the other day i was listening to it and suddenly i realized that i have listening to it for 40 years... since i was 6 or 7... never get tired of it, it is still one of my favourite albums
In a work project meeting (pre-pandemic), someone was trying to wrap up the meeting and said "OK, so where do we go from here?" and I said "Now that all of the children are growing up..." and there were a bunch of confused looks, and this other guy replied "..and how do we spend our lives, if no one will lend us a hand...." - the younger people in the room though we we'd lost our minds.
Dude I lost it one time when I thought Games People Play came on in this clothing store and it turned out to be a sample to be rapped over. I flipped my lid and said out loud “bleep this stuff!!” and left 😎
Alan comes across as an intelligent, humorous, kind and humble guy. Love the stories and namedropping. I could watch Alan Parsons interviews until my eyes collapse and my ears fall off. If you've got more, bring it!
Turn Of A Friendly Card and Eye InThe Sky are my two favorite albums. "The Sun in your eyes made some of the lies worth believing." That is probably one of the finest lyrics ever written.
So cool to see an interview with Alan that isn’t all about his production work but about his actual records. I think they’re some of the most underrated ever.
I'm fifty, Alan Parsons Project is part of my life soundtrack. They were in my parent's album collection, on the radio forever, and now my cellphone playlist. What a fantastic talent! Bravo!
I don't know what the RUclips algorithm was thinking, waiting an entire week to recommend this video that is clearly at the top of my would-want-to-watch list
Same here to all- saw the video earlier, clicked on it right away, and laughed when I saw your comment at the top. So great to see Alan in this interview.
I finally got to play that one with a band and I busted my ass to get that solo exactly right. I am not sure I did but I fancy that I got the feel of it spot on and the timing dead nuts so whatever I was playing the audience didn't notice anything wrong. We didn't really do any other APP because we didn't have a choir or orchestra. :-)
@@markgallagher1621 Yes!! Since the album first came out I've finally come across someone who has same favourite APP album, and song! I've loved both since I first listened in 1978. My favourite instrumental of all time is Genesis ch1 v32.
PoR is the soft-spoken, fact-filled, memory-jogging, musically elevated channel that should serve as the boilerplate for all other historically-minded channels. PoR takes us fogies back to our youth and at the same time brings musical accessibility to today’s youth. Where was PoR when I was taking music history? Absolutely brilliant!
I LOVED this interview. THIS is the advantage I had of having sisters that were 6 and 9 years older than me. They had the "I Robot" album and I was exposed to all his great music from the age of 6 or 7. Most people my age, 52, remember the Eye in the Sky Alan Parsons (if at all), but I remember the Breakdown, Time, Wouldn't Want To Be Like You and Don't Let It Show Alan Parsons. I am soooo thankful to have been exposed to this music by my older siblings.
Ambrosia was huge to me. Just the first albums. When I listen to this music, Alan Parsons Project, and some of their peers, I long for new music made with such complexity. I wonder to myself where are the people who do this? What I didn't quite get until I watch Alan Parsons tell his "tales", is that these records were "Productions". And that meant more than just a group of musicians in the studio, but many different creative minds and talents coming together to forge a gleaming diamond. Where do we go from here, indeed!🙄🤩😎
APP, Ambrosia, Pink Floyd, Al Stewart were a huge part of my formative music years and are still favorites today. APP was the sound track of my time in the USMC.
"Time" always makes me tear up…it is an incredibly emotional song. I have seen The Alan Parsons Project Live twice in Orlando. What a great show! Thank you both for this interview.
Tales of Mystery... what a masterpiece. Parsons (and others of that era) had such depth of creativity and imagination, and the wherewithal to craft it into art. How fortunate for the human race.
Turn of a Friendly Card still one of my favorite albums. Every song is special. I also thought the way he wove in the orchestra into Silence and I was brilliant.
My favorite song of Alan Parsons, both because of the lyrics and the music, is "Day After Day" from I Robot. It is such a great concept of a boy with big dreams who wakes up as an older man and realizes it is too late to start. It really broke my heart because I thought my own chances were fading - and I was only 22 or 23 at the time.
Not appreciated nearly enough! I so love Time. A beloved family friend was dying from cancer when this song was getting airplay. It was so beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time. It remains special in my heart.
I'm hoping to hear from Alan details on working with Al Stewart and producing Time Passages and Year of the Cat.I've read that Stewart wasn't initially on board with the idea of saxophone being on (namely) the two title tracks of each album, but Alan's insistence definitely was the right move! Add to that the fact that Phil Kenzie was chosen for those parts! Amazing production from both those classic albums from Al Stewart, netting some of the best songs of the '70s.
"Genesis Ch. 1. V. 32" is by far my favorite song of theirs and my favorite instrumental. It's the definition of powerful imagery from music. This was a pinnacle to me of your channel, what an honor it must've been to interview one of the greats. Keep up the great work.
Great interview! Alan Parsons is such a brilliant guy. The depth of his work is amazing. I'm going to listen to some Alan Parsons Project now. Thanks again Professor!
The opening of, "I, Robot" is one of the most transcendent pieces of audio ever created. I heard it in my brother's room when I was 4 and I got chills. I still do 43 years later. Best heard on a great pair of headphones, loud.
I've been an AP fan since the first album. Saw him twice in concert in the 90s, and the highlight by far was Chris Thompson share the vocal duties - the performances were even more enhanced
Another great interview with a musical genius who should be remembered hundreds of years from now. My eyes leak every time I hear the song Time, a lovely yet powerful song. And that's just one of many brilliant Alan Parsons songs. Well done sir!
