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Alan Parsons Project - The Best of the Alan Parsons Project Audio CD

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Alan Parsons Project Band: Alan Parsons Project
Title: The Best of the Alan Parsons Project
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Release Date: 1990-10-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You 2: Eye in the Sky 3: Games People Play 4: Time 5: Pyramania 6: You Don't Believe 7: Lucifer [Instrumental] 8: Psychobabble 9: Damned If I Do 10: Don't Let It Show 11: Can't Take It With You 12: Old and Wise

Good album, but no Sirius...are you serious?
Some people out there probably don't know the name and think of it as the long intro to "Eye in the Sky" or thought of it as part of the "long version of Eye in the Sky", like I did when this song used to play on the radio in the early 80's. This all of the hits except one - Sirius. Sports fans will also recognize it. I never had the "Eye in the Sky" album, so I didn't know what it was. To me, Sirius was excellent and made a perfect intro to "Eye in the Sky". It's absence feels like a gaping hole in the album. Otherwise, it's great. I suppose I'll have to buy the "Eye in the Sky" album or at least pay to download "Sirius" on its own.


Alan Parsons is prog rock
Listen to it again, Sam. Even though the collection suffers a bit from the mixed development stages of their efforts represented, it is still all good.


Great CD!
It was delivered promptly and in good condition. The Best of the Alan Parsons Project CD is very good.


Technically brilliant but uneven in some ways
But Steely Dan's albums carry two unifying factors: Fagen's voice, and an underlying theme of existentialist futility. As did Becker and Fagen in Steely Dan, Alan Parsons has employed the cream of rock musicians to make his albums shine.
Parsons produces each of his albums around a given concept, as do Pink Floyd. The albums themselves are unrelated. At risk of being too simplistic, Parsons, like Jeff Beck, sometimes places technical virtuosity over musical expression. Not doing so, but stepping ever so close to the line, is the genius of Steely Dan. They are Mozart to Parsons's Beethoven.
While the result of Parsons's Greatest Hits album may not be psychobabble, there is more than a little schizophrenia going on. Not only are the pieces disossociated thematically, they often employ different vocalists and musicians. The result is a collection that ranges from symphonic, heart-wrenching vocals (Old and Wise) to icy-cold fusion (Lucifer).
I'm not into fusion or cleverness (another Parsons indulgence), so I've booted about half the songs from this disk and consider the rest to be classics. No doubt other buyers are doing the same, but with different halves. Others still, and a lot of them, will treasure each song. Certainly, Alan Parsons has given us all something we can treasure.


A must-have for your collection
This is a great compilation of Greatest Hits!!!
I had great service from vendor as well!.


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