Since 1973, Aerosmith has released 14 studio albums. Additionally, the band has released 5 live albums and 8 official compilations (2 of which are box sets) for a total of at least 27 official albums. According to the RIAA, of these 27 releases, 25 have gone gold, 18 platinum, and 12 have achieved multi-platinum status. Aerosmith have sold 66.5 million records in the United States and are estimated to have sold well over 150 million around the world.

Aerosmith have made a number of singles over the years, some officially released to the public, others released as album cuts only to radio. 21 of their songs have reached the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 and the band has been a longtime stalwart of the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, achieving nine #1 hits on that chart to date. Additionally, 28 of the band's songs have reached the Top 40 on various charts worldwide.

The band has also released seven home videos/DVDs and their music has appeared in several films and soundtracks.

 

 

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In This Thread:

 

Studio Albums

Aerosmith

Get Your Wings

Toys In The Attic

Rocks

Draw The Line

Night In The Ruts

Rock In A Hard Place

Done With Mirrors

Permanent Vaction

Pump

Get A Grip

Nine Lives

Just Push Play

Honkin On Bobo

 

Live Albums

Live! Bootleg

Classics Live!

Classics Live! Vol II

A Little South Of Sanity

Rockin' The Joint

 

Compilations

Greatest Hits

Gems

Pandora's Box

Big Ones

Box Of Fire

Young Lust The Aerosmith Anthology

O, Yeah! The Ultimate Aerosmith Hits

Devil's Got A New Disguise

 

Unofficial/limited edition compilations

Other album appearances

Individual songs appearing in movies

Tribute albums

 

Singles

1973 "Mama Kin"

1973 "Dream On"

1974 "Same Old Song and Dance"

1974 "Train Kept A-Rollin'"

1974 "S.O.S. (Too Bad)

1975 "Sweet Emotion"

1975 "Walk This Way"

1975 "You See Me Crying"

1976 "Dream On" (re-issue)

1976 "Last Child"

1976 "Home Tonight"

1976 "Walk This Way" (re-issue)

1977 "Back in the Saddle"

1977 "Draw the Line"

1978 "Kings and Queens"

1978 "Get it Up"

1978 "Come Together"

1978 "Chip Away the Stone"

1979 "Remember (Walking in the Sand)"

1982 "Lightning Strikes"

1985 "Let the Music Do the Talking"

1986 "Shela"

1986 "Walk This Way"(Run-DMC featuringSteven Tyler and Joe Perry)

1987 "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)"

1987 "Hangman Jury"

1988 "Angel"

1988 "Rag Doll"

1988 "Magic Touch"

1988 "Rocking Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu"

1989 "Chip Away the Stone (re-issue)"

1989 "Love in an Elevator"

1989 "F.I.N.E."

1989 "Janie's Got a Gun"

1990 "What it Takes"

1990 "The Other Side"

1990 "Monkey On My Back"

1990 "Dude (Looks Like a Lady) (re-issue)"

1990 "Love Me Two Times"

1991 "Sweet Emotion (re-issue)"

1991 "Helter Skelter"

1993 "Eat the Rich"

1993 "Livin' on the Edge"

1993 "Fever"

1993 "Cryin'"

1993 "Amazing"

1994 "Shut Up and Dance"

1994 "Deuces Are Wild"

1994 "Crazy"

1994 "Blind Man"

1995 "Walk on Water"

1997 "Nine Lives"

1997 "Falling in Love (Is Hard on the Knees)"

1997 "Hole in My Soul"

1997 "Pink"

1998 "Taste of India"

1998 "Full Circle"

1998 "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing"

1998 "What Kind of Love Are You On"

1999 "Pink" (re-issue)

2000 "Angel's Eye"

2001 "Jaded"

2001 "Fly Away From Here"

2001 "Sunshine"

2001 "Just Push Play"

2002 "Girls of Summer"

2004 "Baby, Please Don't Go"

2006 "Devil's Got a New Disguise"

 

Videography/DVD's

Live Texxas Jam'78

Aerosmith Video Scrapbook

Permanent Vaction 3x5

Things That Go Pump In The Night

The Making of Pump

Big Ones You Can Look At

You Gotta Move

 

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Studio Albums

Aerosmith

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· Release Date: January 13, 1973
· Chart Positions: #21 (US)
· Certifications: 2x Platinum (US)
· Singles: "Mama Kin", "Dream On"
· Sales: 3,000,000

Aerosmith is the self-titled debut album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 1973.
The album was recorded in two weeks at Intermedia Studio in Boston, Massachusetts.
The photo, is the original cover which had one song track title error and was therefore pulled. (The error was "Walkin' the Dig" instead of "Walkin' the Dog" This cover art may have also been used as the CD reissue cover. The album cover most widely-available, released after the correction was made, was made up entirely of the photo of the band members.

Track listing
All songs written by Steven Tyler, except where noted.

Side One
1. "Make It" – 3:45
2. "Somebody" (Tyler, Steven Emspack) – 3:45
3. "Dream On" – 4:28
4. "One Way Street" – 7:12

Side Two
1. "Mama Kin" – 4:25
2. "Write Me" – 4:11
3. "Movin' Out" (Tyler, Joe Perry) – 5:03
4. "Walkin' the Dog" (Rufus Thomas) – 3:12

Personnel
· Tom Hamilton - bass
· Joey Kramer - drums
· Joe Perry - guitar, percussion, backing vocals
· Steven Tyler - lead vocals, harmonica, percussion, keyboard, wood flute
· Brad Whitford - guitar

Aditional personnel
· David Woodford - saxophone on "Mama Kin" and "Write Me"

Production
· Producer: Adrian Barber
· Engineers: Adrian Barber, Caryl Weinstock
· Liner notes: Stu Werbin

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Get Your Wings

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· Release Date: March 1974
· Chart Positions: #74 (US)
· Certifications: 3x Platinum (US)
· Singles: "Same Old Song and Dance", "Train Kept A-Rollin'", "S.O.S. (Too Bad)"
· Sales: 4,000,000

Get Your Wings is the second album by American hard rock band Aerosmith. This album marks the arrival of Jack Douglas in the producer's chair (a role that he would fill for the next four albums). The band had felt that a subpar production effort for their first album hurt its popularity. The raw energy that fueled their sound remained intact despite the switchover.

Track listing
1. "Same Old Song and Dance" (Steven Tyler, Joe Perry) – 3:53
2. "Lord of the Thighs" (Tyler) – 4:14
3. "Spaced" (Perry, Tyler) – 4:21
4. "Woman of the World" (Tyler, Darren Solomon) – 5:49
5. "S.O.S. (Too Bad)" (Tyler) – 2:51
6. "Train Kept A-Rollin'" (Tiny Bradshaw, Howard Kay, Lois Mann) – 5:33
7. "Seasons of Wither" (Tyler) – 5:38
8. "Pandora's Box" (Tyler, Joey Kramer) – 5:43

Song Information

Same Old Song and Dance
Built around a blues riff Joe Perry came up with while sitting on his amp, Steven Tyler quickly came up with the verse riff.

Lord of the Thighs
After the band decided they needed one more song for the album, they locked themselves into their rehearsal room, and came up with this. The narrator is a pimp who recruits a young woman he sees on the street into prostitution. Tyler also plays the piano. Kramer's opening beat is very similar to the one he would tap out a year later in "Walk This Way".

Woman of the World
Written by Steven Tyler and his former band, The Strangeurs.