Always loved Alan Parsons, so many great memories tied to songs like Time, Eye in the Sky, and all of I Robot. Day After Day is still one of the most special songs of my life.
Thank you for the interviews Professor. Alan Parsons has a track that moved me spiritually and professionally. " Do you live at all?" I had a demanding job with a soulless leader. One day after having been pushed to the limit, I walked in the office humming. My boss asked me whats going on? I asked him 1 question " Do you ever listen to Alan Parons?" His response oh " Games people play." Wow!! Poetic justice. I listened over and over to "Do you Live at All?". I quit less than a week later. I have since understood the question he asks throughout this great song.
My first Album I bought was I ROBOT,,1977,, I heard the first song, I Robot, the Intro, WOW, I was flashed, what sound, what syntheziser, and I knew someday I will buy one! It took more than 40 years! Still playing all the records of APP. What a great timeless music!
Interesting that your focus was on "Games People Play" from the "Turn Of The Friendly Card" album because it was the follow-up single "Time" that eclipsed it and turned out to be APP's biggest hit to that moment. It was the springboard to the success of "Eye In The Sky". "Time" would be the first of many times they would hit #1 on my weekly personal chart and it turned out to be the #3 single of the year on my year end list of 1981.
Maaan, I still remember listening to "Don't answer me" one morning, crying over a breakup and a lot of intense things that happened to me in the year of 2019. Such a powerful and emotional song, with beautiful lyrics, I mean "When we were living in a dream world, louds got in the way." What an incredible piece of writing!! Thank you Alan and Eric so much
I must have listened to Breakdown thousands of times- and it is STILL not old. What a great album. It was the sound track of a good time in my life. Drinking cheap wine in the city park crawling around with a flashlight looking for night crawlers to go fishing with. hahaha
@@gvbezoff Whilst I like Gary Brooker as a singer with Procol Harum and I’m a big fan of Alan Parsons Project and his solo albums , this song is weak and also from Stereotomy which is not one of APP better albums . There’s no comparing “ Breakdown “ from I Robot as a song or the album against Stereotomy & Limelight . But we’re all allowed our own different opinions….
Prof, sorry about the expletive but what a f'g inspiration this man and his music are to my life!! In fact, my life wouldn't be the same without him. This man is an absolute genius who has been educating his audience with some of the deepest subliminal messages about the truths. I utterly respect him with all my heart.
You see the game never ends when your whorls depends, on the TurnOf A Friendly Csrd. I believe Alan Parson’s creative genius is unrivaled in the music industry. Thanks Alan for all you’ve given us.
Amazing totally enjoyable interview! I had listened to The Alan Parson's Project as singles on radio but then I met a fellow musical traveler in Navy medic school in '84. She (we dated for a few months) was "just enough older" than me to be more hip to Prog Rock and got me to listen to her many APP albums in sequence - it rocked my world (she did too but that's a whole other story-lol). Bad news- she broke my heart, good news- I wrote new songs!
Oh man. First semester of college when Turn of a Friendly Card was released. Realized my crap stereo was, well, crap. Went into debt to get something decent (thanks Alan?!) Lately I am living THIS lyric -- daily: I don't wanna live here no more I don't wanna stay Ain't gonna spend the rest of my life Quietly fading away Looking forward to the second part -- thanks Adam! 👍👍
Alan Parsons Project. One of my favourites of all time. Especially love Tales of Mystery, Eye in the Sky, and On the Turn of a Friendly Card. Thank you so so much Professor for all of your amazing videos and for spreading the wonder of these great artists.
I love Pyramid. I love the instrumental 'In the Lap of the Gods'. I always thought it would be great soundtrack music to a sword & sandals/fantasy movie set in an ancient city.
Hi there Professor... Just finished watching Parts 1 & 2 of Alan Parsons interview!!! Outstanding job!!! What an opportunity to interview this Legend. Such a deep and broad scope is talent in so many areas. For me my favorite AP/APP album is "I Robot" closely followed by "Pyramid!" I can't say any one song is my favorite... can anyone say they have one favorite by Alan Parsons... Soooooooo many AWESOME tunes to choose from. Another release, not an official album by AP/APP, that I have and enjoy is the compilation of instrumental tunes... just sit back and bask/melt away in the sound!! Again, great job 👍💯👏!!! Mr. Parsons if you by chance read this thank you soooooooo much for gift of your music 👏👏💯💯👍👍😎😎🎉🎉!!!
The Alan Parsons Project is my favorite band so i listen to them constantly and everytime my mom and i hang out i put on her I robot record and she tells me how it was the first record she ever got high to.
I enjoyed the interview a lot, but I wish you had asked him about his work with Al Stewart on "Year of the Cat" and "Time Passages". I love those albums almost as much as I love the APP albums. Alan is an amazing talent, and Eric is a very underrated lyricist. I listen to those albums today, and they're still just as magical as they were forty years ago. "I Robot" is my favorite album, but my favorite song is "The Eagle Will Rise Again"... just a beautiful song with lyrics from Eric.
Turn of a friendly card..came out the summer after i graduated high school 1980...took it to college with me and the rA in my dorm hall had all the other ALan PArsons Albums which he let me borrow. immediately became and remains in my top 5 favorite groups of all time. Interesting to find out he had his hand in so many other bands that I adore- AMbrosia especially...Hard to imagine music without Alan's extraordinary contributions over 50 years.
I Robot one of my favorite albums. I had a teacher in 9th grade that brought the Edgar Allen Poe album to school in 1979 and I was surprised a teacher listened to the same music I did.
