Toys In The Attic Played With Fire

Sure wish i had them now.

Toys in the attic played with fire.

In the attic lights voices scream nothing s seen real s a dream leaving the things that are real behind leaving the things that you love from mind all of the. It rocks as hard but has an extra swagger. Directed by george roy hill. Toys in the attic is the third studio album by american rock band aerosmith released in april 1975 by columbia records.

See more ideas about vintage toys toys and old toys. They have a simple abrasive approach but the tracks featured here are superbly crafted. The rapid fire title track sounds like their signature tune. After two highly creditable albums toys in the attic marked the moment when they established their identity.

Its first single sweet emotion was released on may 19 and walk this way followed on august 28 in the same year. Sure aerosmith cribbed heavily from the records of the rolling stones new york dolls and led zeppelin but they didn t have any of the menace of their influences nor any of their mystique. Page and hiller are exhilarating as his spinster sisters even if they ve played similar roles better before. Hill and hellman doing their impression of kazan and tennessee williams yields mixed results particularly with dean martin in the lead role.

Julian berniers and his bride lily leave chicago to visit his two spinster sisters carrie and anna in new orleans but lily s jealousy combined with carrie s possessiveness of julian threaten to destroy the whole family. The album is the band s most commercially successful studio lp in the united states with eight million copies sold according to the riaa. Toys in the attic 63. Before toys in the attic no other hard rock band sounded like this.

Apr 23 2012 when i was little in the late 50 s. Toys in the attic is where aerosmith really tick all the right boxes something that would be augmented even more with the excellent follow up rocks. With dean martin geraldine page yvette mimieux wendy hiller. Foo fighters let the music do the talking and toys in attic dave grohl knew exactly what he was doing when he and his band called dibs on two of aerosmith s high octane classics.