“Sweet Emotion” smells like cigarettes, hairspray, leather fringe, and dirty sex.  That’s the recognizable scent of rock and roll.

I was not a burnout in school, but I did kind of think they were cool because they didn’t give a fuck.  They partied hard, broke the law, and fucked around, as did all the popular kids, but at least the burnouts were honest about it.  I respected that. 

Male or female, every burnout in the 80s looked like Jon Bon Jovi.

And they had better taste in music than the preps.  In my school the preps were some basic bitches, really only getting into whatever was popular.  As a group they did not approve of punk, heavy metal, or the little bit of rap that was around back then.  It was pretty much top 40 for them.

Aerosmith came into my life in 1986 when they did