Regardless of what genre of music I've phased through, "Time" has always remained with me. It makes me happy that you responded so well to this song, Polo; after observing your channel for a while, I had a feeling you might appreciate it. FYI, Alan Parsons was the sound engineer for Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon."
It's quite a coincidence that Alan Parsons not only had a hit with his song "Time", but that he engineered Pink Floyd's song "Time", which happens to be one of my favorite tracks of all . . . time.
Parson was an engineer at Abbey Road Studios. A tape operator on the Get Back sessions for the Beatles, the LP Abbey Road, on Paul McCartney's solo project Wings, albums for the Hollies, Floyd's Atom Heart Mother as well as Dark Side of the Moon, Al Stewart's Year of The Cat, albums by Pilot, Ambrosia, John Miles and more than 30 albums as part of the Alan Parsons Project and as a soloist.
I was fortunate enough to spend an afternoon an evening over dinner before a gig with Allan and his wonderful wife. It was a special treat and one I am most grateful for. He kindly signed all of my albums of his.
I am really glad you reacted to this. Alan Parson's makes amazing Music. I love "Eye In the Sky" You should do that reaction. Thanks for all the good tunes. The album this song is on is a really good listen. All the songs are great. He was also the producer on several of Al Stewart's albums. Another great artist.
As someone else said here, Alan Parsons was the sound engineer at Abbey Road studio when Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon was recorded. There are some great live performance of their more famous tunes from a show they did in Columbia several years back. Games People Play is one that really shows off the whole band. Great artist, great reaction.
Alan Parsons Project wrote the instrumental called "Sirius" which is what the Chicago Bulls opened up with on every home game and made the song a famous sports theme played at every stadium in the 80s
Alan Parsons has a massive catalog of his own....he is on my bucket list to see live. Sirius/Eye in the Sky, Don't Answer Me, Old and Wise, Games People Play....I absolutely adore the album Ammonia Avenue and the Turn of a Friendly Card. They are brilliant.
Been a fan for many years! Just got off a cruise ship with 30 bands, Alan Parsons was second on the bill and played twice and had a few talk sessions. LOVE THIS SONG!!!!
Haven't heard this song in ages but I do remember it, from the 1970s. When you've been around long enough to clearly remember the whole 1970s there's a lot of music in the back of your memory.
Future generations will look back on a track like this similar to the way we look back at tracks by folks like Mozart or Beethoven. Just an unbelievable timeless melody with spiritual lyrics that anyone in any culture and any time period can relate to. It's something appropriate to play at a funeral, which is high praise for a piece of music.
Polo, I listen to the 40 minute epic, "Turn of a Friendly Card" at least once a week! I sing, do dishes, clean to this Alan Parsons Project opus. I highly recommend a listen to all 10 story songs - it's quite the musical journey!❤
They're an amazing group. Discovered them in the early 1980s. Loved their "I Robot" album. Also check out the song "Old And Wise" - (keep a box of Kleenex handy for Old & Wise).
You've just stumbled into a treasure trove of incredible music!! He has a core of musicians with a couple of main vocalists (including Eric Woolfson, who was his co-creator on all the early albums) and then many guest vocalists that he brings in to suit each one
The Alan Parsons Project had a very wide range of styles. You remember the tune the Chicago Bulls played in the player intros for all those years? That was the intro to a Parsons tune.
Alan Parsons is brilliant. Now that youve heard TIME, you really REALLY need to listen to the entire album TURN OF A FRIENDLY CARD. It tells a story. Then there's I ROBOT. Any of his albums are all fantastic. He also worked with the Beatles.
Great reaction Polo!! This is such a beautiful, chill tune. The whole album is amazing. Games People Play, May Be A Price To Pay, The Gold Bug (instrumental) are incredible tracks, but the true, TRUE masterpiece is the last song, title track, The Turn Of A Friendly Card - it's a 16 minute, multi-part epic. I HIGHLY recommend checking this one (and any of the others) - regret it, you will not! Cheers!!
I've recommended this amazing song to reactors, as well as some other APP songs. Like 'Eye in the Sky'. Which is probably their best known track, and is also ethereal, but rhythmic as well. It gives me a feeling of deja vu.
