TITA, I guess
shareThis is a bit of a conundrum for me, because while Toys in the Attic is probably the better album, the band made a HUGE mistake by including "Big Ten Inch Record" at the end of side one. There's no way around it: the song is stupid and just filler.
Rocks, on the other hand, is a shorter, much darker and less coherent album, but every song is good and "belongs". With Rocks, one can also see the "beginning of the end" signs, as the band's success and dissipation were starting to catch with them.
Both albums were essential to the band: I can't imagine the late 1970s without either album.
Me I think they're both great albums but I slightly prefer "Toys" because I feel the album has more classic songs and it's also more of a lighthearted album compared to "Rocks", "Rocks" is another great album but you can see the drugs making a huge effect on the band by that time, I even like their "Draw The Line" album although you can tell the band was no longer functioning by that time.
shareHaving never really getting into their music, only casually, that is pretty interesting info about pleasure affecting their work. Makes it enticing to check out their material more. The forbidden fruit complex never fails. Reverse phycology is attractive.
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