Alan Parsons Project: Classic or Dud?

There should be a TS thread between Bumrocks, Lovefingers, and the Dream Chimney people.

I agree Alan Parsons Project are underrated, but let's not exaggerate here :)

"Time" = Most depressing, most suicide-inducing song of all time = Classic

Seward OTM. Can't quite picture a goth band doing it though, unless they were industrial maybe.

Anyway, I've bought some CD's of APP now and the Edgar Allen Poe thing scared me off after only a few tracks. I really dug "I Robot" but I've still only heard it once (I was delighted to find it included Steve Harley singing on one track too! Wow!). "Eye In The Sky" was kinda half and half as far as good vs. boring tracks. I'm rather digging "The Turn of A Friendly Card" right now, though.

I was disappointed that I revived this and no one said anything! I'm playing "I Robot" now and it's great fun even where it kindof veers into the cheesier aspects of 70's music. That Steve Harley track is so ominous. In fact, there's a real darkness to much of this record.

From our upstairs porch I watch my neighbor,
a small town accountant with a voice like a toy keyboard,
begin his walk to work in his navy blue Botany 500 suit,
bought used in an L.A. consignment store while visiting his widower son-in-law and blind granddaughter,

and according to my neighbor, formerly owned by Gene Rayburn, the semi-retired game show host whose grotesque aura still haunts the seven o’clock time slots of my body’s internal clock along with Merv Griffin, Don Rickles, Cloris Leachman, Bert Convy, Wink Martindale, and the tenants of every Hollywood square,

those terrible hucksters, sickening adults/hyenas who seem to have had their protegés on every Main Street,
the men with perms, tight gray curls erupting over the alcoholic topography of their oiled faces,
a legion of salesmen ruined by bad translations of an already disastrous California ideal,
their eyes stinking like boiled cocktail onions as they emerged from “sleek” 1980 Thunderbirds,
all marinated teeth and snowplow moustaches,
fresh from invigorating divorces,
dragging tawny S-shaped girlfriends by the wrist to wooden gargoyle waterbeds where stereo systems built into the headboards played “Eye in the Sky” by the Alan Parsons Project endlessly through the night.

- DCB

snagged Pyramid on vinyl today, as of the first track it's terrific

I have a soft spot for some of this stuff. But I have to add, the only time I've ever been booed as a Dj was when I tried to sneak a little "Eye in the Sky" into my set.

Actually Chipmunks doing Tom Petty got booed once too, but thats' because people thought I was playing it on the wrong speed on purpose. So that doesn't count.

crap, RIP Eric Woolfson

http://www.facebook.com/EricWoolfson

I had no idea until reading an obit that he wrote all the music for the Alan Parsons Project.

That's terrible! RIP.

weird, playing eye in the sky right now and didn't even see this revive!

bummer RIP dude has made my ears happy

Hearing Mammagamma atm I'm always impressed at how ahead of its time and how good it sounds. I have a friend with me who asked who it was because she thought it was from this year.

"Time" soundtracks one of the best shots in A Fantastic Woman. Will the Alan Parsons Project be this year's John Denver?

apparently not.

also: for years and years I thought "time" by APP was actually "fly like an eagle" by Steve Miller.