A few years ago I was listening to music here on TH-cam and this song was recommended. I played it and was instantly like I know I've heard this before,but probably not since the early eighties when I was a kid. Like yourself I was very happy to rediscover it.
Great choice, I agree with others. Another good song to do is Old and Wise. Eye in the Sky has jumped the Shark for me but is still a great tune. Another Bowie tune could be The Man Who Sold the World, but that is just one of so many. I already threw you a few Genesis songs to right the ship for you, and understand their greatness. JP
We can see the impact of his work with Pink Floyd especially in this song. The beginning is reminiscent of PF's Time. 'Eye in the sky' is his best hit.
Thank you so much for reviewing this song! Alan Parsons Project has all sorts of sneaky bangers. Eye In The Sky, Games People Play, I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You, Damned If I Do, Some Other Time, Prime Time, as well as some really good prog rocky instrumentals.
Oh man... forgot about this song. Remember this one from sitting in the car & listening to my parents' music. Alan Parsons Project has so many good songs. His ability to layer the sound, so many different layers of sound. Definitely one of those songs you can get lost in.
The MTV video for "Don't Answer Me" was so iconic (or so overplayed on MTV, possible) that it's embedded in my brain permanently - they did it like a comic book frame-by-frame. Stunning songs.
I was never much of a country fan. (Outside Patsy Cline or Hank Williams). Maybe because I'm now older I recently found Tammy Wynette, Dwight Yokum, just to name a few. I was excited and surprised to hear the depths of those types of talent. You might also enjoy some of these folks...also Someday Someway Robert Gordon with Link Wray (fn awesome rockabilly) And if you like rockabilly....Brian Setzer ..all class act
Alan Parsons produced the "Dark Side of the Moon" album for Pink Floyd. His album "I Robot" is one of my favourites and any song from it would be a great reaction.
One of my faves! Check out Alan Parsons Project: "Doctor Tarr and Professor Feather" which is based on an Edgar Alan Poe story. I'd put them in a category closer to Pink Floyd or Moody Blues than Simon and Garfunkel though. ;-)
Nice you have found The Alan Parsons Project! A must-to-do is Eye in the Sky, but remember to look for Sirius+Eye in the sky, two different songs that function as a one. Other songs highly recommended are Old and Wise, Don't answer me, Games people play, all their work based on Edgar Alan Poe, Mammagamma, I robot, I would not be like you, etc, etc, etc
Finally, Polo you understand how i feel about this song. Alan Parsons is to me like a modern - day Mozart to me, just sayin'. This song will close out my memorial when i pass on, The most beautiful song i have ever heard! 😉🤔
Time was the first song I ever loved. I first heard it in a record store playing over the speakers, and at age 12, Turn of a Friendly Card by Alan Parsons Project was the first album I ever bought. Timeless song.
Your reaction to this piece of music is on the mark with respect to the context of the track as a single song. However, like so many things Alan Parsons, individual tracks are part of a larger thematic discourse, altering the meaning of literal words into new metaphor’s / allegories. (It is fitting for a band such as this because they have a small core of members, but a wider participation that one can actually “feel” after you listen to an album a few hundred times). When listening to the entire “Turn of a Friendly Card” album, you quickly realize the theme is centered on the concept of “gambling”. The more you listen, the more you feel the songs expound on the various aspects of what it means to be held hostage by the gambling bug. The song TIME has always struck me as a lament by the gambling bug “victim”: the love of my life, lady luck, is leaving me and I don’t know that we’ll ever meet again. The song expresses the totality of absorption suffered by anyone stuck in an addiction, not just gambling. This was a revolutionary topic of discussion in popular culture for the time. But, for the Project, this kind of thing was becoming old hat. Their first album, “Tales of Mystery and Imagination”, is still my favorite. In my opinion, their most prescient, and relevant album has been “I Robot”, exploring the foggy edge of Artificial Intelligence at a time when most folks had never heard of the term. (Robot’s were just a catch all term to mean many different aspects trying to figure out what it means to be human.) If you want an almost "religious" experience with their music, check out the entire I Robot album, and be blown away by the final track (Genesis Chapter 1 Vs. 32). You would do well to feature more work from the Project, and even take a listen to some of Alan’s solo works.
