Topic: Album review #36: The Alan Parsons Project, Tales of Mystery and Imagination.
+Anonymous A — 10.9 years ago #43,210
Better known as the engineer on Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, Alan Parsons went on to form his own eponymous musical project which penned a small string of minor pop-prog hits throughout the 80s.
Before those hits came this bizarre 1976 debut, based on stories by Edgar Allen Poe. For its time this was quite a revolutionary recording (predictably from the best sound engineer in the business) and includes the first recorded use of the (now obselete) EMI vocoder. Musical highlights are The Raven, The Cask of Amontillado, and the 16-minute instrumental The Fall of the House of Usher.
Is it a classic prog album? No, not at all. But it did lay the groundwork for a lot of what would become progressive music. It was a daring, pioneering experiment, albeit an experiment which largely failed (similar in that sense to Floyd's Ummagumma or Yes' Tales from Topographic Oceans).
But at least they tried.
6/10
Before those hits came this bizarre 1976 debut, based on stories by Edgar Allen Poe. For its time this was quite a revolutionary recording (predictably from the best sound engineer in the business) and includes the first recorded use of the (now obselete) EMI vocoder. Musical highlights are The Raven, The Cask of Amontillado, and the 16-minute instrumental The Fall of the House of Usher.
Is it a classic prog album? No, not at all. But it did lay the groundwork for a lot of what would become progressive music. It was a daring, pioneering experiment, albeit an experiment which largely failed (similar in that sense to Floyd's Ummagumma or Yes' Tales from Topographic Oceans).
But at least they tried.
6/10
+GO BACK TO SHITCHAN — 10.9 years ago, 3 minutes later[T] [B] #471,205
·Anonymous A (OP) — 10.9 years ago, 2 minutes later, 5 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #471,207
+FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI — 10.9 years ago, 53 seconds later, 6 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #471,208
Also the assistant engineer on The Beatles Abbey Road.
I really like this album actually.
I really like this album actually.
+Anonymous D — 10.9 years ago, 4 minutes later, 11 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #471,209
+The Robot — 10.9 years ago, 15 minutes later, 26 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #471,221
Beep bop boop
+Dr.G Louie Ph.D !uSk4BCgU1. — 10.9 years ago, 1 minute later, 27 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #471,224
@previous (The Robot )
Yeah, he's just mad FuckAlms doesn't want to sleep with him. It's sad, really.
Yeah, he's just mad FuckAlms doesn't want to sleep with him. It's sad, really.
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