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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Terrible. Real cheesey. Two good songs maybe.

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!

If u like hard rock - u like it

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??!?!)

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.

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

Toys up your arse..

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

'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.

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.

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?!

'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'.

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.

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.

I forgot how bluezy they were. It is more like a 4.5 but I rounded up. I did have a good time listening to it.

The album that proved Aerosmith were a band to be reckoned with! All rock-n-roll with enough new twists to solidify their place in the pantheon

classic album with two major banger hits

Is this the consummate Aerosmith rock album? Maybe. Everyone who listens to rock music needs to listen to this album.

Wow this kicked absolute ass. A little bit of every genre too and the songwriting was super great. The bass playing is off the charts and Steven Tyler is an incredible front man

Love it

A tamer Tyler and the desire to bend genres created a dynamic album. David Lee Roth and U2 were probably influenced by this one.

4.5

yeah i like aerosmith (thank you rock n roller coaster). “walk this way” is always a classic! “big ten inch record” is clearly ahead of its time. “you see me crying” was MAJESTIC. fun album. engaging listen. brought back good memories (thank you rock n roller coaster). 5/5.

Beh beh Non ha bisogno di spiegazioni, basta leggere la track list.

Walk this way and get the toys in the attic while I get out my 10 inch record and spin it round and round while you share my sweet emotion!

Rock and roll is awesome.

Great album, but Steven Tyler is a wrong ‘un

I love the Round n Round song, among others :)

Great

Amazing, went in skeptically and was instantly rocking out

This hard rock album still holds up and there isn't a bad song in the whole lot.

Classic!

A little restraint, both in his singing and in his dick, is good for Steven Tyler. Allowing the rest of the band to be as powerful as the lead singer makes for a MUCH stronger Aerosmith album.

Rocking album. Even though some of it comes close to formulaic hard rock, they were ahead of the curve and also have a very unique sound - you hear a song and you know it's Aerosmith (and not just because of Steven Tyler's voice). So, gotta give them their due. Also, the guitar playing is outstanding, so kudos to Joe Perry (and Brad Whitford where applicable). "You See Me Crying" is a little cheesy - never really been a fan of Aerosmith's over the top ballads - but the instrumental outro is pretty good so I can say it's pretty much a great album start to finish. And, yeah, the word "sleazy" does come to mind for a lot of the lyrics, but it just rocks. If I could give Ice Cube a 5 despite the misogyny, surely I can do the same here despite the sleaze. Favorite tracks: Uncle Salty (especially the "it's a sunny day" part - cool sound), Walk This Way (which I first became familiar with through the Run-DMC version!), Sweet Emotion (classic, with those unique Aerosmith stylings), Round and Round.

Yeah - Classic "Hard" Rock

classic rock album

Classic

5/5 Classic Classic-Rock album. So many GREATS: Walk this Way, Sweet Emotion, Big Ten Inch, Toys in the Attic!

LP

Makes me sad to think about where this band ended up later in their musical career. This album has some great rock songs.

I actually already own this record on vinyl. It is hands down their best albums. Toys in the Attic, Uncle Salty, Sweet Emotion, Walk This Way, Big Ten Inch Record...phenomenal record. Favourite songs: Big Ten Inch Record, Sweet Emotion, Toys in the Attic, Walk This Way, Uncle Salty, Round and Round Least favourite songs: none. This album is flawless 5/5

What a damned solid rock and roll album this is. Just boogie and blues and sleaze and fun. Familiar with the hits of course, but the other tracks hold up alongside. You can hear the DNA emerging of some of their smashes in the 80's/90's. (Especially the album's closer.) Tom Hamilton's also one of the most underrated bass players in history. Like Duff McKagan was for GnR, Hamilton holds the whole mess together. Unexpected bangers: Big Ten Inch Record, Round and Round, You See Me Crying.

Re Aearosmith I go with consensus and rate Toys in The Attic and Rocks as their best albums.

I feel 15 years old again! Some of Aerosmith's songs are immortalized in my life and it was a pleasant surprise to re-listen to Toys in The Attic. Classics like Walk The Line and Sweet Emotion were part of the soundtrack of my adolescence and I still get goosebumps listening to them today. Easy 5 Stars!

Best Aerosmith album. Although I do like Rocks too. But this s the classic one.

I love this album!!!

How could it not be a 5-star album.

Favourite tracks: toys in the attic; walk this way; sweet emotion; big ten inch record

CLASSIC ROCK CLASSIC ROCK CLASSIC ROCK. What a fantastic album.

Rock at it's best

i'll tell ya what, aerosmith made some great bops together! toys in the attic has aerosmith in their prime--i don't think that can be argued. each of these songs individually are so good and stand on their own, even the non-singles. that has to be because of the backing instrumentation--steven tyler's vocals are unique though incomprehesible, but the band's work is so evident because it's so tight. the guitar intro to "walk this way"? iconic because it is genuinely good. i was indoctrinated as an aerosmith fan in my youth, but i had no clue that "big ten inch record" was actually a cover. to compare it to the original was fascinating. it's r&b but has a blues feel, which might seem out of place for aerosmith but isn't! "uncle salty" as the second song on the album is even more blues rock, so it all comes full circle. (aerosmith fans will see what i did there.) but, of course, they really are most at home with their hard rock.