everything else on the album doesn't hugely work for me; it just doesn't match the energy the aforementioned big hits manage and in places can be remarkably mellow, no bad thing but somewhat a surprise. Big Ten Inch Record was a polarising song which I don't feel does the album any favours. It's quite infantile, and feels like the most childish song I've encountered on this challenge since the Pharcyde, and they made it a huge part of their personality for better or for worse. It fits the slightly greasy perception some of their other songs have and rock did overall in the 70s, which makes the blues-rocky feel the song has quite jarring. A shame; I really liked the horns sound on this one, but it was out of place and the lyrics were cringe-inducing coming from such a big band. Then again, AC/DC made a career when every other AC/DC song is built on the same foundation, and it is a cover so I can only mark Aerosmith down for it so much. Sins of the father and all that. A good outing and enjoyable enough but nothing hugely spectacular, but I'm happy with the few hits its provides.

no thanks!

One of their best albums.

Gets 2 stars for walk this way, but I can't rate higher or bother listening due to the nonce

Listenable background music. I never really understood the allure of Aerosmith. Theirs nothing objectionable about it but also nothing sexy.

Three good songs. The rest is not good.

A couple of good songs but the rest are either unmemorable or outright annoying. And Steven Tyler's a nonce.

I am surprised how good this album is.

Tight and fun. These guys were good. Only one of them I had heard before, but it's very vell known at least.

Steve Tyler / Paedo

Not so mega. Amazing what you could get away with as a musician in the mid 70s

I really thought this was gonna be a four, but listening to it again couple super great songs, but I’d never play the whole album again

The blues elements of Aerosmith are at the forefront with this album. So much so that they cover a cheeky blues classic "Big Ten Inch Record". A bunch of classic rock singles. While Steven Tyler's rock vocal skills are well-renowned, this album also shows he's a gifted songwriter, able to weave double entendres into coherent storytelling. Novel uses of different instruments from reverb to full jazz bands to a sugar packet.

Nope

me mandaram caminhar por esse caminho e eu TROPECEI pq esse álbum é chato demais walk this way só me traz memória de quando meus pais separaram (pela primeira vez xD) e eu era obrigado a ficar na casa da minha avó jogando guitar hero - aerosmith pq era o único jogo que tinha no ps2 que ficava na casa dela música ruim e traumas horríveis de infância, 0/5

rock para papais que andam DAQUELE jeito eh isso. apenas walk this way salva e APENAS por conta do guitar hero. bem divertida de tocar. de resto, mto paia e genérico até o cu fazer biquinho. pau no cu do steven tyler

2026.11.12

A good album

I like two songs: Sweet emotion and Walk this way. The rest was either to generic, or not enjoyable for me.

Catchy blues rock, what's not to like

Aerosmith aren't my flavour of rock music but they show the listener a great time and don't put a foot wrong. It’s a polished, perfect performance.

Low 2 for Aerosmith, why you'd take the Stones and Led Zep and reduce it down to this sleazy slop I have no idea, why people ate it up I understand even less. Produced well though and a decent riff scattered here and there.

peak

Jaaaa...

Даже хип-хап есть. Модная музыка.

It's fine. Classic hits that I generally like. Steven Tyler creeps me out, so it's hard to praise it too much.

Surprisingly enjoyable. Good rock record with good music. I feared the worse when I saw Aerosmith.

One of their best but still falls flat near the end 4/5

It was ok just not really my vibe. pre-divorce dad rock

Not my favorite band but I can't say it's a bad album. It's stylish and the guys are really talented.

