Alan Parsons [The Alan Parsons Project] is nothing short of a musical and poetic genius. He produces, arranges, writes and creates brilliant music that finds its way across a giant spectrum which starts at obscure-alternative and runs 180 degrees to popular mainstream listening.
He enlists the finest studio session talents and conducts them to perfection. His songs carry a measure of depth and meaning well beyond the admission requirement for the School Of Rock. Like Steely Dan, Parsons will not be confined to any traditional category of music type.
Listen to these ingenious science-fiction inspired epic lyrics of a wronged man who has come into the powers of truth, world vision, and recapture of his dominance in a world that can be indifferent to those vulnerable to love's guile, guises and heart-breaking deceptions.
A deeply meaningful and slightly resentful song presented in B Minor (with the verses and release in its relative major, which is D). Listen to the captivating echoing and repetitive chorus of "I can read your mind..."Alan Parsons seems to see right inside of us to our deepest fears and lamentations. He actually creates a musicscape....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNiie_zmSr8&feature=related
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