Song · Aerosmith
“Get the Lead Out” by Aerosmith
From the album Rocks (1976)
“Get the Lead Out” by Aerosmith appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1990. It was first released in 1976 on the album Rocks. Its best result is #922 on the Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,280 hard rock song of all time.
Steven Tyler and Joe Perry wrote "Get the Lead Out" for Rocks, the fourth Aerosmith album, which Columbia turned loose in 1976, and the two of them share the lead vocal as well. Tyler also plays keyboards, Perry and Brad Whitford handle the guitars, Tom Hamilton plays bass and Joey Kramer pounds out the drums and percussion. Jack Douglas produced and arranged it with the band, and Jay Messina engineered.
The record around it is Aerosmith at full throttle. AllMusic heard the band at their rawest and hardest-rocking, it was among the first albums ever to ship platinum and has since gone platinum four times over, and Guns N' Roses, Metallica and Nirvana all took something from it. In 2020 Rolling Stone slotted it at 366 on its list of the 500 greatest albums.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 922 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
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