Customer Reviews

Honkin On Bobo

5 star:		(100)
4 star:		(32)
3 star:		(15)
2 star:		(19)
1 star:		(22)

 

 

This is probably my favorite album since Pump, slightly edging 1993's "Get a Grip." The songs are all blues covers, and the sounds is crisp and crunchy. It sounds like what it is, new equipment playing old tunes. It's very sleasey but feels kind of polished, as if Aerosmith was in some way holding back. But what it does produce in the end is a fresh grooving sound familiar to any Aerosmith fan. It's worth buying and continues to prove that these guys still have what it takes to rock!

TOTALLY AWESOME, BEST BAND EVER-NOT ENOUGH STARS TO RATE THIS ONE!!!

Honkin on Bobo is a good, rockin' record. It is full of cover songs. It seems like Aerosmith is having fun again with music. "Just Push Play" was about as fun and entertaining as a trip to the dentist. I like the direction Aerosmith is going. Tehy shouldn't need to worry about selling albums, because they could tour forever on the back of songs from "Bobo"

Nothing new original or listenable here. 1 star for effort.Made a great frizbee,dog caught it on first toss.

What a lazy, half-hearted, boredom-driven, self-serving pile of aerocrap. I LOVE Aerosmith and have seen them in concert no less than 9 times in different cities. They are the Gods of arena rock, having written some of the greatest rock classics of all time. But this album was just ridiculous. I'm not sure who's worse, Clapton's ME AND MR JOHNSON or HONKIN ON BOBO. Buy ANY other Aerosmith CD and be blown away. At least in Aerosmith's case, you don't have to go back to the sixties or early seventies to find it.

You would have to be a die hard fan to appreciate the monotone screaming to appreciate this album. Billed as a blues album, but sounds more like Yoko Ono on helium.

I have always been a huge fan of Aerosmith which is why I bought this CD. I was going to name my favorite tracks but there are too many to list. I don't want to and wouldn't even try to compare this to original Blues artists. This is Aerosmith! enough said.....

Drunk guy blues music, not even close to rock. This band worst album to date. They used to experiment with new styles, and be cutting edge, but this is washed up music that was popular in the late 70's

This new Aerosmith platter is one huge heaping pile of dog-doo. I feel completely ripped off by a band that I used to absotutely looooove. No imagination ventured, nothing gained by owning this crap. Stay away. Don't even buy used. If you get this fecal matter for a present, discard in the biohazardous waste bin with the used needles and jimmy caps. Dammit, Stevie-boy, how many facelifts will it take for you to start writing some quality material again? Apparently all those 'Ludes and Mary-Jane tokes back in the 70's did cause some brain damage after all. And Joseph Perry, how could you let your good name be associated with such excrement? I would expect it from Whitford, but not YOU-  of the Toxic Twins!!! This music is so obsolete it makes me retch. For God's sake please listen to some Led Zep albums and get back to me in 2 years. We'll keep the light on for ya!-David J Newman 2004

Years ago Aerosmith produced a game for the Macintosh using technology called "Virtual Music." The game came with a "guitar pick" with a cord which you plugged into your computer and strummed along to the music. If you did well enough you could advance to the next scene. Peppered with both real-life and cartoon characters, you eventually arrive at a blues club. Steven Tyler and Joe Perry tell you that "blues is the foundation of it all."

They've finally rolled up their sleeves and explored the roots of the musical genre which have made them one of the world's greatest rock and roll bands. Tyler is surprisingly somewhat reserved, but that's a compliment. His musical sense makes him belt out the vocals when he should, and let Perry and Whitford rip throught the blues riffs when it's appropriate.

I've listened to the album six times, and am honestly trying to come up with at least a half-hearted criticism, but I just can't find one.

If you're an Aerosmith fan and love the blues, this is a "must have" album. If you're an Aerosmith fan and don't know the blues, or if you're a blues fan that doesn't know Aerosmith, this is a "should definitely have" album. You'll be very pleasantly surprised.