Actually, this debut LP from Alan Parsons Project is a concept album, and is meant to be listened to from beginning to end, in it's entirety. "The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether " is the band's first charting Top 40 single, featuring the late, great vocalist, John Miles..
More Alan Parsons Project!! I was raised listening to Beatles, Pink Floyd and Alan Parsons Project until I was 16 years old... The Perfect triade for me!
@@vincentschmitt7597 I absolutely agree with you, I don't know why 'tho... Probably Americans don't understand deep emotions or deep levels and lyrics? I watched many reactions on Alan Parsons album The Turn of the Friendly Card, they really think the album was about gambling with cards instead about life, love and death...
@@BabbleBebble young reactors seem to take everything literally. Check any of them out watching the original Willy Wonka to see them confused by the humor.
Tales Of Mystery And Imagination is a great album from start to finish. Highly underrated today, it is a masterpiece and should be in everybody's music collection.😮😊
I recently went on a cruise “On the Blue Cruise” in the Bahamas because Alan Parsons was on it along with 30 other bands. I got to see him and his band for one full show and other events. He was also on my plane back home to the west coast. Yes, Beatles and Pink Floyd both considered him “the 5th” band member which is well deserved. So many epic songs and albums, HUGE FAN!!!!
If you watch The Beatles "Get Back" series you will see Alan Parson's. He was the tape machine operator with EMI studios the time and worked with The Beatles for the entire "Get Back" sessions. I call it the Let It Be session's because because they were recording the "Let It Be" Lp not the "Get Back" Lp. The movie came out in 1970 and was titled "Let It Be". I was 13 at the time and went to see it, I was mesmerized watching the band in the studio and then the roof top. I had never seen a film like that. I had seen " Hard Days Night" in 64 and "Help" in 65 but this film here was a whole different breed of cat. The first two were movies, this was a film, a documentary. Peace❤
Alan Parsons was an engineer /producer at Abbey Road Studios working with the Beatles and Pink Floyd (Dark Side of the Moon was produced by him). Tales of Mystery & Imagination was his “project“… A labour of love using artists he had befriended. Alan Parson’s “project” became so successful, it became “THE Alan Parsons Project” for later albums .
No way, Alan Parson, and I love him so much, he was too young to be an 'engineer/producer' at Abbey Road, George Martine was a producer, no kidding with that, in fact Alan Parson was yet at basic level at Abbey Road.
@@BabbleBebble - I realize he was still learning and wasn’t one of the top dogs, but I don’t know why that would have precluded him from being there along with a lot of others who had little or nothing to do with the production. I don’t know, maybe everyone that was there ranked higher?
@@doplinger1 I don't understand your point, he was just too young and even if he had/has a very, very clever musical mind and he is a great producer, the other technicians at Abbey Road used to consider him as a new apprentice
@@BabbleBebble - Alan Parsons - "50 years ago today, was one of the most memorable days of my life. The Beatles performed together for the last time on the rooftop of Apple Records in London. That’s me in the orange shirt and black tie in the picture, Abbey Road engineers were required to wear ties in those days."
Great song, great album! But it's too bad you didn't know that the first two songs, A Dream Within a Dream and The Raven actually go together, and should be listened to together. This is a really good interpretation of Poe's work. I remember when I first heard this, in high school in the 70s. I had just discovered Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, and a friend of mine said you've got to hear Alan Parsons, it's incredible and is cooler than Tubular Bells because it has several musicians. I didn't agree that it was better than Tubular Bells but it was really good and I went and bought the vinyl. Awesome reaction Lee!
Alan Parsons was a helper/engineer on the last 2 Beatles albums.. and then famously involved in the production and engineering of Dark Side os the Moon.
My first APP album, I knew Alan was the sound engineer from The Dark Side of the Moon, so I bought the LP by curiosity... what a nice surprise!!! A Masterpiece
I feel like this was Alan Parson's best work. This album was so well reflective of Poe's stories. You really should put an ear to "Cask of Amontillado". So full of beauty and terror! When the lyrics break through your protective senses it'll make your skin crawl.
I didn't actually buy APP albums until "Pyramid", but have been a big fan even before that. But I'm embarrassed to admit, I have never listened to this album in full, so I have never heard that song. I just pulled it up in another tab, and WOW! It makes me so happy to know that, even at 71 years old, there are still things like this for me to discover!! Thanks again!
