THE BEST OF THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT VOL. II

Released five years after the volume I, this compilation is slightly better then the first, for obivous reasons: they had to fill the spaces without the benefit of the greatest hits that were already used on the first. Still you can´t hardly say it is their best. As I warned on my previous review of the vol I, this title is very misleading: the tracks you have here are far from what´s best from APP. there are good moments, of course: the instrumental I Robot is one of them, and I really love the beautiful melody line of Days Are Number (probably one of the best pop hits ever). Limelight and Prime Time are also good songs. But at 48:25 they could have inlcuded at least five more tracks.

But even if you put those two compilations together, like I did in the early 90´s (for lack of options at the time), you´ll get frustrated. Especially if you heard one of APP´s full album. The Project always had fine stuff that was not played on the radio, and that was true for most of their best ones. So I can´t recommend any of those. If you want a real good APP´s collection take my advice: get all their albums and select you own favortie songs. This CD is one of the cases when the Best Of title works against the artist. APP did much better than what´s shown. I´ll give two stars because the tracklist is a little stronger than the first, but still it barely made it.