GAUDI

I still remember vividly the day this album came out. I had loved every album that Alan Parsons Project had put out up to that point. I drove down to the local record shop, I was a college student at the time. I eagerly purchased Gaudi, took it home, unwrapped it, listened to it...and took it right back to the store! They would not refund my money, only give me a few dollars as a used CD - which I accepted rather than keep this disc in my collection. Though I only played it once or twice before returning it, I can still remember how it sounded. Standing On Higher Ground is marginally acceptable, the rest is easily the least inspired, worst-sounding APP album ever. La Sagrada Familia is a forumulaic lame attempt at Spanish-influenced music, Money Talks is beyond hokey, and so on. Truly for completists only.