Alan Parsons to Release "Tales of Mystery and Imagination: Edgar Allan Poe" 5.1 Mix

[DennisMoore Jr.]

01. I Robot
02. Damned If I Do
03. Don’t Answer Me
04. Breakdown
05. The Raven
06. Time
07. I Wouldn’t Want To Be Like You
08. La Sagrada Familia
09. Turn Of A Friendly Card - Part 1
10. Snake Eyes
11. Ace Of Swords
12. Nothing Left To Lose
13. Turn Of A Friendly Card - Part 2
14. What Goes Up
15. Luciferama
16. Silence And I
17. Prime Time
18. Sirius
19. Eye In The Sky
20. Old And Wise
21. Games People Play

Allow me to highlight the totally righteous portion of this release. :music

This is an instant buy.

Its great to see that Alan chose Colombia. Lots of prog artists have been touring South America, but have kinda skipped
around Colombia. Very cool place indeed.

Very nice spot, Colsky me lad.

 

[quadtrade]

Here is an interview from a couple days ago. Just go to Costco and get surround!!

http://www.azcentral.com/story/ente...ons-interview-beatles-george-martin/82106928/

 

[peterzach]

Here is an interview from a couple days ago. Just go to Costco and get surround!!

http://www.azcentral.com/story/ente...ons-interview-beatles-george-martin/82106928/

Thanks for that.
Is Alan being tongue in cheek that he can't afford surround sound?
I find that kind of hard to believe or did he not do well with the millions he made over the years.
Do we need to do some crowd funding to help him out.

peter

 

[Rickko]

Thanks for that.
Is Alan being tongue in cheek that he can't afford surround sound?
I find that kind of hard to believe or did he not do well with the millions he made over the years.
Do we need to do some crowd funding to help him out.

peter

The Interviewer does not have a surround system.

 

[JanBakker]

The Interviewer does not have a surround system.

Yeah, and Allan's reaction SIGH ​haha.

 

[Eye of Horus]

Now bring on Try Anything Once in 5.1. His best post-Project album.

Correct ! Original member on that one and...... although not credited, some songs were written by Eric !

 

[Eye of Horus]

And he also released "STEREOTOMY" in surround. (Ambisonics uhj)

For this one Kempfand and me made a software UHJ decoder to get the best out of it in 5.1 !

(Later I collected a lot of stuff from Nimbus Records, which were all in UHJ.....)

 

[Eye of Horus]

I read this thread with great interest and must really do a bit of correction.
The Alan Parsons Project was 2 persons, Alan and Eric Woolfson.
Eric Woolfson wrote all the songs, composed all the music and played with the musicians in the studio.
Alan was the producer and nothing more and certainly not an artist .....
Eric considered it the biggest mistake in his life that he agreed to name it The Alan Parsons Project. After "Tales" no other albums were planned until Arista offered them a deal for ten albums,
but they didn't want another name for the group because that would confuse the fans.
"Tales" was Eric's idea and he was Alan's manager......... He invited Alan to do "Tales" !
The Alan Parsons Project ended officially in 1987 with "Gaudi", but for most of the fans it ended with "Freudiana" in 1990.
Freudiana was made like all other albums and although it doesn't have the APP as name of the band, everyone considers it an APP album.
In 1990 both went solo.
Alan earns his money nowadays with playing on stage ( he hardly contributed anything on an instrument on APP albums) with musicians who have absolutely NOTHING to do with the APP.
It's just a cover band ! (For me it's Alan on stage playing Eric's songs !!!!!!!!!!)
TAO was almost an APP album and so was "On Air". Both albums had the same musicians as the APP albums, but (Except for a few songs on TAO) with Ian Bairnson and Stuart Elliott as main writers.

I met Alan a lot of times and became friends with Eric. Up to his death, Eric hated what Alan did to his songs on stage. His remark about the first concert ever in 1990 was :
"My music wasn't intended to be played live on stage !" (on Youtube the AartOfHorus channel ;-) )
Meeting Alan never came further than the typical artist/fan relation. There was Always, despite how friendly he was, a distance.
Eric was a very friendly and generous man.
I guess you all saw where-ever online those black and white pictures of Alan and Eric....... well, I can tell you Eric gave me the originals to scan them in for my website I had back then.
So whenever I see such a picture I'm proud, because I made them available and still have the high resolution scans ......

