Eve [Import]

Alan Parsons Project | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 15, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Arista Europe
• ASIN: B000026D42
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (61 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #445,773 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Lucifer

2. You Lie Down with Dogs

3. I'd Rather Be a Man

4. You Won't Be There

5. Winding Me Up

6. Damned If I Do

7. Don't Hold Back

8. Secret Garden

9. If I Could Change Your Mind

Editorial Reviews

2008 digitally remastered edition of the Alan Parsons classic album that was originally released in 1979. Parsons himself digital remastered all his catalog albums reissued in 2007 using the original master tapes. The difference in sound quality is amazing-each sounds absolutely fantastic! The packaging includes revamped booklets with fresh, elaborated liner notes based on interviews with Parsons and Woolfson as well as rare photos and memorabilia. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

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27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars DAMNED IF YOU DO, October 22, 2002

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Michael Butts (Berkeley Springs, WV USA) - See all my reviews
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Wow...couldn't believe some of the backlash in other reviewers' comments. I have all of Mr. Parsons' works and to me, this is one of his best. I think the melodic content and lyrics are top notch, and if one looks deep into this collection, you'll see an almost mournful reflection on the state of women.
"Lucifer" is a fine instrumental opening, typical of Parsons ability to make repetition interesting; "You Lie Down with Dogs" is a marvelously satiric look at what happens when you "lower" yourself to perhaps indulge in a little friskiness outside the norm; "I'd Rather Be a Man" is no more than an ode to the redneck, and works quite well, I think;"Windind Me Up" is bouncy, infectious and harmless; "Damned If I Do" is one of my favorite Parsons songs---the soaring string arrangement amidst the quasi-rock feel work well in conveying the feeling that you are damned if you do, damned if you don't..."Don't Hold Back" is one of those lovely Parsons ballads that uses the female voice to remind men that we wouldn't be well off without the fairer species; and "If I could Change Your Mind" is another winner, a lush and lovely vocalization that surreally wraps up the collection. Chauvinistic---I hardly think so; musically brilliant? As always (with the exception of "Vulture Culture" and "Time Machine")./
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Primo Alan Parsons Project, April 27, 2004

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Michael Bond (Shawnee, OK United States) - See all my reviews
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This album is one of many many many that express the feelings of the composer/artist. The point of view of this album is of a man who is angry with a woman. This also is not a first. Picasso, for example, portreyed his women increasingly distorted the more he tired of them. Don't let that turn you off from this album.

Most of the songs are good, some are excellent. The track by Leslie Duncan is one of my favorites and has prompted me to find out more about her.

Classic Alan Parsons.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars As Misunderstood As Women Themselves, December 7, 2008

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Parrish A. Highley "the_projectron" (Somewhere I've Never Travelled) - See all my reviews
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While Eric Woolfson remembers being under the tremendous pressure of recording deadlines even as Alan Parsons remembers a recording process bedeviled by all manner of malfunctions in a foreign studio, Andrew Powell delivered the finest orchestral arrangements to ever grace a Project. In strictly musical terms, Andrew Powell made what would possibly have been a good but under-distinguished album absolutely exceptional! Songs like Winding Me Up and Damned If I Do would never be the same without Andrew Powell's orchestral touch. As such, I would strongly recommend tracking down some of Powell's other work, especially Andrew Powell and The Philharmonia Orchestra Play the Best of the Alan Parsons Project and Ladyhawke: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.

In strictly conceptual terms, the time constraints imposed by Arista forced Woolfson to abandon his original hope of composing an album dedicated to significant women throughout history such as Joan of Arc. What remained was a far more conventional look at the fairer gender and their influence over men. The photography by Hipgnosis actually sums up the conceptual short-comings of EVE quite succinctly. Holding the male viewer in the longing of their lovely gazes, two of the three women are so subtlely marred that said flaws do not detract from their tremendous beauty. Unfortunately, the third woman is presented with an undeserved ugliness that completely overwhelms her beauty. Although never intended as universal statements, the songs You Lie Down With Dogs and I'd Rather Be A Man suffer in much the same way the third photographed woman does for much the same reason.

But, for me at least, the paradigm upon which EVE rests is the stunningly beautiful instrumental Secret Garden through which the listener glimpses the lost garden that Lesley Duncan seems to almost beckon us back to in the closing epic If I Could Change Your Mind. The poignant sorrow of Duncan's soulful vocals harken the listener back to the time when man and woman lived in perfect harmony with one another. One can only wonder how EVE would have been received all these years had it been called EDEN instead. With an instrumental overture called Lucifer, are ponderings of that sort really such a stretch?

While the bonus material once again grants a welcomed look behind the scenes of the creative process, the one song from long-fabled "The Sicilian Defence" called "Elsie's Theme" will likely cause almost anyone hearing it to wonder why it was never recorded before now. Elsie's Theme from The Sicilian Defence (The Album That Never Was) is a very adept solo piano piece by Woolfson that would be right at home on an acoustic new age program or, even, at a quietly dramatic point in a film. I would not mind hearing an entire album of Woolfson's solo piano works if they are anything like this.