Idgaf if it’s a bit corny. This is fun

Odd to be pleasantly surprised by such a well known band, and album. Also, unexpectedly Toys in the Attic improved each of my three listens. I started to hear why a huge number of 1980s bands cited Aerosmith as a foundational rock experience. The two massive hits and minor one, “Toys in the Attic”, displayed subtle variations of hard rock. The opener “Toys” with its stripped, fast and lean sound has punk and speed metal elements. “Sweet Emotion” outdoes other well-produced 1970s hard-rock anthems from Peter Frampton, Joe Walsh and Foghat. It certainly puts Aerosmith at least in “Smoke on the Water” and “Running with the Devil” level if not the true big boys: Stones, Sabbath, and Zeppelin. “Walk This Way” is at that level. As memorable a drum intro as Led Zeppelin’s “Rock and Roll” and the funk snarl of the best Stones songs. Until a closing solo, Joe Perry keeps the gunslinger aspect to a minimum to stress the stunning riff. Steven Tyler hits every beat in his singing to deliver a lesson in rapping that Run D.M.C. would be pressed to match. Could the album cuts not be filler? That is what I expected after earlier listenings to this record as well as when I sampled Rocks, Get Your Wings and the debut album. Tyler’s lyrics have zero range. He can be funny at times, but like a 14-year-old. The cover of “Big Ten Inch” has that style in shades, which means it is stupid and unoriginal. I can hear the weaker late 1980s version of Aerosmith in “Adam’s Apple”, but it still rocked. The Replacements’ nicked the opening guitar for “Unsatisfied” from “No More No More”, perhaps in tribute to this lesser known kicker of a tune. “Round and Round” went as heavy as Sabbath and Zeppelin, but with less sludge, which I appreciated. I enjoyed “You See Me Crying” after a second or third listen as a well crafted ballad. At first it struck me as the blueprint for their awful Diane Warren co-written songs of their later career renaissance, but it avoided the false drama of those hits. I could return to this record in the future, and be disappointed, but for now, sorry I slagged you Aerosmith.

This must have been Aerosmith perfecting their craft before the heady heights of Get a Grip. It's pretty average stuff apart from Sweet Emotion. Great album cover though

The hits are polished, but the rest is excellent! Great riffs, good grooves, and a voice that ties it all together.

Highlight: Walk this way. Because, well, duh

Bad and boring. The album has no real identity. I really like Steven Tyler’s voice, but the band around him does nothing for me. I used to enjoy them when I was about ten. Now it just sounds lame. The songs rock in a straightforward 70s hard rock way, yet they never develop a strong personality of their own. Riffs come and go, the energy stays on the surface, and nothing sticks beyond the moment it plays. Tyler’s voice is the only part that still has character. Everything else feels generic and tired. The production is clean enough for its time, but that clarity only shows how little is happening underneath. The playing is competent, the sound is solid, and still the record leaves almost no impression. Toys in the Attic is a clear miss for me. What once felt exciting now just feels empty and dated.

For real though, most of the songs were generic dad rock with meaningless lyrics despite trying to be deep. The hits were great, though I was trying to ignore the foreshadowing pedophilic lyrics in Walk This Way.

The two singles I already knew are the only tracks I really liked. Everything else was so middle of the road. Not enough blues to be that, not enough rock to be that. The lyrics where mostly boring or crass, and I didn't hit a hook to keep me interested. Based on radio hits, I really thought I'd like this more. Walk This Way Sweet Emotion

Pretty good

Meh. I mean I guess it’s decent 70s blues rock and I certainly like it better than they’re stuff after this, but it wasn’t anything special for me. Except for “Big Ten Inch Record,” that is the kind of rock sleeze I’ll allow.

Pretty fun in their heyday

Liked it fine

Okay. Aerosmith has always been one of my least favorite bands, and I always feel they’re overrated. But, in comparison to some of the other stuff on this 1001 albums list, this was very nice. Big Ten Inch Record is an awful song (reminds me of AC/DC’s Big Balls). But Sweet Emotion is excellent. Walk this Way has a great lick but I do not care for the song. But the overall sound on the record and strength of the instrumentation won me over generally speaking. Title track, Adam’s Apple were standouts. I just really don’t care for Steven Tyler’s voice.

ok spoko fajne ostatnia piosenka mega

This was a real treat. Early Aerosmith was a complete mystery until this morning. I had heard Walk This Way of course but to my knowledge, nothing else. And then Sweet Emotion started and that gave me real Remake Starsky and Hutch vibes. And they saved the best for last - You See Me Crying is a masterpiece. Lovely album (and I am most definitely separating the music from the people involved). 4/5.

Eh. It’s some classic rock.

no se si estaba de buen humor o realmente me gustó mucho

Bop-It, a tricycle, a keyboard, and Pokemon action figures, just to name some.