Nuf rambling : just be sure in future that you don't mix up the APP and AP or EW solo ! Thanks !!

 

[peterzach]

The Interviewer does not have a surround system.

OOPS, PHEW, you are right, read it to fast, its the interviewer who does not have surround sound.
I think Alan's answer was right though, in that even a cheap surround speaker setup is better than nothing and would get you a surround experience already and then when you can afford a more expensive system, you do it then.

peter

 

[edisonbaggins]

Oddly, after his "do you have surround" comment, Parsons doesn't drive home that a feature of the deluxe package will be a surround mix...

 

[quadtrade]

Peter it was not about his place, it was about everyone getting surround!

Thanks for that.
Is Alan being tongue in cheek that he can't afford surround sound?
I find that kind of hard to believe or did he not do well with the millions he made over the years.
Do we need to do some crowd funding to help him out.

peter

 

[quadtrade]

Eye,
i would have to say that most of what you say is true, but the only one who would be worried about whether it is AP project or Alan by himself, is someone who has a need to do that. The folks here are basically looking for surround and info about quad. I think it is a matter of the name AP and to get worried whether it is Alan alone or APP is not worth getting worried about at all. Just easier for us all. And in reality, APP was in a way a cover band, as you say, they hired musicians to do their ideas. And Alan can be a friend, but it is not easy or even sensible to make every fan feel like a trusted buddy. Ask any famous musician.

I read this thread with great interest and must really do a bit of correction.
The Alan Parsons Project was 2 persons, Alan and Eric Woolfson.
Eric Woolfson wrote all the songs, composed all the music and played with the musicians in the studio.
Alan was the producer and nothing more and certainly not an artist .....
Eric considered it the biggest mistake in his life that he agreed to name it The Alan Parsons Project. After "Tales" no other albums were planned until Arista offered them a deal for ten albums,
but they didn't want another name for the group because that would confuse the fans.
"Tales" was Eric's idea and he was Alan's manager......... He invited Alan to do "Tales" !
The Alan Parsons Project ended officially in 1987 with "Gaudi", but for most of the fans it ended with "Freudiana" in 1990.
Freudiana was made like all other albums and although it doesn't have the APP as name of the band, everyone considers it an APP album.
In 1990 both went solo.
Alan earns his money nowadays with playing on stage ( he hardly contributed anything on an instrument on APP albums) with musicians who have absolutely NOTHING to do with the APP.
It's just a cover band ! (For me it's Alan on stage playing Eric's songs !!!!!!!!!!)
TAO was almost an APP album and so was "On Air". Both albums had the same musicians as the APP albums, but (Except for a few songs on TAO) with Ian Bairnson and Stuart Elliott as main writers.

I met Alan a lot of times and became friends with Eric. Up to his death, Eric hated what Alan did to his songs on stage. His remark about the first concert ever in 1990 was :
"My music wasn't intended to be played live on stage !" (on Youtube the AartOfHorus channel ;-) )
Meeting Alan never came further than the typical artist/fan relation. There was Always, despite how friendly he was, a distance.
Eric was a very friendly and generous man.
I guess you all saw where-ever online those black and white pictures of Alan and Eric....... well, I can tell you Eric gave me the originals to scan them in for my website I had back then.
So whenever I see such a picture I'm proud, because I made them available and still have the high resolution scans ......

Nuf rambling : just be sure in future that you don't mix up the APP and AP or EW solo ! Thanks !!

 

[quadtrade]

It is, but it is a ways off yet, we are going to need to be patient.

Oddly, after his "do you have surround" comment, Parsons doesn't drive home that a feature of the deluxe package will be a surround mix...

 

[Eye of Horus]

Eye,
i would have to say that most of what you say is true, but the only one who would be worried about whether it is AP project or Alan by himself, is someone who has a need to do that. The folks here are basically looking for surround and info about quad. I think it is a matter of the name AP and to get worried whether it is Alan alone or APP is not worth getting worried about at all. Just easier for us all. And in reality, APP was in a way a cover band, as you say, they hired musicians to do their ideas. And Alan can be a friend, but it is not easy or even sensible to make every fan feel like a trusted buddy. Ask any famous musician.

