"the song so much, he suggested his group record a cover version, only to be told by Perry, ""It's ""us"", fuckhead."" Tyler was suffering from memory problems at the time due to heavy drug use. You See Me Crying ""You See Me Crying"" is a power ballad by American hard rock band Aerosmith. It was released in 1975 as the last track on the band's breakthrough album ""Toys in the Attic"". A shorter mix of the song was released as the third single from the album in November 1975, but failed to chart. Consequently, the original single (backed with ""Toys"
"band came into its own during the mid-1970s with a string of hit records. Chief among these successes were ""Toys in the Attic"" (1975) and ""Rocks"" (1976), thanks largely to the prevalence of free-form, album-oriented FM radio. The group also managed hit singles on the radio with songs like ""Dream On"", ""Same Old Song and Dance"", ""Sweet Emotion"", ""Walk This Way"", ""Back in the Saddle"", and ""Last Child"". During this time, Perry and Tyler became known as the ""Toxic Twins"" for their notorious hard-partying and drug use. Aerosmith's crowd earned the nickname ""The Blue Army"", so called by the band"
"in the Saddle"", as well as the ballad ""Home Tonight"", which also charted. ""Rocks"" would eventually go on to sell over four million copies. Both ""Toys in the Attic"" and ""Rocks"" are highly regarded, especially in the hard rock genre: they appear on such lists as ""Rolling Stone""s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and are cited as influential by members of Guns N' Roses, Metallica, and Mötley Crüe. Kurt Cobain also listed ""Rocks"" as one of the albums he thought were most influential to Nirvana’s sound in his journal in 1993. Soon after ""Rocks"" was released, the band continued"
"in the Attic"" has gone on to become the band's bestselling studio album in the United States, with certified U.S. sales of eight million copies. The band toured in support of ""Toys in the Attic"", where they started to get more recognition. Also around this time, the band established their home base as ""the Wherehouse"" in Waltham, Massachusetts, where they would record and rehearse music, as well as conduct business. In 1976, Aerosmith's fourth album was ""Rocks,"" which ""captured Aerosmith at their most raw and rocking"". It went platinum swiftly and featured two Top 40 hits, ""Last Child"" and ""Back"
"unique and talented band in their own right. ""Toys in the Attic"" was an immediate success, starting with the single ""Sweet Emotion"", which became the band's first Top 40 hit. This was followed by a successful re-release of ""Dream On"" which hit #6, becoming their best charting single of the 1970s. ""Walk This Way"", re-released in 1976, reached the Top 10 in early 1977. In addition, ""Toys in the Attic"" and ""Big Ten Inch Record"" (a song originally recorded by Bull Moose Jackson) became concert staples. As a result of this success, both of the band's previous albums re-charted. ""Toys"
"the Yardbirds. The album also contained several fan favorites, including ""Lord of the Thighs"", ""Seasons of Wither"", and ""S.O.S. (Too Bad)"", darker songs that have become staples in the band's live shows. To date, ""Get Your Wings"" has sold three million copies. In 1975, Aerosmith released their third album, ""Toys in the Attic"", which established Aerosmith as international stars, competing with the likes of Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones. Originally derided as Rolling Stones knockoffs in part due to the physical resemblance between lead singers Steven Tyler and Mick Jagger, ""Toys in the Attic"" showed that Aerosmith was a"
"Brad Whitford, and the band began developing a following in Boston. They were signed to Columbia Records in 1972, and released a string of gold and platinum albums, beginning with their 1973 eponymous debut album, followed by ""Get Your Wings"" in 1974. In 1975, the band broke into the mainstream with the album ""Toys in the Attic"", and their 1976 follow-up ""Rocks"" cemented their status as hard rock superstars. ""Draw the Line"" and ""Night in the Ruts"" followed in 1977 and 1979 respectively. Their first five albums have since attained multi-platinum status. Throughout the 1970s, the band toured extensively and"
"multi-platinum. ""Toys in the Attic"" and ""Rocks"" broke Aerosmith into the mainstream and have become highly influential, with both albums ranking among ""Rolling Stone""'s list of the ""500 Greatest Albums of All Time"". The close relationship between Douglas and Aerosmith extended beyond producing and engineering, as Douglas was also a musical contributor to the group when they came up short of material on their projects. For example, Douglas helped write the band's 1978 hit ""Kings and Queens"". He was often given the nickname of ""the sixth member"" of Aerosmith, due to his close relationship with the band. Douglas was replaced"
