Conference mr1pst::music

    The "Two Of A Kind" tune is actually titled "Silence And I" from the
    "Eye In The Sky" album.
    
    Can't go wrong with AP. I couldn't pick a favorite, but EITS would be
    up there, as would "Stereotomy".
    
    Edd

    
    BIG thumbs up for "Eye In The Sky". This is one of my all-time
    favorites. "Sirius/Eye In The Sky" are killer tunes as well as
    "PsychoBabble" and "Gemini". 
    
    /BK

    As I thought about this for a second, there's something about the
    "singer/songwriter team that just hires the band they need" concept
    that appeals to me. Parsons and Wolfson, Becker and Fagen...
    
    Parsons is at least equally well known for his studio prowess as his
    songwriting and performance, having such classics as "Abbey Road"
    and "Dark Side Of The Moon" to his credit.
    
    There was some hub-bub when Stereotomy was released that made it pretty
    difficult to find, although that's passed.
    
    Edd

I've got this luxury black box that contains 4 records:

	- I Robot
	- Pyramid
	- Eve
	- The Turn Of a Friendly Card

I'm used to listen to it as a whole (I had taped the records on a big tape).
I really like it and my wife adores it. It's very mysterious, intruiging
and unpredictable music. It reminds me of the drug-inspired literature
by Tomas Dequincy and E. Allen Poe...
My favourite records are TTOAFC and Pyramid.
Best song is 'Nothing Left To Lose' on TTOAFC: the accordeon/harmonica/synth
(?) on that song surely is worth the price of the whole box. This is a song
that should be played with HIGH volume.
Favourite singers are Eric Woolfson on TTOAFC and Colin Blunstone on Pyramid.

He also had a record titled 'Tales of Edgar Allen Poe' (or something like 
that) that I heard once, and I didn't like it at all...

    ref. .3
    
    I once listened to an interview (either with Waters or Gilmour, can't
    remember now) about Dark Side of the Moon (not about Pink Floyd, the
    discussion was limited to the Dark Side of the Moon) and they were
    saying this:
    
    	"At the time, producing was not a profession that was taken so
    seriously. It was not realized to be that important. And it was not
    as prestigious as it is today. Whoever was in the studio that day,
    would be the producer of that album. When we were recording the
    Dark Side of the Moon, Alan Parsons happened to be there and he became
    the producer of the album."
    
    Something like that. Dark Side of the Moon happens to be one of my
    all time favourite albums so I am glad Alan Parsons was there that
    day ;-)
    
    I didn't know that Alan Parsons produced Abbey Road as well, but I do
    know that Pink Floyd and Beatles were sharing the same studio at the
    time.
    
    ref. .4
    
    The Edgar Allan Poe album is called Magic and Mystery, I think. It has
    to grow on you. I am into classical music so I liked it more than my
    friends did but I don't care very much for the poem reading parts.
    
    Lale
    
    ps: Next time, I *will* listen to "You've Got Nothing Left to Lose" 
    *real* *loud*.
    

    I may be mistaken, but I believe that if Alan Parsons produced
    Abbey Road, someone should notify the BEATLES conference. ;^)

    
    I believe he was the Assistant producer on Abbey Road.
    
    John
    

I looked it up in "The Beatles Recording Sessions".  Alan Parsons was
listed as 2nd engineer on many (but not all) of the Get Back/Let It Be
and Abbey Road sessions.

-Hal

Re. 4 and 5

The name of the Edgar Allan Poe album is Tales of mistery and imagination,
and was the first album of The Project.
And frankly, I still think it's the best one......

Willem

    Henrik, I loved your note but I couldn't reciprocate until now, since I
    keep my Umberto Eco books at home. Here we go:
    
    "Another curious case of cryptography was presented to the public in
    1917 by one of the best Bacon scholars, Dr. Alfred von Weber Ebenhoff
    of Vienna. Employing the same systems previously applied to the works
    of SHAKESPEARE, he began to examine works of CERVANTES. ... Pursuing
    the investigation, he discovered overwhelming material evidence: the
    first English translation of DON QUIXOTE bears corrections in Bacon's
    hand. He concluded that this English version was the original of the
    novel and that Cervantes had published a Spanish translation of it."
    
    		-J. Duchaussoy, Bacon, Shakespeare ou Saint-Germain?,
    		 Paris, La Colombe, 1962, p. 122
    
    Please substitute "produce" with "engineer" at every occurence in .5
    It is like confusing the nurse with the narcosist ;-) DSotM was
    produced by Pink Floyd, engineered by Alan Parsons who is also
    responsible for most of Cervantes' work.
    
