The Raven in HD by The Alan Parsons Project
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- Опубліковано 9 чер 2012
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Tales of Mystery and Imagination is the debut album by the progressive rock group The Alan Parsons Project, released in 1976. The album's avant-garde soundscapes kept it from being a blockbuster, but the interesting lyrical and musical themes - retellings of horror stories and poetry by Edgar Allan Poe - attracted a small audience. The title of the album is taken from a popular title for Poe's macabre tales of the same name, Tales of Mystery & Imagination, first published in 1908 and many times since under this name. Critical reaction to the album was often mixed; for example, Rolling Stone's Billy Altman concluded that it mostly failed at reproducing Poe's tension and macabre fear, ending by claiming that "devotees of Gothic literature will have to wait for someone with more of the macabre in their blood for a truer musical reading of Poe's often terrifying works".
This album was released in the UK originally with a different name. Simply called The Alan Parsons Project, it was successful enough to achieve gold status but later that year the same album was released under the name of Tales of Mystery and Imagination.
Lyrics:
The clock struck midnight
And through my sleeping
I heard a tapping at my door
I looked but nothing lay in the darkness
And so I turned inside once more
To my amazement
There stood a raven
Whose shadow hung above my door
Then through the silence
It spoke that one word
that I shall hear forever more
Nevermore
Thus quoth the raven, nevermore
And still the raven remains in my room
No matter how much I implore
No words can soothe him
No prayer remove him
And I must hear for evermore
Quoth the raven, nevermore
Thus quoth the raven
Nevermore
During my military days, a fellow grunt and smoking partner (RIP) ended up at a party of older people (still don't know why we were there) but the owner and his wife a history professor, as it turned out) of the party put this album on, he rolled a couple, passed it around and we all just laid back and listened, no one spoke, now close to the end of 60, I have followed The Alan Parsons Project ever since, thank you for those memories Alan:)
Sounds like y’all rolled up to a swinger party.
Welcome home soldier..... And thank you so much❤
@GodfatherAl102892 maybe he did. But my buddy and I could do the same to Hawkwind, Pink Floyd etc and no orgy other than emmerst into the tunes .
And still the raven remains in my room
No matter how much I implore
No words can soothe him
No prayer remove him
And I must hear for evermore!
MASTERPIECE‼️ APP 🙌🏻
This album was a big hit with my generation.
☺️
The Raven was a ground breaker in it’s day being one of the first rock songs to feature the newly developed (by EMI) of a device called a vocoder, a voice changer used to distort the vocals to great effect in this track. Love Love Love The Alan Parsons Project!
You are absolutely right it's the first album to use it,long before Nazareth and others
AP wrote this song as a tribute TO POE
Yep, we were 14 year old stoners and rockers when Alan Parsons was introduced to us. Loved all his work including the next album "I Robot" ..For some reason I also think of Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here" around this same period in my life. Both high influential albums.
I am a recent fan of APP. I have to say I am blown away by this song.
Alan Parson Project was the best Edgar Alan Poe project.
you mean edgar alan po was the best alan parson Project 's Album ?
@@philldevil2 Horror! lol!
@@philldevil2 i'll leave it like that i've got 13.Yes! lol...Tank you Filip.
Poet's influence on music, gothic literature, modern twists in drama, prove he was a master of not only the macabre but the weight of irony on life
Tales of Mystery and Imagination is a masterpiece start to finish -- especially the proper version with the Orwell voiceover.
Yes, I definitely agree, but I do think you meant Orson Wells :).
Yet another winning tune from APP!!!! This stuff was HUGE when I was in HS in Wyoming. It's good to hear their stuff again!!! Timeless!!
I once had to learn this for my music classes, i liked it so much i come back every year to Hear this masterpiece
Yup, this album was on constant repeat when I was in my late teens!
I just want to say "thank you" for the great job you did with this video. The "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" were one of my favourite LPs when I was young.
When I first fell in love with The Alan Parsons Project, this was the song. I was very young then. I am old now and have loved so many more since. Thank you, Mr. (or Sir), Alan Parsons.
I’m right there with you. An underrated band.
@@johnhunsinger2625 Alan Parson's ended up OK. So much good musik
This song captures the haunted, tortured brilliance of Poe.
& nevermore.
Agree
Yes, it does.
👍
as great as his stories may be, and i wouldn't be here obviously if i didnt enjoy them, he also married his 13 year old cousin at the age of 27....so...calling him brilliant i feel is a bit of a stretch
And that's Parsons himself on the synthesized voice.
Legend has it that this was the first time a vocorder was used.
...and still the raven,remains in my room,no matter how much I implore,no words can soothe him,no prayer remove him and I must hear for ever more...Uno de los mejores temas de Alan Parsons para mi.
The harbinger of mortality.
Tales of Mystery and Imagination = Best album the Project ever did!
