Favourite Alan Parsons Project Album
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Topic: Favourite Alan Parsons Project Album
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Subject: Favourite Alan Parsons Project Album
Date Posted: February 11 2020 at 08:02
| An easy choice for me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_Mystery_and_Imagination_%28Alan_Parsons_Project_album%29" rel="nofollow - |
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Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: February 11 2020 at 08:09
I'm with you. ToMaI it is!  ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: February 11 2020 at 08:10
| This will be a blow out. |
Posted By: TCat
Date Posted: February 11 2020 at 08:34
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Tales is their best album. I, Robot comes in second. ------------- https://ibb.co/8x0xjR0" rel="nofollow">  |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: February 11 2020 at 08:45
| Tales is my favorite, and I Robot is second. The rest are not really my cup of tea. |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: February 11 2020 at 08:47
| I Robust for me. Side 1 is incredible pop prog. The performance by Alan Clarke in "Breakdown" is one for the ages |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: February 11 2020 at 08:55
It's certainly looking that way with five votes for "Tales" already within the first hour.  Make that six votes.
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miamiscot wrote:Posted By: dougmcauliffe
Date Posted: February 11 2020 at 09:21
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I-Robot, one of the finest prog pop releases that I can think of. ------------- The sun has left the sky... ...Now you can close your eyes |
Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: February 11 2020 at 09:45
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Edgar for sure... but I also quite like Turn of a Friendly Card ------------- Prog On! |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: February 11 2020 at 10:20
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Tales for me. Oddly enough, my introduction to this band was Stereotomy back in junior high. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: RaphaelT
Date Posted: February 11 2020 at 12:42
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Turn Of The Friendly Card. It's not their best album, but just my favourite. ------------- yet you still have time! |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: February 11 2020 at 12:44
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The first three. ------------- |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: February 11 2020 at 12:55
| Love Tales of Mystery and Imagination, but I Robot is the most special to me. It is a foundational album for my music journey and has been one of my favourite albums since my childhood. There was a time in my life that the only two albums I would spin were that and Gary Numan with Tubeway Army's Replicas (those albums are always linked in my head). |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: February 11 2020 at 13:44
I have five Alan Parsons Project albums in a box set, but unfortunately, it doesn't include Tales of Mystery and Imagination, my favourite APP album. I'm not sure what happened with my text - it's become italicised and I can't straighten it out.
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: February 11 2020 at 14:11
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debut ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: February 11 2020 at 14:24
It's because the italics tags are not inserted incorrectly in the post (hasn't closed the italics). Breaking the code to show it... Right now it is "...include [ I]Tales of Mystery and Imagination, my favourite APP album.[ /I][ I][ /I] [ I]I'm not sure what happened with my text - it's become italicised and I can't straighten it out." Instead it should be, without the spaces, "It doesn't include [ I]Tales of Mystery and Imagination[/ I], my favourite APP album...." If there is an unclosed [I ] tag (closed is [/ I] ) then the following will all be in italics. By the way, I always manually type them out rather than using the rich-text editor (I have that feature turned off as otherwise my posts tend to fill with code -- SQL injections). When people make reviews and fail to close their tags it's worse since it can make every subsequent review of the album when seeing together in italics, bold or whatever it is. Perhaps that box set does not include that album because it is a rights issue, but then other versions do include it, such as The Complete Albums Collection. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: February 11 2020 at 14:33
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They never surpassed their debut.Eye in the Sky and The Turn of a Friendly Card are pretty good, though. Alan's sidekick, Eric Woolfson, did a fine job with Freudiana. ------------- 
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Posted By: judahbenkenobi
Date Posted: February 11 2020 at 14:52
| Not a fan of APP. I only like a few songs. No vote for me |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: February 11 2020 at 15:04
Thanks for explaining the reason behind my text suddenly become italicised. I'd actually copied and pasted the Tales of Mystery and Imagination title from Wikipedia (in italics), but from that point onwards, the SQL code assumed I wanted ALL of my letters to appear in italics. At least it put a new slant on what I was saying.