I was always fascinated by the way music and images married as a kid. From movies, commercials, cartoons and stuff. I did it in junior high on the city of Cincinnati. WKRP in Cincinnati was on TV and the Cincinnati Reds, The Big Red Machine, at the time was arguably the best team in MLB. I dressed in a Reds jersey with Bengals armbands. Playing the theme from the TV show as I walked in. Tales Of Mystery and Imagination was used in my High School presentation along with video from The Raven playing. I earned an A in my American Literature class and updated the concept in university music, literature, and art history classes.
It was the other way around for me. We were studying Edgar Allan Poe in English class, so I brought the album in for my English teacher to hear. She was fascinated by it.
@@seanswinton6242 no argument about it, The Big Red Machine WAS THE BEST. Sadly we lost Little Joe Morgan and Tom Terrific last year. Beautiful work Professor. My needles been grooving to Lets Talk About Me & Prime Time as of late. The guitar solo on LTAM ...it's not crazy yet it drives me insane.. Good ol Edgsr Alan Parsons Project.👁🌌
My first exposure to Alan Parsons was "Tales of Mystery and Suspense" and that made me a fan for life. I'm also a big Pink Floyd fan and didn't know until later in life that Alan Parsons was the producer/engineer on "Darkside Of the Moon". There were so many iconic songs from all the Alan Parsons Project albums. It's amazing how well his music has held up over the years but it helps that there were so many talented musicians that were part of the recording process for those albums. I look forward to the next installment of the interview.
I robot was my first induction to his work . He and all of his work are timeless! I didn't realize all of the artists he was involved with. What an awesome interview !😍
Alan Parsons is my 70's and 80's memories, growing up in a small town in Australia. APP music was bright and boppy, like the glorious summer days, yet with a hint of sadness peppered through. If you shut your eyes, you could picture Antonio Gaudi's magnificent unfinished masterpiece, much like APP is without our Eric. But honestly, Alan and Eric created the most beautiful lyrics and music ever, in my humble opinion. It is simply timeless.
"Prime Time" is one of our favorite APP tracks. Alan inspired me to learn audio engineering and I gained tremendously from his course on DVD and book form.
I became addicted to Tales of Mystery and Imagination from when it was first released. It is a masterpiece and my favorite album of all time. I was pleased to hear Alan mention that it was their "Dark Side of the Moon" as I always considered it to be in the same class as that album. I finally did manage to see Alan live a few years ago.
It's hard to isolate a favorite Parsons album, but The Turn of a Friendly Card is a masterwork. I still remember the day I bought the LP at a record sale at Kent State. The guitar sole on Nothing Left to Lose near the end of the album never ceases to blow me away.
How many here found out only later, after listening to "The Alan Parsons Project", that he was the engineer behind Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon"? What an amazing revelation that was for me, as I LOVED T.A.P.P., and was, and always will be, a monster fan of "Dark Side of the Moon"... "Day After Day (The Show Must Go On)" still brings tears to my eyes, every time! I just can't seem to help myself when the words "Think of the boy, with the stars in his eyes. Longing to reach them, but frightened to try! Sadly, you say, someday, someday! But, day after day, the show must go on." are sung. It completely floors me!!! Then when he sings "Surely you know, the chance has gone by...", I lose it.. A musical genius for sure!!! The more I learn about this dude, the more impressed I am!
Next to Brian Epstein and George Martin, Alan is by far my favorite music producer of all time! I listen to his music just before I go to work every day. It puts me into the proper mind set to get through a very long and hard 14 hour shift, 6 days a week.
Glad you used concert footage with PJ doing lead vocals. 😊 Alan Parsons Project used so many different singers in the studio albums, and PJ does a brilliant job of capturing the spirit of the entire collection of Alan's works with a single voice when they play live. 🥰
I think that's what makes the early albums so interesting -- lining up the right voice with the song. On the later albums about half the songs were sung by Eric, who I feel had a voice that was too 'thin' for many of the lyrics.
Thank you for this wonderful interview. Alan Parsons has always been one of my favorites with his connection with The Beatles and Pink Floyd. His work is a massive part of the soundtrack of my life in the 1970s and 1980s. I loved I Robot and Pyramid. It was good to see Alan talk about his work and those who contributed to the material. His recent album, The Secret, is absolutely fantastic - and those who haven't heard it should check it out.
Loved your first part of Alan's interview, we're the producers behind Alan's online radio. Please ask him about Al Stewart, the rest of the Project albums of course and Freudiana, the "almost APP album that never was" Thanks!!
I saw your other video and asked there in the comments about APP's earlier works, - I hadn't seen this one at the time - so everything I asked for is now fulfilled here. I thank you because you are doing a great professional job giving very good and mostly unknown information on the great music we have fortunately enjoyed but this generation have left behind. I'm a long time fan of the project, likewise you since "The Turn of a Friendly Card" and have virtually heard all albums. I was a symphonic orchestra musician in my youth and back then the APP conceptual prog-rock mixed with Andrew Powell's usage of the "Philharmonia Orchestra" made of me an instant fan. In my opinion, the best albums in terms of music production and solid development of a concept in each case are undoubtedly "I Robot", "The Turn of a Friendly Card" and "Eye in the Sky". The others might be weaker in their concept development but all have many remarkable pieces and resources to talk about anyway. Generally speaking I think the best and real "Project" starting in 1976 (Tales of Mystery and Imagination) lasted up to 1982 (Eye in the Sky), the forthcoming albums from Ammonia Avenue, although having some superb quality pieces went increasingly away from their original symphonic prog-rock essence. 1991 "Freudiana" which meant the actual ending of the APP with the effective split of Woolfson and Parsons, is officially a Woolfson's solo album due the legal issues it went through, but certainly regained some of the lost "project spirit" and would have been a superb swan song for the APP.