"the group was halfway through recording ""Toys in the Attic"" in early 1975 at Record Plant in New York City, they found themselves stuck for material. They had written three or four songs for the album, having ""to write the rest in the studio."" They decided to give the song Perry had come up with in Hawaii a try, but it didn't have lyrics or a title yet. In 1997, Perry recalled that the idea for the funky, James Brown-influenced ""Walk This Way"" was inspired by the film ""Young Frankenstein"", which the band had gone to see around the time"
"members' early lives until 1975, when their album ""Toys in the Attic"" was released and the band was reaching their peak in the 1970s. Book Two chronicles the band from 1976 into their downfall in the early 1980s, and then their remarkable comeback of the late 1980s until 1997, when the book was released. The book is written in a very distinctive fashion, with alternating paragraphs of recollections by the individual band members, band personnel, family members, friends, and music industry professionals. This results in a very descriptive reading, as it presents the detailed recollection of individual events in the"
"and sat behind the drums and [they] jammed."" Tyler scatted ""nonsensical words initially to feel where the lyrics should go before adding them later."" When the group was halfway through recording ""Toys in the Attic"" in early 1975 at Record Plant in New York City, they found themselves stuck for material. They had written three or four songs for the album, having ""to write the rest in the studio."" They decided to give the song Perry had come up with in Hawaii a try, but it did not have lyrics or a title yet. Deciding to take a break from"
"Up in the Attic Up in the Attic is the fourth studio album by American rock band Alien Ant Farm. The album is identical to ""3rd Draft"" with the addition of one new track, and radio promo, ""Forgive & Forget"". It's considered a commercial flop in the U.S. because of little support for the album, no officially released single (""Forgive & Forget"" was only released as a promo to radio and received little airplay), and no tour. The album debuted at number 114 on the ""Billboard"" 200, dropped to number 198 in its next week, and fell off completely in"
"been re-released on Universal Japan label. In 2005, to celebrate the band's 35th anniversary, a series of digitally remastered and specially packaged CDs of their later albums were released by Derek Shulman's company, DRT Entertainment. They all featured unreleased live tracks (of varying quality) as bonuses. Many of these albums (most notably, ""In a Glass House"") were previously difficult to purchase in North America without resorting to imports. The re-released albums are: ""In a Glass House"" (1973), ""The Power and the Glory"" (1974), ""Free Hand"" (1975), ""Interview"" (1976), ""The Missing Piece"" (1977), ""Playing the Fool"" (1977, live), and ""Giant for"
"the Attic"" (1975), which reached number 11 in the American album chart, and ""Rocks"" (1976), which peaked at number three. Blue Öyster Cult, formed in the late 60s, picked up on some of the elements introduced by Black Sabbath with their breakthrough live gold album ""On Your Feet or on Your Knees"" (1975), followed by their first platinum album, ""Agents of Fortune"" (1976), containing the hit single ""(Don't Fear) The Reaper"", which reached number 12 on the Billboard charts. Journey released their eponymous debut in 1975 and the next year Boston released their highly successful début album. In the same"
"Goin' to Praiseland"" (both times performed by fictional group 'Hooray for Everything'). ""Get Dancin'"" is ranked as the 82nd biggest Canadian hit of 1975, and ranks as the 100th biggest American hit of the year. The group was name-checked by Elvis Costello in the song ""Invasion Hit Parade"" from his 1991 release ""Mighty Like a Rose"" with the ""King of the Road""-alike lyric ""No pool, no pets, no cigarettes - Just non-stop Disco Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes"". The group Pet Shop Boys included the lyric ""It's the greatest show with the best effects, since Disco Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes"" on"
"music. The remaining quintet regrouped to record the harder-rocking ""In a Glass House"", which was released in 1973. They played their first gig as a five-piece at King Alfred's College, Winchester. ""In a Glass House"" is a complex and determined concept album - named for the aphorism that ""people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones"" - it was the band's most directly psychological effort to date. The album was also notable for its three-dimensional cover, using a cellophane overlay (replicated using the CD jewel case on the Terrapin CD reissue, and via a custom digipak for the later"
