The following list is widely considered to be the complete discography of Aerosmith's primary releases. There are numerous other secondary or minor releases (such as various artist compilations, etc) that have included works by the band to one degree or another. We have listed a review of each CD to assist you in deciding which of these releases you might want to include in your CD collection. Please note that these are NOT our reviews but rather those of the staff at Amazon.com. All of these CD can be purchased at Amazon.com by clicking on the respective links. Thanks, Aerosmith Info! Please Support Our Sponsors
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	Track List: Make It Somebody Dream On One Way Street Mama Kin Write Me Movin' Out Walkin' The Dog	(Released January 1, 1973) - While not their strongest recording, Aerosmith's self-titled debut gave a taste of the musical path that the band, and much of the rest of hard rock, was to follow for the rest of the 1970s and well into the 1980s. Although the awkward social commentary of "Movin' Out" and the swinging cover of Rufus Thomas's "Walking the Dog" have largely been forgotten, two standards emerged from Aerosmith: "Dream On", a prototypical power ballad with its keyboards and string arrangement, and "Mama Kin," which contains one of the most recognizable riffs in hard-rock history. Though Aerosmith would record better albums--both before and after their drug-induced implosion--their debut serves as a kind of road map to much of post-'60s rock & roll. -- Genevieve Williams (from Amazon.com)	Buy This CD from Amazon.com
	Track List: Same Old Song And Dance Lord Of The Thighs Spaced Woman Of The World S.O.S. (Too Bad) Train Kept A Rollin' Seasons Of Wither Pandora's Box	(Released March 1, 1974) - While not quite as exemplary of the Boston quintet's '70s sound as Toys in the Attic or Rocks, Get Your Wings was impressive both in terms of its material and its measurable improvement over Aerosmith's debut. From the R&B inflected "Same Old Song and Dance" to the power-rock "Woman of the World" to the rollicking cover of "Train Kept a Rollin'," Wings showed the band solidifying their sound and really taking flight for the first time. -- Genevieve Williams (from Amazon.com)	Buy This CD from Amazon.com
	Track List: Toys In The Attic Uncle Salty Adam's Apple Walk This Way Big Ten Inch record Sweet Emotion No More No More Round And Round You See Me Crying	(Released April 1, 1975) - Originally released in 1975, this was Aerosmith's breakout recording. Listeners only familiar with their more recent, post-comeback material may be surprised; like their other albums from the 1970s, Toys has a strong blues inflection, as indicated by their cover of "Big Ten Inch Record," which also shows that Aerosmith has never lacked raunchiness or innuendo. There's also the original (pre-Run-D.M.C.) version of "Walk This Way," and the classic "Sweet Emotion." This is classic Aerosmith at its gritty, streetwise best; they may have been derivative, but it really doesn't matter, then or now: it's all in good fun. -- Genevieve Williams (from Amazon.com)	Buy This CD from Amazon.com
	Track List: Back In The Saddle Last Child Rats In The Cellar Combination Sick As A Dog Nobody's Fault Get The Lead Out Lick And A Promise Home Tonight	(Released May 1, 1976) - They'd soon crash, and hard, thanks to their own excesses. But Rocks captures Aerosmith at a crazily driven peak of creativity; anyone who heard it and continued to dismiss them as mere Stones clones was just being willful. This is blues rock cranked up to '70s stadium level, the sound of the Trans Am, or maybe the Porsches several of these guys (surprisingly) remember driving. The psychic battering they would succumb to on the next year's Draw the Line is foreshadowed in Joe Perry's "Combination," but he and Steven Tyler also celebrate the rock-star mythos on "Lick and a Promise." The party-fueled tension, the tension-fueled party. -- Rickey Wright (from Amazon.com)	Buy This CD from Amazon.com