I absolutely loved this video! I was telling my Slovenian wife about the first time I heard Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon and I got goosebumps…46 years of loving Pink Floyd and of course Alan Parsons numerous creations!
At the 9:00 min mark Adam says, “I was just talkin’ to Kenny Loggins...”. (!) Now, I’ve been enjoying the channel long enough to know that he’s not name-dropping even an iota - I just want your fans, your crew, and yourself to relish that you’d ever be blessed enough to honestly speak that sentence and hope the PoR team knows we all appreciate and enjoy the content y’all are slinging, man! Kudos and continued well-wishes for your health.
My favourite music from Alan Parsons: all of it. His music formed the background of my teen years and was the first exposure to music that stirred both soul and mind. Thanks for the memories Alan - they were indeed the best of times!
FINALLY! Man, I wrote a comment about 2 weeks ago, requesting that you do a video about APP! Wow, what a coincidence! You read my mind! I hope you get to feeling better, Adam. God Bless, and I'm still praying for you.🙏♥️♥️🎸. III chordis et veritas
APP music has been a constant in my life, from my childhood to my adult age... It's like a magical journey which has never stopped. Alan and Eric are 2 musical geniuses, and I owe them a lot. As I owe a lot to my father who introduced me to them. Thank you very much for sharing this interview!!! Very good questions, always on point!
Absolute genius. The world is a better place for having Alan Parsons around.
Turn of a Friendly Card is one of those albums I can listen from the first song to the end and start again.
the other day i was listening to it and suddenly i realized that i have listening to it for 40 years... since i was 6 or 7... never get tired of it, it is still one of my favourite albums
Gotta blast the shit out of that album! Love it!
I Robot and Pyramid for me much more!
Especially side 2
@Randy A then we´re three ...I like very very much their first 6 or 7 albums,but this is the best for me perhaps
How can anyone have just one favourite song from Alan Parsons ?
It could happen . . . if they've heard only one song. If they've heard more, all bets are off.
That is literally so true!
@@jkbowers56 I believe there are two types of people... Those who love Alan Parsons work and those who never heard his work!
The whole catalog is awesome. Everything he and Eric made is my favorite.
I can (and it's "Old and Wise" - that's a MASTERPIECE).
One of my all time favorite songs is "Don't answer me". Such a masterful melodic creation!
Agree. The music video is great.
Ammonia Avenue was underrated for sure as an album.
@@ldolphin34 all their albums are worth multiple listens as far as im concerned
I like Games People Play.
Right on! I would add that Ammonia Avenue is a fantastic album. Thoughtful and melancholy and tasteful in a very 80s way.
In a work project meeting (pre-pandemic), someone was trying to wrap up the meeting and said "OK, so where do we go from here?" and I said "Now that all of the children are growing up..." and there were a bunch of confused looks, and this other guy replied "..and how do we spend our lives, if no one will lend us a hand...." - the younger people in the room though we we'd lost our minds.
Dude I lost it one time when I thought Games People Play came on in this clothing store and it turned out to be a sample to be rapped over. I flipped my lid and said out loud “bleep this stuff!!” and left 😎
I don't wanna live here no more. I don't wanna stay.
@@evandylan Then don't listen to Fabolous's "B.O.M.B.S.". That's lid flipping material right there!
@@allthatyoutouch3164 'aint Gonna spend the rest of my life quietly slipping away.
"And, in conclusion, I am the eye in the sky..and I'll be seeing you on Zoom."
Alan comes across as an intelligent, humorous, kind and humble guy. Love the stories and namedropping.
I could watch Alan Parsons interviews until my eyes collapse and my ears fall off. If you've got more, bring it!
I only met him briefly but he is exactly what you said.
Turn Of A Friendly Card and Eye InThe Sky are my two favorite albums. "The Sun in your eyes made some of the lies worth believing." That is probably one of the finest lyrics ever written.
That line takes me back to 82, floating on air mats on a lake, looking into my now ex wife's eyes. The truth behind the lyrics.
So cool to see an interview with Alan that isn’t all about his production work but about his actual records. I think they’re some of the most underrated ever.
I'm fifty, Alan Parsons Project is part of my life soundtrack. They were in my parent's album collection, on the radio forever, and now my cellphone playlist. What a fantastic talent! Bravo!
I've been a fan of theirs since my teens. Great classic rock.
I still Like Alan Parsons Project, and have been listening to his music since 1977. I'm 68 years old now. Thank you so very much for this video.
Never clicked a video so fast, love the Alan Parsons Project. A proud “Top 0.01%” fan on Spotify lol
Me too. My fingers were on fire I clicked so fast!
love em
I don't know what the RUclips algorithm was thinking, waiting an entire week to recommend this video that is clearly at the top of my would-want-to-watch list
Same here to all- saw the video earlier, clicked on it right away, and laughed when I saw your comment at the top. So great to see Alan in this interview.
ME TOO ❤️
That's my favorite Parsons album, Tales of mystery and imagination . Start to finish =Great!!!
Same! I, Robot is a very close second.
@@bocconom I totally agree. That would be my 2nd favorite. But I have them all.
AMEN!
I love the 'I Robot' album. 'I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You" is my jam!
Lenny on lead vocals!
Thats my favourite album of theirs. I like all songs on that. Some other time my fav on there
Every single song on that album is excellent. My favorite album from him.
