The Alan Parsons Project - Pyramid
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Artist: The Alan Parsons ProjectEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-02-01
Music Label: Sbme Special Mkts.
Soundtracks:
- Voyager
- What Goes Up...
- Eagle Will Rise Again
- One More River
- Can't Take It with You
- In the Lap of the Gods
- Pyramania
- Hyper-Gamma-Spaces
- Shadow of a Lonely Man
Free Music Notes for Pyramid
Free Music Review: The Mayan panoramas on my pyramid pajamas
Hit: 4 Stars
The third Alan Parsons Project album was kind of lost in the middle of his Sci-Fi progressive epic I Robot and the hits that started coming once he released Eve. It is one of the few APP albums to not notch a top 40 single. It's also the last of his truly old-school free-from FM Radio rock albums, playing heavily with the instrumentations and the concept.
For this album, it was the Pyramid Craze and the fascination with King Tut that informed the songs. The unconventional instrumentation of "In The Lap Of The Gods" was the last time Parsons would enter into that kind of symphonic lustre, and APP's trademark instrumental style makes two appearances with "Hyper Gamma Spaces" and "Voyager." The terrific ballads drop in with "Shadow of a Lonely Man" and Colin Blunstone's well sung "The Eagle Will Rise Again."
The thematic leaning towards making monuments to yourself ("What Goes Up" and "You Can't Take it With You") make for intriguing, thoughtful songs, while the goofy "Pyramania" is the song that actually does fiddle around with the Pyramid theme (and may be the most humorous thing APP ever recorded) the most. But the main theme of the album, man's quest for immortality, is the over-riding purpose of the songs. Be it our desires and doubts toward be the biggest and most noticed ("If all things will fall, why build a miracle at all?") to our own refusal to acknowledge our folly ("The last thing of all that was on my mind was the close at the end of the show" from "Shadow of a Lonely Man"), this was the last Alan Parsons Project to really touch me emotionally. While future and more popular albums (Eye in the Sky, Turn of a Friendly Card) are still good albums overall, they were more focused on a glossy and streamlined sound. "Pyramid" was a grandiose goodbye to the 70's, and still holds a special place in my CD collection.
So where's the remaster, already?
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