April 11, 2025 • 43 mins
As we mark the 50th anniversary of Aerosmith's groundbreaking masterpiece "Toys in the Attic," I'm taking you on a personal journey through one of rock's most influential albums and its lasting impact on music history.
Released on April 8, 1975, this nine-track, 37-minute powerhouse would go on to sell over 9 million copies and deliver two of Aerosmith's most enduring hits: "Walk This Way" and "Sweet Emotion." But what makes this album truly special goes far beyond those radio staples – it captured a band at the absolute peak of their powers, with guitarists Joe Perry and Brad Whitford hitting their stride after extensive touring.
My relationship with this album began as a 12-year-old Kiss fanatic reluctantly allowing another band into my musical universe. That initial resistance quickly melted away as tracks like "Uncle Salty," "Adam's Apple," and the explosive title track worked their magic. Fifty years later, these songs haven't lost an ounce of their power.
We'll also explore how this album's legacy extends far beyond its initial release. When Run DMC collaborated with Tyler and Perry on "Walk This Way" in 1986, it didn't just reach #4 on the Billboard charts – it completely resurrected Aerosmith's career after years of decline and substance abuse struggles, introducing them to an entirely new generation.
I'm counting down my personal top 20 Aerosmith songs from the 70s, and you might be surprised where some of your favorites land! Whether you're a lifelong fan or discovering these classics for the first time, join me in celebrating this landmark album that helped define American hard rock.
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I like to celebrateanniversaries, and this week
there was a big, big anniversaryfor an album an iconic album,
by the way, from one of thebiggest bands in the world,
all-time biggest bands in theworld, and that one's right here
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, the 50th anniversary of thisalbum right here.
I know it's a little far away,but it's Aerosmith Toys in the
Attic right there.
Okay, toys in the Attic rightthere.
So the album was released 50years ago this week, on April
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the 8th, in 1975.
This one is considered by manypeople to be their best album,
especially of the six albumsthat were released in the 70s.
So what I'm going to do, we'lldo a tale of the tape here and
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go over some notes on the albumand just really kind of
celebrate this thing.
All right, so let's do it.
So the album contains ninetracks.
The running time is 37 minutesand eight seconds.
This particular album containstwo of the band's biggest and
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probably, or maybe their mosticonic songs in the catalog, and
those songs would be Walk thisWay and Sweet Emotion.
At the time that this album wasbeing recorded, the band was
hitting on all cylinders,probably, I would say primarily
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because Brad Whitford and JoePerry had now come into their
own and they were becoming realguitar players, and a lot of
that had to do with the heavytouring that the band had been
doing for the previous album,get your Wings.
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So the track listing is asfollows and you know I love the
vinyl, so we're going to, we'regoing to talk to you just like
it's vinyl.
Starting with side one, thetitle track toys in the attic,
then followed up by uncle saltyAdam's apple walk this way.
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Big 10-inch record, such a coolsong.
Okay, I have to stop down andtalk about that song.
Such a cool song.
It's a cover of an old bluessong and in the 70s, big 10 inch
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.
Yeah, you know, come on whenyou're like 13 years old and
you're taking this album in.
So maybe I'll get into that alittle bit later.
But what?
Just such a cool song.
Such a cool song.
So we flip it over, we go toside to start off with Sweet
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Emotion, then no More, no MoreRound and Round, and then the
album closes out with you See MeCrying.
The album peaks at number 11.
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That was its peak position onthe Billboard Top 200 album
chart and as of the last RAAcertification I think that was
four or five years ago the albumhad sold over 9 million copies.
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9 million copies that'stremendous.
I mean from between the lasttime it was certified and now it
may be a diamond album which,for those of you who may not
know, is a 10 million seller.
Walk this Way peaked at number10 on the top 40.
And the next single, or the,actually, I believe.
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I can't remember what order thesingles were released in, but
nonetheless the second, theother single on the album was
Sweet Emotion, and that onetopped at number 36.
The reactions and the reviewsthey were very, very positive
all the way around.
Most of the music publicationswere ranking at four and five
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stars.
Really, the only hit that itwas taking was in production,
and we'll get into that in alittle bit as well.
It was.
You know, the production to me,even as a kid, could have been
a little bit better, butnonetheless my initial reaction
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to this album was.
My initial reaction to thisalbum was okay.
So, as you guys know, I'm a hugeKiss fan.
They were kind of like.
Kiss was kind of like my firstfavorite band.
That was it.
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You know, I did have othermusic leading into that, but
Kiss was like it for me fromabout 11 or 12 years old and
Kiss was the only thing Postersall over the walls, all the
albums, all that kind of stuff,non-stop Kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss,
kiss, kiss, kiss.
And at that time this is funnyAt that time I was a member of
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probably, and no, I no, no, no,I'm going to take probably out
of that statement because itmakes me sound wishy-washy.
I'm going to state it right here.
I was a member of the firstever Kiss tribute band at 12
years old.
It was called Kiss Junior whata laugh, yes, and I was going to
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portray Gene Simmons.
Well, like I said, 12 years old, right?
Anyway, um, I remember one ofthe one of my buddies.
He'd lived across the streetand we kind of had a
disagreement and a falling out,so kiss junior was then no more.
Well, him and I, we didn't talkfor a little bit.
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I was mad, I was mad, and andso we were.
I wasn't going to talk to himanymore.
Oh, let me hit something herereally quick.
Sorry about that People.
Uh, I want to know, I wanteveryone to know what's going on
there.
We go so, um, so, so we're nottalking.
And, uh, the kid's name isWilliam.
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William comes across the streetone time, talks talking to my
younger brother Like I said,we're all into KISS and he
brings this album with himacross the street to the house.
It's a band called Aerosmith andthe album was Get your Wings.
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That was my first exposure toAerosmith.
Now you've got to remember that.
You know, this is the 70s, I'm12 years old and you know I felt
that at that time that everyother band was like a threat to
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my Kiss fandom.
So it was difficult to letother bands in, although I'll go
back, because before I became aKiss fan, I was a huge fan of
Uriah Heep.
Well, uriah Heep, for somereason, was not a threat to my
Kiss fandom.
I was a huge fan of Uriah Heep.
Well, uriah Heep, for somereason, was not a threat to my
Kiss fandom.
Bizarre, but this is how themind of a 12-year-old works.
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So any other band now at thispoint was going to be a threat.
