The Best of The Alan Parsons Project

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  I Wouldn’t Want to Be Like You
  3:12
  3.9 ★
• 2
  Eye in the Sky
  4:34
  4.3 ★
• 3
  Don’t Answer Me
  4:10
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Games People Play
  4:19
  4.1 ★
• 5
  Let’s Talk About Me
  4:26
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Time
  4:59
  3.2 ★
• 7
  Pyramania
  2:43
  2.8 ★
• 8
  You Don’t Believe
  4:25
  2.5 ★
• 9
  Lucifer
  4:10
  3.0 ★
• 10
  Psychobabble
  4:51
  3.0 ★
• 11
  Damned If I Do
  3:34
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Don’t Let It Show
  3:30
  2.0 ★
• 13
  Can’t Take It With You
  4:43
  2.0 ★
• 14
  Old and Wise
  4:08
  2.0 ★
• CD 2
• 1
  Limelight
  4:40
  3.5 ★
• 2
  The Gold Bug
  4:33
  4.6 ★
• 3
  The Same Old Sun
  5:20
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Ammonia Avenue
  6:31
  2.0 ★
• 5
  The Eagle Will Rise Again
  4:21
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Mammagamma
  3:34
  3.8 ★
• 7
  Since the Last Goodbye
  4:36
  3.0 ★
• 8
  I Robot
  6:02
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Inside Looking Out
  6:24
• 10
  Prime Time
  5:01
  3.6 ★
• 11
  Hawkeye
  3:45
  4.5 ★
• 12
  The Turn of a Friendly Card, Parts 1 & 2
  5:55
• 13
  Silence and I
  7:08
  4.0 ★
• 14
  Sirius
  1:54
  4.4 ★

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Release credits

• Alan Parsons
  drum machine [2.6, 1.8], engineer [1.1-14, 2.1-8, 2.10-11, 2.14], keyboard [1.2, 1.10, 2.6, 2.14], producer [1.1-14, 2.1-8, 2.10-11, 2.14], synthesizer [2.6, 2.8, 2.11, 2.14, 1.2-3, 1.8]
• Andrew Powell
  arranger [1.3, 2.5], conductor [2.4, 2.6-8, 2.14, 1.1-4, 1.6-7, 1.9-14], orchestrator [1.1-2, 1.4, 1.6-7, 1.9-14, 2.4, 2.7]
• Chris Blair
  additional [2.6, 2.14, 1.2, 1.10], assistant [1.1, 2.8]
• Chris Rainbow
  additional [10], background vocals [1.2-5, 2.4], keyboard [3], lead vocals [7], vocal [2]
• Colin Blunstone
  lead vocals [14]
• Dave Townsend
  lead vocals [12]
• David Paton
  acoustic guitar [1.3, 2.2], bass [1.4-5, 1.8, 2.2-4, 2.7, 2.10-11], bass guitar [1.1-3, 1.10, 2.6, 2.8, 2.14], guest [5], lead vocals [5]
• Dean Ford
  lead vocals [13]
• Duncan Mackay
  synthesizer [8]
• Elmer Gantry
  lead vocals [10]
• Eric Woolfson
  Wurlitzer electric piano [10], additional [8], background vocals [3], clavinet [8], electric piano [2], executive [1.2-3, 1.5, 1.8, 1.10, 2.3-4, 2.6-7, 2.10-11, 2.14], keyboard [1.1-4, 1.8, 1.10, 2.3, 2.6, 2.14], lead vocals [1.2-3, 1.6, 2.3-4, 2.9-10, 2.13], piano [2.4, 1.5], synthesizer [4]
• Gary Brooker
  lead vocals [1]
• Haydn Bendall
  additional [14], keyboard [14]
• Hilary Western
  soprano vocals [8]
• Ian Bairnson
  acoustic guitar [1.2-3, 1.10, 2.2, 2.4, 2.6-7, 2.10, 2.14], background vocals [10], classical guitar [4], electric guitar [1.2, 1.10, 2.4, 2.6-7, 2.10, 2.14], guitar [1.1, 1.3-5, 1.8, 2.2-3, 2.8, 2.11], guitar synthesizer [8]
• Jack Harris
  background vocals [10], lead vocals [7]
• John Leach
  cimbalom [8], kantele [8]
• Lenny Zakatek
  lead vocals [1, 4, 8, 11]
• Mel Collins
  saxophone [1.2-3, 1.10, 2.6, 2.14]
• Mr Laser Beam
  other vocals [5]
• Pat Stapley
  assistant [1.1, 2.8]
• Philharmonia Orchestra
  performing orchestra [4, 7]
• Richard Cottle
  keyboard [3], saxophone [11], synthesizer [2.11, 1.5]
• Robert Howes
  chorus master [1.2, 1.10, 2.6, 2.8, 2.14]
• Stuart Elliott
  additional [8], drums (drum set) [1.2-5, 1.8, 1.10, 2.2-4, 2.6-7, 2.10-11, 2.14], percussion [1.2-3, 1.10, 2.2-4, 2.6-7, 2.10-11, 2.14]
• Stuart Tosh
  drums (drum set) [2.8, 1.1]
• The English Chorale
  choir vocals [2.8, 1.10]
• Tony Richards
  assistant [2.4, 2.6-7, 2.10, 2.14, 1.2-3, 1.8, 1.10]
• [unknown]
  saxophone [2]
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Issues

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  The Best of The Alan Parsons Project

  2x CD
  9 November 1992