15 Most Underrated Hard Rock Albums Of All Time
13. Draw The Line - Aerosmith
For most of the members of Aerosmith, Draw the Line is an album they don't particularly care to revisit. At the time of recording, the band were at their lowest point internally, with all of the members strung out on drugs and getting wasted in the studio environment. While it's hard to see the band spiral that way, the music they have to show for it is actually some of their best material of the 70's.
The title track certainly has the right amount of punch, with a guitar riff that seems to be a modern update on a Rolling Stones song. There are also fantastic departures for the band on this record like on the track "Kings and Queens," whose tale of vikings pillaging through the land seems to be taken straight from a Led Zeppelin track. Steven Tyler has complained about not being able to conjure up lyrics at the time, but what he did come up with hits just as deep as anything on Toys in the Attic.
The album may have been great, but it was mired in infamy as being the record that nearly broke the band apart. Even with all the inner turmoil inside, the emotion that was channeled into this music resulted in some of the most inspired cuts of the band's 70's output.