    Lale

    Alan Parsons Project discopgraphy:
    
    1975 - Tales of Mystery and Imagination
    1977 - I Robot
    1978 - Pyramid
    1979 - Eve
    1980 - Turn of a Friendly Card
    1983 - Eye in the Sky
    1984 - Ammonia Avenue
    1985 - Vulture Culture
    1986 - Stereotomy
    1987 - Gaudi
    1990 - Freudiana 
    
    + The Best of Alan Parsons Projects vol 1 & 2 
    + The Instrumentals
    
    Freudiana was actually a work by Eric Woolfson, produced by Parsons,
    based on the life of Sigmund Freud. It had guest singers such as Leo
    Sayer, Frankie Howerd (!), The Flying Pickets and more. It is an Alan
    Parsons Project in all but name. Unfortunately for fans, the record
    shops don't seem to know this and generally file it under Misc F. It
    was also put on as a stage production in Vienna, with Parsons
    conducting the orchestra, but it's never come to the UK. Seek it out,
    it's extremely good.
    
    Pasons also produced many other records, 'Music' by John Miles, a
    couple of Pilot records, Steve Harley, amongst others.
    
    Ian
     

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    Just to add a few notes on Parsons:
    
    	whoever has his original british edition of "Tales ..." can read
    	a good description of his work during pre-Project time which 
    	included works on Beatles SPLHCB and Abbey Road, Paul McCartney's
    	Wild Life and Red Rose Speedway, Pink Floyd DSOTM, 5 albums for
    	Hollies, Al Stewart's Time Passages and a few more. As far as i
    	know us version of that record didn't have that info because it
    	has a different jacket.
    
    	Well, as a long fan of his, i think "Tales ..." still is his best
    	work, especially side 1, side 2 is a bit long with that classical
    	piece. And I'd like to see him going to his original roots because
    	starting with Ammonia Ave his sound became too "commercialized"
    	with small exception on Gaudi.
    
    \alex sokol

    Re: .5
    
    As far as Floyd producers go, Norman "Hurricane" Smith (another EMI
    staffer) produced most of the platters, so it's not quite "whoever was
    there at the time".  He also did quite a few other albums for EMI
    I/Harvest artists, almost anything his name is on is worth a listen or
    two. Smith of course became a pop star for 30 seconds with "Babe What
    Can I Say" after which I can't recall any production credits.
    
    Re: .15
    
    Roots?  Like what?  I have an old Barclay James Harvest album where he
    plays jaw harp on one track...
    
    							Brian

    
    A.P.P has just released his latest new album titled "Try anything
    once". can anyone provide a review ?
    
    The group was hanging upside down on the album cover !
    
    sl.

    
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I recently got a promo of the new Alan Parsons album _Try Anything 
Once_....one word: EXTRAORDINARY!  I'm listening to it right now and felt 
compelled to share with all Parsons devotees.  First off, the production 
quality is better than anything he's released in the past (not hard to 
believe since technology has advanced just a bit since '87!).  Secondly, 
in terms of songwriting, the guy has not only not lost his touch but he's 
drastically  _improved_ his touch (understand that I'm a big fan of _I 
Robot_ and maybe only two other APP albums).  Anyway, you'll hear vocals 
by Parsons luminaries Chris Thompson (Manfred Mann) and Eric Stewart 
(10cc), as well as David Pack (Ambrosia) and Jacqui Copland (Duran 
Duran).  Other Parsons mainstays include Ian Bairnson, Andrew Powell and 
Stuart Elliott, all of whom collaborated with Parsons on the songwriting. 
 Oh yeah, I haven't heard a weak song on the album yet.
    

    
    I agree that "Turn of a freindly card" was the single that made me go
    after collecting their albums.
    
    The following are my favs:
    
    Vulture Culture
    Limelight
    Silence and I
    Eye in the sky
    Etc...
    
    By the way on the sleve notes of the Pink Floyd album " Atom Heart
    Mother " and the famous " Dark Side Of the Moon " says that the album
    was engineered by Alan Parsons Project. Any inputs on that?
    
    Mukund
    
    

    >By the way on the sleve notes of the Pink Floyd album " Atom Heart
    >Mother " and the famous " Dark Side Of the Moon " says that the album
    >was engineered by Alan Parsons Project. Any inputs on that?
    
    Not _they_.... _he_. Alan Parsons (not the Alan Parsons Project, which
    is a studio band formed by Alan Parsons) was the engineer for many well
    known albums.
    
    Brian