S.O.S. (Too Bad)
A proto-punk song, it emphasizes the same content punk rock would soon be known for: gritty lyrics, questionable moral content, and straight to the point music

(The) Train Kept A-Rollin'
Tiny Bradshaw's 1951 R&B classic, already turned into a rock song by The Rock and Roll Trio (Johnny and Dorsey Burnette and Paul Burlison) (1956) and updated by the The Yardbirds in a 1965 raw British blues version, after whom Aerosmith modeled their version. In the band's early days, it was their signature, show-stopping song, and is still used to end their concerts today. Despite the band's opposition, Douglas put in echo and recorded crowd noises (from the Concert for Bangla Desh) around halfway through to give it a live feel, fading into the next song's synthesized blowing wind/acoustic guitar entrance. Douglas also brought in session guitarists Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter of Rock n Roll Animal fame to play the guitars on the song in Perry's stead.

Seasons of Wither
In a change of pace from the rest of the album, this song is a slow, mournful ballad inspired by the Massachusetts landscape in the winter.

Pandora's Box
Joey Kramer's first writing credit, this song was written on a used guitar he found in a dumpster. It was heavily inspired by the soul musicians of the 60s and 70s

Personnel
Tom Hamilton – bass
Joey Kramer – drums, percussion, backing vocals
Joe Perry – guitar, backing vocals, slide guitar, percussion
Steven Tyler – lead vocals, harmonica, keyboard, acoustic guitar on "Seasons of Wither", bass, percussion, piano on "Lord of the Thighs" and "Pandora's Box"
Brad Whitford – guitar

Additional personnel
Michael Brecker – tenor saxophone on "Same Old Song and Dance" and "Pandora's Box"
Randy Brecker – trumpet on "Same Old Song and Dance"
Stan Bronstein – baritone saxophone on "Same Old Song and Dance" and "Pandora's Box"
Jon Pearson – trombone on "Same Old Song and Dance"
Ray Colcord – keyboards on "Spaced"

Production personnel
Producers: Jack Douglas and Ray Colcord at The Record Plant
Executive producer: Bob Ezrin
Engineers: Jack Douglas, Jay Messina, Rod O'Brien
Direction: David Krebs, Frank Connolly, Steve Leber

Remastering personnel
Remaster producer: Don DeVito
Remaster engineer: Vic Anesini
Package design: Lisa Sparagano, Ken Fredette
Still Life Photography: Jimmy Ienner, Jr.
Still Life Collage Design: Leslie Lambert
Art Supervision: Joel Zimmerman

Toys in the Attic

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Release Date: April 8, 1975
Chart Positions: #11 (US)
Certifications: 8x Platinum (US)
Singles: "Sweet Emotion", "You See Me Crying", "Walk This Way"
Sales: 10,000,000

Toys in the Attic is the third album by American hard rock band Aerosmith. It was their breakthrough album and is now considered a hard rock classic. The title is a phrase which has a similar meaning to "bats in the belfry" and was also used as the title of Lillian Hellman's 1959 stage play.

In 2003, the album was ranked number 228 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Cover versions
R.E.M. covered the song "Toys in the Attic" released in 1986 as a b-side to "Fall on Me". It is available on Dead Letter Office. It was also covered by The Answer, Warrant and Ratt.
The song "No More No More" was covered by Velvet Revolver and Metal Church.
Run D.M.C. did a cover of the song "Walk This Way" in 1986.
Sum 41 along with rappers Ja Rule and Nelly did a cover of "Walk This Way" in 2002.

Track listing
1. "Toys in the Attic" (Steven Tyler, Joe Perry) – 3:06
2. "Uncle Salty" (Tyler, Tom Hamilton) – 4:10
3. "Adam's Apple" (Tyler) – 4:34
4. "Walk This Way" (Tyler, Perry) – 3:40
5. "Big Ten Inch Record" (Fred Weismantel) – 2:14
-Originally by Bull Moose Jackson
6. "Sweet Emotion" (Tyler, Hamilton) – 4:34
7. "No More No More" (Tyler, Perry) – 4:34
8. "Round and Round" (Tyler, Brad Whitford) – 5:05
9. "You See Me Crying" (Tyler, Darren Solomon) – 5:12

Personnel
Tom Hamilton – bass
Joey Kramer – drums, percussion, backing vocals
Joe Perry – guitar, backing vocals, bass, percussion, slide guitar
Steven Tyler – lead vocals, harmonica, percussion, keyboard
Brad Whitford – guitar

Additional personnel
Scott Cushnie – piano on "Big Ten Inch Record" and "No More No More"
Michael Mainieri – conductor
Jay Messina – percussion, marimba on "Sweet Emotion"

Production personnel
Producer: Jack Douglas at The Record Plant
Engineer: Jay Messina
Assistant engineers: Rod O'Brien, Corky Stasiak, David Thoener
Arrangers: Aerosmith, Jack Douglas, Steven Tyler
Orchestral arrangements: Michael Mainieri
Mastering: Doug Sax at The Mastering Lab, Los Angeles

Other personnel
Album Design: Pacific Eye and Ear
Illustrations: Ingrid Haenke
Photography: Bob Belott
Direction: David Krebs, Steve Leber

Remastering personnel
Remaster producer: Don DeVito
Remaster engineer: Vic Anesini
Package design: Lisa Sparagano, Ken Fredette
Still Life Photography: Jimmy Ienner
Still Life Collage Design: Leslie Lambert
Art Supervision: Joel Zimmerman

Rocks

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Release Date: May 3, 1976
Chart Positions: #3 (US)
Certifications: 4x Platinum (US)
Singles: "Last Child", "Home Tonight", "Back in the Saddle"
Sales: 6,000,000

Rocks is the fourth album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 1976. Rocks is widely acclaimed and highly regarded in rock music. All Music described Rocks as having "captured Aerosmith at their most raw and rocking". Rocks also ranked #176 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Additionally, it has greatly influenced several people in the hard rock community including members of Guns N' Roses and Metallica.

The album was also a commercial success, charting three singles on the Billboard Hot 100, two of which reached the Top 40 ("Back in the Saddle" and "Last Child"). The album also was one of the first albums to ship platinum when it was released. The album has since gone quadruple platinum.

Track listing
1. "Back in the Saddle" (Steven Tyler, Joe Perry) – 4:40
2. "Last Child" (Tyler, Brad Whitford) – 3:28
3. "Rats in the Cellar" (Tyler, Perry) – 4:07
4. "Combination" (Perry) – 3:39
5. "Sick as a Dog" (Tyler, Tom Hamilton) – 4:12
6. "Nobody's Fault" (Tyler, Whitford) – 4:25
7. "Get the Lead Out" (Tyler, Perry) – 3:43
8. "Lick and a Promise" (Tyler, Perry) – 3:05
9. "Home Tonight" (Tyler) – 3:18

Song information

Back in the Saddle
Written by Joe Perry on a six-string bass, which gives the song its distinctive "growl". Although written with the simple idea of cowboys and sex, this song took on new meaning after Aerosmith reunited in 1984 and embarked on their Back In The Saddle Tour. Brad Whitford plays the lead guitar part.

Last Child
Brad Whitford created the riff after listening to the Meters, and the band wrote the rest in the studio. Whitford also plays lead guitar.

Rats in the Cellar
Written as Tom Hamilton describes it, "taking this thing The Yardbirds created, and making it balls to the wall", it was also conceived as a counterpart to Toys in the Attic.

Combination
Joe Perry's first solo effort, (sung by Perry with Steven Tyler on background vocals) this song is about heroin, cocaine, and the dangers of being able to afford your vices

Sick as a Dog
A guitar part is by bassist Tom Hamilton, who also co-wrote the song. When recording the song, for the first half of the song, Joe Perry played the electric bass; after the last chorus, during the rhythm guitar break, Perry handed the bass over to Steven Tyler to play, and picked up his guitar to play the solo during the finale. This song is said to be about Tylers less than spectacular first meeting of Mick Jagger.

