Alan Parsons Project - Vulture Culture
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Artist: Alan Parsons ProjectEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2007-03-12
Music Label: Arista Europe
Soundtracks:
- Let's Talk About Me - The Alan Parsons Project
- Seperate Lives - Alan Parsons
- Days Are Numbers (The Traveller) - The Alan Parsons Project
- Sooner or Later - The Alan Parsons Project
- Vulture Culture - Alan Parsons
- Hawkeye - The Alan Parsons Project
- Somebody out There - Alan Parsons
- Same Old Sun - The Alan Parsons Project
- No Answers Only Questions [Final Version][*] - The Alan Parsons Project
- Separate Lives [Alternative Mix][*] - The Alan Parsons Project
- Hawkeye [*][Demo Version] - The Alan Parsons Project
- Naked Vulture [*] - Alan Parsons
- No Answers Only Questions [The First Attempt][*] - The Alan Parsons Project
Free Music Notes for Vulture Culture
Free Music Review: A welcome reissue
Hit: 4 Stars
If memory serves, 'Vulture Culture' fell into the LP/CD transition period, and was first issued (in 1984) in both formats. The CD, however, was strangely lacking in atmosphere in comparison with the vinyl version. For me, this remastered issue restores the clarity, brightness and atmosphere of the original album, and, in keeping with others in the reissue series, adds a lot of previously-unreleased material.
'Vulture Culture' was one of the Project's more topical albums, the title neatly reversing the contemporary 'culture vulture' tag to highlight the contemporary issue of predatory greed. 'Vulture Culture' was the first Project album to lack strings, a key ingredient of previous albums - and later offerings (particularly the excellent 'Gaudi') benefited from the return of Andrew Powell's lush orchestration (I can also strongly recommend the Philharmonia's classical take on the Project, Alan Parsons Project: Played by Andrew Powell).
To me, this is not one of the Project's very best albums, but this is a strictly relative judgement - most Project albums (including this one) are far, far ahead of most other artists' material, and earlier albums (such as 'Tales', 'I Robot', 'Pyramid' and 'Eve') set an incredibly hard standard to follow. My view is that the earlier albums were best, then, and that the Project peaked with the superlative 'Turn of a Friendly Card'.
'Vulture Culture' might not (quite) match the earlier albums, but there are some great tracks here - I'd highlight 'Let's Talk About Me', the title track and 'Somebody Out There', whilst almost everyone lauds 'Hawkeye'. This remaster, presenting the album in brighter, more immediate and more atmospheric form, is very welcome.
I must emphasise that awarding only four stars is a purely relative judgement - by any standards other than those of the Project's best albums, 'Vulture Culture' would certainly merit all five.
Vulture Culture Poster
2007 Digitally Remastered and Expanded Edition of the Alan Parsons Classic Album that was Originally Released in 1985. Originally Meant to Be the Second Disc of "Ammonia Avenue", this Album Ended Up Being Released a Year after that Opus. "Sooner Or Later" was to Be the Single to Market Via Top 40 Radio, but Things Didn't Turn Out that Way. This Edition Adds Five Tracks to the Original Nine with Demo and Alternate Versions to Maximize Use of the Compact Disc Format.Pop Music CDs
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