Greatest Hits (1972-1979) (CD)

A hard-rocking, no-holds-barred American group fronted by the wiry Steven Tyler, Aerosmith plays heavy riffs with a blues underpinning. After huge hits and sold-out tours in the 1970s, the band sank into oblivion for the first half of the '80s. They returned on the crest of Run-DMC's version of "Walk This Way" in 1986, and rode back up the charts with their rehabilitated rock, cranking out slick videos to gain a new generation of fans. Having hitched their star to MTV, they took on the role of rock's elder statesmen.

• Category:  Music  »  Rock & Pop  »  Hard Rock
• Format: CD   Learn more about the CD format using Tower WIKI.
• Release Date: August 24, 1993
• Label: Columbia (USA)
• UPC: 074645736723
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106690629
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #4275 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #2161 in Rock & Pop (See Top 100 Rock & Pop Bestsellers)
• #123 in Hard Rock (See Top 100 Hard Rock Bestsellers)

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This reissue includes new deluxe packaging with original release liner notes, photos, and artwork.

Aerosmith: Steven Tyler (vocals, harmonica, piano); Joe Perry (guitar, background vocals); Brad Whitford (guitar); Tom Hamilton (bass); Joey Kramer (drums, percussion).

Producers include: Aerosmith, Adrian Barber, Jack Douglas, Ray Colcord, George Martin.

All tracks have been digitally remastered.

Originally decried by critics as an American rip-off of the Rolling Stones, Aerosmith blew these criticisms away by going on to become the biggest and best hard rock band of the '70s. Fronted by funky and fast-talking Steven Tyler, Aerosmith was anchored by the rock-solid rhythm tandem of Tom Hamilton and Joey Kramer, while guitarists Joe Perry and Brad Whitford were the instrumental gunslingers of the band.

Much of Aerosmith's appeal lies in the band's outlaw personas, particularly on such incendiary cuts as "Back in the Saddle" and the equally powerful "Draw the Line." The flip side of these nuggets were arena anthems like the prototype power ballad "Dream On" and "Sweet Emotion," a simmering classic written by Tyler about Perry's wife. Unlike many hard rock bands of the time whose sound was solely rooted in heavy blues-rock, Aerosmith was an unabashed fan of pop. Not only did the band cover the Beatles ("Come Together") and The ShangriLas ("Remember [Walking in the Sand]), but paid tribute to James Brown by writing its own "Mother Popcorn."

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