And William comes over with thisalbum and puts it on and start
listening to it.
I think my brother, my youngerbrother, chuck, was there too.
Of course he was, and we'relistening to Aerosmith and the
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one song that stuck out on Getyour Wings was Lord of the
Thighs.
I mean, that song just, reallyjust resonated with me.
So that was my first exposureto Aerosmith and that was, uh
see, get your wings.
That was their second album,released in like 1974.
Um, and now we're talking thisis like 1977, probably late 76,
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early 77, when this is going on.
And so Toys in the Attic hadalready been released.
I wasn't even aware of it, butI started to really kind of take
a liking to Aerosmith.
So when you go from Kiss, thenext band I let in was Aerosmith
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.
Really weird, I don't know.
I'm sure there's somebody outthere that kind of has that same
experience as a child, but I doremember that going into it
afterwards, going from Get yourWings, I think the next album I
got was Rocks, and actually Ibelieve that was my brother who
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picked up Rocks and we got allinto Rocks, so much so that when
I picked up Toys in the Attic,when I bought that one, I
thought that was the nextrelease after Rocks.
Like I said, 12 years old, okay, I don't know, go figure right,
but put on Toys in the Atticand just great stuff.
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You know my personal feelingson Toys in the Attic.
It's probably my favorite albumin the catalog.
It's that good, I just thinkit's.
I mean it's just it's.
It's almost flawless reallywhen you think about it.
Um, just great songs throughand through, even though there
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was only two, uh two singlesreleased off the album.
So many album tracks are deepcuts and they're just so, so
good, you know, going back tothe track listing my favorite
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song, well, I mean so many, I'mnot even going to go into it
because I got something I'msaving for a little bit later
but my reaction to it was greatalbum, great songs, toys in the
Attic, tremendous sweet emotion,great Walk this Way.
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Everybody dug that one,everybody dug that one.
But I mean I was digging stufflike Uncle Salty and Adam's
Apple.
No More, no More, you know,just top to bottom, just solid.
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But speaking, I talked aboutproduction earlier.
Even as a 12-year-old, notknowing a thing about, you know,
music, production, all thatstuff, it sounded I felt like
the, the, the, the productionwas, I guess in the 12 year old
kid's mind.
It sounded like it was muffledand I I'll equate it to, here we
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go, relating to Kiss.
Again, all roads lead to Kiss,right.
So it sounded kind of likeproduction-wise.
I equated it to hotter thanhell, which I've spoken about
previously, that it was justkind of you felt like you're
like trudging or walking throughmud, and I kind of felt the
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same in hearing this.
But it certainly didn't takeaway from how much I liked and
enjoyed the album.
Just really, really good stuff.
So, like I said, it's probablymy favorite, probably my
favorite Aerosmith album in thecatalog.
It's probably my favorite,probably my favorite Aerosmith
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album in the catalog 11 yearsafter its release in 1986, bam
Run DMC collaborates with JoePerry, stephen Tyler, on a Walk
this Way cover.
I think everybody knows that one.
I mean that cover version andvideo turned Aerosmith's career
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around, resurrected their career.
The song from Run DMC, thatcover version, goes to number
four on the Billboard chart.
The video videos all over MTVfor all of 1986 into 1987.
Big stuff, big time.
And, as I said, it resurrectsAerosmith's career.
They had been really, they'dreally fallen off after their
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1979 release of Night in theRuts.
That's kind of when the banddidn't split up but Brad
Whitford and Joe Perry had leftthe band.
They had two releases afterthat with Rock in a Hard Place
and Done with Mirrors.
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And then, well, rock in a HardPlace I should say Done with
Mirrors came after Joe Perry andBrad Woodford to come back into
the band.
But their careers were stillkind of in the toilet.
They're, you know, guys in theband, they're all drugged out,
they're just whacked out oftheir minds all this kind of
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stuff.
So they were not in a goodplace.
And then this happens to themwith Run DMC and it just changes
their trajectory.
It just you know.
So it's just what are you goingto do?
The band itself, okay.
So the band itself basicallykind of had two different eras,
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almost two different careers,because they were huge in the
70s, huge different eras, almosttwo different careers because
they were huge in the 70s, huge.
And then the resurrection inthe mid to late 80s.
Their next release is PermanentVacation and things start
taking off.
You know, dude looks like alady and all that kind of stuff.
But they were reaching a wholedifferent audience at that time.
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Now too, younger people werecoming on board and their career
in the late eighties, earlynineties, even really into the
mid to late nineties justtotally, totally new audience.
For me, being an Aerosmith fan,I did.
I do appreciate that lateeighties, early nineties stuff.
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There's a little bit more of apop sound to it.
There's still some really good,hard, heavy stuff, but overall
it it's a.
It's kind of a different sound.
Of course it's Aerosmith, butit's a different, little bit
different sounding than from thestuff in the seventies Smith,
but it's a different, little bitdifferent sounding than from
the stuff in the seventies.
So, uh, toys in the atticturning 50.
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There it is right.
There there's the cover again.
I know I wish I had the album.
I wish I had the album.
I just I know I'm sorry, youknow the story with the vinyl.
I'm not going to get into it,but, um, but so you're going to
have to lean in, like I have tolean in from time to time to see
it.
But if you're listening, don'tworry about it, it's all good.
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I thought that in celebration ofthe 50th anniversary of Toys in
the Attic, we can have some funhere and I put together my own
top 20 Aerosmith songs from the70s.
Okay, so why don't we do thatNow?
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I know as I go through this,I'm going to take some big time
crap from you folks at home andin the cars and all that good
stuff, everybody watching andlistening.
I'm gonna take some major heatand that's okay if I do, you can
just leave it in the comments.
Leave your rankings, your top20s, in the comments.
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You can tell me that I'm nutsand I don't know what I'm
talking about as well, butremember, this is my list.
So let's look at it this way.
If I was to put together aplaylist on my you know, my cell
phone or whatever, and then I'mstarting it with 20 Aerosmith
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songs.
These are probably the ones I'mstarting with.
Okay, so, yeah, so it's just,it's my thing.
Okay, no right or wrong, but Ithink to me these are, like my,
the best 20 Aerosmith songs fromthe 70s, just great stuff.
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So I will start it right here,okay, and I know I'm taking
these glasses off, put them on,take them off, put them on, take
them off.
What's the matter with me?
Maybe I should get my eyesfixed or something.
