“I think this song is pretty much about one’s acceptance of death and that inescapable sense of regret and melancholy that comes with it. Who knows when we shall meet again after we die? I don’t see anything atheistic about this song.”
Maybe the river time isn’t gone forever after all. The symbolic river of time flows to the sea and appears to be gone forever, but we learned in grade school about evaporation, precipitation and the river’s renewal through the water cycle. I’m not sure about that but its what I get out of it. The robot is saying that even though human is smarter and the master he still wouldn’t want to be like him. “Following the theme of the album I believe that this song is about robot/human conflicts. I Wouldn’t Want to Be Like You (I Robot, 1977) And now they have somehow met up as strangers and the singer is saying Don’t answer me as it will make me win this fight, just run and hide and think if we can change the things that happened.”Ĥ. I think it is about two persons who were in a relationship but then separated in a moment of madness. Maybe he’s ashamed of something he has done or that has happened to him, or maybe he’ll be in some kind of trouble if he talks… just guessing.”ĥ. “I was thinking he had some secret grief that he couldn’t tell anyone, for whatever reason. Its sounds so cheerful even if it’s so pessimistic.” In addition, I occasionally find myself singing ”Nothing’s good, the news is bad…”. It eloquently shows what gambling’s like. Turn of a Friendly Card (Turn of a Friendly Card, 1980) The clock is ticking, and we don’t have much time left to do meaningful things.”ħ. Maybe it would be a better world if everyone just took a little time to think in what is really important. Can’t say as I know how this fits into the whole gambling theme of the LP, but then again, the LPs tended to have vague themes rather than massively coherent concepts.”Ĩ. On casual listen, it just sounds like a pretty good pop song, but there’s some strange stuff going on (the whooshy stuff before the guitar solo, the repetitive keyboard lick that opens and closes the song, the odd lyrics). “Another strange-not-strange single from APP. Games People Play (The Turn of a Friendly Card, 1980) Its bassline segues into the title track Eye in the Sky, a warm synthpop song with a guitar solo and Eric Woolfson singing about protection and telepathy.”ĩ.
“The instrumental opening track Sirius refers to the brightest star in the night sky. This song certainly does the poem justice, it’s great– although the pace (of the lyrics at least) is a lot faster than that of the poem.”
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“Another in a series of songs based on Edgar Allen Poe stories- or, in this case, poetry. The Raven (Tales Of Mystery And Imagination, 1976) See more The Alan Parsons Project Albums Rankedġ1. “It just becomes more difficult from LP to LP to criticize without repeating yourself. After all, good Alan blew his way from album to album with his successful formula. This is why this, the fourth, studio album, an instrumental as an intro or overture, is followed by a seamless transition into the first official vocal part. This time the title is called “You Lie Down With Dogs”. Here are all of The Alan Parsons Project songs ranked.ĭon’t miss out on the classic music of The Alan Parsons Project! Click and enjoy the familiar sounds of this wonderful British group! Tarr and Professor Feather”, “I Wouldn’t Want to Be Like You”, “Games People Play”, “Time”, “Snake Eyes”, “Sirius”/”Eye in the Sky”, “Old and Wise”, and “Don’t Answer Me”. Some of their most notable songs are “The Raven”, “(The System of) Dr. The Alan Parsons Project released eleven studio albums in its 15-year career (the twelfth, The Sicilian Defence, was originally recorded in 1979 and released in 2014), including the successful I Robot and Eye in the Sky. Almost all the songs on the Project’s albums are credited to “Woolfson/Parsons”. A songwriter by profession, Woolfson was also a composer, a pianist, and a singer. Parsons was an audio engineer and producer by profession, but also a musician and a composer. They were accompanied by a varying number of session musicians and some relatively consistent band members such as guitarist Ian Bairnson, arranger Andrew Powell, bassist and vocalist David Paton, drummer Stuart Elliott, and vocalists Lenny Zakatek and Chris Rainbow. The Alan Parsons Project was a British rock band active between 19, whose core membership consisted of Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson.
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