ALAN PARSONS PROJECT - SIRIUS / EYE IN THE SKY (LIVE) REACTION
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That’s Alan Parsons himself singing lead vocals. On the studio album it was Eric Woolfson singing lead but he has sadly passed away.
Ah, thank you. I didn't think Mr. Parsons was a vocalist.
@@IllumeEltanin not usually but he really did a fine job during this performance!
My comment above also mentions him in reference to the song "Time". Alan Parsons was initially reluctant in using Eric Woolfson as the vocalist in "Time" because he wasn't a professional singer per se. But when the song became a hit, he was certainly glad he took the chance!
@@windnchgo great backstory, thank you! It’s impossible to imagine “Time” without Woolfson’s incredibly serene vocals. I’m glad Parsons decided to go with him!
I never heard him sing before.
Alan Parsons was the engineer on Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon
Also did some of the Beatles albums at Abbey Road Studios.
Alan Parsons is possibly the best recording engineer for pop/rock of all time. His influence on the sound is on par with the instrumentalists and vocalists.
He also set up the gear for the Beatles' rooftop concert -- you know, their last ever.
@@MichaelScheele not possibly. He is the best!
I did not know that!
“The sun in your eyes, made some of the lies worth believing “.....
my favorite line!!!
Such a brilliant line.
Love Alan Parsons! Other songs by him: Time, Old and Wise, Games People Play, and I Wouldn’t Want To Be Like You
@Bookhouse Boy The whole Turn of a Friendly Card album is great.
Don't Answer Me as well. Plus a great video.
"Old and Wise" is such a poignant statement - especially for those of us who are getting older. I'm 63 and never thought I'd see it.
"Games People Play" was a hit for him back when too.
As was "I wouldn't Want To Be Like You"
All throughout the Michael Jordan era the Chicago Bulls used "Sirius" as their intro music to the starting lineups. The arena was electric. There are UA-cam clips from Bulls games on here to give you the flavor of it.
Alan Parsons not only had some great songs but was also a sound engineer on a couple of famous albums - Dark Side of the Moon & Abbey Road.
Parsons was involved with the production of several albums, including the Beatles' Abbey Road (1969) and Let It Be (1970), Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon (1973),
The Alan Parsons Project in its inception was basically music engineer Alan Parsons and music composer Eric Woolfson, and they would bring in guest performers for any song with lyrics (cause there were plenty that were just instrumentals). Alan Parsons engineered many albums at Abbey Road Studios, including Dark Side of the Moon. Alan and Eric met in the late 70s and began making music together with their first album, "Tales of Mystery and Imagination," based on the works of Edgar Allen Poe. This was followed by "I, Robot," loosely based on the works of Isaac Asimov. Their albums in order after that, now being released in the 80s, include "Pyramid," "Eve" (which was the only official APP album to include female soloists), "The Turn of a Friendly Card" (I want to say this was their first really stellar release, and it was also the first album which featured Eric Woolfson singing some of the songs), "Eye in the Sky" (another stellar release, really putting Eric on the map as a singer as well as a composer, with Sirius being used to introduce the Chicago Bulls when they had Michael Jordan as part of the team), "Ammonia Avenue," "Vulture Culture," "Stereotomy," and their final official album "Gaudi," which is based on the life of Spanish architect Antonio Gaudi.
However, due to clashes with their record label demanding more albums (as well as for Eric to sing more), there is an album that can be best categorized as album 4.5, as it was created between development of "Friendly Card" and "Eye." Its called "The Sicilian Defence," based on a chess tactic that wins games exceedingly quickly and it was an entirely instrumental album. It was Alan and Eric's way of saying to their label, "You want an album, here's a bloody album" (cause they're British). That album wasn't heard in its entirety until 2014 with the release of the box set of albums in their natural forms without any bonus tracks, though one song from "The Sicilian Defence" was included in an expanded edition of "Eve" before the box set's release.