It might help out, right?
All right, so let's just startright at the top and I'm gonna
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catch it.
I'm gonna catch it right hereat number 20.
But it's on the list and thatis from the debut album and it's
Dream On, one of Aerosmith'sbiggest songs.
It wasn't at the time.
It took a long time for thissong to kind of ramp up in
popularity and that kind ofthing.
But yeah, dream On is at number20.
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All right, and let's see Number19,.
I'm going to take some moreheat.
Sweet Emotion, great song,obviously from my favorite album
in the catalog.
I probably put it at thisposition due to, maybe the
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burnout factor, maybe, I guess,because it is a great song.
I mean that bass line at thebeginning, it's just, you know,
joe Perry on the talk box, andit's just so good.
Let me get a sip of water here.
It's just really, really goodstuff.
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It's a great song.
Probably a lot of people wouldhave it in the number one
position on their top 20, but Ididn't punish it and leave it
off the list due to the burnoutfactor for me.
I did include it.
I just put it way down on thatlist.
Okay, on that list.
Okay.
So let me see Number 18,.
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Again, going to catch crap, butit's my list.
You put your list in thecomments.
Okay, you give me your list.
Walk this Way Same album.
Toys in the Attic Great album.
Like I said, probably for thesame reason, a sweet emotion, a
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little burnout, a little burnouton it, but it's a great song
and it's so funny.
As a you know, 12 year old kidor whatever, you're hearing
these lyrics for the first time,you know um, oh my gosh.
Now, now that we're, you know,we're on the air and and I'm
having a brain cramp on thelyrics, but you know the lyrics.
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If you know the song, you knowthe lyrics.
Remember, at 12 years old I waslike, oh my gosh, you put it on
over and over and over again,number 17.
Oh, you know what?
Wait before I get to 17, beforeI get to seven, because there
is a song here on that's not onmy top 20 list that I mentioned
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it on the Toys in the Atticalbum.
That's big 10 inch record andthat is such a great song.
It really really is, and I did.
Of course I didn't include it,you know.
I suppose if my list was 21songs maybe it would be 21.
But it's such a cool song,going back to the 12-year-old
mind.
You know big 10-inch.
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You know where I'm going withit, the male appendage, and.
But that's what it's not whatthe song is about.
But in, you know, way back when,there was a lot of like double
entendre when it came to theblues.
And you know the, the, thelyrics, like the opening verse
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in the song has got me thestrangest woman.
Believe me, this chick's nocinch.
But I really get her going whenI whip out my big 10 inch
record of the band that playsthe blues.
You know the band that playsthe blues.
She just loves my big 10 inchrecord of her favorite blues,
you know.
So it's.
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It's that kind of thing youknow, throughout the song it's,
it's fun, it's catchy.
Aerosmith stays really true tothe original version and, like I
said, when you're 12 years oldyou're rolling around on the
floor giggling because it's justso funny and it's naughty and
it's dirty, but just a fun songAnyway.
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So I digress, let's get back tothe top 20.
Okay, so at number 17, from thealbum of, I think to me a very,
very underrated Aerosmith albumand it might be my second
favorite album in their catalogand that's Night in the Ruts,
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and the song is Mia, mia is.
I think it closes out the albumand it's, it's a ballad, it's a
great, great ballad.
It really is.
It's just a really really goodsong and, um, I I mean I think a
lot of people you know reallylike you See Me Crying off of
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Toys in the Attic and that's agreat song too.
I think this song is betterthan you See Me Crying.
So just my opinion, I know youcan let me have it if you want.
Number 16, also off of night inthe ruts, and that would be
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Aerosmith's cover of theShangri-La's remember walking in
the sand?
Some people aren't hip withcovers too much.
Um, this was.
This might've been the firstsong off of night in the Ruts
that just really grabbed a holdof me.
Great lyrics, and when I firstheard it I had no idea this was
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a cover.
No clue at all.
I'm not even sure if at thattime I knew that bands from time
to time would cover otherartists' songs, so I just
assumed it was an Aerosmith songall the way.
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Well, it is to me, because it'sa great song and I do like the
original version.
But yeah, the Aerosmith cover,that's the one for me and it
just, like I said, it grabbed meright away and I just I dig
that song.
So, at number 15 off of thealbum, rocks, which a lot of
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people, a lot of Aerosmith fans,that's like that's number one,
that's number one for them.
The opening track, back in theSaddle Great, great, great song,
great song.
And I think my favorite versionof that song is off of the Live
Bootleg album.
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It opens rocks and it openslive bootleg and it's really
good, steven, even though we'retalking to the 70s, when these
guys were just coked out oftheir minds and just out of
their skulls and they were knownfor being off on a lot of
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nights.
That version on live bootlegman, that is that I mean Steven
is just giving it to you.
Um, all right.
So at number 14, also off of therocks album is nobody's fault.
Good song, really good song, um, and it's off of a great album.
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Really good song, um, and it'soff of a great album, number 13,
also from an album that I thinkis underrated, um, it kind of
got panned a little bit by theum, by the, by the rock critics,
um, but I think it's a solidalbum.
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I think it is so good Um, justgreat material on it, and and
and this song here, kings andQueens great song that when,
when, you know, especially lateron in in Aerosmith's career,
when they had all the late 80sand 90s hits and they're playing
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all those and not so much fromthe back catalog whenever they
would bust into like Kings andQueens and kind of in later
years, in the last 15, 20 yearsit was in the set a lot more
often but you had all thosepeople just screaming for the,
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for, for dude looks like a lady,you know, and Janie's got a gun
.
But when Kings and Queens popsup, man, guys like me standing
on our chair pumping our fistsand everybody else is like
looking around, what, what songis this fist?
And everybody else is likelooking around, what, what song
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is this?
Great song, great song, number12.
Going back to the Rocks albumwith this one, round and Round.
Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, notthe Rocks album, not the Rocks,
sorry.
We're going back to Toys in theAttic.
We're going back to Toys in theAttic and it's round and round.
Nice, heavy song, really heavy.
It's good, good, just, you gotto listen to that.
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You know that I guess backbeaton the song.
It just brings out someheaviness on it.
Really, really, really goodsong.
So at number 11, now we'regoing gonna go back to the rocks
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album and, uh, such an awesomesong, such an awesome song.
Loved it from the beginning.
Last child, I was the lastchild, just a punk in the
streets.
