Song · Aerosmith
“Make It” by Aerosmith
From the album Aerosmith (1973)
“Make It” by Aerosmith appears on 11 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 1990 and 2015. It was first released in 1973 on the album Aerosmith. Its best result is #701 on the KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,013 classic rock song of all time.
"Make It" is the first thing you hear on Aerosmith's debut, which Columbia put out in January 1973, and some folks have mistakenly called the whole album by its name. Steven Tyler wrote it alone, which is how most of that record got made: at that stage the rest of the band had no interest in writing. Clive Davis had signed them to Columbia the summer before, impressed after catching them at Max's Kansas City.
Tyler sings lead, Joe Perry and Brad Whitford handle the guitars, Perry adds backing vocals, and Tom Hamilton and Joey Kramer man the bass and drums. Adrian Barber produced and engineered, and most of the band had never set foot in a studio before. They came in steeped in British blues-rock: the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
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All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 996 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
| 1994 | 799 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994) | 1000 |
| 1995 | 701 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995) | 1000 |
| 1996 | 799 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996) | 1000 |
| 1998 | 852 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998) | 1000 |
| 1999 | 996 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999) | 998 |
| 2011 | 924 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1100 Countdown (2011) | 1100 |
| 2012 | 971 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1200 Countdown (2012) | 1200 |
| 2013 | 713 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Grand Jam 1000 (2013) | 1000 |
| 2014 | 713 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX 1K Countdown (2014) | 1000 |
| 2015 | 719 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Classic Rock Countdown (2015) | 1007 |
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