When the 90s rolled around, Eric began to dabble in musical theatre, and, at the encouragement of theatrical producer Brian Brolly, the album that would've been the Project's official eleventh, "Freudiana," based on the life of Sigmund Freud, was developed further than normal Project standards and eventually became a musical in Germany in 1990. Two albums were produced, a "White" and "Black" album. The "White" album was the English studio recording of "Freudiana," while the "Black" one was the German cast recording. Neither of the albums are currently in print and are extremely difficult to find. There also was some legal issues with it where, somehow, Brian Brolly was awarded full rights to the "show" version of "Freudiana," though Eric and Alan (Alan did help with it in some capacity), were attributed as the writers. Brolly died of a heart attack in 2006 and it is unclear who really owns the rights now. (Also I swear this is the only part I had to look up on Wikipedia as I forgot Brolly's name). After "Freudiana's" time on stage, Eric decided to pursue musical theatre, while Alan continued making studio music.
This is the part where I give my two cents on their split. I consider Alan to be the brains of the project, while Eric was the heart. Eric wrote more music than was able to be put on some of the albums, sometimes because the songs didn't fit with the particular albums aesthetic, which Alan was able to have influence over. One such song, "No Answers, Only Questions," meant to be a part of "Vulture Culture," is done only with a guitar and a vocalist, and has a depressing while also slightly hopeful feel to it, which contrasted with "Vulture Culture's" overarching theme of "survival of the fittest." Not to mention it was a pretty synth heavy album. The reason why I say they were the brains and heart is because of their general feel. Alan's work after the project feels more engineered, meant to appeal to a broad audience but lacking an emotional complexity that Eric was gifted at. Eric's work feels like he tried to put every emotional feeling that can be put into a song, without a check to dial it back if it was too much. With their Project albums, they balanced each other out to give some amazing performances.
Eric's musical theatre career progressed to a stage production of the Project's last album, "Gaudi," which featured more songs and a bit of a toned down feel compared to the original studio Project. A lot less rock, and a little more classical. There was also a collaboration project called "The Challenge," where Eric wrote two songs. After that, Eric created a stage show called "The Gambler," which featured songs from "Turn of a Friendly Card," "Stereotomy," as well as the titular song from "Eye in the Sky." This show played Germany and Korea for the later half of the 90s/beginning of the 2000s. In 2003, Eric made a new studio album which would be the basis for a new show that eventually premiered in 2009: "Poe: More Tales of Mystery and Imagination." Meant to be a continuation of the first Project album, "Poe" stared Steve Balsamo (who played Jesus in "Jesus Christ Superstar" and Phoebus in the English studio album of "Notre Dame de Paris") in the title role. Featured songs included "The Pit and the Pendulum" and "The Bells," the latter of which was seemingly adapted directly from Poe's poem. A new recording based on the show version with more songs didn't include any of the songs from the original Project album, though it did include a dramatic reading of "The Raven." Before "Poe" made it to stage, Eric wrote one more musical, "Dancing Shadows," specifically for the Korean theatre scene. a demo recording exists, though not for average consumers, and features "No Answers, Only Questions" as one of its songs. Some of the songs from this show were demoed by Eric and included along with songs from Gambler, Poe, and some outtakes from past Projects on his last album before he passed away from kidney cancer in 2009, "The Alan Parsons Project That Never Was." In 2012 a musical theatre related album based on his work was created, using some tracks from the "Poe" album, a few of the remaining unheard songs from "Dancing Shadows," and new recordings of songs from "Gaudi" and "Gambler."
Alan's story is quite different, as he continued to engineer music meant for broader consumption. His first solo album, "Try Anything Once" was released in 1993. He created an album called "On Air" later, which looked at Man's quest to fly, and after that an album called "The Time Machine," meant to look at time, and the last album for a long while, "A Valid Path," which included several callbacks to Project work, including a "Mammagamma 2.0" based on the "1.0" song from "Eye in the Sky," and a remix of "The Raven," based on the song of the same name from the first Project album. For a long while, Alan released a few singles, including an instrumental song called "Alpha Centauri," meant to be a spiritual relation to "Sirius," and he toured performing Project works like this version of "Sirius + Eye in the Sky" in this video. Alan was never a singer like Eric was. The only song from the Project era he ever performed in was "The Raven," though he had his voice put through many filters. It seems that it wasn't until he started doing his later solo albums, his singles, and his concerts that he's sung the work he helped create. Most recently, in 2019, he released a new album called, "The Secret," which still featured guest artists like Jason Mraz, but also had one of the most BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTES TO ERIC THAT I HAVE EVER SEEN in the form of the song and music video, "As Lights Falls."
