Newly remastered from the original source tapes on pressed on heavyweight, 180 gram black vinyl!
Boston's bad boys were back with a vengeance on their third studio album, 1975's "Toys in the Attic." This is the big one that opened them up to an international audience. Scoring big with the #36-peaking "Sweet Emotion" and the sexy, swaggering "Walk this Way," which hit the #10 spot, "Toys in the Attic"was certified gold in just four months. It has since gone platinum... eight times over. To say lead singer Steven Tyler matured at anything might sound like a contradiction, as his reputation is notorious, but he came into his own as a songwriter with the band on this album. Teaming with producer Jack Douglas, Aerosmith hit their stride recording at the Record Plant in New York. All of their songs were original, except for their cover of "Big Ten Inch Record," a 1952 blues song recorded by Bullmoose Jackson. This 2013 reissue of "Toys in the Attic" is a limited edition. It is pressed on 180-gram vinyl for audiophile-quality sound.
A truly inventive Aerosmith album, still suffused with a gloriously raspy sense of the blues, but quietly evocative in its timbre and approach. It showed Tyler working out lyrics that were so much more than simple cars and girls fodder, 'Adam's Apple' theorizing that creation could quite possibly have occurred with an alien mothership landing on earth and setting the wheels of the human race in motion. 'Sweet Emotion' throbbed slowly into life, 'Big Ten Inch Record', a salty R&B work-out, while 'You See Me Crying' was heightened and given body by a warm orchestration. A clear steeple of great work amid a skyline of repeating successes.
Aerosmith: Steven Tyler (vocals, harmonica, keyboards, percussion); Joe Perry (acoustic guitar, slide guitar, percussion, background vocals); Tom Hamilton (guitar, bass); Brad Whitford (guitar); Joey Kramer (drums, percussion).
Additional personnel: Scott Cushnie (piano); Jay Messina (bass marimba).
Recorded at the Record Plant, New York, New York.
- Format: Vinyl
- Genre: Rock
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Tracklist
| A1 | Toys In The Attic | 3:05 |
| A2 | Uncle Salty | 4:08 |
| A3 | Adam's Apple | 4:34 |
| A4 | Walk This Way | 3:39 |
| A5 | Big Ten Inch Record | 2:10 |
| B1 | Sweet Emotion | 4:34 |
| B2 | No More No More | 4:35 |
| B3 | Round And Round | 5:02 |
| B4 | You See Me Crying | 5:12 |