Nobody's Fault
With Back in the Saddle, one of the heaviest songs on the album (as "Round and Round" had been on the previous one), this is one of former Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash's favorite Aerosmith songs, as well as that of Metallica leader James Hetfield. Thrash metal band Testament covered this song on their 1988 album, The New Order, as well as sleaze rock pioneers L.A. Guns contributing a cover of the song for their 2004 covers album Rips the Covers Off. This song is an important contribution to the band's catalogue by Brad Whitford, who cites it as his favorite Aerosmith song

Lick and a Promise
"(This song) is just about going out there and winning an audience." quips Steven Tyler.

Cover versions
Thrash metal band Testament recorded "Nobody's Fault" for their 1988 album, The New Order

Influence in music
- Slash says that Rocks was the album that changed his life.
- Rocks was one of Kurt Cobain's favorite albums, as he listed in his Journals.
- In 2003, the album was ranked number 176 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Appearances in other media
- The song "Last Child" is a playable song in the video game "Guitar Hero II".
- Also released as a 4-channel quadraphonic mix.

Personnel
Steven Tyler - lead vocals, harmonica, percussion, keyboard, bass
Joe Perry - guitar, percussion, steel guitar, backing vocals, lap steel guitar, bass
Brad Whitford - guitar
Tom Hamilton - bass, additional guitar
Joey Kramer - drums, backing vocals

Additional personnel
Paul Prestopino - banjo

Production
Producers: Aerosmith, Jack Douglas
Engineer: Jay Messina
Assistant engineers: Sam Ginsberg, Rod O'Brien
Arrangers: Aerosmith, Jack Douglas, David Hewitt
Directors: David Krebs, Steve Leber
Photography: Fin Costello, Scott Enyart, Tom Hamilton, Ron Pownall, Brad Whitford

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Draw the Line

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Release Date: December 1977
Chart Positions: #11 (US)
Certifications: 2x Platinum (US)
Singles: "Draw the Line", "Kings and Queens", "Get it Up"
Sales: 3,000,000

Draw the Line is the fifth album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 1977.
It was recorded in an abandoned convent near New York City, rented out for that purpose. The band lived there while recording the album, doing drugs, sleeping, eating, shooting guns, and driving their sports cars in between recording sessions.
As a follow-up to Rocks, Draw the Line was considered a success at the time, both commercially and critically, but has not fared as well since the 1970s. Members of Aerosmith have since claimed that interpersonal conflicts and a chaotic, drug-fueled lifestyle was making the music "cloudy" by the time Draw the Line was recorded. The album is known as Aerosmith's darkest time, even though they were heavier in on drugs around the recording Rock in a Hard Place. Joe Perry in an interview had said "during the recording of the album, the only thing that still had us connected was the headphones."
By the time of the release the band was considered big enough that the name didn't appear on the front of the album artwork.

Track listing
1. "Draw the Line" (Steven Tyler, Joe Perry) – 3:23
2. "I Wanna Know Why" (Tyler, Perry) – 3:09
3. "Critical Mass" (Tyler, Tom Hamilton, Jack Douglas) – 4:53
4. "Get It Up" (Tyler, Perry) – 4:02
5. "Bright Light Fright" (Perry) – 2:19
6. "Kings and Queens" (Tyler, Brad Whitford, Hamilton, Joey Kramer, Douglas) – 4:55
7. "The Hand That Feeds" (Tyler, Whitford, Hamilton, Kramer, Douglas) – 4:23
8. "Sight for Sore Eyes" (Tyler, Perry, Douglas, David Johansen) – 3:56
9. "Milk Cow Blues" (Kokomo Arnold) – 4:14

Personnel
Tom Hamilton - bass, additional guitar
Joey Kramer - drums, percussion, backing vocals
Joe Perry - guitar, vocals, percussion, slide guitar, bass
Steven Tyler - lead vocals, harmonica, percussion, keyboard, bass
Brad Whitford - guitar

Additional personnel
Stan Bronstein - saxophone
Scott Cushnie - piano
Jack Douglas - mandolin
Karen Lawrence - background vocals
Paul Prestopino - banjo

Production
Producers: Aerosmith, Jack Douglas
Executive producers: David Krebs, Steve Leber
Engineer: Jay Messina
Assistant engineer: Sam Ginsberg
Mastering: George Marino
Arrangers: Aerosmith, Jack Douglas
Art direction: David Krebs, Steve Leber
Cover illustration: Al Hirschfeld

Night in the Ruts

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Release Date: November 1979
Chart Positions: #14 (US)
Certifications: Platinum (US)
Singles: "Remember (Walking in the Sand)"
Sales: 2,000,000

Night in the Ruts is the sixth studio album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 1979.

Joe Perry left the band midway through the recording of it. Additionally, this album was not produced by Jack Douglas, who had produced Aerosmith's prior four albums. Instead, Columbia Records brought in Gary Lyons to produce the album. About halfway through the recording of the album, the record label and management set Aerosmith out on another tour without extra time to finish the album, which pushed the album to being released later in the year. Joe Perry left the band mid-way through the tour, after a violent feud involving the band members and their wives. Prior to his departure, Perry had completed guitar parts for "No Surprize", "Chiquita", "Cheesecake", "Bone to Bone (Coney Island Whitefish Boy)", and "Three Mile Smile". The guitar parts for the remaining songs were recorded by Brad Whitford, Richie Supa, Neil Thompson, and Jimmy Crespo (who later became Perry's official replacement from 1979 to 1984).

Despite some critical acclaim and early success, the album quickly fell down the charts. The album has since "only" achieved platinum status. Promo videos for "No Surprize" and "Chiquita" were filmed (featuring Perry's replacement Jimmy Crespo); however, these were very rarely shown on television.

The title is an intentional spoonerism of the phrase "right in the nuts", which was subsequently the title of the tour.

Track listing
1. "No Surprize" (Steven Tyler, Joe Perry) – 4:25
2. "Chiquita" (Tyler, Perry) – 4:24
3. "Remember (Walking in the Sand)" (Shadow Morton) – 4:05
4. "Cheese Cake" (Tyler, Perry) – 4:15
5. "Three Mile Smile" (Tyler, Perry) – 3:42
6. "Reefer Head Woman" (J. Bennett, Jazz Gillum, Lester Melrose) – 4:02
7. "Bone to Bone (Coney Island White Fish Boy)" (Tyler, Perry) – 2:59
8. "Think About It" (Keith Relf, Jimmy Page, Jim McCarty) – 3:35
9. "Mia" (Tyler) – 4:14

Personnel
Tom Hamilton - bass
Joey Kramer - drums
Joe Perry - guitar
Steven Tyler - vocals, harmonica, percussion, keyboard
Brad Whitford - guitar

Additional personnel
Louis del Gatto - baritone saxophone
Lou Marini - baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone
Barry Rogers - trombone, tenor saxophone
Neil Thompson - electric guitar
George Young - horn, alto saxophone
Richie Supa - additional guitars (uncredited) on "Mia"
Jimmy Crespo - guitar solo on "Three Mile Smile"

Production
Producers: Aerosmith, Gary Lyons
Executive producer: David Krebs
Engineer: Gary Lyons
Mastering: Vic Anesini, George Marino
Direction: David Krebs, Steve Leber
Creative supervision: Keith Garde
Art supervisor: Joel Zimmerman
Art direction: Kosh
Design: Kosh, Lisa Sparagano
Cover art concept: Styler
Photography: Jimmy Ienner, Jr., Jim Shea

Miscellanea
- "If you move the first letters of the title around, you'll get an idea of our basic philosophy of rock 'n' roll!" - from the Greatest Hits album.
- The cover artwork for the album was originally supposed to be used for the "Chip Away the Stone" single, released in 1978.

