The 2002 Japanese release The Best of Aerosmith concentrates on the group's Geffen recordings from the '80s and '90s, so there's no "Walk This Way," "Dream On," "Sweet Emotion" -- none of their big '70s staples. Instead, this has "Amazing," "What It Takes," "Janie's Got a Gun," and "Rag Doll" among its 18 tracks, and those are the only big hits: the rest are reasonably well-chosen album tracks, which is enough to make this a reasonably enjoyable sampler if hardly a definitive one. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
01 Amazing 02 Eat the rich 03 What it takes 04 Janie's got a gun 05 Magic touch 06 Rag doll 07 Permanent vacation 08 The movie 09 Monkey on my back 10 My girl 11 Shame on you 12 The hop
13 She's on fire 14 Darkness 15 I'm down 16 Voodoo medicine man 17 Shela 18 My fist your face