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In the early 80s, many of the more progressive bands had to wake up to commercial realities, and were denied the creative freedom of the 70s. This is what the Alan Parsons Project came up with, and it's simply brilliant; rather better, in fact, than much of their more experimental early work. The album opens with "May be a price to pay", with its medieval-sounding intro and somewhat creepy lyrics. Then on to the first commercially successful song, the slightly plaintive "Games people play". The next track, "Time", features Eric Woolfson on vocals and was also a commercial success, althoughmore… it's actually the weak point of the album; Woolfson sounds a lot like Roger Waters singing one of the slower Pink Floyd songs, and the Floyd's influence on the Project (for which the latter were over-criticised) isn't an especially healthy one here. "I don't wanna go home" is an immediate improvement, with Lenny Zakatek returning to the microphone to sing the wonderful lyric "they blinded you with diamonds, all the money that money can buy". Then comes the nice instrumental "The gold bug", before the "The turn of a friendly card" suite - a combination of shortish songs on the theme of gambling, which are excellently sung by Chris Rainbow and Eric Woolfson; the medieval theme re-appears, serving to unify the album even further.If you're only ever going to own one Project album, this should be it.

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The Alan Parsons Project - The Turn of a Friendly Card (1984) Retail CD

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