Rock in a Hard Place

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Release Date: October 1, 1982
Chart Positions: #32 (US)
Certifications: Gold (US)
Singles: "Lightning Strikes"
Sales: 1,000,000

Rock in a Hard Place is the seventh studio album by American hard rock band Aerosmith and was released in 1982. This is the only Aerosmith album to not feature Joe Perry and Brad Whitford. Perry had left in 1979 while Whitford left in 1981, during the recording of this album. However, he's billed as an "additional musician" as he can be heard playing rhythm guitar on "Lightning Strikes." This was also Aerosmith's last studio album released on Columbia Records until 1997.

Track listing
1. "Jailbait" (Steven Tyler, Jimmy Crespo) – 4:38
2. "Lightning Strikes" (Richard Supa) – 4:26
3. "b**ch's Brew" (Tyler, Crespo) – 4:14
4. "Bolivian Ragamuffin" (Tyler, Crespo) – 3:32
5. "Cry Me a River" (Arthur Hamilton) – 4:06
6. "Prelude to Joanie" (Tyler) – 1:21
7. "Joanie's Butterfly" (Tyler, Crespo, Jack Douglas) – 5:35
8. "Rock in a Hard Place (Cheshire Cat)" (Tyler, Crespo, Douglas) – 4:46
9. "Jig Is Up" (Tyler, Crespo) – 3:10
10. "Push Comes to Shove" (Tyler) – 4:28

Personnel
Jimmy Crespo - guitar
Tom Hamilton - bass, additional guitar
Joey Kramer - drums, backing vocals
Steven Tyler - lead vocals, harmonica, keyboard, percussion, bass
Rick Dufay - guitar

Additional personnel
Jack Douglas - percussion
Paul Harris - piano
John Lievano - guitar
Brad Whitford - rhythm guitar on "Lightning Strikes"
Reinhard Straub - violin
John Turi - saxophone

Production
Producers: Jack Douglas, Steven Tyler
Engineers: Josh Abbey, John Agnello, Tony Bongiovi, Godfrey Diamond, Jack Douglas, Malcolm Pollack, Garry Rindfuss, Jim Sessody, Zoe Yanakis
Mixing: Godfrey Diamond

Done with Mirrors

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Release Date: November 1985
Chart Positions: #36 (US)
Certifications: Gold (US)
Singles: "Let the Music Do the Talking," "Shela"
Sales: 1,000,000

Done with Mirrors is the eighth studio album by American hard rock band Aerosmith and marked the return of Joe Perry and Brad Whitford to the fold. It was also their first album released by Geffen Records. It was intended as their "comeback" album, but it didn't live up to commercial expectations.

In keeping with the title, all the text on the album, except for the catalog number and UPC, was written back-to-front and could be read normally by holding it up to a mirror. All but the original CD pressing flip the artwork, so it can be read without a mirror, and replaced the photo of an illusionist bending forks with one of the band. As a result, the original CD is considered desirable by fans. The title is a double entendre, referring both to illusions that are "done with mirrors", as well as the band having ostensibly left its drug days (i.e. cocaine, which is traditionally snorted off of a mirror) behind them.

"Let The Music Do the Talking" was a new recording of the title track of the first album by The Joe Perry Project, with altered lyric and melody.

Track listing
All songs by Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton and Joey Kramer, except where noted

1. "Let the Music Do the Talking" (Perry) – 3:44
2. "My Fist Your Face" – 4:21
3. "Shame on You" – 3:38
4. "The Reason a Dog" – 4:11
5. "Shela" – 4:32
6. "Gypsy Boots" – 4:13
7. "She's on Fire" – 3:44
8. "The Hop" – 3:39
9. "Darkness" – 3:42

Personnel
Tom Hamilton - bass
Joey Kramer - drums
Joe Perry - guitar, backing vocals
Steven Tyler - lead vocals, harmonica, piano
Brad Whitford - guitar

Production
Producer: Ted Templeman
Engineer: Jeff Hendrickson
1st Assistant Engineer: Tom Size
2nd Assistant Engineer: Gary Rindfuss
3rd Assistant Engineer: Stan Katayama
Analog Mastering Engineer: Howie Weinberg
Digital Mastering Engineer: Ken Caillat
Production Coordinator: Joan Parker
Band Equipment installation assembler #1: Jay Fortune
Band Equipment installation assembler #2: Toby Francis
Band Equipment installation assembler #3: Patrick O'Neil
Album Cover Concept: Jeffrey Kent Ayeroff
Art Direction and Design: Norman Moore
Photography: Jim Shea

Permanent Vacation

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Release Date: August 18, 1987
Chart Positions: #11 (US), #37 (UK)
Certifications: 5x Platinum (US)
Singles: "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)", "Hangman Jury", "Angel", "Rag Doll"
Sales: 10,000,000

Permanent Vacation is the ninth studio album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 1987.

The album marks a turning point in the band's career. It is their first album to employ professional songwriters, instead of featuring material solely composed by members of the band. It was also the first Aerosmith album to be promoted by heavy music video airplay on MTV. Though Done With Mirrors was intended to mark Aerosmith's comeback, Permanent Vacation is often considered their true comeback album, as it was the band's first truly popular album since their reunion. "Rag Doll," "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" and "Angel" all became major hits (all three songs charted in the Top 20) and helped Permanent Vacation become the band's most successful album in a decade. As a result, the band would maintain their shift toward mainstream pop, and see further success with Pump and Get a Grip.

The album features two covers. "I'm Down" is a piano-driven Paul McCartney song that appeared as a b-side to the Beatles' "Help" single – this song was Aerosmith's second commercially-released Beatles cover, after "Come Together". "Hangman Jury," though uncredited, is a reworking of an old American blues song.

In limited production, the original album cover for Permanent Vacation did not feature the yellow Aerosmith wings logo. Instead, the album jacket only featured the black background covered in the red "Permanent Vacation" hula girl print. The yellow Aerosmith wings logo was actually on the outside of the plastic case rather than the inner album liner.

Permanent Vacation has since sold over five million copies in the U.S.


Track listing
1. "Heart's Done Time" (Joe Perry, Desmond Child) – 4:42
2. "Magic Touch" (Steven Tyler, Perry, Jim Vallance) – 4:40
3. "Rag Doll" (Tyler, Perry, Vallance, Holly Knight) – 4:21
4. "Simoriah" (Tyler, Perry, Vallance) – 3:21
5. "Dude (Looks Like A Lady)" (Tyler, Perry, Child) – 4:23
6. "St. John" (Tyler) – 4:12
7. "Hangman Jury" (Tyler, Perry, Vallance) – 5:33
8. "Girl Keeps Coming Apart" (Tyler, Perry) – 4:12
9. "Angel" (Tyler, Child) – 5:10
10. "Permanent Vacation" (Tyler, Brad Whitford) – 4:52
11. "I'm Down" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 2:20
12. "The Movie" [instrumental] (Tyler, Perry, Whitford, Tom Hamilton, Joey Kramer) – 4:00

Personnel
Tom Hamilton – bass
Joey Kramer – drums
Joe Perry – guitar, backing vocals
Steven Tyler – lead vocals, harmonica, piano, plunger mute
Brad Whitford – guitar

Additional personnel
Drew Arnott – mellotron
Henry Christian – trumpet
Bruce Fairbairn – trumpet, cello, background vocals
Scott Fairbairn – cello
Michael Fraser – plunger mute
Tom Kennlyside – clarinet, tenor saxophone
Margarita Horns – horns
Ian Putz – baritone saxophone
Morgan Rael – steel drums
Bob Rogers – trombone
Jim Vallance – organ
Christine Arnott – Gaelic voice-over on "The Movie"

Production
Producer: Bruce Fairbairn
Engineers: Mike Fraser, Bob Rock
Assistant engineer: Ken Lomas
Mixing: Mike Fraser
Mastering: George Marino
Assistant: Joel López
Arrangers: Tom Kennlyside, Jim Vallance
Art direction: Aerosmith, Kim Champagne
Illustrations: Andy Engel
Photography: Neal Preston

Pump

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Release Date: September 12, 1989
Chart Positions: #5 (US), #3 (UK)
Certifications: 7x Platinum (US)
Singles: "Love in an Elevator", "Janie's Got a Gun", "What it Takes", "The Other Side", "F.I.N.E.", "Monkey on My Back"
Sales: 12,000,000

Pump is the tenth studio album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 1989. The album was remastered and reissued in 2001.

