Consumer Guide Album

Aerosmith: Greatest Hits [Columbia, 1980]
I could quibble with side two, which doesn't conceal their sudden decline the way it might have, but the Sgt. Pepper "Come Together" is a keeper, and except for the Anglophile "Kings and Queens" the post-Rocks tracks do create a context for themselves. Side one is the great American "hard-rock" band sounding more relaxed and bluesy than the one that made Rocks--because originally it was relaxation that made their white blues so American. Such revelations are what best-ofs are for. A−