Best Aerosmith Album Tournament Day 3

[navajomartian]

Draw The Line (1977)
Billboard Peak: 11
RIAA Certification: 2x Platinum


Draw the Line is the fifth album by American rock band Aerosmith, released December 1, 1977. The album was recorded in an abandoned convent near New York City, rented out for that purpose. The band lived there while recording the album, doing drugs, sleeping, eating, shooting guns, and driving their sports cars in between recording sessions.

At the time of release the band was considered big enough that the name didn't appear on the front of the album artwork. The portrait of the band was drawn by renowned celebrity caricaturist Al Hirschfeld.


Track Listing:
1: Draw The Line
2: I Wanna Know Why
3: Critical Mass
4: Get It Up
5: Bright Light Fright
6: Kings And Queens
7: The Hand That Feeds
8: Sight For Sore Eyes
9: Milk Cow Blues


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Night In The Ruts (1978)
Billboard Peak: 14
RIAA Certification: Platinum


Night in the Ruts is the sixth album by American rock band Aerosmith.

Joe Perry left the band midway through the recording of the album. The album was not produced by Jack Douglas who had produced Aerosmith's previous four albums. Instead, Columbia Records brought in Gary Lyons as a producer.

About halfway through the recording of the album, due to mounting debt and the need for the band to generate an income, the record label and management set Aerosmith out on another tour without extra time to finish the album, which pushed the album to being released later in the year. Joe Perry left the band mid-way through the tour, after a violent feud involving the band members and their wives. Prior to his departure, Perry had completed guitar parts for "No Surprize", "Chiquita", "Cheesecake", "Bone to Bone (Coney Island Whitefish Boy)", and "Three Mile Smile". The guitar parts for the remaining songs were recorded by Brad Whitford, Richie Supa, Neil Thompson, and Jimmy Crespo (who later became Perry's official replacement from 1979 to 1984).

Despite some critical acclaim and early success, the album quickly fell down the charts. The album has since achieved platinum status. Promo videos for "No Surprize" and "Chiquita" were filmed (featuring Perry's replacement Jimmy Crespo); however, these videos received little television airplay. "Chiquita" is available on the band's Video Scrapbook VHS and laserdisc release.

The title is an intentional spoonerism of the phrase "right in the nuts", which was subsequently the title of the tour[citation needed], and was shown on the back artwork for the album.


Track Listing:
1: No Suprise
2: Chiquita
3: Remember (Walking In The Sand)
4: Cheese Cake
5: Three Mile Smile
6: Reefer Headed Woman
7: Bone To Bone (Coney Island White Fish Boy)
8: Think About It
9: MIA

[navajomartian]

After thinking about each song and running them through my formula. Draw The Line gets 5.1 stars out of a perfect 10.0 and Night In The Ruts gets 4.6 stars out of 10.0


Personally, I thought the majority of stuff on these two albums was passable to good. Draw The Line has the awesome Kings And Queens which I think is the best one on there. My second pick would be Bright Light Fright, just like the lyrics I guess, and then Draw The Line. On Right In The Nuts, my favorites are No Suprise, then Bone To Bone followed by the cover of Remember.


Funny story. I picked up Ruts back in 99 and I thought MIA was a song about Missing In Action, mainly Joe Perry. Then around 2001 I actually looked into it and learned it was about his daughter Mia, but then I read on Wiki it was also tounge n cheek about Joe Perry quitting halfway through So I thought I was wrong for 2 years, but found out about 2 years after that I was half right from the start.

[Kris Kobain]

Draw the line for having my favorite Aerosmith song Kings and Queens

[Orange]

Draw The Line.