In my opinion this album was the worst Aerosmith album, but learning a little about the demons and problems that the members of one of my favorite rock bands has made me rethink my dislike for the album. This album was to mark the return of two of the band members, Joe Perry and Brad Whitford, after a falling out that happened within the band. In an interview, Joe Perry had mentioned that the concept of this album cover came from their new record company’s art department. The album cover was a little simple, featuring lettering and not really an eye catcher. ‘Honkin on Bobo’ was released in 2004 as Aerosmith’s 14th album and sold over 500,000 albums. Featuring great songs such as ‘Shame, Shame Shame’, ‘The Grind’, ‘Never Loved A Girl’, and ‘I’m Ready’. The album is not really your typical Aerosmith album, it is a mixture of rock and blues from the 1950s and 1960s. This album cover features a lipstick lip imprint and the Aerosmith logo stamped on it laying on a satin sheet. It was hard not to list all of the Aerosmith albums because they each are unique in their own way, but the least to the best album covers include: # 10 – Honkin’ on Bobo Aerosmith released a total of 15 amazing albums but are currently touring and have touring dates set through 2022. The band was added into the Rock Hall of Fame in 2001.
Creators of Guitar Hero released a game called ‘Guitar Hero Aerosmith’ that allowed fans to strum those plastic keys to a lot of Aerosmith’s greatest hits. Aside from only having a #1 hit, the band had numerous awards over the years for their other outstanding music.
This #1 hit, starting September 5, 1998, stayed on the top of the list for a month and it wasn’t even written by any of the band members! Diane Warren was actually the writer of Aerosmith’s only #1 hit, ‘I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing’. There is no debate that Aerosmith was and currently still is one of the greatest bands in rock history, but they only had one #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. Joe Perry left the band in 1979 but when he came back to Aerosmith, the band came back stronger than ever in the late 1980s. In the 1980s, Aerosmith band members lacked the creativity needed to make music and also had problems with drug abuse, which led them to a period of time where they were inactive. At the end of 1970, Aerosmith moved to Boston and played their music in clubs around New York and Massachusetts for two years before they received a record contract in 1972 with Columbia Records. The second guitarist that was added to Aerosmith, Ray Tabano, was quickly replaced by another guitarist, Brad Whitford. Steven was a drummer before he was the lead singer, he became lead singer when drummer Joey Kramer joined. Lead singer Steven Tyler met Joe Perry, Aerosmith’s lead guitarist, while working at an ice cream parlor in New Hampshire in 1970. Our Top 10 Top 10 Aerosmith Album Covers list takes a look at some of our favorite Aerosmith Album Covers that the band has released throughout their spectacular career. Although it didn't feature a Top Ten hit like "Walk This Way," Rocks went platinum quickly, peaking at number three.Photo: Edvill., CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons "Walk This Way," the final single from Toys in the Attic, was released around the time of the group's new 1976 album, Rocks. Both Aerosmith and Get Your Wings climbed back up the charts in the wake of Toys in the Attic. Its success prompted the re-release of the power ballad "Dream On," which shot into the Top Ten in early 1976. "Sweet Emotion," the first single from Toys in the Attic, broke into the Top 40 in the summer of 1975, with the album reaching number 11 shortly afterward. Toys in the Attic captured the essence of the newly invigorated Aerosmith. Steven Tyler's lyrics were filled with double entendres and clever jokes, and the entire band had a streetwise charisma that separated it from the heavy, lumbering arena rockers of the era. Many critics at the time labeled the group as punk rockers, and it's easy to see why - instead of adhering to the world music pretensions of Led Zeppelin or the prolonged gloomy mysticism of Black Sabbath, Aerosmith stripped heavy metal to its basic core, spitting out spare riffs that not only rocked, but rolled. By the time it was recorded, the band's sound had developed into a sleek, hard-driving hard rock powered by simple, almost brutal, blues-based riffs.
Aerosmith's third record, 1975's Toys in the Attic, was their breakthrough album both commercially and artistically.