Aerosmith - Done With Mirrors [Japanese Ed. SHM-CD] (1985)

Year: November 4, 1985 (CD Feb 17, 2010)
Label: Universal Music (Japan), UICY-94441
Style: Hard Rock, Arena Rock
Country: Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Time: 35:46
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 279 Mb

On November 4, 1985, Aerosmith attempted a comeback with the first album for Geffen Records (overall eighth studio album) but met with a mixed bag of rocks. The plus side the return of guitarists of Joe Perry and Brad Whitford who both respectively left in 1979 and 1981. Don’t get me wrong I really like the band but it’s tough as I must deliver a fair review – no favorites.
The lead off song “Let the Music Do the Talking” was originally from Joe Perry Project band’s first album; but was reworked for Aerosmith with changes to the lyrics and tone. I have heard both versions and it really depends on your taste which one is preferred. “The Reason a Dog” has been harshly judged over time, it is a playful dirty minded track, folks just need to stop with the thin skin attitudes. It does have teasing rock-blues melody that feels it should come from more of bar band than the eighth album of Aerosmith. “Shela” doesn’t do a thing for me it feels it belongs on someone’s else album, the tone is off-beat, hence and easy to skip it. Now, “Gypsy Boots” starts a bit slow, but quickly ratchets into gear it has that classic AC/DC feel, that pulls the listener back to the reason why I really like the band. At 2:20 it returns to slow pace of the opening riffs and does it a few more times though in between the songs rips well. Gotta say the early vinyl edition included the bluesy track called “She’s on Fire” and fast groove song that sounds a bit like The Rolling Stones influence for “The Hop”, with more blues layering. The CD version of then concluded with the song “Darkness”.
For the purest the original artwork was all backwards and only readable if held to a mirror, the remastered version reverses this experimental design which served as a suggestion of laying out lines of coke to sort off a mirror in the classic style of then.
(thehorrortimes.com/2025/08/09/aerosmith-done-with-mirrors-1985-by-vincent-mento/)

01. Let The Music Do The Talking (03:48)
02. My Fist Your Face (04:23)
03. Shame On You (03:22)
04. The Reason A dog (04:13)
05. Shela (04:25)
06. Gypsy Boots (04:16)
07. She's On Fire (03:47)
08. The Hop (03:45)
09. Darkness (03:43)

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Aerosmith - Rock In A Hard Place [Japanese Ed.] (1982)

Year: August 1, 1982 (CD Nov 21, 1996)
Label: Sony Music (Japan), SRCS 9052
Style: Hard Rock
Country: Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Time: 40:17
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 280 Mb

It is the only Aerosmith album not to feature guitarist Joe Perry, following his departure from the band in 1979. Fellow guitarist Brad Whitford also left during the recording in 1981. The band spent $1.5 million on the recording of this album, which saw them reunited with producer Jack Douglas.
Aerosmith had released six studio albums during the 1970s. But as the decade concluded, multiple problems arose. Guitarist Joe Perry had left the band in 1979 after incidents at the World Series of Rock in Cleveland, Ohio and was replaced by Jimmy Crespo. Meanwhile, Steven Tyler's drug abuse increased. After recording the single "Lightning Strikes", guitarist Brad Whitford also left Aerosmith in 1981 and was replaced by Rick Dufay.
Guitarist Dufay recalls the difficulty in completing the album in a 2008 interview: "They tried to make that album for two years but Steven couldn't finish stuff and they had trouble with their original producer but once they got Jack and me on board, we were just pushing it. When we went down to Florida, Steven was way too fucked up to do anything, he was nodding off when he was trying to write lyrics and I said to Jack that we had to get him out and get him together. It took about two or three months and we pretty much nursed him back to health. We got him off the hard stuff, sat in the sun and had some laughs and I established a bond with him. It's pretty well documented on the Behind the Music show. He was pretty sick and I just took care of him and even had to wipe his ass for him!!
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_in_a_Hard_Place)

01. Jailbait (04:38)
02. Lightning Strikes (04:26)
03. Bitch's Brew (04:13)
04. Bolivian Ragamuffin (03:32)
05. Cry Me A River (04:06)
06. Prelude To Joanie (01:20)
07. Joanie's Butterfly (05:34)
08. Rock In A Hard Place (Cheshire Cat) (04:45)
09. Jig Is Up (03:09)
10. Push Comes To Shove (04:29)

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Hollywood Vampires (Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp, Joe Perry) - Hollywood Vampires [Japanese Ed. SHM-CD] (2015)

