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The Alan Parsons Project: Album Ratings

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Topic: The Alan Parsons Project: Album Ratings

Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Subject: The Alan Parsons Project: Album Ratings
Date Posted: February 11 2020 at 13:07

How many stars would you assign to each of the Alan Parsons Project albums listed below?

1976: The Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery & Imagination - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LujqvwSxswuIj9cY35XuDfh" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LujqvwSxswuIj9cY35XuDfh

1977: The Alan Parsons Project - I Robot - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Lu6riu8xZBa4K2__8O8mnUK" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Lu6riu8xZBa4K2__8O8mnUK

1978: The Alan Parsons Project - Pyramid - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LvvYUZGHdTdohfyl_C7aVdC" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LvvYUZGHdTdohfyl_C7aVdC

1979: The Alan Parsons Project - Eve - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Lu1dW6TdymIz01agSI5QrsP" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Lu1dW6TdymIz01agSI5QrsP

1980: The Alan Parsons Project - The Turn of a Friendly Card - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Luk8Un5tUuHQNopMkANNRkI" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Luk8Un5tUuHQNopMkANNRkI

1982: The Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LvFf3sDZHLuhwlbMT-yLM01" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LvFf3sDZHLuhwlbMT-yLM01

1983: The Alan Parsons Project - Ammonia Avenue - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Ltfr8msEF5od-iMxHYEFBEC" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Ltfr8msEF5od-iMxHYEFBEC

1984: The Alan Parsons Project - Vulture Culture - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Lt_U_yJJdBhiCHC7RaGRNtI" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Lt_U_yJJdBhiCHC7RaGRNtI

1985: The Alan Parsons Project - Stereotomy - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LtkvqDg3MwzKuEsJXTLpuQb" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LtkvqDg3MwzKuEsJXTLpuQb

1987: The Alan Parsons Project - Gaudi - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Lsg83gK94FbOdNLwvpRooVs" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Lsg83gK94FbOdNLwvpRooVs

1990: The Alan Parsons Project - Freudiana - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LsPS9bbgksLiHqHf8ydF1EL" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LsPS9bbgksLiHqHf8ydF1EL

2004: The Alan Parsons Project - Eye 2 Eye: Live in Madrid - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LurnjGc0vB9SP7maFrj0TGd" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LurnjGc0vB9SP7maFrj0TGd

2014: The Alan Parsons Project - The Sicilian Defence - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmft_YU3j08" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmft_YU3j08

2016: The Alan Parsons Symphonic Project - Live in Colombia - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LsrVwOnsJoSHdFaKK9H-sDM" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LsrVwOnsJoSHdFaKK9H-sDM

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Posted By: tdfloyd
Date Posted: April 03 2020 at 15:38

I'll play:

tales - 4 a strong 4 almost 5

i, robot - 5 their best

pyramid - 3 only a couple of songs do it for me

eve -4 this and pyramid have switched places over the decades

friendly card -5 excellent

eye in the sky - 4 near five don't like step by step and gonna get you're fingers burned

ammonia avenue - 4 another strong album

vulture culture - 4 love the vocals here , some of the drum sounds keep it from being a 5

stereotomy - 3 love the instrumentals, the title track and beaujolais.

gaudi - 3 like all APP some excellent tracks, but this has some weeker ones. Out with a wimper. Their weekest album IMHO

Freudiana - 4 not APP but almost as it started life as the 11th album. Broadway, pop, rock, a little prog . very interesting

keep going to the AP solo

try anything once - 4 reallly like this one . A track or two shorter and it would have been a 5

on air - 3 this a time machine together could have made a killer album. too much filler on both

time machine - 3

valid path - 3 AP goes electronica with middling results. remove one of his sons 2 tracks and add an original and it might be a 4.

the secret -4 really love this album. near 5 , I hope he has 1 more left in the tank

Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: April 03 2020 at 15:53

Tales of Mystery and Imagination (4.5/5) is the best. I place Freudiana (actually an Eric Woolfson album) second (4+/5). Eye in the Sky and The Turn of a Friendly Card are also good.