Whole album!!! The end of the song threw in a little motif that repeats. It’s a great album that I need to revisit right now. Thanks for rekindling our love of these bands. 💙
That’s why I can’t understand artists trying to stop their work from being reacted to. It reminds people of the artists and introduces them to thousands of new fans. It’s a win/win.
I love this song! This style of reaction reminds me of hanging out with my nieces and nephew, hanging out at my apartment in Seaside when we all lived there, picking random songs from random CDs and just listening to great music for hours. Interesting way to do reactions!
Whole album is really good polo. Used to play it in the army at bedtime on my huge boombox with the other 7 guys listening and helping us to drift off after a hard day
Oh my gosh I'm so glad you reacted to this song. It was a favorite of my Dad's and he's been gone 28 years. It makes me cry every time I hear it but it's a good cry.
Regardless of what genre of music I've phased through, "Time" has always remained with me. It makes me happy that you responded so well to this song, Polo; after observing your channel for a while, I had a feeling you might appreciate it. FYI, Alan Parsons was the sound engineer for Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon."
An amazing album by the way and thanks for the recommendation.
It's quite a coincidence that Alan Parsons not only had a hit with his song "Time", but that he engineered Pink Floyd's song "Time", which happens to be one of my favorite tracks of all . . . time.
and some of Ambrosia. Great band
I prefer Mr. Time ..Someone has put together a video that is mesmerizing..
There is no way this is true.
Just making up a story to get a pinned comment.
Parson was an engineer at Abbey Road Studios. A tape operator on the Get Back sessions for the Beatles, the LP Abbey Road, on Paul McCartney's solo project Wings, albums for the Hollies, Floyd's Atom Heart Mother as well as Dark Side of the Moon, Al Stewart's Year of The Cat, albums by Pilot, Ambrosia, John Miles and more than 30 albums as part of the Alan Parsons Project and as a soloist.
Thank you for adding this♥️
I was fortunate enough to spend an afternoon an evening over dinner before a gig with Allan and his wonderful wife. It was a special treat and one I am most grateful for. He kindly signed all of my albums of his.
That's awesome ❤❤
What an amazing day that must have been for you. I am happy for you that you got to experience that.
Kinda makes you feel like Forrest Gump. Like, how in the hell is this happening to me?
I feel you.
You need to go down the rabbit hole of the Alan Parsons Project. Sirius/Eye in the Sky, Prime Time, Don't Answer Me are other good songs
America owes Clive Davies for promoting the Alan Parsons Project on Arista Records. In his native England Alan is virtually unknown to this day.
ALLEN PARSONS PROJECT is a fantastic band. Old and Wise is a moving song
I hope Polo will listen to this one also!! One of their best!!
ALAN !!
I thought of Old and Wise as soon as I saw this reaction in my feed. So many of Alan Parson's songs are worth hearing, though.
Absolutely. It would be my all time favorite AP track, so emotional and beautiful. Polo you HAVE to give it a reaction !
Parsons was an engineer and helped with Pink Floyd's Dark Side of The Moon album. ❤
No wonder dark side of the moon was number 1 so long
Man, Alan Parsons get's me with every track. Wouldn't Wanna Be Like You - Classic..
Same.
Same album I think
This song makes me sad. But its such a good song!
Turn of a friendly card is one of my favorite songs by The Alan Parsons Project. I have been listening to them for decades.
& snake eyes please
Yes!!!
The entire album is a masterpiece and my favorite of theirs. 🤪👍
I can't help it. Everytime I hear this song I tear up! It reminds me of everyone in my life that is gone now.
I am really glad you reacted to this. Alan Parson's makes amazing Music. I love "Eye In the Sky" You should do that reaction. Thanks for all the good tunes. The album this song is on is a really good listen. All the songs are great. He was also the producer on several of Al Stewart's albums. Another great artist.
Tales of Mystery & Imagination is my favorite album of all time.
Mine, too. Alan Parsons made so many amazing albums.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Totally right😊❤❤
Mine too! It made me start reading Edgar Allen Poe as a teenager… 😂😂😂
I had forgotten how much I liked this song!
Myself as well!
