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Progressive Rock Candidates

Dubstep/soundtrack

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)

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Ultimate Alan Parsons Project Playlist

Alan Parsons Project - Eye In the Sky

Reverbs, reverbs, reverbs! You want reverbs in you music, you got reverbs right here! Room reverbs, plate reverbs, even some spring reverbs! It is amazing! It is incredible! How can there be so much reverb?! So... why... You get a very hollow spooky thin feeling with the reverbs. This started out as an attempt to understand Witch House music. Pretty sure I still don't understand it.

Spellbound

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

Five! Five full minutes of battle fighting action bits with a bit of an Egyptian flair! For some reason I associate English horn with desert nomads. There must have been some cultural reference in my youth to that effect. Super crazy awesome brass is super crazy awesome... wait for it... you'll be glad you did!

Curse Of The Scarab - Full With Tail

Starts small, gets big... then smaller, then REALLY big... then small again. Kind of like a turtle. Actually, it is entirely possible that I just kept seeing different turtles. I mean, they all sort of look like turtles; I wasn't tagging them or marking them with chalk or anything. Chalk will probably just wash off in the pond anyway. Oh! Kind of like a puffer fish! Like a musical puffer fish! Perfect.

Ryno's Theme

I Robot

Some Other Time

Eye In The Sky

Gemini

Children of the Moon

Vulture Culture

The Same Old Sun (2024 Remaster)

The Best of The Alan Parsons Project

Silence and I

I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You

The Ultimate 80's

Eye In the Sky

The Turn Of A Friendly Card

The Turn Of A Friendly Card (Part 1)

Ammonia Avenue

Prime Time (2024 Remaster)

Ammonia Avenue (2024 Remaster)

Pyramid

Hyper-Gamma-Spaces

Shadow of a Lonely Man

What Goes Up...

Golden '80's

Eye in the Sky (Remastered)

You Won't Be There

Lucifer

Laid-back, grooving, and cool. Did I mention cool? You need a cool piece. That is a statement you NEED a cool piece. Lucky for you, this IS a cool piece. Super clean production will allow this piece to fit into most things. I'd personally use this piece for a super badass character.

Thief In The Night

This piece starts BIG. Originally, this piece started slowly and built... and then I got bored and chopped out all the slowness. There are still dynamics, but if you need bigness from the get-go - here's what you get! Vroom! BIG BIG BIG!
Could be too big. Could be. Probably isn't.


Killers

extended edit of Mammagamma and some hihats

Free Download

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