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Alan Parsons Project Band: Alan Parsons Project
Title: Essential Alan Parsons Project
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Release Date: 2007-02-19
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Raven 2: Tell-Tale Heart 3: Cask of Amontillado 4: To One in Paradise 5: I Robot [Instrumental] 6: I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You - Alan Parsons 7: Some Other Time - Alan Parsons 8: Don't Let It Show 9: Day After Day (The Show Must Go On) 10: What Goes Up 11: Eagle Will Rise Again 12: Can't Take It with You 13: In the Lap of the Gods [Instrumental] 14: Shadow of a Lonely Man 15: Lucifer [Instrumental] 16: Damned If I Do 17: If I Could Change Your Mind 18: Games People Play 19: Time 20: Gold Bug [Instrumental] 21: Turn of a Friendly Card (Suite): I. The Turn of a Friendly Card, Pt. 1 22: Turn of a Friendly Card (Suite): II. Snake Eyes 23: Turn of a Friendly Card (Suite): III. The Ace of Swords [Instrumental] 24: Turn of a Friendly Card (Suite): IV. Nothing Left to Lose 25: Turn of a Friendly Card (Suite): V. The Turn of a Friendly Card, Pt. 2 26: Sirius [Instrumental] - Alan Parsons 27: Eye in the Sky 28: Silence and I 29: Psychobabble 30: Mammagamma [Instrumental] 31: Old and Wise 32: Pipeline [Instrumental] 33: Ammonia Avenue 34: No Answers Only Questions [#] 35: Don't Answer Me 36: Prime Time 37: Let's Talk About Me 38: Separate Lives [Alternative Mix] 39: Days Are Numbers (The Traveller) 40: Sooner or Later 41: Hawkeye [Instrumental] 42: Stereotomy 43: Limelight 44: Where's the Walrus? [Instrumental] 45: Sagrada Familia 46: Closer to Heaven 47: Standing on Higher Ground 48: Paseo de Gracia [Instrumental]

Essential Alan Parsons Project is just that, ESSENTIAL.
It has all the best stuff. Essential Alan Parsons Project is just that, ESSENTIAL. And not just the big hits. (Not that there were that many big hits. After all, the world at large doesn't have the best taste in music and can't appreciate all the good music Alan Parsons did. )

Great sound quality and all at a good price. Highly recommend this set.
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Parsons & Wolfe
I have their greatest hits, volumes 1 & 2 and the Definitive Collection. Excellent collection of Parsons/Wolfe tunes. This is far more superior than those other albums. Would recommend this to all Alan Parsons fans.


The Ideal Compilation for the Casual Fan
Best of all, SONY/BMG has included the once lost gemstone No Answers Only Questions (Final Version) that Eric Woolfson composed and guitarist Ian Bairnson arranged. Along with The Definitive Collection, The Essential Alan Parsons Project gives the casual fan the proper mixture and proportion of radio hits, Alan Parsons' signature instrumentals, and Eric Woolfsons' thought-provoking ballads. Everything has been digitally remastered from the best available source tapes. The end result is a product that sounds very good on a moderately priced home system and stunning on audiophile-quality speakers and equipment. If the casual fan sought advice as to where to begin enjoying The Alan Parsons Project, I would whole-heartedly recommend this collection.


Sounds and vocals are absolutely stunning.
While it doesn't have every song that could have made it, it is enough of a teaser to want you to listen to more. I found the clarity and new digital recording to be so much better then what I had expected.
Considering that some of these songs were done over 25 years ago I really liked it. I also liked how they grouped the songs from the various albums.

My only dislike is the words and music at the beginning of "Lets talk about me" are way too low and lost with out cranking the sound until they get the song up to speed. It's about 15 seconds that you think your stereo died.

Still a great value for the money. .


Not necessarily "The Essential"
It would've been great if they had merely added a disc's worth of songs to that already excellent collection, but in fact, this collection is missing a total of ten songs from that one, including the tracks "(The System Of) Doctor Tarr And Professor Fether", "Breakdown", "Pyramania" and "You Don't Believe". This import entry into Sony/BMG's "The Essential Colletion" series is not necessarily better than 1997's The Definitive Collection, it just has more songs.


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