Pump was widely acclaimed by both fans and critics upon its release. It has a great deal of musical variety within, yet still has the commercial sheen which makes it accessible to mainstream audiences. It incorporated use of keyboards and a horn section in many of the singles ("Love in an Elevator", "The Other Side"), yet also had straightforward rockers ("F.I.N.E.", "Young Lust"), a heartfelt ballad ("What It Takes"), songs about important issues like incest and murder ("Janie's Got a Gun") and drug & alcohol abuse ("Monkey On My Back"), as well as a variety of innovative instrumental interludes such as "Hoodoo" and "Dulcimer Stomp."

It is argued to be among the top tier of Aerosmith's most successful albums, and has certified sales of seven million copies in the U.S. to date. It produced a variety of successes and "firsts" for the band. It produced the band's first Grammy award ("Janie's Got a Gun"). "Love in an Elevator" became the first Aerosmith song to hit #1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. Additionally, it is the only Aerosmith album to date to have three Top 10 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and three #1 singles on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The album was the fourth bestselling album of the year 1990.

Pump was the second of three sequentially recorded Aerosmith albums to feature the fine teamwork of Bruce Fairbairn's production and Mike Frazer's and Ken Lomas' engineering talents at The Little Mountain Sound Studios.


Track listing
1. "Young Lust" (Joe Perry, Steven Tyler, Jim Vallance) – 4:18
2. "F.I.N.E." (Perry, Tyler) – 4:09
3. "Going Down" – 0:17 / "Love in an Elevator" (Perry, Tyler) – 5:21
4. "Monkey On My Back" (Perry, Tyler) – 3:57
5. "Water Song" – 0:10 / "Janie's Got a Gun" (Tom Hamilton, Tyler) – 5:28
6. "Dulcimer Stomp" – 0:49 / "The Other Side" (Tyler, Vallance, Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland) – 4:07
7. "My Girl" (Perry, Tyler) – 3:10
8. "Don't Get Mad, Get Even" (Perry, Tyler) – 4:48
9. "Hoodoo" – 0:55 / "Voodoo Medicine Man" (Tyler, Brad Whitford) – 3:44
10. "What It Takes" (Desmond Child, Perry, Tyler) – 6:28


Personnel
Tom Hamilton - bass, backing vocals
Joey Kramer - drums
Joe Perry - guitar, backing vocals
Steven Tyler - lead vocals, harmonica, keyboard
Brad Whitford - guitar

Additional personnel
Bob Dowd - background vocals
Catherine Epps - vocals
Bruce Fairbairn - background vocals, trumpet
Margarita Horns
Randy Raine-Reusch - glass harmonica, wind gong, and bullroarers on "Water Song", Appalachian dulcimer on "Dulcimer Stomp", didgeridoo on "Don't Get Mad, Get Even", Thai naw (mouth organ) on "Hoodoo"
John Webster - keyboard

Production
Producer: Bruce Fairbairn
Engineers: Michael Fraser, Ken Lomas
Mixing: Michael Fraser
Mastering: Greg Fulginiti
Mastering Supervisor: David Donnelly
Art direction: Kim Champagne, Gabrielle Raumberger
Logo design: Andy Engel
Photography: Norman Seeff
Tattoo art: Mark Ryden
John Kalodner : John Kalodner

Get a Grip

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Release Date: April 20, 1993
Chart Positions: #1 (US), #2 (UK)
Certifications: 7x Platinum (US)
Singles: "Eat the Rich", "Livin' on the Edge", "Fever", "Cryin'", "Amazing", Shut Up and Dance", "Crazy"
Sales: 20,000,000

Get a Grip is the eleventh studio album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 1993.

Get a Grip was considered a more commercial style for Aerosmith and delivered five hit singles, four of which charted in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, between 1993 and 1994: "Livin' on the Edge," "Eat the Rich," and the three songs that make up what fans have come to call the "Cryamazy trilogy:" "Cryin'," "Amazing," and "Crazy."

Get a Grip also demonstrated more of a wide range of styles for the group. "Gotta Love It" was a step into R&B, featuring bluesy solos from Joe Perry, Brad Whitford and even a bass guitar solo from Tom Hamilton. The Grammy-nominated instrumental "Boogie Man" was based on the Peter Green days of Fleetwood Mac. The album also featured famous musical guests including Don Henley, who sang backup on "Amazing", and Lenny Kravitz, who offered backup vocals and collaboration to "Line Up". As on Permanent Vacation and Pump, this album featured a good number of song collaborators from outside the group, including Desmond Child, Jim Vallance, Mark Hudson, Richie Supa, Taylor Rhodes, Jack Blades and Tommy Shaw.

Get a Grip became Aerosmith's best-selling studio album worldwide, achieving sales of over 20 million copies, and is tied with Pump for their second best-selling album in the United States, selling over 7 million copies as of 1995. This also made it their third consecutive album with US sales of at least five million.

Get a Grip won the band two Grammy Awards for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.

The promo CD version had a simulated-cowhide cover, reportedly of a unique pattern on each one.


Track listing
1. "Intro" (Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Jim Vallance) – 0:23
2. "Eat the Rich" (Tyler, Perry, Vallance) – 4:09
3. "Get a Grip" (Tyler, Perry, Vallance) – 3:58
4. "Fever" (Tyler, Perry) – 4:15
5. "Livin' on the Edge" (Tyler, Perry, Mark Hudson) – 6:20
6. "Flesh" (Tyler, Perry, Desmond Child) – 5:56
7. "Walk on Down" (Perry) – 3:37
8. "Shut Up and Dance" (Tyler, Perry, Jack Blades, Tommy Shaw) – 4:55
9. "Cryin'" (Tyler, Perry, Taylor Rhodes) – 5:08
10. "Gotta Love It" (Tyler, Perry, Hudson) – 5:58
11. "Crazy" (Tyler, Perry, Child) – 5:16
12. "Line Up" (Tyler, Perry, Lenny Kravitz) – 4:02
13. "Amazing" (Tyler, Richard Supa) – 5:56
14. "Boogie Man" (Tyler, Perry, Vallance) – 2:16

Bonus track (international version)
15. "Can't Stop Messin'" (Tyler, Perry, Blades, Shaw) - 3:30

Personnel
Tom Hamilton - bass
Joey Kramer - drums, percussion
Joe Perry - guitar, vocals, dulcimer
Steven Tyler - lead vocals, harmonica, mandolin, percussion, keyboard
Brad Whitford - guitar

