There is a roughly two minute introduction to this song called 'Sirius'... The two are meant to be played together... "Sirius/Eye in the Sky". I did make a point of this when I recommended it but, oh well. You really should listen to the complete full version at some point. You might even recognize Sirius if you were ever into 90s era Bulls Basketball. 😉 "I Wouldn't Want to be Like You" is another excellent Alan Parsons song.
I discovered him Halloween night 1977 when the rock station I was listening to started playing "The Raven" from his first album, based on the Edgar Allen Poe poem.
This is usually played as a double - SIRIUS/EYE IN THE SKY. Personal favorites include PSYCHOBABBLE, CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU, I ROBOT/I WOULDN'T WANT TO BE LIKE YOU, BREAKDOWN, TIME, THE GOLD BUG, THE RAVEN, DAMNED IF I DO, LUCIFER - always hit the official music video whenever possible, or the studio album recording.
This is a deep and varied rabbit hole, Bro... most of it is very good, some of it is truly brilliant! One of my favorite instrumental tracks of all time is, "I Robot", the title track of Parson's 1977, second album.
You made a common mistake made by a lot of reactors. This song needs to be paired with Sirius, which is the instrumental intro to this song. It's listed as a separate track, but it is part of this song. Not your fault, you didn't know. A lot of NBA and other sports teams use Sirius for the player introductions.
Parsons is primarily a producer. After his work on Dark Side of the Moon, he began doing his own "project". He approaches each album as a producer does a movie. He and Eric write the music and lyrics, then try to hire the best players for each part. Some of his albums may have up to 6 vocalists, and each is centered around a theme. The 1st the works of Poe, 2nd Asimov's I Robot, 3rd Pyramid power and so on. This one is possibly centered on a "higher power", but even after all these decades it's a bit elusive.
The Alan Parsons Project is like no other band! They mainly consisted of Alan Parsons as Producer, Engineer and Instrumental Writer and Eric Woolfson, Lyric & Music Writer and sometimes Lead Vocalist starting from their 5th album. They hand-picked musicians that worked especially well with each written song therefore, during their VERY successful run from 1976 throughout the 80's, they made a decision NOT be a live band. They were also a band that had 1/3 of their songs that were instrumentals, probably over 2 dozen lead singers throughout the years, around 10 songs that had a female lead vocalist, along with many songs with a full orchestra. With all these creative decisions, they felt that they could not replicate what people heard on their albums to be a LIVE band in the 70's and 80's. That is probably why they are not as well-known as other groups during their heyday like Journey, Kansas, Pink Floyd among many others. In the 1990's they were able to use technology reproduce the songs to become a live band and (in some cases) use a full orchestra. It's a shame that they are not in the RR Hall of Fame and although Eric Woolfson passed away about 15 years ago (RIP), Mr. Parsons is still releasing great music. I could suggest some songs for you to listen to, but as far as I'm concerned, just pick out any of their nearly 200 songs and I think you will realize hit or no hit, you can't go wrong with Alan Parsons!! You have a great station Shawn and I look forward to your releases!!
They have such a dreamy sound that it's easy to miss all the details. Everything is very carefully constructed. For how laid back it feels the lyrics and delivery are pretty hard hitting too. "Don't cry, I ain't changing my mind" makes it a pretty definitive goodbye.
Every album by them seems to be fairly cohesive and story driven. I'm always glad to hear them. The Turn of a Friendly Card is probably my favorite and most listened to of theirs. Smooth fade is the term I use for this song. I'm done, I'm gone, I'm good, Goodbye...
You missed the intro track, "Sirius." The two go together. This was done a bunch in the 70s and 80s, mostly due to money concerns -- cutting it in two did something for the bean counters (frankly I doubt it helped the artist at all). Similar pairings are ""A Dream within a Dream" and "The Raven" on the Alan Parsons Project album Tales of Mystery and Imagination (definitely do the new version with Orson Welles), "Foreplay" and "Long Time" on Boston's first album, and "Space Intro" and "Fly Like an Eagle" on Steve Miller Band's Fly Like an Eagle album.
I was hoping Alan Parsons Project would be coming up for you! Other favorites are "Damned If I Do", "Don't Answer Me", "Games People Play", "Time", "I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You"
Can you hear how beautiful the sound engineering is? He was/is the best sound engineer going. He engineered Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon among many, many more hits. You can always tell a Parsons production because it sound clean, crisp and you can pick up every little instrument in there.
I love this song!! It was popular right around the same time as Joe Jackson’s “Steppin’ Out” and now whenever I hear one I have to listen to the other.
Man this guy made some great music. As an engineer and producer he knew the best studio musicians to pick from. Another band with a deep catalog. Shawn you should start from the beginning with the Raven from Tales of Mystery and Imagination [Edgar Allan Poe}. His cowriter Eric Woolfson was really into Poe Enjoy
I assume you know about Parsons...He was the main engineer for Dark Side of the Moon--and one of those behind the Abbey Road album! Others have further suggestions below...I would add "I wouldn't wanna be like you."
I had just graduated high school and started university when this album came out. A guy in my dorm a year ahead of me played this album all the time. So this took me back many decades.
