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List Price: $11.98 | | Label: Sony
Salesrank: 4863
Released: September 7, 1993 |
| Our Price: $6.01 |
| Used Price: $4.48 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Rocks Track Listing:
1. Back In The Saddle
2. Last Child
3. Rats In The Celler
4. Combination
5. Sick As A Dog
6. Nobody's Fault
7. Get The Lead Out
8. Lick And A Promise
9. Home Tonight
Editorial Review:
They'd soon crash, and hard, thanks to their own excesses. But Rocks captures Aerosmith at a crazily driven peak of creativity; anyone who heard it and continued to dismiss them as mere Stones clones was just being willful. This is blues rock cranked up to '70s stadium level, the sound of the Trans Am, or maybe the Porsches several of these guys (surprisingly) remember driving. The psychic battering they would succumb to on the next year's Draw the Line is foreshadowed in Joe Perry's "Combination," but he and Steven Tyler also celebrate the rock-star mythos on "Lick and a Promise." The party-fueled tension, the tension-fueled party. --Rickey Wright
Rocks Reviews:
AEROSMITH'S PINNACLE 
2008-09-20 - Hands-down best effort ever, more consistent than the previous Toys in the Attic. If you were limited to just one of their albums, this would have to be it, no doubt about it. Too many highlights to praise, but since no one else has brought it up, I would like to add that the brief, deep lead guitar intro to "Combination" is downright NASTY! It lasts perhaps 1 or 2 seconds but it really grabs your attention and sets such a tasty tone for the whole cut - a "gem" within a gem of an album. A 70s hard rock icon. Too bad they couldn't squeeze out one or two more similar quality albums before they flamed out
Probaly the best Aerosmith album too date
2008-09-14 - Aerosmith's 1976 album, "Rocks", is just one of those albums you dont come by that often. Its one of those albums you can listen too over and over like, "The Beatles Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band", "Jimi Hendrix Are You Experienced", "Kiss Alive", and many more albums. Anyways back too the point. Every song on this album rocks and you can listen too it over and over again. The pervious year(1975) Aerosmith realesed another really good album, "Toys In The Attic", containing such classics as, "Walk This Way", and "Sweet Emotion", but Rocks has got too be in least 5 times better than that album. The great album starts off with the coolest intro ever made, "Back In The Saddle", with Steven Tyler screaming, "Im BACK, Back In The Saddle Again". Just killer stuff here and the riff in it is great. Than things start too slow down bit once the insane Back In The Saddle ends and than we get into a slower song, "Last Child", with a cool guitar begining but than gets into this really nice riff thats almost has some elements of rap in it and than yet it ends after a short 3 minutes. Than things start getting faster with the third track, "Rats in the Cellar", which has now become and Aerosmith live staple. It has semi fast drums and guitar and is just one of those songs that you can listen too everyday and not get tired of it, than things stay at the same pace for the fourth track, "Combination", which is the same speed with and even cooler riff during the song and cool vocals also in this song. Than for the fifth track, "Sick As A Dog", It gets into antoher cool riff and slows down from Rats in the Cellar but still maintains the same Aerosmith sound throughout and than it fades into the killer track, "Nobodys Fault", which has probaly the best riff on the whole album and is personally my faviorte on the entire album and just maybe one of my faviorte Aerosmith songs, It features Steven Tyler's screaming vocals and this cool riff that goes through out the whole song and the bass and the drums keep playing that same beat through out than things get a little more mellow with the seventh track, "Get The Lead Out", which is almost like the song, "Big Ten Inch Record", but has that Rocks sound too it, than things start rocking again with the eigth track, "Lick and a Promise", which has a very cool drum intro and than gets into a really great riff and is just rocking hard for 3 minutes long and than like that the ninth track comes on, "Home Tonight", which is a very mellow ballad like its ancestor, "You See Me Crying", on Toys In The Attic, but unlike You See Me Crying still maintains that Aerosmith sound just in a ballad form and than the track fades off and than the album is over. So what are you waiting for buy this album now and when you get it rip it open and than blast on your radio and use it in your car until its very wore out. Buy it today!
ROCKS ROCKS ! (Aerosmith's most decadent album moves fast and never lets up)
2008-08-27 - Ya gotta hand it to Aerosmith's Rocks (1976). The decadence and debauchery is non-stop, and the Bad Boys from Beantown never even come up for air on this one. This thing rocks harder and faster than anything they have ever done. The themes are mostly about sex and partying, the streets, and more sex and partying.
It starts right from the very first song, Back In The Saddle:
I'm calling all the shots tonight
I'm like a loaded gun
Then on the next song, Last Child:
I was the last child
Just a punk in the street
With song titles like Rats In The Cellar, Sick As A Dog, and Lick And A Promise, it's easy to see what you're in for here, and Aerosmith delivers the goods. Sex, drugs, and rock n' roll! Rocks moves quickly and rocks loudly. The songs strut, roll, burn, and scream. Back In The Saddle, Last Child, and Rats In The Cellar are as good as anything the band has ever done, and Nobody's Fault is an underrated heavy-metal masterpiece. Metallica's James Hetfield and Slash, formerly of Guns N' Roses, both cite Nobody's Fault as being their favorite Aerosmith song.
Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry sings lead on Combination, a bluesy hard rock song about the dangers of cocaine and heroin. The guitar riff sounds a little like The Stones' Dancing With Mr. D, only much faster and louder. Home Tonight, the album's closing ballad, isn't quite on the same level as most of Aerosmith's other power ballads, but still works. In some places, Rocks moves too fast a little too long for it's own good. Without the humor that made Toys In The Attic so much fun, the depravity on Rocks can wear a little thin at times, but if you're up for it, this is great stuff.
Rocks showcases Aerosmith at their peak, but I don't think it's actually their best album. It's probably the wildest and most decadent of their albums, and it certainly is one of the best. They reach unparalleled heights of rock n' roll madness, and go to places that they've never been before on this album, so if you're ready to rock, get Aerosmith's Rocks and don't look back.
Aerosmith at their peak
2008-06-29 - With the complete success of Toys in the Attic behind them, it's obvious that Aerosmith went into the studio for Rocks with an enormous amount of confidence. The band swaggers and struts its way deliciously through a super strong set of some of their finest, most rockin' compositions. This album came out when I was in high school and pretty much served as the soundtrack to those years of my life. When I went off to college, I got into more "sophisticated" esoteric music and abandoned Aerosmith all together. Now that I'm older, though, I can look back and recognize just how special this album is. Rarely does a band score a bullseye as big as Aerosmith did with Rocks. A true classic of the '70s.
ROCKS is the only AEROSMITH album that matters.
2008-05-04 - I know AMAZON hates one sentence reviews, but sorry: ROCKS is the only AEROSMITH album that matters. Get me? They peaked here. It ended here. If you don't own and love this album you are NOT an Aerosmith fan. "Back in the Saddle Again" is one of the most heartfelt stabs with smack-down bass and royal riff guitar and throbbing drums you will ever hear. Get.This.Reecord.
