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    Posted: February 11 2020 at 13:07
How many stars would you assign to each of the Alan Parsons Project albums listed below?
 
 5 stars 1976: The Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery & Imagination -  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LujqvwSxswuIj9cY35XuDfh
 4 stars 1977: The Alan Parsons Project - I Robot - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Lu6riu8xZBa4K2__8O8mnUK
 4 stars 1978: The Alan Parsons Project - Pyramid - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LvvYUZGHdTdohfyl_C7aVdC
 4 stars 1980: The Alan Parsons Project - The Turn of a Friendly Card - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Luk8Un5tUuHQNopMkANNRkI
 4 stars 1982: The Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LvFf3sDZHLuhwlbMT-yLM01
 4 stars 1983: The Alan Parsons Project - Ammonia Avenue - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Ltfr8msEF5od-iMxHYEFBEC
 4 stars 1984: The Alan Parsons Project - Vulture Culture - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Lt_U_yJJdBhiCHC7RaGRNtI
 3 stars 1985: The Alan Parsons Project - Stereotomy - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LtkvqDg3MwzKuEsJXTLpuQb
 4 stars 1990: The Alan Parsons Project - Freudiana - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LsPS9bbgksLiHqHf8ydF1EL
 4 stars 2004: The Alan Parsons Project - Eye 2 Eye: Live in Madrid - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LurnjGc0vB9SP7maFrj0TGd
 2 stars 2014: The Alan Parsons Project - The Sicilian Defence - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmft_YU3j08
 4 stars 2016: The Alan Parsons Symphonic Project - Live in Colombia - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LsrVwOnsJoSHdFaKK9H-sDM


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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


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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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Originally posted by someone_else 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
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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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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
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The first 3 are quite enjoyable, then nothing.
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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
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Originally posted by someone_else 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
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. Smile
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Feel like Sean's ratings  above.......the band never appealed to me..mediocre stuff.
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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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^^ My star ratings aren't exactly hot links. I just copied and pasted them into the forum. Smile
 
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?


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Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

The first 3 are quite enjoyable, then nothing.

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The first two between 4 and 5 star ratings, the rest, I'm not sure.
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Tales of Mystery = 5 stars. All the rest = 2 stars.
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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!
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Originally posted by richardh 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


 5 stars 1976: The Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery & Imagination -  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LujqvwSxswuIj9cY35XuDfh
 4 stars 1977: The Alan Parsons Project - I Robot - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Lu6riu8xZBa4K2__8O8mnUK
 4 stars 1978: The Alan Parsons Project - Pyramid - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LvvYUZGHdTdohfyl_C7aVdC
 4 stars 1980: The Alan Parsons Project - The Turn of a Friendly Card - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Luk8Un5tUuHQNopMkANNRkI
 4 stars 1982: The Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LvFf3sDZHLuhwlbMT-yLM01
 4 stars 1983: The Alan Parsons Project - Ammonia Avenue - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Ltfr8msEF5od-iMxHYEFBEC
 4 stars 1984: The Alan Parsons Project - Vulture Culture - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Lt_U_yJJdBhiCHC7RaGRNtI
 3 stars 1985: The Alan Parsons Project - Stereotomy - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LtkvqDg3MwzKuEsJXTLpuQb
 4 stars 1990: The Alan Parsons Project - Freudiana - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LsPS9bbgksLiHqHf8ydF1EL
 4 stars 2004: The Alan Parsons Project - Eye 2 Eye: Live in Madrid - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LurnjGc0vB9SP7maFrj0TGd
 2 stars 2014: The Alan Parsons Project - The Sicilian Defence - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmft_YU3j08
 4 stars 2016: The Alan Parsons Symphonic Project - Live in Colombia - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LsrVwOnsJoSHdFaKK9H-sDM
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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)

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