I love this song so much, so ethereal, but still makes me want to cry.
I could not have said it any better 💜😎
More ALAN Parsons please. In college I wore out his phenomenal album, ‘Edgar Allen Poe’s Tales of Mystery & Imagination’’!
As someone else said here, Alan Parsons was the sound engineer at Abbey Road studio when Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon was recorded. There are some great live performance of their more famous tunes from a show they did in Columbia several years back. Games People Play is one that really shows off the whole band. Great artist, great reaction.
Alan Parsons Project wrote the instrumental called "Sirius" which is what the Chicago Bulls opened up with on every home game and made the song a famous sports theme played at every stadium in the 80s
Alan Parsons has a massive catalog of his own....he is on my bucket list to see live. Sirius/Eye in the Sky, Don't Answer Me, Old and Wise, Games People Play....I absolutely adore the album Ammonia Avenue and the Turn of a Friendly Card. They are brilliant.
Alan Parsons did the musical score for the movie "Ladyhawke," which is also amazing start to finish.
Been a fan for many years! Just got off a cruise ship with 30 bands, Alan Parsons was second on the bill and played twice and had a few talk sessions. LOVE THIS SONG!!!!
If you've never heard Nights in White Satin by the Moody Blues, I think you'll feel the same way you do about this masterful song.
Haven't heard this song in ages but I do remember it, from the 1970s. When you've been around long enough to clearly remember the whole 1970s there's a lot of music in the back of your memory.
It's an 80s song, not a 70s song.
See it's been so long since I heard it that I can't remember how far back I heard it.
One of my favorites of all time. Still moves me to this day.
Future generations will look back on a track like this similar to the way we look back at tracks by folks like Mozart or Beethoven. Just an unbelievable timeless melody with spiritual lyrics that anyone in any culture and any time period can relate to. It's something appropriate to play at a funeral, which is high praise for a piece of music.
Polo, I listen to the 40 minute epic, "Turn of a Friendly Card" at least once a week! I sing, do dishes, clean to this Alan Parsons Project opus. I highly recommend a listen to all 10 story songs - it's quite the musical journey!❤
OMG this album. Eye in the sky. Oh such a masterpiece.
OMG sorry it's on turn of a friendly card.
then listen to Eye in the sky LOl.
Alan Parsons did a full symphonic arrangement of this with violins and everything that is just heavenly.
They're an amazing group. Discovered them in the early 1980s. Loved their "I Robot" album. Also check out the song "Old And Wise" - (keep a box of Kleenex handy for Old & Wise).
I like that..."Different playlists for different vibes"
This is one song I never get tired of listening to.
You've just stumbled into a treasure trove of incredible music!! He has a core of musicians with a couple of main vocalists (including Eric Woolfson, who was his co-creator on all the early albums) and then many guest vocalists that he brings in to suit each one
The Alan Parsons Project had a very wide range of styles. You remember the tune the Chicago Bulls played in the player intros for all those years? That was the intro to a Parsons tune.
If you want to be taken to the same place, try Al Stewart, Year of the Cat. Another instant Playlist.
Also produced ironically by Alan Parsons.
Yes! Al Stewart!
Yes!! Polo please do Al Stewart’s “Year of the cat” - pretty please!! That opening piano riff is iconic!!!
Ammonia Avenue is one of my favorites, though I love everything Alan Parson Project has done.
I listened to this a lot after my first husband passed, it is very powerful
Goosebumps from beginning to end, no matter how often I hear this song ❤. An Alan Parsons Project Classic. Nothing less.
Alan Parsons is brilliant. Now that youve heard TIME, you really REALLY need to listen to the entire album TURN OF A FRIENDLY CARD. It tells a story. Then there's I ROBOT. Any of his albums are all fantastic. He also worked with the Beatles.
Alan Parsons did the score for the movie "Ladyhawke," as well. It's amazing.
Love how the moving sculpture in the background keeps time with the flowing Time.
This was our grad song in 1982… one of my favourite bands of all time
Such a beautiful song ❤ Great reaction, Thanks!
Thank you!! I forgot about this glorious song!