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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: April 03 2020 at 16:19

someone_else wrote:

Tales of Mystery and Imagination (4.5/5) is the best. I place Freudiana (actually an Eric Woolfson album) second (4+/5). Eye in the Sky and The Turn of a Friendly Card are also good.

What about the Sicilian Defense? Wink

Posted By: Squonk19
Date Posted: April 03 2020 at 16:40

1) I Robot
2) Tales of Mystery and Imagination
3) Pyramid
4) Eye in the Sky
5) The Turn of a Friendly Card
6) Gaudi
7) Ammonia Avenue
8) Vulture Culture
9) Stereotomy
10) Eve

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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: April 04 2020 at 01:49

Good to OK:

Tales, Robot, Pyramids (even if the last two have a few disco tracks in them)

barely audible:

Eve, Cards

Sucks all bones:

the rest

Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: April 04 2020 at 15:59

The first 3 are quite enjoyable, then nothing.

Posted By: Steve Wyzard
Date Posted: June 17 2020 at 10:03

1. Stereotomy - 5 stars

2. I Robot - 5 stars

3. Eye in the Sky - 5 stars

4. Pyramid - 5 stars

5. Gaudi - 4 stars

6. Tales of Mystery and Imagination - 4 stars

7. The Turn of a Friendly Card - 4 stars

8. Vulture Culture - 4 stars

9. Eve - 3 stars

10. Ammonia Avenue - 3 stars

Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: June 17 2020 at 10:08

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

What about the Sicilian Defense? Wink

I've listened to The Sicilian Defence and it sounds to me like a demo album without vocals, so I didn't even bother rating it.

Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: June 17 2020 at 12:28

Feel like Sean's ratings above.......the band never appealed to me..mediocre stuff.

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Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: June 17 2020 at 12:35

I don't give numeric ratings but now I know that you can simply hotlink Progarchives star rating images in the forum like so:

That's kinda cool. :) So anyway, back onto the topic.

I've only listened to a handful of APP albums. But anyway, here are my mini reviews/notes.

Tales... - Solid album but there's some filler.
I Robot - Much more even quality-wise but a bit less prog than Tales.
Pyramid - I really like the keyboard work on this record. Also, Dave Patton's bass is superb. This album's even less prog than its predecessors but it's good.
Ammonia Avenue - It's a fully pop album but it's not that bad. Don't Answer Me is one of my favorite songs of '84.
Sicilian Defense - A total disaster. I mean, what even is this?

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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: June 17 2020 at 13:19

^^ My star ratings aren't exactly hot links. I just copied and pasted them into the forum.

Would you like to see more threads like this one where we collectively give the traditional PA star ratings out of five for a band's complete studio album discography?

Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: June 17 2020 at 16:12

Tom Ozric wrote:

The first 3 are quite enjoyable, then nothing.

This^; me.

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Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: June 18 2020 at 17:46

The first two between 4 and 5 star ratings, the rest, I'm not sure.

Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: June 19 2020 at 04:08

Tales of Mystery = 5 stars. All the rest = 2 stars.

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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: June 19 2020 at 10:17

A good compilation suffices. I don't get the debut album at all. There is just nothing memorable about it. Pyramid is about the only thing that scrapes a 4 star rating in my book. I like a lot of the radio friendly songs though. Eye In The Sky is weird, creepy and 'stalkerish' but just works!

Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 05 2023 at 05:15

richardh wrote:

A good compilation suffices. I don't get the debut album at all. There is just nothing memorable about it. Pyramid is about the only thing that scrapes a 4 star rating in my book. I like a lot of the radio friendly songs though. Eye In The Sky is weird, creepy and 'stalkerish' but just works!

Tales of Mystery and Imagination has always been my favourite APP album by far, although I still haven't managed to buy it on CD, so that may be why my emoji is looking a bit Poe-faced. Unhappy

2014: The Alan Parsons Project - The Sicilian Defence - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmft_YU3j08" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmft_YU3j08

Posted By: terramystic
Date Posted: August 07 2023 at 11:11

Tales ****

I Robot ****

Pyramid ***

Eve **

The Turn of a Friendly Card *****

Eye In the Sky *****

Ammonia Avenue *

Vulture Culture *

Stereotomy *

Gaudi **

The Sicilian Defense ** (it would be an excellent draft for an album)