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What can I say about the Alan Parsons Project?
 
I owe this band my passion for intelligent music and even becoming a musician; I've been fortunate enough to tell this directly to Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson themselves!!
 
I don't care wether people call it prog, pop or AOR, I love it; it may not be as complex as some of the well-known prog acts, but it really is well crafted music. Eric Woolfson is a genius!! His lyrics are excellent, for his lyrics are Woolfson's observations of the world, focused on the theme of the album in question... and they can even be disguised as love songs when they're not!! (e.g. Don't Answer Me).
 
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Originally posted by Haragei Haragei wrote:

If Eye in the Sky is prog, then the entire XTC Catalog should be included too.  It's pop. 
 
I love XTC Wink
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Recently got 'Stereotomy' for the princely sum of £1. I actually enjoyed it a heck of a lot, but again, I don't hear much full blown prog in it. 'Prog related' is fair considering how most of their works are concept albums, and they kind of toy with prog without really getting there. Still, a fine band.
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Their debut is really good!
RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
EXERIOR Experimental tech/death/progmetal from Norway!
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Are they not a bit lightweight? some good songs, but an awful lot of crap in there.
 
He is a good engineer, and he should've stuck to doing that.
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The Project, cool... sometimes an idiot tells me Alan has a good voice.
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Alan Parsons and APP, all good music, have 'em all and saw them recently live here in Guadalajara, wow!, it's cool how he's kept the energy alive in the band by having younger musicians fill in. Prog, prog-related, rock, porp, whatever, who cares ? Only the narrow minded would care. Your loss, our gain.

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the first 2 are classics, the rest descend from that.
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i actually like them a lot.
the first few albums were quite fresh.
But I feel that in albums like "the turn of a friendly card" their escence began to dissapear into a repetitive mellow corny sound.
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I really like Alan Parsons Project, my favourite songs are:

The Same Old Sun, Oh Life (There Must Be More), Siren Song, The Raven, The Cask Of Amontillado, The Shadow Of A Lonely Man, If I Could Change Your Mind, The Three Of Me, Turn It Up, Ignorance Is Bliss, The Very Last Time, Ammonia Avenue, Don't Answer Me, Brother Up In Heaven, One Day To Fly, Blue Blue Sky
 
As for the albums:
 
Tales Of Mistery Imagination, On Air, Try Anything Once, The Time Machine.
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The debut is very original. They did a remake some years ago which I still have to listen to.

For the rest: I like some songs like The Silence And I, Eye In The Sky, Old And Wise and La Sagrada Familia, but in general I don't like them much: is miss some sort of "edge", they're not a real band and you can hear that. Hated Time Machine, to be very honest.
 
Sorry if I hurt somebody's feelings. I'll make it up to the fans though: in the best forum tradition I'll say three nice things about them Smile : 1. they've got one of the best producers ever; 2. there's no other act like them; 3. my former boss liked them
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Points: 64375 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 16 2007 at 22:36
I just can't get into them.. people say they're 'progressive' but I seem to keep hearing the duller non-prog albums.
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Points: 272 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 31 2007 at 12:53
Tales and I Robot are great albums, some of their later stuff isn't really prog in fact their whole catalogue of music is classed as prog related.

But yeah, those first two albums are definitely brilliant Smile
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Points: 73 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 31 2007 at 23:57
The only songs I've really heard are "I Can Read Your Mind" and the entire album 'Turn of a Friendly Card'...very good stuff, though I'd like to dig deeper into their repertoire.
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