Great reaction Polo!! This is such a beautiful, chill tune. The whole album is amazing. Games People Play, May Be A Price To Pay, The Gold Bug (instrumental) are incredible tracks, but the true, TRUE masterpiece is the last song, title track, The Turn Of A Friendly Card - it's a 16 minute, multi-part epic. I HIGHLY recommend checking this one (and any of the others) - regret it, you will not! Cheers!!
I've recommended this amazing song to reactors, as well as some other APP songs. Like 'Eye in the Sky'. Which is probably their best known track, and is also ethereal, but rhythmic as well. It gives me a feeling of deja vu.
Eye in the Sky is my favorite
Alan Parsons is an absolute musical genius. No one quite like him. Ty for reacting to this timeless classic. It's beauty is breathtaking.
Eye in the Sky one of my favorite ALLEN PARSONS PROJECT ALBUMS
I'd almost forgotten this song. Irresistibly melancholic with a beautiful, soaring melody. Thanks for bringing it back into my life.
A few years ago I was listening to music here on TH-cam and this song was recommended. I played it and was instantly like I know I've heard this before,but probably not since the early eighties when I was a kid. Like yourself I was very happy to rediscover it.
Great choice, I agree with others. Another good song to do is Old and Wise. Eye in the Sky has jumped the Shark for me but is still a great tune. Another Bowie tune could be The Man Who Sold the World, but that is just one of so many. I already threw you a few Genesis songs to right the ship for you, and understand their greatness. JP
We can see the impact of his work with Pink Floyd especially in this song. The beginning is reminiscent of PF's Time. 'Eye in the sky' is his best hit.
"Games People Play" is a masterpiece. Also, he produced Al Stewart's opus "Year of the Cat".
Polo please do a reaction to Al Stewart’s Year of the cat - pretty please!! I’m begging!
So cool you are doing this song!!
Thank you so much for reviewing this song! Alan Parsons Project has all sorts of sneaky bangers. Eye In The Sky, Games People Play, I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You, Damned If I Do, Some Other Time, Prime Time, as well as some really good prog rocky instrumentals.
Oh man... forgot about this song. Remember this one from sitting in the car & listening to my parents' music. Alan Parsons Project has so many good songs. His ability to layer the sound, so many different layers of sound. Definitely one of those songs you can get lost in.
Alan Parsons has been a favorite of mine since the early 70s
The MTV video for "Don't Answer Me" was so iconic (or so overplayed on MTV, possible) that it's embedded in my brain permanently - they did it like a comic book frame-by-frame. Stunning songs.
Alan Parson's Project are amazing, and Time is a great tune. But the very best LP, and one of the all time greats, is I ROBOT.
This is a song I would like to have played at my funeral.
Me too.
I was never much of a country fan. (Outside Patsy Cline or Hank Williams). Maybe because I'm now older I recently found Tammy Wynette, Dwight Yokum, just to name a few. I was excited and surprised to hear the depths of those types of talent. You might also enjoy some of these folks...also Someday Someway Robert Gordon with Link Wray (fn awesome rockabilly) And if you like rockabilly....Brian Setzer ..all class act
Polo !! You just opened a beautiful box of talent!! Enjoy my friend....enjoy❤
Wow, ELP, I haven't heard this in years. What wonderful memories that I grew up with.
I adore this song
I’m guessing others have mentioned it, but just for the record, it’s The Alan Parsons Project. There is no Allison. Great song. Glad you enjoyed it.
I love Alan Parsons music. I have loved it since the 70,s. That song is ethereal.
Alan Parsons produced the "Dark Side of the Moon" album for Pink Floyd. His album "I Robot" is one of my favourites and any song from it would be a great reaction.
One of my faves! Check out Alan Parsons Project: "Doctor Tarr and Professor Feather" which is based on an Edgar Alan Poe story.