So good, dig that song.
And again, I'm going to go backto the live bootleg version.
Man, really good, really,really good.
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All right, so we're going tocrack the top 10 here, okay.
So you with me At number 10from the Night in the Ruts album
.
Going back to that.
I told you it might be mysecond favorite album in the
catalog.
Probably is Chiquita.
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Not because of the bananas,it's just so good.
And, like I said, night in theRuts is a very underrated album.
The band was just coming apart.
They were falling apart at theseams with the previous album,
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draw the Line, but it was duringthe recording of Night in the
Ruts.
That's when the wheels reallywere coming off and I think
halfway through the recordingsession, brad Whitford, joe
Perry, gone, checked out.
So they had to, you know, getother musicians to come in and
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fill in the guitar parts tocomplete the album.
But again, the album is great.
That is such a great song.
If you are unfamiliar with thealbum, you gotta go check it out
.
It is so good, just so good.
And at number nine, I thinkit's the track that comes right
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after Chiquita.
No, is it?
I think so's the track thatcomes right after Chiquita?
No, is it?
I think so.
Cheesecake, and not because Ilike cheesecake.
Just so good, I don't know whatto say.
You have to check this stuffout.
So good, just.
And I'm looking at my list hereand in the number eight spot,
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sticking with night in the ruts,the lead track.
No surprise.
So three in a row from night inthe ruts, because it's that
good it is.
It is that good, it's a just atremendous album.
Uh, so you got you.
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Just you have to check it out.
All right, number six in thenumber six position, we are
going to go back to my favoritealbum from Aerosmith, the Toys
in the Attic album, and we aregoing with Adam's Apple.
So good, I'm sorry.
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Wait, wait, I'm sorry, I'msorry.
Time, sorry, time out, time out, time out.
I skipped number seven, didn'tI?
Yeah, I did.
I skipped number seven, wentfrom eight to six.
It's taking the glasses off andputting them back on and all
that kind of thing.
So let's, let's go back tonumber seven, also from the Toys
in the Attic album.
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So it's not a not a shock, butit's Uncle Salty, great song,
just a slower song, kind ofgroovy, kind of a dark song too.
Yeah, kind of a dark song, butanother one.
Like I said, listening to theToys in the Attic album, these
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songs just really hooked meright away and I guess it's just
why it's my favorite song inthe catalog, I mean my favorite
album in the catalog.
So Uncle Salty's at numberseven, and then, of course no
shocker, because I alreadyannounced it at number six is
Adam's Apple, and I just alwaysthought that was such a great
song too.
Just I mean, and I think thosetwo songs are back to back on
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side one of the album, reallyreally, really good.
You got to check those out.
Then let's go to the number fiveposition.
We're cracking the top five.
Number five that would also befrom Toys in the Attic and that
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is no More, no More.
A great song in the live set aswell, great song, and that's
why it's at number five, becauseit's great, so good.
Number four, number four fromthe Rock's album Sick as a Dog
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so good, so good.
Sick as a dog, so good, so good.
And I'm gonna go back to thelive bootleg album, where that
version is dynamite.
It's fantastic.
Um, number three.
Number three Can't remember ifI mentioned it early on, but if
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I did, I'm going to repeatmyself.
Second, I heard this song.
I was just, I was hooked,hooked, and the live version is
every bit as good, if not better, than the studio version.
And that is Lord of the Thighs.
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I don't think it was the 12year old in me, you know.
Oh, lord of the Thighs andthinking like that.
I don't know, maybe a littlebit, because I was 12, right,
but it's just such a cool, coolgroove.
I believe Brad Whitford came upwith that riff at the beginning
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of it.
But it's just no, no, no, no,no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, and I'm notgoing to do that for 30 seconds.
But and then it just bam kicksin and it's so good, just so
good.
And again, like I said, thelive version off of live bootleg
kills it, kills it.
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Okay.
So my number two song numbertwo, number two song Number two,
number two is the title trackfrom Draw the Line.
So, draw the Line, such akick-ass song, just kick-ass.
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It's heavy.
That bass line, ah, the bassline is so good, it's so good.
You know, again, like withNight in the Ruts, draw the line
kind of gets some heat fromfolks, but it's good, it is good
and that is a wonderful songand that's why I'm doing it too,
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because it's that good.
So what's number one?
I don't have a snare drum inhere to give you a drum roll.
I don't have any music to play,nothing like that.
It's not going to happen.
But hang on, got a tickle righthere.
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All right, let's get rid ofthat.
Number one is the title trackfrom my favorite album in the
catalog Toys in the Attic albumin the catalog, toys in the
Attic.
Enough said it is so cool andit starts off the album.
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So it's the title track, it'sthe lead track and my favorite
track, all of those and it just.
It's funny.
You just like you drop theneedle on the album and it just
boom.
It just kicks you right in theface right to start, right at
the start, and it's so good,it's fast, it chugs, but it
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chugs at a fast pace.
It's really really good.
Yeah, I don't know what else tosay about that song.
It's just it's great.
And I mean, I was.
I was listening to it um, likeway early this morning, like in
the wee hours of the morning,cause I was at work and I was
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like man, this song is.
I just kept saying this song isso good, it is so good and it
has to be number one on the list.
I didn't even know, excuse me,I didn't even know I was going
to do a top 20.
So I started putting this stufftogether and going through my
notes and everything.
And I thought, ah, you know, Iwould throw in a top 20 here.
But when I listed all the songsthat I that you know I would
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consider for a top 20, my penwent straight to Toys in the
Attic and put a one right nextto it before anything else.
So that's just, yeah, that's it, that is it.
And for me the song doesn't getplayed a ton on the radio,
certainly not a rock radio.
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So there's no burnout factor atall for me on that one.
Yeah.
So I'm loving it, love it, loveit for all those reasons,
anyway.
So look, that's my top 20.
If you want, let me run it downreally fast.
I'm not going to give you allthat hollabaloo like I did
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earlier.
Number 20, hollabaloo like Idid earlier.
Number 20, dream on.
Number 19,.
Sweet emotion.
Number 18, walk this way.
Number 17, mia.
Number 16, remember walking inthe sand.
Number 15, back in the saddle.
Write this stuff down.
Write it down real quick, damn.
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Write it down real quick.
Number 14, nobody's fault.
Number 13, kings and queens.
Number 12, round and round andnot the version from rat.
Number 11, last child.
