O, Yeah! Ultimate Aerosmith Hits

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Editorial reviews

Album Description
2002 compilation featuring 30 tracks from their years with Columbia & Geffen. Hologram cover. 2002.

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Amazon.com
Over a remarkable 30 years, Aerosmith has delivered near-perfect hybrids of rock and balladry, converting generations of listeners into devout fanatics. O, Yeah! Ultimate Aerosmith Hits drives chronologically through 30 of their best songs, providing a tour of the construction process. And what a process! Listen to "Mama Kin" and you might not recognize Aerosmith at all--here is a young Tyler, before finding his distinctive gritty wail, fronting a simple blues-bar band. But the phenomenal energy and synchronization that developed between Tyler and Perry starts here, and is followed up by successive wonders. "Dream On" captures plodding despair; "Last Child" bears witness to Tyler's mastery of harmony and shriek; "Back in the Saddle" explodes with swagger. Built from the low-end up, Aerosmith's heavy kick, driving bass lines, steady rhythm guitar, and blaring exclamation-point horns create a perfect foundation. And the dirty, harmonic souls of Steven Tyler and Joe Perry do what they do best--put on an over-the-top, flawless show. --Laura Etling

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-07-18 rating:
This one has Dream On
This is a great CD to have for the variety of hits. Many of the "Best of" collections are missing a few songs because Aerosmith jumped around between recording companies. This one has Dream On which is missing on many of the collections.

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review by: unplugged date: 2008-07-08 rating:
Unremarkable drivel from a bunch of has-beens
Aerosmiths music stopped being relevant after "Draw the Line", perhaps before that... everything since has been AOR pop drool!!! What's this??? another scooped together "greatest hits" package? wow...thanks (yawn)


Like the Stones and countless Heart, Styx, BOC, etc... bands that continue to tour americas backwaters....know when to "hang it up" and bow out with grace.

It's time to stop wearing spandex and chasing teenagers when your AARP card shows up in the mail

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review by: date: 2008-06-12 rating:
Not A True Best Of.....3.5 stars
This is not a bad collection of songs by any means. My problem lies in what is absent. There is a WHOLE LOT missing from Aerosmith's 70's heyday. Thirty songs on here and only ten are from the 70's. I'm sorry but that is just too much post-70's material. Where is "Walking The Dog", "Train Kept a Rolling", "Chip Away The Stone", "Kings And Queens". But in all fairness the name of the collection is "Ulitmate Hits" not "Best Of". And for better or worse Aerosmiths "greatest hits" came from 1987 on. And there is really nothing wrong with that material. "Permanent Vacation" was my first real introduction to the band back in 87 when I was in high school when they made there comeback, but where I have a problem is that there are umpteen Aerosmith 80s/90s greatest hits packages already. "Big Ones" and "Young Lust" were already out there with most of this material already on it. Did we need another double CD that was primarily dedicated to this same period. To me it would have been more beneficial for a pre "Permanent Vacation" era compilation. Pretty much the only thing available as a compilation that covers this early era of the band are the old "Greatest Hits" (not enough material) single album and the box set "Pandoras Box"(a bit too much material). All in all the material is not bad but much like my complaint of the Bruce Springsteen "Greatest Hits" package, too much is dedicated to late 80s/90s material and the early era is far too ignored.

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review by: date: 2008-04-18 rating:
This is the Anti-Greatest Hits Collection? Who put this together?
As other reviews have mentioned, all the classic material from the band's heyday is absent.....How you could issue a collection and not have Toys in the Attic is beyond me.........What a let down...they should have called this Greatest Hits from the bands reunion...forward. Way, way too many tracks on here that had outside writers...I want to hear Aerosmith, not writers...that's what Country music is for.

Check out the Fozzy All That Remains Reloaded Cd for some great american rock and roll.All That Remains Reloaded (W/Dvd)


review by: mt date: 2008-02-25 rating:
Great
I bought this Cd for my husband but I love it too. Which we rarely agree on music.

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