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''Toys in the Attic'' is the third studio album by American rock band Aerosmith, released in April 1975〔 by Columbia Records. Its first single release, "Sweet Emotion", was released a month later on May 19 and "Walk This Way" was later 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.〔 Steven Tyler said that his original idea for the album cover was a teddy bear sitting in the attic with its wrist cut and stuffing spread across the floor. They decided, in the end, to put all of the animals in instead.〔 The album was ranked #229 on ''Rolling Stone''s list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.〔 "Walk This Way" and the album's title track are part of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list.〔 ==Background== For Aerosmith's previous album, 1974's ''Get Your Wings'', the band began working with record producer Jack Douglas, who co-produced the album with Ray Colcord. In the liner notes to the 1993 reissue of ''Greatest Hits'' it was said by an unnamed member of the group that they "nailed" the album.〔 At the beginning of 1975 the band started working at The Record Plant in New York City for the album that became ''Toys in the Attic''. The sessions for ''Toys'' were produced by Douglas without Colcord - the album was engineered by Jay Messina with assistant engineers Rod O'Brien, Corky Stasiak and Dave Thoener. The songs for ''Toys'' were recorded with a Spectrasonics mixing board and a 16-track tape recorder.〔 By this point, Aerosmith had fully matured as a band and Steven Tyler made sex the primary focus of his songwriting on the album. According to producer Jack Douglas, "Aerosmith was a different band when we started the third album. They'd been playing ''Get Your Wings'' on the road for a year and had become better players - different. It showed in the riffs that Joe () and Brad () brought back from the road for the next album. ''Toys in the Attic'' was a much more sophisticated record than the other stuff they'd done." In the band memoir ''Walk This Way'', guitarist Joe Perry concurs, "When we started to make ''Toys in the Attic'', our confidence was built up from constant touring." Preproduction took place in the attic at Angel Studios in Ashland, Massachusetts. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Toys in the Attic (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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