I do understand what you're saying, but there is just a big difference between the APP and AP or EW solo. I know I'm a bit sensitive about that, because the wrong person takes all the credit for something he didn't do !
Not only takes, but also ....gets ! And that's just not right !
Alan is absolutely not worried about it. He uses the name with "live" added during concerts, solo he just uses his name.
When I go to an AP concert now, I don't see the APP, I see AP with some random artists.....
Charlie Watts with some random artists is NOT the Rolling Stones !

 

[Eye of Horus]

Eye,
i would have to say that most of what you say is true, but the only one who would be worried about whether it is AP project or Alan by himself, is someone who has a need to do that. The folks here are basically looking for surround and info about quad. I think it is a matter of the name AP and to get worried whether it is Alan alone or APP is not worth getting worried about at all. Just easier for us all. And in reality, APP was in a way a cover band, as you say, they hired musicians to do their ideas. And Alan can be a friend, but it is not easy or even sensible to make every fan feel like a trusted buddy. Ask any famous musician.

I do understand what you're saying, but there is just a big difference between the APP and AP or EW solo. I know I'm a bit sensitive about that, because the wrong person takes all the credit for something he didn't do !
Not only takes, but also ....gets ! And that's just not right !
Alan is absolutely not worried about it. He uses the name with "live" added during concerts, solo he just uses his name.
When I go to an AP concert now, I don't see the APP, I see AP with some random artists..... playing APP songs.
Charlie Watts with some random artists is NOT the Rolling Stones !

 

[haikubass]

From Alan Parsons' FB profile:

It's a great thrill to tell you that this summer, Universal will be releasing the album in a 40th anniversary multi-disc box set including a 4-sided vinyl set at 45rpm (amazing quality), 3 CDs - one of which is all-new bonus material and a 5.1 surround mix on Blu-ray . The surround version will be a totally new mix which I hope to complete within the next few weeks.

 

[rusinurbe]

From Alan Parsons' FB profile:

Brillliant so forced down the Vinyl route just to get a new 5.1 mix, i am sadly out

 

[4-earredwonder]

Brillliant so forced down the Vinyl route just to get a new 5.1 mix, i am sadly out

That sadly is the trend these days. Ramming vinyl, rbcds etc. down one's palette to get the prize...... in this case, the Tales of Mystery and Imagination on a lossless BD~A. Like yourself, I always say I'm not going to take the bait but in the end I always acquiesce because I've always been a sucker for this album.

Oh, well!

 

[rtbluray]

Ok, yes, grouping the vinyl in with the CDs and Blu-Ray disc in one set is not cool at all, however, please keep all this in mind:

-We don't know all of the release configurations for this reissue, so there's always the chance that Universal could issue a single HFPA Blu-Ray release as one of the reissue options.
-This is a NEW surround mix of a REVERED classic album from one of the most prominent men at the forefront of surround sound, and we'll get to hear it in its fullest and highest audio resolution! Therefore, this is already a better release scenario than some other releases from last year like "Loaded" and "Tusk", which were expensive and lossy releases, a double loss there.

I'm definitely supporting this release, simply because there are a few other extremely prominent and unreleased surround mixes that Universal are currently waiting to release (like "The Seeds of Love" and "Roxy Music"), and there would be much wailing and gnashing of teeth from me if either of those albums ended up getting just a lossy release because other lossless Blu-Ray titles didn't get enough purchases, so I'm in for this no matter what, especially since I have never purchased this album at all in the past.
Hope definitely seems to be springing eternal this year!

 

[0tto]

It's a great thrill to tell you that this summer, Universal will be releasing the album in a 40th anniversary multi-disc box set including a 4-sided vinyl set at 45rpm (amazing quality), 3 CDs - one of which is all-new bonus material and a 5.1 surround mix on Blu-ray . The surround version will be a totally new mix which I hope to complete within the next few weeks.

thanks for news but i can't see any great thrill in it.
that's just deadly wrong.
forcefully pushing consumers to buy unneeded stuff at inflated prices won't work out to increase sales
and attract more people into ever shrinking music segment of the market.