Label: CBS Records (US), CK 36388
Style: Hard Rock
Country: Lawrence, Massachusetts, U.S. (September 10, 1950)
Time: 38:04
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 263 Mb
Let
the Music Do the Talking is the first of three studio albums by The Joe
Perry Project, released in 1980. It was the band's most successful,
selling approximately 250,000 copies in the United States. The title
track was later re-recorded in by Aerosmith on their 1985 reunion album
Done With Mirrors, albeit with a slightly different melody and Steven
Tyler-penned lyrics.
Fed up with the slow pace of the recording of
Night in the Ruts and frustrated with the band's precarious financial
situation, Perry left Aerosmith in the spring of 1979. He recruited
Aerosmith's former producer Jack Douglas and chose Ralph Morman for lead
singer, who Perry had previously heard performing in a band called
Daddy Warbux. The group was rounded out by bassist David Hull and
drummer Ronnie Stewart. "The contrast between the tortuous ordeal of
recording Aerosmith and the seamless groove that characterized the
Project was remarkable," Perry later recalled.
Considering
Aerosmith's struggles, Columbia Records was initially hesitant to give
Perry a solo deal, but he assured them he could turn in an album in
"five or six weeks." In his 2014 autobiography Rocks, the guitarist
states that the songs were largely autobiographical:
"Let the Music
Do the Talking" – the title track – spoke for itself. It was just how I
was feeling. I didn’t need to talk. Didn’t need to explain how much I
wanted to be on my own timetable, free to work at my own speed, which
was pretty fast. "Conflict of Interest" was inspired by my feelings
about the shady side of the record business. I was going straight back
to my roots, as demonstrated by the R&B-heavy "Rockin’ Train." Songs
like "Life at a Glance" and "Ready on the Firing Line" were constructed
around riffs that had been bouncing around my brain for months.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_the_Music_Do_the_Talking)
Album recorded and mixed in the analog domain - AAD. That is, a minimum of digital processing.
A=Analog.
D=digital. The first letter stands for how the music was recorded. The
second letter for how it was mixed. The third letter stands for the
format (all CD's will have D as the last letter).
01. Let The Music Do The Talking (04:42)
02. Conflict Of Interest (04:43)
03. Discount Dogs (03:42)
04. Shooting Star (03:39)
05. Break Song (02:06)
06. Rockin' Train (06:02)
07. The Mist Is Rising (06:30)
08. Ready On The Firing Line (03:54)
09. Life At A Glance (02:41)
As good as any Aerosmith album to that point
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