Number 10, chiquita.
Number nine cheesecake.
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Number eight no surprise.
Number seven Uncle Salty.
Number six Cheesecake.
Number eight no Surprise.
Number seven Uncle Salty.
Number six Adam's Apple and thetop five Number five no More,
no More.
Number four Sick as a Dog.
Number three Lord of the Thighs.
Number two Draw the Line.
And number one Toys in theAttic.
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Great, great stuff.
All I want to say to you folksis I appreciate you being here.
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Give me your list, leave it inthe comments.
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I'm taking a deep sigh because,as I said, you have no idea
what was going on.
One of these days I've told allyou people.
One of these days I'll get intoediting this show and I'm going
to put together I probably haveenough crap here to make you
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all go.
You're such an idiot, you're ajerk, you're an a-hole, whatever
it is, or, boy, you're dope.
I've got so much stuff.
I could just kind of piece allkinds of things together and do
a whole show on all that crap.
So anyway, all right, let's getinto this Little something.
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I like to celebrateanniversaries, and this week
there was a big, big anniversaryfor an album an iconic album,
by the way, from one of thebiggest bands in the world,
all-time biggest bands in theworld, and that one's right here
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, the 50th anniversary of thisalbum right here.
I know it's a little far away,but it's Aerosmith Toys in the
Attic right there.
Okay, toys in the Attic rightthere.
So the album was released 50years ago this week, on April
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the 8th, in 1975.
This one is considered by manypeople to be their best album,
especially of the six albumsthat were released in the 70s.
So what I'm going to do, we'lldo a tale of the tape here and
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go over some notes on the albumand just really kind of
celebrate this thing.
All right, so let's do it.
So the album contains ninetracks.
The running time is 37 minutesand eight seconds.
This particular album containstwo of the band's biggest and
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probably, or maybe their mosticonic songs in the catalog, and
those songs would be Walk thisWay and Sweet Emotion.
At the time that this album wasbeing recorded, the band was
hitting on all cylinders,probably, I would say primarily
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because Brad Whitford and JoePerry had now come into their
own and they were becoming realguitar players, and a lot of
that had to do with the heavytouring that the band had been
doing for the previous album,get your Wings.
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So the track listing is asfollows and you know I love the
vinyl, so we're going to, we'regoing to talk to you just like
it's vinyl.
Starting with side one, thetitle track toys in the attic,
then followed up by uncle saltyAdam's apple walk this way.
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Big 10-inch record, such a coolsong.
Okay, I have to stop down andtalk about that song.
Such a cool song.
It's a cover of an old bluessong and in the 70s, big 10 inch
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.
Yeah, you know, come on whenyou're like 13 years old and
you're taking this album in.
So maybe I'll get into that alittle bit later.
But what?
Just such a cool song.
Such a cool song.
So we flip it over, we go toside to start off with Sweet
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Emotion, then no More, no MoreRound and Round, and then the
album closes out with you See MeCrying.
The album peaks at number 11.
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That was its peak position onthe Billboard Top 200 album
chart and as of the last RAAcertification I think that was
four or five years ago the albumhad sold over 9 million copies.
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9 million copies that'stremendous.
I mean from between the lasttime it was certified and now it
may be a diamond album which,for those of you who may not
know, is a 10 million seller.
Walk this Way peaked at number10 on the top 40.
And the next single, or the,actually, I believe.
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I can't remember what order thesingles were released in, but
nonetheless the second, theother single on the album was
Sweet Emotion, and that onetopped at number 36.
The reactions and the reviewsthey were very, very positive
all the way around.
Most of the music publicationswere ranking at four and five
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stars.
Really, the only hit that itwas taking was in production,
and we'll get into that in alittle bit as well.
It was.
You know, the production to me,even as a kid, could have been
a little bit better, butnonetheless my initial reaction
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to this album was.
My initial reaction to thisalbum was okay.
So, as you guys know, I'm a hugeKiss fan.
They were kind of like.
Kiss was kind of like my firstfavorite band.
That was it.
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You know, I did have othermusic leading into that, but
Kiss was like it for me fromabout 11 or 12 years old and
Kiss was the only thing Postersall over the walls, all the
albums, all that kind of stuff,non-stop Kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss,
kiss, kiss, kiss.
And at that time this is funnyAt that time I was a member of
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probably, and no, I no, no, no,I'm going to take probably out
of that statement because itmakes me sound wishy-washy.
I'm going to state it right here.
I was a member of the firstever Kiss tribute band at 12
years old.
It was called Kiss Junior whata laugh, yes, and I was going to
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portray Gene Simmons.
Well, like I said, 12 years old, right?
Anyway, um, I remember one ofthe one of my buddies.
He'd lived across the streetand we kind of had a
disagreement and a falling out,so kiss junior was then no more.
Well, him and I, we didn't talkfor a little bit.
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I was mad, I was mad, and andso we were.
I wasn't going to talk to himanymore.
Oh, let me hit something herereally quick.
Sorry about that People.
Uh, I want to know, I wanteveryone to know what's going on
there.
We go so, um, so, so we're nottalking.
And, uh, the kid's name isWilliam.
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William comes across the streetone time, talks talking to my
younger brother Like I said,we're all into KISS and he
brings this album with himacross the street to the house.
It's a band called Aerosmith andthe album was Get your Wings.
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That was my first exposure toAerosmith.
Now you've got to remember that.
You know, this is the 70s, I'm12 years old and you know I felt
that at that time that everyother band was like a threat to
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my Kiss fandom.
So it was difficult to letother bands in, although I'll go
back, because before I became aKiss fan, I was a huge fan of
Uriah Heep.
Well, uriah Heep, for somereason, was not a threat to my
Kiss fandom.
I was a huge fan of Uriah Heep.
Well, uriah Heep, for somereason, was not a threat to my
Kiss fandom.
Bizarre, but this is how themind of a 12-year-old works.
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So any other band now at thispoint was going to be a threat.
And William comes over with thisalbum and puts it on and start
listening to it.
I think my brother, my youngerbrother, chuck, was there too.
Of course he was, and we'relistening to Aerosmith and the
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one song that stuck out on Getyour Wings was Lord of the
Thighs.
I mean, that song just, reallyjust resonated with me.
So that was my first exposureto Aerosmith and that was, uh
see, get your wings.
That was their second album,released in like 1974.
Um, and now we're talking thisis like 1977, probably late 76,
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early 77, when this is going on.