That last bit was actually the point I wanted to get to. If you do happen to do more react videos, I would recommend the music video for "As Lights Fall" because of it being a beautiful tribute to Eric, but I have to also recommend eventually listening to all of the Project's works. The musical theatre stuff isn't for everyone, and Alan's solo works are okay, but the Project stuff is the best. The only reason that I got into the Project was due to one of Eric's musical theatre songs being included on a rock-ified compilation of musical theatre songs that I found because there were a couple songs from a German musical I really like called "Elisabeth," and after looking into Eric's musicals that eventually led me to "I, Robot" which I thought would be cool as a stage musical, and then I eventually learned the history of "Sirius," and around that time the box set came out, and it's one of the best purchases I've ever made. It's a crazy rabbit hole, that musical theatre. I've gotten so much mileage out of the Alan Parsons Project since then that I have a playlist of every cover of "Sirius" and "Eye in the Sky" that I could find that I liked. It's crazy.
That is his touring band for many years now. I saw them at least 6 years ago with the same line up. Can't think about Alan without Pink Floyd being thought about.Two of the most professional acts out there. Incredibly tight, great subject matter, songs played to their compliment not some messing WTF is that jambshit. Alan and Pink make me glad to have been alive and listening to their epic everything!!!
You know how fun it is to remember those songs after all these years? That’s how much fun it is for us to see you react to “our” music for the first time.
...also: the MAIN vocalist for Alan Parsons Project was, one: Eric Woolfson.
He was a co-founder of the band, with Alan Parsons and a major song-writer/contributor. In fact: Woolfson and Parsons were the ONLY 2 "actual members" [official members] OF The Alan Parsons Project, per se!
Line-up of: Two. 👍👍Yep! (-It's a fact. Everyone else was, "just," "a contributor" and, usually, people rotated in and out album-to-album, and tour-to-tour... 👍👍👍)
...But THIS recording of the track features Alan, himself, on lead vocals, because Woolfson had passed away several years before this (2009?? ...I believe...) [although, musically, the duo had split YEARS earlier and each had gone on to do solo work.].
...I'm *pretty* sure this was a thing that happened under the title of: The Alan Parsons Symphonic Project ["Symphonic Rock" reached it's (minor) "crescendo" at the tail-end of the '90s-early 2000s; with numerous conductors, composers, etc, doing fully symphonic interpretations of work by bands such as: Pink Floyd, Yes, The Doors, etc., etc. -This was, actually, a bit of a "follow-on" (late entry into the pool) for Parsons -Not something he can, generally, be accused of! 🤷♂️🤷♂️]
I don't know the history of it, but, perhaps it was something that Alan designed in tribute (at least partially!!) to his, long-time friend and musical partner.🤷♂️🤷♂️ ...'t'would make sense.
...So: the vocals you heard on your "gatorfade CD" would have been those of Woolfson.
That's not meant to suggest that Alan Parsons can't sing (although ...he's a bit ..."sloppy" here, i.m.o.; actually). He can (and does). Generally, within the A.P.P., he relegated himself to backgrounds/harmonies, however. ...Parsons is a HIGHLY-accomplished and lauded: musical engineer, producer, composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist.
There's that.
the power of Parsons - live with orchestra - BRAVO
Fun fact. Allen Parsons produced Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd.
Great performance of a magnificent composition.
Now we're talking I've been waiting for you to react to this.. I hope the next one is Gary Rafferty BAKER STREET extended version
"I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You" (from the: I, Robot album!)
[Alan Parsons Project]
Classic (and deeply funky!). 🤘🤘💜💜💜💜🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 🤘🤘
The beginning that you recognize was used by the Chicago Bulls to introduce Mike Jordan and the rest of the team....still use it.
Chod, I highly recommend their "Games People Play" and "I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You"
Whoop whoop I only figured out who these guys were a year ago! Whoop whoop it is the perfect Transition for 2 songs, and Live!
Alan Parsons formed "The Project" as a way of utilizing different studio musicians around songs he and Eric Woolfson wrote, so there was no "band" per se. And every album was written around a concept such as Eye in the Sky is. Fans of The Project are pretty much equally in love with the songs with vocals as well as the instrumentals because both are so strong. Having said that I would like to hear songs from vocalists he incorporated regularly such as John Miles "Shadow of a Lonely Man", and Lenny Zakatek "Games People Play", and even his co-songwriting partner, Eric Woolfson "Time". The link is of the studio version because that is the version that has the original vocals by Eric Woldson. This was one of his biggest hits, btw. ua-cam.com/video/zhRzORqNa0E/v-deo.html
@Bill Durling very well-said! I also love the vocal performance on “Breakdown” by Allan Clarke of The Hollies.
