Aerosmith Albums Ranked Worst to Best

Ranking Aerosmith’s discography is greater than only a matter of desire. It’s a full-scale ideological debate.

Any worst-to-best rating of the Boston rockers’ catalog should take care of two distinct eras: their sleazy ’70s work and their slicker, extra profitable ’80s and ’90s comeback. But which one was higher?

For a sure faction of hardcore followers, the monolithic, drug-fueled riffing of mid-’70s classics like “Toys in the Attic” and “Back in the Saddle” are quintessential Aerosmith — and poppy, song-doctored smashes like “Dude (Looks Like a Lady)” and “Angel” are anathema to them.

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Still, there is not any denying the magnitude of the band’s miraculous late-’80s comeback, buoyed by a remake of “Walk This Way” that includes Run-D.M.C. A slew of multiplatinum albums and hit singles adopted, remodeling Aerosmith from strung-out dinosaur rockers into lean, imply MTV darlings. Sobriety seemed good on them, and if their cleaner, barely extra mature new picture turned off some old-school followers, it was a small worth to pay for regaining their place atop the laborious rock throne.

That would not even start to cowl Aerosmith’s wilderness interval — roughly 1979-84 — when their traditional lineup briefly shifted and their album gross sales plummeted, however they nonetheless managed to crank out just a few traditional songs as they scraped all-time low. Nor does it embrace their bluesy covers album or the stylistic seize bag of unique materials they launched within the twenty first century. See the place all of it lands on our listing of Aerosmith Albums Ranked Worst to Best.

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