Life Mirrors - Beatless

Advantages: Smooth and mellow
Disadvantages: A very samey kind of smooth and mellow

...'s now two-thirds of the way through. The beat - when it appears - is staccatoed and unpredictable and most of the time it's just Sade, a bass and a meandering piano with a side order of very subtle percussion. This beatless approach would work well on a shorter track, but at an ill-advised 5:22, it's pillows at the ready! (Hence the title of my review). Mark: 3/5 8. I Will Be Your Friend (4:44) Virtually the twin sister of Smooth Operator but the only difference being the difference in lyrics. Same pace, sam mood, instruments, sax intro, everything! The lyrics, as on the rest of the album, are not very inspiring. "I will be your friend until the end of time". Perhaps it's telling that Diamond Life was recorded 20 years ago, because the lyircs on this track and the album as a whole wouldn't really hold up these days. Mark: 3... Read review

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Advantages: Aerosmith in a raw form.
Disadvantages: Short album. Not the best of songs.

...Done With Mirrors was released in December, 1985, under the record label Geffen Records. This album is Aerosmith's 8th studio album, which was produced by Ted Templeman and recorded at: Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA. In the middle of the 1980's, Aerosmith was pretty well written off and left for dead due to their drug abuse and the band member's ego clashes had taken such a severe toll that just about everyone had given up on Aerosmith. However after a Valentine's Day Aerosmith show in Boston in 1984, Joe Perry and Brad Whitford returned to the fold and the band got the idea that maybe, just maybe, it might be possible to make it back to the top. Aerosmith regrouped and decided to give it another go, and as a result went back into the studio to work on Done With Mirrors, which was supposed to be their big comeback album... Read review

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Advantages: Aerosmith in a raw form.
Disadvantages: Lots of "unknown" songs.

...Done With Mirrors was released in December, 1985, under the record label Geffen Records. This album is Aerosmith’s 8th studio album, which was produced by Ted Templeman and recorded at: Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA. In the middle of the 19080's, Aerosmith was pretty well written off and left for dead due to their drug abuse and the band memember's ego clashes had taken such a severe toll that just about everyone had given up on Aerosmith. However after a Valentine's Day Aerosmith show in Boston in 1984, Joe Perry and Brad Whitford returned to the fold and the band got the idea that maybe, just maybe, it might be possible to make it back to the top. Aerosmith regrouped and decided to give it another go, and as a result went back into the studio to work on Done With Mirrors, which was supposed to be their big comeback album... Read review

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