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List Price: $11.98 | | Label: Sony
Salesrank: 9089
Released: September 7, 1993 |
| Our Price: $6.51 |
| Used Price: $5.58 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Aerosmith Track Listing:
1. Make It
2. Somebody - Aerosmith, Emspack, S.
3. Dream On
4. One Way Street
5. Mama Kin
6. Write Me
7. Movin' Out - Aerosmith, Perry, Joe
8. Walkin' the Dog - Aerosmith, Thomas, Rufus
Editorial Review:
While not their strongest recording, Aerosmith's self-titled debut gave a taste of the musical path that the band, and much of the rest of hard rock, was to follow for the rest of the 1970s and well into the 1980s. Although the awkward social commentary of "Movin' Out" and the swinging cover of Rufus Thomas's "Walking the Dog" have largely been forgotten, two standards emerged from Aerosmith: "Dream On," a prototypical power ballad with its keyboards and string arrangement, and "Mama Kin," which contains one of the most recognizable riffs in hard-rock history. Though Aerosmith would record better albums--both before and after their drug-induced implosion--their debut serves as a kind of road map to much of post-'60s rock & roll. --Genevieve Williams
Aerosmith Reviews:
Still Rocks 
2008-12-08 - Let's turn back the clock.
1973.
At school, my best friend gives me an album featuring a band I'd never heard of. . .some shaggy-headed guys calling themselves Aerosmith ('Cool name,' I thought). "Take this home and play it," says my friend. "It will blow your mind." So I did.
And it did.
I always enjoy getting to the roots of a band--before commercialization and exploitation virtually ruin it (at the very least, taint it). And Aerosmith's debut album (appropriately called AEROSMITH) has this group at its raw rock 'n roll finest. Perry's riffs in 'Mama Kin' stand the test of time; and what can you say about Tyler's vocals in the ultimate rock ballad, 'Dream On'? The dude has range, doesn't he?
Thirty-plus years ago I was racing home from high school because I couldn't wait to put this album on my stereo (yes, stereo), crank it up, and rock; today I can't wait to put this CD into my player, crank it up, and rock. That's the ultimate test of rock greatness, and Aerosmith's album AEROSMITH is one of rock's finest debut albums.
--D. Mikels, Author, The Reckoning
Aerosmith
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A foretaste of greatness 
2008-02-04 - Firstly Aerosmith is no classic debut and it is not the best Aerosmith album to start off your collection with. The production is thin, the band are uptight (especially noticable in Tyler's vocals).
However, there are nuggets which give us a taste of what a terrific band Aerosmith are to become. There is the rocking classic; Mama Kin and the still golden Dream On. The excellent Somebody rocks your socks off and the Yardbirds influenced One Way Street is first class and you can't stop tapping your foot to Movin Out.
This is not a great album, but is a good one and well worth a listen.
Strong Debut! 
2008-02-02 - A very strong debut from one of America's longest tenured rock n' roll outfits. Aerosmith plays some straight up rock on this record, that would serve as inspiration to generations of hard rock bands to come after. They haven't reached their song-writing glory days, yet, and Steven Tyler's vocals haven't quite found that fantastic screech, but all the ingredients are here for a great rock band.
There has to be a first
2007-02-13 - This is one of the finest debut albums I have heard and it was my first Aerosmith album. I wore grooves in it and love the guitar play in it and it is my third favorite Aerosmith cd (after Toys and Rocks). It also is worth while to have around in your collections.