Additional personnel
Paul Baron - trumpet
Desmond Child - keyboard
Alison Dyer - voices
Bruce Fairbairn - trumpet
Frank Felder - guitar
Thom Gimbel - keyboard, saxophone, background vocals
Don Henley - background vocals
Sandy Kanaeholo - log drums
Tom Keenlyside - saxophone
Lenny Kravitz - vocals, vocal ad-libs
Melvin Liufau - log drums
Wesey Mamea - log drums
Ian Putz - baritone saxophone
Bob Rogers - trombone
Richard Supa - keyboard
Liainaiala Tagaloa - log drums
Mapuhi T. Tekurio - log drums
Aladd Alationa Teofilo - log drums
Lenny Tyler - percussion
John Webster - keyboard

Production
Producer: Bruce Fairbairn
Engineers: John Aguto, Ed Korengo, Ken Lomas, Mike Plotnikoff, David Thoener
Mixing: Brendan O'Brien
Mastering: Greg Fulginiti at Masterdisk
Mastering Supervisor: David Donnelly
Programming: John Webster
Production coordination: Debra Shallman
Guitar technician: Dan Murphy
Arranger: Steven Tyler
Art direction: Michael Golob
Cover design: Hugh Syme
Photography: Ed Colver, William Hames
John Kalodner : John Kalodner

Miscellanea
- The track "Walk on Down" features lead vocals from Perry instead of Tyler.
- The track "Fever" would later be covered by Garth Brooks, with new lyrics, and retitled "The Fever," in 1995.

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Nine Lives

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Release Date: March 18, 1997
Chart Positions: #1 (US), #4 (UK)
Certifications: 2x Platinum (US), Platinum (Brazil)
Singles: "Nine Lives", "Falling in Love (Is Hard on the Knees)", "Hole in My Soul", "Pink", "Taste of India", "Full Circle"
Sales: 5,000,000

Nine Lives is the twelfth studio album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 1997.


Track listing
1. "Nine Lives" (Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Marti Frederiksen) – 4:01
2. "Falling in Love (Is Hard on the Knees)" (Tyler, Perry, Glen Ballard) – 3:26
3. "Hole in My Soul" (Tyler, Perry, Desmond Child) – 6:10
4. "Taste of India" (Tyler, Perry, Ballard) – 5:53
5. "Full Circle" (Tyler, Taylor Rhodes) – 5:01
6. "Something's Gotta Give" (Tyler, Perry, Frederiksen) – 3:37
7. "Ain't That a b**ch" (Tyler, Perry, Child) – 5:25
8. "The Farm" (Tyler, Perry, Mark Hudson, Steve Dudas) – 4:27
9. "Crash" (Tyler, Perry, Hudson, Dominik Miller) – 4:26
10. "Kiss Your Past Good-Bye" (Tyler, Hudson) – 4:32
11. "Pink" (Tyler, Richard Supa, Ballard) – 3:55
12. "Attitude Adjustment" (Tyler, Perry, Frederiksen) – 3:45
13. "Fallen Angels" (Tyler, Perry, Supa) – 8:18

Bonus track (international version)
"Falling Off" (Tyler, Perry, Frederiksen) - 3:02

Bonus tracks (Japanese version)
"Falling Off" (Tyler, Perry, Frederiksen) - 3:02
"Fall Together" (Tyler, Hudson, Greg Wells, Dean Grakal) - 4:38

Bonus tracks (Argentinan version)
"Falling Off" (Tyler, Perry, Frederiksen) - 3:02
"I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" (Diane Warren) - 4:56


Album Artwork
The booklet for Nine Lives contains 12 pieces of album art (including the cover). Each picture contains a smaller version of the previous picture within itself. The last picture is included in the first, creating an infinite loop. It has been designed by Stefan Sagmeister, who allegedly has never received his fee for this work due to the controversy described below

Controversy
The original album art aroused the anger of some Hindus, who felt the artwork, taken from Hindu imagery and altered by giving the dancing figure a cat's head, was offensive. The image depicts Lord Krishna with a cat's head dancing on the head of the snake demon Aghasura, a popular episode from Sagmeister's childhood. The band had been unaware of the source of the artwork, and the record company apologized, and changed the artwork to the revised version seen above.

Strangely enough, some copies with original covers have found their way to music store shelves in India, where Hinduism is the majority religion, and have not raised any further controversy.

Personnel
Tom Hamilton – bass, Chapman stick
Joey Kramer – drums
Joe Perry – lead guitar, vocals, dulcimer, slide guitar
Steven Tyler – lead vocals, harmonica, keyboard, percussion, hammered dulcimer
Brad Whitford – rhythm guitar

Additional personnel
David Campbell – conductor
Ramesh Misra – sarangi
John Webster – keyboard

Production
Producers: Aerosmith, Kevin Shirley
Engineers: Mark Hudson, Joe Perry, Rory Romano, Elliot Scheiner, Kevin Shirley, Steven Tyler
Second engineer: Rory Romano
Mixing: Elliot Scheiner, Kevin Shirley
Mastering: Leon Zervos
Programming: Sander Selover
Horn arrangements: David Campbell, Steven Tyler
String arrangements: David Campbell
Guitar technicians: Lisa Sharken, Jim Survis
Production engineer: David Frangioni
Art direction: Christopher Austopchuk, Gail Marowitz
Photo art direction: Christopher Austopchuk, Gail Marowitz
Photography: F. Scott Schafer
Calligraphy: Jeanne Greco
Stylist: Fiona Williams-Chappel

Just Push Play

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Release Date: March 6, 2001
Chart Positions: #2 (US), #7 (UK)
Certifications: Platinum (US)
Singles: "Jaded", Fly Away From Here", "Sunshine", "Just Push Play"
Sales: 3,000,000

Just Push Play is the thirteenth studio album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 2001. Helping Aerosmith in the studio were coproducers and song collaborators Marti Frederiksen and Mark Hudson.

Just Push Play features the same slick pop production that Aerosmith had been using in recent albums, though this time there was more of a vintage-era edge to most of the tracks.

The album's first single, "Jaded", became a major Top 10 hit in the U.S. and around the world. As a result, Just Push Play was certified platinum within a month of its release. Subsequent singles "Fly Away From Here", "Sunshine", and "Just Push Play", though garnering some airplay, failed to impact the Hot 100 much, although the latter two charted on the U.S. Mainstream Rock chart and the former charted on the Adult Top 40.

The eight-month long Just Push Play Tour, which ran from June 2001 to January 2002 was launched to support the album.

The album's cover features a gynoid resembling Marilyn Monroe and was designed by Hajime Sorayama.


Track listing
1. "Beyond Beautiful" (Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Marti Frederiksen, Mark Hudson) – 4:45
2. "Just Push Play" (Tyler, Hudson, Steve Dudas) – 3:51
3. "Jaded" (Tyler, Frederiksen) – 3:34
4. "Fly Away From Here" (Frederiksen, Todd Chapman) – 5:01
5. "Trip Hoppin'" (Tyler, Perry, Frederiksen, Hudson) – 4:27
6. "Sunshine" (Tyler, Perry, Frederiksen) – 3:37
7. "Under My Skin" (Tyler, Perry, Frederiksen, Hudson) – 3:45
8. "Luv Lies" (Tyler, Perry, Frederiksen, Hudson) – 4:26
9. "Outta Your Head" (Tyler, Perry, Frederiksen) – 3:22
10. "Drop Dead Gorgeous" (Tyler, Perry, Hudson) – 3:42
11. "Light Inside" (Tyler, Perry, Frederiksen) – 3:34
12. "Avant Garden" (Tyler, Perry, Frederiksen, Hudson) – 4:52
Roughly 45 seconds after "Avant Garden" a hidden track entitled "Under My Skin Reprise" plays for about one minute.

