Honkin' On Bobo - Aerosmith
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69 out of 100

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7.9 out of 10

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  • Summary: The latest LP from Steven Tyler & co. includes just one original ("The Grind") with the remainder of the tracks occupied by covers of blues standards.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 12
  3. Negative: 1 out of 12
  1. Billboard
    90
    There hasn't been this entertaining or hard-rocking an Aerosmith album since who-knows-when.
  2. Launch.com
    80
    Honkin’ On Bobo is a big bruiser of an album, with heart, soul, and fury to spare.
  3. The New York Times
    60
    Not every song here benefits from the Aerosmith treatment. [29 Mar 2004]
  4. Village Voice
    30
    This suspicious move into another moribund genre resembles the frustrated strivings of a band uncertain of how to exist After Rock.

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  1. Positive: 15 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 19
  3. Negative: 4 out of 19
  1. DrewJ
    10
    One of the greatest blues albums of all time....and I am not even an Aerosmith fan
  2. killer18
    10
    Perfect. This is what rock n roll is about
  3. RobinB
    8
    I didn't know what to think about their last cd, with the pink album cover and like, 5 ballads or whatever... but all I can say with this new one is it's about time. I read somewhere that this new cd was supposed to be reminiscent of "Rocks", but I wouldn't go quite that far. There's no Nobody's Fault, or Combination here, but Shame, Shame, Shame is in the same vein of Big Ten Inch Record or MilkCow Blues, and I'm Ready is kind of Last Child-ish. The overall sound of the cd is more like "Pump", which isn't a bad thing at all. Baby, Please Don't Go rocks like Young Lust, and You Gotta Move reminds me of Don't Get Mad Get Even. The new original, The Grind, is also really catchy - kind of a blues-meets ballad type of thing, maybe what Cryin' would have sounded like without all the hired songwriters and over-mixing done. And to top it all off, the band sounds the best I've ever heard. Steve Tyler is screaming his ass off even more, and you can hear Joe and Brad shredd all over the place. The fact that all these songs but 1 are blues covers, and that they remind you of older material shows how big of a part blues plays in the Aerosmith sound, which is exactly what I think they wanted to portray. … Expand
  4. JonH
    1
    I agree with Ryan S., Robert Johnson is turning over in his grave

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