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VelBG 
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 Posted: February 04 2011 at 15:08 |
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The first album is one of the works that got me into prog in the first place, so it must have something in common with the genre, no? =)
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jean-marie
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Posted: February 03 2011 at 17:47 |
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it's kind of prog pop! sometimes more pop than prog but it has great times , i love this band
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TODDLER
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Posted: February 02 2011 at 11:48 |
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Tales of Mystery and Imagination truly brings back some memories for me. I remember buying the album and having it on my weird playlist for a couple of years. I would often play it in between Songs From the Wood and Going For the One. Tales was the only recording ever ....where I could tolerate Arthur Brown's voice. Not personally being a huge fan of A.B., I think he shines on this one! Also the record was reminiscent of Pink Floyd material.....I think everyone knows that right? It creates an atmosphere by far...for the listener. In that sense, I found it to be a definite prog album. But then again....my experience was based on the reality that Alan Parsons had no other records during that period in time and so my perception of him as an artist was quite different then.
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Chris S
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Posted: February 02 2011 at 11:32 |
 halabalushindigus wrote:
seriously, the band drummer Stuart Elliot hasd those tight chops that were always on time real slow. Engineering was always a-plus. Ian Bairnson guitar was always chromactically well conceived. Alans use of different vocalists from Lenny Zakatek to Chris Rainbow and, of couse, Eric Woolfson was soft, well spoken. Their music wasn't so much progressive but Alan Parsons sequencing elements definetly put him in a class by himself |
Well said!, liked Zakatek..
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halabalushindigus
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Posted: February 02 2011 at 03:57 |
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seriously, the band drummer Stuart Elliot hasd those tight chops that were always on time real slow. Engineering was always a-plus. Ian Bairnson guitar was always chromactically well conceived. Alans use of different vocalists from Lenny Zakatek to Chris Rainbow and, of couse, Eric Woolfson was soft, well spoken. Their music wasn't so much progressive but Alan Parsons sequencing elements definetly put him in a class by himself
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assume the power 1586/14.3
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halabalushindigus
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Posted: February 02 2011 at 03:51 |
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great disco band
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assume the power 1586/14.3
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Chris S
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Posted: February 02 2011 at 03:20 |
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Loved them up to Eye in the Sky.....after that they kind of fizzled from a consistent standpoint. As for genre labels, crossover/AOR IMO. Woolfson was the driving force from Turn Of A Freindly Card....but good quality productions which is what you would expect from the engineer of DSOTM.
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richardh
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Posted: February 02 2011 at 02:01 |
They were always AOR to me and had very little to do with prog BUT recently I have been enjoying some of their songs. I put that down to age. 
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POTA
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Posted: February 01 2011 at 21:31 |
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I'm a big APP fan. Their music is dark, soothing and atmospheric. I've always considered them prog. They fit in nicely in a playlist of Camel and Barclay James Harvest. Also, listening to the first two minutes of The Raven loudly in a pair of big, cushy headphones is indescribable.
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tamijo
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Posted: August 04 2010 at 07:30 |
Kestrel wrote:
I just put them in "Prog Lite" with Styx and Supertramp's Breakfast in America |
Somethnig like that, ya, but the thing is who cares.
Either you like it or you dont, shouldent change anythong if they are consideres Prog lite, Prog related, or even not prog.
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Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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Kestrel
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Posted: August 03 2010 at 17:55 |
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I just put them in "Prog Lite" with Styx and Supertramp's Breakfast in America
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Dellinger
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Posted: August 02 2010 at 22:25 |
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I think that their first two albums (which i really love) were prog, with pop tendencies. Their next albums were progressivley more pop, with prog tendencies, until there remained only pop.
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Deleuze
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Posted: August 02 2010 at 21:20 |
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lol, even pop bands in the 70' had prog influences, Idk why u guys are always seeking genres...just enjoy the music :p
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Snow Dog
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Posted: August 02 2010 at 18:46 |
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Edited by Snow Dog - February 05 2011 at 04:21
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moshkito
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Posted: August 02 2010 at 18:39 |
Hi,
For the time it came out, it was nice stuff and ... well ... progressive in that it was different and nice, not because it had anything musically that was totally innovating and different out there. It started out more progressive and it became conventional in my book.
But nice stuff. Nothing great. I'm not sure I would consider this "progressive", since it's most important feature really was that it was very well recorded, not that the works themselves were that important.
I call this the Orange Juice or Apple Sauce Genre!
Edited by moshkito - February 02 2011 at 20:31
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GY!BE
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Posted: August 02 2010 at 17:02 |
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I think APP had a lot of pop influences in certain albums but they always had this prog particularities proper to them,,,great band by the way...A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM...
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genbanks
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Posted: August 02 2010 at 16:55 |
lazland wrote:
Love them. A great mix of prog tendencies with pop sensibilities. Most definitely fitting in nicely in cross over prog. |
That's a good definition of Alan Parsons Project. That's just crossover prog as many others bands or solo artists in this site. Some of them are even less prog than Alan Parsons (Roger Hodgson for example).
I think that A valid path has some prog elements too.
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himtroy
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Posted: August 02 2010 at 12:52 |
I consider Tales of Mystery and Imagination and I Robot to be prog rock albums. Turn of a Friendly Card the song is progressive, the other side has prog moments at most. But I Robot is a fantastic album, and was a key album for getting me into prog. I think it's more progressive than Tales of Mystery and Imagination is definitely. The songs I Robot and The Voice (that crazy breakdown in the middle of the song) are both pretty progressive. The entire second half of the album is pretty spacey and Total Eclipse is absolute madness .
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lazland
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Posted: August 02 2010 at 12:31 |
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Love them. A great mix of prog tendencies with pop sensibilities. Most definitely fitting in nicely in cross over prog.
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: August 02 2010 at 11:53 |
Disco was the first thing that popped into my mind before I read the opening post.  I only have the first two and I find APP to be reasonably crossover.
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