Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Mama Kin
2. Dream On
3. Same Old Song And Dance
4. Seasons Of Wither
5. Walk This Way
6. Big Ten Inch Record
7. Sweet Emotion
8. Last Child
9. Back In The Saddle
10. Draw The Line Remix
11. Dude (Looks Like A Lady)
12. Angel
13. Rag Doll
14. Janie's Got A Gun
15. Love In An Elevator
16. What It Takes

Disc 2:

1. The Other Side
2. Livin' On The Edge
3. Cryin'
4. Amazing
5. Dueces Are Wild
6. Crazy
7. Falling In Love (Is Hard On The Knees)
8. Pink (South Beach Mix)
9. I Don't Want To Miss A Thing
10. Jaded
11. Just Push Play (Radio Remix)
12. Walk This Way (w/ Run-D.M.C.)
13. Girls Of Summer
14. Lay It Down

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #54 in Music
• Released on: 2002-07-02
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Limited Edition, Original recording remastered

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

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

Customer Reviews

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.

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

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.