Marginally better than ‘Rocks’, but I am still unimpressed and an emphatic anti. Many of these songs are too similar to each other to be on the same album and some of the songs are a little too similar to their other hits for my liking. Not a good sign when they’re recycling melodies between middling songs.

Fun rock album, although I thought the front half was a bit weak. It definitely picked up in the second half; I felt like the production was mushy in some spots and it didn't always have the Aerosmith energy I'm used to, but I did like some of the blues-inspired riffs on some tracks. A real up-and-down experience.

Ja schon besser

4.4/5 rly good stuff on here rockin

Lot better than I thought it would be. Overall enjoyable and good guitar.

Classic band and I didn’t realize some of these songs were on this album

Best one of their's on the list. Still kinda unimpressed by Aerosmith. They sound good but not mind blowing or fantastic. Really expected more from a band as big as them.

This was a good listen. Aerosmith doing what they do best. Couple absolute fantastic tracks on here.

Take away the overblown finale "You See Me Crying" and you have a nearly perfect album. Two of their biggest hits (Sweet Emotion and Walk This Way), a couple more classic rock staples made this an album I mostly knew, despite never listening to it all the way through before. Good stuff, and probably mt second favorite Aerosmith album (Pump)

Que no me gusta el rock pollavieja que no que no

found this quite forgettable tbh

It surprised me that Aerosmith had material in the 70's.I also didn't think much of this. So where between 2 an3/5.

Cocaine in the basement

Oye, pues un disco muy resultón y divertido, me ha gustado más de lo que esperaba.

Very nice

I enjoyed some good rock

Great suprise album I rolled my eyes at the thought of Steven Tyler with tye dye legging and scalves drapped around everything. However it suprised me it had a couple of songs i knew Walk this way and Sweet Emotion both great songs and the rest was steady rock n roll nice riffs crazy but engaging vocals bit of energy busting through with every lick. It was enjoyable not over long did the trick

I'd say it was Dad Rock, but given Tyler's record as a Dad... perhaps not. Aerosmith seen to have heard the Stones sing Bitch and Rip This Joint and said "Well we can do that." The big song here is Walk This Way, but, be honest, the performance you want is with Run-DMC. Guns and Roses, Def Leppard, Metallica and others have all taken the Stones based template set by Aerosmith and, to be frank, they've done a better job of it.

J'aimerais mettre un score négatif à cause de la chanson Big Ten Inch Record. Personne n'a besoin d'entendre ça. Mais 2 étoiles à cause de deux super bonnes tounes.

J'aurais donné 3 étoiles si Round And Round m'avait pas donné d'ulcère et Big Ten Inch Record la gastro.

First Aerosmith album I paid any attention to. Great songs throughout. Strong performances by all the band members. Toys in the Attic, Walk This Way, Big Ten inch Record, Sweet Emotion and You See Me Crying stand out. I just wish they had listed who was in the backing horn section .

good album, liked every song, especially "uncle salty", "walk this way", "sweet emotion", "no more no more", "round and round" and "you see me crying". 4

i think it's okay to remove some albums from the list

A lot of you commeting on this album suck - this album is an amazing '70s classic filled with heavy noise and hook after hook. "Walk This Way" and "Sweet Emotion" are two of my favorite hard rock tracks ever (the former incorporating hip-hop-like structures before it was even a thing!), with the later ending with such an intense instrumental coda. In fact, other than Tyler's typical histrionic and intense vocals, it's Joe Perry's guitar work that really stands out. The dude is ON FIRE here: lick after lick of blues influenced hard rock, and solos filled with distortion and pop/glam sensibilities. It could get moody as well - "Uncle Salty" and "Round and Round" are dark and sinister in sound, the title track crunchy and joyous, and "No More No More" is pretty pop/hard rock heaven. It even ends with a piano driven power ballad! You have a choice here: have fun and enjoy the ride of one of the best '70s rock albums EVER (and the best Aerosmith ever did in my view) or overthink it for no reason other than maybe your ego. And yet, this is pretty smart music for the wild band that they were, so it's more brainy than meets the eye at first. Gets an easy 5 stars, I don't care what anyone says. Fight me.