Bonus track (international version)
A bonus track was included on limited edition North American releases exclusive to Best Buy.
"Face" (Tyler, Perry, Frederiksen) - 4:25

Personnel
Tom Hamilton - bass
Joey Kramer - drums
Joe Perry - guitar, vocals
Steven Tyler - lead vocals, harmonica, percussion, piano, squeezebox, additional guitar, drums
Brad Whitford - guitar

Additional personnel
Paul Caruso - loop programming
Jim Cox - piano
Dan Higgins - clarinet, saxophone
Tony Perry - guitar, scratching, pedal steel, vocals, background vocals, hurdygurdy, slide guitar
Paul Santo - Hammond organ, Kurzweil synthesizer
Tower of Power - horn
Liv Tyler - whisper

Production
Producers: Marti Frederiksen, Mark Hudson, Joe Perry, Steven Tyler
Engineers: Brian Carrigan, Paul Caruso, Richard Chycki, Marti Frederiksen, Scott Gordon, Jesse Henderson, Paul Santo, Allen Sides
Assistant engineer: Fran Flannery
Mixing: Jeff Burns, Mike Shipley
Mastering: George Marino
Recording: Richard Chycki, Marti Frederiksen
Instrument technician: Jim Survis
Loop programming: Paul Caruso
Horn arrangements: Jim Cox
String arrangements: David Campbell, Jim Cox
Special projects coordinator: Keith Garde
Author: Stephen Saper
Art direction: Kevin Reagan
Design: Kevin Reagan
Make-up: Melissa Rogers

Honkin' on Bobo

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Release Date: March 30, 2004
Chart Positions: #5 (US), #28 (UK)
Certifications: Gold (US)
Singles: "Baby, Please Don't Go"
Sales: 2,500,000

Honkin' on Bobo is the fourteenth studio album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 2004. The album includes eleven covers and one original track titled "The Grind". The sound reflects Aerosmith's blues-based influences and showcases a rawer sound (reminiscent of their 1970s heyday) compared to their recent commercial efforts and was also produced by Jack Douglas, who was Aerosmith's producer on a vast majority of their 1970's output.

Reaching # 5 on The Billboard 200, Honkin' on Bobo has sold 590,000 units in the U.S. as of October 2006, having been certified gold.

In keeping with much of the sexual slang and innuendo Steven Tyler incorporates into his lyrics, the idiom 'honking on bobo' is slang for fellatio.


Track listing
1. "Road Runner" (Bo Diddley) – 3:46
2. "Shame, Shame, Shame" (Ruby Fisher, Kenyon Hopkins) – 2:15
3. "Eyesight to the Blind" (Sonny Boy Williamson II) – 3:10
4. "Baby, Please Don't Go" (Big Joe Williams) – 3:24
5. "Never Loved a Girl" (Ronny Shannon) – 3:12
6. "Back Back Train" (Fred McDowell) – 4:24
7. "You Gotta Move" (Rev. Gary Davis, McDowell) – 5:30
8. "The Grind" (Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Marti Frederiksen) – 3:47
9. "I'm Ready" (Willie Dixon) – 4:15
10. "Temperature" (Joel Michael Cohen, Little Walter) – 2:52
11. "Stop Messin' Around" (Clifford Adams, Peter Green) – 4:32
12. "Jesus Is on the Main Line" (Traditional) – 2:50

Personnel
Joey Kramer - drums, backing vocals
Joe Perry - guitar, vocals, slide guitar, dobro, hurdygurdy
Steven Tyler - lead vocals, harmonica, piano
Brad Whitford - guitar
Tom Hamilton - bass

Additional personnel
Tracy Bonham - vocals
Johnnie Johnson - piano
The Memphis Horns - brass
Paul Santo - piano, Hammond organ, pump organ, Wurlitzer

Production
Producers: Jack Douglas, Marti Frederiksen, Joe Perry, Steven Tyler
Engineers: Paul Caruso, Marti Frederiksen, Jay Messina, Brian Paturalski, Paul Santo
Mixing: Marti Frederiksen
Mastering: Bob Ludwig
A&R: Steve Berkowitz, Don DeVito
Guitar technicians: Greg Howard, Jim Survis
Art direction: Christopher Austopchuk, David Bett
Design: Fusako Chubachi, Michelle Holme
Photography: John Bionelli, Michael Coleman, Ross Halfin

Live Albums


Live! Bootleg

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Release Date: October 1978
Chart Positions: #13 (US)
Certifications: Platinum (US)
Sales: 1,000,000

Live! Bootleg is a live album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 1978.

While most of the performances were drawn from concerts in 1977 and 1978, the covers "I Ain't Got You" and "Mother Popcorn" were taken from a radio broadcast of a Boston performance on March 20, 1973.

The design of the album is intended to ape the poor production values offered by contemporary bootleg records, even going so far as to give an incorrect track listing: the song "Draw the Line" is included on the record but does not appear listed.

The record also features one of Aerosmith's first live versions of the Beatles' "Come Together" (which they performed in the 1978 movie "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band") and the first record appearance of Richie Supa's "Chip Away the Stone" (the studio version of this song would later be released on 1988's "Gems" compilation).


Track listing
1. "Back in the Saddle" (Steven Tyler, Joe Perry) – 4:25
2. "Sweet Emotion" (Tyler, Tom Hamilton) – 4:42
3. "Lord of the Thighs" (Tyler) – 7:18
4. "Toys in the Attic" (Tyler, Perry) – 3:45
5. "Last Child" (Tyler, Brad Whitford) – 3:14
6. "Come Together" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 4:51
7. "Walk This Way" (Tyler, Perry) – 3:46
8. "Sick as a Dog" (Tyler, Hamilton) – 4:42
9. "Dream On" (Tyler) – 4:31
10. "Chip Away at the Stone" (Richard Supa) – 4:12
11. "Sight for Sore Eyes" (Tyler, Perry, Jack Douglas, David Johansen) – 3:18
12. "Mama Kin" (Tyler) – 3:43
13. "S.O.S. (Too Bad)" (Tyler) – 2:46
14. "I Ain't Got You" (Calvin Carter)[1][2] – 3:57
15. "Mother Popcorn"/"Draw the Line" [*] (James Brown, Pee Wee Ellis)/(Tyler, Perry) – 11:35
16. "Train Kept A-Rollin'"/"Strangers in the Night" (Tiny Bradshaw, Howard Kay, Lois Mann)/(Bert Kaempfert, Charlie Singleton, Eddie Snyder) – 4:51
[*] "Draw the Line" is featured as a hidden track at the end of "Mother Popcorn"


Personnel
Tom Hamilton - bass, guitar on "Sick as a Dog"
Joey Kramer - drums,
Joe Perry - guitar, backing vocals, percussion, bass on "Sick as a Dog"
Steven Tyler - lead vocals, harmonica
Brad Whitford - guitar

Additional personnel
Mark Radice - keyboard, backing vocals
David Woodford - saxophone

Production
Producers: Aerosmith, Jack Douglas
Executive producers: David Krebs, Steve Leber
Engineer: Jay Messina
Directors: Aerosmith, David Krebs, Steve Leber
Arrangers: Aerosmith, Jack Douglas, David Hewitt
Art supervisor: Joel Zimmerman
Design: Ken Fredette, Lisa Sparagano
Photography: Jimmy Ienner, Jr., Barry Levine, Ron Pownall, Aaron Rapoport, Steve Smith

Classics Live!

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Release Date: April 1986
Chart Positions: #84 (US)
Certifications: Platinum (US)
Sales: 2,000,000

Classics Live and Classics Live II are a set of albums by the Boston-based rock band Aerosmith, released in 1986 and 1987, respectively. Together, they constitute the band's second live offering, after Live! Bootleg.

