246:"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.
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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
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wrote that "maybe because he wanted to show his former band mates that he could succeed without them, the performances were extremely inspired, while the songwriting was sharp and focused... A truly great and underrated record,
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has "a greater emphasis on both control and funkiness, yet still exuding tons of warmth and larger-than-life riffery", and praised Perry for his "eccentric, concentric interpretations of the blues."
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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
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The Music Still Does the
Talking: The Best of the Joe Perry Project
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received generally favorable reviews from critics. Greg Prato of
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509:"The Mist Is Rising"
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759:Perry, Joe
738:August 25,
701:August 25,
671:References
654:, New York
648:Greg Calbi
634:, New York
618:Production
590:David Hull
580:percussion
211:Background
148:chronology
95:blues rock
61:March 1980
993:Aerosmith
951:Joe Perry
869:Joe Perry
658:John Berg
568:Joe Perry
551:Personnel
484:Writer(s)
385:Writer(s)
366:Joe Perry
352:Billboard
251:Reception
195:Aerosmith
139:Joe Perry
91:Hard rock
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691:AllMusic
641:, mixing
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471:Side two
372:Side one
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275:AllMusic
130:Producer
123:Columbia
66:Recorded
58:Released
48: by
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317:10/10
240:Rocks
118:Label
86:Genre
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