	Track List: Draw The Line I Wanna Know Why Critical Mass Get It Up Bright Light Fright Kings And Queens The Hand That Feeds Sight For Sore Eyes Milk Cow Blues	(Released December 1, 1977) - With this album, Aerosmith took their rock stylings in a grittier, more down-to-earth, blues-based hard rock direction. The result is an album that, while very good, fails to top either of the band's two albums that immediately came before it. Still, you get an album of sheer classic rock greatness. The obvious hit on this album was the classic title track. It's straight-up hard rock with that seventies Aerosmith touch to it and you can't help but love it. They couldn't have started the album better. Another big hit to emerge from this release was the classic Kings And Queens. It's kicked off with one of the band's best guitar solos (that solo got cut from version on Aerosmith's Greatest Hits), and soon becomes an awesome rocker telling a tale of medieval times. The song DOES ramble on a bit too long, but when it rocks, it rocks. The album's other tracks are blues-based seventies hard rock at its best. While this album is certainly not another Toys In The Attic or Rocks, I don't think any die-hard fan of the band will deny that it's a solid effort, through and through. -- Darth Kommissar (from Amazon.com)	Buy This CD from Amazon.com
	Track List: Back In The Saddle Sweet Emotion Lord Of The Thighs Toys In The Attic Last Child Come Together Walk This Way Sick As A Dog Dream On Chip Away The Stone Sight For Sore Eyes Mama Kin S.O.S. (Too Bad) I Ain't Got You Mother Popcorn Draw The Line Train Kept A Rollin'	(Released October May 1, 1978) - Bootleg is a collection of live songs from their 77-78 tour (with the exception of Mother Popcorn from a 1973 radio broadcast). For my money, Aerosmith is one of the greatest live bands ever, and this is a collection of some of their greatest songs, from the era before they were ever on MTV or even radio. Some of the highlights: Back in the Saddle- Just a cool song. Sounds great live. What Tyler calls a "lusty cowboy song". Sweet Emotion and Dream On - Two classics that are made to be played live. Last Child - Another great song. A little faster than studio versions, but full of energy. Walk this Way - More funky than on the album. really cool. Chip Away - Best track on the album, awesome crowd reaction. Train Kept a Rollin'- I'll quote the liner notes on this one, "Loud and fast-speaks for itself". -- David Shadd (from Amazon.com)	Buy This CD from Amazon.com
	Track List: No Surprize Chiquita Remember (Walking In The Sand) Cheese Cake Three Mile Smile Reefer Headed Woman Bone To Bone Think About It Mia	(Released November 1, 1979) - I really think this album (and Draw The Line before it) tend to get a bad rap. NO, they aren't as good as the band's middle two albums from the classic period, but in their own right they're excellent rockers through and through. However, I won't deny that this album, in many ways, does come off seeming like a copy of Draw The Line - both albums feature a very similar, bluesy-hard rock sound. But it's a good sound, still. The only real hit to emerge from this album was a cover of an old Shangri-La's tune, Remember (Walkin' In The Sand.) While the cover tune gets mixed reviews from fans, I think it's a very good track. Other noteworthy songs include No Surprize and Chiquita - two awesome hard rockers that kick the album off. It's a shame they weren't bigger hits! Many of the songs use the same hard rock meets blues rock styling, and for the most part, this works well. The album is concluded with Mia, a rather excellent acoustic ballad that could easily have been a top ten hit, had it been released as a single. In the end this is a very good album, but it doesn't top the early work from the band's glory days. -- Darth Kommissar (from Amazon.com)	Buy This CD from Amazon.com
	Track List: Dream On Same Old Song And Dance Sweet Emotion Walk Tis Way Last Child Back In The Saddle Draw The Line Kings And Queens Come Together Remember (Walking In The Sand)	(Released October 1, 1980) - Aerosmith has been creating hits for several decades, and this CD gathers up some of their most popular songs. It's important that this was put out back in 1980! Certainly they have had MANY hits since then. Heck, they had more than 10 hits at that point, even. Still, people were asking for a Greatest Hits collection at the time, and they loved having one to buy. These are NOT the full length album versions of songs. These are the "singles" versions. Actually for fans, that is a great thing. If you want the full length album version, you can buy the album. Without this collection it might be really hard to hear the version you remembered from the radio. People always argue over what songs count