Nothing more than a poppy ballad, but the performance of the band is extremely "Time" also from The Turn of a Friendly Card is one of the highlights of the album,
Just weak songs recorded for commercial purpose that IMO don't deserve to beĬommented, except for the trivia fact that Eye in the Sky reached the top of the pop Robot, somehow jazzy with an excellent guitar work, good but still not the best songįrom the album based on Isaac Asimov's novel, mostly because of the drumming thatĮye in the Sky (Same title album) and Games People Play (Turn of a Friendly Card) are The Best of Alan Parsons Project starts with "I Wouldn't Want to be Like You" from I Notice that the production is outstanding as in every album by this band.
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Selection by Alan Parsons include some of the best from their commercial years plus aĬouple of tracks from the more prog' oriented I Robot and Pyramid it's also important to To be honest the album is not bad, mostly not progressive but the songs personally It instead of going with the terrible Eve. The time I saw this album in the shelf of a store at the price of 3 bucks, decided to buy That Eve is one of the worst albums ever recorded by an originally progressive band,Īndrew Powell's Orchestral arrangements in Damned if I do are among my favorites, so Started their career strongly but turned weak and ultra commercial progressively withĮach new release (paradoxical way to use this term).īut there was something in this album that caught my attention, even when I believe I'm even less interested when it's the case of a band like Alan Parsons Project that Song out of it's natural context (The way it was recorded in the original version and the I usually don't buy or review compilations, because simply lacks of sense to listen a Posted Sunday, Octo| Review this album | Report (Review #30315) Of this album has a very good sound quality. Were edited or cut to be included in this compilation, but it doesn`t matter. It seems that some of the songs are shorter than the original versions, like they My favourite songs from thisĪlbum are "Time", "Damned if I do", "Don`t let it show", "Can`t take it with you" and "OldĪnd Wise". Andrew Powell is a very good orchestralĪrrangement, and his work in "Time" is a good example of this. Sound, "the concept" of the APP remains the same. Woolfson, and even if there are several changes of personnel in the tracks, the APP had very good musicians apart from Alan Parsons and Eric I bought this album mainly for "Time", a song I have listened in There are not tracks from APP`s first album, as this album was This album shows an equal production quality, even if the songs were takenįrom different albums.
These songs is also of high quality, as expected from a recording engineer/producer likeĪlan Parsons. ButĮven if some songs were for Radio playing, I have to say that the recording and mixing of ads for cars, as "Lucifer" in my country many years ago). This is a good compilation of some high quality "commercial songs" or songs played in the Posted Sunday, | Review this album | Report (Review #30314) I've always had difficulty warming up to APP anyway, so maybe it's no wonder that "The Best of The Alan Parsons Project" leaves me cold. So it appears Arista was aiming at radio listeners who were familiar with THE PROJECT's popular hits and might be curious enough to buy an entire album of their music, rather than longtime fans who were looking for a succinct career summation. And the decision to exclude "Day After Day (The Show Must Go On)" or anything from their first album seems shortsighted. ("Lucifer" is an instrumental track that hardly balances the proceedings.) While I've enjoyed these songs in their original context, it was the music that separated these songs ("Nucleus," "The Turn of a Friendly Card"," "Silence And I") that made the more commercial moments palatable. "The Best of The Alan Parsons Project" focuses on their commercial singles, one facet of a multi-faceted outfit. You'll find those ingredients in various measures on their first six studio albums, but you won't find them here. And some pleasant songs follow, from the playful "Pyramania" to the purposeful "Can't Take It With You." But the slight attraction I've felt toward the band stems from their marriage of ambitious concepts, immaculate production value and mildly hypnotic instrumentals. There's no denying that the opening quartet of songs is classic PARSONS, inextricably connected to the progressive pop of the late '70s and early '80s but appreciable today nonetheless.
Still (and PROJECT-iles can cover their ears for this part) I don't think the band had twelve great songs in their career to choose from. Front-loaded with goodies, left sagging listlessly at the end, "The Best of The Alan Parsons Project" isn't exactly a cavalcade of hits.
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