Anyone heard his 'Tales of Mystery and Imagination' album? Worth a listen.
You will never regret it!
@@Chris-filosifer64 Not for awhile. Need to play it again. Superb story telling and musicianship.
Wouldn’t Want to be Like You is another great one by them
Time, Old and Wise, and Don't answer Me are a few of APP great tunes! Eric Woolfson was the lead singer until his death. Now Alan and PJ Olsson handle the vocals.
Thanks for the live version - I hadn't seen this. And I didn't know that Alan Parsons could sing. I do miss Eric Woolfson's voice.
You really really really need to react to Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, the studio version he plays every insturment Fantastic producer
Finally got to see this band in Houston when they opened for Yes. (Yes should have opened)
Fuck yes. I still remember my mom bring this album home when it came out. Blew my mind.
This was famously the player introduction music for the Chicago Bulls during their Michael Jordan six titles run.
I love that this sparked a childhood memory for you. In the early seventies I discovered two artists (T-Rex and Sparks) thanks to a 2 album compilation of many artists. Sparks in particular I want to mention for several reasons: they write brilliant and funny songs, they have a very unique image and presence on stage, and their career has spanned 50+ years that gets artistically better with each year. Plus they are subject of a new documentary biography by Edgar Wright "The Sparks Brothers" that recently premiered at Sundance to rave reviews. Below is a link to a performance of their first hit on TOTP in England, and a link to a clip of the documentary. And lastly they recently completed writing the music for the upcoming movie musical "Annette". With these two 2021 releases they are perched on the precipice of mainstream success - after a career of 50+ years.
So glad that clicked for u, I thought the live would let those who didnt know his music appreciate it a little more. Ur just going to have to trust me on the "Grace Potter and Joe Satriani cover Cortez the Killer" long, long time ago!
I had this song on repeat when it came out. I was 12 but I loved it❤
Funny how that Gatorade album had both Todd and Alan...two of the best producers/recording engineers in the business. They did a tour together many years ago that also featured Anne Wilson from Heart and John Entwistle from The Who and it was called A Walk Down Abbey Road where they performed all there own songs during the first set and then played all Beatle music during the second half. Anyway, great Stuff. Other songs to react to from Alan would be Wouldn’tWant To Be Like You, Time, & Games People Play. Others from Todd would be For The Want Of A Nail, Change Myself, Time Heals and from his band Utopia, Love Is The Answer.
I bought my kids Sony Walkman's for Christmas one year when they were in the 2nd and 3rd grades. I stopped by the Dollar Store and picked up some tapes of old classic rock from the sixties to play in them. One day they're sitting in the back seat with headphones on while we were going on a trip and I told my son to hand me the tape out of his walkman so I can play it in the car stereo. I pop it in and it starts playing Chantilly Lace by the Big Bopper. Both my kids started singing along at the top of their voices and they knew every word. It went on like that from song to song. I told my wife to buy some more tapes. It was hilarious. I can imagine you with that CD as a kid.
Do the studio version of "Old and Wise". It's beautiful and spooky and will have Eric Woolfson singing lead. Alan's vocals in this live video just aren't the same...
Solid gold
The studio version actually features Colin Blunstone on lead vocals, not Eric.
@@luisalonsoecheverria I always thought that was Eric. Similar sounding voices. I'll have to listen closer the next time I play it.
@@brianorzel1873 On the remastered CD, one of the bonus tracks is a version w/Eric on lead vocals.
Standing on Higher Ground, and Damned if I Do, should also be on your must do list!
Saw them in concert three times, they never disappoint. Once before Woolfson passed.
Love this band...very underrated in my opinion. This was the pre-game music for the Michael Jordan led Bulls starting 5 player introductions.
