Progressive Rock Candidates

Some bands were so prolific in their impact on music history, and on me as a teenager that only a couple of tracks won't cut it. These are albums that every song got air time, had appearances on Don Kirchner Rock Concert (midnight Saturdays on PBS in 70s), and/or made some of the very first music videos (Bohemian Rhapsody & Spiders From Mars I saw TV debuts of both if those.) So I've put these albums here in their entirety. I have another Playlist of these here on SoundCloud. This is the 2nd of the series which includes Alan Parsons Project, Yes, The Moody Blues, Kansas, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Electric Light Orchestra, and Pink Floyd (after Roger Waters departure.) Starcastle has been moved to Part 2 to make room for some Yes remasters I'd been waiting on forever finally got posted.

Classic Conceptual Rock Part 1 (UPDATED 8/23/23)

Historic

Alan Parsons

rock progresivo

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Alan Parsons Project - Eye In the Sky

This is an LP version ( http://www.discogs.com/Alan-Parsons-Project-Tales-Of-Mystery-And-Imagination-Edgar-Allan-Poe/release/819295 )

Alan Parsons - Tales Of Mystery And Imagination - Side A

Alan Parsons - Tales Of Mystery And Imagination - Side B

Synchronicity

Every Breath You Take

Greatest Hits

Roxanne

I Robot

Breakdown

Out of the Blue

Mr. Blue Sky

Some Other Time

Vulture Culture

The Same Old Sun (2024 Remaster)

The Best of The Alan Parsons Project

I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You

I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You

The Ultimate 80's

Eye In the Sky

Silk Degrees

Lido Shuffle (2023 Remaster)

Boz Scaggs

Loan Me a Dime

The Wall

Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2

One of These Nights

Take It to the Limit (2013 Remaster)

The River

Cadillac Ranch

Another Brick In The Mamagamama - Pink Floyd vs The Alan Parsons Project (Bjorn Rohde Mashup Mix)

extended edit of Mammagamma and some hihats

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The Alan Parsons Project - Mammagamma (karsten schmidt extended edit)

Another cover, this time the first two tracks from the 1982 Alan Parson Project album "Eye In The Sky". Alan Parsons is well-known for his career as a studio engineer in the 60s and 70s, when he worked as the engineer on albums such as "Abbey Road" and "Dark Side of The Moon". As far as I'm aware, these are probably the two best-known songs by APP (according to Wikipedia, Sirius was used by the Chicago Bulls as their entrance music during the 1990s). The biggest challenge was getting the vocal harmonies accurate, as the slightest inaccuracy is even more obvious when sung alongside other harmonies. I followed the final guitar solo from the album version for part of it, and then made up the rest (loosely based on the vocal melody).

As per usual, keyboard and bass parts were recorded on the M3, drums programmed in Toontrack, guitars recorded on the Ibanez and processed using Amplitube 3. The strings were recorded using Miroslav Philharmonik. Vocals recorded using SM57 and all produced in Cubase.

Alan Parsons Project - Sirius/Eye In The Sky (cover)

Pink Floyd - Learning To Fly