Why Brits are ignorant towards a band Aerosmith?
 

Aerosmith is a very beloved band among American rock bands, there they have a status of American rock royalty, while British rock fans don't like or don't care for this band. Why are they ignorant towards Aerosmith?

Because they sucked from the 80s and on? I don't know.

Aren't Aerosmith headlining Donington next year?...Pretty certain that's in Britain

Starting with Permanent Vacation in 1987 they had 5 straight albums that charted either Silver, Gold, or Platinum in the UK - four of which made it into the top 10 on the charts.

They weren't very popular in the 70s because I think they were looked at like a Zeppelin/Stones wannabe over in England.

But those albums were terrible, so maybe England just now has taste. And didn't they hate Zeppelin too?

OP has no idea what they f*ck they're talking about.

Permanent Vacation and Pump are great. The overdose of power ballads came after them. England didn't hate Zeppelin. The critics did. They just didn't immediately explode over there like they did in the US. And once they became huge there just wasn't enough big places for them to play.

In 1975 they booked 3 nights at Earls Court and ended up having to add 2 more because the demand for tickets was so high. And that place is pretty big! Those shows were the first time a rock band used rear projection.

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In 1979 they drew around 200,000 over 2 nights at the annual Knebworth festival.

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No, 80s Aerosmith is hella dull and lame. I wish I had Jamie's gun so I could put Stephen Tyler out of all of our miseries.

These are the only Aerosmith songs I enjoy...

All of Rocks rocks.

My interest in Aerosmith honestly peaked with that Playstation video game "Generation X" where they're in the game and help you defeat terrorists by giving you CDs to throw at them which really was a very intelligent and useful way to use their albums.

Yes, 70s Aerosmith was actually the bomb. 70s Aerosmith.

PV and Pump were making the rotation pretty heavily back when they were first released because fans of 70s Aerosmith thought the band was dead and gone after a string of 4 pretty terrible albums.

Do I own either of them today? No. But they were pretty great at the time. MTV kinda burned them out in hindsight.

Yeah, I think that's one of the main reasons. Saturation from too much radio airplay.

I use to love Aerosmith when I first started playing guitar. Then again, I was into a lot of ****ty classic rock bands.

Buuuuutttttt, I kinda like Love in an Elevator.

And the Aerosmith theme park roller coaster was cool. The one in Orlando.

I dug that when I was a kid

I still enjoy listening to Dream On:

When Aerosmith started there was a bit of a music divide between the two countries. It's hard to understand since in the 60s there was the British Invasion and every band popular in the UK was popular in the US, and maybe it seems the two are always on the same page. However in the mid to late 70s they went their separate ways. It wasn't till the 80s with MTV, that UK bands started to be popular again in the US. The British had already had NWOBHM, so I don't know what kind of impact Aerosmith would make there. Even Def Leppard struggled in the beginning and were actually more popular in the US first, in part due to MTV.

It is a simple answer. Because of Rolling Stones. The truth is that most people prefer Rolling Stones over Aerosmith. I would love a duet between Mick Jagger and Steven Tyler. I think they should do that in the future.

I'm a Brit and I know plenty of people who like Aerosmith although they do seem to prefer their older stuff.

Probably because they have that sell out thing to them and it makes them look bad.