And so Toys in the Attic hadalready been released.
I wasn't even aware of it, butI started to really kind of take
a liking to Aerosmith.
So when you go from Kiss, thenext band I let in was Aerosmith
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.
Really weird, I don't know.
I'm sure there's somebody outthere that kind of has that same
experience as a child, but I doremember that going into it
afterwards, going from Get yourWings, I think the next album I
got was Rocks, and actually Ibelieve that was my brother who
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picked up Rocks and we got allinto Rocks, so much so that when
I picked up Toys in the Attic,when I bought that one, I
thought that was the nextrelease after Rocks.
Like I said, 12 years old, okay, I don't know, go figure right,
but put on Toys in the Atticand just great stuff.
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You know my personal feelingson Toys in the Attic.
It's probably my favorite albumin the catalog.
It's that good, I just thinkit's.
I mean it's just it's.
It's almost flawless reallywhen you think about it.
Um, just great songs throughand through, even though there
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was only two, uh two singlesreleased off the album.
So many album tracks are deepcuts and they're just so, so
good, you know, going back tothe track listing my favorite
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song, well, I mean so many, I'mnot even going to go into it
because I got something I'msaving for a little bit later
but my reaction to it was greatalbum, great songs, toys in the
Attic, tremendous sweet emotion,great Walk this Way.
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Everybody dug that one,everybody dug that one.
But I mean I was digging stufflike Uncle Salty and Adam's
Apple.
No More, no More, you know,just top to bottom, just solid.
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But speaking, I talked aboutproduction earlier.
Even as a 12-year-old, notknowing a thing about, you know,
music, production, all thatstuff, it sounded I felt like
the, the, the, the productionwas, I guess in the 12 year old
kid's mind.
It sounded like it was muffledand I I'll equate it to, here we
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go, relating to Kiss.
Again, all roads lead to Kiss,right.
So it sounded kind of likeproduction-wise.
I equated it to hotter thanhell, which I've spoken about
previously, that it was justkind of you felt like you're
like trudging or walking throughmud, and I kind of felt the
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same in hearing this.
But it certainly didn't takeaway from how much I liked and
enjoyed the album.
Just really, really good stuff.
So, like I said, it's probablymy favorite, probably my
favorite Aerosmith album in thecatalog.
It's probably my favorite,probably my favorite Aerosmith
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album in the catalog 11 yearsafter its release in 1986, bam
Run DMC collaborates with JoePerry, stephen Tyler, on a Walk
this Way cover.
I think everybody knows that one.
I mean that cover version andvideo turned Aerosmith's career
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around, resurrected their career.
The song from Run DMC, thatcover version, goes to number
four on the Billboard chart.
The video videos all over MTVfor all of 1986 into 1987.
Big stuff, big time.
And, as I said, it resurrectsAerosmith's career.
They had been really, they'dreally fallen off after their
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1979 release of Night in theRuts.
That's kind of when the banddidn't split up but Brad
Whitford and Joe Perry had leftthe band.
They had two releases afterthat with Rock in a Hard Place
and Done with Mirrors.
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And then, well, rock in a HardPlace I should say Done with
Mirrors came after Joe Perry andBrad Woodford to come back into
the band.
But their careers were stillkind of in the toilet.
They're, you know, guys in theband, they're all drugged out,
they're just whacked out oftheir minds all this kind of
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stuff.
So they were not in a goodplace.
And then this happens to themwith Run DMC and it just changes
their trajectory.
It just you know.
So it's just what are you goingto do?
The band itself, okay.
So the band itself basicallykind of had two different eras,
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almost two different careers,because they were huge in the
70s, huge different eras, almosttwo different careers because
they were huge in the 70s, huge.
And then the resurrection inthe mid to late 80s.
Their next release is PermanentVacation and things start
taking off.
You know, dude looks like alady and all that kind of stuff.
But they were reaching a wholedifferent audience at that time.
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Now too, younger people werecoming on board and their career
in the late eighties, earlynineties, even really into the
mid to late nineties justtotally, totally new audience.
For me, being an Aerosmith fan,I did.
I do appreciate that lateeighties, early nineties stuff.
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There's a little bit more of apop sound to it.
There's still some really good,hard, heavy stuff, but overall
it it's a.
It's kind of a different sound.
Of course it's Aerosmith, butit's a different, little bit
different sounding than from thestuff in the seventies Smith,
but it's a different, little bitdifferent sounding than from
the stuff in the seventies.
So, uh, toys in the atticturning 50.
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There it is right.
There there's the cover again.
I know I wish I had the album.
I wish I had the album.
I just I know I'm sorry, youknow the story with the vinyl.
I'm not going to get into it,but, um, but so you're going to
have to lean in, like I have tolean in from time to time to see
it.
But if you're listening, don'tworry about it, it's all good.
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I thought that in celebration ofthe 50th anniversary of Toys in
the Attic, we can have some funhere and I put together my own
top 20 Aerosmith songs from the70s.
Okay, so why don't we do thatNow?
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I know as I go through this,I'm going to take some big time
crap from you folks at home andin the cars and all that good
stuff, everybody watching andlistening.
I'm gonna take some major heatand that's okay if I do, you can
just leave it in the comments.
Leave your rankings, your top20s, in the comments.
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You can tell me that I'm nutsand I don't know what I'm
talking about as well, butremember, this is my list.
So let's look at it this way.
If I was to put together aplaylist on my you know, my cell
phone or whatever, and then I'mstarting it with 20 Aerosmith
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songs.
These are probably the ones I'mstarting with.
Okay, so, yeah, so it's just,it's my thing.
Okay, no right or wrong, but Ithink to me these are, like my,
the best 20 Aerosmith songs fromthe 70s, just great stuff.
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So I will start it right here,okay, and I know I'm taking
these glasses off, put them on,take them off, put them on, take
them off.
What's the matter with me?
Maybe I should get my eyesfixed or something.
It might help out, right?
All right, so let's just startright at the top and I'm gonna
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catch it.
I'm gonna catch it right hereat number 20.
But it's on the list and thatis from the debut album and it's
Dream On, one of Aerosmith'sbiggest songs.
It wasn't at the time.
It took a long time for thissong to kind of ramp up in
popularity and that kind ofthing.
But yeah, dream On is at number20.
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All right, and let's see Number19,.
I'm going to take some moreheat.
