Rocks (album)

Rocks
Aerosmith studio album
Publication (s)	May 1976
admission	February - March 1976
Label (s)	Columbia Records
Format (s)	CD, LP, MC
Genre (s)	Hard rock , blues rock
Title (number)	9
running time	34:31
occupation	Vocals, keyboard : Steven Tyler , bass with Sick as a Dog Guitar, vocals: Joe Perry , bass with Back in the Saddle and Sick as a Dog , Hawaiian guitar with Home Tonight Guitar: Brad Whitford Bass: Tom Hamilton , guitar with Sick as a Dog Drums, percussion: Joey Kramer , background vocals at Home Tonight
production	Jack Douglas
Studio (s)	The Record Plant, New York City
chronology Toys in the Attic (1975) Rocks Draw the Line (1977)

Rocks is the fourth studio album by the American hard rock band Aerosmith . It was released on Columbia Records in May 1976 .

Origin and style

After the great success of the previous album Toys in the Attic , Aerosmith Rocks recorded again in early 1976 with Jack Douglas as a producer in New York City. Overall, the album is less influenced by blues-rock elements and moves more towards hard rock and heavy metal.

With Last Child , Home Tonight , Rats in the Cellar and Back in the Saddle , four songs from the album were released as singles.

reception

Rocks reached number three on the Billboard 200 charts in the United States and sold over a million times in the year of publication. In 2001 it achieved four times platinum status .

Rocks received mostly positive reviews. Rolling Stone magazine ranked the album 176th in its list of the 500 best albums of all time . Former Guns-N'-Roses guitarist Slash , Metallica singer James Hetfield and former guitarist and singer for Nirvana Kurt Cobain described the album as a formative musical influence in their youth.

Track list

1. Back in the Saddle - 4:39 - ( Joe Perry , Steven Tyler )
2. Last Child - 3:27 - ( Brad Whitford , Tyler)
3. Rat in the Cellar - 4:06 - (Perry, Tyler)
4. Combination - 3:39 - (Perry)
5. Sick as a Dog - 4:12 - ( Tom Hamilton , Tyler)
6. Nobody's Fault - 4:25 - (Tyler, Whitford)
7. Get the Lead Out - 3:42 - (Perry, Tyler)
8. Lick and a Promise - 3:05 - (Perry, Tyler)
9. Home Tonight - 3:16 - (Tyler)

Web links

• Rocks at Allmusic (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Classic Rock Review: Rocks by Aerosmith , November 1, 2011
2. ↑ List of the chart positions of Aerosmith albums on Allmusic (English)
3. ^ Recording Industry Association of America
4. ↑ Rocks at Allmusic (English)
5. ↑ Los Angeles Times: Aerosmith / "Rocks" (1976) / Columbia (English), November 24, 1994
6. ↑ Rolling Stone: Aerosmith Album Guide (English)
7. ↑ Rolling Stone: 500 Greatest Albums of all Time: 176 | Aerosmith, 'Rocks'
8. Jump up ↑ Guitar World: The Record that Changed My Life: Slash Discusses Aerosmith's 'Rocks' , June 26, 2013
9. ↑ Visions 250 p. 119