I finally got to play that one with a band and I busted my ass to get that solo exactly right. I am not sure I did but I fancy that I got the feel of it spot on and the timing dead nuts so whatever I was playing the audience didn't notice anything wrong. We didn't really do any other APP because we didn't have a choir or orchestra. :-)
@@markgallagher1621 Yes!! Since the album first came out I've finally come across someone who has same favourite APP album, and song! I've loved both since I first listened in 1978. My favourite instrumental of all time is Genesis ch1 v32.
Endless consolation found in "nothing's good the news is bad, the heat goes on and it drives you mad." Alan Parsons is a necessity.
PoR is the soft-spoken, fact-filled, memory-jogging, musically elevated channel that should serve as the boilerplate for all other historically-minded channels. PoR takes us fogies back to our youth and at the same time brings musical accessibility to today’s youth. Where was PoR when I was taking music history? Absolutely brilliant!
Thank you!
I LOVED this interview. THIS is the advantage I had of having sisters that were 6 and 9 years older than me. They had the "I Robot" album and I was exposed to all his great music from the age of 6 or 7. Most people my age, 52, remember the Eye in the Sky Alan Parsons (if at all), but I remember the Breakdown, Time, Wouldn't Want To Be Like You and Don't Let It Show Alan Parsons. I am soooo thankful to have been exposed to this music by my older siblings.
Ambrosia was huge to me. Just the first albums. When I listen to this music, Alan Parsons Project, and some of their peers, I long for new music made with such complexity. I wonder to myself where are the people who do this? What I didn't quite get until I watch Alan Parsons tell his "tales", is that these records were "Productions". And that meant more than just a group of musicians in the studio, but many different creative minds and talents coming together to forge a gleaming diamond.
Where do we go from here, indeed!🙄🤩😎
APP, Ambrosia, Pink Floyd, Al Stewart were a huge part of my formative music years and are still favorites today. APP was the sound track of my time in the USMC.
And mine in the USN. Lord, I miss the 70's!
My absolute favorite, Don't answer me. You can hear a really strong Phil Spector, Wall of Sound influence on that one. Beautiful,
"Time" always makes me tear up…it is an incredibly emotional song. I have seen The Alan Parsons Project Live twice in Orlando. What a great show! Thank you both for this interview.
Tales of Mystery... what a masterpiece. Parsons (and others of that era) had such depth of creativity and imagination, and the wherewithal to craft it into art. How fortunate for the human race.
The whole Turn of a friendly card album is great
The best way to listen to this album is the album in its entirety!
"Old and Wise" absolutely must be played at my funeral
I have also made that a request...
I've begun to lay ground work for it to be played at mine. Perfect way to say goodbye, when in fact one has already left.
I’ve already asked for it!
one of my very favorite songs by Alan is Old and Wise, something about that song can bring tears to my eyes when ever I hear it.
Same here - the soaring sax solo at the end of Old and Wise is unforgettable.
I lost my 17 year old girlfriend to cancer. Old and wise is to me a story of and to those who fight cancer.
@@erictroxell715 very sorry for your loss, its always sad to lose someone, but even more so when they barely had a chance to live.
@@kirknelson156 This is my funeral song. Don't play it too much.
He should have been awarded a medal for that masterpiece.
Turn of a Friendly Card still one of my favorite albums. Every song is special. I also thought the way he wove in the orchestra into Silence and I was brilliant.
Silence and I is high in my list of favorites from the entire APP catalog.
The Gold Bug is one of the greatest songs ever written. I wish it was longer!
I like that it links with their first album about Edgar Allen Poe as it's the title of one of his stories, about buried treasure. Great music.
My favorite song of Alan Parsons, both because of the lyrics and the music, is "Day After Day" from I Robot. It is such a great concept of a boy with big dreams who wakes up as an older man and realizes it is too late to start. It really broke my heart because I thought my own chances were fading - and I was only 22 or 23 at the time.
Not appreciated nearly enough! I so love Time. A beloved family friend was dying from cancer when this song was getting airplay. It was so beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time. It remains special in my heart.
"Don't Answer Me". Parsons is a master of modern music.
I'm hoping to hear from Alan details on working with Al Stewart and producing Time Passages and Year of the Cat.I've read that Stewart wasn't initially on board with the idea of saxophone being on (namely) the two title tracks of each album, but Alan's insistence definitely was the right move! Add to that the fact that Phil Kenzie was chosen for those parts! Amazing production from both those classic albums from Al Stewart, netting some of the best songs of the '70s.
"Genesis Ch. 1. V. 32" is by far my favorite song of theirs and my favorite instrumental. It's the definition of powerful imagery from music. This was a pinnacle to me of your channel, what an honor it must've been to interview one of the greats. Keep up the great work.
My most favourite piece of music since the first time I heard it in 1978.
Great interview! Alan Parsons is such a brilliant guy. The depth of his work is amazing. I'm going to listen to some Alan Parsons Project now. Thanks again Professor!
The opening of, "I, Robot" is one of the most transcendent pieces of audio ever created. I heard it in my brother's room when I was 4 and I got chills. I still do 43 years later. Best heard on a great pair of headphones, loud.
The voices give me chills when they come in. Such a unique track. Also love how the drum beat comes in.
Such an amazing, intelligent, interesting, talented and humble man. I love hearing his stories ❤
Eye in the sky...one of the core group of songs that Instantly transports me back to my skating rink Era from 80-85. Good times, great music.
The best thing my father ever did was have a decent taste in music and tell me about old groups. Great video
I've been an AP fan since the first album. Saw him twice in concert in the 90s, and the highlight by far was Chris Thompson share the vocal duties - the performances were even more enhanced
Another great interview with a musical genius who should be remembered hundreds of years from now. My eyes leak every time I hear the song Time, a lovely yet powerful song. And that's just one of many brilliant Alan Parsons songs. Well done sir!
