I have to offer a bit of full-disclosure here. I’m not an Aerosmith fan. I think they produced a handful of good to great songs in their first four years between 1973 and 1976, but they’re certainly a band who overstayed their welcome and the atrocities of their 1977-2012 catalog piss over any legacy they may have ever had as a decent hard rock band. I once made a list of my top ten “most hated songs of all time,” and Aerosmith appeared a whopping three times on that list (“Ragdoll,” “Dude [Looks Like a Lady],” and “Love in an Elevator,” in descending order for anyone keeping score.)
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