Alan Parson fans check in (the old stuff please!!)

[LynneSin]

I love "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" and I'm listening to one of my favorites - "To One In Paradise"

The whole album is based on works by Edgar Allen Poe with Orsen Welles doing some narration work. It's a really groovy album that I love listening to when I'm in a really laid back happy mood!

BTW - here's the poem that the above song is based on:


TO ONE IN PARADISE
by Edgar Allan Poe
1834


Thou wast all that to me, love,
For which my soul did pine-
A green isle in the sea, love,
A fountain and a shrine,
All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers,
And all the flowers were mine.

Ah, dream too bright to last!
Ah, starry Hope! that didst arise
But to be overcast!
A voice from out the Future cries,
"On! on!"–but o'er the Past
(Dim gulf!) my spirit hovering lies
Mute, motionless, aghast!

For, alas! alas! me
The light of Life is o'er!
"No more–no more–no more-"
(Such language holds the solemn sea
To the sands upon the shore)
Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree
Or the stricken eagle soar!

And all my days are trances,
And all my nightly dreams
Are where thy grey eye glances,
And where thy footstep gleams-
In what ethereal dances,
By what eternal streams.

[LisaM]

1. There's new stuff?

Yikes!

[LynneSin]

2. Well, newer in relation to the stuff he put out

Eye in the Sky :puke:

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. How old is 'old'?

I havne't heard much I like from him after 'Ammonia Avenue' (and a lot on that album is very same-y - I like the title track though). 'Old and Wise' from 'Eye in the Sky' is a classic, though, and the album is quite good overall. Old enough for you?

On edit: obviously not, from your post #3. :-(

[LynneSin]

4. Well, in a time/space continium it's all old

I just like his older albums

[DODI]

5. Of the early stuff, I can't pick a favorite. Tales, Pyramid,

Amoninia Ave. I love them all! This song always makes me cry:

The Eagle Will Rise Again

Lead Vocal: Colin Blunstone

And I could easily fall from grace
Then another would take my place
For the chance to behold your face

As the days of my life are but grains of sand
As they fall from your open hand
At the call of the wind's command

Many words are spoken when there's nothing to say
The fall upon the ears of those who don't know the way
To read between the lines, that lead between the lines, that lead me to you

All that I ask you
Is, show me how to follow you and I'll obey
Teach me how to reach you I can't find my own way
Let me see the light, let me be the light

As the sun turns slowly around the sky
Till the shadow of night is high
The eagle will learn to fly

As the days of his life are but grains of sand
As they fall from your open hand
And vanish upon the land

Many words are spoken when there's nothing to say
The fall upon the ears of those who don't know the way
To read between the lines, that lead between the lines, that lead me to you
Show me how to follow you and I'll obey
Teach me how to reach you I can't find my own way
Let me see the light, let me be the light
And so, with no warning, no last goodbye
In the dawn of the morning sky
The eagle will rise again