Always loved Alan Parsons, so many great memories tied to songs like Time, Eye in the Sky, and all of I Robot. Day After Day is still one of the most special songs of my life.
Thank you for the interviews Professor.
Alan Parsons has a track that moved me spiritually and professionally.
" Do you live at all?"
I had a demanding job with a soulless leader.
One day after having been pushed to the limit, I walked in the office humming. My boss asked me whats going on? I asked him 1 question " Do you ever listen to Alan Parons?" His response oh " Games people play." Wow!! Poetic justice.
I listened over and over to "Do you Live at All?".
I quit less than a week later.
I have since understood the question he asks throughout this great song.
My first Album I bought was I ROBOT,,1977,, I heard the first song, I Robot, the Intro, WOW, I was flashed, what sound, what syntheziser, and I knew someday I will buy one! It took more than 40 years! Still playing all the records of APP. What a great timeless music!
I cannot adequately express how much I love the music of the Alan Parsons Project. It’s been a huge part of my life.
"Year of the Cat", though, makes me hallucinate...in a good way. VERY few songs do that. Magical.
al stewart,yes
''I Robot" was one of my favorite albums. The waves of nostalgia overcome me when I hear it now.
“ Don’t Answer Me “ is just pure pop brilliance! PLAY LOUD
Interesting that your focus was on "Games People Play" from the "Turn Of The Friendly Card" album because it was the follow-up single "Time" that eclipsed it and turned out to be APP's biggest hit to that moment. It was the springboard to the success of "Eye In The Sky". "Time" would be the first of many times they would hit #1 on my weekly personal chart and it turned out to be the #3 single of the year on my year end list of 1981.
"Time" has always kicked me right in the feels.
Yep. Sounds like a pink floyd song that's for sure. Such a good song
Maaan, I still remember listening to "Don't answer me" one morning, crying over a breakup and a lot of intense things that happened to me in the year of 2019. Such a powerful and emotional song, with beautiful lyrics, I mean "When we were living in a dream world, louds got in the way." What an incredible piece of writing!! Thank you Alan and Eric so much
I love the I Robot album with the great Allen Clarke from The Hollies singing lead on Breakdown.
I must have listened to Breakdown thousands of times- and it is STILL not old. What a great album. It was the sound track of a good time in my life. Drinking cheap wine in the city park crawling around with a flashlight looking for night crawlers to go fishing with. hahaha
@@kirkjohnson9353 I too love this track featuring Alan Clarke of The Hollies .
Pity that Alan never featured on any other Alan Parsons Project albums
They said that he almost blew up the studio moniter speakers with this vocal performance.
How about Gary Brooker from Procul Harum singing "Limelight" (on Stereotomy)?
@@gvbezoff Whilst I like Gary Brooker as a singer with Procol Harum and I’m a big fan of Alan Parsons Project and his solo albums , this song is weak and also from Stereotomy which is not one of APP better albums .
There’s no comparing “ Breakdown “ from I Robot as a song or the album against Stereotomy & Limelight .
But we’re all allowed our own different opinions….
DAYS ARE NUMBERS and MAMMAGAMMA.....incredible pieces of art !!!
Prof, sorry about the expletive but what a f'g inspiration this man and his music are to my life!! In fact, my life wouldn't be the same without him. This man is an absolute genius who has been educating his audience with some of the deepest subliminal messages about the truths. I utterly respect him with all my heart.
You see the game never ends when your whorls depends, on the TurnOf A Friendly Csrd. I believe Alan Parson’s creative genius is unrivaled in the music industry. Thanks Alan for all you’ve given us.
A master at the craft.
Amazing totally enjoyable interview! I had listened to The Alan Parson's Project as singles on radio but then I met a fellow musical traveler in Navy medic school in '84. She (we dated for a few months) was "just enough older" than me to be more hip to Prog Rock and got me to listen to her many APP albums in sequence - it rocked my world (she did too but that's a whole other story-lol). Bad news- she broke my heart, good news- I wrote new songs!
Tales of Mystery and Imagination is my favorite. To One in Paradise actually sent me to the local college library to look up the origin of work
Oh man. First semester of college when Turn of a Friendly Card was released. Realized my crap stereo was, well, crap. Went into debt to get something decent (thanks Alan?!)
Lately I am living THIS lyric -- daily:
I don't wanna live here no more
I don't wanna stay
Ain't gonna spend the rest of my life
Quietly fading away
Looking forward to the second part -- thanks Adam! 👍👍
Alan Parsons Project. One of my favourites of all time. Especially love Tales of Mystery, Eye in the Sky, and On the Turn of a Friendly Card.
Thank you so so much Professor for all of your amazing videos and for spreading the wonder of these great artists.
His music is awesome! Thank you for sharing this story!!!
Love APP! The Pyramid album is my favorite. “The Eagle Will Rise Again” is one of the most haunting songs ever. I love it!
Colin Blunstone's voice was just perfect for that track. Great choice mate.
The album cover on Pyramid was the reason they made album covers - it's a work of art on its own.
I love Pyramid. I love the instrumental 'In the Lap of the Gods'. I always thought it would be great soundtrack music to a sword & sandals/fantasy movie set in an ancient city.
