The late 1980s offered a burgeoning hip-hop scene, the bombast of hair metal, and heavily produced R&B. Old-fashioned pop songwriting was largely pushed to the margins in favor of these in-your-face ...

That’s the first thing you hear on Aerosmith’s self-titled debut album ... was the first in a string of raucous blues and R&B covers; most of their 70s albums would eventually have one.