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.

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

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.

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

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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.

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". 5/5

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

Four stars, I thought it was really good, lagged a little bit towards the end though. Not necessarily something, I would drop everything to come back soon, but still really enjoyable.

Strong 3, hell yea brother

You were not asked to rate Steven Tyler as a human. Expand your mind and separate the art from the human. Toys In the attic is just ok. It’s not special, they have better albums that deserve to be on the list. This one doesn’t earn it.

7/10

I loved this album when I was a kid. I’m an adult now.

Some great stuff, but it has some ups and downs. I'm not really a fan of a lot of the vocals, but some of the guirar work and production is amazing, whilst some is also less interesting.

Not today.. Sweet Emotion is almost a good song. I remember I used to say Walk This Way a lot in high school to ask if one of you guys was gonna walk this way with me

literally just sweet emotion stopped this from being a 1 star album

Day 385 It’s fine, probably better to come from Aerosmith. Highlights Sweet Emotion Round and Round

Oväntat bra. Har nog underskattat Aerosmith.

God this is so BLAND

A great album full of fun music! And it's short! Love it.

So very 70s, and it’s lovely to hear the original version of ‘Walk This Way’ 😊 Three stars…

**An ok album

Easily Aerosmith's best album, a boozey and bluesy bar band boogie record. Good fun if not great art.

aerosmith me encanta pero este album es bastante normalito sacando algunas canciones como walk this way

this blows. boring and lame. music for ugly old men

Cooles Rock Album mit dem Hit "Walk this way" 4/5

Nice. Pretty good. Listenable. But not terribly memorable.

oh yes

Walk This Way is of course excellent, but maybe the other tracks can't really live up to that.

I have heard the singles too many times on classic rock radio but "Sweet Emotion" is still great. Always reminds me of the beginning of Dazed and Confused. The rest of the album didn't do much for me. Not bad by any means you just can't top the hits with the deeper cuts on this one.

This is one of my favorite Aerosmith albums. It adds together some good rock and blues.

Another Aerosmith album to remind me how immature and sometimes gross their lyrics are. There's no depth, it's just all about their rock 'n roll lifestyle and seducing young women. Sure, it's rockin and musically well done, but it's hard to get past the rest. I liked most of what I knew of Aerosmith's music before this project, but after a deeper dive and actually paying more attention to what I'm hearing, I think I can positively say I'm not a fan of theirs anymore. Not something I expected to learn from this project, but here we are!

Una mítica banda metiendo un gran álbum. Lo recordaba más aburrido. Pero tiene unas ideas buenísimas. 7/10

I was expecting this to be some fairly standard balladeering hard rock fare – Aerosmith doing Aerosmith things, if you will. Turns out it actually kind of slaps all the way through, and that they have more than one trick up their sleeve. The sleazy, swaggering style of riffage on here totally won me over, but there was also a surprising amount of variety to be had between looser and more frantic songwriting. Either way, this was a good, fun 37 minutes. I might look into making a purchase.

1975 hard rock Toys in the attic Sweet emotion Walk this way

It's fine/solid

08/22 Not bad but prefer Aerosmith's later albums from the 80's and early 90's

It's all painfully repetitive songs and sue me, but I like it

I had no idea Walk This Way dates this far back. 1979! Does all the heavy lifting on this album. The rest is fine but not memorable.

The best generic rock / rock n roll album...if that is an accolade

Uncle Salty is the best song on this album. Sweet Emotion is nice too. Everything else sounds pretty stock.

Second worst album in this list after kid rock. Took me days to finish