VULTURE CULTURE

Despite being a big fan of Alan Parsons and his seventies discography, I must admit, even if someone doesn't like it, that this album is more of the same Alan Parsons in the 80s.

I hope I'm not misunderstanding anyone, Vulture Culture is a good album, but Alan's progressive essence and his seventies artistic mediations became tedious as he gradually presented works that stopped delving so much into the ambiguous and concentrated on attracting a larger audience that was more commercially oriented. The resonances generated in this album are already becoming.... "bland".

Vulture Culture, eighth album of "The Alan Parsons Project", is an eighties album with a more dynamic and dynamic atmosphere in terms of song lengths and "simpler" instrumentation. Within Parsons' discography, this is the only album that does not feature Andrew Powell's orchestration.

Originally, the album was intended to be the second LP of a double album, Ammonia Avenue being the first. After the records were split into separate albums, Vulture Culture received a more modern (for the time) studio treatment with heavier drums and dynamics. "Sooner or Later" was described by Parsons himself as "the third attempt at trying to get another hit with the guitar line" Eye in the Sky "-esque chugging -" Prime Time "from Ammonia Avenue was the second, which I thought was a little more successful in that regard."

I tend to listen to pop records, disco, etc... I really like the genre. Those 3 stars, are simply because this album is NOTHING progressive as far as respects, both Crossover Prog, and Prog itself. If this site was a ratings/reviews site for albums of all genres, I think I would add another star (with this I don't want to discredit or generate anything against the administrators of Progarchives, this site has been simply wonderful since I knew it and a great way to invest my time in knowing new progressive stuff).

But anyway. It seems to me that Alan Parsons had his great works, and that after Ammonia Avenue Alan Parsons was finished, even if it pains me to say it that way.

For anyone who wants to dig into Alan Parsons, I recommend "Tales Of Mystery & Imagination (Edgar Allan Poe)", from 1976, and "I Robot", from 1977.

Let's Talk About Me: 3/5

Separate Lives 3/5

Days Are Numbers (The Traveller) 4/5

Sooner or Later 2/5

Vulture Culture 2.5/5

Hawkeye 2.5/5

Somebody Out There 3.5/5

The Same Old Sun 4/5

6/10. 3 stars.

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