as hits to go on a collection. I found this group a quite nice group, and I own the other albums as I said if I want to listen to another song not in this set. Dream On is of course an epic classic, I just love this song. "Dream until your dreams come true!" It's great for blasting in the car as you cruise down the highway, looking to get that new job or boyfriend or whatever it is you're seeking. On the flip side, "Same Old Song and Dance" is a little more callous, that life gives you junk to deal with sometimes - so you deal with it. "Sweet Emotion" is the kick-butt longing that just about every human has had at some point in life, when you see someone in a club and you just want to be with them. Then comes "Walk This Way" which I really love, with its cool strut-sound that is perfect to dance to. Really, every song here is great, right up until the ending "Remember" song full of angst and plaintiveness. It's the perfect ending to the collection of songs that span the emotions through dreams, losses, lust, and heartache. -- Lisa Shea (from Amazon.com)	Buy This CD from Amazon.com
	Track List: Jailbait Lightning Strikes Bitch's Brew Bolivian Ragamuffin Cry Me A River Prelude To Joanie Joanie's Butterfy Rock In A Hard Place Jig Is Up Push Comes To Shove	(Released August 1, 1982) - This is a much better album than people give it credit for being, but if you're looking for classic, seventies-style Aerosmith, you're not gonna find it here. This is the band's most different-sounding album, in that they take elements of eighties hard rock/heavy metal, and fuse them with elements of hard blues rock. The end result is an album that, literally, sounds like nothing or no one else. This album was a commercial failure, due in no small part to the absence of Perry and Whitford. But a commercial failure does not always mean a bad album - this album rocks! Crespo and Dufay fill the shoes of the missing guitar pair nicely. I swear, these two guys get a bad rap for no reason at all! Not a single hit emerged from this album, which is a shame, because the material on here really is very good. It's NOT an album that's going to appeal to casual fans, though, so only venture into this territory if you're a die-hard. Aerosmith's albums were remastered and reissued, but the remasters are disappointing in that the record company didn't do twofer issues or include bonus tracks. This is a shame, because there were so many opportunities that went wasted accordingly. In other words, if you have the earlier CD releases of the albums, there's no reason to get the remasters. Rock In A Hard Place is an excellent, hard blues rock album, despite being a commercial failure. However, due to its wildly different nature from other Aerosmith releases, I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS RELEASE TO CASUAL FANS OF THE GROUP. In fact, I think that this album and the follow-up, Done With Mirrors, are the LAST albums a fan of the group should buy. Still, if you're a fan like me, I bet you'll grow to love this album. -- Darth Kommissar (from Amazon.com)	Buy This CD from Amazon.com
	Track List: Let The Music Do The Talking My Fist Your Face Shame On You The Reason A Dog Shela Gypsy Boots She's On Fire The Hop Darkness	(Released November 1, 1985) - Proof positive that the Toxic Twins should never be apart, Done with Mirrors was Aerosmith's first album since Joe Perry returned to the band in 1985. Though it didn't garner as much commercial success as did the follow-up Permanent Vacation, this album is in many ways truer to the heart of what Aerosmith was in their 1970s heyday. From the opening drive of "Let the Music Do the Talking" (which reuses that great riff from 1977's "Draw the Line"), to the strong grooves of "The Reason a Dog" and "Gypsy Boots," to the rockin' shuffle of "The Hop," Done with Mirrors is full of strong moments. The two best tracks on the album, though, show Aerosmith heading back to their roots: the swampy rock of "She's On Fire" and the jive-to-drive of "Darkness," both of which have the raw, bluesy base of the band's best material. If nothing else, Done with Mirrors indicated that Aerosmith may have been down, but they definitely weren't out of the running yet--something that Permanent Vacation would prove two years later. -- Genevieve Williams (from Amazon.com)	Buy This CD from Amazon.com

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