Thanks Shawn nice reaction, like some say this particular song is meant to be listened to with Sirius as a lead in, a tune you will definitely know as it its the Chicago Bulls theme, there are one or two excellent live versions kicking about 🙂
Try something from the I Robot album (their 2nd). I Wouldn’t Want To Be Like You is awesome but all the tracks are good. The Raven or The Cask Of Amontillado from Tales Of Mystery And Imagination are great.
You need to try old and wise and time and damn if I do, you’ll love them if you do the first album do the first song along with the second song together they were great together one leads to the other. I think it’s called a dream within a dream and the raven. I believe it is Reames if you like Edgar Poe
Check out Don’t Answer Me, a bigger sounding track and not as trippy as this one with a fun vid, straight out of Marvel comics. For the sax aficionados out there, it’s a banger. And spoiler alert, it has a happier ending than this one.
_"...the sun in your eyes made some of the lies worth believing!"_ what a line!
My favorite lyric from this song...brilliant!
Alan Parsons was one of the main sound engineers on Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon.
There is a roughly two minute introduction to this song called 'Sirius'... The two are meant to be played together... "Sirius/Eye in the Sky". I did make a point of this when I recommended it but, oh well. You really should listen to the complete full version at some point. You might even recognize Sirius if you were ever into 90s era Bulls Basketball. 😉
"I Wouldn't Want to be Like You" is another excellent Alan Parsons song.
I grew up hearing this as a stand alone song on the radio, but hearing with the Sirius intro is exponentially better. This song doesn’t get old.
I discovered him Halloween night 1977 when the rock station I was listening to started playing "The Raven" from his first album, based on the Edgar Allen Poe poem.
"Time" is also a great one from Alan Parsons project,or Games People Play
“The sun in your eyes made some of the lies worth believing”.
This is usually played as a double - SIRIUS/EYE IN THE SKY. Personal favorites include PSYCHOBABBLE, CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU, I ROBOT/I WOULDN'T WANT TO BE LIKE YOU, BREAKDOWN, TIME, THE GOLD BUG, THE RAVEN, DAMNED IF I DO, LUCIFER - always hit the official music video whenever possible, or the studio album recording.
This is a deep and varied rabbit hole, Bro... most of it is very good, some of it is truly brilliant!
One of my favorite instrumental tracks of all time is, "I Robot", the title track of Parson's 1977, second album.
You made a common mistake made by a lot of reactors. This song needs to be paired with Sirius, which is the instrumental intro to this song. It's listed as a separate track, but it is part of this song. Not your fault, you didn't know. A lot of NBA and other sports teams use Sirius for the player introductions.
Our local baseball team used it for late inning rallies. Great crowd-pumping number.
💯 agree
Sirius or as it was known in the 90's " The Chicago Bulls Song" . 🙂
Glad you added the like and subscribe!!!! You must listen to Sirius/Eye in The Sky together. Next I’d listen to “Time” and “Games People Play”
Parsons is primarily a producer. After his work on Dark Side of the Moon, he began doing his own "project". He approaches each album as a producer does a movie. He and Eric write the music and lyrics, then try to hire the best players for each part. Some of his albums may have up to 6 vocalists, and each is centered around a theme. The 1st the works of Poe, 2nd Asimov's I Robot, 3rd Pyramid power and so on. This one is possibly centered on a "higher power", but even after all these decades it's a bit elusive.
The Alan Parsons Project is like no other band! They mainly consisted of Alan Parsons as Producer, Engineer and Instrumental Writer and Eric Woolfson, Lyric & Music Writer and sometimes Lead Vocalist starting from their 5th album. They hand-picked musicians that worked especially well with each written song therefore, during their VERY successful run from 1976 throughout the 80's, they made a decision NOT be a live band. They were also a band that had 1/3 of their songs that were instrumentals, probably over 2 dozen lead singers throughout the years, around 10 songs that had a female lead vocalist, along with many songs with a full orchestra. With all these creative decisions, they felt that they could not replicate what people heard on their albums to be a LIVE band in the 70's and 80's. That is probably why they are not as well-known as other groups during their heyday like Journey, Kansas, Pink Floyd among many others. In the 1990's they were able to use technology reproduce the songs to become a live band and (in some cases) use a full orchestra. It's a shame that they are not in the RR Hall of Fame and although Eric Woolfson passed away about 15 years ago (RIP), Mr. Parsons is still releasing great music. I could suggest some songs for you to listen to, but as far as I'm concerned, just pick out any of their nearly 200 songs and I think you will realize hit or no hit, you can't go wrong with Alan Parsons!! You have a great station Shawn and I look forward to your releases!!
The layering on his works is simply amazing.
Games People Play , Turn Of A Friendly Card are a couple of my favorite APP songs.
The Alan Parsons Project is a great rabbit hole to go down. These guys are geniuses. Keep going with APP. The Turn of a Friendly Card.
They have such a dreamy sound that it's easy to miss all the details. Everything is very carefully constructed. For how laid back it feels the lyrics and delivery are pretty hard hitting too.
"Don't cry, I ain't changing my mind" makes it a pretty definitive goodbye.
