Aerosmith: Done With Mirrors

Dave · 2025-11-02T11:57:25+00:00

Title: Done With Mirrors Artist: Aerosmith Genre: Hard Rock Released: 1985 Tracks: 1 - Let the Music Do the Talking - 2 - My Fist Your Face - 3 - Shame on You - 4 - The Reason a Dog - 5 - Shela - 6 - Gypsy Boots - 7 - She's on Fire - 8 - The Hop - 9 - Darkness - Overview: Done with Mirrors is the eighth studio album by American rock band Aerosmith, released November 9, 1985. The release marked the return to the band of Joe Perry, who had left the group in 1979, and Brad Whitford, who had left the band in 1981. It was also the band's first album released by Geffen Records. It was intended as their "comeback" album, but it didn't live up to commercial expectations. In keeping with the title, all the text (except for the catalog number and UPC) on the original releases of the album was written back-to-front, and could be read normally by holding it up to a mirror. All subsequent releases flip the artwork so that it can be read without a mirror, and also add the band's logo. As a result, the original CD (which came in a longbox) is collectable. (All text in the booklet of the first CD-pressing is also back-to-front.) The title is a double entendre, referring both to illusions that are "done with mirrors", as well as members of the band quitting their drug use (such as cocaine, which is traditionally snorted off of a mirror). "Let The Music Do the Talking" was a new recording of the title track of the first album by The Joe Perry Project, with altered lyrics and melody. In an interview, Brad Whitford revealed that Ted Templeman wanted to capture the band's aggressive "out of control freight train" sound by removing the red light that indicated that the band was recording (a technique he used to capture Van Halen's sound). He informed the band to run through the songs in the studio and recorded them without the band's knowledge. Whitford referred to the nerves generated when knowingly recording songs as "the red light blues". Joey Kramer, who was a guest on VH1 Classic's That Metal Show, expressed his dislike of Done with Mirrors, claiming that the band "never really finished it".

Topic starter Dave
Start date Nov 2, 2025

Nov 2, 2025

Title: Done With Mirrors
Released: 1985

1 - Let the Music Do the Talking - 3:48 -

2 - My Fist Your Face - 4:23
3 - Shame on You - 3:22
4 - The Reason a Dog - 4:13
5 - Shela - 4:25
6 - Gypsy Boots - 4:16
7 - She's on Fire - 3:47
8 - The Hop - 3:45
9 - Darkness - 3:43

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