The Alan Parson’s Project

Album: ‘Eye in the Sky‘
Year: 1982

Originally, I picked up this album because the instrumental “Sirius” is used as the Nebraska Cornhuskers’ Tunnel Walk Song and I thought it might be good to have on a workout mix. Turns out, a good hype song isn’t always the best thing to run to, so I kinda stowed it until now.

While my initial information about this band was, at best, a bit misinformed, I was curious. What I found was a band that did a good job at blending some good classic rock riffs with a bit of soul, some folk tendencies, with a little bit of that electronic wave that would come to define rock music in the 80s. There were a lot of high notes on this album and not a lot I would change. My only issue is it wasn’t substantial enough to warrant repeated listens, but I might give it another spin one of these days.

Track of Distinction: “Old and Wise” sounds like if the Moody Blues was actually a competent band, with good orchestration and some pretty good lyrical work making it acutely profound.