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: February 11 2020 at 15:23
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Nice pun, sometimes one just has to show those unwanted bent Italics who is boss by telling them to straighten up. To quote The Vapors, one might say it's been turning Japanese (which is not to say that the Japanese have slanted eyes, that's more of a Chinese trait, it's more of a Japanese script thing -- I worked in Japan, best time of my life).... I find copy-pasting here from other sites problematic when using the the WYSIWYG post editor, which is found in Members Control Panel --> Forum Preferences. I keep it disabled partially for that reason. I'd rather import plain text most of the time and avoid the code that often comes with it. Before figuring that out when I had problems I would copy to Notepad then copy that here. By the way, If you see my name as editing your post, that was an error, was having a battle with Captcha and did something wrong. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: February 11 2020 at 15:30
Thanks! I never would've noticed that you'd edited my post if you hadn't mentioned it.
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Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: February 11 2020 at 16:37
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Turn of a Friendly Card. My least favorite is its predecessor, Eve. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: February 11 2020 at 16:59
It looks like you've played your joker and aced it with your vote for The Turn of a Friendly Card.  I regard Tales of Mystery and Imagination as a five-star absolute must-have album which I don't have yet, whereas Eve and Stereotomy are reasonably good three-star albums for me which I DO have, and all of the remaining seven APP albums are very good four-star albums from my point of view.
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Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: February 11 2020 at 17:41
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My favorite APP album is I, Robot--a start-to-finish masterpiece--but "The Fall of the House of Usher" suite is by far the best thing they ever did. ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: progmatic
Date Posted: February 11 2020 at 17:45
Same here. And Tales is way better than Robot. ------------- PROGMATIC |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: February 11 2020 at 17:57
I chose "The Fall of the House of Usher" suite as one of my favourite songs on the Create Your Own Alan Parsons Project Album thread.
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Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: February 11 2020 at 20:14
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Tales by far. ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Squonk19
Date Posted: February 12 2020 at 00:01
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Tales....... but I Robot was where they got their sound template fully formed and I've a soft spot for Pyramid too ------------- “Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.” |
Posted By: Enchant X
Date Posted: February 12 2020 at 04:23
| Tales of Mystery and Imagination I guess, but I don't look towards alan parson for a prog fix I think when I just want to relax and enjoy simple good music without any concentration I enjoy alan parsons most |
Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: February 12 2020 at 04:47
| I Robot (1977) |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: February 12 2020 at 11:38
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I suppose I Robot..but never been a fan of any of them that much. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: February 12 2020 at 12:27
I'm listening to the Freudiana (1990) album right at this moment. It's an Alan Parsons Project album in all but name and it's sounding pretty good too, apart from the one minor aberration featuring Frankie Howerd.
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Posted By: tdfloyd
Date Posted: February 13 2020 at 04:21
| Voted for I, Robot but it could have easily been Tales or Friendly Card. As time went by their progginess lessened but all of their albums are very good with Stereotomy and Pyramid being The ones I listen to the least. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: February 13 2020 at 07:12
Stereotomy is also my least favourite of the ten Alan Parsons Project albums.
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: February 14 2020 at 00:53
| Pyramid. Shame about the last track though. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: February 14 2020 at 01:03
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Tales Pyramid I Robot the rest |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: February 16 2020 at 18:02
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Tales for me too, followed by I Robot... then the rest. With a special mention to the song La Sagrada Familia towards the end of their discography. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: February 16 2020 at 18:06
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It's good to see Tales of Mystery and Imagination has deservedly picked up more votes than all of the other albums combined. It's the only five-star Alan Parsons Project album for me.
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Posted By: thief
Date Posted: February 17 2020 at 03:01
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Tales of Mystery and Imagination used to be a fequent listen. Great vocals, atmosphere, very nice production. Still would go with this one. |
Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: April 15 2020 at 09:42
Same as ------------- Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake." Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: April 15 2020 at 10:19
| I don't think I've heard all of them but I'm going with Irobot. That's one of the best of the latter half of the seventies imo. |