The song I Break Down featuring the lead singer from Hollies is a great song by the Alan Parsons Project worthy of a listen it’s from the I Robot album, also the Raven is good
APP is known for production. I like studio versions exclusively with them
brings tears to my eyes; memories of sitting on the couch with my school aged daughter watchin the two 3 peats of the Michael Jordan led Bulls, yelling and screaming until Jordan scores the winning points. Thanks. PS-She is almost 40 now-Time flies
He made some great music. Suggest "Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether" from his Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Edgar Alan Poe) album
Yaaaaaaassssssss!!!!
What a great story! It was the other way around for me: in the early 80s when the album was relatively new and I was still young and dumb enough to listen to top 40 music, Sirius was used as the intro for the local independent TV station's "Saturday Night Shocker" horror movie every week, but I had no idea what the song was. Then somehow years later, after turning into a rock fan, I wound up with a copy of their greatest hits album for my first "AHA!" moment... my second moment coming the first time I heard this used for player intros for a certain team I rooted for. "AAAAND NOW.... YOUR WORLD CHAMPION CHICAGO BULLS!" (Point: back then you'd never see the player intros on TV except during the Finals; they'd been doing this for years before I discovered it, because I didn't live in Chicago to actually attend Bulls games.) Its use in this situation cemented Sirius as my favorite rock instrumental of all time.
Chod!!! This is my favorite reaction you've done so far. Your level of passion and joy that this song was on THAT album and the fact that this family you've created here found it for you makes it all worthwhile. Thay being said, I hope your day is fantastic because this sure has made mine!!
That is one great concert in Colombia.
I have related to this song every time I heard it 😊 I am 45 so I heard this when I was little lmao 😂
Producer...Engineer....Songwriter...Keyboardist....Lead Singer...and I deliver coffee for a living...
Parsons didn't sing much on his albums. He's a great writer, arranger, producer. He and Woolfson were like Becker and Fagen writing great songs while brining in a lot of session musicians for the recordings. Those first six albums are killer.
This is one of the few songs that let me reach a nirvana-like state! 🇧🇴
One of the early kings of the concept album.
I've listened to this song many times, but I haven't seen it live. Great suggestion.
Great song. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Wow, a full orchestra backing the band. Thanks for reacting to the live version. I had not see or heard it before. It is a huge treat to see them perform live.
Did I say L.A. Lakers? I meant Chicago Bulls . The Sirius intro was used as their intro anthem.
Originally, APP was strictly a studio band. Parsons did not tour until his collaboration with Eric Woolfson broke up. He tours under the band name The Alan Parsons Live Project.
I love this song...!!! I didn’t so much when I was a little girl, but I found it again this year...and I have it on my FAVOURITE playlist! Amazing!
Please listen to the studio version - it’s ridiculous! 👏🏻👏🏻
That is also the Chicago bulls and Phoenix Suns intro music
And Rickey "The Dragon" Steamboat.
That is music!!
This song came out originally in 1982 by the British rock band the Alan Parsons Project and this well done version of the song was so perfect. Also in 1982 when the album " Eye in the Sky" came out it hit number 3 on the Billboard charts.
I know you generally don’t listen to more than one track but take some time to yourself and listen to the whole ‘Tales of mystery and imagination’ album in one take. It’s the best way to consume these concept albums.
If that’s just not for you then a good single track to react to, with amazing production, is ‘ Sagrada Familia’ from the Gaudi album.
Anybody else expect to see Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls introductions? LOL!! The Portland Trailblazers used to use it for their team intros as well. Great memories this one beings back.
If you're really diggin' Alan Parsons you should look into an album called "Takes of Mystery & Imagination (Edgar Allen Poe)" All of the songs are adaptations from Poe's work. "A Dream Within A Dream", "The Raven", "The Tell Tale Heart", "(The System of) Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether", and the beautifully constructed "Cask of Amontillado" are brilliant. The remix that included the voice of Orson Wells is spectacular in my opinion..
Sirius used to be the opening theme for the Chicago Bulls! in the 1980s
Sirius was always played before introduction of players during the MJ era of Chicago Bulls games
GOOSEBUMPS ! ✌️ what a performance
This song is off the turn of a friendly card album and it is really amazing, bought the lp when it came out and still love to listen to it, you should listen to the studio version of this song cause they were a great studio band...♡
I had that same stereo your father had,, I jammed the heck out of that thing. Love this music video version and now you need to watch Parsons other 'project' - 'Games people play' sung by Lenny Zakatek.... I can't believe I haven't subbed to your channel bro, I thought I had so already. I will do it right now.