Hi there Professor... Just finished watching Parts 1 & 2 of Alan Parsons interview!!! Outstanding job!!! What an opportunity to interview this Legend. Such a deep and broad scope is talent in so many areas. For me my favorite AP/APP album is "I Robot" closely followed by "Pyramid!" I can't say any one song is my favorite... can anyone say they have one favorite by Alan Parsons... Soooooooo many AWESOME tunes to choose from. Another release, not an official album by AP/APP, that I have and enjoy is the compilation of instrumental tunes... just sit back and bask/melt away in the sound!! Again, great job 👍💯👏!!! Mr. Parsons if you by chance read this thank you soooooooo much for gift of your music 👏👏💯💯👍👍😎😎🎉🎉!!!
Time is a masterpiece of a song.
Favourite album Turn of a Friendly Card, every song. My introduction to Time made me weep!❤️🇨🇦🎆
Imagination, artistry and pure genius. I am so glad such a talent as Mr Parsons gave us his "Time." Lisa Rae Rousseau
The one, and only....it’s the Professor of Rock. 👏🏻
Great interview Professor! Such a legend who gave us great music! One of my favorites for sure!
The Alan Parsons Project is my favorite band so i listen to them constantly and everytime my mom and i hang out i put on her I robot record and she tells me how it was the first record she ever got high to.
I enjoyed the interview a lot, but I wish you had asked him about his work with Al Stewart on "Year of the Cat" and "Time Passages". I love those albums almost as much as I love the APP albums. Alan is an amazing talent, and Eric is a very underrated lyricist. I listen to those albums today, and they're still just as magical as they were forty years ago. "I Robot" is my favorite album, but my favorite song is "The Eagle Will Rise Again"... just a beautiful song with lyrics from Eric.
Adam should interview Al Stewart! He's a great storyteller.
Turn of a friendly card..came out the summer after i graduated high school 1980...took it to college with me and the rA in my dorm hall had all the other ALan PArsons Albums which he let me borrow. immediately became and remains in my top 5 favorite groups of all time. Interesting to find out he had his hand in so many other bands that I adore- AMbrosia especially...Hard to imagine music without Alan's extraordinary contributions over 50 years.
I Robot one of my favorite albums. I had a teacher in 9th grade that brought the Edgar Allen Poe album to school in 1979 and I was surprised a teacher listened to the same music I did.
I was always fascinated by the way music and images married as a kid. From movies, commercials, cartoons and stuff. I did it in junior high on the city of Cincinnati. WKRP in Cincinnati was on TV and the Cincinnati Reds, The Big Red Machine, at the time was arguably the best team in MLB. I dressed in a Reds jersey with Bengals armbands. Playing the theme from the TV show as I walked in. Tales Of Mystery and Imagination was used in my High School presentation along with video from The Raven playing. I earned an A in my American Literature class and updated the concept in university music, literature, and art history classes.
It was the other way around for me. We were studying Edgar Allan Poe in English class, so I brought the album in for my English teacher to hear. She was fascinated by it.
@@seanswinton6242 no argument about it, The Big Red Machine WAS THE BEST. Sadly we lost Little Joe Morgan and Tom Terrific last year. Beautiful work Professor. My needles been grooving to Lets Talk About Me & Prime Time as of late. The guitar solo on LTAM ...it's not crazy yet it drives me insane.. Good ol Edgsr Alan Parsons Project.👁🌌
Thank you. I lived through the 60s 70s and 80s but knew very little about the making of those iconic albums.
Always had a soft spot for 'Prime Time' and 'Don't Answer Me ' but I still listen to all the albums 40 years on
Ammonia Avenue is one of my all time favourite albums.
Turn of a friendly card is still one of my all time favorite albums!!!
Yes! Alan Parsons is a legend! Thanks for doing this episode. Love all their albums. A great job distilling the works of Edgar Allan Poe into music.
A Very, IMPOSING man.
My first exposure to Alan Parsons was "Tales of Mystery and Suspense" and that made me a fan for life. I'm also a big Pink Floyd fan and didn't know until later in life that Alan Parsons was the producer/engineer on "Darkside Of the Moon". There were so many iconic songs from all the Alan Parsons Project albums. It's amazing how well his music has held up over the years but it helps that there were so many talented musicians that were part of the recording process for those albums. I look forward to the next installment of the interview.
I robot was my first induction to his work . He and all of his work are timeless! I didn't realize all of the artists he was involved with. What an awesome interview !😍
Eye in the sky my favorite. Games people play. really is true I lived that.
Alan Parsons is my 70's and 80's memories, growing up in a small town in Australia.
APP music was bright and boppy, like the glorious summer days, yet with a hint of sadness peppered through.
If you shut your eyes, you could picture Antonio Gaudi's magnificent unfinished masterpiece, much like APP is without our Eric.
But honestly, Alan and Eric created the most beautiful lyrics and music ever, in my humble opinion. It is simply timeless.
"Prime Time" is one of our favorite APP tracks. Alan inspired me to learn audio engineering and I gained tremendously from his course on DVD and book form.
I became addicted to Tales of Mystery and Imagination from when it was first released. It is a masterpiece and my favorite album of all time. I was pleased to hear Alan mention that it was their "Dark Side of the Moon" as I always considered it to be in the same class as that album. I finally did manage to see Alan live a few years ago.
"Time" and "Eye in the sky" were his first songs that I really go into. I was 11 at the time but still remember buying the 45 of it.
It's hard to isolate a favorite Parsons album, but The Turn of a Friendly Card is a masterwork. I still remember the day I bought the LP at a record sale at Kent State. The guitar sole on Nothing Left to Lose near the end of the album never ceases to blow me away.
Bro - Pilot is hella underrated - dig a lot of their tunes!
They became the backing band for The Project
Whoa, Magic!
Pilot has one of my all time favorite songs, "January"
@@carlosarizpe6494 That is a great song! A very underrated band.