Puerile and childish, and not in a fun way. An entire album of the most obvious southern/hard rock cliches known to man, full of eye-rolling innuendoes and a sleazy vibe that seems calculated to appeal specifically to hormonal teenagers. I cannot imagine anyone who is not a 14 year old boy in 1975 unironically enjoying this. The hits are okay I guess if you ignore the lyrics.

Fantastic album from the closest thing that America has to Led Zeppelin or The Rolling Stones. It’s full of classics and bangers that still sound strong 51 years later.

Way more fun than I thought it would be. 4 Boolean: True

Sweet emotion gives this a bump

very good!

Yeah…the fixation on teen girls isn’t great. At least the album is short.

Walk This Way is good enough for me

Solid blues rock album, with a couple of tracks that have stood the test of time.

As tempting as it is to review this simply with “shit sandwich”, the reference would probably be lost on the sort of wanker that gives this four stars So… This started with me thinking it might actually be a reasonably bland Aerosmith album. I was wondering if musically it might actually be worth 3 stars. And then Walk This Way came on which instantly dropped it by a star simply on the grounds that it’s shite And then, oh my, the execrable Big Ten Inch Record follows. This is almost certainly massively influential culturally, but not in the way the band might have intended. Terrible choice in 1975; in 2026 it makes the band look like total cunts This has some moments of blandness. It has others that are shit and some that demonstrate clearly a total lack of awareness of what it takes to look like an utter twat

En skiva med flera bra låtar och bara ett par som inte håller. Sweet Emotion och Walk This Way sticker ut.

Sounds like a standard 70s rock album

Well, seeing as Aerosmith was the final 3-album band to give me my first album of theirs, I guess it's only fitting that they'd be the final one to actually give me a third album as well! Fortunately, I did get a substantial break between the second Aerosmith album and this one, unlike the gap between my first two Aerosmith albums which was way too short. So, where does Toys in the Attic land in my Aerosmith album ranking? Well, it's definitely better than Pump, but I'd say it's around the same level of quality as Rocks, if not a little tiny bit lower. While I do think that Toys in the Attic has higher highs than Rocks, it also has lower lows and isn't as consistent or exciting. It's still a good album though. I still have a good couple of compliments to give to this album. Steven Tyler still had a pretty good voice on this album, and the music from members like Joe Perry is plenty enjoyable as well. As far as songs, you've got two stone-cold classics on here with "Walk This Way" and "Sweet Emotion." "Walk This Way" is very energetic and great, but I do prefer "Sweet Emotion" for having that delightful bass intro and generally being more ambitious. The opening title track is pretty cool too. Not every song works... I think. "Big Ten Inch Record" is super dumb and crass, but it kinda wraps back around to being fun in a way. The writing on the album has its moments of aging somewhat poorly, but it's not the worst in that regard. Plus, the album doesn't overstay its welcome whatsoever, so that's good! Overall, Toys in the Attic is a hard rock classic that still has plenty of entertainment value to this day. It's a good album that I had fun with. Light 4/5. On to the final 10 albums!

This is definitely classic rock. Starts strong, don't really care too much outside of the hits. If this is their peak, I probably don't need to listen to anything else. 4.5/10

Average Rock. 2,4

walk this way! c

Peak

Steven Tyler is a terrible human. I tried listening but decided not to give him any Spotify money. Yeah I know Spotify isn't great either but at least they didn't rape an underage girl repeatedly and talk her into a late term abortion. Now I just feel sad about all the people whose parents weren't able to properly protect them from creeps like Steven.

Aerosmith is just good ole fashioned classic rock. But also, that's really all it is. The hits are good, but the rest of the album just isn't all that impressive. Which I'm a little disappointed by. It's good, but I just wanted it to be better. Favorite Song(s): Walk This Way, Sweet Emotion

Pretty good!

Eh

Mehrosmith. It's like they were trying to cap how good this album is by following every good song with a bad one. Though I want to give it a 3, I think the right thing is a 2, esp with how dumb Big 10 Inch Record was.

Yuh

Listens: 1 Standout Tracks: Sweet Emotion I remain unconvinced that Aerosmith needs 3 (or more?) albums on the List. There are maybe only two or three songs on this record that are remarkable and the rest is filler and boring.

I didn’t think I was going to like this….but it was really fun. Easy album to enjoy! Probably won’t come back to it but glad I listened.

Classic record.

8 / 10