1976 - Sitting in a movie theatre parking lot with 3 friends. "Preparing" ourselves for the midnight movie. This was a usually a concert movie or something else to appeal to a young party crowd, later to be almost completely taken over by Rocky Horror....... During this era Rock radio stations also played new, full albums. On the station we listened to this would be midnight on Friday and Saturday. As we finished our Faygo red pops the first few seconds of "Dream Within a Dream" sounded pretty damn good. By the time we got to the opening of the "Tale of the Tell Tale Heart" we lost interest in the movie.
@@L33ReactsLee PLEASE listen to the ORIGINAL release from 1976 ! Parson’s 1987 REMIX is just too drastic . The original is one of my favorite LP’s … it had a gatefold and there were many pages of illustration and lyrics inside . A Beautiful album … listen to the whole thing in order . 👍🎸😎✌️
The first time I ever heard of Alan Parsons or "The Raven" was Halloween night 1977 on an FM rock radio station. Totally blown away and went out the next day to get the album. "I ROBOT" and "Pyramid" LP's came soon after. They actually broke The Raven into 2 songs, starting with the instrumental "A Dream Within a Dream"" which flows into The Raven. You missed that opening unfortunately. I learned in a Steve Miller interview long ago that if they break a song into two songs on an album they can double the royalties. I think Neil Diamond taught him that but not sure.... SOME well known artist did. So when Steve made his Fly Like An Eagle album he split off the instrumental opening of the title song and named it "Space Intro".
Yeah, such a great debut album! I taped some of its tracks onto a cassette and my brother used to practise drumming to them, including this one . :) i see the song was remixed in the late 1980s and changed around quite a bit (adding a heavy guitar solo) - will be interesting to see which version you've picked! :)
@@L33Reacts Nice! The opener for this one on the album is a track called "Dream Within a Dream" that sets the mood and the rhythm - it ends with just that foreboding bassline which carries over into The Raven: th-cam.com/video/VZyNKrYo9I4/w-d-xo.html Also, since you're a Poe fan, here is another take on "A Dream With A Dream" from another amazing album. It's the opening track here too, and I'm willing to bet you'll love the drums and keyboards on this one: Propaganda: Dream Within a Dream (1985) : th-cam.com/video/Q4E1zMLghhY/w-d-xo.html (the drummer on that one is likely Ian Mosley from Marillion, he was doing a lot of session-man work in the eighties and is credited on the album, though only with his name. Nobody in the band was a seasoned drummer,) :)
I never thought any TH-cam music channel would ever listen to any track of this debut album. To me, it's just so different from the albums and hit songs that The Alan Parsons Project became known for. "Tales of Mystery And Imagination" is an amazing debut album, start to finish! I still say you should at least listen to "(The System of) Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether" and ""The Cask of Amontillado". 😊
Leonard Whiting was cast as Romeo in a 1968 movie called Romeo and Juliet. He was 17 at the time and the girl who played Juliet was only 15. The nude scenes were controversial. Also of note about this production, they initially wanted Paul McCartney to play Romeo. He was 26 at the time so hopefully they had someone else in mind for Juliet.
The remixing of this album is a crime. The guitar solo on the Raven is abysmal but that pales in comparison to the Welcome to my Nightmare/Thriller narration covering up the intricate opening to Dream Within a Dream. I guess I'll have to find video of dancing skeletons with top hats or cavorting corpses to go with the music. Alan Parsons was the engineer for Abbey Road and Dark Side of the Moon. The album should be a testament to what you could do with the technology of 1976. I hear it was remixed in 1991 from the masters without adding stupid crap. To be honest that isn't necessary either but probably better than this.
Glad to see someone finally reacting to this instead of all the other over reacted-to Alan Parsons tunes. This is by far my favorite Alan Parsons song. But that fan-made video sucked big-time! Way over the top with all the bad quality photos of ravens flashing endlessly across the screen. There are other much better videos and the 1987 're-mixed' version is one you should give a listen to as well if you get time on your own.
Speaking officially as an old fart, I am so tired of silly amateur videos distracting from the amazing music that I have enjoyed throughout my life. The music is what is good, the videos are silly and childish, the music is what is important.
