Rocks [Original recording remastered]

Aerosmith | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 7, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000029AS
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Music
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (189 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,611 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #35 in Music > Hard Rock & Metal > Hard Rock
  • #68 in Music > Classic Rock > Arena Rock
  • #83 in Music > Hard Rock & Metal > Pop Metal

Editorial Reviews

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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

Product Description

This 1976 platinum platter remains one of the great rock albums of all-time, featuring the raunchy opening blast of Back in the Saddle ; the funky Last Child; Combination, Rats in the Cellar and more.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

78 of 82 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Aerosmith's Pride (...Before The Fall) February 19, 2005

By J. Anderson

Format:Audio CD

I drooled on the window of the local Record Bar. Nose pressed against the window, waiting for 10am when all the stores in the mall would finally open. In my fist I clutched a $10 bill. Beyond the steamy glass they were stocking copies of the new Aerosmith LP "Rocks"...the follow-up to "Toys in the Attic". When the doors opened I strutted in, selected my sacred copy of the new release, and purchased it at the counter. With the new record on the passenger seat of my 1970 Ford Maverick, I sat at the wheel driving home. My first driver's license barely cool from being freshly minted the day before. When I got home, I leapt from the car, leaving the wadded shrink wrap on the front seat. Through the door of my parent's house, and straight to my bedroom I went. I put the record on my turntable, and sat on the edge of my bed. The sound came from my cheap GE Stereo speakers, cranked loud enough to cause sterility. But the testosterone flowed freely as I sat mesmerized for the duration of the LP, only coming out of the daze long enough to turn the record over at the end of side one. Again I was stoked beyond words by the power of Aerosmith! I picked up the phone and called my friend Mac. "Have you heard this?" Putting the phone up to the speakers. I went down my personal phone list, repeating the process..."Have you heard this?" I could imagine recievers dangling off the hook as friends ran out the door with $10 bills in thier hands. To this day, I rememeber the awe that swelled up inside of me as I proceeded to wear the grooves of this record so thin that you could see through the vinyl. 20 years later: Shutting off my bedside lamp, I layed down for the evening. On my nightstand, a $20 bill. "Tomorrow," I thought to myself, "it finally comes out on CD." Yes...this record is THAT good!

34 of 34 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Aerosmith's finest hour! September 30, 1999

By A Customer

Format:Audio CD

This is the REAL Aerosmith. You won't find any of the sugar-coated, sell-out, mainstream geared crap that they've turned out in the 90's. This is the raw, rockin', and dangerous Aerosmith of the 70's. There is not a weak track on this gem. From the rocking bass-driven "Back In The Saddle", to the bluesy jive of "Last Child", the fast-paced and reckless "Rats In The Cellar", the environmentally conscious "Nobody's Fault", to the grandiose ballad "Home Tonight", etc., etc., etc., this album Rocks from start to finish. It is clear that so many bands that would come later were listening to this album way back when. Those people who think that what Aerosmith does now is great, needs to go back and listen to a REAL rock album, ROCKS. This is Aerosmith's crowning achievemnet.

58 of 63 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars EVERYBODY OWNED ROCKS IN 1976! 10 stars November 30, 1999

By James E. Lane

Format:Audio CD

10 million thumbs up! Without a dought the greatest rock&roll record of all time. Everybody owned it,everywhere you went it was playing. TOYS IN THE ATTIC brought AEROSMITH to the front of the line. ROCKS made them superstars. BACK IN THE SADDLE is the anthem of the 70's generation. LAST CHILD & RATS IN THE CELLER come right out of the same attitude as Alice Cooper's SCHOOLS OUT. The rest of this cd just smokes big time. SLASH from GUNS&ROSES says this record changed his life,mine too! The only other rockin stuff to come out in 1976? J. Geils Band/Blow Your Face Off! Live and Mahogany RushIV. But nothing with the memories of ROCKS. Makes a great gift to. THANK YOU VERY MUCH! JAMIN JIM PS sounds real good with Ted Nugents FREE FOR ALL cd.