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The 50 Best Aerosmith Songs

Seventies hard-rock bangers, MTV smashes, and more

For over 50 years, Aerosmith have ruled as the ultimate American rock & roll warriors. The Bad Boys from Boston have built one of the all-time classic songbooks, without ever doing anything the sane way. They blew up in the 1970s as the coolest muscle-car blues-metal monsters around: the guitar attack of Joe Perry and Brad Whitford, the funk rhythms of Joey Kramer and Tom Hamilton, the motormouth sleaze-yabber of madman/poet Steven Tyler.

But Aerosmith also reigned as rock’s most dysfunctional brotherhood, with five famously combative personalities. These guys battled it out, burned out, bottomed out, yet survived to make one of the most bizarre comebacks in music history. Nothing could kill their strange chemistry — not drugs, not detox, not all those years of rock & roll chaos. “We made every mistake six times,” Joe Perry told Rolling Stone in 2001. “We fuckin’ paid for it all. I left the band, Brad left the band, we fucked up a lot, signed bad contracts, had bad managers, had good managers. But through it all, something kept us together.” 

Sadly, Aerosmith just had to announce they’re finally calling it quits as a touring band, after Tyler fractured his larynx onstage. But in honor of their historic run, let’s celebrate that legacy with a tribute to the 50 best Aerosmith songs. Some of these tunes are mega-famous hits everybody knows. Others are deep cuts prized by hardcore fans. Some are headbanging guitar anthems; some are MTV power ballads. But these 50 classic tunes define Aerosmith as the meanest, mangiest, and greatest of American hard-rock outlaws. Play these songs loud forever, and dream on.

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