Song · Aerosmith
“Nobody's Fault” by Aerosmith
From the album Rocks (1976)
“Nobody's Fault” 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 #851 on the Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,138 hard rock song of all time.
"Nobody's Fault" lurks sixth on Rocks, Aerosmith's fourth album, out on Columbia in May 1976, and it's one of the heaviest things they ever cut. Brad Whitford wrote it with Steven Tyler and takes the soaring lead guitar himself, over a backbeat from Joey Kramer and Tom Hamilton that lands like falling masonry. Tyler sings it loud and grim, and what's got him rattled is earthquakes, which spooked the band about as much as flying did.
Jack Douglas produced and arranged it with the band, with Jay Messina engineering. Whitford often names it as his favorite Aerosmith song, and Kramer counts his drumming here among his best. Other players have been sweet on it ever since: Slash and James Hetfield rank it among their favorite Aerosmith tracks, and Kurt Cobain named it a favorite in his journal.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 851 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
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