Eye in the Sky: The Encore Collection

Alan Parsons Project

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 3, 1999)
• Original Release Date: July 20, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: BMG Special Products
• ASIN: B00000JS9Y
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #329,189 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Customer Reviews

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47 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Was this CD misnamed or what?! This is NOT "Eye in the Sky", August 31, 2000

By	Alan R. Holyoak (Idaho) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

"Eye in the Sky" is one of the best APP CDs ever produced, but this is NOT that CD. Don't be fooled. This is a compilation CD, as is aptly pointed out by another reviewer.

This CD has the following tracks:

1. Eye In The Sky (from "Eye in the Sky")

2. Time (from "Turn of a Friendly Card")

3. Damned If I Do (From "Faces of Eve")

4. Standing On Higher Ground (I can't remember...from "Ammonia Avenue"?)

5. Mammagamma (from "Eye in the Sky")

6. Psychobabble (from "Eye in the Sky")

7. Games People Play (from "Turn of a Friendly Card")

8. Stereotomy (from "Stereotomy")

9. Sirius (from "Eye in the Sky")

10. Snake Eyes (from "Turn of a Friendly Card")

So, what this CD amounts to is a compliation of tracks from the first half dozen or so APP albums, with more tracks from "Eye in the Sky" than from any other CD. I'm not even sure I would call it a greatest hits CD. It's just a compilation. That doesn't mean that I dislike any of these tracks...it just means that there are better greatest hits CDs out there.

If it were my money and I were interested in APP music, I would, without hesitation, PASS THIS CD BY and buy the real "Eye in the Sky" or any other APP CD (even compilation CDs).

Don't be fooled.

Happy listening.

Alan Holyoak

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Misleading title award 1999, June 12, 2000

By	Richard Laven (Dumfries Scotland) - See all my reviews

This isn't the eye in the sky album with extra tracks. It's a compilation album. You're better off buying the original

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars "the maker of rules dealing w/ fools I can cheat you blind", August 4, 2003

By	mwreview "mwreview" (Northern California, USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

One of the most frustrating things about being a APP fan is the lack of non-album B-Sides and rare tracks to be found. Outside the studio and live albums, all you can find are compilations of stuff fans have heard many times before like 'Love Songs' and 'Instrumental Works.' Case in point, 'Eye in the Sky,' which uses the title of one of the APP's most popular albums and adds the very misleading "Extra Tracks." If this was in fact just a compilation with actual "extra tracks" that I haven't heard I would buy it in a heartbeat, but all these songs are available on various APP studio albums including "Standing on Higher Ground" off the 1987 LP 'Gaudi' (five years after 'Eye in the Sky'). I was going to give it three stars because it is reasonably priced (it should be, considering the tacky cover photo) but then it dawned on me that there is not a single track from my all-time favorite APP album Ammonia Avenue represented on this compilation.