Every album by them seems to be fairly cohesive and story driven. I'm always glad to hear them. The Turn of a Friendly Card is probably my favorite and most listened to of theirs.
Smooth fade is the term I use for this song. I'm done, I'm gone, I'm good, Goodbye...
You missed the intro track, "Sirius." The two go together. This was done a bunch in the 70s and 80s, mostly due to money concerns -- cutting it in two did something for the bean counters (frankly I doubt it helped the artist at all). Similar pairings are ""A Dream within a Dream" and "The Raven" on the Alan Parsons Project album Tales of Mystery and Imagination (definitely do the new version with Orson Welles), "Foreplay" and "Long Time" on Boston's first album, and "Space Intro" and "Fly Like an Eagle" on Steve Miller Band's Fly Like an Eagle album.
You picked my favorite of APP! I would also suggest 'Old and Wise', 'Time', 'The Raven', and 'Games people play' as a good sampling of their styles.
Alan Parsons the master
Smooth a baby's butt - The groove just never stops. Great song to start my day. Thanks as always, Big Soul Shawn.
Must be heard with Sirius….❤
I'd have to go with I Wouldn't Want to be Like You as my favorite Alan Parsons' song.
I was hoping Alan Parsons Project would be coming up for you! Other favorites are "Damned If I Do", "Don't Answer Me", "Games People Play", "Time", "I Wouldn't Want to
Be Like You"
Can you hear how beautiful the sound engineering is? He was/is the best sound engineer going. He engineered Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon among many, many more hits.
You can always tell a Parsons production because it sound clean, crisp and you can pick up every little instrument in there.
Turn of a friendly card. A song with five parts at 16 minutes but a great representation of all that Alan Parson Project can do
Fun fact. Alan Parsons was the audio engineer on Dark Side of the Moon. His catalog is full of good stuff
One of my favorite artist, if I may suggest the hole album " Tales of mystery and imagination, Edger Allan Poe"
I love this song!! It was popular right around the same time as Joe Jackson’s “Steppin’ Out” and now whenever I hear one I have to listen to the other.
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"I wouldn't Want To Be Like You' for a more rock sound, and "Games People Play"
Man this guy made some great music. As an engineer and producer he knew the best studio musicians to pick from. Another band with a deep catalog. Shawn you should start from the beginning with the Raven from Tales of Mystery and Imagination [Edgar Allan Poe}. His cowriter Eric Woolfson was really into Poe Enjoy
Seen him & his orchestra twice in Reno in the last several years. 'Old & Wise ' is a great tune.
I assume you know about Parsons...He was the main engineer for Dark Side of the Moon--and one of those behind the Abbey Road album! Others have further suggestions below...I would add "I wouldn't wanna be like you."
I had just graduated high school and started university when this album came out. A guy in my dorm a year ahead of me played this album all the time. So this took me back many decades.
This is a good intro to Alen Parsons. Check out any songs from I Robot Pyramid or Vulture Culture. Days are numbers, is beautiful.
While this was incredibly popular, he has much better stuff, IMO. Definitely worth a deep dive.
The video for "Don't Answer Me" is done as a comic book are really cool.
Thanks Shawn nice reaction, like some say this particular song is meant to be listened to with Sirius as a lead in, a tune you will definitely know as it its the Chicago Bulls theme, there are one or two excellent live versions kicking about 🙂
You said 'Don't be playing these games'. He has a song, Games People Play. Such smooth electo music many times with a theme or message.
I ROBOT DUE IT!!
turn of a friendly card is a masterpiece album
Eye of the Storm by Roger Hodgson is a cool song. Roger sang for Supertramp.
Yep - the lyrics are "I can read your mind. "
Try something from the I Robot album (their 2nd). I Wouldn’t Want To Be Like You is awesome but all the tracks are good. The Raven or The Cask Of Amontillado from Tales Of Mystery And Imagination are great.
Great reaction! Thanks for the walk down memory lane! What a great time for music!
Games People Play is another great song.
This is about the cameras watching the games in Vegas casinos.Its the inspirattion at least.
Should have started with Sirius, it runs into this.
Now Go Back and listen to intro song Sirius which goes right into this song
Always found the lyrics rather cryptic. Still a great tune.
Shawn I’m positive you would enjoy,, Days are Numbers (The Traveller) by Alan Parsons Project. It’s off the Vulture Culture LP
Man, I love the songs you choose! I hope you listen to some Ambrosia at some point!
Great reaction!! Must check out the intro it's the theme for Chicago Bulls..It's worth it..❤
You need to try old and wise and time and damn if I do, you’ll love them if you do the first album do the first song along with the second song together they were great together one leads to the other. I think it’s called a dream within a dream and the raven. I believe it is Reames if you like Edgar Poe
Check out Don’t Answer Me, a bigger sounding track and not as trippy as this one with a fun vid, straight out of Marvel comics. For the sax aficionados out there, it’s a banger. And spoiler alert, it has a happier ending than this one.
Non puoi escludere l'introduzione, cioè Sirius.. è un tutt'uno con eye in the sky. Mi hai ucciso.😢
Chinese Balloons?
Check Time by TAPP