Sweet Emotion, great song,obviously from my favorite album
in the catalog.
I probably put it at thisposition due to, maybe the
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burnout factor, maybe, I guess,because it is a great song.
I mean that bass line at thebeginning, it's just, you know,
joe Perry on the talk box, andit's just so good.
Let me get a sip of water here.
It's just really, really goodstuff.
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It's a great song.
Probably a lot of people wouldhave it in the number one
position on their top 20, but Ididn't punish it and leave it
off the list due to the burnoutfactor for me.
I did include it.
I just put it way down on thatlist.
Okay, on that list.
Okay.
So let me see Number 18,.
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Again, going to catch crap, butit's my list.
You put your list in thecomments.
Okay, you give me your list.
Walk this Way Same album.
Toys in the Attic Great album.
Like I said, probably for thesame reason, a sweet emotion, a
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little burnout, a little burnouton it, but it's a great song
and it's so funny.
As a you know, 12 year old kidor whatever, you're hearing
these lyrics for the first time,you know um, oh my gosh.
Now, now that we're, you know,we're on the air and and I'm
having a brain cramp on thelyrics, but you know the lyrics.
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If you know the song, you knowthe lyrics.
Remember, at 12 years old I waslike, oh my gosh, you put it on
over and over and over again,number 17.
Oh, you know what?
Wait before I get to 17, beforeI get to seven, because there
is a song here on that's not onmy top 20 list that I mentioned
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it on the Toys in the Atticalbum.
That's big 10 inch record andthat is such a great song.
It really really is, and I did.
Of course I didn't include it,you know.
I suppose if my list was 21songs maybe it would be 21.
But it's such a cool song,going back to the 12-year-old
mind.
You know big 10-inch.
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You know where I'm going withit, the male appendage, and.
But that's what it's not whatthe song is about.
But in, you know, way back when,there was a lot of like double
entendre when it came to theblues.
And you know the, the, thelyrics, like the opening verse
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in the song has got me thestrangest woman.
Believe me, this chick's nocinch.
But I really get her going whenI whip out my big 10 inch
record of the band that playsthe blues.
You know the band that playsthe blues.
She just loves my big 10 inchrecord of her favorite blues,
you know.
So it's.
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It's that kind of thing youknow, throughout the song it's,
it's fun, it's catchy.
Aerosmith stays really true tothe original version and, like I
said, when you're 12 years oldyou're rolling around on the
floor giggling because it's justso funny and it's naughty and
it's dirty, but just a fun songAnyway.
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So I digress, let's get back tothe top 20.
Okay, so at number 17, from thealbum of, I think to me a very,
very underrated Aerosmith albumand it might be my second
favorite album in their catalogand that's Night in the Ruts,
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and the song is Mia, mia is.
I think it closes out the albumand it's, it's a ballad, it's a
great, great ballad.
It really is.
It's just a really really goodsong and, um, I I mean I think a
lot of people you know reallylike you See Me Crying off of
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Toys in the Attic and that's agreat song too.
I think this song is betterthan you See Me Crying.
So just my opinion, I know youcan let me have it if you want.
Number 16, also off of night inthe ruts, and that would be
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Aerosmith's cover of theShangri-La's remember walking in
the sand?
Some people aren't hip withcovers too much.
Um, this was.
This might've been the firstsong off of night in the Ruts
that just really grabbed a holdof me.
Great lyrics, and when I firstheard it I had no idea this was
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a cover.
No clue at all.
I'm not even sure if at thattime I knew that bands from time
to time would cover otherartists' songs, so I just
assumed it was an Aerosmith songall the way.
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Well, it is to me, because it'sa great song and I do like the
original version.
But yeah, the Aerosmith cover,that's the one for me and it
just, like I said, it grabbed meright away and I just I dig
that song.
So, at number 15 off of thealbum, rocks, which a lot of
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people, a lot of Aerosmith fans,that's like that's number one,
that's number one for them.
The opening track, back in theSaddle Great, great, great song,
great song.
And I think my favorite versionof that song is off of the Live
Bootleg album.
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It opens rocks and it openslive bootleg and it's really
good, steven, even though we'retalking to the 70s, when these
guys were just coked out oftheir minds and just out of
their skulls and they were knownfor being off on a lot of
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nights.
That version on live bootlegman, that is that I mean Steven
is just giving it to you.
Um, all right.
So at number 14, also off of therocks album is nobody's fault.
Good song, really good song, um, and it's off of a great album.
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Really good song, um, and it'soff of a great album, number 13,
also from an album that I thinkis underrated, um, it kind of
got panned a little bit by theum, by the, by the rock critics,
um, but I think it's a solidalbum.
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I think it is so good Um, justgreat material on it, and and
and this song here, kings andQueens great song that when,
when, you know, especially lateron in in Aerosmith's career,
when they had all the late 80sand 90s hits and they're playing
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all those and not so much fromthe back catalog whenever they
would bust into like Kings andQueens and kind of in later
years, in the last 15, 20 yearsit was in the set a lot more
often but you had all thosepeople just screaming for the,
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for, for dude looks like a lady,you know, and Janie's got a gun
.
But when Kings and Queens popsup, man, guys like me standing
on our chair pumping our fistsand everybody else is like
looking around, what, what songis this fist?
And everybody else is likelooking around, what, what song
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is this?
Great song, great song, number12.
Going back to the Rocks albumwith this one, round and Round.
Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, notthe Rocks album, not the Rocks,
sorry.
We're going back to Toys in theAttic.
We're going back to Toys in theAttic and it's round and round.
Nice, heavy song, really heavy.
It's good, good, just, you gotto listen to that.
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You know that I guess backbeaton the song.
It just brings out someheaviness on it.
Really, really, really goodsong.
So at number 11, now we'regoing gonna go back to the rocks
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album and, uh, such an awesomesong, such an awesome song.
Loved it from the beginning.
Last child, I was the lastchild, just a punk in the
streets.
So good, dig that song.
And again, I'm going to go backto the live bootleg version.
Man, really good, really,really good.
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All right, so we're going tocrack the top 10 here, okay.
So you with me At number 10from the Night in the Ruts album
.
Going back to that.
I told you it might be mysecond favorite album in the
catalog.
Probably is Chiquita.
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Not because of the bananas,it's just so good.
And, like I said, night in theRuts is a very underrated album.
The band was just coming apart.