@@sgommerable I was just looking at Ian Bairnson's Wikipedia page....that guy has done it all!!
How many here found out only later, after listening to "The Alan Parsons Project", that he was the engineer behind Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon"?
What an amazing revelation that was for me, as I LOVED T.A.P.P., and was, and always will be, a monster fan of "Dark Side of the Moon"...
"Day After Day (The Show Must Go On)" still brings tears to my eyes, every time! I just can't seem to help myself when the words "Think of the boy, with the stars in his eyes. Longing to reach them, but frightened to try! Sadly, you say, someday, someday! But, day after day, the show must go on." are sung. It completely floors me!!! Then when he sings "Surely you know, the chance has gone by...", I lose it..
A musical genius for sure!!! The more I learn about this dude, the more impressed I am!
Next to Brian Epstein and George Martin, Alan is by far my favorite music producer of all time! I listen to his music just before I go to work every day. It puts me into the proper mind set to get through a very long and hard 14 hour shift, 6 days a week.
I've got to tell ya, I love the Alan Parson's Project music, it's clean, it's smooth, and it's so comforting.
"I Breakdown" what a great song! I believe it was Alan Clarke from the Hollies sang that song.
Glad you used concert footage with PJ doing lead vocals. 😊 Alan Parsons Project used so many different singers in the studio albums, and PJ does a brilliant job of capturing the spirit of the entire collection of Alan's works with a single voice when they play live. 🥰
He had a lot of interesting people sing on his albums. One of them was Allan Clarke of the Hollies
And Colin Blunstone of the Zombies and many others.
I think that's what makes the early albums so interesting -- lining up the right voice with the song. On the later albums about half the songs were sung by Eric, who I feel had a voice that was too 'thin' for many of the lyrics.
Thank you for this wonderful interview. Alan Parsons has always been one of my favorites with his connection with The Beatles and Pink Floyd. His work is a massive part of the soundtrack of my life in the 1970s and 1980s. I loved I Robot and Pyramid. It was good to see Alan talk about his work and those who contributed to the material. His recent album, The Secret, is absolutely fantastic - and those who haven't heard it should check it out.
Loved your first part of Alan's interview, we're the producers behind Alan's online radio. Please ask him about Al Stewart, the rest of the Project albums of course and Freudiana, the "almost APP album that never was"
Thanks!!
I'd love to see a more in depth video about everything surrounding the album "Tales of Mystery and Imagination". That album continues to blow my mind.
Agree 100% Love the album and my absolutely favorite APP album with I Robot a close second.
I saw your other video and asked there in the comments about APP's earlier works, - I hadn't seen this one at the time - so everything I asked for is now fulfilled here. I thank you because you are doing a great professional job giving very good and mostly unknown information on the great music we have fortunately enjoyed but this generation have left behind. I'm a long time fan of the project, likewise you since "The Turn of a Friendly Card" and have virtually heard all albums. I was a symphonic orchestra musician in my youth and back then the APP conceptual prog-rock mixed with Andrew Powell's usage of the "Philharmonia Orchestra" made of me an instant fan.
In my opinion, the best albums in terms of music production and solid development of a concept in each case are undoubtedly "I Robot", "The Turn of a Friendly Card" and "Eye in the Sky".
The others might be weaker in their concept development but all have many remarkable pieces and resources to talk about anyway. Generally speaking I think the best and real "Project" starting in 1976 (Tales of Mystery and Imagination) lasted up to 1982 (Eye in the Sky), the forthcoming albums from Ammonia Avenue, although having some superb quality pieces went increasingly away from their original symphonic prog-rock essence.
1991 "Freudiana" which meant the actual ending of the APP with the effective split of Woolfson and Parsons, is officially a Woolfson's solo album due the legal issues it went through, but certainly regained some of the lost "project spirit" and would have been a superb swan song for the APP.
He made the 70s so much more eerie and fun!
I absolutely loved this video! I was telling my Slovenian wife about the first time I heard Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon and I got goosebumps…46 years of loving Pink Floyd and of course Alan Parsons numerous creations!
At the 9:00 min mark Adam says, “I was just talkin’ to Kenny Loggins...”. (!)
Now, I’ve been enjoying the channel long enough to know that he’s not name-dropping even an iota - I just want your fans, your crew, and yourself to relish that you’d ever be blessed enough to honestly speak that sentence and hope the PoR team knows we all appreciate and enjoy the content y’all are slinging, man! Kudos and continued well-wishes for your health.
My favourite music from Alan Parsons: all of it. His music formed the background of my teen years and was the first exposure to music that stirred both soul and mind. Thanks for the memories Alan - they were indeed the best of times!
FINALLY! Man, I wrote a comment about 2 weeks ago, requesting that you do a video about APP! Wow, what a coincidence! You read my mind! I hope you get to feeling better, Adam. God Bless, and I'm still praying for you.🙏♥️♥️🎸. III chordis et veritas
Always have been a huge Alan Parsons fan!!! ...but learned so much more here, that I didn't know!
Very, very cool! Thanks for this interview!
I Robot was a favorite of mine back in the 70's.
APP music has been a constant in my life, from my childhood to my adult age... It's like a magical journey which has never stopped. Alan and Eric are 2 musical geniuses, and I owe them a lot. As I owe a lot to my father who introduced me to them. Thank you very much for sharing this interview!!! Very good questions, always on point!
A true unsung vocalist was Lenny Zakatek singing on Games People Play
Ha - unsung
And You Don't Believe...
Lenny was my favourite vocalist on APP albums, he was deservedly nicknamed 'The Voice'.