WIKIPEDIA: It was one of the first rock songs to use a Vocoder, developed by EMS, to distort vocals (see UA-cam video EMS Vocoder). It is also one of the few songs by the band featuring the vocals of Alan Parsons, who sings the first verse through a Digital EMI Vocoder (liner notes). Actor Leonard Whiting performs the lead vocals for the remainder of the song, with Eric Woolfson and a choir as backing vocals. /// For Techies (see Wiki Vocoder). Military / Industrial apps began in the late 1930s.
i heard this as a child and i could never forget that robotic voice,ever
Yeah I was 6 when this came out and same here...never forgot the sound of the voice. Edgar Allan Poe was a mad Mfer too!
RT
Freddy Fehn yeah my father showed my this when I was little
Me too
I hear it at a pinball parlour when I was 13 and searched for 6 years before I heard it again.
This was my favorite song as a child because my Parents heard a lot of Alan Parsons and Pink floid, as well as Genesis and Queen
I'm glad to have my parents
I am LOVING the guitar overdubs and fills that Ian Bairnson and Alan went back and added in for the album's 20TH Anniversary Edition, IIRC.
Survivor2002 They're amazing!
Actually, they were overdubbed for the 1987's remaster. That's my favourite version of the album.
This album was very popular when it came out. I had to have my own copy and it was one of my most prized albums for years.
I ran into a KID, a CHILD this evening as I stepped out for air, and he (Michael) was seriously enamoured of Edgar The Late Alan, musically inclined, recharge and reset, stop and rewind --
Alan, thank you for playing! Thank you Michael for a ride, more conversation than your friends could tolerate and egoboo. (Local Alan, POTUS, not to be confused with Alan Parsons, APP, musical genius.)
I remember so well when this came out. A great time to be alive!! The music has never reached its heighth as it was in the 70's!!
Except for in the 80's lol :)
you may be right my Friend. Every decade has it's favorites!!!
Your right Greg (y)
*height
[Submitted with all due respect because words matter]
I miss the experience of going to the record store the day a new album from my favorite bands was released. I loved that smell of fresh vinyl that wafted from the cardboard sleeve when I carefully cut the shrink wrap. Albums often came with extra goodies, like booklets and posters. I had a Stones album that had a real working zipper on the front! Our larger record stores had free concerts sometimes to promote new bands and albums.
But I love music of all eras. There are many excellent modern day artists I love, such as Michael Kiwanuka, Calexico, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, and even some Japanese pop music my son turned me on to.
I was a teenager in the 1970s, and there was good music, but it's not my favorite era. The 80s music was so different and new (I'm still a punk fan).
8 years ago you posted one hell of a song. Thank you.
THUS QUOTH THE RAVEN...NEVERMORE!! Nuff said.....
This song has been around for awhile. But i was introduced to it by my 6th grade English teacher when we were studying Edgar Allen poe. And that was back in 2011. To this day it's still one of my personal favorite poems by poe. And one hell of a song by APP.
This is an essential element to the greatest concept album of all time.
Allen Parsons was playing at the Woodlands warming for Jethro Tull. I let my friend drive and I missed all but Parsons Encore! Never more man!
Leonard Whiting of the 1968 "Romeo and Juliet" movie fame sung the vocals after Alan Parson intro through the voice distorter.
Leonard Whiting has a beautiful singing voice!
+Ciro Morales and orson wells is the narrator on the beginning of the tales album
For the longest time I thought that was Eric Woolfson.
This song features the band Ambrosia, who's first album was engineered by Alan Parsons. The 1987 re-issue of this song featured added guitar leads.
The Raven. Powerful birds. They know more than we do.
I love Alan Parsons Project! Every member of this band has incredible talent! They are so cool to work for too! I wish they would come to St. Louis, Missouri on a regular basis. I will by all the sushi you want guys! Please come hear again soon!
" I'll Always Love 💘you Hayden Panettiere "
Great Vid for sure, and I have the vinyl on this that I got almost 40 years ago. What a wonderful tribute to Poe... Great job...
Yes, it is one of the better vids on YT I've seen lately.
A magical song!
The Raven
Tales of Mystery and Imagination is the debut album by the progressive rock group The Alan Parsons
***** it was cool weekend, thanks... how was your's?
*****... and to you as well! ;D
Happy birthday Mr Poe wherever you are. Fittingly we had a blood moon last night. I hope you were able to toast it in your celestial abode with a glass of your favorite cognac
Always one of my favourites...So very Ravenesque.
Brilliant
Just brilliant
Happy Birthday Edgar Allan!
I read in the Wiki that actor Leonard Whiting did the singing vocals on this song.
amazing!! great work!!
truly a great song, and an excellent video to go with it. nice work!
A masterpiece !!!!!