They were falling apart at theseams with the previous album,
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draw the Line, but it was duringthe recording of Night in the
Ruts.
That's when the wheels reallywere coming off and I think
halfway through the recordingsession, brad Whitford, joe
Perry, gone, checked out.
So they had to, you know, getother musicians to come in and
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fill in the guitar parts tocomplete the album.
But again, the album is great.
That is such a great song.
If you are unfamiliar with thealbum, you gotta go check it out
.
It is so good, just so good.
And at number nine, I thinkit's the track that comes right
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after Chiquita.
No, is it?
I think so's the track thatcomes right after Chiquita?
No, is it?
I think so.
Cheesecake, and not because Ilike cheesecake.
Just so good, I don't know whatto say.
You have to check this stuffout.
So good, just.
And I'm looking at my list hereand in the number eight spot,
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sticking with night in the ruts,the lead track.
No surprise.
So three in a row from night inthe ruts, because it's that
good it is.
It is that good, it's a just atremendous album.
Uh, so you got you.
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Just you have to check it out.
All right, number six in thenumber six position, we are
going to go back to my favoritealbum from Aerosmith, the Toys
in the Attic album, and we aregoing with Adam's Apple.
So good, I'm sorry.
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Wait, wait, I'm sorry, I'msorry.
Time, sorry, time out, time out, time out.
I skipped number seven, didn'tI?
Yeah, I did.
I skipped number seven, wentfrom eight to six.
It's taking the glasses off andputting them back on and all
that kind of thing.
So let's, let's go back tonumber seven, also from the Toys
in the Attic album.
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So it's not a not a shock, butit's Uncle Salty, great song,
just a slower song, kind ofgroovy, kind of a dark song too.
Yeah, kind of a dark song, butanother one.
Like I said, listening to theToys in the Attic album, these
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songs just really hooked meright away and I guess it's just
why it's my favorite song inthe catalog, I mean my favorite
album in the catalog.
So Uncle Salty's at numberseven, and then, of course no
shocker, because I alreadyannounced it at number six is
Adam's Apple, and I just alwaysthought that was such a great
song too.
Just I mean, and I think thosetwo songs are back to back on
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side one of the album, reallyreally, really good.
You got to check those out.
Then let's go to the number fiveposition.
We're cracking the top five.
Number five that would also befrom Toys in the Attic and that
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is no More, no More.
A great song in the live set aswell, great song, and that's
why it's at number five, becauseit's great, so good.
Number four, number four fromthe Rock's album Sick as a Dog
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so good, so good.
Sick as a dog, so good, so good.
And I'm gonna go back to thelive bootleg album, where that
version is dynamite.
It's fantastic.
Um, number three.
Number three Can't remember ifI mentioned it early on, but if
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I did, I'm going to repeatmyself.
Second, I heard this song.
I was just, I was hooked,hooked, and the live version is
every bit as good, if not better, than the studio version.
And that is Lord of the Thighs.
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I don't think it was the 12year old in me, you know.
Oh, lord of the Thighs andthinking like that.
I don't know, maybe a littlebit, because I was 12, right,
but it's just such a cool, coolgroove.
I believe Brad Whitford came upwith that riff at the beginning
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of it.
But it's just no, no, no, no,no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, and I'm notgoing to do that for 30 seconds.
But and then it just bam kicksin and it's so good, just so
good.
And again, like I said, thelive version off of live bootleg
kills it, kills it.
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Okay.
So my number two song numbertwo, number two song Number two,
number two is the title trackfrom Draw the Line.
So, draw the Line, such akick-ass song, just kick-ass.
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It's heavy.
That bass line, ah, the bassline is so good, it's so good.
You know, again, like withNight in the Ruts, draw the line
kind of gets some heat fromfolks, but it's good, it is good
and that is a wonderful songand that's why I'm doing it too,
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because it's that good.
So what's number one?
I don't have a snare drum inhere to give you a drum roll.
I don't have any music to play,nothing like that.
It's not going to happen.
But hang on, got a tickle righthere.
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All right, let's get rid ofthat.
Number one is the title trackfrom my favorite album in the
catalog Toys in the Attic albumin the catalog, toys in the
Attic.
Enough said it is so cool andit starts off the album.
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So it's the title track, it'sthe lead track and my favorite
track, all of those and it just.
It's funny.
You just like you drop theneedle on the album and it just
boom.
It just kicks you right in theface right to start, right at
the start, and it's so good,it's fast, it chugs, but it
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chugs at a fast pace.
It's really really good.
Yeah, I don't know what else tosay about that song.
It's just it's great.
And I mean, I was.
I was listening to it um, likeway early this morning, like in
the wee hours of the morning,cause I was at work and I was
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like man, this song is.
I just kept saying this song isso good, it is so good and it
has to be number one on the list.
I didn't even know, excuse me,I didn't even know I was going
to do a top 20.
So I started putting this stufftogether and going through my
notes and everything.
And I thought, ah, you know, Iwould throw in a top 20 here.
But when I listed all the songsthat I that you know I would
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consider for a top 20, my penwent straight to Toys in the
Attic and put a one right nextto it before anything else.
So that's just, yeah, that's it, that is it.
And for me the song doesn't getplayed a ton on the radio,
certainly not a rock radio.
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So there's no burnout factor atall for me on that one.
Yeah.
So I'm loving it, love it, loveit for all those reasons,
anyway.
So look, that's my top 20.
If you want, let me run it downreally fast.
I'm not going to give you allthat hollabaloo like I did
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earlier.
Number 20, hollabaloo like Idid earlier.
Number 20, dream on.
Number 19,.
Sweet emotion.
Number 18, walk this way.
Number 17, mia.
Number 16, remember walking inthe sand.
Number 15, back in the saddle.
Write this stuff down.
Write it down real quick, damn.
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Write it down real quick.
Number 14, nobody's fault.
Number 13, kings and queens.
Number 12, round and round andnot the version from rat.
Number 11, last child.
Number 10, chiquita.
Number nine cheesecake.
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Number eight no surprise.
Number seven Uncle Salty.
Number six Cheesecake.
Number eight no Surprise.
Number seven Uncle Salty.
Number six Adam's Apple and thetop five Number five no More,
no More.
Number four Sick as a Dog.
Number three Lord of the Thighs.
Number two Draw the Line.
And number one Toys in theAttic.
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Great, great stuff.
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Thanks for sticking with me.
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