TOYS IN THE ATTIC
Toys in the Attic is the third studio album by American rock band Aerosmith, released on April 8, 1975 by Columbia Records. Its first single release, “Sweet Emotion”, was released a month later on May 19, and “Walk This Way” was released on August 28 in the same year. The album is their most commercially successful studio LP in the US, with eight million copies sold, according to the RIAA. The album was ranked #229 on Rolling Stone’s list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The album’s title track and Run–D.M.C.’s version of “Walk This Way” are part of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list. (More from Wikipedia)
An early example is one of the first big hits by Aerosmith, “Walk This Way”, where most of the vocals are sung much faster than the beat of the music; it is taken from their third album, Toys in the Attic (1975). A decade later, Run-D.M.C. included a remake of “Walk This Way” on their album Raising Hell (1986), with Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith sitting in on vocals and guitar, respectively. The two groups also collaborated on a video that was in heavy rotation on MTV. This was one of the first times that rock music and rap music were melded together.
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