The Alan Parsons Project

[Pablo]

I'm listening to - right now - Amazon Prime UHD. Had to turn the volume down a bit. Rocking!! Scary too.

Very very clean

Tales of Mystery and Imagination​

 

[Pablo]

That era Parsons was pretty much soft rock, their earlier stuff was pretty hard/experimental. I started with Tales of Mystery and Imagination which is a salute to Poe and is pretty rockin. Pyramid and I robot were prog rock . Eve and Turn of a Friendly Card were more poppy. After that they kind of morphed into soft rock/adult contemparary. But its all pretty good.

After Pink Floyd, Yes, ELP etc era the synth, recording and production by then seems to be nice plateau before all the nutty loudness stuff with CDs. Parsons did it really good. I'm thinking no need for "remastering" and all that, if your are lucky enough to have well cared for original LPs. I don't think I have any on CD to compare though (I have a lot of CDs).

That said, UHD streaming sounds good, so I'm being lazy and not cleaning LPs or searching CDs.

 

[Hermann]

Recently I have enjoyed a couple of their concerts on YouTube concerts. One was in the country of Columbia. Excellent concert with a symphony orchestra.

 

[Finklejag]

 

[AZjeff]

Was never a big fan, only know the radio playlist songs, had to go to YT to refresh memory. Appreciate the craft involved just not my thing.

 

[y_p_w]

You can't be Sirius.



But seriously (or is that Siriusly?) even the Alans Parsons Project got the joke:

 

[KCJeep]

“I wouldn't want to be like you......”

No need to drag @Zee09 into the discussion…

 

[Zee09]

No need to drag @Zee09 into the discussion…

There's nothing worse than being victimized by your own rhetoric

 

[Sequoiasoon]

I have Sirius and others in my play list, I hear it in the car often. Just sitting here on laptop clicking link above, I like how intro starts on left and then drums/cymbals other stuff kicks in to the right.

 

[Opelman]

Yes, The Raven and A Dream Within a Dream are way up on my favorites list. A very talented engineer for lots of other bands too. His work just sounds good.

 

[y_p_w]

Yes, The Raven and A Dream Within a Dream are way up on my favorites list. A very talented engineer for lots of other bands too. His work just sounds good.

Strangely enough I remember The Raven was played when we were reading the Poe poem in English class.

 

[DirectRejection]

Yes, The Raven and A Dream Within a Dream are way up on my favorites list. A very talented engineer for lots of other bands too. His work just sounds good.

Let's toast.
I've a cask of Amontillado.

 

[Aichiguy]

There are pyramids in head. There's one underneath my bed, and my lady's getting cranky. Every possible location has a simple explanation and it isn't hanky panky. Good stuff.

 

[Hermann]

Psychobabble is such an interesting song.

 

[Pablo]

Let's toast.
I've a cask of Amontillado.

Not everyone got that!

Maybe ---- "Some Other Time"

(that song really lights up my system, like set up for it)

 

[Nyati]

The best thing Alan Parsons ever did was produce “The Dark Side of the Moon” for Pink Floyd.