Toys In The Attic Played With Fire

Before toys in the attic no other hard rock band sounded like this.

Toys in the attic played with fire.

The rapid fire title track sounds like their signature tune. Hill and hellman doing their impression of kazan and tennessee williams yields mixed results particularly with dean martin in the lead role. Toys in the attic is the third studio album by american rock band aerosmith released in april 1975 by columbia records. Julian berniers and his bride lily leave chicago to visit his two spinster sisters carrie and anna in new orleans but lily s jealousy combined with carrie s possessiveness of julian threaten to destroy the whole family.

Toys in the attic is where aerosmith really tick all the right boxes something that would be augmented even more with the excellent follow up rocks. Sure wish i had them now. The album is the band s most commercially successful studio lp in the united states with eight million copies sold according to the riaa. Sure aerosmith cribbed heavily from the records of the rolling stones new york dolls and led zeppelin but they didn t have any of the menace of their influences nor any of their mystique.

Toys in the attic 63. With dean martin geraldine page yvette mimieux wendy hiller. Its first single sweet emotion was released on may 19 and walk this way followed on august 28 in the same year. They have a simple abrasive approach but the tracks featured here are superbly crafted.

Now we have here the classic toys in the attic and after listening to several version releases this special remastered limited edition on sacd gold disc is the winner. After two highly creditable albums toys in the attic marked the moment when they established their identity. In the attic lights voices scream nothing s seen real s a dream leaving the things that are real behind leaving the things that you love from mind all of the. Foo fighters let the music do the talking and toys in attic dave grohl knew exactly what he was doing when he and his band called dibs on two of aerosmith s high octane classics.

It rocks as hard but has an extra swagger. Apr 23 2012 when i was little in the late 50 s. I loved playing in my aunts attic it was filled with toys from previous owners. Directed by george roy hill.