The Alan Parsons Project Anthology Paperback – Import, 15 December 2016

A fun read, full of fascinating information about Parsons and Eric Woolfson -- the latter the real creative force behind the APP. As someone who was struck by the thinness of Woolfson's vocals on the guiding tapes for the APP's vocalists (many are included on the remastered and deluxe editions of the albums), I was intrigued to learn here that Parsons improved Woolfson's vocals by layering one copy of the vocal track, ever-so-slightly offset, against the other. If only I could do that in real life with my own voice!Not sure how much I agree with some of the author's opinions of the albums and tracks, however. For me, the first four APP albums (Tales, I Robot, Pyramid, Eve) were all distinctive, with "Turn of a Friendly Card" (very listenable, to be sure) signaling the arrival of a formula to which they adhered through the remaining six albums. Bur variety in everything -- especially opinion -- is the spice of life.The book would have benefited from a cleaner translation, and a good copy-edit -- lots and lots of words and phrases are clunkily repeated, often close by one another.

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Die Kindle-App auf dem iPad / iPhone zeigt bei Bedarf simultan eine Übersetzung ins Deutsche an, die man auch vorlesen lassen kann.Inhaltlich ist das Buch jedem Alan Parsons Fan zu empfehlen.

I really got into the APP my last 3 years in high school. During that time I I owned all the LPs out at the time up to and including Vulture Culture. It is so great to read the stories behind the songs. Read about the men and women that comprised the stories. To finally understand the sounds I have been so familiar with for over 30 years .

I liked this book. Let's start with that. It focuses on the music and the lyrics of every song in every album, and the author shows a more tha adequate knowledge of music theory, instruments, recording and mixing techniques. As he guides you almost second by second into every track, you can hear it playing in your head, or, better still, put it on loudspeaker and check out for yourself all the nuances and details this book offers.Now, the (few) cons. The English version is not perfect. Readable, but not perfect. The book lacks insights about the musicians: the bios are really bare-boned (though every person who ever sang a line or played a chord with APP is mentioned), interviews are absent, and you are somehow left wanting to know more about Eric and Alan. What was their relationship really like? Why exactly did they split up? Did the get along after the end of the Project? The part dealing with Freudiana is really slow and redundant with stories about Freud himself and his works (it's all psychobabble to me... ;) )In the end, this is not a biography in the style of The Dirt, or It's so Easy. It's rather a really excellent musical guide to the works of APP. Maybe because or heroes did not have such an interesting life, after all.