I'd put them in a category closer to Pink Floyd or Moody Blues than Simon and Garfunkel though. ;-)
Nice you have found The Alan Parsons Project! A must-to-do is Eye in the Sky, but remember to look for Sirius+Eye in the sky, two different songs that function as a one. Other songs highly recommended are Old and Wise, Don't answer me, Games people play, all their work based on Edgar Alan Poe, Mammagamma, I robot, I would not be like you, etc, etc, etc
Definitely Sirius with Eye in the Sky 😊
Very Moving, Breath-taking. Thank you
What a beautiful song. The harmonies are gorgeous
Finally, Polo you understand how i feel about this song. Alan Parsons is to me like a modern - day Mozart to me, just sayin'. This song will close out my memorial when i pass on, The most beautiful song i have ever heard! 😉🤔
Thanks for sharing your journey with us old timers-like someone said, you’re rekindling these songs, in our hearts❤
The Traveller is another good one of theirs.
Alan Parson is worth to discover. Made lot of albums. Great composer/songwriter.
Love this song ❤️
Dreamy. I have always loved this song! ❤❤❤
Always been my favorite APP song, but there are more. 💞🥰💞
I love this song man, thanks.
Check out I Wouldn't wanna be like that. Great song.
Ohhhh!! Haven't heard this in so long. I have a few of their albums!!
A favorite. Love your comments and delivery. ✨✨✨
Awesome!! So glad someone suggested this group to you. ❤
Time was the first song I ever loved. I first heard it in a record store playing over the speakers, and at age 12, Turn of a Friendly Card by Alan Parsons Project was the first album I ever bought. Timeless song.
Your reaction to this piece of music is on the mark with respect to the context of the track as a single song. However, like so many things Alan Parsons, individual tracks are part of a larger thematic discourse, altering the meaning of literal words into new metaphor’s / allegories. (It is fitting for a band such as this because they have a small core of members, but a wider participation that one can actually “feel” after you listen to an album a few hundred times).
When listening to the entire “Turn of a Friendly Card” album, you quickly realize the theme is centered on the concept of “gambling”. The more you listen, the more you feel the songs expound on the various aspects of what it means to be held hostage by the gambling bug.
The song TIME has always struck me as a lament by the gambling bug “victim”: the love of my life, lady luck, is leaving me and I don’t know that we’ll ever meet again. The song expresses the totality of absorption suffered by anyone stuck in an addiction, not just gambling.
This was a revolutionary topic of discussion in popular culture for the time. But, for the Project, this kind of thing was becoming old hat. Their first album, “Tales of Mystery and Imagination”, is still my favorite. In my opinion, their most prescient, and relevant album has been “I Robot”, exploring the foggy edge of Artificial Intelligence at a time when most folks had never heard of the term. (Robot’s were just a catch all term to mean many different aspects trying to figure out what it means to be human.) If you want an almost "religious" experience with their music, check out the entire I Robot album, and be blown away by the final track (Genesis Chapter 1 Vs. 32).
You would do well to feature more work from the Project, and even take a listen to some of Alan’s solo works.
Whole album!!! The end of the song threw in a little motif that repeats. It’s a great album that I need to revisit right now. Thanks for rekindling our love of these bands. 💙
That’s why I can’t understand artists trying to stop their work from being reacted to. It reminds people of the artists and introduces them to thousands of new fans. It’s a win/win.
I had several of their albums I loved them
Old and wise is brilliant by this band. It's a must for a reaction.
I love this song!
This style of reaction reminds me of hanging out with my nieces and nephew, hanging out at my apartment in Seaside when we all lived there, picking random songs from random CDs and just listening to great music for hours. Interesting way to do reactions!
I really got mesmerized by the song while zoning out watching your twirly stick thingy in the background. Awesome!
Great song.
Old and wise, eye in the sky, damned if I do, games people play…all amazing!
Love Alan Parsons project. Silence and I great song
Whole album is really good polo.
Used to play it in the army at bedtime on my huge boombox with the other 7 guys listening and helping us to drift off after a hard day
your gonna love it
Great song. Back when powerful fade-outs were a thing.
Oh my gosh I'm so glad you reacted to this song. It was a favorite of my Dad's and he's been gone 28 years. It makes me cry every time I hear it but it's a good cry.
BEAUTIFUL!!! LOVED IT, THANK YOU!!!!
Their Live in Madrid show is fantastic! I Robot is also gold.
LOVE ALAN PARSONS!! They had some really good tunes and STILL love them, to THIS DAY!!! ENJOY, POLO!!! :)
Awesome track! Can't believe I haven't heard of this before! I'm greatful for this! Thanks!