Parsons was an engineer on two of the best LP’s in music history. “Abbey Road” & “Dark Side Of The Moon”. His catalogue is entertaining.
Actually, this debut LP from Alan Parsons Project is a concept album, and is meant to be listened to from beginning to end, in it's entirety. "The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether " is the band's first charting Top 40 single, featuring the late, great vocalist, John Miles..
This and I Robot bY APP are two of my favorite albums of all time! Thanks, Lee!
More Alan Parsons Project!! I was raised listening to Beatles, Pink Floyd and Alan Parsons Project until I was 16 years old... The Perfect triade for me!
Dosen't it seem to appear that The Alan Parsons Project gets overlooked mostly by reactors.
They don't get nearly enough attention.
@@vincentschmitt7597 I absolutely agree with you, I don't know why 'tho... Probably Americans don't understand deep emotions or deep levels and lyrics? I watched many reactions on Alan Parsons album The Turn of the Friendly Card, they really think the album was about gambling with cards instead about life, love and death...
@@BabbleBebble young reactors seem to take everything literally. Check any of them out watching the original Willy Wonka to see them confused by the humor.
It's not their fault, the American system is so fake and toxic, very superficial and they absorb they mentality of what they have around them...
Tales Of Mystery And Imagination is a great album from start to finish. Highly underrated today, it is a masterpiece and should be in everybody's music collection.😮😊
I recently went on a cruise “On the Blue Cruise” in the Bahamas because Alan Parsons was on it along with 30 other bands. I got to see him and his band for one full show and other events. He was also on my plane back home to the west coast. Yes, Beatles and Pink Floyd both considered him “the 5th” band member which is well deserved. So many epic songs and albums, HUGE FAN!!!!
If you watch The Beatles "Get Back" series you will see Alan Parson's.
He was the tape machine operator with EMI studios the time and worked with The Beatles for the entire "Get Back" sessions. I call it the Let It Be session's because because they were recording the "Let It Be" Lp not the "Get Back" Lp.
The movie came out in 1970 and was titled "Let It Be".
I was 13 at the time and went to see it, I was mesmerized watching the band in the studio and then the roof top. I had never seen a film like that. I had seen " Hard Days Night" in 64 and "Help" in 65 but this film here was a whole different breed of cat. The first two were movies, this was a film, a documentary.
Peace❤
Another great song by Parsons is I wouldn’t want to be like you from the I Robot album!!!😊😊
Alan Parsons was an engineer /producer at Abbey Road Studios working with the Beatles and Pink Floyd (Dark Side of the Moon was produced by him). Tales of Mystery & Imagination was his “project“… A labour of love using artists he had befriended.
Alan Parson’s “project” became so successful, it became “THE Alan Parsons Project” for later albums
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I think he was there at the rooftop concert, wasn't he?
No way, Alan Parson, and I love him so much, he was too young to be an 'engineer/producer' at Abbey Road, George Martine was a producer, no kidding with that, in fact Alan Parson was yet
at basic level at Abbey Road.
@@BabbleBebble - I realize he was still learning and wasn’t one of the top dogs, but I don’t know why that would have precluded him from being there along with a lot of others who had little or nothing to do with the production. I don’t know, maybe everyone that was there ranked higher?
@@doplinger1 I don't understand your point, he was just too young and even if he had/has a very, very clever musical mind and he is a great producer, the other technicians at Abbey Road used to consider him as a new apprentice
@@BabbleBebble - Alan Parsons
- "50 years ago today, was one of the most memorable days of my life. The Beatles performed together for the last time on the rooftop of Apple Records in London. That’s me in the orange shirt and black tie in the picture, Abbey Road engineers were required to wear ties in those days."
Enjoyed this ... need more Alan Parsons Project
i agree! im down for more!
Great album, one of my favorites - the opening instrumental with narration by Orson Wells blends right int o this track, excellent listen.
Ambrosia band members featured on this
Great song, great album! But it's too bad you didn't know that the first two songs, A Dream Within a Dream and The Raven actually go together, and should be listened to together. This is a really good interpretation of Poe's work. I remember when I first heard this, in high school in the 70s. I had just discovered Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, and a friend of mine said you've got to hear Alan Parsons, it's incredible and is cooler than Tubular Bells because it has several musicians. I didn't agree that it was better than Tubular Bells but it was really good and I went and bought the vinyl. Awesome reaction Lee!
