Sunday, July 3, 2011

Album #99: Eye In the Sky by The Alan Parsons Project


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Sound: Brilliantly produced 80s rock
Mood: Nihilistic
Important Songs: Sirius/Eye In The Sky;  Old and Wise
Quotes: “Nothing to live for, nothing to die for, we’re lost in the middle of a hopeless world.” 
“Someday, in the midst of time, they will ask me if I knew you, I’ll smile and say you were a friend of mine.”
One Song You Must Hear: The Silence and I
Notes: There are a variety of styles, and not all of them work.  But the first side of this album is a masterpiece, and the final song, Old and Wise, makes an almost optimistic coda to this most pessimistic of albums. 

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