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Alan Parsons Project, “If I Could Change Your Mind” from ‘Eve’ (1979): One Track Mind

Alan Parsons Project, “If I Could Change Your Mind” from ‘Eve’ (1979): One Track Mind

Alan Parsons Project’s “If I Could Change Your Mind” finds the late Lesley Duncan singing with equal parts yearning and utter futility.

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Alan Parsons Project somehow remains faceless, despite hitting big with Eye in the Sky

It didn’t help that a different singer was featured on each single from the Alan Parsons Project’s smash album, which arrived in June 1982.

Alan Parsons Project, “Lucifer” from Eve (1979): One Track Mind

Alan Parsons Project, “Lucifer” from Eve (1979): One Track Mind

The Alan Parsons Project’s ‘Eve’ arrived on August 27, 1979 with a life-changing – or, at the very least, an ear drum-rearranging – instrumental.

Alan Parsons Project’s sci-fi rock triumph I Robot still asks prescient questions

Alan Parsons Project’s sci-fi rock triumph I Robot still asks prescient questions

Alan Parsons Project’s prophetic ‘I Robot,’ issued this month in 1977, focused on the uneasy relationship between human and machine.

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Alan Parsons Project’s ‘I Wouldn’t Want to Be Like You,’ ‘Lucifer’ + Others: Gimme Five

The What-ing What Project? Perhaps no figure in rock music been simultaneously so famous and so … anonymous … as Alan Parsons.

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‘I’ve heard people say that’: Alan Parsons addresses Lady Antebellum’s ‘rip off’ of ‘Eye in the Sky’

Does the sun in their eyes make some of the lies worth believing?

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The Alan Parsons Project, “Fragile” (2014): One Track Mind

“Fragile” illustrates once again how the ever-malleable, at times almost faceless Alan Parsons Project continues through loss.

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State Cows – The Second One [Japanese Edition] (2013)

State Cows hail from Sweden but you would never know it. Close your eye and listen and you think: L.A. You May Also Like: State Cows – ‘Challenges’ (2019) The Grand Undoing – ‘In a Vigil State’ (2020) Su Andersson – ‘Brave’ (2022)

Alan Parsons Project, “I Wouldn’t Want to Be Like You” (1977): Almost Hits

Alan Parsons Project, “I Wouldn’t Want to Be Like You” (1977): Almost Hits

Typically the word “funky” does not spring to mind when considering the Alan Parsons Project. This 1977 single is the exception.

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Desert Island Discs: Prog and Art Rock Edition