Alan Parsons Project Eye in the Sky Vinyl LP Arista 1st Press Embossed Lyrics 82

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The Alan Parsons Project Eye in the Sky Vinyl LP - Arista Al 9599 (1982) Near Mint First Pressing with Embossed Cover
Condition: Near Mint Vinyl and Near Mint Cover. Very nice copy -- vinyl was play-tested on both sides and plays beautifully. Original embossed cover is strong and colorful, and includes original inner sleeve with lyrics.
Eye in the Sky is the sixth studio album by the Alan Parsons Project, released in 1982 by Arista Records. At the 25th Annual Grammy Awards in 1983, Eye in the Sky was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album. In 2019, the album won the Grammy Award for Best Immersive Audio Album at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards.
Eye in the Sky AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine   Eye in the Sky provided the Alan Parsons Project with their first Top Ten hit since 1977's I Robot, and it's hard not to feel that crossover success was one of the driving forces behind this album. The Project never shied away from hooks, whether it was on the tense white funk of "I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You" or the gleaming pop hooks of "Games People Play," but Eye in the Sky was soft and smooth, so smooth that it was easy to ignore that the narrator of the title track was an ominous omniscient who spied either on his lover or his populace, depending on how deeply you wanted to delve into the concepts of this album. 
What does dominate is the lushness of sound, the sweetness of melody: this is a soft rock album through and through, one that's about melodic hooks and texture. In the case of the spacy opening salvo "Sirius," later heard on sports talk shows across America, or "Mammagamma," it was all texture, as these instrumentals set the trippy yet warm mood that the pop songs sustained. And the real difference with Eye in the Sky is that, with the exception of those instrumentals and the galloping suite "Silence and I," all the artiness was part of the idea of this album was pushed into the lyrics, so the album plays as soft pop album -- and a very, very good one at that. Perhaps nothing is quite as exquisite as the title song, yet "Children of the Moon" has a sprightly gait (not all that dissimilar from Kenny Loggins' "Heart to Heart"), "Psychobabble" has a bright propulsive edge (not all that dissimilar from 10cc), and "Gemini" is the project at its dreamiest. It all adds up to arguably the most consistent Alan Parsons Project album -- perhaps not in terms of concept, but in terms of music they never were as satisfying as they were here.
Tracklist
A1 Sirius (Instrumental) 1:48 A2 Eye In The Sky   4:33 A3 Children Of The Moon   4:49 A4 Gemini   2:09 A5 Silence And I   7:17
B1 You're Gonna Get Your Fingers Burned   4:19 B2 Psychobabble   4:50 B3 Mammagamma (Instrumental) 3:34 B4 Step By Step   3:52 B5 Old And Wise   4:52
Personnel Chris Rainbow – main vocal (Track 4) Lenny Zakatek – main vocal (Tracks 6 & 9) Elmer Gantry – main vocal (Track 7) Eric Woolfson – keyboards, main vocal (Tracks 2, 5, 12 & 14) Colin Blunstone – main vocal (Track 10) The English Chorale – choir vocals Alan Parsons – keyboards, Fairlight programming, vocals Andrew Powell – orchestral arrangement (1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10), orchestral conductor (1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10), piano (5) David Paton – bass guitar, lead vocal (Track 3) Ian Bairnson – acoustic & electric guitars Mel Collins – saxophone Stuart Elliott – drums, percussion
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