Year: September 11, 2015 (CD Sep 11, 2015)
Label: Universal Music (Japan), UICY-15428
Style: Hard Rock
Country: U.S. / UK
Time: 51:13
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 380 Mb

Hollywood Vampires is the self-titled debut studio album by American rock supergroup Hollywood Vampires, formed in 2015 by Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp and Joe Perry to honor the music of the rock stars who died from excess in the 1970s. Released on September 11, 2015 for Republic Records, the album features guest appearances by Paul McCartney, Robby Krieger, Orianthi, Dave Grohl, Christopher Lee, Slash, Brian Johnson, Joe Walsh, Perry Farrell, and Zak Starkey amongst others.
At his shows, Alice Cooper often performs cover songs as a tribute to his drinking buddies The Hollywood Vampires. For an album of covers based on the latter, Cooper wanted songs specific to their early 70s era. "Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix of course were before the Vampires," he conceded. "But they were, like, early, early-breed Vampires. They would have been there every single night."
The songs duly hail from acts who fit the original group's "lore", with the exception of two new tracks by Cooper and Depp titled "My Dead Drunk Friends" and "Raise the Dead". "My Dead Drunk Friends" is named after Cooper's recent favorite turn of phrase. Of that, Cooper says "'My dead drunk friends', they would have laughed at that. It was their sense of humor."
Of McCartney's appearance, Depp recalled: "We're recording live… Alice looks at me with this befuddled little look and he's mouthing the words, 'Oh my god, that's Paul McCartney!' to me… Then I look over at Joe Perry – one of my guitar heroes from when I was a kid – and he looks at me and he says, mouthing it, 'Jesus – look, man, it's Paul McCartney!' It was great to see those two huge stars being starstruck."
The lead track is a spoken word piece titled "The Last Vampire" voiced by Christopher Lee, in which he recites a passage from Bram Stoker's Dracula. This was Lee's final recording for a musical album before his death in June 2015.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Vampires_(Hollywood_Vampires_album))

01. The Last Vampire (01:35)
02. Raise The Dead (03:31)
03. My Generation (02:47)
04. Whole Lotta Love (04:13)
05. I Got A Line On You (02:48)
06. Five To One - Break On Through (To The Other Side) (04:17)
07. One - Jump Into The Fire (05:07)
08. Come And Get It (02:59)
09. Jeepster (02:42)
10. Cold Turkey (03:07)
11. I'm A Boy (02:37)
12. Manic Depression (02:43)
13. Itchycoo Park (02:55)
14. School's Out - Another Brick In The Wall part 2 (05:14)
15. My Dead Drunk Friends (04:30)

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The Joe Perry Project (Aerosmith) - Let The Music Do The Talking (1980)

Year: March 1980 (CD 1980 ????)
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)

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Aerosmith - Night In The Ruts [Japanese Ed. BSCD2] (1979)

Year: November 16, 1979 (CD Oct 9, 2013)
Label: Sony Music (Japan), SICP 30373
Style: Hard Rock
Country: Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Time: 35:43
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 267 Mb

The title of Aerosmith's 1979 album Night in the Ruts was more than just a clever spoonerism for "right in the nuts." It encapsulated the dire state of affairs for the drug-addled, feuding rockers, whose underrated sixth LP was nonetheless doomed to fail.
The Boston quintet had been knocked from its mid-'70s perch by the end of the decade, hobbled by escalating substance abuse and exhausted from touring relentlessly in support of 1977's underperforming Draw the Line. This incessant tour schedule interrupted the sessions for Night in the Ruts, and Aerosmith's performances grew increasingly erratic as they ramped up their drug usage even more.
This exhaustion and debauchery worsened the friction between Steven Tyler and Joe Perry. The tension came to a head backstage after a show in Cleveland on July 28, 1979, and the guitarist quit the band following a cataclysmic argument. Aerosmith replaced Perry with Jimmy Crespo, who served as an official member of the band from 1979 through 1984.
Night in the Ruts' commercial performance reflected the band's burnout. The album debuted at No. 14 on the Billboard 200 but quickly fell down the charts and was panned by critics. Its only single, a cover of the Shangri-Las' "Remember (Walking in the Sand)," fizzled at No. 67 on the Hot 100.
Still, Night in the Ruts is far from the unmitigated disaster some critics made it out to be. From the autobiographical rocker "No Surprise" to the sleazy, riff-driven "Bone to Bone (Coney Island White Fish Boy)," the record features some of Aerosmith's most fiery performances, harking back to their mid-'70s glory days of Toys in the Attic and Rocks. Still, the album was relegated to the dustbin of history when Aerosmith made their miraculous, MTV-fueled comeback in the late '80s.
(ultimateclassicrock.com/aerosmith-night-in-the-ruts-doomed-to-fail/)

