Eye in the Sky (The Alan Parsons Project) | Extended Play Lounge Episode 73
Added 2024-08-07 01:41:54 +0000 UTCThis is the first time in the Extended Play Lounge for The Alan Parsons Project, and I promise it won't be the last. I thoroughly enjoyed this album. I guess I shouldn't have been surprised by how much I liked the album cuts. I hope you enjoy my review!
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grnmntl
2024-09-06 03:32:55 +0000 UTCEverything that comes from Alan Parsons is just pure gold! I would love to see more from them in the future! Great reaction Doug! Just one note, the singer from Old and Wise is the singer from the Zombies, thats so awesome!
Lucas Abella
2024-08-08 03:10:56 +0000 UTCVery excited for the ToaFC Suite coming soon(tm). I wonder who suggested that...
Matthew Hackbert
2024-08-08 00:06:39 +0000 UTCThanks Adrian!!
R. Douglas Helvering
2024-08-07 19:29:43 +0000 UTCAbsolutely, and Old & Wise on this album is not far behind.
Neale Brassell
2024-08-07 16:05:20 +0000 UTCDoug has done a load of super EPLs. But I have been looking forward to this one, since the poll was released, as much as any. I agree, most excellent!
Adrian Goodrich
2024-08-07 15:59:07 +0000 UTCDefo well up in my top-5 APP songs. I have always loved Andrew Powell's brilliant IMO orchestration across the albums - right from Classical-Becomes-Rock The Fall of the House of Usher, and it is surely as good as it gets on this song?
Adrian Goodrich
2024-08-07 15:54:59 +0000 UTCWow Doug! SO glad (and relieved!) how much you enjoyed this brilliant album from the superb Parsons/Wolfson partnership. I think all of us APP aficionados were really hoping you would, but even more we were eager to hear your considered thoughts (well I sure was, anyway!). Oh boy, do you have plenty more pleasure coming! Hard to rank their first six albums, but this one holds a special place. I played it to death, and SO enjoyed it, during a wonderful 1982 long Scottish road trip, just after its release. But the very first album made the biggest impression, right from when I first heard the (superb, under-rated) John Miles' guitar and vocals on "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Feather", one June Friday (Rock Show) night in 1976. Just blew me away then; and still does. Basically Alan Parsons And Eric Wolfson throughout the best albums*, accompanied by what has always seemed to me an ensemble cast of (often-regular) top-flight great musicians. Pretty well all of whose work Alan had previously produced. Their quality across all the albums I reckon speaks volumes about how highly he was rated across the industry? The core of the group came from the earlier group "Pilot" - anyone remember "Magic" and No.1 single "January"? And is there a better rock saxophonist than Mel Collins (band member with Camel, Dire Straits, King Crimson and loads of others I can't recall, and session player with SO many famous artists?) I reckon the fans picked an ideal record for you and Meg to go off and enjoy what must be a much-needed break? You sure sound Demob-Happy, really uplifting! Like you, I really enjoy watching/listening to someone who is really very good at what they do, whatever that is. APP is definitely one; you are another. Thanks yet again Doug, for a thoroughly enjoyable listen (hence the long post!) Enjoy your vacation! *EDIT - and of course Andrew Powell, whose orchestral arrangements IMO create so much of the distinctive APP sound!
Adrian Goodrich
2024-08-07 15:24:03 +0000 UTCThanks Steve!
R. Douglas Helvering
2024-08-07 14:24:31 +0000 UTCI didn’t know that. Thanks.
R. Douglas Helvering
2024-08-07 14:23:47 +0000 UTCLike you Doug I far preferred Side 1 to Side 2...apart from Old & Wise, which is a wonderful song- embellished by that wonderful vocal by Colin Bluntstone. Side 2 for me lapsed into AOR, and I remember the mundane ubiquity of that "genre" in the early 80s. Side 1 far more affecting and musically interesting. We used to see Davey Paton and Chris Rainbow appearing with Camel on various albums and tours back then. Lovely to listen to, but I wouldn't rush back.
Ralph Darvill
2024-08-07 09:13:07 +0000 UTCAll of their discography is absolutely awesome. The Turn Of A Friendly Card, I Robot & Pyramid are great albums.
B. Seers
2024-08-07 06:15:45 +0000 UTCDr. Doug, when you reviewed Old and Wise before, did anyone point out that Colin Blumstone was and is the lead singer for the classic group The Zombies? Along with keyboardist Rod Argent, who also led the band Argent who are known for the song Hold Your Head Up, The Zombies had hits with She’s Not There, Tell Her No, and Time of the Season. Blumstone is definitely a very accomplished and superb rock vocalist.
Illume Eltanin
2024-08-07 05:33:16 +0000 UTCA few thoughts about this album... I remember that it came out near the end of my junior year in high school, and I rode my bicycle to the record store to buy it on the day it was released. Regarding "Silence and I", my take on the song has changed since I have been married. My wife is a psychiatrist in the PTSD clinic at the VA, and she is ethically bound to maintain silence about the things that the combat traumatized veterans share with her during their sessions. And lastly, I have been looking forward to this since the poll came out, I have totally stayed up past my usual bedtime, and I have an early gastroenterology class to teach in the morning. Thanks so much Doug, this was most excellent.
Steve Hall
2024-08-07 02:46:00 +0000 UTCI've always thought Silence And I was their best song ever. They played this live when I saw them a couple years ago and it brought tears to my eyes it was so epic.
Neale Brassell
2024-08-07 02:18:32 +0000 UTC
