The Alan Parsons Project - Complete Albums Collection (2014) CD-Rip

• Title: Complete Albums Collection
  
• Year Of Release: 2014
  
• Label: Arista/Universal [88697890552]
  
• Genre: Art Rock, Soft Rock
  
• Quality: FLAC (*image + .cue,log)
  
• Total Time: 07:24:50
  
• Total Size: 3,56 GB (+3%rec.)
  
• WebSite: Album Preview
  

The unreleased album "The Sicilian Defence" is the somewhat notorious, never previously released 1979 from Alan Parsons Project.
It was made and delivered at a point in time where Eric and Alan were at odds with their record company, but under contract to deliver an album.

As indicated by its name, the Alan Parsons Project was not a band so much as a concept overseen by the titular Parsons, a successful producer and engineer. Born in Britain on December 20, 1948, he began his musical career as a staff engineer at EMI Studios, and first garnered significant industry exposure via his work on the Beatles' 1969 masterpiece, Abbey Road. Parsons subsequently worked with Paul McCartney on several of Wings' earliest albums; he also oversaw recordings from Al Stewart, Cockney Rebel, and Pilot, but solidified his reputation by working on Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.

Time Passages
Influenced by his work on Stewart's concept album Time Passages, Parsons decided to begin creating his own thematic records; along with songwriter Eric Woolfson, he soon founded the Alan Parsons Project. Although Parsons played keyboards and infrequently sang on his records, the Project was designed primarily as a forum for a revolving collection of vocalists and session players -- among them Arthur Brown, ex-Zombie Colin Blunstone, Cockney Rebel's Steve Harley, the Hollies' Allan Clarke, and guitarist Ian Bairnson -- to interpret and perform Parsons and Woolfson's conceptually linked, lushly synthesized music.

Tales of Mystery and Imagination: Edgar Allan Poe
the Project debuted in 1975 with Tales of Mystery and Imagination, a collection inspired by the work of Edgar Allan Poe; similarly, the science fiction of Isaac Asimov served as the raw material for 1977's follow-up, I Robot. With 1980's The Turn of a Friendly Card, a meditation on gambling, the Alan Parsons Project scored a Top 20 hit, "Games People Play"; 1982's Eye in the Sky was the Project's most successful effort, and notched a Top Three hit with its title track. While 1984's Ammonia Avenue went gold, the Project's subsequent LPs earned little notice, although records like 1985's Vulture Culture, 1987's Gaudi, and 1996's On Air found favor with longtime fans. Time Machine followed in 1999. After taking a five-year hiatus, Parsons returned in 2004 with A Valid Path.

Tracks:

1976 - Tales Of Mystery And Imagination: Edgar Allan Poe

01. A Dream Within a Dream 03:41
02. The Raven 03:58
03. The Tell-Tale Heart 04:42
04. The Cask of Amontillado 04:28
05. (The System of) Doctor Tarr and Pfofessor Fether 04:12
06. The Fall of the House of Usher: I Prelude 05:52
07. II Arrival 02:41
08. III Intermezzo 01:03
09. IV Pavane 04:34
10. V Fall 00:52
11. To One in Paradise 04:29

1977 - I Robot

01. I Robot 06:06
02. I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You 03:19
03. Some Other Time 04:05
04. Breakdown 03:50
05. Don't Let It Show 04:21
06. The Voice 05:21
07. Nucleus 03:35
08. Day After Day (Show Must Go On) 03:43
09. Total Eclipse 03:05
10. Genesis Ch. 1 V. 32 03:37

1978 - Pyramid

01. Voyager 02:24
02. What Goes Up... 03:31
03. The Eagle Will Rise Again 04:20
04. One More River 04:15
05. Can't Take It With You 05:06
06. In The Lap Of The Gods 05:27
07. Pyramania 02:45
08. Hyper-Gamma-Spaces 04:19
09. Shadow Of A Lonely Man 05:34

1979 - Eve

01. Lucifer 05:09
02. You Lie Down With Dogs 03:42
03. I'd Rather Be A Man 03:52
04. You Won't Be There 03:37
05. Winding Me Up 04:00
06. Damned If I Do 04:50
07. Don't Hold Back 03:36
08. Secret Garden 04:40
09. If I Could Change Your Mind 05:49

1980 - The Turn Of A Friendly Card

01. May Be A Price To Pay 04:52
02. Games People Play 04:17
03. Time 05:05
04. I Don't Wanna Go Home 04:54
05. The Gold Bug 04:28
I. The Turn Of A Friendly Card - Part One 02:39
II. Snake Eyes 03:17
III. The Ace Of Swords 02:58
IV. Nothing Left To Lose 04:03
V. The Turn Of A Friendly Card - Part Two 03:12

1982 - Eye In The Sky

01. Sirius 01:48
02. Eye In The Sky 04:33
03. Children Of The Moon 04:49
04. Gemini 02:09
05. Silence And I 07:17
06. You're Gonna Get Your Fingers Burned 04:50
07. Psychobabble 04:50
08. Mammagamma 03:34
09. Step By Step 03:52
10. Old And Wise 04:52

1984 - Ammonia Avenue

01. Prime Time 05:03
02. Let Me Go Home 03:20
03. One Good Reason 03:36
04. Since The Last Goodbye 04:33
05. Don't Answer Me 04:11
06. Dancing On A Highwire 04:22
07. You Don't Believe 04:26
08. Pipeline 03:56
09. Ammonia Avenue 06:30

1984 - Vulture Culture

01. Let's Talk About Me 04:22
02. Separate Lives 04:42
03. Days Are Numbers (The Traveller) 04:02
04. Sooner Or Later 04:26
05. Vulture Culture 05:21
06. Hawkeye 03:48
07. Somebody Out There 04:56
08. The Same Old Sun 05:24

1985 - Stereotomy

01. Stereotomy 07:15
02. Beaujolais 04:27
03. Urbania 04:34
04. Limelight 04:39
05. In The Real World 04:17
06. Where's The Walrus? 07:34
07. Light Of The World 06:22
08. Chinese Whispers 01:02
09. Stereotomy Two 01:18

1987 - Gaudi

01. La Sagrada Familia 08:44
02. Too Late 04:34
03. Closer To Heaven 05:54
04. Standing On Higher Ground 05:02
05. Money Talks 04:23
06. Inside Looking Out 06:19
07. Paseo De Gracia 03:43

2014 - The Sicilian Defence (Unreleased)

01. P-K4 05:00
02. P-Qb4 06:22
03. Kt-KB3 03:07
04. ... Kt-QB3 01:15
05. P-Q4 03:55
06. PxP 03:28
07. KtxP 04:01
08. Kt-B3 00:54
09. Kt-QB3 08:16
10. P-Q3 03:30

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