Done with Mirrors Tracklist
Founding members Joe Perry and Brad Whitfield returned to Aerosmith when the band began working on their eighth studio album Done With Mirrors, but the reunion did not result in a successful “comeback” album. Though reviewed positively, the album sold poorly relative to the band’s potential and was deemed a “failure”.
Done With Mirrors was the band’s first album with Geffen Records. However, with Perry, frontman Steven Tyler and album producer Ted Templeton mired in drug problems while recording in an unfamiliar studio, it was fated to repeat what their previous album Rock In A Hard Place did – have no hit songs (in contrast, their four prior consecutive albums each had at least one song appear on the Hot 100, and so would their next five).
In 2012, Perry named Done With Mirrors as one of his two least favorite Aerosmith albums.
“Done with Mirrors” Q&A
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What certifications has the album received?
Done With Mirrors is certified Gold by the RIAA:
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What have the artists said about this album?
In 1990, Brad Whitford and Joe Perry told Guitar World about the songwriting process on Done With Mirrors and their dissatisfaction with it:
BRAD WHITFORD: We did a lot of house cleaning during Done With Mirrors, but we hadn’t swept our brains out yet. We were trying to use the same songwriting process we used in the mid-Seventies. We’d start with four or five songs and try to write the rest in the studio.
JOE PERRY: There were only eight or nine cuts on our records because that’s all we would have. That worked for Rocks and Toys In The Attic because we were playing live a lot. We tried the same approach on Mirrors, but the ideas were not there. We realized by the end we were not happy with the record’s quality.