Loved this.
Alan Parsons was a producer/engineer for the Beatles, Pink Floyd and so many other albums. Love his music! Turn Of a Friendly Card is great.
How about some new Bachman Turner Overdrive [BTO] with "Not Fragile" the song on the album of the same name.
I can’t hear this song enough. ❤️
Love your reaction kid. Make my day!
"Don't think sorry's easily said" Great lyrics
Great tunes
Alan Parsons has had a fascinating career... before Dark Side Of The Moon, started off at EMI then went over to Abby Road studios on Beatles records with George Martin, then Apple records.. fascinating guy... interesting musical pedigree leading up to his own recordings.
As always this was a great reaction. Alan Parsons was THE Stella Engineer behind Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd that stayed in The USA Charts for 18 successive YEARS :) amongst other achievements. I did not listen to him until I was 65 last year. My loss :)
By The Way, I hope you realize that you are getting continually good reviews on people's list of Top Reactors. There are 5 or 6 regular names that nearly everyone likes including you, my friend.
Your joyful reminiscences of the Gatorade CD are gonna keep me smiling all day.
I saw these guys in November of 2019. I was in the second row and this band looks like the same line up that I saw that night. Minus the orchestra but it was still awesome!! If you ever get a chance to see them you absolutely should.
Goddammit!!! I was about to go to bed!!! Now I'm up for another 15 minutes!!! 🤣
I wouldn't want to be like you is a good one.
Listen to the studio version. He was the producer of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon so his magic is in the studio
Lots of great albums by AP and APP! You should do some cuts from "Try Anything Once" and "Gaudi".
Since you are a budding Ambrosia fan, note that David Pack (Ambrosia lead) does vocals for APP sometimes. A beautiful but oh so sad song is "Oh Life, There Must Be More" sung by David on the Try Anything Once album. Keep your tissues close by.
Ambrosia (as the original band) played on APP's first album, "Tales of Mystery and Imagination, Edgar Allen Poe".
prime time live is amazing
Chicago Bulls Intro
Now introducing #23 at Shooting Guard
Michael Jordan
Sirius
Alan Parsons worked on The Beatles Abbey Road album!
Its ALL about that chord change into Eye in the Sky...
What a great live performance of this classic song. May be too young to remember but it was the Bulls theme song for their extrordinary championship run for multiple years in the 90s. Still played today before every game in Chicago. Well, the Sirus part that is.
Psychobabble is great as is Days Are Numbers
Time by APP is another favorite song of mine.
Hey Chod you mentioned, Bachman Turner Overdrive, well Randy Bachman was the lead guitarist for the band The Guess Who which you did American Woman. For The Guess Who (THESE EYES) would be great. For Bachman Turner Overdrive, (Ain't seen nothing yet) and southern rock
BLACKBERRY SMOKE (SHAKIN' HANDS WITH THE HOLY GHOST ) PEACE HIPPIE JOE
Thank you for the reaction 😊 May I suggest "Don't Answer Me"?
his best album is tales of mystery and imagination. The Raven. Fall of the house of Usher is a masterpiece. But every songs on this album is great.
Great album start to finish! (as all Alan Parson's albums are)
The younger guy in front of him, PJ, does most of the vocals in the show. The band changes from tour to tour slightly, so songs and playlists change. But Alan has a big catalog, so they make it work. His former partner, Eric Woolfson has passed, and didn't seem too enthusiastic to tour when he was alive, but you gots to pay the bills somehow. Hopefully the Bulls pay for use of Sirius, but I doubt the catalog moves many units, even though if you listen to a whole concert you'll say 'I remember that one', over and over, but the music business today is hard.
Old and wise is a great one
I recommend "Psycho-babble" for a great time!
Alan Parsons Project - Psychobabble
Come Halloween, listen to the entire "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" (Edgar Allen Poe) Album. Very creepy and each song was written to go with a Poe Tale. Wonderful!!!!!
SO many to choose from with the APP,but have a listen to Prime Time and the guitar tone its orgasmic,as is the outtro.
Been a big fan since "Tales..."
Turn of a Friendly Card is his Sgt Pepper.
Alan Parsons produced Dark Side of the Moon.
I love this performance, check out the original though!!! Original "Games People Play" and "Time" are excellent!!