Alan Parsons was a helper/engineer on the last 2 Beatles albums.. and then famously involved in the production and engineering of Dark Side os the Moon.
My first APP album, I knew Alan was the sound engineer from The Dark Side of the Moon, so I bought the LP by curiosity... what a nice surprise!!! A Masterpiece
he killed this. this was awesome. whoda thunk it.
I forgot about this song...haven't heard it for decades. Cool 😎
Great pick Coleen. APP deserves so much more recognition. Brilliance.
I feel like this was Alan Parson's best work. This album was so well reflective of Poe's stories. You really should put an ear to "Cask of Amontillado". So full of beauty and terror! When the lyrics break through your protective senses it'll make your skin crawl.
I didn't actually buy APP albums until "Pyramid", but have been a big fan even before that. But I'm embarrassed to admit, I have never listened to this album in full, so I have never heard that song. I just pulled it up in another tab, and WOW!
It makes me so happy to know that, even at 71 years old, there are still things like this for me to discover!! Thanks again!
Do the entire album, it’s amazing.
Bought this album when first came out. Still holds up
Loved this album!
This has always been my favorite Alan Parsons record and the orchestration throughout the music is fantastic.
1976 - Sitting in a movie theatre parking lot with 3 friends. "Preparing" ourselves for the midnight movie. This was a usually a concert movie or something else to appeal to a young party crowd, later to be almost completely taken over by Rocky Horror....... During this era Rock radio stations also played new, full albums. On the station we listened to this would be midnight on Friday and Saturday. As we finished our Faygo red pops the first few seconds of "Dream Within a Dream" sounded pretty damn good. By the time we got to the opening of the "Tale of the Tell Tale Heart" we lost interest in the movie.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS BOUT TIME!!!!!
The great late JOHN MILES (look him up) was the main lead vocalist on this album.
Love this band, this album is so clever.
yeah i cant believe they wrote their debut album around edgar allen poe and it fuckin rocks. thats a rarity lol
Its worth mentioning that artist from Ambrosia and Pilot who AP produced were used on this album
Great Album!
now i need to hear more from it! :D
@@L33ReactsLee PLEASE listen to the ORIGINAL release from 1976 ! Parson’s 1987 REMIX is just too drastic . The original is one of my favorite LP’s … it had a gatefold and there were many pages of illustration and lyrics inside . A Beautiful album … listen to the whole thing in order . 👍🎸😎✌️
What a sound. Amazing
Prefer the original 1976 version to this the 1987 version. Imprinting or simply better?
He was the engineer on Dark Side of the Moon.
he knows his stuff. this was great. thats what i know him for most anyway is on that side of things. but he can get down to!
@L33Reacts this band ELO Steely Dan and the Doobies got me through the 70's.
Really nice take on Poe's classic.
This is where the Ambrosia guys got their start!
ahhhh i forgot about them! no shit. thats awesome.
Did not know that. Makes sense. Cool fact. Thanks
THIS ALBUM GOT ME INTO THEM!!!!NICE I WANT TO GO SEE WHERE HE IS BURIED
Those whole album is great! It's all Edgar Allen Poe poems put to music! The album is called Tales of Mystery and Imagination!
My brother read "The Tell Tale Heart" to me when I was about 7. It haunted me for years!
The first time I ever heard of Alan Parsons or "The Raven" was Halloween night 1977 on an FM rock radio station. Totally blown away and went out the next day to get the album. "I ROBOT" and "Pyramid" LP's came soon after.
They actually broke The Raven into 2 songs, starting with the instrumental "A Dream Within a Dream"" which flows into The Raven. You missed that opening unfortunately.
I learned in a Steve Miller interview long ago that if they break a song into two songs on an album they can double the royalties. I think Neil Diamond taught him that but not sure.... SOME well known artist did. So when Steve made his Fly Like An Eagle album he split off the instrumental opening of the title song and named it "Space Intro".
This version of The Raven has been given a guitar solo that does not exist in the original single release
the original by Glass Prism?
