Best Of The Joe Perry Project, The - Joe Perry Project (The)

Advantages: crunching rock, emotive ballads
Disadvantages: not for everyone

...smile every time. Score: 8.5/10 Best Bit: the following lyrics: “His sword is sharp and hard as stone, her cauldron begs for one more bone” Walk On Down (Joe Perry) This song would be fairly unremarkable if it wasn’t for the fact that Joe Perry sings it. Joe singing isn’t without precedent however, as band history boffins (like me) will tell you that Joe left Aerosmith in 1979 and during the early 1980s sung on 3 albums as the ‘Joe Perry Project’. However this is the first Aerosmith song that he assumes the full vocal duties for, and as a traditional guitar rocker, this is a good track and serves as a nice, well timed, change/break. His voice isn’t anything like Steve Tyler’s, but that is a good thing as it has different qualities, and to this day Joe usually sings lead vocals once... Read review

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Advantages: It's Aerosmith
Disadvantages: Only 9 Tracks

...and is a catchy tune. Much easier to sing a long to than the last track. A nice simple track. Critical Mass. Duration: 4:52 Written By: Steven Tyler, Tom Hamilton, Douglas Starting with the drums, bass and guitars fading on, it then a establishes a nice beat. Followed by Tylers' hollowing yells of: "Arriving in boats! Black hooded coats". This track includes a piano in the background but is no where near a ballard, it is a nice bluesy - rock song. One of the best lines being: "Celebrate,celebrate, celebrake it! This is critical mass!" which is projected by Tyler's shouts. It is one of my favourite tracks on the album for sure because it's just something different. Get It Up. Duration: 4:02 Written by: Steven Tyler/ Joe Perry This sounds similar to "Draw The Line" instrument wise. I didn't use to be a fan of this song as it just didn't do... Read review

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Advantages: Raw, Some good tracks
Disadvantages: Short, Some not so good tracks

...Done With Mirrors - Aerosmith Geffen Records, 1985 Aerosmith are - Steven Tyler - vocals Joe Perry - Guitar Brad Whitford - Guitar Tom Hamilton - Bass Joey Kramer - Drums Done with mirrors was Aerosmiths' first outing for Geffen Records, having been signed to Columbia Records since their first album, Aerosmith, in 1973. The mid-80's was not a good period for Aerosmith. Drugs had taken their toll and both Joe Perry and Brad Whitford left the band for a while. This album, however, marks the turning point in Aerosmiths return to the big time. It is a slow start, but it is a start. After 1983's album 'Rock in a Hard place', featuring Jimmy Crespo instead of Joe Perry it was clear that Aerosmith just could not cut it without the songwriting partnership of Tyler/Perry. Joe Perry's new band The Joe Perry Project was also failing to find... Read review

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