The below list of the Top 50 Hard Rock Songs of the '70s, voted on by UCR staff ... Soon they had their first Top 40 hit, a skulking heavy blues built on a relatively simple riff that was ...

Like so much rock ... heavy rock’s affinity for loud guitars and improvisational spirit for a genre truly distinct in tone ...

So many of the group's foundational songs emerged from those initial ... asides – very much in keeping with the prog-rock pretensions of the '70s, though that sound had already become decidedly ...

There's no doubt that Aerosmith songs have serious staying power ... and they've made everything from sweet ballads to bluesy ...