Parsons was the sound engineer on albums including the Beatles' Abbey Road (1969
Tales of Mystery and Imagination is a solid album.
Great song AND a scary story...❤😊
Yeah, such a great debut album! I taped some of its tracks onto a cassette and my brother used to practise drumming to them, including this one . :) i see the song was remixed in the late 1980s and changed around quite a bit (adding a heavy guitar solo) - will be interesting to see which version you've picked! :)
we did the original one without the solo. but i saw that too!
@@L33Reacts Nice! The opener for this one on the album is a track called "Dream Within a Dream" that sets the mood and the rhythm - it ends with just that foreboding bassline which carries over into The Raven:
th-cam.com/video/VZyNKrYo9I4/w-d-xo.html
Also, since you're a Poe fan, here is another take on "A Dream With A Dream" from another amazing album. It's the opening track here too, and I'm willing to bet you'll love the drums and keyboards on this one:
Propaganda: Dream Within a Dream (1985) : th-cam.com/video/Q4E1zMLghhY/w-d-xo.html
(the drummer on that one is likely Ian Mosley from Marillion, he was doing a lot of session-man work in the eighties and is credited on the album, though only with his name. Nobody in the band was a seasoned drummer,) :)
One of my all time favorite Albums, you check out "The Cask Of Amontillado"
I never thought any TH-cam music channel would ever listen to any track of this debut album. To me, it's just so different from the albums and hit songs that The Alan Parsons Project became known for.
"Tales of Mystery And Imagination" is an amazing debut album, start to finish! I still say you should at least listen to "(The System of) Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether" and ""The Cask of Amontillado". 😊
Jaymantic adding crow sounds to a video about a raven.
Nevermore!
Listen to The Fall Of The House Of Usher on this album for 15 minutes of pure art.
An absolute must!!!
hopefully someone requests it! i would do it for sure.
@@L33Reacts We just did request it.
Ravens say the darn’est things.
nevermore!
Jack Dawkins is the Artful Dodger in " Oliver Twist"
Fantastic song!
Deep rabbit hole, do songs from Vulture Culture next, great album, and Ammonia Avenue also
Leonard Whiting was cast as Romeo in a 1968 movie called Romeo and Juliet. He was 17 at the time and the girl who played Juliet was only 15. The nude scenes were controversial. Also of note about this production, they initially wanted Paul McCartney to play Romeo. He was 26 at the time so hopefully they had someone else in mind for Juliet.
that's wild. a different world lol
"I Robot" and "I Wouldn't Want to be Like You" are well worth 15 minutes of life. You'll listen to IWNWTBLY more than once. I'd bet on that.
Great stuff! Classic structures make it so, rather than a lot of self-indulgent random stuff like a lot of keyboard heavy pieces.
Artful Dodger is a character in Dickens Oliver Twist
I personally find "I Robot" to be Parson's best album.
Alan remade the Raven at a later date and modernized it with like 80s sound
Character in Oliver Twist was the Artful Dodger
The remixing of this album is a crime. The guitar solo on the Raven is abysmal but that pales in comparison to the Welcome to my Nightmare/Thriller narration covering up the intricate opening to Dream Within a Dream. I guess I'll have to find video of dancing skeletons with top hats or cavorting corpses to go with the music. Alan Parsons was the engineer for Abbey Road and Dark Side of the Moon. The album should be a testament to what you could do with the technology of 1976. I hear it was remixed in 1991 from the masters without adding stupid crap. To be honest that isn't necessary either but probably better than this.
Glad to see someone finally reacting to this instead of all the other over reacted-to Alan Parsons tunes. This is by far my favorite Alan Parsons song. But that fan-made video sucked big-time! Way over the top with all the bad quality photos of ravens flashing endlessly across the screen. There are other much better videos and the 1987 're-mixed' version is one you should give a listen to as well if you get time on your own.
What time zone are you in? I want to make sure I don’t miss the premiere.
EST.
Poetry Raven " Edgar Allan Poe"...
ah okay...now you (" when will you review Alan Parson's project?")
Are you drinking melted butter again? 😳
Speaking officially as an old fart, I am so tired of silly amateur videos distracting from the amazing music that I have enjoyed throughout my life. The music is what is good, the videos are silly and childish, the music is what is important.