"1974 and 1980, their biggest two being ""Pick Up the Pieces"" from their 1974 best-selling album ""AWB"", and ""Cut the Cake"" from their 1975 album of the same name. Boz Scaggs' 1976 ""Lowdown"", which featured Scaggs' laid-back vocals and a smooth funky groove, peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart (and reaching Top 5 on the R&B chart). In April 1976, white funk band Wild Cherry released the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart topping funk/rock single ""Play That Funky Music"" and also went to number one on the Hot Soul Singles chart. The single would eventually sell over"
"of the premier attractions on the burgeoning UK psychedelic/progressive ""underground"" scene. Their lifestyle and exploits during this period provided some of the inspiration for the 1969 novel, ""Groupie"", by Jenny Fabian (who lived in the group's Chelsea house for some time) and Johnny Byrne. Family featured in the book under the pseudonym, 'Relation'. ""Music in a Doll's House"" was released in July 1968 and charted at No. 35 in the UK to critical acclaim, thanks to strong support from BBC Radio 1's John Peel. Now widely acknowledged as a classic of British psychedelic rock, it showcased many of the stylistic"
"released. It was, however, made available by the band during the Alien Ant Farm Summer 2005 Tour. Track listing: Up in the Attic Up in the Attic is the fourth studio album by American rock band Alien Ant Farm. The album is identical to ""3rd Draft"" with the addition of one new track, and radio promo, ""Forgive & Forget"". It's considered a commercial flop in the U.S. because of little support for the album, no officially released single (""Forgive & Forget"" was only released as a promo to radio and received little airplay), and no tour. The album debuted at"
"artists such as Jimi Hendrix, Sly Stone, and Frank Zappa, Clinton later relocated to Detroit and began the sister groups Parliament and Funkadelic, with the former playing an eclectic and more commercial form of funk, and the latter incorporating more influence from psychedelic rock. The groups released albums such as ""Maggot Brain"" (1971), ""Mothership Connection"" (1975), and ""One Nation Under a Groove"" (1978) to critical praise, and scored charting hits with singles such as ""Give Up the Funk"" (1976), ""One Nation Under a Groove"" (1978), ""Flash Light"" (1978), and ""Atomic Dog"" (1982). Overall, the collective achieved thirteen top ten hits"
"the American mainstream by releasing the compilation ""A Closer Look"". This release coincided with the band's first tour of America later in 1975, when they toured as a support act for The Kinks. Although the album failed to generate commercial success for the band, it did provide a sampler of this group's work up to that point. The ten tracks on the compilation were taken from the band's first three studio albums; ""The Human Menagerie"" (1973), ""The Psychomodo"" (1974), and ""The Best Years of Our Lives"" (1975). One notable omission was the UK Top 5 hit ""Judy Teen"". The album"
"a close bond and worked together for the remainder of Lennon's life. As a Record Plant staff engineer, Douglas also forged working relationships with Patti Smith, Blue Öyster Cult, the New York Dolls, Cheap Trick, Starz and most notably Aerosmith. It was during the recording of the New York Dolls' first album that Douglas was encouraged by producer Bob Ezrin to also consider becoming a record producer. Douglas engineered and produced many of Aerosmith's albums in the 1970s, including ""Get Your Wings"" (1974), ""Toys in the Attic"" (1975), ""Rocks"" (1976) and ""Draw the Line"" (1977), all of which have gone"
"Hot Rocks 1964–1971 Hot Rocks 1964–1971 is a compilation album by the Rolling Stones released by London Records in December 1971. It became the Rolling Stones' best-selling release of their career and an enduring and popular retrospective. While the album carries most of the band's biggest hits during their first decade, it does drop a few of them to include standout album tracks such as ""Play With Fire"", ""Under My Thumb"" and ""Gimme Shelter"" giving listeners a more well-rounded impression of the Rolling Stones' music in this era. ""Hot Rocks 1964–1971"" peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 album"
"Music in a Doll's House Music in a Doll's House is the debut album by English progressive rock group Family, released on 19 July 1968. The album, co-produced by Dave Mason of Traffic, features a number of complex musical arrangements contributing to its ambitious psychedelic sound. The Beatles had originally intended to use the title ""A Doll's House"" for the album they were recording during 1968. The release of Family's similarly titled debut then prompted them to adopt the minimalist title ""The Beatles"" for what is now more commonly referred to as ""The White Album"" due to its plain white"
"as a single – it reached number 5 in the UK Charts in late 1975. The single was also released in other European countries and gave them a breakthrough in the Netherlands and Germany. Other well-known tracks on the album included ""Black Jack Davy"" (sampled by rappers Goldie Lookin Chain on their track ""The Maggot"") and the rocky ""Hard Times of Old England"". But while ""All Around My Hat"" was the height of the band's commercial success, the good times were not to last long. Despite touring almost every year since 1975, they have not had another hit single, nor"