" I'll Always Love 'me' Neal Patrick Fry "
Fabulous video to accompany a masterful song!
one of the greats
Okay, I have to say this is one of the best music videos I've seen on UA-cam. Usually these user created "music videos" are some crappy, low pixelated google images slapped together and put with a song, but this is superb and far from that. The seamless transition @ 2:50 from the sinister looking raven to the moon behind it was fantastic. Well done.
This is beautiful. My all time favourite song has always been riders on the storm, but I thing this is a pretty strong contender for the title.
I was in middle school when this came out. LOVED it - my English teacher let us listen to it in class on album!
Awesome video. Great work
Excellent video and well said
Astounding piece of music
sheer brilliance !!
The memories of my youth spent listening to APP with my brother and sister.
Great job on this video too 🎉
Love it one of my fv Parsons songs
Very good indeed!
Super version of this song!
incredible sound quality! my parents and i are big APP music lovers. excellent job on the video!
Alan Parsons é sem dúvida um ícone no Rock progressivo não somente por seus discos, arranjos e tudo mais... Ele é o engenheiro de som responsável por belíssimos trabalhos do Pink Floyd por exemplo e fé outras celebridades também...
When i buy this album (1976 of course) was almost impossible to find in italy. Nobody know it !!!!!!!!! Great album and Impressive sound quality to listen on the hi-fi.
Wonderful.
That. Is a masterpiece.
Great, Thank you!
wonderful video! great job!
I wouldn't wanna be like 15 people .
Jaja, it shows you’re a real APP fan.
Tommy Shaw said he fooled around with the keyboards and out came Renegade, based on this song. WOW!!!!
this is so amazing...I know I've heard it before but...this is like a mix of black sabbath and king crimson ....so killer...
Absolut fantastic art. Pefect video. Thanks.
My all-time favorite.
Top shelf.
Saw APP live 1990. Only issue,so many singers sang on those hits,he had 2 guys singing who never sanf on any of them. Musically it was great,and i did shake alans hand at the end.
Awesome...
great guitar solo!
Superb!
lm related to the Whitings, came from brightens beach , england, 1800s, lived in muskoka ont, 1868-1930s, cheers, love music, 70s-80s.
Excelente video, recién hechecito, aplausos fuertes para The Alan Parsons Project y también para el que hizo el video.
Nice job on the video, ...thanks very much for that.
Die Raben leben viel länger auf der Welt wie die Menschen❤
❤❤ Der Hohe Rat.
Ich freue mich darauf.❤
pretty amazing for 1976
great!
Edgar Allen Poe .. passed away drunk and penniless in the streets of Baltimore never knowing how famous he was
I was reading a book about secret mysteries schools, and I came across with something that reminded me this song, it is that in the ancient Roman secret relligion Mithraism had six initiatory grades, the first one is called the Raven and its symbol is the caduceus.
this video is very good, i think, Poe saw such a bird when he wrote this poem.......i love ravens!
This is the beautiful 1987 version. The original from 1976 doesn't have electric guitars at 2:27.
This video is a masterpiece.
Great song, I love it! :D
Never more!!!!!!!!!!
Думаю альбом " Tales Of Mystery and Imagination " (1976г.) можно смело назвать вершиной творчества Алана Парсонса. Созданный по мотивам произведений американского писателя и поэта Эдгара По, он стоит в одном ряду с творениями Genesis,Yes,Gentle Giant и др.
В 80 -ые уехали в Молдавию на соревнования и слушали на берегу Днестра
creepy and wonderful. I love it!
NEVERMORE💋
Raven Kirsh
#Nevermore
#QuothTheRaven
#ThatPart
*** PERFECT !!! ***
We walked the narrow path
Beneath the smoking skies
Sometimes barely tell the difference
Between darkness and light
Do we have faith in what we believe?
The truest test is when we cannot see
I hear pounding feet in the streets below
And the women crying and the children know
That there's something wrong
It's hard to believe that love will prevail
It won't rain all the time
The sky won't fall forever
And though the night seems long
your tears won't fall forever
I love the chorus starting at 0:55
I had a cool English teacher in middle school who played this for the class.
RAW POWER!!
Poe and APP were my invisible friends through my tormented adolescence.
Way ahead of their time...
Great Halloween track!
Took me forever to remember this as a kid..bamm.😃
The best ❤
The clock struck midnight
And through my sleeping
I heard a tapping at my door
I looked but nothing lay in the darkness
And so I turned inside once more
To my amazement
There stood a raven
Whose shadow hung above my door
Then through the darkness
It spoke that one word
That I shall hear forever more
Nevermore
Thus quoth the raven, nevermore
And still the raven remains in my room
No matter how much I implore
No words can soothe him
No prayer remove him
And I must hear for evermore
Quoth the raven, nevermore
Thus quoth the raven
Nevermore