Classics Live was recorded at a time when Aerosmith was imploding from personal and musical problems. They were heavy drug addicts, their guitarists were leaving and coming back, and their albums were not selling well. The album is often regarded as a failure because of the new guitarists' performances, and the redundant song selection (most of the songs were already released on Live! Bootleg). Even guitarist Brad Whitford said that he is ashamed to have this record in his collection.

It is hard to tell which of the four guitarists played on which tracks, and the only tracks that are with any certainty played by Jimmy Crespo and Rick Dufay are Train Kept A-Rollin', Mama Kin, Three Mile Smile / Reefer Head Woman and Lord of the Thighs. Although, perhaps due to internal tension or licensing issues, none of the tracks contain songwriting credits for Joe Perry, except for the one Aerosmith song he did not play on in the studio version.

Major Barbara was a song originally cut for Get Your Wings and thereafter cut. It appears on the Classics Live first album and an alternate version is available on the compilation, Pandora's Box.

Track listing
1. "Train Kept A-Rollin'"* (Tiny Bradshaw, Lois Mann, Howard Kay) – 3:18
2. "Kings and Queens" (Steven Tyler, Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton, Joey Kramer, Jack Douglas) – 4:39
3. "Sweet Emotion" (Tyler, Hamilton) – 5:00
4. "Dream On" (Tyler) – 5:02
5. "Mama Kin"* (Tyler) – 3:43
6. "Three Mile Smile"* (Tyler, Perry) / "Reefer Head Woman"* (Lester Melrose, J. Bennett, Jazz Gillum) – 4:55
7. "Lord of the Thighs"* (Tyler) – 6:42
8. "Major Barbra" (Tyler) – 4:01
* Songs recorded at Orpheum Theater, Boston, MA - February 14, 1984.

Classics Live! Vol. 2

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Release Date: June 1987
Chart Positions: -
Certifications: Gold (US)
Sales: 1,000,000

Classics Live II was mainly recorded on a New Year's Eve show in 1984, with all five original members once again reunited. The other two tracks were the first track of 1985s Done with Mirrors, "Let the Music Do the Talking", and a rendition of 1977s "Draw the Line" from California Jam 2.

Classics Live II is regarded as a much better album than the previous effort. The band themselves decided to take control of the album after Columbia's failure with Classics Live, and selected more energetic and commanding performances.


Track listing
1. "Back in the Saddle"* (Tyler, Perry) – 4:39
2. "Happy Birthday"* (Patty Hill, Mildred Hill) / "Walk This Way"* (Tyler, Perry) – 4:22
3. "Movin' Out"* (Tyler, Perry) – 5:45
4. "Draw The Line" (Tyler, Perry) – 5:05
5. "Same Old Song and Dance"* (Tyler, Perry) – 5:23
6. "Last Child"* (Tyler, Brad Whitford) – 3:44
7. "Let the Music Do the Talking" (Perry) – 5:47
8. "Toys in the Attic" (Tyler, Perry) – 4:05
* Songs recorded at Orpheum Theater, Boston, MA - December 31, 1984.


Classics Live Complete
There is also a 1998 version containing both volumes on one CD.

A Little South of Sanity

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Release Date: October 20, 1998
Chart Positions: #12 (US), #36 (UK)
Certifications: Platinum (US)
Sales: 2,000,000


A Little South of Sanity is a live album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, released in 1998. This album was the only Aerosmith live album to receive the Parental Advisory sticker, primarily due to lead singer Steven Tyler shouting profanities in between songs and modifying some song lyrics to racier ones, although some other song lyrics had profanity in their original studio versions as well


Track listing

Disc 1
1. "Eat the Rich" (Joe Perry, Steven Tyler, Jim Vallance) – 5:08
2. "Love in an Elevator" (Perry, Tyler) – 5:25
3. "Falling in Love (Is Hard on the Knees)" (Glen Ballard, Perry, Tyler) – 3:17
4. "Same Old Song and Dance" (Perry, Tyler) – 5:32
5. "Hole in My Soul" (Desmond Child, Perry, Tyler) – 5:35
6. "Monkey On My Back" (Perry, Tyler) – 4:07
7. "Livin' on the Edge" (Mark Hudson, Perry, Tyler) – 5:20
8. "Cryin'" (Perry, Taylor Rhodes, Tyler) – 4:58
9. "Rag Doll" (Holly Knight, Perry, Tyler, Vallance) – 4:12
10. "Angel" (Child, Tyler) – 5:37
11. "Janie's Got a Gun" (Tom Hamilton, Tyler) – 5:04
12. "Amazing" (Richard Supa, Tyler) – 5:15

Disc 2
1. "Back in the Saddle" (Perry, Tyler) – 5:58
2. "Last Child" (Tyler, Brad Whitford) – 4:57
3. "The Other Side" (Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland, Eddie Holland, Tyler, Vallance) – 4:14
4. "Walk on Down" (Perry) – 3:38
5. "Dream On" (Tyler) – 4:39
6. "Crazy" (Child, Perry, Tyler) – 5:39
7. "Mama Kin" (Tyler) – 4:03
8. "Walk This Way" (Perry, Tyler) – 4:20
9. "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" (Child, Perry, Tyler) – 4:16
10. "What it Takes" (Child, Perry, Tyler) – 5:10
11. "Sweet Emotion" (Hamilton, Tyler) – 5:42


Personnel
Tom Hamilton - bass
Joey Kramer - drums
Joe Perry - guitar, vocals, lap steel guitar
Steven Tyler - lead vocals, harmonica, percussion
Brad Whitford - guitar

Additional personnel
Thom Gimbel - keyboard, backing vocals
Russ Irwin - keyboard, background vocals

Production
Engineer: Jay Messina
Assistant engineers: Lawrence Manchester, John Wydrycs
Mixing: Jack Douglas
Mastering: Greg Calbi
Monitor engineer: Mike Sprague
Director: Jim Chapman
Photography: Moshe Brakha
Lighting design: Jim Chapman
Clothing/wardrobe: Sherry Willshire

Rockin' the Joint

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Release Date: October 25, 2005
Chart Positions: #24 (US)
Certifications: -
Sales: 1,000,000

Rockin' the Joint is a live album by Aerosmith, which was released on October 25, 2005. It was recorded in January 2002 in The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, and consists of Aerosmith classics and more recent songs performed live.

Rockin' the Joint was released as a regular CD and a DualDisc. Critical reaction was polarized, and the album didn't fare well commercially, only reaching #24 in the US before quickly falling off the charts. The album was supported by the Rockin' the Joint Tour.


Track listing
1. "Good Evening Las Vegas" – 0:22
2. "Beyond Beautiful" (Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Marti Frederiksen, Mark Hudson) – 4:52
3. "Same Old Song and Dance" (Tyler, Perry) – 5:50
4. "No More No More" (Tyler, Perry) – 4:40
5. "Seasons of Wither" (Tyler) – 5:05
6. "Light Inside" (Tyler, Perry, Frederiksen) – 3:35
7. "Draw the Line" (Tyler, Perry) – 7:23
8. "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" (Diane Warren) – 4:33
9. "Big Ten Inch Record" (Fred Weismantel) – 4:17
10. "Rattlesnake Shake" (Peter Green) – 8:25
11. "Walk This Way" (Tyler, Perry) – 4:13
12. "Train Kept A-Rollin'" (Tiny Bradshaw, Howard Kay, Lois Mann) – 5:13

DVD
Candid moments from Aerosmith's past

"No More No More"
"Dream On"
"Draw the Line"
"Sweet Emotion"

Personnel
Tom Hamilton – bass
Joey Kramer – drums, percussion
Joe Perry – guitar, backing vocals
Steven Tyler – lead vocals, harmonica, keyboard, percussion
Brad Whitford – guitar

DVD
Keith Garde – producer
Dick Carruthers – director
Casey Patrick Tebo – editor