Aerosmith 'Rocks' - the first punk-dub album?

Never properly listened to 'Rocks' until I replayed it today and it just clicked - whatever was going up their nose back them sure did come out in some kick ass songs ...

might as well

question: is this thread the origin-point of the intense display of fanship on ILX for 70s Aeromsith?

those mini guitar solos in "nobody's fault" are so frickin badass.

I just had that going through my head the other day. Which is weird because I've only heard it a few times.

listening on headphones the other night I discovered all this crazy shit going on just underthe music during "Back in the Saddle". Nice work Jack Douglas.

Back when I used to listen to headphones on a regular basis, this was one of my fave albums to do it with. There's a lot of creepy stuff going on that you miss w/out 'phones, esp. in Saddle, yeah.

There's no other record in their catalog that has a production as murky, as layered, or as rich. I mean murky in a good way, too.

listening to this right now for 70s rawk poll, Perry's leads (which fade in and out of the mix) sound a little like Fripp on Scary Monsters

Perry's leads on "Rats in the Cellar", I mean

ah my favorite thread title

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okay Nobody's Fault slams

those little guitar accents in "last child"

and "rats in the cellar"! all those screaming guitar noises just barely escaping the mix

Drugs - I knew you'd like it.

note how the drums mutate into a walking fleet of giants at the end of "combination"

this is the best album ever

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A reminder: This album more than makes up for 30 years of shit Aerosmith.

favorite ilx thread title

I spent most of December listening to "Lick and a Promise."

i'd have said "favorite ilx thread" but the other rocks thread has a lot of incredible posts

yes, this album is some kind of formal breakthrough.

it's a very strange mix of the textures being so shambolic that it feels like it is going to break down into musical chaos at any minute, and yet all the parts are held in what repeated listenings reveal to be a very precise balance. it's kind of perfect example of a certain paradox of hard rock and metal, which is that many of the greatest and most paradigmatic examples of a music whose ethos is all about chaos, haggardness, a kind of studied macho indifference, can in fact be the result of considerable expertise, care, and attention to detail.

^^^^^^^^ hell yeah

love this album. combination is my jam

ragin'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hplDR4TPGTM

Sick as a dog, um, cat got your tongue
Sick as a dog, you'll be sorry
Sick as a dog, 'cause you really ain't so young

that houston show is just peak awesomeness. those guitars....man oh man. everyone sounds great. punk-dub echo on the vocals sound so cool. epic funky lord of the thighs.

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the guitar solos on "nobody's fault"... hell "nobody's fault" on its own is just ridiculous. and "sick as a dog" is punk as fuck, imo

i think i said this in the other rocks thread but imo you can hear r.e.m. being born in "sick as a dog"

R.E.M. actually covered 'Toys In The Attic'!

Yeah, this album rules and this band were totally on fire in the '70s... that they didn't end up really getting much commercial success here in the UK until their best years were long behind them will always have me scratching my head.

I think I'm gonna play this album really loudly when I get home today

that houston show made my morning. i was almost late for work. so cool. i never really listen to aerosmith anymore. they are kinda just a part of my dna thanks to years of exposure. my brother worshipped them.

my brother went to this show. it was the rock event of his summer.

http://theconcertdatabase.com/sites/theconcertdatabase.com/files/1978-08-06.jpg

Not cheap!

Seriously, I don't see a date on that poster, but that's mid '80s pricing, not '70s pricing. (Woulda been a hell of a show, though.)

1978

yeah, '78. my dad took him. but would my dad take me to see maiden and priest in new haven in 1982? noooooooooo.....

Just lost an evening to that '77 show upthread.

like what IS that thing at the end of "Back in the Saddle"? Apparently a 27-string bass, could just as well be a tuba or an exploding meth lab.