10 Classic Albums That Artists Hated Recording

10. Draw the Line - Aerosmith

Towards the end of the ‘70s, Aerosmith were on top of the musical world. Even if the press were still calling them a bunch of Rolling Stones rip offs, the chemistry between Steven Tyler and Joe Perry was climaxing, making for a healthy mixture of blues boogie and straight up rock and roll on Rocks and Toys in the Attic. The story of Aerosmith also involves a lot of drugs as well though, and Draw the Line is when they started to go past the point of no return.

After spending the better part of a year on the road touring, everyone had gotten a pretty big dependency on cocaine, which made for some of the worst recording sessions of their career once they made this album, with days going by without anything getting done. Although the band thought it might be a good idea to get away from their usual drug dens in New York, moving out into an abandoned prison for the album only led to them giving into their demons that much more, with Joe Perry not leaving his room for days at a time because of how hooked he was on heroin.

The songs themselves weren’t that much better either, with the band focusing on easy mode or taking things in a slightly darker direction on tracks like Kings and Queens. The band might have been able to turn anything into gold at this point, but after the band went on tour one more time for this, everything came crashing down when Joe Perry left the band.