Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. I Robot
2. I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You
3. Breakdown
4. Don't Let It Snow
5. Voyager
6. What Goes Up
7. The Eagle Will Rise Again
8. Can't Take It With You
9. Pyramania
10. Dammed If I Do
11. Lucifer
12. If I Could Change Your Mind
13. The Turn Of A Friendly Card (Part 1)
14. Snake Eyes
15. Games people Play
16. Time

Disc 2:

1. Sirius
2. Eye In The Sky
3. Psychobabble
4. Mammagamma
5. Old And Wise
6. Prime Time
7. Don't Answer Me
8. You Don't Believe
9. Let's Talk About Me
10. Days Are Numbers (The Traveller)
11. Stereotomy
12. In The Real World
13. Standing On Higher Ground
14. Too Late
15. Turn It Up
16. Re - Jigue

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #44672 in Music
• Released on: 2000-01-22
• Number of discs: 2

Customer Reviews

An extension of Dark Side era Pink Floyd
Dark Side of the Moon engineer went on to have a recording career. Continues were Dark Side left off - immaculately produced conceptual prog rock.

Consistently good music & lyrics. Sounds very similar to Dark Side era Pink Floyd. Might not be breaking new ground but sounds great.

Some of the production is starting to sound a tiny bit dated. Still I fully recommend this to every Floyd fan.

Poor Choice of Tracks
Some APP albums were much better than others, yet equal weight seems to have been given to several albums here, resulting in some glaring omissions. This album serves to underscore the main problem with the APP - it could never decide whether it was a traditional songwriting outfit (complete with pristine orchestral backdrop) or a prog-synth outfit, such were the problems of being able to "do it all". The net result is classy engineering and arrangements on nearly every track, but with only a few tracks having inspired and memorable music. Where are such classic APP tracks as "The Goldbug" and "I'd Rather Be A Man" ??? More a Definitive Miscalculation than Definitive Collection. Better off buying individual albums and doing your own compilation!

As collections go, an enjoyable one!
The problem with a collection in general, and with collections of The Alan Parsons Project in specific, is that there is no such thing as satisfying every fan. I have listened to the Project for 21 years. The first record I heard, which also happens to be my favorite, was "The Turn of a Friendly Card". While few tracks will beat the title suite of that record, there are other individual favorites, such as "Ammonia Avenue", for example. I didn't find a whole lot of them on this CD, but I still like it. Why? Because this is a compilation that shows off quite a few of the different styles that the Project have explored over the years. I am a bit saddened that they didn't put any tracks from "Tales..." on these CD:s, but it still has at least one very good track from each of the records represented. In nine cases out of ten, the Project's albums were concept based, and by pulling a track from here and there, the end result isn't the same as some of the masterpieces they have produced over the years. But, what can I say? The group's songs are still enjoyable out of context.