"had for other albums, with stronger emphasis on rock music as evident in the songs ""Climbing Up the Ladder"" and ""Livin' in the Life"" than they had on previous albums. Released in 1977, the album became one of their longest-running chart successes on the album chart staying on the charts for 40 weeks and spawning several singles including ""The Pride"", ""Livin' in the Life"" and the ballad ""Voyage to Atlantis"" while the funk ballad ""Footsteps in the Dark"", which was never released as a single, became one of the brothers' most popular songs in their repertoire and would be sampled"
"the Act"", ""Movin' On"", and ""Hot On the Tracks"") are considered the peak of their harder funk period. After those recordings the group started to move towards a softer sound. That move was hinted at in their 1976 Top Ten hits ""Sweet Love"" and ""Just to Be Close to You"". In 1977 the Commodores released ""Easy"", which became the group's biggest hit yet, reaching No. 4 in the U.S., followed by ""Brick House"", also top 5, both from their album ""The Commodores"", as was ""Zoom"". The group reached No. 1 in 1978 with ""Three Times a Lady"". In 1979 the"
"the group a UK #1 in 1975 with ""Can't Give You Anything"". Further successes with ""Sing Baby Sing"", ""Na Na Is The Saddest Word"", ""Funky Weekend"" and ""Can't Help Falling in Love"" consolidated the group's European popularity. They are one of the few U.S. acts to have two chart-topping greatest hits albums in the UK. The Stylistics switched record labels during this period as Avco Records transitioned into H&L Records in 1976. Notwithstanding this, the band began to struggle with increasingly weak material, and although the singles and albums came out as before, by 1978 chart success had vanished. A"
"""Double Live Gonzo!"" (1978). From outside the United Kingdom and the United States, the Canadian trio Rush released three distinctively hard rock albums in 1974–75 (""Rush"", ""Fly by Night"" and ""Caress of Steel"") before moving toward a more progressive sound with the 1976 album ""2112"". The Irish band Thin Lizzy, which had formed in the late 1960s, made their most substantial commercial breakthrough in 1976 with the hard rock album ""Jailbreak"" and their worldwide hit ""The Boys Are Back in Town"", which reached number 8 in the UK and number 12 in the US. Their style, consisting of two duelling"
"the Boys"" had a homosexual subtext, so The Toggery Five version changed the lyric to ""I'd rather be out with the boys."" Released in June 1975, ""Metamorphosis"" came out the same day as the band's authorised hits collection ""Made in the Shade"" and was also seen to be cashing in on The Rolling Stones' summer Tour of the Americas. While the critical reception was lukewarm—many felt some of the songs were best left unreleased— ""Metamorphosis"" still managed to reach No. 8 in the US, though it only made No. 45 in the UK. Two singles, ""Out of Time"" (featuring Jagger"
"helped ""Toys in the Attic"" to be the bestselling Aerosmith album, and one of the most critically acclaimed. Aerosmith's version of ""Walk This Way"" often competes with ""Sweet Emotion"" and ""Dream On"" for the title of Aerosmith's signature song, being one of the band's most important, influential, and recognizable songs. The band rarely omits it from their concert setlist, still performing their classic version of the song to this day. The song has also long been a staple of rock radio, garnering regular airplay on mainstream rock, classic rock, and album-oriented rock radio stations. In 2009, it was named the"
"group included as an insert.) In the ""Q"" & ""Mojo"" Classic Special Edition ""Pink Floyd & The Story of Prog Rock"", the album ranked number 30 in its list of ""40 Cosmic Rock Albums"". All tracks written by John Whitney and Roger Chapman, except as noted. Music in a Doll's House Music in a Doll's House is the debut album by English progressive rock group Family, released on 19 July 1968. The album, co-produced by Dave Mason of Traffic, features a number of complex musical arrangements contributing to its ambitious psychedelic sound. The Beatles had originally intended to use the"
"1997, Tyler shared his memories about writing and recording several of the LP's tracks with author Stephen Davis: At the beginning of 1975, the band started working at The Record Plant in New York City for the album that became ""Toys in the Attic"". The sessions for ""Toys in the Attic"" were produced by Douglas without Colcord - the album was engineered by Jay Messina with assistant engineers Rod O'Brien, Corky Stasiak and Dave Thoener. The songs for ""Toys in the Attic"" were recorded with a Spectrasonics mixing board and a 16-track tape recorder. Perry has stated that he wanted"