BSCD2: When a standard CD is mastered, an Infared beam is used to make the digital notches on the master disc (mother matrix). With the Blu-spec master, a blue laser is used which is a finer etching process. With this technology, the notches are therefore more precise which reduce playback errors. The notches on a Blu-spec CD have a width of 125 nm compared to the 500 nm width on a standard CD.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-spec)

01. No Surprize (04:25)
02. Chiquita (04:24)
03. Remember (Walking In The Sand) (04:04)
04. Cheese Cake (04:15)
05. Three Mile Smile (03:41)
06. Reefer Head Woman (04:01)
07. Bone To Bone (Coney Island White Fish Boy) (02:59)
08. Think About It (03:34)
09. Mia (04:15)

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Aerosmith - Draw The Line [Japanese Ed.] (1977)

Year: December 9, 1977 (CD Oct 9, 2013)
Label: Sony Music (Japan), SICP 30371
Style: Hard Rock
Country: Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Time: 35:17
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 237 Mb

By 1977, Aerosmith had released four studio albums, the two most recent – Toys in the Attic (1975) and Rocks (1976) – catapulting the band to stardom. However, as the band began recording its next album, Draw the Line, their excessive lifestyle, combined with constant touring and drug use, began to take its toll. "Draw the Line was untogether because we weren't a cohesive unit anymore," guitarist Joe Perry admitted in the Stephen Davis band memoir Walk This Way. "We were drug addicts dabbling in music, rather than musicians dabbling in drugs."
Although the LP would sell well more than a million copies in fewer than six weeks after its release, in 2014 Perry would refer to it as "the beginning of the end" and "the decay of our artistry."
It was recorded between June–October in an abandoned convent near New York City. The portrait of the band on the album cover was drawn by the celebrity caricaturist Al Hirschfeld.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerosmith)

01. Draw The Line (03:23)
02. I Wanna Know Why (03:09)
03. Critical Mass (04:52)
04. Get It Up (04:02)
05. Bright Light Fright (02:20)
06. Kings And Queens (04:55)
07. The Hand That Feeds (04:23)
08. Sight For Sore Eyes (03:55)
09. Milk Cow Blues (04:15)

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Aerosmith - Rocks [Japanese Ed.] (1976)

Year: May 3, 1976 (CD June 22, 1988)
Label: CBS/Sony Group Inc. (Japan), 25DP 5091
Style: Hard Rock
Country: Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Time: 34:26
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 238 Mb

Charts: US #3, AUS #45, CAN #14, SWE #46. CAN: Platinum; US: 4x Platinum.
Their ambition to be one of the greatest rock bands drove them to gradually perfect their riffs, vocals, and rhythms. ‘Rocks’ attains this optimally, to the extent that it has influenced giants of the genre like Slash, who confessed that this album is what inspired him to play the guitar.
There’s a complete coherence between Steven Tyler’s impressive vocals and the enjoyable guitars of Brad Whitford and Joe Perry. In essence, it’s a very fun album, an iconic hallmark of the band with past riffs like “Walk This Way.” Such arrangements can be heard in songs like “Last Child” or “Get The Lead Out,” where guitars and vocals combine to create different rhythmic patterns a style that few bands were embracing at that time, becoming Aerosmith’s signature.
The album can be heavy, as in songs like “Rats In The Cellar,” dark as in “Nobody’s Fault,” and sentimental as in “Home Tonight.” The combination of textures is excellent throughout the album; at no point does it become tedious or dull. On the contrary, it keeps the listener expectant for what’s next. The order of the songs is perfect, providing a journey through various passages intentionally created differently.
We hear Steven Tyler (Vocalist) at one of his peak moments, with his characteristic falsettos pushed to the maximum in songs like “Back In The Saddle.” His voice can be as melodic as it is piercing, positioning him as one of the most authentic vocalists in the scene. Much of Aerosmith’s success lies in their vocal work, and even to this day, there’s no vocalist with a similar style.
(therockreview.net/aerosmith-rocks-eng/)

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. Back In The Saddle (04:39)
02. Last Child (03:25)
03. Rats In The Cellar (04:05)
04. Combination (03:38)
05. Sick As A Dog (04:14)
06. Nobody's Fault (04:22)
07. Get The Lead Out (03:41)
08. Lick And A Promise (03:04)
09. Home Tonight (03:15)

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