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Essential Alan Parsons Project
Release Date: 2007-02-06, Audio CD, Arista
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- Posted: Apr-22-2008
Parsons in Perspective
Following his own peculiar career path, Alan Parsons became an unlikely star by recording a series of conceptual albums featuring a wide variety of singers and musicians, making rich and complicated music that still managed to cruise onto radio and beak the Top 40. Be they topically based on...
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- Posted: Nov-23-2007
The Ideal Compilation for the Casual Fan
Along with the Definitive Collection, The Essential Alan Parsons Project gives the casual fan the proper mixture and proportion of radio hits, Alan Parsons' signature instrumentals, and Eric Woolfsons' thought-provoking ballads. Best of all, SONY/BMG has included the once lost gemstone "No...
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- Posted: May-29-2007
Alan Parsons Reject!
As a fan of Alan Parsons, I can't dismiss the fact this collection is loaded with great songs. The great irony to me is I was always disappointed that the song Ammonia Avenue was omitted from the Definitive collection. (one of my favorites.) But whereas that has been corrected, they've created...
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- Posted: May-29-2007
Great Anthology Of The Alan Parsons Project
THE ESSENTIAL ALAN PARSONS PROJECT, unlike THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION, covers only the years that Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson worked together, and thus includes many great songs not on the earlier set, including the entire title suite from THE TURN OF A FRIENDLY CARD. Even so, some great songs,...
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- Posted: Apr-03-2007
48 tracks but stil missing essential songs
While it's great to see that The Alan Parsons Project got a 3-disc collection overseas while we Americans will only get a 2-disc set, it still is missing some essential songs like (The System of) Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether, Breakdown, Voyager, Pyramania and You Don't Believe. Overall, The...
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