Definitive Collection

Definitive Collection

Definitive Collection

Definitive Collection

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Overview

Parsons fanatics may cringe, but the idea of a greatest-hits package defining the Alan Parsons Project makes perfect sense. That's because despite the group's high-concept, progressive rock oeuvre, the Alan Parsons Project was, at heart, a singles band. The fact that Parsons and crew were able to marry subjects like Edgar Allan Poe, Isaac Asimov's I, Robot books, pyramid power, Eve as everywoman, and others, to hit songs was no mean feat. And the songs collected herein are the perfect introduction to, and encapsulation of, the Alan Parsons Project. There are the hits, of course: "I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You," "Games People Play," "Time," "Eye in the Sky" and numerous others. Standing alongside are tracks that may not have made the top of the charts, but perhaps should have, and that offer further proof of the songwriting prowess of Parsons and his longtime partner Eric Woolfson, songs like "The Eagle Will Rise Again" and "Pyramid." The personnel credits and accompanying liner notes detail the group's voluminous collection of players, as well as its eclectic lead singers, from John Miles to Lenny Zakatek to former Zombies singer, Colin Blunstone, who with Parsons Project rhythm stalwarts Ian Bairnson, David Paton, and Stuart Tosh formed the short-lived Keats. Overall, The Definitive Collection offers both an excellent introduction and testament to the vitality and variety of the Alan Parsons Project. ~ Ross Boissoneau

Product Details

Release Date: 12/21/2007
Label: Arista / Sony Bmg
UPC: 0828765933520
Rank: 118443

Tracks

  1. Eye in the Sky
  2. Games People Play
  3. Time
  4. May Be a Price to Pay
  5. Can't Take It With You
  6. I Robot
  7. I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You
  8. Damned If I Do
  9. Lucifer
  10. Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
  11. Breakdown
  12. Don't Let It Show
  13. Voyager
  14. What Goes up...
  15. The Eagle Will Rise Again
  16. Pyramania
  17. If I Could Change Your Mind
  18. Turn of a Friendly Card

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